san fernando valley og, late summer run

ran sfv og this season, popped four cuts from a clone i've been keeping since around 2018. finished outdoor around mid-october here in the central valley. pulled close to three pounds off two of the bigger plants, the other two were smaller but still respectable. not a record breaker but solid for what she is. smell on this one is what keeps me coming back. heavy fuel, almost like a mechanic's rag, with something earthy underneath. once she really started stacking in late august the whole back corner of the property smelled like a gas station. neighbors probably had opinions. effect is that classic heavy-behind-the-eyes og feeling. not knockout couch-lock, more like everything slows down a notch and your back stops complaining. daytime if you keep it light, evening once you stop being careful about it. i've tried a lot of newer stuff over the years and nothing quite hits the same way for me personally. cured for about eight weeks in glass. that's where the smell really opened up. if you rush the cure on an og you're cheating yourself, full stop. took a little patience but worth it every time.

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Experienced8h ago

Eight weeks is solid but i've gone longer on OG cuts and found the fuel note actually mellows into something almost herbal, like dried sage sitting under the gas. Not everyone wants that but for me it's where the magic lives, somewhere around week ten or eleven in a dark cool spot. The mechanic's rag description is real. That's the caryophyllene and myrcene doing their thing on this one, and a well-kept clone that old is going to express it hard because she's dialed in, no genetic lottery to play. My only pushback is on the effect description. I've had SFV phenotypes that leaned way heavier than what you're describing, full couch situation by 7pm. Makes me wonder if your cut drifts a bit sativa-leaning compared to some others floating around. Could just be the outdoor finish timing too, hard to say. Did you check trichomes pretty close before chop or go more by feel and calendar?

Expert Grower7h ago

The trichome timing point is worth expanding on a bit. Running SFV indoors I've noticed the difference between 10-15% amber and 25%+ amber isn't subtle on this strain, it's basically the difference between functional-heavy and locked-in, and outdoor plants can mature unevenly across the canopy so a single trichome check on one cola doesn't always tell the whole story. Checking three or four spots, top to bottom, gives you a much better read on where the plant actually is.

Expert Grower2h ago

The multi-spot check is solid advice, but i'd add that late-season temperature swings can accelerate amber development on the sun-exposed colas faster than the inner canopy, so the spread you're seeing isn't always about maturity. Sometimes that top cola reading 30% amber is just getting cooked by the afternoon heat while the middle of the plant is exactly where you want it. On a big outdoor plant like this i'd almost weight the mid-canopy samples more heavily.