Landrace West African Sativa (Togo)

@JUNGLE_B4RNS @BlackCousin @CRiSPrGrow - Thanks for the help! No more seeds and no guarantee what I get from that same region in the future is the same genetics. So I'm willing to chop a top off and clone as a safety measure. In the bad news category, the main stem at the base split in half this morning... Rescue operation with tape support around the base to heal the wound and help regeneration. I hope it doesn't turn her into a hermie but that puts pressure on cloning ASAP in case the current plant fails as a result of the shock created by the split. Thoughts? EDIT: Found my answer. Did just that. Fixed and supported with duct tape and twisty ties. https://youtu.be/_igBwf0AttI

@dudegrowsweed Hey dude - Almost out of the swamp: @Mr_Positivo was bang on, it was due to light stress. Was running under a 600W LED hanging at 24 inches above the plants. No bueno. My leaves were clawing downward while rising upward, also known as "praying for magnesium". At first I thought it was either a nitrogen toxicity (clawing downward) or a nascent magnesium deficiency (leaves shooting up). I also thought the cause not to be the light but the strong tea and nutrient solution I fed the plant back to back, the latter's pH being way too high, which I thought caused a nutrient lockout. Then things kinda got worse: I downgraded from 600W LED, to 450W LED, to 300W LED. The 450W stayed for a few days but overheated the grow tent, drying the plant, which made me overwater, hence the wilting in the last few days. I think I got a combo of light stress and magnesium deficiency to start it all. I don't add CaMg+ each time to my reverse osmosis water and the plant may have lacked a bit. Now that the plant runs under 300W LEDs running at less than 25% intensity, hanging at 24 inches above, and that I've let her dry out, while feeding her CaMg+ & Epsom Salts through foliar sprays for a few days, she's recovering and clawing is improving. I got a set of full spectrum 50W & 100W LEDs to experiment a bit, especially as the plant keeps growing upward and the space between the top of the canopy and the light reduces. Might have to just finish her under 50W to avoid burning the tops. Hope this helps for next time. Bummer you had to kill yours. Experience is the nickname we give to the mistakes we learned from ;-)

Looks like a fairly typical african sativa (at least, from what I know) so far, interested to see how that flowers though. Those sort of sativas really don't like small spaces. Good luck.

if you want to get clones.... she has to stay in vegetation stage and you can cut some clones... then after all tranplant and let her in flower. its to see that its astrong girl surviving for week in that solocup and getting fed with lots of stuff....

@Grey_Wolf Thanks for the tips and the support! 🙏 Trying to source more seeds from that same area but there's no guarantee the seeds will be of the exact same genetics when looking for a male to pollinate. Cloning would be ideal at some point, yes. Looks like opinions diverge about whether I should collect a cutting now or later :P So I was told landrace plants don't like to be trained but I agree it's going to be necessary. I will unfortunately only be able to give her 4ft of height in my current space... Should I start gently tying the main stems down?

@MarcXL - Hey Mark, Thanks for your note. The thing is, she started getting much bigger in her solo cup and still wasn't root-bound when I transplanted her into the 1 Gal container. I can only give her 4ft in height therefore wanted to kinda go slowly and see how she'd grow. I don't want to end up with a plant that grows massive and dies because of lack of space either. I think realistically, the max I could go would be a 3.5Gal pot. I've been training her a bit these last few days and she's reacted nicely.

@Cannibalgardens Hey dude - Thanks much for stopping by to help :-) About watering, yes, as answered in another comment, I typically follow the wet/dry cycle meticulously. I weigh her everyday and then only water when it's almost dry. During Veg, it was every 5-7 depending on temperature & humidity (slight fluctuations). During bloom, it's around every 4-5 days. Now, do you actually let the soil go close to dry during flowering or do you keep things rather moist?

and the clones are cut... looking good. btw i would take something "smoothr" than thred to tighten the sem... she will get bgger and it strangles her then

So after looking at your pictures, what your assuming to be nutrient burn strikes me more of a water on leafs while under an led light. If you continue to spray your plants try to do it after your lights turn off for the day. When water beads stay on a leaf under a light the bead works like a magnifying glass which is most likely what is causing the burn marks. In my experience nutrients burn starts in the tips and edges of leafs. Your spots seem to be mid/random spots.

very funky looking plant! Hope it turns out for you and it’s female

@Cannibalgardens Hey thanks for the note! I actually deliberately chose the 13/11 after checking the parameters of her natural habitat. In Togo, days are 13/11 during the summer and 11/13 during the winter, with a constant 60%-95% humidity range. During the monsoon, the RH shoots up to 95%, for weeks. So I'm trying to stick to that to grow her. She's a landrace so I assumed she'd respond better that way. RE: the container, I have to cap her at 4ft so wanted to start with a small container to control growth. It's my first grow so going slowly :D I read 1ft for each gallon in the container so was planning on ending in a 3.5 gal pot. Thanks for the support dude. Helps a lot!

@BlackCousin Taking note of all your suggestions and knowledge. Thank you brother! Much appreciated! 🙏 The plant has actually been on a 13/11 from start. The website only allows to choose 12/12 in the options but the light schedule is up-to-date in the parameters for each week. Was planning on switching her to 11/13 to switch her to flower at some point.

i'm gonna follow this one for the cool pheno and landrace 🚀

Looks like overwatering to me. I’d try cutting back a little on your watering routine. Good luck!

Maybe use something like enzymes some more or even flush if you're brave (I feel it causes water stress sometimes ) what do you think ?

Looks like yours is recovering. Unfortunately, mine wasn’t getting any better. Just chopped her down. 🙁

This is something I've always been dreaming of.Growing pure landrace wild seeds wow really amazing.Good luck mate

good luck on the flowering, let's see what she's made of hey! 🚀

Hey @scribs great looking girl but I did notice 2 things. Clawing tips may be from nitrogen toxicity and the lower leaves are being speckled with white which I found out to be thrips in my garden. If it's not great just thought I'd let you know because they ruined my girls. Try looking through a small scope (like to look at trichomes) because they are tiny white bugs. I used organicide on the leaves and the soil right before lights off and they went away. Goodluck hope she continues growing fine!

really love this diary man, great work reveging, how are those clone coming along then? 🚀