The Monster Mash
6 February 2023
Who’s Who in the zoo?
I’m a bit surprised that the girls are 15 days along and phenotype identification has still not been positively deduced for all three plants. I do know where I’m leaning at the moment; have a read and see if you concur.
My explanation is going to focus a bit on Olive even though she’s not the focus of this grow. I’ll just start by admitting straight out that I’m not a fan of the Olive phenotype. From a growers perspective she’s too small and needy to be practical for a large plant with a medium to large harvest. She may be cute - but if I can grow twice the amount of flowers off of an untrained auto than I can from an Olive FD phenotype, we’ll trained and a month older she had better have some buds that are worth my invested time and effort. That remains to be seen.
Olive has always appeared shorter than Hilda; lankier and much more delicate; almost to the point of appearing to be a perfectly formed dwarf. Her leaves look a bit like crumpled wrapping paper - appear to have calcium spot that never really progress and the leaves are small, often wrinkled and with a very noticeable - edge effect - surrounding each of the leaves fingers. This is noticeable on the second set of leaves (after the cotyledon) with only 3 fingers in all reference photo’s and my somewhat fuzzy memory.
See HERE for reference images provided by @GrouchyOldMan
To date other than some variation in size and color I do not see ANY physical indicators so far that any of the three entrants are an Olive phenotype. I am going to make a judgement call - as of today: PLANT B is being identified as HILDA.
The other two girls look to be the same with variations noted in root, leaf and plant development. We should know for sure and have our first plant topping(s) for the girls by Friday.
