The Gher still grows, though sporadically updated. It's been an intensely crazy few weeks at work, and not the slow, dreary months that I was looking forward to. I usually plan on doing some maintenance work on my buildin during the dolldrums, but a previous owner installed a small water heater in the attic, and set it in a little plastic pan that had no hose attached. The unplanned bathroom remodel is just about done, and the next area is getting planned.
Apologies for the hiatus, and for the brevity of this update.
The flower tent is in week 4 or 5, and not too horribly crowded after some defoliating and lollipopping. This current cohort of BigBud, GirlScoutCookies, Mango in a variety of soils, and HolyGrail Kush in DWC,
HGK is getting very stretchy like a sativa. I need to put some of those LED strips along the outside for her. I thought she was supposed to be a normal indica, must be a weird phenotype. All of her clones grow the same way. I should LST or manifold one.of them.
Mango has been getting a little pale from underfeeding, and BigBud in the far back of the tent gets forgotten, and a little wilty. Girl Scout Cookies in staying very compact with very tight internodal spacing, which sounds nice at first, but it's a lot of growth to cut off. I don't even have her very close to the light.
The solo grow has also been a really fun experiment in parallel experiments. I will also repost these in the other subposts.
The autos, SuperDense in straight Ocean Forest and Great White in coco have gotten very tall and straight. These are the first plants that I have grown without messing with their shape at all, other than trimming off the tiny dead shit at the very bottom, just now before taking this picture.
The solo-clones: Mango I wire wrapped, bonsai style down into a wide little bush. The roots are very happy, not too crowded or turning shitty or anything because of the constant light exposure in the clear cup. I wish I had the space to put her in flower, I think she's about perfect. I'm considering pulling her out of the solo grow and transplanting her to keep her as a clone mother, and a future DWC grow. The Mango buds that
JDU grew are very tasty, so this cut sure seems to be a nice keeper for a mom library. HolyGrail Kush is just getting tall like her mom. I should do something about that. Maybe I'll top her and take another clone. (why can't I stop?)
The other clones that went into bigger cups: are also just ridiculous. BigBud especially. I need to find this one a new home pretty quick. I think it needs to get trimmed, tied down widen and get at least 2x2x5ft. It's in a 7.5 gallon sterilite plastic bin. I'll trade it to anyone who will come get it for a new 5 gallon grow bucket with a 4-inch grow cup lid. Or, if that's too much, just come get it before I hack the shit out of it into the smallest manifold that I dare. I worry if I cut it too much, it will die. It has a pretty big root ball.
Black Cherry Kush that
SoOrbudgal harvested a month ago has been reveging and is almost ready to donate some clones. I cut her out of the 3 gal pot that she lived in, and root pruned her, also bonsai style. I simply used a cutting trowel to core out her root ball, about the size of a solo cup, and stuck that in a 1 gallon smart pot of either happy frog or ocean forest. Or was it the seedling mix from BiMart? I stuck her in the corner of the veg closet under the T5, and just watered it enough to keep it from wilting. I might try to trim off the buds, finally, and regrow some of the branches into another bush for the next flower run.
BTW Budgal, we gotta get some pizza so I can hand off
JDU Thai Skunk clones, as well as a BigBud and HolyGrail Kush.This is turning into quite the mom-selection.
I apologize for not sharing more regularly. The pride of ownership is the sort of greatness that thrusts itself upon her victims unpredictably.
If anyone needs some starters and are willing to come get them here in Southern Oregon, hurry on over!