You doing a great job with these Diggy! I’m a stubborn bastard and if there’s anyone on earth that could finish one of these outside in New England it would be me. Start flowering for a month or two indoors in April and May, and after the solstice in June, bring them outside to finish flowering under the sun, bringing them in 12 or 13 hours a day of course. Pain in the ass but I love that light bulb in the sky! And these look like they’re going to be worth the effort. Good luck with your Defoliating efforts. I hope you don’t have carpal tunnel LOL! How many males and how many females did you end up with? Do they all smell of oranges on the stem rub?
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Bout two dozen gigantic branches had to go. One has more tertiary growth and thicker stems, but otherwise they’re identical.
The half and half indoor/outdoor flower period is probably a great idea. Start flowering in the end of May and put em outdoors on the first of August, harvest sometime before Halloween.
Most of em are still pretty vague, but it skews heavily towards female. It’s looking like out of six; one male, three females, and two up in the air.
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Vigorous genetics you got there to say the least! How would you compare the growth of this strain to other strains you have grown? Has anything you’ve grown come close ? I would leave these alone in the early part of August myself, but the nights at my place start getting down into the mid-40s by that time of year, and I don’t think they would like it. For that reason I will have to bring them inside every night. I bought a large cart for that purpose. Last summer I wrenched my back almost everyday bringing my damn plants in. I really had to time my waterings so the pots wouldn’t be extra heavy because of my back. Are you cloning any of those branches? The lateral branching on those cut off branches is something to see!
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That herijuana kept pace with the goroka no problem.
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Was that herijuana from reefer man?
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It’s the meduser / sannie line.
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This Goroka highlands clone has been fully rooted for a couple weeks now, going into flower at approximately 4” tall.
Now this. This is how I like to flower my pure sativas.
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Do you move it up in a bigger pot ever? And how much will it stretch by the time it’s flowering good? Now I’m geting ideas for my sativa seeds.
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It depends, but I think flowering cuts is much easier as well. My panama haze was maybe 4-5 feet, topped but cuts are probably more like 3 feet… which is very nice height to accommodate.
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That will be nice for a side-by-side comparison with the seed plants. It’ll still turn into a monster! Boy the leaves on those are really gnarly looking. I’ve heard people refer to Thai leaves as prehistoric, and I’m thinking the same with these.
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6=8 times height gain from when flowering is initiated for extreme tropicals. My malawis were 4x stretch. If you take cuttings from flowering plants, they initiate flowering faster as well ( research here, not experience) and you can shave up to 2 weeks off the flowering time. But we’ll know for sure when diggy is done flowering his clone next winter ( kidding of course lol)
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Yeah I should have upgraded her yesterday but too much on the plate, I’ll do that this morning. And like lefty and upstate said, stretch is usually something like 6x with tamed sativas. I flowered a 4” and 6” zamaldelica last year and they finished 2 and 3 foot respectively.
I pray these only stretch six times… Had a Jam Lambsbread back in the day that went from 1ft to 9ft tall and was just barely starting to flower at 14 weeks of 12/12.
The Meuang Lao kinda scares me more in the stretching department. She’s got some legs on her… Goroka Highlands is keeping stride tho. I’ll try to get some side by sides today with everybahdi.
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I’d love to see what those plants from Laos look like. I hear they have incredible vigor.
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The two big Goroka are finally throwing hairs. They’re not stretching in the normal sense. Growth is steady and internode distance is absolutely reasonable. Almost too compact. Something like twenty nodes each, on two, three-foot plants.
I’d also like to note, these are some of the most patient and understanding plants I’ve ever grown. They literally don’t acknowledge neglect. They just slow their growth to fit the conditions allotted.
(Hopefully a male, and future father.)
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That’s good to hear. I grew a Colombian gold x Malawi gold last summer and it was one of the easiest plants I’ve ever grown. It stayed about 4 1/2’ tall and i brought it inside for the last month. I think by limiting the pot size has something to do with it. peace
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If you live above 35° N, then you’ll need to do something like light dep to allow a pure/heavy leaning sativa plant to finish naturally outdoors. Either that or build a greenhouse.
I’ve had pure sativa landraces that topped out at 16’ to 20’+ tall and just as wide outdoors and any pruning done to these giants creates even more of a new growth explosion. Prune early and prune often to maintain shape and keep growth manageable.
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Yeah 42.0N-71.0W here. A buddy brought up the idea of flowering the PNG indoors starting in May or so, and at the same time start an auto run outdoors. Harvest the autos sometime in July and replace em with the Goroka on the first week of August.
My question is, would they still fit thru the doorway? Lmao
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Brilliant 
throw some auto pollen on the PNG 
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Close! Using an auto as the mom to keep turnover high; the only current pollinations planned for a female Goroka is with another Goroka, and the Meuang Lao. On that note, I’m starting to worry I don’t actually have a male Goroka atm. Not even going to think about it until it’s 100%
@StevieG has a little Goroka running, too. Been badgering, damn near harassing him to put up a pic. If any of y’all wanted to gently suggest he submit to our demands… lol
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