Hey Farmers!
It's time for another update on our grow! We are now in week 8 of flower for our Mother plant, and week 2 of flower for our clone. We are already seeing some differences between the two grow styles, despite having the same phenotype. The clone started bud-setting a whole week earlier than the mom, which is a good sign for us. The mom seems to have taken an extra week in flower, possibly due to her DWC growth style.
The mom is gradually being tapered down to tap water, as she's stopped taking up nutrients, the clone is in a 15L Geotextile Fabric Pot by Gronest with 2 Biotabs and no synthetic nutrients.
We will be harvesting the mom this weekend, at least partially. The top buds are in the harvest window, but the bottom buds still need some more time. Unfortunately, we need the flower tent for the clone as she's starting to bud up and look great! We're excited to see the potential for some beautiful big purple organic buds from her.
Interestingly, our clone is showing the ruderalis genetics with its three-prong fan leaves. We're not quite sure what caused this ruderalis trait to pop up, but we suspect her being root-bound for five weeks had something to do with it. Despite our worries about cloning a strain with ruderalis genetics, our clone is very vigorous and we're very happy with her progress.
One thing we're still worried about is nanners. We saw one on the floor of the tent today, which is a bit concerning. If we had a lot of nanners, we would expect to see seeded lower buds and oxidizing pistils. However, all the buds are still white down there, and we don't see any seeds. Perhaps all the cross-breeding that went into creating this strain has made it completely sterile on the pollen front, like a mule.
Stay safe, stay farming!
weird mutations. the nanners and the leaf bud. Brother, are you 100% sure there is no light leakage? because leaf buds often happen when reveg in flower and the nanners are a sign of stress. Maybe check the light timers or check if light is really out if it should be. So maybe thats a problem? But i bet it will turn out great!
@Seedler, yeah no leaks, it's just how she be.
Oddly it's not uncommon for this strain, when going over the potential causes i checked other diaries, both the nanners and weird leaf mutation are very present.
Her environment mid flower was way off, but the vpd is on point now, there's actually not a lot of bananas
You got a great pheno! Mines much less purple. I doubt it’ll look purple once it’s been dried n chopped but dam it smells amazing so I don’t care! Haha