Here I have my last 3 glue breath beans, just popped their heads up this morning. I do not know if these seeds are fem or not. Like I mentioned before, these seeds came from a female plant that hermied, and pollinated a motorbreath. So I have no idea what I am about to get. I have a bit of an idea, because I popped one of the 4 about 2 1/2 years ago, and she was so beautiful that I have kept her around ever since. One of her buds is my profile, I lolve her that much. Her taste is hard to describe, but her looks are so unique. White and silver buds, with deep, dark flossy green leaves, wide indica fingers, and no central cola. Shes Perfect for SCROGging, but is a monster to deal with in terms of trimming and training, so I wanted to pop the others to see what I've got in there. There might be an easier to trim pheno. They might all be males. I do know that they were getting old, and I had to pull all 3 seed casings off of them, or they would have been trapped in there and died. that's NOT an easy thing to do safely.
Here are some bud/body photos of the one I ahve going, so you can see what I hope to grow out of these 3. I will get photos of the babies next round, when you can actually see them clearly. their heads arean't even all the way turned yet.
(an FYI- the dark green is what the leaves actually look like. The photos that have lighter leaves, it is caused by my flash. They are deep emerald.)
Here are some bud/body photos of the one I ahve going, so you can see what I hope to grow out of these 3. I will get photos of the babies next round, when you can actually see them clearly. their heads arean't even all the way turned yet.
(an FYI- the dark green is what the leaves actually look like. The photos that have lighter leaves, it is caused by my flash. They are deep emerald.)
big update: Topping, Repotting, and Moving all 3
Starting to see a BIG difference in the 3 now. I know whic is which on sight, but i still have tags. two are close, in stature and all, but another is a little strange. its skinny, and has wide fingers that look like a duck's foot. Check her out: the bottom leaves show it more than the others. If you look at the bottom ones, they are almost round. Not very vigorous, compared to the others, either. I find myself almost hoping its a male. Not really though, because i dont want the literal headache again so soon. It takes days to get rid of, even if i wear a mask
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Number 2 is pretty, and all her branches, secondaries, seem to be keeping pretty even at the bottom. that could change as soon as she gets some of that food, and puts it to use. I just topped all 3, today. Last night they got a silica feed.
This comes about 48 hours after their transplant into 2 gal pots. They got a recharge laced feed when i did that, and seemed to go through it without any real signs of shock. They also seem to be responding well to the topping. no wilting so far, and i cut them first thing this morning. I counted 11-fingers on all 3 of them, prior to topping.
(I will get exact contents of both feeds and edit in an update. Just have to get out my notes. )
Here's #2
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#3 has 1 secondary that is shooting up like a rocket, looking for something. It's almost reached the level of the topping sight, missing it by only a few mm.
I liked this one more when i transplanted, but the longer the single stem gets, and the more lopsided she looks, the less I like her. I have a sprawling web w/the glue breath i have now.
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we will see how they do over the next few days as they adapt to their new pots, and their new COB in a 2x2x4 tent. Let you know in a few days!
Number 2 is pretty, and all her branches, secondaries, seem to be keeping pretty even at the bottom. that could change as soon as she gets some of that food, and puts it to use. I just topped all 3, today. Last night they got a silica feed.
This comes about 48 hours after their transplant into 2 gal pots. They got a recharge laced feed when i did that, and seemed to go through it without any real signs of shock. They also seem to be responding well to the topping. no wilting so far, and i cut them first thing this morning. I counted 11-fingers on all 3 of them, prior to topping.
(I will get exact contents of both feeds and edit in an update. Just have to get out my notes. )
Here's #2
#3 has 1 secondary that is shooting up like a rocket, looking for something. It's almost reached the level of the topping sight, missing it by only a few mm.
I liked this one more when i transplanted, but the longer the single stem gets, and the more lopsided she looks, the less I like her. I have a sprawling web w/the glue breath i have now.
we will see how they do over the next few days as they adapt to their new pots, and their new COB in a 2x2x4 tent. Let you know in a few days!
Late update (2-20-2020)
SO SORRY it has been a while. I had a minor crisis, a roof leak in the grow room, and I had to take care of things. Which meant moving things out of the way until i could get to the issue, and get it solved, from my side at least. But that's where I've been. I got a new camera though, and theres no more water coming from my roof, so we can get back to business now!
