UPDATE: today marks day 53 of flower for these ladies. If they truly are a 70 day variety that would mean 17 days to go. Overall there hasn’t been much to report, all of them are stacking weight and starting to really give off some really nice fruity smells. I keep trying to come up with an analogy, I think it’s somewhere between fruity pebbles cereal and smarties candy depending on the day and the plant. Truly mouthwatering regardless. I’m getting very excited for the follow up seedless run and the opportunity to smoke these, although I’ll sample some of the sift after I’m done shucking seeds on these as well I’m quite sure. The whole tent got some coconut water yesterday, I’m committed now to riding things out on just coconut, maybe some
Recharge, and just plain ol’ water till the end now, just let them all finish out however they will. I didn’t go to crazy on pictures, but I’ll try to give a little info on each plant below:
GM6:
My prayer tower pheno, she was definitely overfed judging by the dark green and clawing on the leaves. I’ve made notes for the next run but truthfully she doesn’t look and worse for the wear. Her superglue resin just keeps piling on and the other day when checking her out and giving her the sniff test i distinctly remember thinking strawberry starbursts. I’m stoked to see what she’ll do with a mellower feed next go round.
GM1:
My quick fader. None of the stuff I gave her did much to slow down her fade, which leads me to believe that she may finish before her sisters. She’s been happier than a pig in shit the entire time, always praying after a good drink, we’re just now getting to the point where the lower leaves don’t really want to look up anymore and are starting to basically die off, so I’ve got money in this one being the first to be cut and hung. Same fruity smells off this one but a little bit more of a powdery overtone to it, this is the one that made me think of smarties I think: that kind of chalky fruit smell.
GM5:
Been referring to her in my head as “noodles” I staked her up after watering yesterday (real ugly job but it works) she’s had my eye this entire time based on the weight that she’s putting out, slowly dragging those spaghetti branches down to the point of needing support. Recently she’s started to purple up in her flowers which I think is just a beautiful look on her. Hard to tell if it’s genetic or cold triggered since I don’t heat my flower tent, with temps getting into the mid to low 60s at night. Same great fruit smells coming off of her, and she has the most visible seed formation, so I think she’s gonna be the front runner for most seeds collected from a single plant. Time will tell.
GM2:
Old faithful. This one has seemed the most happy of all the plants I think. While the others showed some need for water or food or something, this one has been in the back corner chilling the entire time. She never dropped her leaves to indicate thirst, but never got upset about getting water with the rest of her sisters, she seems the most at home in this environment. Purpling slightly but not as much as her sister out front, if I had to personify her, she’s wifey material, steady, consistent, just happy to be around.
That’s it for the play by play. I think I mentioned above that I’ve been having good luck with my gnat issue, that’s been great. I did pull a leaf yesterday off the GM5 and spotted a single clear mite like there had been before, but I’ve not found any on the other plants, so I’m spraying 3 days with dr. Zymes just to hit everything up again and then just going to ride it out. I’m relaxing a little bit on the notion that a single bug indicates impending doom, just staying on top of it, running a program to deal with what I see, and going from there. Clones all got watered with recharge today, they’re looking super healthy and itching for new bigger pots so that they can really take off. Not rushing this one along by any means but I’m really looking forward to the sensi run to come after this so that I can get down to a proper pheno hunt. That’s it! Love you all