Karma G. TEST: Guava Gelato×(Z×ZiZi) F2

January 6th: Happy New Year! Light intensity: 30% All 15 popped! One seedling died off, unfortunately. Hopefully I'll be able to round up enough pots to transplant them, soon.

January 13th: It's time to transplant and warm these girls up. I installed a heater to hold the temperature around 73°F for the next week. I need to get a humidifier. I want the overall humidity in the tent to be higher. Starting making soil, today. I brought in a few sacks of horse compost to thaw. Tomorrow, I'll break it all up and make supersoil with it. Then, it's time for transplanting! I'll be transplanting them to 1.5 gallon pots, making sure to keep the phenotypes labeled properly.

January 20th: Bumped the temperature up to 73°F and brought them out of stasis. Pheno #5 is the only one with a root popping out of them bottom of the cell, so it's getting transplanted today. I'm going to keep an eye on the rest of them, so I don't miss transplanting them at the right time.

January 27th: Light intensity : 60% All the babies got new pots for the time being. They're starting to sprout up and gain momentum, which is nice. The humidity is still off a bit, but should be taken care of by next update.

February 3rd: Two phenos are looking rough, but all the others are doing good. I checked the two to see how their soil was. It felt dry throughout, so I watered them. The next day, they were still droopy and looked a little worse. This morning there was still no improvement. Hopefully they recover. Still no humidifier delivered. I can't wait for it to show up so I can get the VPD in this tent to where it needs to be.

February 10th: Gave the little Runts (heh, because they're Runtz) a top dressing of worm castings / peat moss / BuildASoil Craft Blend. I have some rolls of training ties on the way and should be here by the weekend. It's past time to start training these kids.

February 17th: Light intensity: 40% I sprayed everything with an organic fungicide/insecticide the day before photos and didn't wait quite long enough before I flipped the lights back on. Some spots on fan leaves got bleached because of it, unfortunately. I even dropped the light intensity and forgot to turn it back up. This is the last day of a springtime temperature stress test. One plant was culled earlier in the week due to poor growth (pheno #1) and weak structure. There are two others that are dwarfed by the others as well, so I moved them out of the 8'×8'. Their growth just isn't quite there compared to the others. Temperature was adjusted to 75°F after photos were taken. Finally started LST. Pheno#3 is looking the best, so far. There are three others in the running for second place, at the moment. But, all of them are pretty uniform as far as structure goes. All have very broad leaves and no sign of narrow leaf dominance at all.

The stem rub on a few of the phenotypes smells like Bubblicious Cotton Candy bubble gum. Light intensity is at 30%. Lights off time was for IPM sprays. Hit the kids three times this week. I'm going to hit them three times next week, as well. Time to start prepping them for flower and gotta make sure they're clean!

March 3rd: Everything is running smoothly. I used some bedding and worm castings to top dress and awoken some aphids. So, I have to deal with that throughout the week. Hopefully I can kick them in 4 or five days. I need to get some granulated sulfur.

March 9th: Light intensity 35% I'm going to need to figure out a way to raise the lights in this closet. I've been pretty busy. So, these kids still aren't trained and the net still hasn't been put up.

March 16th: Light intensity: 35% The flip is coming. I'm going to give them another top feed of Craft Blend next week. They need to finish training and have a good trim.

March 23rd: Light intensity: 50% Still working on training the canopy down some to make it even. It looks like each plant is female, so far. Which is insane, considering this is a pack of regular seeds.

March 30th: Light intensity: 60% Each phenotype got a trim and LST, a couple taller plants got topped, and they all had a good wash. Next week is, for sure, flip week.

April 7th: Light intensity: 40% Canopy is full and the girls look ready to flip into flower. So, let it begin. Some plants needed topped, since they were a good 8" above the rest of the canopy. But, everything is trained, pest free, and ready to explode.

April 14th: Light intensity: 40% Pulled 6 of these plants, due to being males. Some weird stuff is going on with the new growth of some plants. I've tried dropping the light intensity, checked pH runoff, checked the roots, and can't seem to figure it out. I looked at each plant with a 30×-60× jeweler's loupe and didn't see any signs of bugs that chomp.

05/29/2024 These girls have been outside since May 1st. They kept stacking for a few weeks, and once they started throwing ones, I removed the bigger buds on it. Let the monster cropping begin! So far, none of the plants have shown any hermaphrodite traits. I'll keep checking for them each time I look over the plants.

July 10th, 2024 Each plant successfully revegged and has lots of nice, fresh growth. LST training this week, to spread out branches and let veg properly before it finishes stretching. No signs of intersex traits. These genetics are as tough as nails! Harvest time is only a few months away.