Thai Chi

BumSplodgeBrownPants · Sep 6, 2024

Mitsuharu said:
I really don't know how these skittles smell.

They smell like mixed fruits, strawberry, citrus and grape... I think they do anyway.

I haven't had a bag for maybe 40 years, but when I smell this plant, the wrapper on the sweets bag sprung to mind.

Very fruity smell which changes to smelling like cat piss on my fingers after 10 mins or so.

Still a long way to go, so I'll put some money on her not smelling like any of these smells in a month's time.

BumSplodgeBrownPants · Sep 8, 2024

Had a tidy up around the base. Some big solar panels on this plant

Lingering tobacco scents on my fingers with that dirty undertone of funk.

zaprjaques · Sep 8, 2024

some tiny ass sunglasses there mate.

just kidding

BumSplodgeBrownPants · Sep 12, 2024

zaprjaques said:
some tiny ass sunglasses there mate.
just kidding

I borrowed them off the wife's Barbie doll.

Weekly update... Still nearly 7 foot tall... temps are back around 25*C, feeding A+B daily at 0.7EC. Nice fat calyxy bracty things.

Mitsuharu · Sep 12, 2024

How many days have they been flowering @BumSplodgeBrownPants ?

My two clones are at day 43 now:

Seems like the first one is faster because the second one had been repotted late in a bigger pot(~10) while the first only got 6 - 7L and had been repotted early. And i think there were some pollen flying in the tent which could speed up the clones too. Two buddies reported that them seed plants/the weed got pretty relaxing with ~70 days. So because they are clones maybe i will harvest them around 60 - 65 days max to get a more energetic high!?

I already can see amber trichomes...

BumSplodgeBrownPants · Sep 12, 2024

Mitsuharu said:
How many days have they been flowering @BumSplodgeBrownPants ?

I think they were starting to show pistils around 14th August, so 4 weeks done. 6 or 7 to go maybe? :greenstars:

outsidegrower · Sep 15, 2024

Hope we get a mild fall so this 10 foot tall thai chi beast can finish. Wonderful woody and citrus aromas.

gedLang · Sep 15, 2024

outsidegrower said:
Hope we get a mild fall so this 10 foot tall thai chi beast can finish. Wonderful woody and citrus aromas.

That thing has a serious trunk! I had to zoom in to make sure it wasn't an elm!

BumSplodgeBrownPants · Sep 23, 2024

Just finishing week 6 now and she seems to have stopped growing... (slowed down to a crawl). :dunno:

Mitsuharu · Sep 23, 2024

@BumSplodgeBrownPants
Sorry, what does "slowed down to a crawl" mean?

My 2 Thai Chi clones are looking pretty ripe already with only 54 days of flowering under 100w LED!

Even the lower buds are nice and frosty.

The big one in 10L soil:

The smaller one with only 6L soil:

BumSplodgeBrownPants · Sep 23, 2024

Mitsuharu said:
Sorry, what does "slowed down to a crawl" mean?

It means they look like they have stopped growing. Just a phrase we use over here.

Slowed to a crawl... instead of "sprinting to the finish line".

Mitsuharu · Sep 23, 2024

Yes, they look pretty stacked up, faster than you have expected!?

They are from seed right?

BumSplodgeBrownPants · Sep 23, 2024

Mitsuharu said:
Yes, they look pretty stacked up, faster than you have expected!?

They are from seed right?

Yes, that plant is from seed, they seem to be done with growing right now and are ripening up. I was expecting them to take 10-12 weeks and they're just finishing week 6.

Will they have a 2nd flowering spurt?

Edit for a picture... Tape measure for scale

paisajedehierba · Sep 23, 2024

BumSplodgeBrownPants said:
Just finishing week 6 now and she seems to have stopped growing... (slowed down to a crawl).

That's curious. After 6 weeks, she can't have reached her full potential. Straight KC would already make me wonder with a finish after 6 weeks. She is looking healthy. How big are the pots?

BumSplodgeBrownPants · Sep 23, 2024

paisajedehierba said:
That's curious. After 6 weeks, she can't have reached her full potential. Straight KC would already make me wonder with a finish after 6 weeks. She is looking healthy. How big are the pots?

11L of coir.

She's just slowed right down, I'm pondering if she may have a 2nd flowering stage to her, she might just be taking a bit of a breather before the final push.

farmerlion · Sep 23, 2024

farmerlion said:
We have sunshine today and the Thai Chi girls are happy. I'll go take a few pictures right now.

I get the majority of my greenhouse sunshine from the South or to the left in my bottom picture. This is why I separate my plants to perceived/expected plant growth structures and heights.

This way as the plants matue they aren't fighting for direct sunlight as much. By mid August the shorter later started plants will be getting full unobstructed sunlight and the rest of the greenhouse will be big enough to defend themselves in a very competitive environment.

Benefits of a later plantings with certain strains?

I have the most color expressive lines on the south side. I have an incredible vegetative growth cycle here at my geographic location.

What I don't have is the ultimate flowering environmental conditions, henceforth the 10+ week ladies are in the middle or the North side, out of the way.

Everything else gets to enjoy flowering into October aided with the help of dairy barn heaters if needed. This allows the visible phenotypic expressions to be more pronounced at harvest.

Sorry to ramble; preparation insights give you more options of benefit later in your grows. Later in September if I harvest a particular plant on the left side, I'm rewarded with more direct sunshine for the middle and North side plants.
Peace farmerlion

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Here is my Thai Chi in the first two pictures. Then a few random shots in my greenhouse today.

The 3rd-6th are of my Destroyer P1f. She is being Bx to her son a SpaceQueen x Blueberry Bx to the Mother SpaceQueen IBL. I have two Mother Lineage P1 clones as well, all being Bx this season.

farmerlion

farmerlion · Sep 23, 2024

My ceiling height is 10'6"
The Yellow leaf picture is showing the difference between yellow leaves your plant will drop and the more gold Anthocyanins

that produce multiple inflections in cannabinoidal ratios.

Look for that difference and watch the phenotypic expressions increase in your plants.

Don't be to quick to pull yellow leaves or defoliate. You will miss the sweetest gifts your plants have to offer.

Much love Dubi, My Prayers and Blessings to your beautiful family.

I miss my library collecting back in the day!
Peace farmerlion

Sensistar42 · Sep 24, 2024

farmerlion said:
My ceiling height is 10'6"
The Yellow leaf picture is showing the difference between yellow leaves your plant will drop and the more gold Anthocyanins that produce multiple inflections in cannabinoidal ratios.

Look for that difference and watch the phenotypic expressions increase in your plants.

Don't be to quick to pull yellow leaves or defoliate. You will miss the sweetest gifts your plants have to offer.

Much love Dubi, My Prayers and Blessings to your beautiful family.

I miss my library collecting back in the day!
Peace farmerlion

Beautiful!

Mitsuharu · Sep 29, 2024

The weed from the 2 Thai Chi clones ist almost dry enough for the jars... i harvested them a few days ago. Had only 55 days of flower but looked ripe enough and very resinous. :yummy:

BumSplodgeBrownPants · Oct 1, 2024

This one is around day 50-52 since first pistils and she's ripening up by the looks. I have some leaves about halfway up a branch or two just drying up and dying off, like I've forgotten to water that branch.
Houston, we may have a problem... or she may just be ready to die.

Anyway, I think I'm going to stop the feeds now and just give plain water, maybe get her down around the 9 week mark.