Eventful update, dear readers! First, a little recap: I have 3 plants in my garden, 2 of which I have spoken of in this journal, the Think Different and Frisian Dew. 10 weeks and 3 days ago, I also germinated a couple of seeds I found in some weed that was given to my by a friend. It was auto northern lights and somehow either hermied or produced seeds because it was left out too long.
One of these seeds was female and is now in a pot in my garden and almost 2m tall. I'll come back to this one later.
My Think different is going along nicely: calyxes are swelling up nicely, and the pistils are slowly turning brown. A couple of weeks more, I recon.
The "problem" is my other plant, the Frisian Dew. She is now 7 weeks and 5 days, and still not flowering. So, yesterday I checked again, and the reason is very simple. I ORDERED THE WRONG SEEDS!! Can you imagine that!! Such a stupid noob mistake!! I by accident ordered the photo period feminised seeds instead of the autoflowering ones. I feel so stupid. So now I have a problem: the frisian dew will not flower until september, and by then it will grow into a tree rather than a plant. She is in full soil, remember. Right now, she is already over 1m tall. So something has to be done, otherwise the whole neighborhood will smell and she will stand out too much in my garden. I already read about light deprivation, which for me would involve covering her every evening to ensure she only gets less than 12 hours of sunlight and starts to bloom. The problem is, you have to do it every night without skipping, or she will start growing again if you skip a night. What would happen if you would succesfully trigger flowering, and than don't cover her to get a max of 12h daylight?
Another solution is topping her to keep her small and manageable. If you do this enough, will this trigger flowering early because of stress? I really don't have experience with this, so any help would be much much appreciated....
And so we arrive to the 2m tall bagseed-turned-beautiful lady I spoke of earlier. I noticed yesterday what I think is the beginning of flowering. Could this be? Could she be a really slow autoflower? Does something like that even exist? Or is she also just a regular photo period plant and does flowering take a looong time? The space between her nodes are long, her leaves long and thin with 3 to 5 long, thin fingers. She is not bushy at all (for now). I have taken some pictures of what I think are her beginning budsites. I will post them in the next entry just below. Anyone any thoughts on her?
