We got into a very brief conversation about kelp and stuff on @potpotpot’s thread a few days ago, so I decided to make a neem/kelp tea (with a pinch of alfalfa added) on Tuesday and watered with it on Wednesday. It was just five gallons of water, 1/2 cup of neem, 1/4 cup of kelp and however much alfalfa I grabbed with my thumb and middle finger. I was actually pretty surprised at how good the plants looked on Thursday morning, wasn’t really expecting the tea to do too much (and I really don’t know if it was the tea or if was just another day of growth), but the flowers on multiple plants were noticeably fatter and frostier, particularly on one of the Yesca x Jaros.
Anyway, I took these pics this morning, flower day 55.
Chocolate Blitz #2:
She’s very much in the running with that one Grapefruit f3 for my favorite plant in the tent. They both look really good, but because of the genetics of the Chocolate Blitz, I’m slightly more stoked about the #2 CB plant. I’m also pretty stoked about all of them haha.
I had to stake and tie her (and almost everything else that I hadn’t already tied up, too) in the last week or so. Things are getting very floppy, but that Chocolate Blitz #2 is probably the floppiest, after that tall Yesca x Jaro plant.
Chocolate Blitz #4, flower day 55:
I’ve been plucking nanners off of her for at least the last week and it seemed like the more I plucked, the more would be there the next time I watered. Today was just fucking ridiculous, they were everywhere, so I chopped her.
That BITCH!!! Haha.
I know potpotpot mentioned something about his Chocolate Trip leaner of this cross had also grown a lot of nanners, so ordinarily I’d say,“Hmmm, maybe you should look out for the Chocolate Trip leaners…” but the biggest, most A5Thai-looking plant of this cross also produced a bunch of nanners and much earlier, too, so who knows? In any event, I do think that that Chocolate Trip female Doc used has a lot more to do with it than the A5Thai male.
Here’s the Yesca x Jaro #3 (I got a lot of pretty decent pics of this one today, so…):
She’s totally “OG.” Smells like it, looks like it, same weak-ass branches, same everything… A pretty big branch snapped off last Saturday, I just put it on the kitchen table and left it there until today. I was really only planning on digging through it to see if I could find any seeds forming, didn’t intend to blaze any of it, but as I was breaking up some flowers to see about seeds this morning (didn’t find a single one, thank gawd), I decided she smelled too good to not at least check her out a little bit.
Later, though haha. I had to drive all over the place today, didn’t wanna do it while baked on some weed I hadn’t tried before. I’ll get into her tonight.
Anyway, here’s the Yesca x Jaro #5:
She also smells very OG-ish and looks pretty good. Sturdier than the #3 plant, for sure.
Grapefruit f3 #2, the freaky one:
See how in that last pic, the leaves are curling down and they’re kind of yellow-ish and weird-looking? It’s just that one top that’s doing that and has been doing that for like a week, maybe longer. The whole rest of the plant looks fine (or as fine as that freak plant can look haha), but that one top is being really weird.
I’m not worried about it or anything, just something I’ve noticed.
And here’s the Grapefruit f3 #3 (my tied-for-first-place plant):
Her leaves have been doing that “taco-ing” thing off and on for the past few days, pretty sure she’s just not happy with either the temps (too hot) or the humidity levels (too low) or maybe a combination of the two, I dunno. But the flowers look very good, so… Again, I’m not worried about it haha.
And the Hashplant D:
A few days ago she was looking like she might almost be finishing up, but then she spit out a bunch of white pistils, so I’m thinking it’s gonna be another two weeks, maybe more. But maybe not haha. I dunno.
Anywaaayyyy… So, yeah, new pics.
In other news, apparently there’s a fucking tropical storm/hurricane down the way from SoCal. They’re saying that we may have power outages this weekend, which, if that happens, I’m gonna be fucking PISSED. The outage in the winter was irritating enough, but if we have two in one year? Fuck you.
The thing I’m most freaking out about, if we do actually lose power, is my seeds. When we lost it in the winter, it was fine; the weather was cold enough that the seed fridge in the garage stayed plenty cool, but if we lose power now, I dunno…
Just so we’re all clear, though: anybody who says climate change isn’t a thing can suck my fucking dick. There’s a gawddamn hurricane in the Pacific off the coast of Mexico right now. It hailed and stormed here last winter/spring every fucking day for MONTHS. We lost power then and we may lose power now. Those are things that don’t happen here.
Ever.