AS FOR THE LADIES!
they have shot up like rockets since the last time we saw them. I know they were all about the same height, and I had just topped them. After that, things got different, for one of them. #3 is not the same as the other two anymore. I call them (#1-2) the twins, because they look like they are clones of another plant. they are the same height. they filled out the same way after topping. same structure, node spacing, and leaves. They just have a slightly different smell on stem rub. Not too strong, but pleasant. not just green.
#3 is something else, lemme tell ya. She stayed short, and started building these KNUCKLES on her, at the nodes. Looks like shes getting ready to pack on some weight. GIANT knuckles, that look like they belong on a plant twice her size. But she's not getting tall like the others. Her canopy is staying very even, no stems shooting up from the rest. Her leaves have ridiculously long stems on them, though, and she moves them around, bending them almost in circles sometimes. It's crazy to watch on the time lapse camera.
and she STINKS on stem rub. Also, my fingers get sticky when i do that. I take that as a good sign. the smell, the sticky, and the knuckles.
The other two have slender stems, not much of a knuckle yet, and no stickiness. But other than that, they look very much like the original GB I have. You can tell they are all from the same line.
Here are some photos.
I will post my feed to date on a separate page, I ahve to look it up. I was just editing photos, and knew I needed to get some up.
Let's start with the twins. #1 is on the left in the photo under this, and #2 is on the right. I get them confused sometimes, and have to check their tags. they are so alike its odd.
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Here's #1 on the lft
#2 on its own
#1 next to a yard stick. Measurement is metric
and here's #2
NOW let's take a look at #3. I forgot to measure her. But she's so short. Not more than 2ft. We will see what happens with her.
She is on the left. the original Glue Breath seed I popped is on the right.
And here she is on her own
I will get more photos this week, and post them this weekend. I have now taken clones of all 3, and placed #1-2 in the same tent that just had the Ayahuaca in it. I'm going to really see what these seeds have got for me. GB is a pain in the rear because her growth is so erratic. I am really hoping to find one that has a better structure, so shes not so hard to grow. She wastes a lot of energy on thick vegetative growth, no matter what I do. I take her down to nothing, literally nothing, at least twice each grow. Thats the original though. I have a lot of hope for the twins.
AS FOR THE LADIES!
they have shot up like rockets since the last time we saw them. I know they were all about the same height, and I had just topped them. After that, things got different, for one of them. #3 is not the same as the other two anymore. I call them (#1-2) the twins, because they look like they are clones of another plant. they are the same height. they filled out the same way after topping. same structure, node spacing, and leaves. They just have a slightly different smell on stem rub. Not too strong, but pleasant. not just green.
#3 is something else, lemme tell ya. She stayed short, and started building these KNUCKLES on her, at the nodes. Looks like shes getting ready to pack on some weight. GIANT knuckles, that look like they belong on a plant twice her size. But she's not getting tall like the others. Her canopy is staying very even, no stems shooting up from the rest. Her leaves have ridiculously long stems on them, though, and she moves them around, bending them almost in circles sometimes. It's crazy to watch on the time lapse camera.
and she STINKS on stem rub. Also, my fingers get sticky when i do that. I take that as a good sign. the smell, the sticky, and the knuckles.
The other two have slender stems, not much of a knuckle yet, and no stickiness. But other than that, they look very much like the original GB I have. You can tell they are all from the same line.
Here are some photos.
I will post my feed to date on a separate page, I ahve to look it up. I was just editing photos, and knew I needed to get some up.
Let's start with the twins. #1 is on the left in the photo under this, and #2 is on the right. I get them confused sometimes, and have to check their tags. they are so alike its odd.
Here's #1 on the lft
#2 on its own
#1 next to a yard stick. Measurement is metric
and here's #2
NOW let's take a look at #3. I forgot to measure her. But she's so short. Not more than 2ft. We will see what happens with her.
She is on the left. the original Glue Breath seed I popped is on the right.
And here she is on her own
I will get more photos this week, and post them this weekend. I have now taken clones of all 3, and placed #1-2 in the same tent that just had the Ayahuaca in it. I'm going to really see what these seeds have got for me. GB is a pain in the rear because her growth is so erratic. I am really hoping to find one that has a better structure, so shes not so hard to grow. She wastes a lot of energy on thick vegetative growth, no matter what I do. I take her down to nothing, literally nothing, at least twice each grow. Thats the original though. I have a lot of hope for the twins.
