Off to the races after the first week of veg. And the girls are looking good. They had about 24-48 hours of transplant shock but have since turned over and look perky. They never fully transitioned and all of em look like they’re turning back around.
Definitely starting to see some pheno variation on one of the indicas (F6) - trademark from the Skywalker 100%. A light bluish/purpleish hue on the fan leaves. We’ll see what happens over the next week then probably just pick a day and flip. We don’t need em huge - just big enough to show off dem buds.
On the hardware side of this grow, the mods to the dutchy system look to be working well. It just makes plant management easier with a full trough drain as opposed to individual drainage holes. Really, the system isn’t a concern for the most part. It’s proven time and time again how manageable a recirc system can truly be. Scaling down to smaller pots and more plants has also been a revelation of sorts around here. We used to grow monsters and now the aim is strictly proportional yields across a wider array of genetics. Been a great trip so far🤟. Couple more boring weeks of veg. And as soon as the breeding tent is cleaned up and pollen free - it’s go for blast-off👍.
Background
This cycle of clones represents all the potential of this F1 line of WalkerBerry OG. Bred by myself over the last couple of years. This genetic shows excellent hybrid vigour, incredibly stable nutrition requirements to date and an eclectic mix of long and short internodal spacing bu specimen.
We know we have indica and sativa dominant traits spread evenly across the 6 available clones. Now it’s just a matter of seeing them run out under controlled and pollen free conditions.
We’ve labelled each plant and it’s resulting seed accordingly. Once we get to the F2 run, we’ll hopefully be able to isolate down to 2-3 phenos if the bud is any good. From there, who knows. It’d be great to get to a finished, stable generation that would be fem worthy but that could be a very long way off. For now - we’ll focus on this line and see where it goes🤞🤞.
@Silverback_Guerilla, 1 gals now. It strikes an even balance given that I’m losing a lot of headroom with the flood table. I did 2gals initially but on the first cycle the resulting plants were insanely larger than I would’ve expected them to be. We talked on it actually - I had an fb cheese auto that ran outta control and had to do a late flower surpercrop. This size is definitely better for clones but I have yet to fully test it from seed. That’s coming this run👍. Regardless - I max out strain selection with more plants and smaller pots. No real supply issues for now so yield can suffer a little - especially when testing crosses👌
@TheBudWhisperer, I think I am in the same vote , I need to do something about my next run , to make it more convenient, and get the results I'm looking for.....👈 still they be looking good , hope they chunk up for ya ....👍
@Tropicannibis_Todd, meh - this grow was always gonna be a bit risky and I knew it. Alls good just sucks going back to the drawing board on a grow system I’ve been working on for a whole year…