Raspberry Ripple #1 and #2 (Flowering Plants) - The Raspberry Ripples have finished their first week of flower and are now running the AC Infinity S44 Ionboard at setting 4/6 (around 300-320 watts) from the ceiling. The plants have been growing steady, while the canopy has stayed mostly even, I haven't been observing any massive stretching, just branching out. I gave the first feeding of 1/4 cup top dress of Build A Flower from the Build A Soil Schedule. I also topdressed TM-7 (in place of the big 6 micros) I then watered the top dress in with Trinity from Roots Organics (in place of the wetting agents from Jay Plantspeaker; Yucca and Quillaja Saponins) and Mykos WP (to cover the Microbes from RootWise). I always enjoy making this mix up, it's simple and really covers a lot of bases. The plants were praying and ready to get week 2 started!
Raspberry Ripple #1 and #2 (Clones)-
The clones were growing at a steady rate and outgrowing the Vivosun seedlings pots, which worked awesome! They were large enough to get the plants to a decent size before transplanting, and were very easy to free the rootball from. The drainage seemed to be going good as well! The soil was pretty evenly moist throughout. The roots looked ready to transplant (especially the number one Phenos!)
I went ahead and prepped some 1 gallon pots with a 50/50 mix of Build A Soil Lite and 3.0 Potting Soil. Let those pots chill under a the light in the room for about 6 hours and transplanted. I used my same mix of Mykos, Mykos WP Fish Sh!t and Trinity by Roots. This mix once again seemed to prevent any transplant shock and got the clones rolling just like the mother plants. I moved 6/7 clones out of the 30 inch tall 2x2 nursery tent, into the 55 inch tall 2Γ2 tent from Mars Hydro, running the ViparSpectra V1000 at 40% power (40w) I had to leave one clone behind in the 30 inch tent, as it wouldn't fit in the 55 inch tent. I attempted to LST my tallest clone which seems to be working! I'll be topping the #1s this week after they recover, then the #2s shortly after.
SourHeads (Harvested Flower)- The Sourheads is almost cured fully but is very sour now! Happy with that grow 6/10! Not the best flower I've ever smoked but totally smokeable, with a nice buzz!
Thank you to everyone for checking in on my grow! Happy growing π€
@THCpapa, both of these smell just fantastic! Key differences but that same raspberry smack. I didn't even realize what raspberry terps would really smell like until I smelled this. It's so undeniably raspberry. Not strawberry, not grape, not runtz. Raspberry. It's very unique!
Good luck with your grow! I popped 3 of 6 Ice Pie x Raspberry Boogie and all 3 hermaphrodited. Apparently its known to happen with Tiki Madman......keep an eye out
@Happy_Roots, thank you for commenting! I will definitely be keeping an eye out! I had figured with Raspberry Boogie being a Mosca Staple and how long he has worked with it, the crosses would be really stable. That wouldn't be ideal at all π¬
Looking good early flowering, I personally like pheno 1 visually. But hope they are both great results after harvest! Hope you continue with more blessings!!
@BigDripFelgo, the #1 Pheno definitely looks more like the pictures you see online of raspberry boogie, or anything in this colab! I'm loving it just for the bag appeal! Purple to the core! Thanks for checking out my grow!
@THCpapa, it was crazy to see so much diversity in these 2 phenos! A lot of the phenos I've seen online that look like winners, of these Raspberry Boogie colabs with Tiki Madman have shown that same "purple half leaf" feature. So my fingers are definitely crossed!
Thank you! I plan on flipping as soon as my flower room is free and they adjust to the environment in there! I'll clean in there really good! Then they'll get adjusted, get into their 5 gallon pots and under my flower light! Should be about 3-4 weeks!
@gottagrowsometime, thank you so much! I can't take credit for the Sourheads, a great friend of mine actually hunted that cut and was nice enough to let me run some clones to test my new set up!
@Grower_Of_Persia, it ended up curing out really nice! I do feel like I harvested just about a week early. I used a jewelers loupe to scope my trichomes out last time. Since then my buddy got this 45X microscope with a screen. I definitely noticed more clear trichomes than I could make out originally with that. So I'm thinking I'll do this next run with the Ripples a little longer! As for flavor. The purple number one pheno is so unique it's like gassy, old school purple where it's like earthy fruit. It's so hard to describe. It's definitely its own flavor, it's not runtzy or hazy or anything super familiar. The number 2 is kind of mimosa, hazy, smells kind of like fruit peels honestly!
@BigDripFelgo, I didn't dedicate a diary to the Sourheads! I got them from clones, the original genetics are called Nughead from mean gene I think! Edit: Nugheads is by skunktek not meangene