22 Frostberry

Aug 23: started four more 12 days after first round.

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May 12: first full day outside and first foliar with Extreme Blend. May 14; bald eagle spotted near grow area.

May 21: Frostberry is definitely the one doing the best with this coolish spring weather. Moved all four plants into 3 gallon pots.

May 26: big enough to top as first step in mainlining.

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June 6: one the bigger Frostberries, so likely a male, seems to be producing flowers already. We are getting close to 17 hours of light now and still two weeks before the solstice, but this plant is flowering. Huh. June 7: confirmed male and moved.

June 14: nice purple flowers on the first male from these regular seeds. June 15: supercropped branches and wrapped in floral tape.

Four left after culling the first male. June 24: supercropped to finish manifold.

June 30: getting big for the 3 gallon pots.

July 3: added Power Bloom at recommended 1 tbsp per gallon of soil and a handful of malted barley as a top dressing. July 7: a male was identified and it will be used for breeding. July 8: culled another male.

July 12: the two females are looking good and need to be transplanted.

July 23: selected male was ready as it was spilling pollen. Female flowers aren’t quite ready just yet so pollen is in glass jar in fridge for now.

July 24: this is an early fast flowering strain that I didn’t need to force flower, but I wanted to work it like all the other photoperiods in the grow area. The four domestic plants in the field are not being forced to see how they do here. Oh, and the huge Bubble OG manifold that is too big for me to deal with. See what happens. July 26: switched to gypsum as Ca source.

Finished force flowering on July 28. This plant didn’t need to be forced but I wanted to handle it like all other photoperiods. July 31: started using soluble wood ash for K. See today’s Gorilla Gelato diary entry for details.

Aug 9: all is well. Buds are nice and purple, but a bit smaller than the other Lucky13 plants (Perp Walk, Laughing Lion, Leviathan, Okanagan Grape, ?). They were all forced at the same time starting on July 9.

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Aug 24: Nearing end, switching to plain pHed water.

Aug 3: flowers are still putting on weight so I’ll keep her going a bit longer.

Sep 5: should be done by now but seems to still be putting on weight. Soon. Sep 6: took 4 highest tops at 69 g wet buds. Sep 7: late season hailstorm shredded older fan leaves but buds are okay. Sep 11: took a second round, 106 g wet.

Sep 14: took final round of 168 g wet, and total of 343 g.

Nice solid purple buds throughout, even down low. This is my first season using manifolding and it really works for outdoor plants. Nice uniform buds and no maintenance after the two rounds of pruning.