I love to read your descriptions of their look or behavior. Flappergirl. lol I would never have come up with that, but now that you did, I can totally see what you see.
Im very happy to see your plants coming to fruition. I know its been a very long and winding road for some of them.
It HAS been a long and winding road, especially for Grandma Quiffa. This will be her second yule, but her long and winding road should come to and end at the ripe old age of 425 days or something. She will be the last of the clones that this thread was named for, actually she is a clone of one of the baby palm tree shaped clones featured at the start of this thread.
Combined with the turn of the seasons, I am considering shutting down this thread in a few weeks.
I have settled into a certain rhythm of perpetual growing. For the next year or so, I expect to be tweaking and refining, but not really innovating, building, or experimenting with unfamiliar ideas.
I like my lights. Sure I want white LEDs to replace the yellow HPS, but that's not likely as kids graduating from High School and launching into their adult lives is financially more urgent.
I like my CFL lights. I will need to buy more T5 HO bulbs as, recently, 5 of the original 8 bulbs (two fixtures) failed after about 12,000 hours of use. It is less than the 20,000 hour rating but failing is what they are doing. I will replace bulbs, but I don't need to expand - and I have a spare fixture if I do expand
I like my soil. I have not yet established a sustainable nutrient replenishment schedule, but I'm going to add homegrown worm castings and a few worms into the pots as they are harvested 2-3 times next year. I'm experimenting with feeding water only on a more conventional soil mix as I expect to use 5 gallon buckets now and then to supplement the perpetual soil in the 11 fabric pots. It is much more peaceful to not worry about liquid fertilizers, and I'm starting to get good yields with water only in the perpetual soil.
I like my daisy cloner - this is sooooooo much better than rockwool. I'll try water in a cup before rockwool again. I am considering propogating some clones by topping the leader in late veg. The reason I don't do that already - in a pot limitted perpetual grow, cloning earlier translates into running less strains. I owe it to myself to try cloning the leader anyway, just to see if the growing structure is more to my liking than my current cloning of weaker, lower branch tips.
Pest managment - I like my homemade Neem Oil spray. It is inexpensive and effective so far. I hope to get better at pest management.
Watering, propagating, and pest management - that's most of what I do these days.
My photos for this journal have pretty much settled into a mixed stream of harvest, planting, vegging and flowering photos ---
speaking of which ....
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I planted clones from Giselle and Girl Scout Cookies Annabelle in 4" pots last night. I only took photos of Giselle as I have switched to watering from below using a cut up 1 gallon milk jug. Since I only have 1 milk jug cut so far, I planted Annabelle after lights out and after Giselle had a 2 hour bath.
Breeder seed Giselle - planting her cutting after 15 days in the daisy cloner.
In January, when I harvest Northern Lights Stella and Snowcap Stacy, I will have to choose between AMS Free Seed Giselle, GSC Annabelle, and Snowcap Stacy for which 2 get to grow again in the 2 reused fabric pots.
Stacy looks like a keeper: Snowcap Snow Queen is my wife's favorite daytime med, and Snowcap Stacy is massively out yielding Snow Queen, so Stacy is in the lead. Plus she has that long lean flapper girl body and loves to grow.
Annabelle looks like a keeper: She will be my first of at least 2 Girl Scout Cookies harvests. My wife likes purchased Girl Scout Cookies, and Annabelle is a better behaved plant than her sister GSC Monique (queued for the flower room.)
Giselle probably won't make the cut when it comes time to choose: The grandmothr of this clone is a lower THC strain with a nice, but not exceptional flavor. She is the everyday smoke that is freely shared rather than one of the stronger, more focused strains in her private reserve. If the mother of this clone puts on big buds in flower, I may have a change of heart, so I'm moving her clone along - for now.