Okay okay, I'm done being a lazy ass, and I'll fill you guys in on what is going down in the grow room!
Overall things are going.... interesting.... interesting as always.
As I first suspected, those White widow polyhybrids are definitely photoperiod plants, and they are getting rather large rather fast. Because of that, unfortunately my true love and passion, the autoflowers are going to have to be given the shit end of the stick and are going to be moved into the other smaller room under 1 1000 watt single ended HPS, a 315 CMH (LEC) and a 200 watt BlackDog Phytomax 2 to finish their cycles. It shouldn't hurt them much at all, but I definitely had a few plants in that room who certainly could have stood a couple more weeks of co2 to help them bulk up, but all is well that ends well!
Slightly disappointed that the widows (along with a few blulight) decided to pull a prank on me and be photoperiods, but who knows, maybe I'll find something special in the bunch!
Going to move the Autos into the other room on Sunday, and spread out all of the photos, do some heavy defoliation, topping, LST'ing, and supercropping to get that canopy as low as I possibly can before putting up my first layer of trellis netting. Some plants are already nearing 4 feet tall, and are most certainly going to need to be pretty heavily hacked back. Not looking forward to this abuse, but I'll give them some time to recover before switching things into 12/12. This is going to be.... interesting..... I said it before and I'll say it again.... haha
Love the structure on the widows, excellent indica dom bushes loaded with budsites. There are going to be TONS of flowers in a few months! The photoperiod blulights however..... I'm not huge on. Like the Autos, they are VERY hazy and are reaching for the stars. They are going to require some serious bondage which I wish I got to months ago.... Live and learn I guess.
The Automatic Blulights are really incredible though... dare I say Interesting?
(Okay I'm sorry guys, I'm done. The weed has been treating me reeeeaaaaly good tonight.
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But truly, the branching structure and flowering structure on many of the Blulight are incredibly unique. Many phenotypes grow like a classic lady fingery haze, even more so grow almost like cookies with small clusters of knuckly tight flowers loaded with resin, and others like the perfect auto, a Christmas tree with tons of branches, tight internode lengths and generous blooms. While there is lots of variation in the growth and flowering structure of this breed, there is one thing that every phenotype has in common, they all share the same outrageous aroma of blueberries and dirty socks. It really smells like nothing else I've ever grown. Cant wait for some of these ladies to get to finishing up!
The first ones to flower seemed to express the strange flowering tendencies, while the later ones seemed to have a much more classic structure. Just something for me to note in the future!
*All pictures are 5-6 days old. Progress has been made since these pictures were taken. I'll be sure to update with new pictures of ALL strains early next week!*
First up is the weeeeeiiiiirrrrddddddd hazy/cookies ish phenotype.
Some strange looking flowers, but judgingby how hugely swollen the presexual calyxes are on her I honestly think she may surprise me with how much she fills out in the last couple of weeks of her life (just like GSC does). Only time will tell though! This plant was incredibly frosty and aromatic from the get go. Been a real fun one to grow from this point.
Holy ladyfingers batman! This plant will NOT be used in any breeding, but was kept around because... well... I have never grown anything in my life that looks quite like this. Smells great and is greasy as a sewer rat already. Should make some killer hash!
This one should be done in the next 10 days or so if I had to guess. Flowers are rather small in diameter, but spears quite tight and frosty!
Next up, the northbound trains are coming along nicely, doing their northbound thaaaangggg. Plants are extremely uniform from specimen to specimen. None of them are outrageously large by any means, but they really do have some insanely dense and large flowers on them. The flower to plant ratio is off the charts really. She would make an excellent candidate for auto SOG set ups with a 16 or 25 plant per light configuration in 2 or 3 gallon pots. It would probably make for a pretty damn productive grow if numbers don't scare you. Probably going to try to breed her with a larger male to get some slightly larger offspring out of the next bunch, but otherwise pretty darned happy with this girl.
Heres a few of them about 14 days ago...
Looking wildly chunky already at ~25 days from flower, I know she would be special.
Just a few days later, a shot with the lights on. This lady in particular I believe to be the keeper of the bunch and will likely be used in future breeding projects. She is not huge, but she is nothing but flower!
A close up on her top a little over a week ago revealing her beginning to gain a bit of mass. At this point already she was getting rock hard.
A quick night shot on one of the other NBT's
Eating her leaves a bit earlier than I would have liked (100% my fault I just need to get myself a soil analysis) but otherwise doing well and chunking up like a champion.
Last but certainly not least, we have our Mazar x HLK crosses, and just as I had hoped, she SO FAR seems to be much of the best of both worlds, a wonderful mix of Afghan Indica Genetics and a bit of a sativa influence from the HLK. Plants have what I would cal perfect structure. Tall Christmas trees loaded with long branches stacked from top to bottom with flowers. She appears to be a bit slower than some of her cousins, but I think she is going to more than make up for it. I LOVE where she is going with this!
here she was about 10 days ago or so.
and a few days later.....
Got some real keepers in the bunch that I'd be lying if I said I was not excited about. I'll be sure to pull some girls aside and take some real vanity shots when I make the move later this weekend. Until then, Cheers my friends! This Apache needs to catch some Z's!
for the awesome looking ladies you've got going. We do have a photo section on the forum. For how it comes down to Autos and Photos we love them all with no discrimination as in the end it comes down to the plant we all love.
