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RQS - Painkiller XL

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Topping
weeks 4
Main-Lining
weeks 4, 6
Defoliation
weeks 4, 6
LST
weeks 5-6
Soil
Grow medium
Grow Conditions
Week 6
Vegetation
15
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Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
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ml/gal
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Levington - Tomorite
5 ml/l
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LST
Technique
Main-Lining
Technique
Defoliation
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Teh_Saccade Teh_Saccade
2 years ago
This guy is really starting to beef up after being so slow a few weeks ago. I find it hard to believe just how well it is responding to the chop! Look at all the extra growth the node buds are putting out! :D It's like a leafy hedgehog or something! I'm loving how it is so vibrant and its desire to live is incredible :D I really was not expecting there to be so much to fill the centre, but it has worked wonders. Initially, I was a bit worried by Painkiller's stale moments and I started to think less of it. I'm pleasantly surprised to be proved an asshole once more, in my putting of Painkiller to the back of my mind! :D I've tied it down a little bit, and also straightened the growth pattern by twisting the main stem to be at right angles to the pot. This is so the plant will grow in a more regular pattern, so to fit into the grow-space with it's CBD mix mates and be happy alongside them, instead of causing a fuss..! I'm going to start feeding these guys soon, as the soil will start to deplete soon. I'm also going to stop fiddling with him for a week, because - tbh - I'm not really sure what I want to do next... It's gonna need some more regular growth pattern, but beyond correcting the stems every now and then - there's nothing for me to do! D: It smells... like weed, green... but with a hint of limonene, so I'm guessing it's more sativa than indica, and that it won't be very potent. We'll see! :D As with the others, the lower fan leaves of the new spurs have been snipped - this is to encourage new growth to be vigourous, in order to keep the surface area for photosynthesis it requires to maintain and feed its structure. Also, like circumcision, it just looks better. The will to live is extraordinary! :D
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Grow Questions
Teh_Saccade
Teh_Saccadestarted grow question 2 years ago
This plant has developed whorled phyllotaxy on only one side of the initial manifold divide. The other side is regular, opposite. I'm curious as to what may be the reason as to why this happened only on the "dominant" (faster growing) side of the split? 2nd one this season...
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GrowingGrannieanswered grow question 2 years ago
I think what you might be seeing is simply a genetic mutation... not common but certainly not unheard of! Good luck!
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XperencdGmanXG
XperencdGmanXGweek 6
have you smoked this strain yet? Wondering how it tastes and how potent it is
Teh_Saccade
Teh_Saccade
@XperencdGmanXG, Hey bud! nope, not tried it, but I'm having a time trying to keep it inside a small footprint! It's starting to really want to grow straight outwards! Give it another several months and I'll be able to tell you :P I don't think it can be much more than 12% THC (at least I hope not), but that's pretty strong for a CBD strain!
Teh_Saccade
Teh_Saccadeweek 5
The answer is: Mutations in the R2R3-MYB117 transcription factor elicit trifoliate leaves and initiate axillary meristems... The trifoliate mutation is caused by a truncated MYB117 transcription factor that alters cellular homeostasis and fortifies γ-aminobutyric acid, folate, and carotenoids. That's some fancy big wards you gots thar mistah! So, basically - the plant is a mutant!!! If the plant wasn't put under such stress as being topped like this, then this mutation most likely would have never shown itself..! The mutation was expressing along the STEM/MAIN of the plant - the other stem/main was a BRANCH until it was forced to be a main. The mutation forced the cells along that line to go a little hinky due to some chemical irregularities - but I think that surgical intervention has done the job and corrected the growth pattern. Since all branches have assumed "main" status, the whorl has resolved to opposite :D It's also true that the hormonal chaos that follows such a shift in growth as this This correction is likely a result of the same mutilation as the thing that caused the issue in the first place! The apical bud being snipped off, and its non-mutant expression branches becoming the new apical mains..! In addition to this, I believe that I also by chance have cut off the apical bud that carried this expression at the second split, and the new mains are from both branches. Fingers crossed it doesn't appear again. It is therefore not able to continue to express the mutation along that main, as it no longer exists and the whole thing has undergone a hormonal rewiring to grow in a very unexpected way! It's a recessive mutation - as trifoliate phenotypes are segregated independently as monogenic recessive mutations. The mutation is still there, but it is being hidden by a more dominant gene expression (ie, "normal")! This is useful information! RQS' entire line could be hiding this mutation, and they'd not know it until every plant was carrying it! Interestingly enough, the mutation appears to be more prevalent in non-phototropic plants (autotrophs!) than phototropic plants! (additionally, gene MYB117 appears to have some bearing on flowering time: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33779489/ ) It would be interesting to find out just how many of RQS' plants in this strain have this characteristic, and if it is similarly expressed or able to be reproduced through sharp force trauma to the main stem!
Teh_Saccade
Teh_Saccadeweek 4
I don't accept "coincidence" or "curious occourance" as a valid answer..! The potency is not in question! What is, is how and why one side is trifoliate, but not the other, when it would be expected that both sides might be..?
Teh_Saccade
Teh_Saccadeweek 4
Looking back, I can see that there was some massive asymmetry going on with this guy... "the bat", because it was so lop-sided... I've one in the ground outside that is also whorled, but this isn't so much of an issue as it is growing untrained. Reading up on the mutation - it does say that most of these turn out to be male. This is a shame, as I was very much looking forward to Painkiller XL, however - there are worse plants to have as a male to pollinate the others, huh? Shame it has the trifoliate going on, or it'd be a good candidate. // This isn't a clone..!