Sep 20: nice sunny day. Panama Lime has gotten serious about flowering and is looking really good. Cookies G13 is also doing well but is about a week behind.
Very little evidence of damage due to low temperatures. A few tops on the Panama Lime have some purple, but there is no fan leaf damage or much discolouration.
Sep 22: looking really good. The buds on the Panama Lime are fattening up, getting resinous, and starting to glisten in the sun. I’m becoming more optimistic that these plants will work out this year.
Panama Lime is listed at seedsman.com as yielding 150-450 g, and Cookies G13 is listed as 300-800 g. The Cookies G13 plant is definitely bigger, but I don’t think it’s twice as big. The website also lists these as being 100 day plants but we’re up to 150+ days now with at least 2-3 weeks still to go. This partially due to the cooler nights here in Canada compared to Spain where its bred, and I’m also theorizing that it’s partially due to the more reddish light we get this far north. They certainly grow well, but they are very slow flowering. The small tester I had of Panama Lime was great so this should be worth it. 🤠
Sep 25: both plants look really good, and the Panama Lime is fattening up really well. Did a bit more defoliation taking out small branches, particularly low on the east side of the plant where there were two spots of what seemed like a bit of bud rot. That should help direct energy to the bigger buds while also improving airflow to prevent further problems.
@Pokan187, thanks. This one is from several seasons ago, but yeah it was a pretty good. Boveda are fine, but humidity packs are a commodity biz so I just buy whatever is the best deal. Humidity packs are totally worth it by the way…worth the minor price.
@Northern_Ent,Ha brilliant dude thank you really.. Here I was half expecting a weird stupid answer and you come up with something intelligent very cool. Much Respect brother... I use a product to achieve the same kind of idea but very cool of you to think outside the box..
@DeadwebsiteBoringcommunity, I agree it sounds silly but the soap lowers the surface tension of the water which means that it is better able to penetrate the leaves. Science, or at least wishful thinking. 😎. Pesticide formulations often use the same trick to deliver their active ingredients. I was reminded of it buying some fancy peat based medium that mentioned using a “wetting agent” which is just a surfactant which is just soap.
@Epokwan, the breeder calls them Superautos. They did start flowering early, and will finish in time, but wow what a long winded plant. Absolutely gorgeous though and the Panama Lime testers are really nice. I likely found it on Seedsman using their search filters.
Looks awesome! I think my plants are growing at about the same pace as yours, I'm only in week 4 though, hoping to see the same things as you've got goin on
@siz3thr33, thanks, I’m excited about these ones. Your California Snow look good, but you’re likely a bit early with the bloom nutes. Your day 21 pic show you’re still in vegetative growth so they need a fertilizer with more N than PK to grow big.
My plants also seem to like getting a bit of molasses every week or so throughout the grow. Make sure its unsulphured blackstrap molasses which is cheap at the grocery store. 😎. Good luck.