Alright, this is gonna take a while, so let’s start with some music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrbKvxGgFfg
I dunno why this song popped into my head yesterday, haven’t listened to it in years, but it’s a good one, been listening to it nonstop for the last day. I actually like it better than the original version. That whole Control soundtrack is good.
Anyway, I started 5x each of the seeds mentioned in the title on April 20. I’m not sure if April 20 was the day I started soaking them in water and fulvic or if that was the day I actually put them in soil; in any event, they were definitely all planted 24 hours after I started soaking them.
With the exception of two of the Grapefruit f3’s, everything sprouted, leaving me with 18 plants. Vegged those in the three-inch “starter pots” until May 15, at which point I transplanted into half-gallons and top dressed with a little bit of neem, kelp, MBP and watered that in with OG Biowar Nute Pack.
On June 12, the plants that I thought were female (or hadn’t shown yet) were transplanted into seven-gallons, top dressed with one tablespoon of Kashi Bran (I got an email from BAS on, like, May 18 saying my points were expiring the next day and a two-pound bag of Kashi was one of my options, so I ordered that)(and btw, fuck you, BAS, for “expiring” my points haha; the points should last forever) and a 1/4 cup of BAS Craft Blend. Watered that in with both the Nute and Root packs from OG Biowar. I usually make it a point to top dress with MBP when I get the plants into their flowering containers, but I guess I forgot to do that this time, I dunno how that happened. I also usually top dress with neem and kelp, but it looks like both of those are in the Craft Blend, so I skipped it this time.
On June 16 I started decreasing lights-on from 16/8. Flipped nine days later, on June 25.
Anyway, I ended up with three Chocolate Blitzes, two each of the Grapefruit f3’s and the Yesca x Jaro and only one of the Hashplant D’s (sad face emoji). Here they are:
Chocolate Blitz #1, veg day 28:
Veg day 35 (I think I had just topped her):
Veg day 47:
Flower day 2 (which was 68 days after I started the seeds and 21 days after the above pic)(same timeline for all of the plants/pics):
Flower day 9:
And flower day 17 (today):
There’s pretty significant flower development on her (and all of the other plants, too); they look much further along than I woulda thought for day 17, but I think that has a lot to do with decreasing lights-on leading up to officially flipping.
Anyway, here’s the Chocolate Blitz #2, veg day 28:
Veg day 35:
Veg day 47:
Flower day 2 (again, 19 days after the above pic and 68 days after starting the seeds):
Flower day 9:
And flower day 17 (today):
Here’s the Chocolate Blitz #4, veg day 28:
Veg day 35:
Veg day 47:
Flower day 2 (again, 19 days after the above pic):
I forgot to mention that I actually did do a little “pre-flowering training” this round; usually I wait until Ive flipped and it’s too late for the training I do to make any difference. I don’t think I did a good job, though haha. I even did a little defoliation a week or so before I flipped, but you wouldn’t really be able to tell from the pics.
Here’s the Chocolate Blitz #4 on flower day nine:
And on flower day 17 (today)(all “flower day 17” pics were taken today because today is day 17 of flower haha):
See how far along those flowers look? Pretty surprising…
And here’s a little side-by-side-by-side of the three Chocolate Blitz plants, just so we have an idea of the stretch. And all the other stuff, too:
From left to right, that’s CB #1, #2 and #4. Just judging from everything I’ve read about that Dutch Flowers Chocolate Trip and also from what Doc D had to say about it, I’m guessing that the #4 plant is a Chocolate Trip leaner and the other two are probably leaning towards the A5Thai dad. I’ve actually got the #4 Chocolate Trip and the Hashplant D on five gallon buckets already, just because some of the other stuff is dwarfing them.
So those are the Chocolate Trips. I’m pretty stoked about them, glad I got three females.
I wanted to copy-and-paste the info that meangene wrote about those Yesca x Jaro plants on speakeasy, always good to have info direct from the breeder, but for some reason I can’t. My girl looked at it just now and said that they disabled copy-and-pasting, which I think is kinda dick of speakeasy, but whatever. I guess we’ll just have to settle for these pics I’m about to post haha.
