Black DOG in my garden

@TheDoctor, Well yeah, I got Black DOG coz it supposedly grows fairly large for a indica dominant. Oh hell no, the thing I got was like pure indica, no stretching whatsoever, short fat plant, totally black. Pretty much instant flowering. Like the leaves just looked different to all the other Black DOG diaries I've seen, so it's bizarre. I mean at the time, I had loads of 6ft+ plants, and it was like "wtf is wrong with this thing"

@sir_isO, Sounds interesting! My is in stretching right now, she’ll be huge😥😅

@TheDoctor, The one I had started flowering after 3-4 weeks...in good veg conditions... I was like "Wtf, did they send me an auto or what?"...so it's quite interesting to see the difference, there are clearly a few quite different phenotypes. Though for some reason, I do think extra carbon can potentially speed up flowering (didn't consider at the time, was still inexperienced...but used a fair amount of char and ash), potentially because it causes more ethylene production.

@TheDoctor, Cheers. Of course you do like gradual increases of nutrients (things like carbon are very neutral though). You'll easily notice issues if it's a bit much, without significant damage. And I don't suggest you push it past what would be considered a bit much, but you do kinda have to actually test how much the plant can use. You can expect that to be kind of a short plant from what I've seen, not necessarily a lot of nodes. Potassium and some hormone shit might be useful to you (depending on your goal I guess).

@sir_isO, I definitely will, thank you for your advice!!❤️

@TheDoctor, That's as close to what I've grown that I've seen on Growdiaries, no jokes. I'd REALLY recommend you give the plant lots of carbon though. If I could show you what it looked like at harvest time... (but I lost the pics). https://ibb.co/fpqhpTS Main thing is, yours is super healthy, looks very happy. But if you can get the nutrient/hormone balance right, you get the "hulk" sort of effects. Like, don't be *too* shy with nutrients. Push it a bit (imo).

@TheDoctor, I think it's a bit of both tbh coz it wasn't that cold at flower, maybe around 22-28c typically (from vague recollection). I pollinated (some of) it with some random staunch looking male and they've been purple/black so far (though I haven't grown them entirely in spring through summer yet). I reckon as they reach end of flower or senescence they tend to darken a lot (at least, the pheno I got), other than temps/season/nutrients. Genetically, they are possibly from cooler areas as they do fairly well and have a tendency to want more heat/light (which is why they darken) from their environmental adaptation, lineage.

@sir_isO, Whoa that would be soo cool, did you had cold temperatures or did it like really went black due to the genetics?😯

@Louder, Whoaa Sounds amazing😍 it’s always these ones which are the best haha😅