A mainly warm, sunny week. Only the last 2 days were a little cooler and a bit overcast.
Most of the girls are nearly done. Another week or 2 for some and maybe 3 or 4 weeks for the slowest.
Dubai Poison - Tiny lollipop bud. Didn't like the cold start. Not a strong crazy smell, but keen to try the little she gives me.
Purple Glam Kush - Small and very leafy. Buds are airy as hell and hope she fills in... not good structure at all at the moment. Smell is sweet and fresh, I have another seed, so hope that pheno is better.
Lavender Best - Almost done. Thin buds, and a few nice lower branches and really frosty. A strong pepper smell to her without touching. Spicy and slightly sweet after disturbing. Won't be a big yield, but will be enough for a little jar and look forward to try her.
Guerilla Glue - Small plant, but main cola is filling out really well and is nice and dense. Few smaller buds lower down, but also a slow start in the cold, like all of them, but did well considering. Smell is also peppery without disturbing and can smell the fresh green, gluey notes after touching.
Cocopopo - She had a really slow start and fell behind the pack, but has caught up well! Responded well to the LST and kept stretching and allowed me to take her further than most of the others. Also a little behind in the flowering, but starting to bulk up nicely. Smell isn't very strong yet, but can smell a strange sweetness to her, but can't describe what's with it. Not chocolate just yet.
Devil's Kiss - She also responded well to the LST & could do more on her. Stayed nice and flat and the buds are starting to fill out nicely. A sweet, floral, almost tropical smell on her. Not strong, but very nice.
Tangie'Matic - The Queen of the pack. Think in better weather she will be one of my favorites and get nice and big. She's filling out so fast and so nicely. Dense buds packed with trichomes, all crystal clear at the moment and they sparkle in the sun so nicely. She's also starting to show off. A fey purple, almost black calyces and purple tips on the rest. Also got nice pink stripes on some of the leaf veins. Flowers have a bit of a blue tinge in general and looking beautiful. The smell is also my favorite from this group. Strong, sweet citrus. Not a sharp almost acidic smell like when she started to flower, it's gotten more smooth and rounded... if that makes sense. I struggle to describe some smells & go off feeling hahaha
Gave them all a feed early in the week, but only collected rain water since and slowed down a bit the last 2 days due to temperature.
@Ganjagardenner, Yeah, adding till burn was just trying to find out where their limits are with the mixes I'm giving them, but like you say, the balance is more important than amounts. At least now I know what too much is and can now work on more micro elements to keep everything in balance. Been playing with foliar feeding on my winter crop and they seem to love it, so will keep the soil feeding lower and add some more foliar once a week. Lots of little experiments and dialing things in. Pretty much just pushing them to the extremes so I can see what happens when they are not happy... like you said, mistakes make experience, so if I stay careful I won't learn much, but by purposely making mistakes I learn way more and if I can see where the see saw hits the ground either side, balancing it should be easier. 😉
It's so awesome that almost everything we learn with weed translates to the rest of the garden. It's making me want to get into growing veggies again.
Thanks! Happy growing to you too! ✊
@Shinsimilla, for sure! ‘Experience‘ is the name given to our mistakes! I like the idea of adding nutes until burn, but all the micro and macro elements are in such an equilibrium It’s hard to actually think which is the issue. Guess that’s the green thumb element of understanding the plants. I do a lot of other gardening also and the techniques usually transfer over so it’s great fun all the time. Happy growing dude!
@Ganjagardenner, nice. Yeah, everyone's system and environment is different and there is almost never only 1 solution, so make the experimenting more fun.
Cool to see how everyone solves their issues differently and end up with good results. I pushed mine to nute burn to see how much they can take, so stay below that now.
There are lots of right ways, but finding lots of wrong ways on the way and that's almost more important :P
@Fast_Buds, Thank you!
The Tangie'matic is definitely in the lead of the first few am super happy with her so far!
I have an LSD-25, Zkittlez and Mexican Airlines that just popped out the soil and will start day one tomorrow.
Looking forward to smell & taste them. Is a bit early in the season, so probably wont get a crazy yield, but that won't stop the terps! haha
@Shinsimilla, ha well I'm a newbie grower but I can tell there's a fair bit of talent and a fair bit of experience gone into these it's really good ! 🚀
@CRiSPrGrow, coming from you that is even more of a compliment, thank you!
Combining my job/passion with another passion that has recently been legalised here, so loving it!
Thanks for the follow 🙏