Day 65. All the strains are looking good. The Rainbow Cake has some leaf claw still from back when I overdosed them with nutrients when my TDS pen broke. The Lemon Bubble never minded it, it seems like a very tough strain. I scoped all of them and there are a few amber trichomes here and there, the PSB and RC have a lot of milky trichomes and they are approaching the harvest window, but not there yet. From here on out I'll just evaluate them once per week for ripeness, not every day. Those will definitely be the first strains to come down, they seem to be on a similar track-both have developed much potent terpenes and have a more complex smell from the past week. The Rainbow Cake always smelled "fruity" but now it has a more specific crisp candy smell, like jolly ranchers. The PSB smells like funky blueberry-it's a cheeseberry plant and it really lives up to that background-I miss the extremely FUNKY skunk plants that used to be everywhere. The Hawaiian Snow smells really nice, sort of a sharp citrus/pine smell just like I remember it having from 10+ years ago-the difference is the last one I grew had huge colas, and this one, as you can see, has a mass of very small, airy, heavily foxtailed buds. The plant is impressive though-it takes up almost exactly half my tent, so I really hope it's good smoke! Lastly, the Lemon Bubble is a disappointment terpene wise-it doesn't have a trace of lemon smell. It's the only plant in the tent that doesn't smell good-it's actually one of the worst smelling plants I've ever grown LOL, sort of a generic garbage odor. I keep hoping it will suddenly change, but we'll see-the LB buds are finally starting to swell up. Thanks for stopping by, hopefully in the next couple of weeks I'll have some nice harvest and bud shots for you to enjoy! Take care.
@Paulb420, Thanks bud! I just got a couple more Rainbow Cake seeds-I ordered them when I thought my clone wouldn't take(but it did), so I think I'm just going to save them and use the clone as a mother plant. Very cool strain!
@Paulb420, She's been a good grower for me, took to training really well, very fast growing seedling. I try to clone everything I sprout until I know if it's a keeper or not. You can really see the Archive genetics coming through on this plant, so I'm thinking this will be the one keeper out of this group of plants for me. Getting excited to see it pack on the weight!
@Smokwiri, Thanks! I'm proud of the comeback they're making after I light burned them, keep checking back, I'll do my best to raise them up as proper young ladies!