Sour Fruit Tartare F1 #8 - Dutch Passion

Danylo OK, so we had the first 5-pronged leafs which means we're officially in VEG! Quite a lot happened in the last six days .. she grew, she rooted through her little 0.5L pot - got transferred to a 3.5L and then she got her first haircut. She is a day or so younger than her sisters so size and root development isn't quite as advanced. Nevertheless she was just at the point where there were no circular roots just yet. Hit the right time by accident. 💩 During transplantation was the first time I looked beneath her leafs and I almost couldn't believe my eyes: ..never had a plant showing this kind and amount of colour this early! Excited! Gave her a day to acclimatize after getting repotted and then removed most of her fan leafs. Lateral branches weren't completely occluded on this one but you gotta do what you gotta do 😭 (Marked the pictures for easier temporal placing this time : lower number = younger plants)

Danylo Technically these pictures are 8 days after the last ones, but rather than skip a week I'm gonna "bend" the rules ;) It appears this lovely Fruit Tartare #8 took my indica preference and monkey-pawed my ass into bonsai land. 🤷 She grows VERY compact (~7-8 nodes in about 11cm total height) It'll be very interesting to see what kind of adult plant she will end up being! The very colourful lower sides of the leafs did not continue onto the newer leafs. Not a surprise - I haven't seen this on a young plant's advanced leafs until now. Not a botanist but AFAIK early leafs and adult leafs don't share all of the genetic code. Had to boost her up a few centimeters because the Chemdog grows with large internodal spacing and she was getting quite a bit less light intensity. Some of her petite-ness can probably be attributed to me not doing this earlier. [Edit]: In the next few days they will all move into the larger 80x80cm tent. Probably moving into their final pots too!

Danylo Soo Week3V just finished. The SFT was the last of my three this run which got transplanted. While being transplanted she was the one that (already) smelled the most: Just touching stems and moving leafs through the air created a lovely spicy/herby aroma! ❤️ She is also the one looking most healthy after all the abuse! The two others are a little angry right now, but they'll come around. Next week will be some recovery + topping, after that they will all be set to 1212 for flowering!

Danylo Not long after making herself comfortable in her new pot, she got two major modifications this week. First: we did some heavy defoliation. It felt like having to defoliate a patch of moss.. where do you even start?! But it had to be done, so I tried to utilize/apply the rules I go by usually when defoliating and we got it done somehow. 🤷 .. two days after that she got topped (finally). All three are now topped and waiting for the switch to 1212. On new growth-tips she has some kind of multishaded discoloration. Different from the usual fertilization-zing IMO. Never seen this before.. will keep observing!

Danylo Its Week5Veg for this indomitable Sour Fruit Tartare F1 #8! You thought last week's defol put a dent in it's vigour? WRONG!! Just a few days later I had to deal with the bushmonster again... It appears as if she doesn't like to grow vertically very much atm but its the last week of veg right now so we'll see how she'll act through flower stretch very soon! Had to do the 1212 prep cleanup like with the others so a lot of green mass had to go. Felt bad like always, but as I'm writing this from the future, she'll bounce back with a vengeance!

Danylo This is her first week of (mostly) 12/12. Structure-cleanup-wise she is lagging behind the two others, because in this case I'm waiting to see where flower stretch takes us. As soon as I get an idea what that looks like she'll get the big cleanup the other two have already gotten. I had to do a little-cleanup to give the major sites some more air and light. She is still quite a bit smaller than the others, but I swear I plucked more leaf-mass off of her than off either of the others. 🤷 I don't often hope for a large %stretch but in this case I am 💩 In the next few days I'm gonna prop her up on a large empty pot to get her closer to the LEDs.

Danylo About ten days of 1212 now, and she is transitioning realtively fast into flower. She has already stretched somewhat so I went in and cleaned her up a little. 😋 While doing that (unlike with the others atm) my fingers got a little sticky even! Rarely get that just from jacking stems (this early). Cut off 2-3 branches that were out of bounds (tent is always limited in space..) and while I looked at the first in my hand a little closer, I realized that she is already getting colourful! Barely into flower and already doing that? Fastest on any plant I grew until now. 😍 Very excited to see where the next few weeks take us! [Edit:] Changed/added some pix.

Danylo Ooookie dokey! We are almost through flower transition and she has already stretched more than I had hoped! ❤️ Structure is almost ideal for top-only lighting, lovely even surface with great budsite spacing! Most of the final prep is done so work for the next ~6-8 weeks is mostly reduced to watering. 😻 While working on her it was obvious the smell has already changed somewhat. Hard to describe atm but we're not far from actual trich-rubbing so i'll spare you guys the wild speculation 💩 She is getting more colourful every day. Earliest and fastest of any plant I had before. Pumped to see what final shade of purple she will decide to be! Very interesting to me is the fact that with appearing colour, trichomes also appear on the leafs - probably general reaction to flowering hormone presence? As most of the work is done I'm thrilled to just watch(and smell) her become her adult self. Very happy how she turned out so far! [PS] Forgot to measure her exact height, so i'm guessing because it's already lights out in the tent. Will edit the next few days!

