I’ve been real busy recently and have not been able to give the garden much attention (as much as I’d like that is). The plants are all doing fine despite it though. I’m running lots of strains a 2nd time so there’s not as much new to show. The Purple Punch, Super Lemon Haze, Mendo Breath, MAC1, Bubba Kush, Tampa Crippy, and Platinum Kush Mints are all going again. Most look a little bigger and better than last time.
I’ve found the plant size threshold for my environment using 3 gals. There is just not enough soil to support the larger plants I grew this round, some vegged as long as 90 days. Most are showing heavy fading way too early. But the bud still looks good so I’m going to ride it out and either move to 5 gal next time or keep the plants smaller. I noticed that that the smaller plants that went from 1/2gal pots to their final 3gal home are doing much better than the bigger plants that went from >1gal pots to 3gal. All got roughly 3 weeks veg time in their final 3gal pots.
Here are some newbies in the mix.
TGA/Subcool Pandora’s Box (Jack the Ripper X Space Queen). This was the sole survivor from 3 seeds, my first ever purchased pack from 2009. Improperly stored for several years, I was surprised anything sprouted. This plant has about 5 main branches and one branch went completely male. I’ve never seen a hermie like that. There was no sacks anywhere else on this plant but one entire branch was all sacks, no pistils. I bagged it, chopped off the branch, and am letting the thing finish. It did drop a small amount of pollen so I may have Pandora’s Box S1, and several clone-only cuts that could be seeded with it. But the damage looks minimal and the timing will produce viable seeds.
Northern Lights #5 (P7 clone) is very dark and happy, and smells delicious.
CSI: Zkittlez S1 is a weird gangly plant that stretched hard and needed support, but is now starting to stack some large sized buds that smell like candy and gas.
CSI: Lemon Party S1 reeks of lemons. Got that much right. Very frosty smaller buds on a plant that didn’t stretch too much.
CSI: Triangle Kush S1 looks great but doesn’t have much of a smell I can pull right now. There’s lots of competing smells in this tent.
Kush Mintz (clone) is by far the tallest plant out of them all. The stretch was crazy on this one. But the buds are stacking great, smell awesome, and look very frosty.
LA Confidential (clone) is showing the heaviest lack of nutrition from being too big for her britches. But like the others she is still stacking nicely. Probably has the tightest buds so far. I have to say this looks nothing like I expected from an LA Confidential and I’m doubting its legitimacy. But if the smoke is good I’ll call her whatever she wants.
My plants always seem to fade early and get very colorful under these bright LEDs and far red/blue strips, especially when they get too close like this one. Whenever I need a “healthier” looking shot I just go lower down the plant into the shadows where they seem to grow perfectly haha. This is the same plant as above. Maybe I need to turn my lights down.
It’s part of why I cringe when I see people declare their keepers at day 35 of flower. It’s like, damn, you really need to harvest, cure, sample, share, and resample before deciding what to really keep. It makes it hard to keep to plant counts…but I digress. 