So I hadn't posted anything about the phenos in there. Been watching them close as they develop and finding a few nice plants in there. 2 phenos from each of the Blue Ripper BX1's and Columbian Ripper F1's are looking like winners.
There are 5 fems of the original 10 Blue Ripper BX1's that made it through to flower. 2 of those 5 are rks phenos, that is they have that road kill skunk piss smell. What's interesting with these is that the male that made the BX1's was the original F1 male (which had the rks, right from veg on), crossed with an F2 female. I tagged those BR2-5 BX1 which was the BR F2-Pheno5 female with crazy Blueberry fuel terps. Those were the only batch sent out, an open pollination that made ~600 seeds. So there're out there if you run enough seeds. That's 2x 10 packs which gave me the rks male and 2x rks females. The next cross between the BX1 rks male and these below should hopefully increase the ratio a bit. Better chance of the trait coming through either side I'd think.
Blue Ripper P3 is crazy strong, like the male. It continues to stink like that through flowering, maybe stronger now. When I get near that plant like leaning over it to water, I get a blast of it, like a skunk pissed in the corner. Only thing with this plant is it's not a producer at all, very sparse buds and long internodes after the stretch. Structure could be better but may use it to get the rks smell through to another batch.
Blue Ripper P5 is definitely a contender for BX2 with the BX1 rks male. It also has that stink when you get near it, a little lighter than P3 but no mistaking it. This one has it all, structure, stacks well, trains well (single FIM), smell, and now showing some early frost. Liking this one so far. This one has rks and the buds are strong lemon when you get close in.
There's 4 fems of the original 10 Columbian Ripper F1's that made it through to flower. Watching a couple of the phenos, #2 and #4, both looking and smelling very nice early on at 3 weeks. Completely different in structure and bud formation, but both will be producers in their own way. P2 is more 50/50 with sativa-like buds, where P4 structure leans more towards the sativa side in structure. Both were FIM'd once, P4 generated about 8 colas from that FIM. P2 has a few side branches which are filling in nicely, plus as main that is going to produce a couple of zips on its own. Both have a skunky, sweet, fruity smell right now, just starting to come through. P2 seems to be winning on frost at this stage. Both will likely finish within 8 weeks if they continue to mature at this pace.
Columbian Ripper P2, going to be the heaviest I think. Less colas than P4 but they'll be huge and dense from the looks of it. Definitely a contender for F2's, branch is hit (on all of these) for some initial testers.
Columbian Ripper P4, very nice structure, like an octopus. Smaller buds. but lots of them and several colas to bring some weight in. Not as frosty yet but it's early.
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