Colombian Jack

Day 7: All three are growing faster than the other two cultivars I have seedlings of at the moment. Another win for Kannabia! One of them looks slightly deformed, but that's not a problem. One, it's still too early to make any calls, and two, we already decided we will be keeping the single best plant, once they are fully established. I can spot the prospective winner already, though :)

Day 12: They're doing slightly better now, after giving them a drought for 3 days to get the roots stretching, and I watered them with a mycorrhizal fungi solution to strengthen that process. We're trying a new myco solution that includes some other amendments such as biochar, EWC, and more. I look forward to seeing the progress they make by next weekend. Oh yeah, if you haven't noticed, we picked the keeper out of the 3 seedlings. But, we put the other two outdoors instead of killing them. Go check out my outdoor diaries :) The winner was transplanted into a 5-gallon fabric pot with our custom soil mix. Day 14: Looking great at the end of the week. Not much to report, which is a good thing!

This was a pretty uneventful week, as she hasn't had anything done to her except watered twice with RO water, and not much was needed. She's a slow drinker, but still a fast grower. I'm happy with her progression at the end of week 3. A couple leaflets of her leaves got a little burnt from being too close to the heat source in the tent, but that was quickly corrected, and it didn't seem to affect her one bit. I decided I'm going to let her grow naturally, without any apical cuts or training. I also decided that we will flip her into the bloom phase a little earlier than I usually do -- sometime next week. A happy plant is a happy me.

Due to a tent light continually failing worse and worse, I had to move this one outdoors. That ruins are plans to begin flowering her this week, but fate will make her a better plant now! Because she was switched from 18 hours of artificial light to 16 hours of natural light, she stretched a bit, from 6 inches to 15 inches. We haven't defoliated her at all, and we plan on still growing her au naturel. Moving her outside just improves that methodology. She will still stay in her fabric pot, however, to give me the opportunity to move her out of bad weather, and perhaps, if need be, some light deprivation later on.

After 5 weeks she is growing tall for her pot size. She will need some support soon, as Summer Solstice is less than a week away (days will start getting shorter, and flowering will begin soon thereafter). The last day's pictures, she is looking a bit droopy only because it is the first lazy day that I didn't take her pictures in the early morning...this is right before dusk after a very hot day. She will get water tonight, as we have the hottest week of the year coming up, with forecasted records being broken.

This week was pretty rough for all of my gardens, indoor and outdoor. We had a heat wave in the triple digits (Fahrenheit) all week, with humidity, at times, over 90% outdoors. However, this plant seemed to only be slightly affected by it, with some leaf curling on W6D5, but it bounced back rather fine.

She's doing quite well after 7 weeks. She is a very fast drinker. We see wilting of her apex every other day, despite watering her plenty along with the occasional rainfall. Her soil dries up faster than all my other plants. Her leaves are pretty well. We did have some interveinal chlorosis occurring on her first and second node this week, which we defoliated. We also have a slight bit of leaf-hopper damage on some mid-range leaves, but nothing out of the ordinary for my garden, and it is never a cause for alarm in the long run, so we do not use any insecticides for this issue. I'd say she is doing quite well, given her strong vertical structure before the days are short enough for more elongation, growing in such a small pot.

This is a pretty cool plant, and easy to take care of. Every few days, when it is either too hot outside or she needs more water, she droops all of her leaves almost vertically, pointing down, until she looks like a green missile. A couple hours after watering and she is praying to the sun again. She talks to me, and doesn't get upset at the extreme temperatures or me watering her quite a bit, sometimes even a few times per day. At this point, she is basically growing in her own roots with such an overcrowded pot, so she has to let me know when to do something. She has outgrown her pot a long time ago, but we are happy with the result so far. I consider this a challenge vegetating a tall photoperiod for many weeks, and blooming for several more.

She's growing fine and still getting taller. We defoliated some huge low fan leaves this week to try to get her to branch out a bit laterally. I guess we'll see if that works soon, as the days are getting shorter!

Another week down. She is super tall for her mere 5-gallon pot. I don't expect her to get much taller, and it is clear this specimen deserved to be planted in the ground, but it is what it is. I'm sure she'll turn out nice. Next week I will have to fasten her down so she doesn't get blown over.

I put up a couple of bamboo stakes for Colombian Jack mid-week, defoliating two large fan leaves that didn’t look the greatest to make room for the ties. When I got a closer look at her stem, everything started to make sense as to why she is so leafy: she has a particular mutation called fasciation, where the stem is flat and wide, and her apical growth is going to create an oblong cola.

She's looking rather unhappy in the one picture I posted this week, due to extreme heat and her thirst being hard to keep up with. Some larger leaves are starting to turn yellow, providing nutrition to other parts. I've been defoliating them as they get depleted of value, and doing the best I can, given her large size relative to her limited root space. We'll just have to see how she handles finishing up. She does look sad like this a couple times per week, as she is a heavy drinker and visually shows drooping leaves very fast, but perks right up after a watering every time. As a reminder, this plant has a "fasciation" mutation, which contributes to her odd appearance.

I defoliated some lower leaves that were dying from the drought and her fast drinking. She has improved since last week, and hasn't grown much. She's just waiting for these days to get a bit shorter.

Welcome to the start of flowering. I didn't pay atention to any of my outdoor plants this week except to take pictures on the last day. Nearly all of them are flowering now.

Say hello to my beanstalk plant. She has a fasciated main stem mutation, resulting in a lot of apical foliage and 2 tops (without topping her). This is a strange plant. Let's see it make some crazy bud.

This plant is barely hanging in there. The weather has been pretty rough and her leaves keep dying and I keep plucking them. Her top cola is split into a weird curved bud, and a normal one. Her fasciation mutation is pretty weird. Not sure if she'll make it with the weather, but we'll see.

I haven't had a chance to go outside to check on my plants in a few weeks, but after doing so this week, I had to chop them all early. They were getting some powdery mildew on lower leaves, and the rest of the leaves were depleted of color, drooping, and falling off (not senescence), telling me the soil and very little rain this year was not ideal. It's okay though. This was the last year I intended to do photoperiods outdoors. Actually, last year was, marking 20 years, but my indoor game was not down yet. So 21 years it is. I will still be doing some autoflowers outdoor next year, as they are the only ones that do good in my climate -- it gets very cold too early, and I don't have the patience to do any light deprivation techniques. Additionally, it is always close to 100% humidity in mid-late summer, which is far from ideal. I didn't take any pictures before the harvest out of disappointment, but if any of the bud turns out to be decent after drying, I'll update this harvest report. The picture below is from a few weeks ago.