Through a full 3 weeks of stretch plus another of early flower and the cotton balls are swelling out like mad. The clones are all doing incredibly well - far better than their coco mothers in almost all respects. Growth has exploded in this system and as a result - severely challenged our height restrictions. It’s cause us to look closer at potential ways to shrink down the table and res as a means by which to pick up a little more headroom. Although this strain is a bit of an exception to the typical growth size we can expect under these conditions, it’ll be worth it to make the space a little more accommodating to larger plants in the future.
We’re not 8” from the lights and despite repositioning the fans were getting localized light burn to some of the fan leaves and that’s a problem this early in flower. We can expect to torch a few over the next weeks 100%. Short of pulling the canopy down a little further there’s not much we can do about this right now except roll with the punches. If it gets really bad we might have to pull the plants out and make some adjustments now. We’ll see where that goes this week.
Other than that - the only other we can say right now is that our yield will be significantly higher than expected, planned for, or even necessary. We just wanted a couple of single colas to gauge bud structure of these F1’s. The clones had other ideas and it’s now a thick bed of huge stalk buds that are all expected to chunk out heavy🤩. Happy for the extra produce regardless. Let’s just pray we don’t scrap half of it due to light burn issues😬🤞.
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…