Yesca x Jaro #3, veg day 28:
Veg day 35:
Veg day 47:
Flower day 2:
Flower day 9:
And flower day 17:
Check out those last two pics. Tying her down was completely pointless; she reeeeallllyyy wants to grow up and in. Or I dunno, maybe tying her down made a little bit of a difference, but it doesn’t look like it to me haha. I’d mayyyybe try to tie down some of those branches, but they’re so fucking flimsy (notcomplainingjustobserving! haha), I don’t wanna snap anything off. I’m probably just gonna wait until the flowers get fatter and let the branches spread out naturally, on their own. And then stake and tie the fuck outta everything haha.
Here’s the other Yesca x Jaro, the #5 plant, veg day 28:
Veg day 35:
Veg day 47:
Flower day 2:
Flower day 9:
And flower day 17:
She has sturdier stems, but also wants to do the “straight up” thing, although maybe not quite as much as the #3 plant.
Here’s a side-by-side of the two plants:
The #3’s on the left, pretty big difference between them haha. I think the #3 plant might actually be the tallest in the tent.
Okay, time for more music. This one’s a good little “summertime cut”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ufG3G59H4
So, like I said, two of the Grapefruit f3’s didn’t sprout, which is a little annoying. And then the three that did sprout started growing… haha. I can’t say I’m in love with these plants, but here they are:
Grapefruit f3 #2, veg day 28:
Veg day 35:
Veg day 47:
Flower day 2:
Flower day 9:
And flower day 17:
Look at those tops. They, like, just split up into three or four little “pieces,” have y’all ever sen anything like that? I haven’t. It’s kind of annoying, just gonna end up being a bunch of tiny little nugs at the top of that plant.
Here’s the other Grapefruit f3, the #3 plant, veg day 28:
Veg day 35:
Veg day 47:
Flower day 2:
Flower day 9:
And flower day 17:
The #3 plant’s also been doing this for several weeks now:
Not all over the place and not all the time, but just every now and then, randomly, there’ll be that “taco-ing” or whatever you wanna call it. I dunno know what that’s about and I don’t really care, either. Honestly, I kind of hate those two plants haha. They for sure stink like grapefruit, so I’ll give them that, but they’re growing really weird and they’re weak as fuck, too; both of them split right where I’d topped them when I was tying them down a while back. Taped them up and a few days later, another branch had snapped right around the same area, even though I hadn’t done anything to it and there were obviously no flowers growing that would’ve made that happen. So I taped that branch up, too, and am just letting them ride.
If the smoke turns out great, I’ll grow them again (eventually), because they really do smell like grapefruit and have for weeks, long before I ever flipped them. But the next time I grow them, I will definitely not top them. Single-stalk plants all the way.
Anyway, finally, the lone Hashplant D, veg day 28:
Veg day 35:
Veg day 47:
Flower day 2:
Flower day 9:
Flower day 17:
I like this plant a lot, although I think she’s leaning more GHash than Chem D. Having never grown Chem D, though, I don’t now. She didn’t stretch much at all, got her on a five-gallon bucket the same way I have the shortest Chocolate Blitz on one.
And since I only ended up with one Hashplant D female, I’m just gonna post a few random pics of each of the males before I trashed them.
That last one I really thought was a female, didn’t notice until day five of flower that he wasn’t haha. I saw the beginnings of those flowers and was like,“Come on, baby, don’t be a male…” but the next day it was just so obvious haha. Bummer…
Anyway, yeah, so we’re on day 17 today, top dressed with some MBP this morning, since I didn’t do that when I transplanted. It’s been starting to get hot as fuck the past couple days, having a little trouble keeping temps below, like, 84 after about 12pm (lights are on from 8am to 7:30pm right now), humidity levels veer anywhere between 60% and 30%, depending on how much and how long the AC’s been running and I DO NOT CARE. After the winter and spring we just had, I don’t give a shit if it stays 120 degrees with 20% humidity every day for the next five years. I will never. Ever. EVER! Complain about hot weather again haha.
Also, just for fun, here’s “full tent shots” from flower days 2, 9 and 17 (day 17 is today, in case I didn’t make that clear haha):
Alright, done.
Great minds, right? ^^
Looks like two completely different phenos too? I have seen that split top before, in my experience it’s common on males and I’ve seen them pass that trait along to the offspring. Shows up in the FLC BX1/Lemon Cheese Haze I made for instance. The flowers might fill out though. That taco look usually meant I needed to add more magnesium or possible VPD/transpiration issue. Nice to hear they actually smell like Grapefruit at least!
Hopefully the loud chem d rankness comes in on that lone girl you got going. She looks good! Some fat little stems there!