Well I spent a couple hours yesterday transplanting some of the smaller plants into larger containers, and finally got pics of everyone in the garden! So without further ado...
Chiesel. Very close to finishing flower. This is the last run with this strain, and I'm a little sad about that. In the fall/winter this plant turns some very amazing shades of purple...almost black by the end...and looks fantastic. Smoke is great, but it's time to move on.
One of the nice things about this plant is how short and squat it stays. And how nice and dense the buds are.
Jack the Ripper. I sprouted 3 seeds, 2 were male, this being the lone female. There is just no point in this plants life where it decides to stop stretching. Foxtailing would be an understatement.
The biggest drawback to this, aside from the obnoxious height and limited bud, is the amount of stem present within the limited bud. However, this situation is mitigated by only vaporizing this plant, in which you are just melting off the trichomes and not burning the stem anyway. VERY NICE TASTE, SMELL, and HIGH. Just shitty growth. I have 7 more seeds to crack sometime and get one of those nice phenotypes I know are in there...but for now, I have this.
A little side-by-side action for some scale. I'm pretty sure I flowered them at the same time, and they were identical in height (on the smaller side). The one limiting factor is always genetics...
Moving right along, we have Critical Jack. This plant just loves to grow fast and strong.
You can see I do a very basic form of LST...I use a piece of string and the slits already present in the side of the pot and just tie down the branch. Works like a champ and you don't have to TOP. I should point out the reason I am opposed to topping is you remove the strongest growing and potentially largest yielding part of the plant. Using LST, you create additional colas while still preserving the massiveness of the main one.
Next, Casey Jones. Already going nuts. She was tied down in the smaller pot, but I haven't tied her back down since transplanting. I'll do it later, because this plant needs it more than any other!
Another shot...looking healthy and happy.
Next, Pineapple Chunk. I have never had a plant stink so much in veg. This one took a bit longer to root than the first two, which is why she is still smaller. All clones were taken on the same day.
Next, Afghan Kush. This one was in a small plastic cup until I transplanted, so it has yet to be tied down. I put this one back in the veg room though so it can take as long as it needs to branch out (after I tie it down of course, because if I don't tie it there is no chance it will branch at all).
Next, LSD. This plant has been around my room for a while. I almost let it go after the last run, but at the last moment decided I wanted to keep it, so I took a bud 6 or 7 weeks into flower and cloned it. Took a long time for it go back to normal, but now she's chugging right along.
I have some pretty amazing pics of this and the Chiesel I grew over last winter. It was best grow effort to date. I'll try and throw them up sometime.
You can see where the plant has grown out from the budding branch...there are still smokeable trichomes on it!
This is an emergency OG Kush clone I took from a plant that I harvested and attempted to re-veg. The whole situation was very messed up, but eventually the plant started vegging again, and this was all I was able to salvage before it died altogether. There were a few more I planned to cloning after I returned from a 6 day trip, but by the time I got back she was just about dead. I have 3 more fem seeds, but this pheno was simply amazing, and I'm a fool for not cloning it sooner. So, we'll see if she comes through. I think it may have rooted though...
Finally, an in-situ shot of the big girls. The Casey Jones is finally beginning to look like it is flowering. It doesn't quite have buds yet, but is getting there slowly.
So, that is the extent of my current garden. I'm thinking about starting another seed or two just for fun...I have about 20 different strains. Maybe I'll throw up a list and let you guys choose for me