Finnish Frost

Nice growth for its second week. Nodes are pretty tight, the color is good. There is a little bit of edge curling on the biggest leaves, but that is probably from watering a little too much. She (I hope not He) was transplanted into a 1 gallon nursery pot to start filling out. I aim to switch to flower at the end of the fifth week or soon thereafter.

The AC is having a hard time keeping up with the heatwave. Temps in the tent have been up to 83. These plants better not herm on me. Anyway, topped her. Color is great. Not feeding much of anything yet. The Roots Organic Original is doing fine on its own, but I will probably need to start in a few days.

Transplanted to final 5-gallon, fabric pot. Topped for the second time. Tied down side branches. Used Fox Farm instead of Advanced Nutrients this week. This plant doesn't seem to need much feeding yet. I do not expect the Roots Organic Original soil to begin depleting for a few weeks because the transplant refreshed the nutrients. A.N. B-52 is fine for now. The heatwave that's been making me nervous for all my plants has lessened, so I'm finally able to keep the temps under 80F. Fingers crossed this plant doesn't go male.

This week saw a great deal of growth. I have topped three times at this point and tied down everything to create as perfect a plateau of future colas as possible. The flip to flower should be next week. No sign of sex yet. I used all my cut tops as cuttings just to see how they root; then during further LST and light defoliation yesterday, I took eight cuttings and planted them in 3.75-inch square pots which I placed under the humidity dome. One of those will become a mother if we indeed have a female.

I gave her/him an extra week to level off after a heavy defoliation. The LST looks great with four prominent corners and a flat tabletop of bud sites after regrowth from two toppings. IF indeed this turns out to be a female, we should have a dozen good colas. Early signs of sex are not promising, however. My next report could be bad news.

Good news. I'm pretty sure it's a female. Tiny pistils finally showed up and new growth is bunching up. This plant didn't show sex until the third week of flower. Maddening. With that, I have been moving back and forth between the two tents. I needed to coordinate flowering for this and two original C99s (see that diary too). This Finnish Frost is two weeks ahead, but they're all in the same place as of today. The stretch has begun. Interestingly, the main colas have decided to take the outer corners and what would have been the four mains in the middle are still not stretching. I did a big defoliation at the start, removing underbrush and lots of fan leaves. I will continue to be careful with fan leaves getting too big and crowding the light and airflow. The smell has started kicking in, very differently than all the others in the room. The leaves and colors are deep and rich. This plant is going to be a colorful harvest if the cultivar's results are any indication.

The two C99s that were living with this girl ended up being male, so now she's flowering alone with half a dozen of her own clones that I don't care to turn into mothers. The stretch has begun and I will be tying in stakes horizontally to spread these branches apart to improve light penetration. You can see how lanky the branches are. A supercropping of the mains that are sticking up too much is probably necessary today so I don't slow down this early flowering. I felt like I took too much off in defoliation, but as of this writing, she's doing fine.

SUPER stretch in effect. I spread out the branches with stakes and ties, then took more of her largest fan leaves. Bud sites are finally kicking into gear.. I believe I slowed her down for a couple weeks from my aggressive defoliation and a supercropping, but there should surely be a payoff.

Flowering is in full gear now, finally. For the record, super cropping set us back two weeks. The relatively even canopy is worth it, though. What looked like disappointing little popcorn farts on the tops has spread down the branches nicely. Trichomes are beginning to appear on fan leaves and pistils are reaching out for all they're worth.

This thing is smelling sweet and like winter fruits and spices. I got behind on reporting then had to harvest early (explanation in following weeks), so feel free to advance to the next week.

Now, the last week of flower, even though I wanted to go at least two more weeks. Between the heatwaves this summer and wildly fluctuating temps this Autumn, our girl developed 'nanners' on ALL the tops, so I had to chop her down immediately. I will provide a harvest report after the dry, but I will likely process all of it as bubble hash since there was no time to flush. I don't want to consume Advanced Nutrients through the plant matter. I had not examined trichomes yet because the buds didn't appear to be fattened up yet, but I found that they were mostly cloudy. Harvest would have been near anyway. This is the fourth setback in the grow room this season. Three beautiful plants turned out to be male and had to get the chop, then this. It's all fine. I have new things sprouting. It's a bummer to lose all those expensive nutrients I've used, but I was moving towards using living soil. Final thoughts in a couple weeks...

I admit that I grew this partly because the name is so great, but I also wanted to try this cross of Blue Dream and Wifi OG. The herming was a disappointment, and my yield could have been significantly larger if she got the two or three more weeks to beef up. I will try it again, though probably all remaining seeds I have at the same time so I can pick and choose. Because this girl is so resinous, I might turn this entire harvest into bubble hash.