LONG LOST UPDATE
So this is going to be a long page update. Things got really crazy out there in the world, didnt they? WOW. So I had a lot going on with these babies. THere are no longer 3 of them, but only 2. I kept #1 and #3. #2 ended up being scraggly, and really really leggy. I wouldnt have minded leggy, if she would have stacked along with it, but she wasn't much of anything but a mold magnet, so I had to kill her. 
#3, she's a small one, I call her 'knuckles' because she grows these huge knuckles on the bases of her branches. She doesnt seem to be doing much with them though. So far even my original Glue Breath is far outpacing her, even though I have to do a drastic trim with her multiple times throughout the grow. No need to with either #2 OR 3, they are both pretty open, and let the light down to the bottom.
#2, she's actually stacking up to be something. She's taken the AYP's spot. I killed her off the other day. She was a mold magnet. Never had a problem till I brought that clone into my room. I hated that plant by the time I chopped her.
She's GIGANTIC, filling up half of a 4x4x7 tent, only sharing it with another (original) Glue Breath. She's a few (2-3 ) wks into flower now, and looking really pretty. Knuckles is not doing much. As far as looks, the buds look like twins of the one next to her (original. both of the new seeds share a tent with a Glue Breath original, so I can compare. )
It's still going to be a tough choice. I wont know for sure which one i will keep until the end, but one things for sure...
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!
THIS is the one I kept. She's really turning out to be something. Ill get some new photos of her up this weekend.
metric measurement. she topped out my yardstick. This is just a couple of days before I gave her her own tent to share with a glue breath original. I am keeping things pretty sparse right now, because I want there to be room in my grow for a couple of competitions. I didnt expect her to get as big as she did, considering OG and Knuckles are shorter, bushier phenos. She surprised me.
Heres a couple of photos of #3 knuckles, next to an OG glue breath. You can see why i expected smaller plants. Both are inHUGE pots, too, so they could have gotten big if they had wanted to. The original is on the right, the new seed on the left. I don't think #3 is going to make the cut, do you?? Unless those buds are so stellar I cant help it.
#3, she's a small one, I call her 'knuckles' because she grows these huge knuckles on the bases of her branches. She doesnt seem to be doing much with them though. So far even my original Glue Breath is far outpacing her, even though I have to do a drastic trim with her multiple times throughout the grow. No need to with either #2 OR 3, they are both pretty open, and let the light down to the bottom.
#2, she's actually stacking up to be something. She's taken the AYP's spot. I killed her off the other day. She was a mold magnet. Never had a problem till I brought that clone into my room. I hated that plant by the time I chopped her.
She's GIGANTIC, filling up half of a 4x4x7 tent, only sharing it with another (original) Glue Breath. She's a few (2-3 ) wks into flower now, and looking really pretty. Knuckles is not doing much. As far as looks, the buds look like twins of the one next to her (original. both of the new seeds share a tent with a Glue Breath original, so I can compare. )
It's still going to be a tough choice. I wont know for sure which one i will keep until the end, but one things for sure...
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!
Heres a couple of photos of #3 knuckles, next to an OG glue breath. You can see why i expected smaller plants. Both are inHUGE pots, too, so they could have gotten big if they had wanted to.
The original is on the right, the new seed on the left. I don't think #3 is going to make the cut, do you?? Unless those buds are so stellar I cant help it.BG#3 aka "knuckles" - story, photos, and harvest
So I got VERY disappointed after I noticed that one of the three seedlings was a super mold magnet, and one.. THIS ONE... was all floppy, and sparse. I hate putting out bad jourals, and so I just sorta ignored it for a while, hoping the distaste would go away. It did not. I killed GB #1 (the one in the BIG pot.. of course), and knuckles got tucked in next to one of my mama Glue Breaths. She never did get any taller. Here are some photos of her growing, that I saved... just in case she ever started to swell up. She never did. But you guys deserve to see wht happened anyways, to se what they turned out to be.. the one that survived turned out to be ULTRA FUEGO.. still not as good as my mama, and I couldnt tell until it was almost over that there was going to be anything to her at all, so there is that. I kept this open so that I would be able to at least post harvest photos of the two, even if they never amounted to much.
Here is knuckles. She stayed under 3ft tall. and I ended up getting about 1.5oz off her. what a waste. The first two photos were taken Feb 20th. This was just before I killed GB1. (ill post info about the other GB2 in a separate page.)
