Day 163 -- from sprouting!
17 Days since last proper photo report.
Most of that time has been harvesting, drying, a bit of a cure.
And testing the product, of course!
Weather has finally picked up, and now we're up to 25C-30C daily highs, down to maybe 20C at night.
Still very humid, but that's just normal for around here...
Before I jump in to the garden and the last girl standing, Little Miss SSSTN, something very interesting.
Recently I found another way in to the site.
Near where I used to climb the little hill and follow outside the wall of the building compound through the jungle, there is a little hole in the wall at the bottom of the hill. It used to be obscured by some coverings, but there is a small hole, big enough for me to sneak through.
It takes you inside the underground carpark of the whole building complex, the front line of about 20 abandoned apartments.
Then you just walk up the sloped carpark area to come out where the wall ends, and then up to the third line of apartments where the garden is.
Very easy walk, don't have to push through the jungle (which has spider webs, bugs, and can get slippery and wet after/during the rain.
Anyway, I've walked there a few times now. It's quite dark, but some light shines through in places with holes up to the apartments in the carpark roof. Scared a few pigeons, and the first time the pigeons scared me, too!!
This time, I thought I heard pigeons, but the sound was different, more like swallows, which I think are so cute. But didn't pay attention, just want to get safely to the garden.
On the way out, I stopped to check, as the 'pigeons' or 'swallows' were flying around in the dark.
Strange.
Bats!!
It's a big nesting place for bats right now. I'm very sure they weren't there before.
But now there's maybe 50 to 100 of them, hanging upside down for a sleep.
This is maybe less than half of them.
Camera is on nighttime mode, and it actually feels much much darker in there.
They swooped around a bit, maybe I disturbed them.
But they didn't bother me at all.
I have garden bat guardians now!!
2 X Super Silver Sour Thai Nevil (fem) = Swiss Thai Nevil 1 clone X SSSDH OJD cut Reversed (10-12 weeks?)
In a big 20L pot.
Miss Grail (NLD pheno) -- Day 146 = 42V + 104F:
I took down the last drying branch and bagged it to bring home.
Not fully dry -- it's just too humid outside here.
But will finish the drying process at the other drying location which is effective.
The flower really darkens with this long slow outdoor drying process.
Little Miss SSSTN: Day 163 = 63V(?) + 100F
This little lady has finally made it to 100 days flowering -- pushing past 14 weeks!!
She could probably just keep on going.
She has thickened up a fair bit, the calyxes swelling a lot, as they were tiny before.
Looks very similar to the 'Big Miss', but her flower shape is rounder, whereas Big Miss was more a long frond shape.
The aromas and flavors coming off Little Miss are almost identical to Big Miss.
Fruity, a little spicy, like dried tropical fruits that are a bit over ripe.
Also very very sticky, though maybe not quite as sticky as Big Miss.
She had lots of little tiny bits of mold here and there.
Due to very open flowers, it doesn't spread very fast at all, it seems, as she had this a couple of weeks ago and I didn't even do anything about it at all at the time.
I cut the main stem, broke down the branches and flower clusters, trimmed of the bad stuff and put the good flower into the laundry bag to dry.
Sorry I didn't take any bud shots -- they were ugly on the plant, to be honest!
But here is the pot and cut down stems.
I'm leaving a lower branch of Big Miss and a couple of lowers of Little Miss in the pot for now.
Front / focus flower is Big Miss.
Back is Little Miss.
From the top:
Will leave these a bit, see what happens with the flower -- will it just continue to mature, or will it re-veg?!
And whether I want to use this same pot for the Spring Season Grow (more below).
Namo Shivaya!
Fun, fun, fun!
Love and hugs,
~MJS
(aka 'Batwoman'!)
Think I'm going for the registered mail option on this one 
