5H Club 49er Fever and a few 21s
Moving into the finishing touches, dropped the light schedule to 11 hours daylight.
Was suggested that it would help bulk up and finish the buds.
The Runt sits in a little spotlight area of reflected light. The first set aren’t putting out as many
hairs as they were. No 1 & 4 also beginning to show a bit of fade.
The second set should have reached their height at 3 weeks. Purp took a bit more height but
as soon as the others vacate will spread the branches to fill more space.
5H Club Toppers & Self Toppers (Sexless choices)
The Romberry pair have reached day 21 above soil and would get a flip if
there were room for that. But like S_N it will have to rely on preflower mode.
Will see how much growth we get before the harvest, it will get acclimated to the bloom
light when space is open, but will give it some time before flipping.
No 5 still hanging out, it might get thrown into flower after the harvest opens space only because
it has enough veg time and has a narrow profile with only 2 arms instead of the quads being run.
The purple seems to have topped itself, and is starting to display some color. Only hope it isn’t a
sign of stress or decline.
When I topped S_N and transplanted, it still had not shown sex. Preflower nodes were small but
called it a female based on the top (spikey over knobby) and moving on… The chopped piece is
in the cloner and will continue to age out and might display sex while it roots.
Along with the seeds and slap was his mix of edible cover crop.
Most wonderful of all is the Parafilm (it’s not a rolling paper) for grafting practice on making
multi-strain mothers and frankenbushes.
Tomorrow is picture day again unless still in a pumpkin pie coma…
The Mango decided to put on a bit of something this week. Has a huge leaf on one side, bigger than
I’ve seen that wasn’t a late fan leaf. The previous leaf pair had some issues also, the stripe on one side
and malformation on the opposite side.
Romberry 1 at almost a month still looking female, it has wide fan spread and has put
out some nice under growth. Will get topped and transplanted next week/
Romberry 2 isn’t quite as big or developed as the other but similar in structure.
Not sure what container size for these two. They will need a couple weeks of veg time.
The SN is moving along, mid week will look into topping again or training as needed.
About the time of harvest should be ready to start looking for a place in box.
No 4 just starting to fade on tips and edges of a few. It’s all water from this point.
Still scheduled for 60 day harvest if trichome development shows.
This group is half way there, shouldn’t be any surprises height wise. So frosty.
The Purp has a yellow glow of frost on the upper leaves. If this purples out (doubtful) it would show up better.
Am taking the Romberry as females. The containers for the next bloom group are 1 gallon and fit the eight inch saucer… These are 1.7 gallon and still fit the 8 inch saucer (tight) or 10 inch size used with the baskets. Since I already had the tubs in position for the Romberry transplants, decided to fill them too and prepare for the Sweet Lemon pair. Lazy or efficient?
Mango reached 21 days and went into the box 12/12 to force it to sex.
Took clone cuts of the two Romberry, SN and Mango, want to graft these onto root stock also.
At the level where the fat/misformed leaf grew, it experienced something that disrupted the
branch pairing normally seen in early development. The first two nodes were at the soil level
and one was stunted, but other was taken as clone of decent size.
The back three are at day 35 of bloom and moving along for a Christmas harvest.
Runt is at day 51ish and filling out still… will it also last until yuletide harvesting
SN will be flipped tonight (acclimated to box light and first 12 dark cycle)
Mango will only stay until sex determination and then be moved to veg
The Romberry pair have been put in the new containers. They will get a couple of weeks to
veg and be topped again. Target date is Valentine harvest and Groundhog Day on just flipped SN.
Took clones of 4 newest, but will be attempting grafts of them also. The clones taken earlier have
bounced back and will need tending soon. No 5 - plucked to hell and not happy.
The larger containers dropped the Romberrys down lower than previous level, so will not cause
a issue in training. They are going to be a beefy duo.
After a couple days drying out (tops much slower) decided to check
out the soil from the recent harvest. Each of the baskets was a nice
loaf that held shape when lifted from the stalk to remove from basket.
The fabric container also was easy to remove with a bit of massage to
separate the roots on edges. Forgot bottom was lined with rocks and
they also came out attached to the soil mass.
No 1 had a nice tap root a few inches long, but No 2 and No 4 both
developed a LUMP about an inch under the soil line, with a shorter
tap continuing from the bottom.
The three containers filled my usual soil storage bucket. The recovered soil
felt good, not wet but still a bit moist. Will let it sit and see what happens.
