Outdoor 3 x Early Top Tao (Photo, Reg) - Maria's Early Spring Games

[islandgrower]

Prob won't get that far.
Outside in end of March = 12/12 or close.
Two months later, it's end of May, or start of June, about 13.5/10.5 here.
My guess is that it'll continue flowering.
But I hope that at the end it doesn't start doing that crazy regen fox-tailing thing.

I'm in the (sub)tropics around here.
Most flowering time info for strains is for temperate climates,
e.g. north america, europe, australia.
It's going to be an experiment.

I am at 18°N and I have had a strain reveg on me. Around the june to july period.

"carpe diem"

 

[G.Leave]

Prob won't get that far.
Outside in end of March = 12/12 or close.
Two months later, it's end of May, or start of June, about 13.5/10.5 here.
My guess is that it'll continue flowering.
But I hope that at the end it doesn't start doing that crazy regen fox-tailing thing.

I'm in the (sub)tropics around here.
Most flowering time info for strains is for temperate climates,
e.g. north america, europe, australia.
It's going to be an experiment.

An experiment for sure...its such a different climate than my own, and the light regime is so very different!! Cant wait to see what happens!!

 

[G.Leave]

I am at 18°N and I have had a strain reveg on me. Around the june to july period.

"carpe diem"

Are your daylight hours similar to marias?

 

[pop22]

I've long wanted to see some Top Tao grows!

3 x Early Top Tao (Photo, Reg)
- Maria's Early Spring Games​

Over here in this thread, I mentioned my latest seed order coming through, and my plans for the coming spring. In the order were a few freebies from Seed City, one of them the surprise freebie 3 x Early Top Tao.
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The three seeds look fairly good. A little bit light, not too dark. But not having seen this strain before, don't know if that's just how the seeds from this strain are. I'm very confident they'll pop though. Have seen much lighter / weaker seeds sprout and grow many times.

So did a bit of research on Seed Finder:

Top Tao Seeds - Early Top Tao
Early Top Tao has twice succeeded in competitions of Cannabiscup in the outdoor category. After many years of selection of the fastest maturing plants, the fixed strain Top Tao labeled "Early" - early ripening.
It is a plant extremely resistant to mold, pests, disease and the cold autumn of the Central European climate. It produces an amazing number of branches when you cut the central bud.
The stem and branches are very strong and resistant to wind storms! Huge leaves create a large surface for the absorption of sunlight.
This plant will certainly mature in the gardens of Central and Northern Europe.
The incredible amount of resin and the fruitand flower fragrance cause energizing, sometimes psychedelic high.
Genetics: Early Tao x Oldschool Bohemia

Height: 2 - 2,5 m
Genetics: Indica / Sativa
Cannabinoid: medium and more
Harvest: August / September
Flowering time indoor: 6-7 weeks

User-Generated Strain-Profile

Known Phenotypes: » new » none up to now (homogenous??)

For this strain we got input by 1 user(s). Here a short overview:

Harvest Time Outdoor: Middle of September +/- 1 Week in CmShα climates.
Strength / Lasting Effect: The weed affects middle-high to high.
Yield / Quantity Outdoor: The crop of this strain is high.
General Impression Outdoor: is all together a quite good strain.
Votings of our users: Early Top Tao gets 7.00 of 10 possible Points in the average!​

Which all looks pretty darn awesome to me!! That review is from climate zone CmShα,
"warm temperate, micro- to mesotherm and semi-humid climates (maritime),"
which is pretty much the same as me here.

So, dropped the three seeds just about an hour ago:
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I'll sow them into individual small pots once they germ, maybe 0.4L or 1.0L pots.
Once they get a little size over maybe 3-4 weeks, re-pot when needed,
and see where I can put them outside.
From the description above, almost def top them (at least once, maybe twice if big enough).

They are reg photo plants, so I figure that 4 weeks vege,
then outside will be about late March, so 12/12 hr light cycle.
They are short flowering, so even if they take 60 days,
that is still just end of May, and daylight is just 13/11 hr or so.

In the meantime, some cool photos of my lemon mint pot, four plants from seed, LSTed and topped once each, which was out on the balcony for a month over winter with nobody but mother Gaia to look after them.

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This isn't the best shot of them, actually. Much fatter and wider than this pic shows, almost 3' across!

Love and hugs,
MJS

 

[islandgrower]

Are your daylight hours similar to marias?

The most time sunrise to sunset is about 13.5 hrs not including twilight

"carpe diem"

 

[G.Leave]

Cool islandgrower...I wondered if reveg would happen with a 13.5 hour longest daylight hours natural light regime. Ours is 16.5 at the longest and we lose 2-4minutes daily. I have to choose specific strains since our season changes to winter like conditions on october the 15th at the latest.

 

[Exotic Flower]

I am at 18°N and I have had a strain reveg on me. Around the june to july period.

"carpe diem"

Think I'm going to have to start stalking your threads and journals...
I'm guessing you're in Hawai'i....?

 

[Exotic Flower]

Are your daylight hours similar to marias?

The most time sunrise to sunset is about 13.5 hrs not including twilight

"carpe diem"

Cool islandgrower...I wondered if reveg would happen with a 13.5 hour longest daylight hours natural light regime. Ours is 16.5 at the longest and we lose 2-4minutes daily. I have to choose specific strains since our season changes to winter like conditions on october the 15th at the latest.

I guess this grow is going to be an experiment to find out.
Let's see... if I get them veged and outside before end of March,
these supposedly have a flowering time of 8 weeks = 56 day, hence the "Early".
So, maybe mid-late May. Less than 13.5 hr/day.

What kind of strain was it?

 

[Exotic Flower]

The most time sunrise to sunset is about 13.5 hrs not including twilight

"carpe diem"

About the same as here.

 

[Exotic Flower]

I've long wanted to see some Top Tao grows!

Well, @pop22, here you go!
And an experimental one it shall be.