Day 21 Veg: Hi all. Hope we are all free and healthy in the grow diaries community this week.
It has been a very enjoyable and productive week this week. The purple monkey are gaining a nice size and taking to training really well. Their bases are getting thicker and i am now seeing small white female hairs at their bracts. I think flowering is very close now on these ladies. All three are looking very healthy and green with no signs of any issues to worry about so far. They are all reaching the pots edges with their side branches now so should make a decent sized canopy and bush after the stretch has finished. I did strip lower, small tips out too so that air can reach all of their budsites from underneath too.
Banana Mash is a little behind the monkey so far and has no real gender signs yet. The mutant is growing out a little better now but is still looking odd. I have included 3 seeds that came from my last exotic run and where in some of thenbuds that I harvested. I suspect a lemon mimosa xhicked some pollen before I took her/he down and it hit all of the strains except 1. I now have about 100 seeds crossed with the mimosa lemon amd have kept each seed batch separate so I can have some idea of at least the mothers genetics if mimosa isn't daddy !!. They are also doing really well with the Mango cream X being the best looking so far. be interesting to see if they remain autos of just keep growing as photoperiod.
I am adding the Megacrop to feeds now as I approach flowering and plan to germinate the next exotic goodies to join the second harvest. ( to follow...) They are all being trained now amd have taken to the idea quite well. I did have a snap on one of the Purple monkey ladies but tape should rescue the buds on that limb hopefully.
So there we have it , another good week with plenty to do and the next week should hopefully see the start of some flowering stretch to wrestle with as they explode with growth. lol
be well growmies.
@spyder,Thanks spyder. i am a fan of the breeders tbh. just finishing some more of their genetics with 3 strains and had an excellent mango cream harvest from 4 too. excited to see what we have here now.
@TrickOrTrip,thanks trip. loving the vigour of them so far. all so willing to play ball. now seeing buds so no sneaky male nanners either. lol . I am on virgin defence mode now after last run had a non-eunuch sneak in and spread pollen...be well bud
@Ferenc, thanks. the co2 jas always been a great help with the oven the space can create. deflecting the suns heat away from the roof tiles was a huge win once I got it right. does stop a lot of overheating when the summer hits here . genetics for sure plays a big role too.
@MarsHydroLED, thank you. got to sing the praises of the tsl2000 and the sp3000. i can keep a lot of plants moving through with the footprint it gives out. All three stages in together to keep perpetually growing. I have the tent rattling in a box waiting to get used now too will be figuring out a best way for use it without losing the great footprint already being achieved. would love to put the sp3000 inside the tent with 6 plants but would lose the great results i am getting from them in this array now. the tsl is brilliant but would struggle to keep them as happy and productive on its own in a big space like the 5ftx5ft footprint and I wouldn't be able to bring younger plants along until the harvests either. trying to figure it out at lol thank you
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Hello there! Love those sativa leaning hybrids with their long stems and stacking buds style like yours, awesome, some need very little manicuring!
Well done and thanks for sharing!
@Eauderay, Thanks for the positives. Have to agree there too. sommuchbeasier to rim a few fans off and a little manicure of sugar leaves. bundles of bud always look like fruit to crunch too. so different to the other 2 with their donkey doing appearance. spikey looking buds on #3 too. have high hopes for these ladies.