Good to see the ICMag forum up and running again.
I thought I should update on progress with my two Flo plants, given things have changed somewhat recently. Originally I was starting a hydro grow of mixed strains, with the two Flo plants (grown from seed, and providing cuttings for mother plants) just flowering alongside, so I had a smoke comparison of the two phenos. The last IC update was here: http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=26900
Subsequently, an unfortunate and unavoidable new deadline of end-of-June, coupled with unbelievably slow rooting of all my clones meant that I had to abandon my hydro grow. This meant that the two Flos, being my only plants left, have taken pride of place in the room - I repotted them in 12" diameter pots (no idea on capacity, but large). And how they've changed - a quick comparison with the previous post will show that.
There's been notable developments, and proving what an interesting strain this is:
The leaf shape has changed maybe four times in four months - both plants now look vastly more sativa than before, although the puple pheno is resisting more - much smaller leaves overall, and less 'long'. It hasn't lost it's purple coloration though, and I expect to see calyxes following suit shortly.
It is an incredibly fast-flowering plant - I've never had this kind of development at 23 days before. I keep all my mothers at 16/8, rather than 18/6, which I do thinks speeds up the transition somewhat; I had buds developing at 7 days.
Suprisingly, there has been hardly any stretch at all, which I'm a little disappointed about, as I have a lot of spare room! Since inducing flowering, the green pheno, the tall one, has only put on 6 inches, which I estimate to be another 25% of it's original height - the purple one even less.
Hardly "tall and likes to branch out", as described! Still, these did give up a lot of clones in the early days, and survived four repottings, so they can't be blamed for not performing as well as they could. Flowering is extremely vigorous though.
The green pheno's resin has a more traditional fruity, peppery sativa-type aroma when rubbed. The purple one's however, smells exactly like bitter dark chocolate, although it's more subtle and less coated than the green pheno. But I'm very excited about the flavour potential of this one.
On the downside, the purple pheno has suffered terrible leaf-burn all through its short life, and nothing I've tried will fix it - low nutes, no nutes, flushing regularly, etc. The ph of the local water has dramatically increased recently, from a usual 6.2 to 7.7 (I have no idea why), and coincided with the death of my pH meter, which meant for two weeks I was without readings, but I really don't think it's that.
For one thing, the green pheno is totally thriving on an identical regime, with not a blemish on any leaf. Also, the purple pheno is flowering normally, and the buds look extremely healthy, with many leaves totally unaffacted. It's a weird one - if anyone has any ideas there, I'd be grateful! Additionally, all the clones I've taken don't show the problem (yet), so I'm wondering whether a clone literally replicates the state of the parent at the time the cuts were made? The plant had very little of the burn at the time of the cuts.
So, progressing well - if this speed keeps up, I hope to chop at 49 days, and will post again before that. I have a few tiny buds to try now, which I trimmed from the bottom, but they're pretty white...
I thought I should update on progress with my two Flo plants, given things have changed somewhat recently. Originally I was starting a hydro grow of mixed strains, with the two Flo plants (grown from seed, and providing cuttings for mother plants) just flowering alongside, so I had a smoke comparison of the two phenos. The last IC update was here: http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=26900
Subsequently, an unfortunate and unavoidable new deadline of end-of-June, coupled with unbelievably slow rooting of all my clones meant that I had to abandon my hydro grow. This meant that the two Flos, being my only plants left, have taken pride of place in the room - I repotted them in 12" diameter pots (no idea on capacity, but large). And how they've changed - a quick comparison with the previous post will show that.
There's been notable developments, and proving what an interesting strain this is:
The leaf shape has changed maybe four times in four months - both plants now look vastly more sativa than before, although the puple pheno is resisting more - much smaller leaves overall, and less 'long'. It hasn't lost it's purple coloration though, and I expect to see calyxes following suit shortly.
It is an incredibly fast-flowering plant - I've never had this kind of development at 23 days before. I keep all my mothers at 16/8, rather than 18/6, which I do thinks speeds up the transition somewhat; I had buds developing at 7 days.
Suprisingly, there has been hardly any stretch at all, which I'm a little disappointed about, as I have a lot of spare room! Since inducing flowering, the green pheno, the tall one, has only put on 6 inches, which I estimate to be another 25% of it's original height - the purple one even less.
Hardly "tall and likes to branch out", as described! Still, these did give up a lot of clones in the early days, and survived four repottings, so they can't be blamed for not performing as well as they could. Flowering is extremely vigorous though.
The green pheno's resin has a more traditional fruity, peppery sativa-type aroma when rubbed. The purple one's however, smells exactly like bitter dark chocolate, although it's more subtle and less coated than the green pheno. But I'm very excited about the flavour potential of this one.
On the downside, the purple pheno has suffered terrible leaf-burn all through its short life, and nothing I've tried will fix it - low nutes, no nutes, flushing regularly, etc. The ph of the local water has dramatically increased recently, from a usual 6.2 to 7.7 (I have no idea why), and coincided with the death of my pH meter, which meant for two weeks I was without readings, but I really don't think it's that.
For one thing, the green pheno is totally thriving on an identical regime, with not a blemish on any leaf. Also, the purple pheno is flowering normally, and the buds look extremely healthy, with many leaves totally unaffacted. It's a weird one - if anyone has any ideas there, I'd be grateful! Additionally, all the clones I've taken don't show the problem (yet), so I'm wondering whether a clone literally replicates the state of the parent at the time the cuts were made? The plant had very little of the burn at the time of the cuts.
So, progressing well - if this speed keeps up, I hope to chop at 49 days, and will post again before that. I have a few tiny buds to try now, which I trimmed from the bottom, but they're pretty white...
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