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All three beans have caught up with each other, and by day 5 from pop, as you see there's not a lot of action so far. This is an experiment to see if I can get more variety from the same space. I'm not sure at this stage exactly how I plan to proceed.
All looking good each plant displaying it's own character. Pink Grapefruit and Pineapple Gum both topped with 4 main nodes and WW untopped but with downward branches removed. All the girls are getting on well together
Everything filling out while I'm waiting for the girls to give me some sort of a clue what they intend. I want to work with them but I also want them to work with me.
Lots of training and defoliating today. Trying to let each plant do it's own thing. White Widow is very squat even though she's not topped. OK after no updates for three weeks I've finally caught up and we are all. back on track. Next update 26th May.
Even though they all started only a couple of inches away from each other, they are far apart now. The pink grapefruit grew it's four branches to be longer than Pineapple gum which had a tall stem and it's branches were shorter so they were trained to be pulled apart. The Pink Grapefruit though could be pulled all the way on it's side easily in these pebbles, and suddenly all the four branches were at ground level again.
all three appear to be flipping to flower which is the fastest ever for me, so maybe crowding them has helped that.
Things are getting very interesting, perhaps even a little challenging but it's all well under control. All three are growing as they started, Pink Grapefruit is the most expansive with longer limbs, Pineapple Gum is stockier and a bit curly reminds me of Trippy Gorilla a bit. White Widow is remaining short, and she was not topped. Otherwise all seems fine.
I think I have established that under the right conditions, that is a good hydro set up, that there is no problem growing 3 plants with their roots all tangled up together. In fact I think I may have stumbled onto something here because all three are flowering at the same time and all three are about two week earlier than normal for me. I am suspecting that with the roots all tangled up that they can detect hormones from the other plants which are either causing them to all synchronise, or it might be a mechanism where it flowers earlier if it detects other plants. I'm just guessing here but whatever the reason it appear that it's flowering faster. More testing is required.
I have completely removed the wire as it just didn't seem necessary with these plants. Funnily enough the entire canopy can look like a single plant.
Sort of a transition week now, all three beginning to bud up in sync still. Two days after a big defoliation I pulled the plant out and did an even larger one, but that's at the start of the next week. Just beginning to show some trichomes, in about two weeks I guess I'll have to re assess the situation because there could be a lot of crowded bud.
Had a big accident with Pineapple gum, a branch got caught on something as I moved her and she was stretch to the limit and almost broke of completely. However I bound her up tightly with the green spongy wire and she has shown no adverse reaction at all. Not even a wilted leave. I'm curious to see how it looks at the end of the grow, but what a testament to the resiliency of cannabis.
Also moved Orang Bud back under the viparspectra and moved these three back under the QB96 elite board.
Look at the orange bud next to these three on the right at the exact same age. Only just beginning to flower now, it must be more than a coincidence that all these three are blooming in sync.
All three girls are staying in sync and frosting up nicely. Did some savage defoliation, which is pretty well forced on me due to 80% RH which I cannot control at the moment. This update is a bit late so there's another one due in a few days.
Nothing much happening of note this week except that they have suddenly begun frosting up faster than I expected. Had to do a couple more defoliations just to take care of the humidity. Shot this video today at the 10 week mark. Maybe another 4 or 5 to go.
Everything is looking good. Pink Grapefruit has taken over half and is very fragrant, Pineapple Gum is a lot smaller but still with very pretty buds, and White Widow is looking browner than the other two due to the orange anthers, she's not as headed up yet but is more mature. From here on in I'm going to have to be vigilant for any bud rot. I'll possibly have to do a part harvest in a couple of weeks.
I'm a week late with this so I'll do this week and next week right after. Not a great deal going on other than everything is bulking up. The White Widow is looking just how I like to see my nuggets, small and frosty, the other two are more delicate with lots of undergrowth covered in trichomes which will be good for pressing. I've got a Slug33 Fat Mac on the way ;¬)
The White Widow look about ready with highly crystallised small nuggets, I like this a lot. the other two Pineapple Gum and the big one Pink Grapefruit are close too. Although there's still mainly clear trichomes. All these shots are from the beginning and near the end of week 13.
I'm almost finished this now, this was the largest and the flowers dried pretty much as they looked, very light and fluffy but absolutely jammed with trichonomic wonderfulness. It has a refreshing fruity and yes, grapefruit flavour that is very moorish, not something you get sick of, very easy to smoke on those long autumn afternoons.
She's had time to cure, and I'm savouring this last zip, as now apricot and caramel tones are coming through. And a pretty good yielder too, easily get 12 zip in a pot on her own. She's a very pretty plant as well, maybe susceptible to humidity, but as it was really dry in the final few weeks I was able to really let her go. There's no popcorn buds on this type, there's just A and B buds and then very hi quality larfy stuff that's good for rosin pressing. I'm giving her an 8 because of the very agreeable fresh fruity flavour. The high is more on the cerebral side but I wonder how much of that is all in the mind, literally all in the mind.
Pretty good harvest considering she's only one in three in a pot, but she did take half the space. Been smoking her for a month and I will want to grow her agains sometime. I'm quite liking this looser buds with trichomes spread through them instead of these dense nuggets.
Has a nice diesel flavour which I like and makes no fuss small tight crystal covered nuggets, a very agreeable smoke. Would be good for humid conditions.
Small tight nuggets with very little excess leaves mean this was an easy harvest. There was almost nothing to do as most of any leaves were already trimmed on the plant. Ended up using most of her to test out my new slug33 rosin press
A fluffy plant much like the pink grapefruit but more delicate, she has attractive flowers even if they are a little shy. Strong pineapple flavour comes through, nice in small doses. Unusual but not one of my favourite, however I'm told it's a high CBD strain, but it still get you ripped. Still a pretty good return as she only used a small amount of the pot.
Freddd
