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Wow absolutely amazing brotha!
Jill and Moser will go crazy when they see these pics
Jill and Moser are welcome and I just say thanks for the seeds guys! Cool when everybody gain something
We have to sit and have a good smoking session someday bro
Nice resin layer and shades!
Not bad at all indeed. Pretty much all the strain on the table, with some exceptions, have a good resin amount.
Stay tuned guys and enjoy the spring
Gorilla Zkittlez from Barney were only 3 female seeds and all of them had some male flowers at mid flowering. They grown short and flowered in less than 60 days with an indica tendency to stay bushy. Moderate stretching. The ones I grown took 55 days to get a decent ripe and pics were taken 2 or 3 days before the real harvest.
GorillaZkittlez #1
Short and bushy, fatty indica leaves. Some purple, mainly on the top. Good resin amount, not impressive. Good and quite strong smell. Clearly kushy, earthy with some sour/citrus. Terps are there.
GorillaZkittlez #1
Short and bushy, fatty indica leaves. Some purple, mainly on the top. Good resin amount, not impressive. Good and quite strong smell. Clearly kushy, earthy with some sour/citrus. Terps are there.
GorillaZkittlez #2
Basically it's very similar to the previous one. Short, bushy, moderate stretching and branching, good resin amount, more purple. Smell is completely different. Remember me of strawberry and raspberry, not sweet, little sour, Zkittlez leaning pheno. Overall smell it's not really strong, but at least is promising.
Basically it's very similar to the previous one. Short, bushy, moderate stretching and branching, good resin amount, more purple. Smell is completely different. Remember me of strawberry and raspberry, not sweet, little sour, Zkittlez leaning pheno. Overall smell it's not really strong, but at least is promising.
GorillaZkittlez #3
Last pheno of the batch. As the other the growing pattern is the same, short and bushy. Not purple with a slight longer flowering time, maybe just 5-7 days actually. Smell is different from others. I can smell in it a moderate sour Port wine, some hints of wood, almost balsamic. However it could have been more intense, nonetheless the final judgment will be when smoked.
Last pheno of the batch. As the other the growing pattern is the same, short and bushy. Not purple with a slight longer flowering time, maybe just 5-7 days actually. Smell is different from others. I can smell in it a moderate sour Port wine, some hints of wood, almost balsamic. However it could have been more intense, nonetheless the final judgment will be when smoked.
The purples are pretty, but the green #3 for the win.
Thanks for the input, may I ask you why? is it about the ''purple sucks'' or maybe #3 just looks better to you?
I will decide in some weeks
Sherbet X PlatinumCookies round is going to the end. Few more days to the chopping work.
This time I didn't see one nanner or male sack. Not even one single seed growing on a bud. So I'm just happy, plants were happy too, so they gave me back some nice looking flowers.
Smell it's not really strong or peculiar on this pheno, but well if I should say something they remember me a balsamic lavender. Different is for aroma 'cause I like it a lot.
I used the same A+B Aqua from Canna but I kept EC value very low from the beginning. Tap is at 0,55 mS/cm, final EC never went over 0,9 mS/cm.
Plants had not a single deficiency through all the run. Flush started at 40 days with 100% RO. Some leaves, the ones taking more light became crispy and dried a little too fast, not a real problem btw.
I also added some Cannazyme sometimes in the rez.
Plants were treated in the root zone with Clorpyfiros 2 months ago. 0,5 ml of active principle in the 60 liters rez. It does not solute in water, creating a whitish suspension. Suspension was let go through the root zone continuously, recirculating for 2 hours and then removed for a new and clean nutritive solution.
No damages, I didn't notice any kind of phytotoxicity. It was used for springtails (collembola) and I will check the root zone once plants are harvested.
Harvest is approx. 60 days from the switch, it's not a long flowering pheno.
This time I didn't see one nanner or male sack. Not even one single seed growing on a bud. So I'm just happy, plants were happy too, so they gave me back some nice looking flowers.
Smell it's not really strong or peculiar on this pheno, but well if I should say something they remember me a balsamic lavender. Different is for aroma 'cause I like it a lot.
I used the same A+B Aqua from Canna but I kept EC value very low from the beginning. Tap is at 0,55 mS/cm, final EC never went over 0,9 mS/cm.
Plants had not a single deficiency through all the run. Flush started at 40 days with 100% RO. Some leaves, the ones taking more light became crispy and dried a little too fast, not a real problem btw.
I also added some Cannazyme sometimes in the rez.
Plants were treated in the root zone with Clorpyfiros 2 months ago. 0,5 ml of active principle in the 60 liters rez. It does not solute in water, creating a whitish suspension. Suspension was let go through the root zone continuously, recirculating for 2 hours and then removed for a new and clean nutritive solution.
No damages, I didn't notice any kind of phytotoxicity. It was used for springtails (collembola) and I will check the root zone once plants are harvested.
Harvest is approx. 60 days from the switch, it's not a long flowering pheno.
Thanks for the input, may I ask you why? is it about the ''purple sucks'' or maybe #3 just looks better to you?
I just prefer carotenoids over anthocyanin for my cannabis.
Both are present in every cultivar.
Something about a plant heavy in anthocyanin makes me
wonder about UV sensitivity and a lean to wanting lower pH.
All those plants are delightful, well done, and kudos
on the skills you obviously possess.
