u/SlapTheBap

First time grafting, so come learn with me as we torture our babies until they become freaks or perish. Two healthy caespitosa pups. Two hard grown outdoor northern prickly pear pads. One pad had the spines removed, one did not. Both were not rooted. No rot! Yet.

Week 1 notes:

Despined prick: shrunk more from water loss. Pup is very vigorous despite over hanging (ruh roh), pushing out a root into the pear. This pup has fight in him.

Regular prick: the loph was squashed! Too much pressure! But still it lives. Like its sibling it has fused to the prick. Slight new growth is visible in the center as tiny white puffs of trichomes appear.

Prickly pear is STICKY. The sap works as glue. If you're going to take the needles out of the prick, remember it'll lose a lot of water. That'll change the "floor plan" for your graft. Roughly rubbing off the needles takes care of most of them but with how vigorously pricks pup, it might be worth it to take out the areoles.

Something silly. Wanted to try learning to graft. Had pups making micro pups in a never ending fractal on the mother loph and some free native prickly pear used to rough northern winters. Let's see how they mingle.

Used a fresh blade with isopropyl and a bit of rooting hormone. Maybe it works, maybe it don't!

Picked up a qp. Was double vacuum wrapped with no smell coming from the box. Once the vacuum was punctured? Oooo boy it's loud. Open a window. Very fresh. Very well cured. Sticky. Outside flower has most of the trichomes brushed off but once you crack open a nug you get more sweet stank and some lovely round trichome heads. A mix of clear and lightly amber. Good to see. Probably harvested at a good time :D

Speaking of smell, my girlfriend immediately said citrus lavender. It follows through in the taste. Very floral sweet and a little funky. Ground up in a mill grinder, it was fluffy and sticky. Super fresh without any signs of rushed cure.

Very dark purple. They must know how to stress their plants nicely. Other pictures I've seen of this strain don't show this phenotype. I'm really curious where the genes are from. It looks more like the baja blasteroid with Lee hi genes than the pictures I've seen of baja blast. Oh well. Doesn't really matter much at the end of the day.

Effects are fantastic. The new strain phenomenon is hitting good. I'm getting blasted off one vape cap in my Frolic dhv, despite my high tolerance. Good pain relief but not groggy or foggy. I'm awake!

I can see why they felt proud enough to sell this at a higher price. I'm getting a nice floating feeling. Wish this had arrived a day earlier. I have chronic back pain. Had a flare up last night right as I was about to play Gamble With Your Friends. This would have saved me! So much easier to control my mood with a good pain relieving strain.

One week. Just one week. This guy was found in some dirt at the bottom of a shipping box a couple months ago. Was buried next to a noid LW in the soil. Spent the last week under a dried lime leaf "tent" to keep em from going orange. Worked great! Thirsty little guy really responds to being misted twice a day.

Don't give up on your little guys! Even a husk of a decapitated loph can turn into 4 if you bury em, apparently.