Update: Dark Devil Autos (d#3, d#4) day 54
It’s
high time I gave some decent space to the Dark Devil Auto Budiscles, all of which are coming along very nicely indeed
For those who don’t know already, these are seeds from a reversal and cross with other DDAs, all work done in @dynamo1’s garden, that are prone to popping out beautiful deep purple budsicles and I decided to grow a couple in small pots. I have 2 x 1gallon pots with DBHBB soil and 2 seeds went in to each 1gal pot. It’s kind of experimental and if it finishes as well as it looks like it will, I’ll definitely be doing it again.
As
@dr.h00k said, it’ll be good to see the whole plants!
Here are the
DDA d#4s.
They
look to be the same pheno. For a long while I’ve thought they were different because one of them didn’t get a purple stem and the flower structure looked a bit different early on, but the last few days they’ve started looking very much the same. Maybe a subtle difference.
They are smelling like sugary purple plums mixed with grape and a touch of fuelly funk.
The top colas are getting pretty phat and the lower nugs are getting pretty dense. All a lot harder than the DDAs I’ve grown in the past (which actually isn’t many, lol!).
And here, the
DDA#3s
Definitely 2 different phenos! The purple one is very similar to the #4s. The other one is definitely a version of the green pheno. It’s also the one which branched in a more regular fashion, plus, from some angles of light it has a little hints of pink through it, and the stem is totally purple except for the very bottom section..
Every time I look at these #3s the last few days, I’ve had the thought that I should harvest the purple one early and let the green pheno have the whole pot (all of one gal!
). With that thought in mind, I restricted my frosty close-ups to that plant only to see where it is up to.
I took
a lot of closeups
...all
DDA#3Purple:
All in all I think I will harvest it early. I see semi-cloudy all over and I will have the other purple ones to come. It’d be nice to give the green pheno the best chance to bulk up a bit! The green pheno is supposed to be more potent so I’ll be very curious to try it out. Mostly I’m curious to see what the purple adds to the picture - i.e., if the green is decidedly different in ‘vibe’. Not sure when that early harvest will come, but I am sure that you will hear about it when it does! DDAs can go anywhere from 70days (according to the breeder) to over 100 according to all the people who grow it regularly. I’ve had some picked early before and it was totally delightful. It’s all a bonus so I figure it doesn’t really matter - there might even be some CBC in it at this stage...
They get tucked into the back corner alongside the Bubba...
#4s
And then the Blueberry goes between them and the fan.
OMG the fan!... I got a new fan
.
So, before I sign off then, I’ve been saving up for a Dabpress for a while, but this week I redirected those funds and made a big investment for the tent instead: a Dyson tower fan. Super spendy, although I had a big 25% discount becasue of past warranty issues on a product, so it didn’t hurt the hip pocket too much. Plus I found this awesome stand to put it on...
It sits perfectly over the carbon filter (a very very cheap one, which I barely need. Mostly it makes things light tight
)
The fan itself turns almost a full 45º arc so it covers the entire tent supremely well! I’m very pleased with the upgrade, it takes almost no space, I know it will last many, many years and it’s super,
super quiet
Here’s everyone last night, with the DDAs tucked into their back corner:
As you can see all the other kids are doing really well, crowding aside. The Bubba and CD-1 are stretching beautifully and the Coco Autos are filling out really nicely. I’ll report on the details of all those sometime soon no doubt.
In the meantime, I hope you are all well and, if not completely well, that you are comfortable and cared for (even if that’s by yourself) and well medicated of course!