ProfessorSkiSlopes

@TheSweetScience, Yep, pretty much my thoughts exactly. The Blackberry definitely needed way, way less nutrient strength than any other fastbuds strain I've grown, the run-offs were high for the first month and I only used 25% strength. I think this probably was a big factor in the large number of low yielding plants. But that said, the buds were absolutely first class. I had several people say these were simply the best buds they had ever smoked and that's with over ten years of experience. I personally found the Kush indica stone to be the nicest, low anxiety, happy stone and I would happily smoke it always, excepting for its troublesome growing requirements. I am planning to do an WestCoast OG tent next, that has the same Kush lineage as blackberry, and sounds like hopefully a similar stone with more consistent genetics/yield. I see fastbuds just released a new purple strain (purple lemonade), looks like they knew Blackberry was inferior and have been working for awhile to create a replacement. I also saw on another seedbank site that they are expecting a strain called Purple Punch from fastbuds this year as well.

@@GreenHeart420, Heh, yeah you are right, I was having a bit of a brain-sizzle that night. I guess I'm still quite new to this, and I'm pretty fixated on mastering the art of growing the highest yield and so I can easily overthink small things. To be honest, over the last several grows I'd sort of come to the conclusion that in general, the plant is going to produce a fairly predictable yield, and that unless there were major screw ups, most folks were probably getting fairly similar results regardless of technique or any specifics of the growing method. But then I noticed the correlation with the look of the GSC, and it struck me that maybe it was the opposite, and perhaps the treatment of the plant, especially in the seedling stage, could have dramatic impact on final yield. I guess the only real answer is going to be found by doing some comparative grows with clones, and measuring final yields after varying nutrient levels for different sets of plants. Not sure that I'm going to ever get around to doing that, but given how much it is bugging me, maybe I will. I generally haven't had any major struggles with my grows so far (except the first time, when I drowned 14 seeds), and I had a pretty spectacular yield with my Zkittles grow (just under 1 kilo in 12 weeks from a 4by4 tent) so I'll keep on trying to get my coco technique perfected. Although I am keen to automate the watering with a pump fed halo system, and also automate the collection of run-off with some full 4x4 sized trays I've found online. That would cut my workload by a massive amount. Speaking of which, I guess I better go hand-water the tents now... Thanks for the feedback, it's good to be reminded not to take it quite so insanely seriously LOL, I tend to get a bit over-focused on things I think I'm seeing. In the end, the harvests are pretty sweet, and it's actually supposed to be an enjoyable hobby (which in large part it really is).

@@GreenHeart420, Cheers :) I've been quite interested in how the four Girl Scout Cookiers have grown. At first this tent was going to be all Lemon AK, but I killed two sprouts trying to get the seed shell off them, so I put down two GSC seeds. Then a week later two of the Lemon AK seedlings just stopped growing at the first set of leaves, so I pulled them and put down two more GSC seeds.. which was a good idea except I've been too lazy to give all the plants specific nutrient strengths for their age, so they have all just got whatever the older Lemon AK plants were getting. Which means the first two GSC got fed a nutrient than was for plants 5 days older, and the last two GSC got nutrient strength that was for plants 11 days older. ---- THE INTERESTING BIT of all that is that the first two GSC look very similar to each other in size and flowerr production, they are a bit small, but still have a quite solid looking branches full of bud on them. However the last two GSC look very similar to each other, but have grown taller, and grown longer branches, but much less budsites, that the first two GSD. Also, they also seem to be maturing faster than the first two GSC. It makes me think that high nutrient levels for seedlings in their first week or two must have caused the stunting in the size of the first two GSC, and the even higher levels caused branch stretch, faster maturation and much less budsites on the last two GSC. The last two GSC have developed similar features to a lot of my blackberry plants.. sort of long spindly branches with sparse small budsites that feature over developed swollen flowers with a low final yield. And I know for sure I overfed my blackberry crop for the first 3-4 weeks because I wasn't ready for how little nutes they actually wanted. Ultimately this is all just a guess, but the way the first two GSC look identical, and the second two GSC look identical makes me think that giving seedlings too high a nutrient strength appears to have a dramatic negative impact on how they will develop. Hmmmmm

Good looking stuff! Happy growing!! ✌️

Really beautiful plant with an absolutely gorgeous top view!

@StoneyMelony, Hahah, well spotted, was meant to be 1000ml :P

That is a lot of water bro 1000L/24h, some royal flush or what? stoner lol 😂😅😂

@Warzouz_grass, Thank you! They seem to be doing pretty well overall, two of the Lemon AK plants especially are looking like they might be heavy yielders. The Girl Scout Cookies are a bit smaller and less branchy, but they seem to be budding up nicely! Will be interesting to see how they go over the next 3 weeks.

Looks amazing ! You're gonna have a lot buds :)

@ProfessorSkiSlopes, Thanks for the feed back. I've been having issues with my Blackberry light green phenotype she is drinking slower than the rest and feeding slower not sure if she may have been too wet or I caused some root issues but I made the mistake of giving her plain water and not feeding her as often and think I may have been starving her cause she yellowed out like she was flushing. The shorter green BB phenotype looks nice with a shorter denser leaves and buds. The 3rd tall pheno looks good but the bud density is not good. I suspect that I was under feeding them and lack of cal/mag produced lower bud growth/density. I think getting the proper potassium/calcium/magnesium proportions are playing into this issue they should be 4 parts K /2 parts Ca/1 part Mg. I will try them again at some point. I've seen both good and bad diaries on this strain I was under the impression they didn't like ultra heavy feedings from some of the diaries I've read but I wonder if maybe they need more cal/mag and to have their nutrients tweaked up a bit.

@Philindicus, I think you are potentially right there. The fact the two light green plants turned out to be so spindly and yes, had hollow stems, whilst being totally different phenotypes suggests that the environment in the medium was not ideal. I am not sure how to address the cal/mag issue. I have been adding the cal/mag/micronutrient additive at full strength during the majority of the plants life (as opposed to the primary nutrient and other additives which are generally added at between 25%-44%, to give it higher levels of calcium and magnesium to compensate for the ionic action of the coco, but it doesn't seem to work to great effect. I might have to introduce a regular foliar feed. Or maybe changing to a coco specific nutrient range such as CANNA or CX. EIther way, I was pretty quick to call Blackberry an inconsistent strain with poor genetics, but I must give full consideration to it simply being a sensitive strain that requires a more optimised nutrient regiment, which would explain why I've done reasonably well growing other strains, and so relatively poorly with blackberry.

@Belverde, Thank you very much man :) I reckon are looking pretty healthy so far. The Girl Scout Cookies seem to be loving it the most. The Lemon AK's have put out lots of laterals with lots of nodes... I probably should have done some LST on the Lemons, oh well, next time. LOL./

Nice garden 👌👌

@OhcanaDAbiz, Thank you man :) They are beautiful. It's a bit odd, having a drying rack of purple nuggets! Will post pix of them soon as dry ;)