Grape Gas (Compound x Cannarado)

ATLien415 These girls were all planted together (from left to right is Larry, Spanish Moon, then Grape Gas). The Spanish Moon is from seed from the breeder while the other two were clones from a tissue culture which were rooted in rockwool/coco due to an error...this lead them to having a stressful time initially but all is well and we are on to flower. Silica from Kosher Nutrients, the entire Heavy 16 lineup per need, the entire Grow With Grease lineup per need, either HOCl or CannaGuard-Pro per need, CleanKelp from Bloom City, Signal from TPS, Recharge and Great White for inoculating, Foop Exotic Sugar blend for carbs, CALiMAGic, and some professional strength dual component pH up/down. This all leads itself to a sterile to living solution flow week to week, with many decisions to be made on the fly.

ATLien415 (from left to right is Larry, Spanish Moon, then Grape Gas) all metrics are targets adjusted for as needed, with thresholding same nutrients as below

ATLien415 (from left to right is Larry, Spanish Moon, then Grape Gas) hit the 3 weeks in flower mark and did some defoliation/removal of flowering sites as needed

ATLien415 (from left to right is Larry, Spanish Moon, then Grape Gas) no real scent on the rub for her yet

ATLien415 (from left to right is Larry, Spanish Moon, then Grape Gas) relaxing week, she is developing a scent on the rub

ATLien415 (from left to right is Larry, Spanish Moon, then Grape Gas) This grow has a lot going on behind the scenes, mostly getting to know these girls. For example, with the canopy one thing that I like to do when getting to understand a cut I intend to keep around is to let it really stretch and break an even canopy. At the end of the run, I have a good idea of my ideal canopy height for each girl based upon which height produced the most typical buds in structure/density. The only caveat is that you need to have capable lights to tease this out sometimes. One of the most common problems I run into when I can't touch my tents as often as I would like is the nutrient to water uptake ratio changing drastically in mid-late flower. IME, water uptake can increase a lot relatively speaking. This can lead to ph swings, typically down if buffered solution initally. The swing quite often can knock you out of absorption range p range. Fan leaf discoloration is where you see this on the pics. This is a double-edged sword. Most non-filtered cannabis fade pics are intentionally done, with tricks like hitting the p cliff lock. At the same time my rooms run rather cold this time of year in addition to a feedback-looped water chiller running the resoivoir temp... So, alot of non-fan-leaf colors are coming around as well. Add in intense LEDs, and you are gonna get some fun colors. The data is great to gather. The Larry displayed visual symptoms of the p cliff many days before the Grape Gas. The Spanish Moon (which notably has less trichome coverage, understandably since it is an S1 bean rather than tissue culture clone from like DOJA and Compound) really has had minimal impact. The Grape Gas is somewhere in the middle. The implications off-rip for me are that the Larry is likely a heavier p feeder and felt the approach to the cliff whereas the Grape Gas did not. This also corresponds to how developed the trichomes were. The Grape Gas really didn't have this impact until the swell started and the scent began to develop. The Larry was well into just stacking volatiles inside the trichomes. This all meshes with our understanding of p availability in mid to late flower. Another thing is the cutting of clones from the girls. The Larry collab from DOJA has proven to be a finicky cloner. The Grape Gas is pretty middle of the road, but loves a shallow angle. I'm actually about to fire a tent where both already rooted clones had to be removed because the third (with a shallow cut angle) had exploded with growth. This is something already reproduced. You can't really get this stuff without getting your hands dirty. Just trying to be transparent about my thoughts and activities behind the scenes. At the end of the day, we are already mere days out from a pressable flower and more than 3/4 of the foliage is unaffected from any discoloration symptoms for any of the girls . A full finish is three weeks at most away for any real amber ratio we want. There is a very real chance the only impact on finished flower will be increased volatiles, as long as the plane is landed smoothly from here on out. My biggest hurdle is going to be the hash drying in the same room taking priority for a few (more) days. Nothing is guaranteed but I've grown worse.

ATLien415 (from left to right is Larry, Spanish Moon, then Grape Gas) The Grape Gas has a great morphology to her, and has developed a scent much like grape cough syrup and race fuel. The Larry is interesting, and could have gone a little longer, but is weeks into stacking volatiles and right where I like em for ripeness. The sweet, unmistakable Larry dankness has been around and hasn't went anywhere. The Spanish Moon S1 is where the biggest late flower changes came in. That hyper-sweet blueberry has softened into a more tropical scent. All were relatively easy on the chop, which makes for quick turnaround. from 10/20-12/14