Larry Bird Kush (aka Gelato 33) Zamnesia

Week 7, concluding the seventh week of vegetating: Hi(gh) Guys, Another great week! I’d made all the adjustments in time, only the spray I’d applied the next day on Thursday, on which I’d also switched from 18/6 to 15/9. Today I’m switching finally to 12/12, and switching the light to the Scroggmaster 450 also. At first I was wandering if extending the blue growlight during transition into flowering affected the final product in a positive way, I now realized this is not the case so I better stick to what works best. And during a plant’s lifecycle in nature not only the length of the day initiates transition into flowering, also the color leaning more towards the red as the summer progresses. So in essence the plants need the red light to kickstart flowering, so along with switching to 12/12 the flowering lights are up. On Monday I’d rotated the pots so that the plants that are still a bit behind have a chance to get the most intense light this week. Last Sunday I’d topped all of the branches that where high enough, during this week I’d continue to do that on branches that reached the desired height. But today also started to pinch those branches that did not manage to reach proper height. Removing these gives some retarding at first, but eventually boosts the last branches to grow up to height. From today there will be one month of growing left so this will help focus growth to the desired places, and hopefully end up with a nice even canopy. There are some pretty nice pheno’s, plant G to start with. That’s the one with 11 fingered fan leaves. Also with two problems, the first one is that I broke of one branch earlier, but that’s replaced with an offshoot that’s growing into a new branch already. The second one is that it stretches way more than the rest of the plants. That’s going to be a problem later on I’m afraid. Maybe it needs some extra training. Plant D is the prettiest pheno. The branches all growing on a nice height, and standing wide around the main stem. If the bud from it tastes as good as it looks, then this would be a desired pheno to take clones from. Maybe in the future I will be experimenting with clones but I wouldn’t want to right now because I would need more space to keep them, space I don’t have right now. But if you look close there are those special pheno’s standing far above the average. What makes me want to establish a fact: Everyone wants to grow top shelf quality bud, and tries as many strains in search of the ultimate buzz. Only, when you grow only one or two seeds from a single strain, how good of an impression gives that to you from that strain? My experience is that there is a big chance you don’t find the best pheno’s within a strain. I find it very interesting to grow entire batches of one strain to get a broader view on that. But doing so makes me realize that I’ll only be going to grow entire batches of top shelf product if I’ll try to save those pheno’s as a mother plant. I’d made a few different photo moments during this week. The last set from today show’s some nice pictures from all of the individual plants. Next week I’ll continue applying the spray that speeds up the process of transitioning into flowering. I’m looking forward to see you back and check on the Larry Bird’s progress next week! Grtz, Budcrack ;-)