Apple Blossom
Grow Day 114
Flower Day 54
A Fairly Comprehensive Late Assessment
I retract my earlier assessment of this plant as a hybrid pheno. At this point she looks and is acting like much more of a sativa. You can see the sativa-esque bud formation in the pictures. She's also now close to two weeks past the 45 days Humboldt lists for this strain's flowering time. The buds are long and productive top to bottom. She's going to be kind of a pain in the ass to trim, I can already see that, but hey, she's the only thing I'll have to trim for a change. One plant is a dream!
The buds are starting to take on their final shapes it seems and some of them are tightening up to where they almost look like finished buds. Won't be long now - three or four days maybe? I'll check trichs later on, but I'm sure we're not ready yet.
Earlier in flower I was looking at the buds and thinking, man, what a plant, but apparently her one downside is going to be productivity. Now I don't at all think that. She's really packed on the weight in the last ten days or so. The lower interior buds are also getting great light for a change, and they are 20x more productive than my previous efforts. Amazing what giving a bud a little space and light will do. Many of the lower interior buds pictured are shoots that grew off the main stems. Many of these would, in my previous grows, be flarf. Not now. The differences in the training this time are really showing up in late flower:
- way better lower interior bud production
- way better top to bottom growth on each individual branch
- way less flarf/waste
- way more consistency bud to bud
- significantly better overall productivity
- much improved air flow
- much improved canopy spacing between the buds
A couple things I did this time that I never did previously that I believe really helped I believe were:
- trimming way more branch growth/undercarriage growth that wasn't going to amount to anything
- trimming way LESS fan leaves
- removing every other shoot/node set on the main branches as they grew out rather than leave them all and get a mess of flarf all bunched together - this way they had space and light and as a result the lower interior buds in particular are way improved and will be very productive
- did NOT mess around with additives to the
@Prescription Blend nutes, just went with the plan start to (almost) finish, and never varied from the prescribed dosages
- maintained a more consistent and warmer temperature in both day/night temps in flower without ever letting it get below 63 degrees at night, so no ultra cold night temps, and up to as high as 83 during the day
- was able to maintain an RH in the high 30s to low 40s for all of flower, with no spikes as I've always had in the past, and I think the consistency of proper RH maintained all the time has had a significant impact
- used the
@NextLight 420h in a 3x3, which is frankly too big for it to be honest, but which by using the dimmer effectively allowed me to maintain an extremely consistent footprint across the entire canopy, with much better corner and edge ppfd numbers than I've gotten in the past - more ppfd = more growth
So there's my late assessment of the girl. She's within a week for sure now I believe. Her smell....god you guys I wish I could share. I've never smelled a pot plant that smells like this. The green apple odor is just super predominant and super impossible to miss. The entire garage fills with the odor within about 20 seconds of opening the door to the tent. The terpenes are off the charts. It's like candied green apple dankness with a deep, natural, earthy smell to it. The only plant that compares out of all 20 plants in terms of how specifically and gorgeously STANKY she is was the Raspberry Parfait. You guys may recall me expounding on how raspberry she smelled and how strong the terpenes were in her. Another Humboldt Seed Company strain by the way. I do take note that my two best terpene plants I have grown yet both came from this breeder. I'll put Humboldt County, California, USA up against anything Amsterdam has to offer any day. Amazing genetics. I would argue it's where truly amazing pot was first produced in this country. My plant actually looks almost exactly like the pictures they show in their catalog for a change too, only they got these gorgeous purple and blue tips to the small sugar leaves. I have strictly green buds with orange hairs. Not really any other colors, but the green is such an amazing shade - it is almost is the color of green apples, which is kind of cool. I'm so glad I have 9 more seeds of this strain. I love plants that test your filter.
So enough out of me, let's get to the porn for god's sake.
These first two pictures are leaf pictures, one on the plant and one off. I show these to show how the fade has gone on this girl. Just a smooth, gentle green to yellow.
This picture is the pile of crap I removed today.
These next three pictures show individual branches of buds from various spots on the plant.
Then we have a three photo set specifically designed to display what I was talking about with the lower interior growth. Much of what you see in these pictures would be flarfy in the past. As you can see, they are sweet ass legitimate buds.
And lastly we have the good stuff - BUDS. Heh. I love me some bud closeup shots. The first of these pictures is the one that captures the true colors of the plant the best. You can see they look more "finished" than they did a couple days ago.
Alrighty! That would be my final long assessment post on this girl. From here to the end we'll just do pictures mostly, there's not a whole lot else to say about her. Not that I won't comment. Not sure I possess that ability. Lmao.
I am guessing on yield that this plant will end up with between five and six ounces jarred. I always overestimate, but that seem to be reasonable. Too high? We will know soon enough. Worthy of note for me is that another improvement I made in this grow was committing to NOT take any "testers."
I always do that, and it's a complete waste of time and 100% unnecessary. Not going to tell me a damn thing, no relation in reality to the actual end product. Heh. So whatever she gives me - I still have ALL of it.
Have a great week guys. Happy Monday.
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