May I ask you why again? Overall I dunno, maybe I also prefer standard green ones, but I must admit they looks really good sometimes with that purple/red/black colors.
What about low pH?
Interesting thing for me is: I can say...but I'm not sure, after many years of growing, growing and growing, purple plants maybe are slight lower yielder. I have no data about this, it's just my feeling as a gardener.
I also heard a theory about this few years ago. Purple comes with lowing temperatures at the end of season, cold is coming, solar radiation and photoperiod tell the plants this.
Plants ''do know'' at this time aphids are going to eat them. Not others, aphids. During the evolution the purple phenotypes got their win as the others were easily attacked by pest.
So, I think in MJ plants we have something similar, an information included in DNA very long time ago expressing to save the specie and keep the evolution going in the case it will be needed.
What about the yield? Well, it should be simple. Producing something costs energies. That energy can't be used for other things like increasing calixes numbers, this lead overall at a slight low yield.
I dunno if it's true or not, but it makes sense in my mind.
Still learning bro
Thanks buddy , I hope you'll find something good in your next round!
No, it comes from a small selection of gifted seeds from a friend who own a seedbank and asked me for no names around. Many phenos were carrying a strong intersexual trait.
Love it because the flower is really good looking (also grown in coco or soil) and aroma is a good one. Smell is not so intense like others, but aroma win later.
Btw...I got a sample tested by Canna and it was at 20% THC. I think it can have a little more because the tested sample was too fucked up. With an untouched flower I guess it can go for an higher THC reading. I will get tested again in some time.
Some more pics a week before harvest (they're still on, trying to over-flush)
I agree and I'm happy to read this brother, thanks!
Let's see...I tried one more supersoil run. How to say with just one word...maybe the best one is: failed!
Like last time, soil was and is (because I didn't treat these plants with pesticides) contaminated by at least one pest causing damages. I'm talking about springtails (collembola) and fuck those on the internet who say with no doubt they are good and don't eat roots...well mine do it, indeed.
It's simple as fuck, I observed it, so no jokes around and this is my last try with supersoil in a while, as I need to make another one not contaminated by the super-bio humus I bought last time.
Humus was also contaminated by at least one more insect, really really tiny worms.
Well, for those interested to grow in supersoil, I would say think well at it. With all the -more or less- natural contamination the best is to create a synergy growroom, where pests are eaten by predators and everything gets dialed in when a circle is created. This obviously takes time, but I have a couple of friend doing this with good results.
An overall pic:
Basically, what happened to these plants, like the others last time is a strong yellowing, no matter how strong is the soil, I also used liquid organic fertilizers in high doses but nothing, they barely kept the green on the buds.
To avoid a full failure I needed to decrease light intensity at min. or yellowing would have been only faster.
Basically, collembola, or at least the ones I have (because they're many species) are little motherfuckers eating the little and soft root's hairs and other soft tissues of the plants affecting nutrients and water uptake.
I grow a lot in hydro and I saw them and took also pictures, sometimes they just stay all on one plant, the weakest one, leaving the others free. In hydro they also should not have any other food then roots...so I'm 100% sure they are an issue, at least in my case.
I will get rid completely after this run ends, and wait a couple of months to be sure there is not even one. They're not so strong as other pests and I'm using clorpyfiros. Seems to be the most effective compared with other common active principles. Very low dosage, they seem to be very sensible to it
I will post the best looking buds...and they're really tiny. Simply ridiculous...but always better than nothing. Most important here is to see the differences between hydro grown and organic soil grown, both for smell/aroma and for burning quality.
This one is the last Tangie from a previous selection...smell reeeeally nice, complete tangie with a good hit of milky cream.
Green Poison, maybe the best looking one. Also here the smell is impressive, sweet mango.
Following from the previous post, I want to spend few words about hermies, maybe someone will be inerested in reading this.
I had the same pheno grown in hydro and in supersoil. The plant I'm talking about is Sherbet x PlatinumCookies and it has hermie tendency.
Hydro did not show any male flowers.
Supersoil clones were three, one bigger (it was a mom) and two of them not so big, just rooted and put to flower.
The bigger had a good hermie period, where in a week it shown every single male sack it could.
Of the little ones, only one had few male sacks, the other was free.
So what I seen is that hermie trait is not triggered for something concrete. All the plants were in the same growroom, with the same light, same conditions, different mediums and age.
I will follow keeping this cut as I love it but I would never use it to make a seed-line, maximum an F1 offspring and getting it tested to see what happen with inter-sex.
Here some pictures of the Sherbet X Platinum grown in supersoil
I had the same pheno grown in hydro and in supersoil. The plant I'm talking about is Sherbet x PlatinumCookies and it has hermie tendency.
Hydro did not show any male flowers.
Supersoil clones were three, one bigger (it was a mom) and two of them not so big, just rooted and put to flower.
The bigger had a good hermie period, where in a week it shown every single male sack it could.
Of the little ones, only one had few male sacks, the other was free.
So what I seen is that hermie trait is not triggered for something concrete. All the plants were in the same growroom, with the same light, same conditions, different mediums and age.
I will follow keeping this cut as I love it but I would never use it to make a seed-line, maximum an F1 offspring and getting it tested to see what happen with inter-sex.
Here some pictures of the Sherbet X Platinum grown in supersoil
