Terpenado Mini Pheno Hunt

I popped these beans shortly after my Meph beans. I had so many beans that...I needed to do something and the idea of grabbing another tent to flower photos was irresistible. I didn't think to start this diary right away so I'm uploading what I have from over the past 6 weeks. I'll try to get this updated with the primary focus on the Terpenados. I have 4 strains in the tent but the Terps proved their worthiness during germination. They were the last popped and the strongest to germinate. Not enough Bodhi journals on here. This one will start off sparse but we aren't even in flower yet.

We've all seen this before. Transplanted the rooted Bodhis to 3 gallon pots with Coir/Verm. A successful veg week.

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The Terps vegged enough for me to top them and use the tops as clones. I set up a Turboklone a got in a trade a lloooonnnggg ago. I'm happy to finally use it. I mainlined the biggest plants and used the cuttings for clones. This is my first doing all of that. We will see what happens. The Terps bounced back like champs the next day though. The plan is to flower the potted plants and keep the clones of the phenos I like. Maybe keep a male or two for pollen. So far, the Terpenados are still outperforming the rest of the strains. They are also the first to smell when I open the tent. Two of them smell like bright berries and the third....smells like a trashcan. We got a new set up for the photos. The autos will stay in the 5x5. Too many pots in there made it hard to water and I'll need a 2nd tent to flower the photos anyway.

I got a little overzealous with my mainline trimming and snipped a main off of Terp 1. Its more like a bonsai project now. Since these aren't really for yield I'm okay with it. Regardless, the Terps are beasts and nothing is slowing them down. Stem rubs produce the following scents. Terp 1 - bright strawberries Terp 2 - has a bright strawberry smell under notes of gas, Terp 3 - burning rubber and trash )most vigorous growth however.

I need to learn how to clone better. Half of them died. No skylotus clones survived. ALL of the Terpenado clones are making roots but Space Monkeys didn't make it and half the Herer Hashplants made it. I can pinpoint a couple errors I made: 1.) Didn't sanitize a god damn thing. 2.) Didn't cut the stems at a 45 degree angle. 3.) Put waaayyy to many nutrients in the cloner reservoir. I mean...one the Space Monkeys was just rotting the humidity dome. Terp 3 clone didn't even droop. Terp 2 clone died and Terp 1 made it out as well. I took more cuttings this week and put then in Root Riots. I have a good feeling about them. So good that I think I will flip to flower this week. Terp 2 has developed a powdered milk with strawberry scent when doing a stem rub. The other two are the same. Terp 3 is offensive. I fucked up again when taking a cutting from Terp 1....snipped another top. She's gonna grow like a snake. I am being overzealous with the nitrogen. The leaves are quintessential nitrogen toxicity at this point. Gonna flush for a day or 2 and then flip. Day 39 - Flipped to flower today. Most of them are starting preflower and I tried to identify the sexes. I'm hoping atleast 2 of the Terps are female...we will see though. I really don't wanna build a bunch of male isolation chambers right now.....didn't feed today. They have plenty of nitrogen. Day 40 - I have a skylotus that was germed at the same time as the terps and HE is a male. I hear that males will preflower earlier. I'm going to use this as a reference point and assume that my Terps are females since they haven't sexed yet. Of course...I could be completely wrong. First day of 12/12 and they are thirsty af. Nitrogen ended up not being a problem. I fed them bloom nutrient today to kick start flower. The extra phosphorous should kick em into gear. Day 42 Terp 1: Bright Strawberry Smell, almost no gas undertones. Not sexing yet. Might have issues from vermiculite mixture. Terp 2: Bright berries with strong gas undertones. Earthy funk somewhere in there too. The least bushiest out of all of them but good node spacing. Started off the smallest but picked up good speed later. Kept up with #3 well. Definitely not as hardy as the other terps. Her clones died while Terp 1 and Terp 2's clones feigned death but eventually gave me strong roots. Terp 3: Funky Strawberries. Like...Strawberry Fanta cut with diesel and old Bustelo coffee grinds. No bright berry scent. Makes me gag a little. Growth is superb. Strongest out of all three and a hungry gal to boot. Confirmed female as of about 2 days ago. She's fast, hardy, decent node spacing and gave me her terpene profile a long time ago. Was bigger than my Crem De La Chem of 4 weeks at 2 weeks. Didn't stretch until flower switch. Got a healthy clone of her too. So far she's the winner.