not much to say really, heading into week 3 of flower, thinking i have about till the middle or end of next week before the stretch finishes and it starts setting buds so i've just been keeping everything as open to light as possible to fill in the center of each plant with minor defoliation of inner-oriented leaves, today i will start cutting nitrogen from my masterblend mix and rotating my feedings to masterblend(without calcium nitrate and half-measure of magnesium sulfate) then calmag extra the day after and water only the next day and repeat as the plants are starting to show minor deficiencies which i mean to compensate for preemptively, had to go back to the mars hydro sp-250 as the gavita was too close and frankly too hot for this 2x4x5 ft tent, but i really just wanted to get a feel for these gavitas before building out the new flowering room.
thoughts on these genetics: other than relative size of these phenos, they appear identical and have the same structure and morphology and give off the same aroma, which the culled males also shared, so i feel like this strain is pretty stable. the cross is "savage hulk" (bruce banner #5 x zkittlez x dosi-dos) with "strawberry shortcake" (juliet x strawberry diesel) and the limited experience i have with dark horse genetics makes me wary of their strawberry strains as the last bruce banner #5 cross named "gamma berry"(4 females) i ran was total garbage lacking potency, flavor and aroma which after curing and sampling i proceeded to give away by the handful to any nearby stoner, so this is my dark horse swan song as it were and ill seek out the strawberry terps elsewhere should these plants prove to be garbage...3 packs popped and only one good plant (king's banner f2)