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While the plant is still quite small, only about 16”, I read another account of growing this strain and the huge stretch it undergoes, essentially outgrowing the tent, so I decided to flip this early so that I can get a feel for her flowering stage. I have two clones and I will adapt their care based on what I learn with this plant. So far she looks lovely, with a stem that is more fleshy than woody, and very large fan leaves.
This is the plant that I’m really excited about, and the one I have to wait for the longest. 80-90 days of flowering, but it feels like a year. The reason I’m so excited about this one is that it’s a sativa, which is our favorite, and that it’s an extremely high THC, around 30%. Once I read the description of the high on Ace’s website, I knew I had to have it. I will say that it doesn’t train very well, the stems are fleshy and break easily, and if the plant decides to stretch too far, I will run out of headroom for it, but that’s yet to be seen. I’m babying her along, slowly working the nutrients up to their current level, but I’ll watch closely and if I see any sign of deficiency I’ll readjust right away.
Not much action to report this week, she’s still stretching, and I’m still pulling her tips down to keep it under control. My tent is only 60” so I can’t let her get too tall or she’ll be running into the light. Yesterday I switched to 13 hours of darkness to encourage her to flower, we’ll see how that goes. I’m using yarn to pull down her tips because it lets me get a better grip on the thin stems, but it needs to be moved every week so I don’t do any damage. UPDATE: I checked today(one day after this post originally went up), and I finally have some preflowers on this sassy gal!
Four weeks into flower and we’re finally starting to flower. This has been a challenging strain to grow, and difficult to train. I have to hope the results are worth the trouble. We’re maxed out on the recommended nutrients, and using the Tiger Bloom every other feeding as well. The stretch on this plant has been long and doesn’t show any sign of stopping yet. For that reason I’ve moved my flowering plants out of the 60” tall tent and into my office, where I can have a few more feet to adjust the light height. The office isn’t exactly ideal, but I rigged up ventilation to try and keep the smell down. I know that in the future this strain will need to be sent into flower much sooner, perhaps right after topping.
I am once again writing to ask you to please stop stretching! Oh my lord, this strain is a monster! Even though we have a lot of buds growing, she’s still stretching. She outgrew the tent last week and so now resides in my office where she’s dwarfed another strain of the same age. Though I’m happy to see she’s so healthy, I’m ready for her to settle down a little, my ceilings are only eight foot after all. To anyone thinking about trying this strain, train her hard and flip her early.
Here we go, another long week in the flowering cycle. Some notable changes this week include a thickening of the existing buds, and… she seems to have stopped stretching! In fact, though it could be a measuring error on my part, she’s several inches shorter than last week. She’s smelling a little stronger, but it’s definitely not overpowering. Though we may not know what ‘true’ sativa looks like anymore, her appearance certainly matches what we’ve come to describe as sativa. I’m hoping these buds continue to thicken and stack up on each other.
Wow, I’m a little behind on this post. These pics were actually taken last Saturday, I just got a little busy. I thought the great stretch had stopped two weeks ago, but we’ve gained more yet. I believe that we are done stretching at this point, at least I hope because the light is as high as it can go now. The buds are finally taking a little more shape, through the mess of white fuzziness I can see them beginning to fill out, though it looks like they are a long way from what they should eventually look like. This strain has taken a lot of work and a great deal of patience, and I still don’t know what phenotype I have here. I can only hope for the best.
Disaster! So my PH meter was not correctly calibrated, it was off by almost 2 full points. Consequently my plants have gone into nutrient lockout. I’ve flushed them and started them off on a lower dose of nutrients, but it could take a few weeks just for them to recover, so I definitely won’t be harvesting at the beginning of next month. The buds are still filling out like they should, and they’re interesting to watch since they aren’t the typical nugget shaped buds. I really don’t smell much coming from the plants, and there’s been only a little trichrome production so far.
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