Raspberry Ripple #1 and #2 (Flowering Plants)
The number one pheno has continued to stack on to it's large purple nugs! It's nugs are much larger than it's sister strain. The pistil hairs are still mostly white and are thick, so thick they almost look like roots! The fragrance from this plant are the more sweet raspberry candy, the pungency of the smell has increased this week! The trichome coverage is looking really good! And the nugs are coated in a sticky, greasy resin. She is definitely the stickier of the two so far.
The number 2 pheno has began to put on some color as well, vibrant hues of orange, green and some slight purple as well. This pheno smells more like a raspberry wine than a candy. She may be being overshadowed by her sister a bit, but this strain also sports great resin production. I did notice a couple swollen calyxes on this pheno, I did go ahead and pop one off both phenos and I didn't find any seeds. It very well probably had something to do with the light change last week, when the original ionboard broke. I've noticed no other signs of herming.
Both phenos seem to be entering their autmuning phase, loosing a little leaf color this week. Both of these cultivars seems to be progressing a little faster than the sourheads, so I see this as a natural fade. I did not feed this week and have been letting the remainder of the food in the median carry me through! Just Fish Sh!t and water ph 6.4-6.7.
Raspberry Ripple #1 and #2 clones
The clones have still been growing strong and the taller number one Phenos have been getting a bit of low stress training to encourage them to become bushier. Now that I've seen how they flower out, I can better plan and train them to be real trellis fillers. Filling my flower room with the number one pheno (4 plants) would surely be a fantastic yield! They continue to exhibit all the same features as the plants they were cut from. Thick stalk, thick branches, leafy nature, medium growth rate.
Thank you for checking out this week's entry of my grow diary
-StarFish
@THCpapa, both of these smell just fantastic! Key differences but that same raspberry smack. I didn't even realize what raspberry terps would really smell like until I smelled this. It's so undeniably raspberry. Not strawberry, not grape, not runtz. Raspberry. It's very unique!
Good luck with your grow! I popped 3 of 6 Ice Pie x Raspberry Boogie and all 3 hermaphrodited. Apparently its known to happen with Tiki Madman......keep an eye out
@Happy_Roots, thank you for commenting! I will definitely be keeping an eye out! I had figured with Raspberry Boogie being a Mosca Staple and how long he has worked with it, the crosses would be really stable. That wouldn't be ideal at all π¬
Looking good early flowering, I personally like pheno 1 visually. But hope they are both great results after harvest! Hope you continue with more blessings!!
@BigDripFelgo, the #1 Pheno definitely looks more like the pictures you see online of raspberry boogie, or anything in this colab! I'm loving it just for the bag appeal! Purple to the core! Thanks for checking out my grow!
@THCpapa, it was crazy to see so much diversity in these 2 phenos! A lot of the phenos I've seen online that look like winners, of these Raspberry Boogie colabs with Tiki Madman have shown that same "purple half leaf" feature. So my fingers are definitely crossed!
Thank you! I plan on flipping as soon as my flower room is free and they adjust to the environment in there! I'll clean in there really good! Then they'll get adjusted, get into their 5 gallon pots and under my flower light! Should be about 3-4 weeks!
@gottagrowsometime, thank you so much! I can't take credit for the Sourheads, a great friend of mine actually hunted that cut and was nice enough to let me run some clones to test my new set up!
@Grower_Of_Persia, it ended up curing out really nice! I do feel like I harvested just about a week early. I used a jewelers loupe to scope my trichomes out last time. Since then my buddy got this 45X microscope with a screen. I definitely noticed more clear trichomes than I could make out originally with that. So I'm thinking I'll do this next run with the Ripples a little longer! As for flavor. The purple number one pheno is so unique it's like gassy, old school purple where it's like earthy fruit. It's so hard to describe. It's definitely its own flavor, it's not runtzy or hazy or anything super familiar. The number 2 is kind of mimosa, hazy, smells kind of like fruit peels honestly!
@BigDripFelgo, I didn't dedicate a diary to the Sourheads! I got them from clones, the original genetics are called Nughead from mean gene I think! Edit: Nugheads is by skunktek not meangene