Day 50 - Into week nine! Both DWC girls are doing very well. The grapefruit has obviously caught up with her Gold Glue Comrade. She's got more mass and thankfully has a little more space to breathe than the first Grapefruit grown in the last grow. The Gold Glue continually seems to have a weird (Very minor) deficiency that I can't pin down but she's doing so well I'm basically ignoring it. Brown specs on random leaf tips in random points on the plant maybe one in twenty leaves. As I am continually, gradually defoliating, these are the leaves I yank. She's thriving and her roots are gorgeous so I have chosen not to care.
@Hexus, I had one with similar leaf issues on my FB Blackberry grow and have seen it in at least 6 other grows on GD. I think it may be TMV (Tobacco mosaic virus) but without actually testing for it I can't be sure. Some peoples plants grew faster than the issue would show itself. The leaves still were showing some slight signs of it but not extensive. If I run into it again I'm going to spring for a test kit and take a sample to my local university agricultural lab to satisfy my curiosity. I could be wrong!
@Philindicus, The Coco and DWC Gold Glues both had weird, really slow growing, wrinkly leaves, and they seem to have sort of straightened themselves out. The Soil Gold Glue was a three time non-starter. The fourth seed came out looking like a regular old plant and seems to be doing fine. *Shrug* I'm calling genetics just because of the variety of mediums and the consistency of the problems with ONLY this strain in the grow.