Gwen & Winnie: Mainlining Maiden Voyage

Started these girls at the 2nd of February with the intention of putting them outside when it got warm enough but they grew fast enough (and I got a second tent) that I decided to flower these girls and start some new ones for the outdoor grow. I lost a few branches on the two so hopefully the experience will pay off with a bounty of big beautiful buds come the fall harvest and I'll be smoking these in the meantime. On a side note, the Green Crack is _probably_ Green Crack from Crop King as that's what I grew last year and there have been a few seeds in it from late season stress. I cant say for sure until I see what she looks like all grown up.

Gwen is really flourishing, seems shes grown every time I check on her. Responds very well to defoliation, she looks sparse after the pruning but filled in within 24 hours. Winnie is doing good but maybe not quite as well as Gwen, possibly from some of her leaves being damaged by a grow light earlier...

Buds have begun to form, Winnie seems to be ahead of Gwen. It looks like Winnie put a lot of her energy into stretching, I hope she's done. I had an earlier grow where one plant took off during the stretch and never stopped, just kept getting taller with clusters of hairs instead of actual buds Did some final lollipopping on Gwen, just tidying things up really

Broke a branch off Gwen in a ham-handed attempt at adjusting it - D'oh! Budlets are blooming and height has settled, time to rev up the thc factories!

I think I found the source of the foxtailing - low pH...I had hoped/assumed that keeping the nutrient solution within range would ensure the medium would also be in range and I wouldnt need to measure runoff - I was wrong. Added sodium bicarbonate to the soil of all plants, itll bring the pH up, now I've just got to monitor it to make sure it's not too high. Winnie looks and smells amazing, maturing much faster than Gwen, half the hairs are already red and some nice frost on the sugar leaves. I just wanna avoid the foxtailing this time, my last plant looked like hell and woulda been more potent if it had turned out normal

Both girls survived the tornado and subsequent 72 hours without power...they spent a coupla days/nights outside or in a shed, depending on light requirements. As long as I didnt bring in any pests from outside I think they're in the clear. Tried bud pinching on both girls, haven't seen any noticeable change or response yet. Winnie looks close to the end with her hairs turning red and orange. She'll be 8 weeks in flower on June 1st, I'll wait until at least then and check the trichomes in detail.

Definitely on the home stretch now, both girls have been flowering for 8 weeks, just plain water for the past week and going forward. Winnie is getting some nice fall colors on her leaves but no amber trichomes yet. Gwen might be a bit longer, only half her hairs have turned red/orange

Well, Winnie is down - slaughtered and butchered and hanging up to dry. Very nice looking buds but a lower yield than what I was hoping for. Gwen still has a week or two, the yellow patches look like hell but she smells fruity fantastic and has some nice frosty sugar leaves. Pretty sure the yellow was from pH being too low, I just watered with plain wayer and the runoff was 6.2. She won't have a lot of big buds but I think it will be a pretty respectable harvest.

She grew like the proverbial weed. She started off as a throwaway planted and kept too long in half a plastic bottle before being transplanted to a too-small 2 gallon container. I know she woulda yielded more with more room to grow. Mainlined beautifully, her compact dense buds really suited the cola-focused technique.

I like the strain, I have 3 other plants from the same strain on the go and I hope to get more from them. This was just a test run for mainlining, they were kept in too small pots and not given much time to veg. Even so, I have to admit I had expected at least an oz per plant :-/