Even though a day later gonna put in another update
Day 19/3
Here’s how they were looking
So first i made up a small batch for the right side reservoir for the left side cab, want to see how a higher feed treats them, currently will be up in the 1250-1300ppm range vs the 950-1080ppm rage it was in before.
Also been increasing the watering frequency and duration as the pots were feeling light when i got around to taking a look at them tonight but then i realizing they had actually only been watered 20 mins before so thus i changed it up, so were at 10sec durations 4 times during light on, its not that they are going dry its more about cycling the water and nutrients in the media, but you can definitely go too much if your not watching things.
So more the reason for the update lets discuss the “Crinkle Mutants”
This one’s getting pulled tonight considering though this one was pretty decent compared to most ive had. Now how do i describe this through my observations. The crinkle mutants leaf growth if you look at them closer up seem more like a smattering of cells that grow in a random disorganized pattern vs say a normal leaf where growth continues in an organized fashion, because of that the leafs don’t really expand at an equal rate or just hold up all together as its like they lost their ability to do so, so even if the plant is getting everything it needs or at least seems too it just throws out curled, clawed, bumpy, raise edge, and or raised interveinal leaves that are those smattering of cells.
As these leaves age ive noticed that even though they are healthy and green and hydrated, they actually become quite brittle in a sense that say on a good plant those leaves would tear eventually once more force is applied but the rest of the leaf still remains intact, now for these plants the leaves more or less crumble with little effort, my assumption is this is due to that disorganized leaf cell structure.
Now with the coloring discussions in my post from yesterday when i was going back through my pictures the proverbial light bulb went on and i want to say this characteristic carried over with one of the pollen donors “Damn You Beyonce” or at least that pollen donor has caused the expression of this mutant characteristic to be more locked in per say and not recessive or pushed out. Saying that this characteristic was partially present four generations ago in the pollen donor at the time, as i was just using what i had at the time with no intention id be this far down the road with them, as i was just making seeds for myself and playing, shit happens anyways live and learn.
One of my previous goals was to stomp out that mutant expression if i could, but this last round of seed making i just crossed and played with what i thought was the best i had as i was kinda on a killing spree before that looking for the proverbial perfect white unicorns to carry on, anyways im pretty sure i can decently pinpoint things now and will say the ATM seeds are gonna express this in higher frequency followed by the darksparks then the easy D after that just with how if i remember i pollinated things, there is some crossover but i guess just a forewarning for now, we can discuss this and show the mutants as we go along if we so desire,
I’ll share a couple other ATM’s tonight to show some mutations or oddities that some have already gotten or may get.
Anyways always learning, and neat to see.
So here is my left side now with some shuffling, im contemplating maybe eventually reducing to 6 plants in total if there growth keeps up, but we will see.