Sweets Seeds Tropicanna Poison F1

Vegging in peat pellets. Used a propagation dome and plastic bags to maintain humidity. If it gets too dry and tap root grows too long, there's a chance of shriveling or bending which permanently stunts growth. Switched to a stronger Mars Hydro light after first week.

Transplanted pint cups into 1 gallons. Used great white myco for transplanting.

Very fast growth. Final comparisons of germinating ~10 seeds. Tropicanna Poison on Top Left is 2nd fastest growth so far right behind Apple Cup (Apple Fritter x Banana Butter Cups) by Robin Hood Seeds. Apologies for the floor gap, I ran out of polyfilm and couldn't be bothered to get another large roll for such a small gap.

I got complacent and let my babies go for too long. It's ideal to top to 3rd node after 4-5th node. I waited too long till the 6th-7th node and lost some crucial veg growth. I was debating whether to top or just LST this time, but I was reading a lot about mainlining/manifolding and wanted to try it out. Mainline is a technique that creates symmetrical branches through topping (ussually just 2 rounds of topping).

Waited this week for the plants to recover from Topping/LST. You can see the mainline is forming four even colas. The standard mainline method will top with two branches at the third node, but I decided to leave the 3rd and 4th node for Four main branches. I wanted to compare this new 4branch method on a standard 2branch mainline that I did with other plants in the room. The only issue with this experiment is that 1) they're all seeds so different phenos 2) they're different strains - this means that growth rate will vary drastically. It's still nice to see the branching difference though.

Defoliated this week to focus more growth on the tops. Comparing TP to the 2 branch Rozalicious shows that the 4 branch mainline performs much better in growth. Tropicanna Poison is a bred from an auto so it may have unusually fast growth.

Flipped to flowering this week. My dumbass accidentally said Sweet Seeds is from Venezuela - they are actually based in Spain! Their Tropicanna Poison F1 is a BEAST! Being part auto, it is clearly starting to outperform the others.

Very bushy growth and lots of stretching. Started to use the scrog for the Tropicanna Poison. Had to defoliate a bunch this week.

The Apple Cup hermied this week along with the Baker's Dozen. Fortunately Tropicanna Poison is flowering so fast that it seems to be unbothered by the hermies next to it. The hermied plants will be stunted as more energy will be focused on developing pollen/seeds. Also I'll have to chop them down early before any seeds begin to solidify within the buds. It's ideal to immediately remove any hermies as soon as pollen sacs are spotted. Unfortunately I only have my small closet space so I decided to leave them and observe the growth of hermies.

Lots of stretching and growth. Tropicanna Poison F1 is definitely outgrowing the other 3 strains. It has dark purple hues with a chocolate blueberry aroma. I'd totally keep this pheno if I had the space.

Flowers are really starting to bloom from Tropicanna Poison. Sweet Seed's seems like it's almost 2 weeks ahead of the rest.

Flores de Marte :^)

Tropicanna Poison is about ready to harvest, but the rest still need more time haha. Gonna have to over flower the TP for the rest to catch up a bit.

More Flowering! The rest of the strains started to catch up, but nanners started showing in the hermies and TP started to overripen with orange hairs. I would've gone extra days if there were no nanners, but it wasn't worth it to risk seeding the nugs, I'll just have to settle with more larfy buds. Going to start flushing next week.

Flush week, so surreal to see the birth and death cycle of these alien plants. it's as if we're the creators of their universe.

This pheno was certainly on roids. The strain being from an autoflower just outpaced every other plant by at least 2 weeks. It produced a whopping 8 ounces. The colors gave an alien reddish purple glow as if it were from mars. The aroma was that of blueberry cacao, a totally unique chocolatey profile.