Back to Business
Here is the entry I meant to post the other night before I got all reflective and self-analytical.
Up to now I've been running with the idea that I absolutely had to keep the tent running at full capacity all the time and hang on to everything. I think I'm over that phase and it feels so much better.
My plan for downsizing is to convert this corner of tent, a roughly 4x4' "L" wing of the full tent, into my veg area. I've already removed the 3 LED fixtures and these 2 hash bombs are just waiting for the chop. That brings me down to 1000w of light in the bloom area from 1850w before. My T5 will fit perfectly (I had it there before I bought the LED units.) I'll hang plastic to make 2 walls, 1 to make bloom tent smaller and 1 to create 4th wall of veg area.
this is current veg area with clones I'm finally ready to let go. In front are WW2 and WW3, aka "short pheno" and "tall pheno", looking pretty close to the same now. I love the strain but I'm finally grown up enough to recognize how mediocre these plants are and not worth keeping in rotation. The WW clones I was making for a SOG grow I've tossed, so these will eventually be bloomed and then I'll start over with new seeds.
2 BCS clones are behind the WWs. These are extras, the mother plant is off to left, and I will definitely be keeping her around to clone for future grows.
Behind them (mostly hidden by BCS) are 2 Dance Worlds from seed, extras that didn't make it into current grow. They are good plants but not so special that I feel need to clone them. I still have more seeds for future grows.
These are my new Hash Bomb clones. This HB is the best of 5 plants I grew from seed. I will be keeping her in the rotation at least until I have time and space to run the seeds I made in search of even better pheno.
And this is HB mother, soon to be bloomed now that I have successful clones to keep line going. She's now in 4 gal hard pot. My plan is to LST her branches for better spread, but to limit the number of colas to 8 or so. My gut feeling is that I kept too many flowering shoots on plants currently in flower. With her I want to try for fewer larger colas, partly to try new style that may be easier to harvest and process and partly out of vanity of wanting to compete for NOTM.
Longer term goal is to keep 3 strains in rotation: BCS for high THC, HB for high CBD that is still THC dominant, and to choose a 1:1 strain from either Medical Mass or Dance World. That will leave me room in flower tent to try 2-3 new strains in each grow. Smaller, simpler, smarter, with room for some experimentation to keep it fun.
Smell is much fruitier than previous grow, less pungent, and stronger. It's been filling my kitchen and working its way through much of the house for a week now. Time for a binky! (that's a rabbit happy dance, but you don't have to be a rabbit to do one, everyone can join in!)
