what’s up overgrow? thanks for the ping @PineTarBastard. sorry i’ve been mia, ever since i got into a.i. art generation a few weeks ago, my creativity has massively spiked and i’ve been devoting my time to working on some projects that have been collecting dust for far too long. but i’ve still been growing and my plants still be going, even if i’m not documenting my grow as carefully.
but here’s an update on my colorado sativas specimens…
shorty, the stronger half of the nanan bouclou 5 twins (or maybe she just got clipped at a more opportune time). she came back from being the runt of the twins to reaching above her sister now, standing at 34". i think my training and fimming schedule affected things, as i think i fimmed taco twice, whereas shorty only got fimmed once later on.
her structure is 3d candelabra with a half-ass touch of training. but even the half-ass training helped the colas be a little more uniform in height. she’s got long, three fingered leaves on more recent growth. i like how it looks like she’ll have a few nice, weighty colas.
because i’ve been so pre-occupied with my creative work, this second grow has received minimal attention. they get daily waterings, but i haven’t amended or fpj/ffj’d the plants very much at all. also, last week was ridiculously hot out in so.cal. i had turned my lights down a little, but i don’t think i really accounted for how hot and stuffy that tent can get. i was adding aloe powder to their waterings last week, but maybe you need to do that before your plants get in the shit.
taco, the other half of the nanan bouclou 5 twins. her structure is bent christmas tree due to my also half-ass training, otherwise she would be straight-up christmas tree. she has a few nice branches, but her main cola has a big, weighty chunk 'o nugs. it’ll be interesting to see how that top crown develops. hopefully i’ll be able to use it as a mace or a head thwacker.
she’s sitting at 28", so i suppose she’s the real shorty now. i still see slight signs of variegation in her leaves, but nothing major or concerning nowadays. she has the same thin, narrow three-fingered leaves as her sister, shorty.
for having minimal veg time and pretty much being (mostly) in 12/12 light their whole lives, i think their development is pretty nice. it looks like they’ll stay in a height range that is much more manageable for me, while delivering more than enough bud.
i think they should have another month or two to go?
queen mother 1. she’s been eating her leaves up and been very thirsty, although i have not been diligent in watering her well. she seems the hardest hit by the heat wave which came through, but i have been supplementing her feedings with some additional alfalfa and kelp.
regardless, she’s still growing strong and hanging in there with some beautiful bud development. i think her re-veg time really helped her growth. i know it says maybe 6-7 weeks flowering, but looking back on my notes in this thread, i noted a month ago that queen mother 1 seemed to be going back into flowering from re-veg, so maybe it’s only been 4-5 weeks? maybe 5-6… that seems more in line with the bud development she’s showing.
finally, the colorado sativas specimens that have been chillin’ with my san diego buddy. or sweatin’ it out more likely.
they all look like they could use a shot of nitrogen, but they’re hanging in there and doing their thing regardless. they’re like three siblings with stacked and reversed development. the viet black is tallest, but shows the least flowers. new caledonia 2 is in the middle. while queen mother 6 is the shortest, but shows the most flower development. i don’t have exact numbers for their heights, but i’m guessing the vb to be over 5’ tall, whereas the qm6 might be 3’ish-4’?
cindy 1 in the back is from fleur du mal stock from my first grow. i harvested her sister, cindy 2, a few weeks back. but it looks like cindy 1 has rooted beautifully and is gonna put out some nice, thick, chunky colas. i’m super excited for cindy 1 and hope the outdoor pests don’t decimate her. maybe 3-4 weeks for her?
i wonder if i should punt one of my nanan bouclou 5 twins to my san diego buddy. i’m not really doing anything different with their growing or feeding, so it might be more interesting to see differences between indoors/outdoors. i’m not sure though, as they’re decently far along in their flowering cycle by now.
but! The cutting from the male continued to develop in my bubble cloner, throwing out a bit of pollen. It pollinated a cutting beside it and I was able to collect a bit and pollinate a branch on one of the females and I now have a bunch of seeds growing 
I may have gotten lucky with timing the male just right (inadvertently) but with some practice this could be a good way to make seeds without worrying about a male spewing pollen over everything.
