Next Step

My mental health has taken a hit recently and I've had a lot of stress, so I haven't let something I love become a stress. Trying to make detailed notes on 8 plants while living with adhd can be a lot lol. They are doing really great though and I'll keep notes as I can. Strawberry Nuggets x Pink Panama - champ right to the end, I'm thinking she's 2 weeks away and intend to start tapering her feeding. I'm not sure if I mentioned previously, but I've switched from ff trio stuff to TPS Base A and B every feed with their bloom boost weekly. Still using the fish shit, just stopped the silica because I ran out. Half dose cal mag every water, ph'ed to 6.3. Really heavy buds, main cola looks like a cleric's mace. Considering whether it will be possible to dry intact. Smells medium strong like Big League shredded bubblegum and instant coffee - a very particular instant coffee lol. The kind of instant coffee a certain huge coffee chain puts in their cold blended beverages, called frap roast. Worked there years, I know that smell very well. It's uncanny. Current trichs mostly milky. Forgotten Strawberries - really taken off and showing those fabulous genetics. The FIM resulted in three tops, one of which is a double. So two and two halves? Fade coming in strong, with the start of pink stripes on upper leaves on day 61. Smells medium light of....sour strawberries and body odor. Honestly, it reminds me of strawberry scented deodorant in a girl's gym locker room. She smells like teen spirit. :D Gorilla Cookies - a really stupendous strain. Was remarking to a friend how some of my very favorite plants were all freebies - definitely getting more of these asap. Great structure, really encouraging plant, just super good natured all the way. Fat buds on both, the natural one seems a little faster to mature buds-wise but the lst'ed one is putting out some gorgeous dark purple streaks on her leaves. Medium strong smell, both the same. Earthy sweet, and I catch that "cookie" note but to me it smells like slightest ribbon of salty toffee. Blackberries- fat, happy, I'm really impressed with how they both pulled through after the awkward starts. The runt of the tent pulls ahead to be the tallest queen of the tent, of course. Medium strong smells, both the same. Very sweet, slightly earthy, berry and loam. The smell of kneeling in the earth to get the bottom berries, really lovely. No sign of the dramatic purple I was hoping for, but my area is going through a wicked heat wave so I really can't get night temps below 73 or so right now and that's a serious effort. AKs - AK one is standard. About the same size my first auto grow was (see diary AK auto, Miss Maggie) though this pot is half the size. Getting some bright fade on her, and crisping of fan leaf extremities, but none of the crunchy blotching Mags got so I'm gonna go ahead and believe I'm getting better at these. Smells just like I remember, bright pine and mango mixed. AK2 is a fucking mutant and I absolutely adore her, I feel like I've been blessed for coming back to do right by this strain. Dark bristly three and five fingered leaves, extremely tight dense bud structure. Stigma are remarkably thick and curly as soon as they started emerging. Every cola is a tight perfect cone, a replica of the main plant. But her most astonishing expression is definitely her smell. She's thick, heavy sticky sweet mango and nothing but. Zero pine, no citrus.... she seriously barely smells identifiable as weed. If you can imagine just pouring mango raspa syrup all over your tent, cranking the heat up to 90F and letting it sit for an hour... that's what she smells like. Better believe I'm keeping every bit of this baby for myself lol.