Here she is on APRIL 14TH. Her buds are light as air. I keep hoping at this pont that they will harden up, or get some size.. SOMETHING.. but they dont. And shes a midget.
that one above is a top nug, close to the light and everything. Sad, isnt it?
and HERE is HARVEST.... I was upset I had to trim this thing.
ALL THAT STEM FOR NOTHING
Here is knuckles. She stayed under 3ft tall. and I ended up getting about 1.5oz off her. what a waste. The first two photos were taken Feb 20th. This was just before I killed GB1. (ill post info about the other GB2 in a separate page.)
Here she is on APRIL 14TH. Her buds are light as air. I keep hoping at this pont that they will harden up, or get some size.. SOMETHING.. but they dont. And shes a midget.
that one above is a top nug, close to the light and everything. Sad, isnt it?
and HERE is HARVEST.... I was upset I had to trim this thing.
ALL THAT STEM FOR NOTHING
"mama" harvest photos (for comparison)
GB#2 story, photos,update
So #2 started off with a twin sister. I will show both of them just below, in April, as I was beginning to notice the one in the oxy pot was just COVERED in mold, and nothing I was doing was fixing it. She was getting worse, and anything touching her was getting sick too. I had to kill her. I made the decision right after these photos were taken, and she was gone that night. at this point, I had no idea which was going to be a keeper, or if ANY of them were. (and as luck would have it, I DID pop the best one first. #2 is an equal, but does not surpass. And mama is more unique. )
<--good one .....................Moldy one----->
<--good............mold--->
they were SO alike, I wasnt really even worried about losing the one in the oxy pot. She would have ruined my entire closet.
And then I moved her, and I had her growing under 2 quantum LED lights, in a tent. Here's what she looked like in April. She was only about 2/3 of the way done at this point. She was a STACKER, and HUGE. dwarfed mama. But mama's buds are thicker, and BLUE. in the photo below, Mama is in front of GB2. Though you cant really tell. Shes so short she just looks like part of GB2. there ARE two plants there though.
HERE is GB2
I'll post the final harvest pics in a seperate page, because I dont want to overload this one with photos. As you can see, shes a VERY nice plant. VERY lemoney, and has a funky smell thats almost rotten, and you can taste it. But rotten is GOOD in this sense. Its like fermented rotten lemons, and grease. as far as looks go, she reminds me of the Chemdogg, but with more orange, and lime green as opposed to blue green. shape texture and density are all right there with it though. And NICE
they were SO alike, I wasnt really even worried about losing the one in the oxy pot. She would have ruined my entire closet.
And then I moved her, and I had her growing under 2 quantum LED lights, in a tent. Here's what she looked like in April. She was only about 2/3 of the way done at this point. She was a STACKER, and HUGE. dwarfed mama. But mama's buds are thicker, and BLUE. in the photo below, Mama is in front of GB2. Though you cant really tell. Shes so short she just looks like part of GB2. there ARE two plants there though.
HERE is GB2
I'll post the final harvest pics in a seperate page, because I dont want to overload this one with photos. As you can see, shes a VERY nice plant. VERY lemoney, and has a funky smell thats almost rotten, and you can taste it. But rotten is GOOD in this sense. Its like fermented rotten lemons, and grease. as far as looks go, she reminds me of the Chemdogg, but with more orange, and lime green as opposed to blue green. shape texture and density are all right there with it though. And NICE
GB#2 HARVEST PHOTOS
I am keeping her. I took clones right before I put her into flower, the day I killed 'mouldy'. She was about 6 ft. tall there at the end, though I didnt know it until all was said and done, and I pulled her out. She was so heavy her buds were laying on each other, and she was all floppy. By no means were her branches weak though. she was just. that. heavy.
Here is a series of photos I took, for the journal, as I started to harvest her. I ended up with almost 7 oz off her, not including trim and larf. There was still a lot of larf. She should ahve had the tent to herself, but I wanted to match her with mama so I could compare as they grew. I will get right to it, shant I?
wk 2 getting huge
So my 3 beans are getting VERY large. I shouldnt have left them in the propegator for an extra day. I woke up the next morning and they had doubled in height. Now i have to have a crutch for each one of them.I've upgraded them all to Connoisseur Sensi, at 1/2 strength so far. I think i see one that remninds me of my White Rose. And ikeep calling one of them 'he' hopefully it is!!!