Such a beefy plant, those lowers have already reached canopy level with
impressive growth heads of their own. Preflowers just forming and a few
more days will know for sure but as of now it’s a boy…
At week 6 they have a couple more weeks to go, but do see some ambers on the upper fans.
The SN is at first week and the tops should start shooting upward this week.
At the two week mark SL2 is leading. These have the broad leaves but not like the mango had.
Staying nice and short. At day 21 will get the bloom box to sex out.
Clones just hanging out still. Botched another couple attempts at grafting.
The Romberry pair will get veg until the flower box opens up. 2 weeks is the plan…
The flower box is getting ready for a transition. The three are near harvest.
Will be moving this grow journal over to a new spot for 2019 for SN onward.
O1 is starting to fade heavy on a few fan leaves. Put up a temp measure tape at top of container.
This container size is new so making note of height based on training method.
Lost the side measure shot (error code) but a few inches above the other two around 11 high.
Also starting to fade on older fans. For a purple strain it didn’t do much so would mark it as a green pheno. This was marked purple as it came from a purple bud. It is from same batch as the runt just held out from the rest as purple.
Sweet Lemon x BS3 pair have been 3 days in the bloom box to acclimate to the light and are now in a 12/12 cycle to force them to sex out. S2 is a bit bigger. Like what I’m seeing so far.
The Romberry pair have been topped and lollypop stripped. Tied where needed.
They are at day 48 of veg (if that means something) since they weren’t forced tracking a bit off. When the box opens up they will be put into flower.
Target date for SN is Ground Hog Day Think Romberry might make it by Valentines.
Misc clones hanging around. No1 and No2 still here… botched graft aside are doing fine.
The O_1 clone and Purp clones have decided they want to grow (in a small dirt area) and will need to be dealt with soon. Either topping, trim back, transplant, etc…
Both the Sweet Lemon turned out male. They had preflowers at 24 days above soil.
Early and Burly were bushy boys. Dropped another pair and both are above soil in 3 days.
Also dropped a pair of Tahoe, ran these last spring but they didn’t get the attention they
deserved (based on harvest).
The Romberry duo got a bit more veg time than planned waiting for the harvest window.
Since it’s again a full moon, not only more seeds but rotation of bloom area and harvest.
The SN is at 20 days bloom cycle, most of the stretch is out of the way and think have set
the level for growth tops.
Jars have been curing 21 days so poured them out, spread a even layer, snap a photo…
No_1 had the most quantity and No_4 was a small nug machine, No_2 a bit better mains.
Got a sous vide device for myself. Took all the larf trim sitting around from previous harvests. Started with the trim from buds pictured above in the first jar. Then found a big jar of more sugar leaf trim from Spring runs so loaded up a second jar.Combined it all in the end and made up a batch of PB & Caramel chip cookies…
The current harvest was transferred to jars and all the collected generously. All the little buds that would go into the sample pile instead went to alternative cure method. They are in the 104.5 bath (40 C) for 20 hours as directed.
While the final cut gets the small jars, it’s the same as previous harvests after the larf and small buds are taken. Sometime the middle of January will visit these again…
This was first run with these containers. The roots were to the edges but not overly packed The bottoms all got an inch of the GreenLite and it was airy enough to air prune anything that would have grown out the bottom of the container. The barrier cloth (almost left this out) had roots that grew through to the bottom. Not exactly root bound and not as even as fabric and other baskets.
You can see the demarcation in the soil layer, above the bottom inch was a mixture of Roots Original and GreenLite. In breaking up the root ball, you can smell the worm base of the tea. Not as spongy as other containers, the roots a bit more course.
R2 the more butch of the pair decided it also wanted more decorations and put out jingle balls.
There are hairs at every top, but nuts there too. Will give it a couple more days to be sure…
Oops wasn’t done editing those yet, but… The SN is at start of week 4 (day 28) and R1 is at day 7 bloom.
Was getting worried with the pair of Romberry that I’d run out of space. These two will fit well for now, and let me put the next set in to force sex in another week or two.
The SN wasn’t forced, and female, possibly lucky. Romberrys weren’t and one female one Other…
The Sweet Lemon earlier were forced and showed very quickly, will see if strain repeats this.
Returning to what worked in the past and fits best with training schedules.
49er Fever and a few 21s
Turkey Day
