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Chamalla Even though the germination rate was 100%, one of the seedlings surfaced without its cotyledons and died, so I'm left with 5 out of 6. Still great. I'll be adding 3 clones of another cultivar. The remaining 5 seedlings look healthy, if a bit stretchy, and have just received their first light kelp tea and worm poop top dressing, with the tiniest sprinkle of Grow Dots.

Chamalla It's probably time to pot these up soon. I'll be using an intermediate size pot for this, instead of going from starter pot to 2 litre they'll be going into a 0.75 litre pot first. Hoping to grow better root systems that way while also keeping their footprint smaller for now, as their flower tent is going to be occupied for at least another month.

Chamalla Potted them up this week from starter pot to one size up, more than about time as the roots were getting dry too quickly. They're not going to be in these pots for long, it's just to buy me an additional week or two because the previous phenotype hunt is taking a couple weeks longer than anticipated.

Chamalla They're still looking healthy despite the small pots. Hoping to keep them that way until they're tall enough to take cuttings. That should give me another week or two before they need to be potted up again and flipped to 12/12.

Chamalla Topped them all this week, cuttings are living in a humidity dome for the next week or two. Going to grow out node 3 on each, but leaving node 2 for now in case I need new cuttings.

Chamalla Potted up to their final containers (2L), they got some more Grow Dots, lots of worm poop, and some diatomaceous earth for the silica. They also moved into the flower tent. Waiting for the cuttings to root, then I'll decide what to do with the lower side shoots.

Chamalla Final week of veg for these. The cuttings have started rooting so, technically, I don't need the lower side shoots - but I might let them bloom with 4 shoots each rather than just 2, so I left them on.

Chamalla First week of flower. Nothing to report, can't watch the hormone buildup as such. There's another Desfran and a Ghost Train Haze x Runtz in there with them, each flanked by a clone of my trusty Brambles cultivar.

Chamalla Last cutting has rooted, all plants have now been lollipopped. They've stretched a bit and started budding. For their most recent watering they got some beneficial nematodes to fight a little fungus gnat invasion.

Chamalla Stretch is over, plants remained pretty stout. Cuttings all rooted quickly except for #2, now just waiting for the flowers to ripen and develop some smell.

Chamalla Not much to report here, budding is starting and plants are looking healthy.

Chamalla Week 5 of flower. In their lane, moisturised, blossoming.

Chamalla Starting to develop a bit of a twang. All fairly uniform, both in morphology and aroma. No sign of purple yet, hopefully soon (and no I have no way of reducing temperature to force it).