My mental health has taken a hit recently and I've had a lot of stress, so I haven't let something I love become a stress. Trying to make detailed notes on 8 plants while living with adhd can be a lot lol. They are doing really great though and I'll keep notes as I can.
Strawberry Nuggets x Pink Panama - champ right to the end, I'm thinking she's 2 weeks away and intend to start tapering her feeding. I'm not sure if I mentioned previously, but I've switched from ff trio stuff to TPS Base A and B every feed with their bloom boost weekly. Still using the fish shit, just stopped the silica because I ran out. Half dose cal mag every water, ph'ed to 6.3. Really heavy buds, main cola looks like a cleric's mace. Considering whether it will be possible to dry intact. Smells medium strong like Big League shredded bubblegum and instant coffee - a very particular instant coffee lol. The kind of instant coffee a certain huge coffee chain puts in their cold blended beverages, called frap roast. Worked there years, I know that smell very well. It's uncanny. Current trichs mostly milky.
Forgotten Strawberries - really taken off and showing those fabulous genetics. The FIM resulted in three tops, one of which is a double. So two and two halves? Fade coming in strong, with the start of pink stripes on upper leaves on day 61. Smells medium light of....sour strawberries and body odor. Honestly, it reminds me of strawberry scented deodorant in a girl's gym locker room. She smells like teen spirit. :D
Gorilla Cookies - a really stupendous strain. Was remarking to a friend how some of my very favorite plants were all freebies - definitely getting more of these asap. Great structure, really encouraging plant, just super good natured all the way. Fat buds on both, the natural one seems a little faster to mature buds-wise but the lst'ed one is putting out some gorgeous dark purple streaks on her leaves. Medium strong smell, both the same. Earthy sweet, and I catch that "cookie" note but to me it smells like slightest ribbon of salty toffee.
Blackberries- fat, happy, I'm really impressed with how they both pulled through after the awkward starts. The runt of the tent pulls ahead to be the tallest queen of the tent, of course. Medium strong smells, both the same. Very sweet, slightly earthy, berry and loam. The smell of kneeling in the earth to get the bottom berries, really lovely. No sign of the dramatic purple I was hoping for, but my area is going through a wicked heat wave so I really can't get night temps below 73 or so right now and that's a serious effort.
AKs - AK one is standard. About the same size my first auto grow was (see diary AK auto, Miss Maggie) though this pot is half the size. Getting some bright fade on her, and crisping of fan leaf extremities, but none of the crunchy blotching Mags got so I'm gonna go ahead and believe I'm getting better at these. Smells just like I remember, bright pine and mango mixed.
AK2 is a fucking mutant and I absolutely adore her, I feel like I've been blessed for coming back to do right by this strain. Dark bristly three and five fingered leaves, extremely tight dense bud structure. Stigma are remarkably thick and curly as soon as they started emerging. Every cola is a tight perfect cone, a replica of the main plant. But her most astonishing expression is definitely her smell. She's thick, heavy sticky sweet mango and nothing but. Zero pine, no citrus.... she seriously barely smells identifiable as weed. If you can imagine just pouring mango raspa syrup all over your tent, cranking the heat up to 90F and letting it sit for an hour... that's what she smells like. Better believe I'm keeping every bit of this baby for myself lol.
Woah! This run is gonna be a good’un. So glad to see you’re filling out your space! Really making the most of your time getting them on early too. Perpetual grows are the best, no downtime! Can’t wait to see how they turn out, they’re in good hands 🙌
@kizdog, also - you've really got me itching to try and do a couple more photos in conjunction with a 12/12 auto grow. I'm loving autos and what I think of as their feline personality, but damn do I miss that big bustling flawless finish.
@kizdog, it's pretty intimidating ngl but I've been so excited and so enjoying the prospect of having so much more active tent time. I'm still bouncing around ideas as I have no idea what to expect with the stronger light and smaller buckets with the fb stuff and new supplements, and whether I want to grow naturally shaped plants or lst all and if the harvest stagger will work out for me (kinda planning 10-12ish weeks on the fb stuff and 14-15 on the meph, with new stuff going on as old is coming out) and, and, and lol. Riding this one by the seat of my pants. I can't believe I popped my first seed less than one year ago! Pure luck it turned out to be the strain you were running, so I'd run into awesome folk and examples early on.
They’re getting so big now!!! That growth is gonna be exponential, and I’m here for it. Those GCs are beautiful. Shoutout to the beautiful Chem finishing in the corner! Loving the updates ✌️
@kizdog, I'm so excited to make my next update, that week from 3-4 is always so dramatic lol! Spent a solid two hours working in my tent last night, further curled the big GC and fimmed the FS, and installing my new exhaust this evening! Frankie met her end last evening and is stinking up my closet badly - she smells angry lol. For once actually being blessed with naturally good drying vpd, can't wait to get some pics and a smoke report next week!
Your plants honestly look amazing. Don’t fret too much on not being able to put everything you want in your diary every week. You have 8 plants for goodness sake! As much as I’d love to hear every little detail, you deserve to enjoy your hobby! Maybe keep the detail to every 2-3 weeks, and just give an overview of what you’ve done every week! Either way, I’d kill to get a whiff of that AK2. Keep it up! You’re gonna have an insane choice of smoke once this is all done. You definitely deserve it 🔥🔥🔥
The tent looks amazing! Your SOG is something to be admired 🤩 can’t wait to see some fully-formed flowers! You’re way ahead of me, thinking I’ll be in veg for another 3/4 weeks!