Long Term Mother Care

The stressors to be studied like with a monitoring system. The canopy style and training/pruning is actually pretty much the same each time. Which is a traditional full size plant style of growing. Only topped once so the growth tips just do their thing and become colas, some satelites beefy due to that, and thats it.

I spent the first few rounds learning how to do that as I kept ending up with a larf bush. Mostly larf in shade with some exposed to light. Machine trim and jar all rosin in one jar 100gs so I missed a lot of data input. I did weigh flower and rosin to find I was usually 12% but subject to sift into more rosin or sift with no rosin in it.

Now I do what I do, and its like that machine trim just destroyed 8% of my rosin before I could extract it. But now thats added to my flower rosin yield and quality. Each plant gets its own jar and yield calculated etc to where Im at now that things stick out like a sore thumb if its lower than a certain amound. I got 12% the other run on a clone with all optimal settings.

So if I machine trimmed that clone it probably would of been like 8% or so which is scary. Then dove into what finding new phenos is all about and my brain went from veg mode to flowering mode Im like breeding now.

I am playing with dryback right now to save labor but thats a good point to bring up, that might effect things.

Some pics of my canopy style. 2.5x2.5 or 3x3

I only spent 2 runs doing it so well dialed in. The first 3 runs I was a newer grower still, the 3rd molded. Then did 2 runs since and on my 6th run now which doesnt include the molded run. The first few runs was always 12% flower rosin. Suddenly I hand trimmed out of spite and got 20%.

I did test 20% test sample off the original plant from seed but bought a bud trimmer and didnt see that again for a while. So that shows she was there from the begining, came back with hand trimming but started losing yield again. Was she always 20% even with inferior canopy training and lighting/space? Idk.

I aim to grow the same way always now because I did find I doubled my yield in smaller spaces doing so. Despite seeing less plant in the tents when you open them. You know, redirect of energy forcing buds etc. I cant stop the way I structure my plants ever since PM. The larf bush is good to avoid budrot but this fat cola growing requires proper enviorment IE circulation/less humidity.

So I cant help but make it the same every time even if new strain. So one run dialed in with 18% clone, a 19% and 16%. Next run 17%, 15%. Last run only one did 17% and had notable fat colas unlike the rest that did 12% and 13.4%. Started learning about this and here we are all clones had no choice but to come from same source, the 13.4% one. What will this harvest be is the million dollar question.

medidedicated said:

I think it occoured to me just thinkin about it. It was overnight at the time but thinking about it this morning.. Its about genetic baggage that can eventually turn permenant so youre reseting that internal log sheet. As they get old like my pic its not even two grow cycles old and is rough.

Being dtw coco idk if keeping them over a year is good. I have considered soil but Im no good with it its too big a learning curve and investing this far in. I barely got time to dig into stuff and try to only with whats relevent to me at the time. When I go hard into something things get achieved tho.

Kinda like how I delayed making a proper dry space but made it work with all my focus on it. Thats if I have time and figure it out tho soil Id need to invest a lot.

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Genetic drift is what I heard it called. I heard the term being used in seeds as well but I feel that’s more inbred depression, as if not grown in the same conditions there will be different outcomes.

Genetic drift is not a thing, it's that plants get used to being on 18 hours of light for many years or decades, and certain strains will go into transition/pre flower. Hence very slow stagnant growth that people labeled " genetic drift".

It's actually good to take a clone of a clone at least once a year for fresh moms. The so called genetic drift are just old plants that need to be reset.
They can be reset by putting them outside in the spring and this will restore vigor in old strains.

There's also away I developed to reset them indoors .