Maybe! We will see!
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Plants are looking good brother…nice and perky green. 
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Halle Berry and Blockberry looking thrilled to be here. Going to be some nice little tester plants.
The keeping Weighted Blanket chugging along nicely. Buds are set and growing.
There is definitely 2 pheno’s for the weighted blanket from what I can tell so fat. A taller plant, like my keeper, with longer pistils and a shorter pheno that looks kind of kushy, with shorter pistils.
The UV bar is up and running.
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As I sit here theres a 3rd pheno. Taller plant like the keeper, smaller thinner leaves, bud structure similar to the kushier plant with shorter pistils.
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Sounds like a nice mix of the other 2 phenos
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Dr Coco has a good chart too, in general this guide is super comprehensive over at CCFC:
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Thank you @JustANobody!!! Another strain I’m excited for. I’ve heard so much about Catpiss. Sending pm. Thank you!
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I struggled for a while to understand the different concept of growing in a neutral medium, the best explanation I’ve found about the osmotic gradient is from Botanicare:
“ Why do we recommend feeding with every watering in coir based media?
Cation exchange capacity (CEC) is a property of soil and soilless media which directly affects nutrient availability. Growers generally use the “water/feed/water/feed” schedule in soil/peat based media mostly because soil cannot hold a lot of provided nutrients and thus salt tends to build up in the grow media. In comparison, because coir’s ability to hold and exchange nutrients with the plant is much greater than most soils, the buildup of salt is reduced in the coir based media.
Therefore, by feeding with the nutrient solution at every watering, you can maintain relatively uniform chemical conditions at the root zone. Maintaining appropriate levels of dissolved solutes at the root zone (by following application rates listed on the feed sheet) will create an osmotic gradient between the roots and coco. Having dissolved solutes in the root zone technically causes the water to enter the plant at a slower rate, which may sound like a bad thing, but ultimately results in the plant having to “try harder” to overcome the gradient.
This results in a stronger plant and a higher concentration of desirable plant-produced compounds in the harvested material, including sugars, oils, flavor & aroma compounds, among many others.
Here is how it works:
- Applying dissolved solutes (i.e. nutrient solution) to the coco holding the roots will cause less water to enter the plant, because water favors moving towards solutes.
- The plant will then “compete” by producing its own solutes (like sugars and others) inside the roots, causing the solute concentration inside the plant to increase.
- Water will then continue to flow into the plant because the plant had to produce these extra solutes, and because water uptake has somewhat decreased.
- The concentration of these solutes is much greater in the harvestable end-product (these solutes being desirable things like sugars, aromatic compounds, essential oils, etc.), and ultimately the harvested fruits/flowers are more nutritionally dense, have stronger flavors and aromas and generally higher quality.
- In response to a constant presence of solute/nutrient/salt concentrations around the root zone, plants will synthesize compounds within themselves (often compounds, we growers desire, like nutrients etc.) as a way of “competing” with the soil for water—all to the benefit of the grower, as the harvested end product will end up with a higher concentration of beneficial compounds.
When a “feeding with every watering” schedule is applied (continuously feeding and applying nutrients), the osmotic gradient will continue to exist and the plant will keep producing sugars and other products.
However, when a “water/feed/water/feed” alternate type of schedule is applied, the nutrient concentration in the coco is always changing, bouncing back and forth between high in nutrients on the day of feeding and then being very low the following day. This oscillation between high and low nutrient concentration is stressful on the plants, but is certainly not catastrophic and many growers continue to use the “water/feed/water/feed” method without encountering too many problems. We simply recommend feeding with every watering as the best method to obtain higher end-product quality.”
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Getting me all schooled up. Appreciate it bud.
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Are any of the weighted blankets pretty branchy?
There a couple that are much branchier than the others. 1 is just main shoots. I’d call the keeper I picked branchy. We will see if I picked right!
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Hell yeah, Tony always said the keepers are the branchy ones not the corn stall ones!
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