For the fourth-and-final entry in our News Joint Grow Journal about my four Work Sativa strains, I give the last update on my Lemon Tree from NWG Genetics. Lemon Tree is a cross of Lemon Skunk and Sour Diesel.

Throughout veg and flowering stages, the Lemon Tree plant outgrew the other three plants in my tent: O.M.G. by Deep Space Creations, Hella Jelly by Humboldt Seed Company, and Anti-Lemonade by Anti-Apparel/Curtis Crosses. I topped the plant once and had to continuously low-stress train the larger branching by bending and “knotting” them to keep the plant the same height as the others.

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A few days before flipping light schedules to flower the plant, as always, I performed Kyle Kushman’s supercropping and “chiropractic” techniques, cracking the stem and branches from the bottom to the top by twisting them in opposite directions. Out of all the hands-on training throughout the grow, my plants consistently respond to this better than anything other techniques.

Throughout the flowering stage, Lemon Tree gave off heavy skunk and gas aromas. I chopped the plant at 65 days (probably should have pushed it a couple more days). The total harvest was a little more than three ounces of dried and cured buds. The flower tested (sponsored by Grow5 Champaign) at 20% THC and less than 2% CBD. Throughout all stages of the grow, I used Cultured Biologix nutrients and SLF-100 from Blooms Brothers Hydro, along with Fish Shit. I flowered Lemon Tree under a BlackBird light sponsored by HLG.

The Lemon Tree buds were thick, especially the colas, with a nice structure and density. The aroma of the cured buds carried the same heavy skunk and diesel with a little citrus. The flavor matched the aroma but with heavier sour diesel and added back notes of citrus (though not lemon) and earthy spice. The final product was a sour diesel dominated plant. In fact, if I hadn’t grown this, and someone had told me that it was the strain Sour Diesel, I probably would have accepted that.

The point of this entire grow was to stock up on Work Sativa, and though the other three strains fit the criteria, Lemon Tree did not check all the boxes. Lemon Tree had energy and was motivating, but the head high wandered slightly at times, and I found my thoughts more unfocused than I wanted while working. This Lemon Skunk was better for more mundane outdoor and physical work instead, a Work Sativa for more of a blue-collar worker. To follow News Joint Grow Journal, click here.

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