SolarLogos
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Greetings Everyone,
This is my 1st post. I've been reading the forums for quite a while, but now I think these plants are mature enough that maybe someone could identify them for me please? I have some ideas what they are, but will reserve comment in order to hear from some of you that have much more experience in these particular strains. First, I just want to say that it is truly an honor to be part of this fine community. I look forward to getting to know all you fine growers. And now for the ladies.
January of this year, I picked up Ace's Tropical Mix, Malawi, GT, OTH and PCK. I germinated 6 tropical mix and all 6 sprouted. There appears to be 2 strains, 3 of them with wider leaves and 3 with very narrow leaves and bamboo structure.
In the middle of March, we left for vacation for 2 weeks, so I put the plants in the greenhouse with drips. I knew they would flower, which was perfect for me. I usually put out 2 plants each month from the veg/clone room and flower them during the long days by bringing them into the dark room each evening. Aside from winter, I prefer sun grown, but enjoy my winter indoor goodies just as much.
When I came back from vacation the 1st week of April, my entire garden had taken off as if on steroids. Vegetables that were just coming up were already bolting for seed when I returned. TS1-3 were about 20-24 inches tall (doubled in size) and TS4-6 (thin leaf plants) were around 3 foot tall and had tripled in size (even my yellow lab got bigger while I was gone!). TS1-3 had dime sized crowns of pistils already. This was at [FONT="]12 hrs., 13 minutes of sunlight. TS 4-6 did not even show their sex until May 7 ([/FONT][FONT="]14 hrs., 02 minutes of sunlight), at which point they started going into the dark room each evening (11/13 for flowering)[/FONT]
I'm allowed to post 5 pics so I will discuss the 3 wider leaf plants in this post (TS1-3). TS 1 initially was male, but then started producing hairs and small flowers (hermie). TS 2 and 3 are females. The buds look and smell the same, but TS-2 has a more compact structure, whereas TS-3 has wider internode spacing, therefore much taller. Only interesting physical traits are, stems on the shade leaves are a redish purple, at least on the clones of TS2&3, but not on the seed plants, at least not while in flower. This is not caused by the cold, because my clone room stays an even 70F. TS 2 will produce leaves up to 11 points.
As far as smell, these are not as easy to identify as other strains I have grown. At 9 weeks of flower, they smelled mostly of mango, but that changed by the next week. Right now, I'm in week 10 (day 70) and my initial thoughts are peach, however, my son swears it's strawberry. Tropical fruits would probably be a safe description. What makes it difficult to detect, is the over-powering smell, not sure how to describe, but I'm sure you know what I mean when I say skunk, but not skunk. It has that strong smell that is only reminiscent of skunk, but without the foul skunky odor. TS-3 has a nice sweet smell and has a slight jasmine and minty background, whereas TS-2 is more musty. They are both foxtailing, mostly the smaller lateral buds that make up the main colas, which are nice and firm. About 90% of the hairs are brown, as I believe it is done producing new hairs and only new hairs are still white.
The pics are of last week, so I will try to get some better/updated pics today.
Thank you kindly in advance and I can't wait to get to know you all.
This is my 1st post. I've been reading the forums for quite a while, but now I think these plants are mature enough that maybe someone could identify them for me please? I have some ideas what they are, but will reserve comment in order to hear from some of you that have much more experience in these particular strains. First, I just want to say that it is truly an honor to be part of this fine community. I look forward to getting to know all you fine growers. And now for the ladies.
January of this year, I picked up Ace's Tropical Mix, Malawi, GT, OTH and PCK. I germinated 6 tropical mix and all 6 sprouted. There appears to be 2 strains, 3 of them with wider leaves and 3 with very narrow leaves and bamboo structure.
In the middle of March, we left for vacation for 2 weeks, so I put the plants in the greenhouse with drips. I knew they would flower, which was perfect for me. I usually put out 2 plants each month from the veg/clone room and flower them during the long days by bringing them into the dark room each evening. Aside from winter, I prefer sun grown, but enjoy my winter indoor goodies just as much.
When I came back from vacation the 1st week of April, my entire garden had taken off as if on steroids. Vegetables that were just coming up were already bolting for seed when I returned. TS1-3 were about 20-24 inches tall (doubled in size) and TS4-6 (thin leaf plants) were around 3 foot tall and had tripled in size (even my yellow lab got bigger while I was gone!). TS1-3 had dime sized crowns of pistils already. This was at [FONT="]12 hrs., 13 minutes of sunlight. TS 4-6 did not even show their sex until May 7 ([/FONT][FONT="]14 hrs., 02 minutes of sunlight), at which point they started going into the dark room each evening (11/13 for flowering)[/FONT]
I'm allowed to post 5 pics so I will discuss the 3 wider leaf plants in this post (TS1-3). TS 1 initially was male, but then started producing hairs and small flowers (hermie). TS 2 and 3 are females. The buds look and smell the same, but TS-2 has a more compact structure, whereas TS-3 has wider internode spacing, therefore much taller. Only interesting physical traits are, stems on the shade leaves are a redish purple, at least on the clones of TS2&3, but not on the seed plants, at least not while in flower. This is not caused by the cold, because my clone room stays an even 70F. TS 2 will produce leaves up to 11 points.
As far as smell, these are not as easy to identify as other strains I have grown. At 9 weeks of flower, they smelled mostly of mango, but that changed by the next week. Right now, I'm in week 10 (day 70) and my initial thoughts are peach, however, my son swears it's strawberry. Tropical fruits would probably be a safe description. What makes it difficult to detect, is the over-powering smell, not sure how to describe, but I'm sure you know what I mean when I say skunk, but not skunk. It has that strong smell that is only reminiscent of skunk, but without the foul skunky odor. TS-3 has a nice sweet smell and has a slight jasmine and minty background, whereas TS-2 is more musty. They are both foxtailing, mostly the smaller lateral buds that make up the main colas, which are nice and firm. About 90% of the hairs are brown, as I believe it is done producing new hairs and only new hairs are still white.
The pics are of last week, so I will try to get some better/updated pics today.
Thank you kindly in advance and I can't wait to get to know you all.
