first of, i must say that the comment from DerKommissar is spot on
these plants get very tall, real fast. if you don't take out the main stem, the plant becomes huge, like 3 - 4 meter.
if you take good care of them they can yield a max of 400 gram, but must of my plant had between 300 - 350 grams.
gold rush is not really susceptible to mold, but some of the pheno's have a purple/grey colour wich makes it very difficult to identify budmold. if you know your stuff you can find the mold, but if you are an amateur you might miss it. the bud don't mold very easily though. untill the 6th week of flowering they are pretty much carefree. the only thing they really need is enough additional support, because of the long branches. most of the plants have green bud, wich get a little bit of purple in the last weeks of flowering. these are still passable as normal green weed. maybe 1 or 2 out of 20 seeds will turn totally purple, including the total darkpurple colour and smell.
10% - 15% of the pheno's will not be compact pheno's. these pheno's also get mold real easy. the other pheno's are nicely compact and pretty strong against mold. i think it's a pretty good commercial strain because of the speed you can harvest these plants. the buds are very long en compact, so you don't have a lot of trimming to do. small leaves can be pulled of easily and fast.
gives a real good yield against the time it takes to harvest them. also a real good bud for machine trimming.
latitude 51°
2014, harvest last week of september
2015, harvest 1th - 2th week of october
2016, harvest 2th - 3th week of october
smell is a little bit like a diesel, but more in a fruity way. also a little bit of a sweet and earthy tones, but fruit is the best word to discribe it. it's a nice daytime smoke wich gives you a nice uplifting feeling. more high than couchlock.
makes you want to do stuff. if you smoke enough you can get pretty stoned, especially if you consider it as an outdoor weed. i made a lot of believers, when the saw the outdoorbud these plants can produce!
if you google me name, you can find all of my growing reports.
greetz,
lufthegreenstuf