Platinum Gelato

After years of pissing about with local clones from shitty genetics we decided to stump up some decent cash and have a crack at growing something proper. Ordered a pack of Platinum Gelato from overseas (got the last pack) and got x3 Garlic Sherbert as freebies (see other diary). Ended up with 7 from 9 I popped. I had a few issues the first week or 2 due to over watering but once I addressed that they started booming

As soon as they got to 4 nodes so i had 8 good new shoots showing i bent the main stem over and secured into the coco by making walking stick shapes out of coated garden wire

Transplanted into 30l pots. Plan is to give them 2 months veg. I carried on training the stems towards the edge of the pots

More LST. I've pinned all my stems horizontal, haven't topped the main stem yet as I want it to kick out some more shoots that I can train out

I topped the main stem when it reached the edge of the pot and started training the 2 new tops around the edge of the pot. The aim is to get all the stems to stretch beyond the pot to allow all the new growth inside to catch up and become big stems

I carried on training keeping the stems as horizontal as I could until they got to the point where I had to tie them down to the run off trays.

As the inner growth started overtaking the outers in height I started super cropping to keep the canopy as level as possible

Plant size is now about 1m in diameter and I'm running out of room so nows the time to spin these beauties. Before that though they had a good old defoliation and lollipopping. They've been showing signs of purple all through veg so I'm hoping for some nice colours. I started adding Flower burst in the last week of veg. First time using these flowering nutes so interested to see the results

Already seeing first signs of flower on day 5. Carried on supercropping all week

More supercropping this week. Started seeing slight signs of a Calcium deficiency. Started adding boost

Defoliated again on day 15 when stretch had finished. Switched from flower burst to PK 9-18. Already seeing frost on a couple of these!!

4 weeks in and some of these are already super frosty!

Defoliated again on day 30 to allow light go penetrate all the way through the plant. Hairs have started browning off, some look to be finishing quicker than the others

3 or 4 of these are deffo gonna be fished in 8 weeks. Most of the hairs are browning off and the buds are THE frostiest I have EVER seen!! Started to see some pink/purple coming through so I dropped the temps slightly so it was 25.8C in the day and 20.5C at night

Wow! The colours really started busting through since I dropped the temps. Started giving them just water now for a week then I'll run about 75l of water through each one. I'm gonna struggle to pick a pheno from these! I might have to keep a couple! 😁

Cracked 9 of these beans and ran 7 in the end. On just looks and smell alone its nigh on impossible to choose one. Every one of them's a keeper in it's own right. I'm hoping that one tastes fire to help me decide. Deffo buying from In House again!