ICMag with help from Landrace Warden and The Vault is running a NEW contest in November! You can check it here.
Prizes are seeds & forum premium access. Come join in!
Some photos from the 1st of September.
All plants but the Thai have started, or are just starting (Panama #4), to flower. Nepal Jam started first, then Stardawg, then Sweet Tooth and SSSDH, then Zamaldelica and Panama #5. Ojd's SSSDH cut seems the quickest to develop trichomes on the small leaves surrounding the flowers. And smells very attractively, somewhat artificially like a cleaning product!
Thai
I hoped that, as lanky as it is, this plant will start flowering as soon as the Full Moon plant I grew at the same place in 2011 - in the last days of August. Unfortunately, it seems to be a slow starter aiming for the Hazes league.
Panama #4
The tops of this plant start to smell quite like the Panama plant I grew at the same place in 2014, similar to natural rubber to me, this time with sweet notes. Panama #5 has this rubber smell only faintly in the background, with more fruity and incense notes.
Hi, there!
Unfortunately, a few days ago we had a storm that broke almost all of the Thai's bottom branches, so the X-ray shot was the last one to show the plant in all its branching glory. Anyways, half a tree is still a tree, hehe. Here it is, still on the verge to start flowering.
And a couple of shots for each of the other plants.. They were all a bit thirsty, I even watered the SSSDH a little for the photoshoot, as it was droopy. A proper watering followed in the evening.
We had 2 days of almost constant rain a week ago and on my visit after that I found Panama #4, Zamaladelica and the SSSDH bent, but I bent them backwards without problems as the soil was still very wet. Support was improved.
The NepJam and Stardawg suffered worse damage though. It seems there were strong winds coupled with the rain, because NepJam's main stem was broken right above the support, and when the crushed plant had fallen sideways, it had fallen onto the Stardawg, crushing its main stem in turn... They were a pitiful site, but were not droopy, and after an improvised splinting, which was quite hard to accomplish with only 2 hands available, both plants are both up and looking happy. I guess their yield will suffer from the about 2 3-rds of lost fibers in the stems, but we'll see..
The still-not-flowering Thai
Panama #5, which unlike the Thai is flowering, though more slowly than Panama #4 and Zamaldelica