Updates from the flower room. Lots of activity in there right now. All the plants have some branches pollinated to get a range of F1/F2 seeds from the JTR x Blueberry (Blue Ripper) phenos on the go. Day 38 for the Blue Ripper's at the back and Day 4 for the new batch at front which is 2x Blue Ripper, 1x JTR, and 1x Blue Pyramid all in 5gal pots. New batch is stretching already and will catch up, possibly surpass the flowering batch when they finish the stretch..
Good reminder to take clones from every pheno when hunting (have at least one from each pheno, including the male so I can keep producing pollen if it turns out well). You never know how they're going to turn out in the end. Case in point, I'd labeled 3 seedlings Pheno's 1/2/3 in order of preference of what they looked like, growth patterns and smell through veg (Pheno 2 ended up being the male, 2 others got culled early, finalists were P1 and P3, P2 male was flowered for pollen). As they've progressed getting close to week 6 in flowering, Pheno 3 is now looking and smelling like the champ vs. Pheno 1, P3 had almost zero smell in veg. The smell on P3 is now stronger than P1, and the frost building on P3 may even surpass my original BR1 P1 cut I've been running for a few months. P3 is a shorter pheno (it's on a stool to even the canopy) but the buds are larger/fatter, more side-branching, and it will likely produce more than P1 in the end. Neither of the phenos from seed had any training to see what the natural plant structure did on it's own. Some bud/frost pics below of both my original BR1/P1 and the new BR2/P3
@day 38.
Original cloned BR1-P1 bud:
New pheno BR2-P3 from seed bud:
I had a small 1gal BR1-P1 flowering and waiting for the buds to be ready to pollinate. Whole plant was pollinated
@day 20 a few days ago and looks like it took well. This one will produce many F2's of the original cross to hunt through and carry on this project
Finally a pic of the Blue Pyramid after 4 days of 12/12. It stretches a lot and will end up above the rest in height I think. I love this plant every time I flower it. It's a unique plant structure and could blend into an outdoor garden, many would have no clue it's a pot plant, at least until it starts flowering/smelling
If you zoom in on any of the colas/branches you'll see that the stems and leaf stems are all a dark purple, this is the case right through veg as well, nothing to do with flowering. Cool plant, it likes to pray with the leaves standing almost straight up. Will be hitting a bud or two with some Blue Ripper pollen just for fun and to see what comes out of the cross. Blue Pyramid is fire, tastes, looks, and smells like hash nugs. But it's not a huge producer, 2 - 2.5 zips is a good haul from this one in 5gal, perhaps with the infusion of the Blue Ripper bud production?? We'll see in a few months
Notice the squared-off leaves on every cola coming up, those are the FIM's that generate those leaves, very noticeable on these larger indica leaves.
Cheers