Danylo One more week has passed! Really didn't have to do a lot of work on her this week. Actually I think I only had to water her ❤️ Smell wise we are getting unhinged! Over time I hope I can get a better grasp on how to describe this one but right now, for me, she smells like no plant I ever had. I get notes of rhubarb, spice and berries.. maybe cilantro?! Even moving her a little disperses the smell! Stretch is through, so I finally can add Sumo Active Boost! (Not very scientific but I just love adding this pretty pink juice into the solution💩) Stretch benefitted her overall structure a lot! Very happy about that! Pics I took this week were badly overexposed and I tried to fix them, but they still look somewhat different from the actual plant. Hard to capture that emerging DARK purple. Perpetual defoliation is over, so I'm finally letting her keep leafs longer now, and some of the older ones are actually SHINY! I'm still trying to convince myself that it's the Plagron Silic Rock I'm using!

Danylo Another week has passed. These 6-8 weeks until harvest are probably my favourite weeks in a plants lifecycle. Most of the work is done and you can (without much stress) watch the plant reach its genetic target. This lovely SFT#8 is a unique plant (to me) in more than one way. First the smell - It still has the "sour rhubarb, spice and berries.. maybe cilantro" base, but now there is also something sweet in the background that really ties the bouquet together! Second is the colour: From afar she looks dark purple, maybe even black. But with lots of light and less distance, she looks almost pink-ish at the moment. Super cool to watch, excited to see how much of her even remains green. This week was MKP-week (right after stretch ends), where I add 200mg/L of MonoKaliumPhosphat (0-52-34) every watering to help provide changing nutrition-needs from vegmode-flowermode. It's somewhat of a PK 13/14 analogue. Had good results since I started doing this so I'm not going to change a running system ;)

Danylo This is the plant/week that made me want to switch/buy an actual camera. None of the photos I took were doing the real plant any justice. 😖 The combination of green and dark purple just never looked right.🤷 This week I tried taking pics with an older digicam (10-ish MP / 15 years old) in addition to the usual phone (Moto G84 5G) to at least provide two perspectives. However different the plant might look on these pictures she is doing very well! Packing on (a lot of) mass and keeping the crazy bouquet at it's usual high level! You know .. at first I think I couldn't _really_ appreciate the aromas/combinations because they were SO unusual compared to most of the strains I grew before. But after getting familiar with her now.. I'm starting to grow anxious in expectation to smoke this stuff =) Stumbling upon something actually new is always such a cool experience! Plant maintenance-wise nothing exciting happened this week - plucked a leaf here and there but mainly it was just watering!

Danylo [Cams'n'Pix:] This week again there are pics from two different Cameras. MotoG84 and Nikon Coolpix 7100. I entered the source into the "Your message here" Field for each picture. (Don't have to do much to the Nikon pix, but with the MotoG84 colour temp is usually sooo far off... I think if it would just completely guess, it would at least SOMETIMES be correct 🤷 [Plants:] She is stinking up a storm LOL. In my (limited) experience, when a strain is this colourful, it is usually not bred for aroma. This one ? .. you know.. I really wouldn't be mad if she'd stank a little less 💩 Had a friend over the last few days and he was all over the smell like a cat on catnip. To the base "sour rhubarb, spice and berries.. maybe cilantro" which got expanded by "a little something sweet" last week, we now also have a certain cheesy-funkyness. Wild. She somehow has started consuming her own leafs. I don't really know why some plants do this, but there are people chewing on their fingernails - so why not plants ? Will try to do some closeup shots with lots of light the next week. Forgot this week - and now its a few days past last day. 2-3 weeks until harvest =) [Edit:] Oooookay I just went and took a few closeups. A week feels kind of incomplete without them. They are 2-3 days past the 7 day cutoff though 😜

Danylo Ok, soooo .. not the best pics this week sry. The fucking chemdog (right beside this lovely, innocent pant!) has decided to overload his spaghetti-ass stems with hilariously unproportionate buds and ruined my whole week. Taking pics in the tent is a challenge atm. I plan, however, to do my usual solo shooting in front of a dark background on harvest day. Hopefully those pics will look as pretty as she is in RL. Smell intensity here should have a STRONG+ option because just looking in her general direction makes the room stink! She went a little further into the berry direction this week. YUM! 😚 Unfortunately she has aquired a taste for her own leafs. Not very photogenic but a lot of really interesting plants have strange quirks like that. 🤷 Most relevant trichomes are milky-white so it shouldn't be long before she gets the axe. 7-10 days I think. [edit:] Whoopsie forgot one of my favourite pics!

Danylo She was the first out of my three to get the axe. Aroma, trichomes etc. she had peaked :D So waiting would just have meant lower quality. This run I'm experimenting somewhat: Usually I exclusively wet-trim. But I wanted to see how the other half lives, sooo.. I'm trying to do half of the plant wet and half dry-trim. Never done a dry trim before so I better go watch some youtube guides! Wet trim part was easy enough. Buds didn't really have a lot of leafs to trim off. 🤷 Like the buds, scissors and cleaning wipes were dark purple the whole time though ❤️