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2 week
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HUGE photo update wk 3
So i'm starting to be able to tell a bit of a difference in the plants now. it's strange, but i don't think any of them look like my girl, but then again it has been so long since i popped her i dont really remember what she looks like anymore. Clones dont look the same. The GB clone looks nothing like the others now, so i stopped photographing it with them, and will pick up when they get back to about the same size. It looks like its about 2 weeks older now.
The girls ( I hope! ) are doing well, and starting to shoot out secondaries already. One is taller a bit than the other two, and one hs some really LARGE leaves for her size. The third one is all branches like teh big one, looks like. Don't know if i like that. MY ayahuasca is the same way, and i do not like it.
Here is the baby i call 1. her leaves look like the big mamas.
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this is the one ill call 2. it looks lankier than the rest
This is number 3. she's already got branches.
and some HUGE leaves!
The girls ( I hope! ) are doing well, and starting to shoot out secondaries already. One is taller a bit than the other two, and one hs some really LARGE leaves for her size. The third one is all branches like teh big one, looks like. Don't know if i like that. MY ayahuasca is the same way, and i do not like it.
Here is the baby i call 1. her leaves look like the big mamas.
this is the one ill call 2. it looks lankier than the rest
This is number 3. she's already got branches.
and some HUGE leaves!
second sets showing
So here they are, finally big enough to get some detail to them. There is a bit of damage on the newborn leaves, because I had to take the casings off. BEcause of the age of the seeds, I believe. They were certainly deep enough. The height is my fault, I should have been watching them closer int he propagator, but I was not expecting them to pop up within 24 hours. I should have soaked them a little more, possibly, because ALL THREE of them had the casings stuck on, and I had to perform surgery not to lose them. It was nerve racking, because their necks were all tall already, from them trying to get it off. Unless they floated up towards the top when I watered their cup after I planted... which is possible. After all, the perlite does it, so why not a seed? I just dont see it happening to all three of them, at exactly the same time, at the exact height of the others. it was weird.
past week 1 and going strong!
So here you can see my little glue babies sitting next to their clone sister, and also my two sours. I needed their house for my males, so they had to go in the closet with the autos for now. I'm running the closet on 18-6, so they should be ok.
got some recharge, cal mag, and trinity weakened to about 1/4-1/3 strength. I'll get more photos on here tonight, because I'm a little behind. they're actually bigger than this now. these were taken 2-3 days ago.
got some recharge, cal mag, and trinity weakened to about 1/4-1/3 strength. I'll get more photos on here tonight, because I'm a little behind. they're actually bigger than this now. these were taken 2-3 days ago.
Update on the 3 new beans
So all 3 of the glue breath beans came up within 48 hours. But I think the seed casings were a little hardened on them because I had to peel it off of ALL THREE of them. It took a full day for #1's head to turn after that, but they have all managed to wake up and look at the light. I was worried about #1 and #3 for a bit.
Two of them have started to show sign of their first set of trues already too. I was very surprised they were so vigorous after 4 years in a tube, but they are excited to be here!
I also have a clone of the glue breath, the original one, to grow next to these at the same time, to compare them with her. This is what she looks like. I got roots on her 2 days ago.
I know she's a little bit bigger, but it won't matter in a few weeks. This plant has such THICK growth, I will defoliate several times in veg, and at least twice in flower. Yes, I know its a little unusual to defoliate in flower, but with her you HAVE TO or all you will get is a bunch of larfiness with some beautiful top buds the size of ping pong balls. she throws ping pong balls all the way down her stalk. they never merge. I love them that way, though. I think the buds all get a chance to mature better that way.
Two of them have started to show sign of their first set of trues already too. I was very surprised they were so vigorous after 4 years in a tube, but they are excited to be here!
I also have a clone of the glue breath, the original one, to grow next to these at the same time, to compare them with her. This is what she looks like. I got roots on her 2 days ago.
I know she's a little bit bigger, but it won't matter in a few weeks. This plant has such THICK growth, I will defoliate several times in veg, and at least twice in flower. Yes, I know its a little unusual to defoliate in flower, but with her you HAVE TO or all you will get is a bunch of larfiness with some beautiful top buds the size of ping pong balls. she throws ping pong balls all the way down her stalk. they never merge. I love them that way, though. I think the buds all get a chance to mature better that way.
