And I ask again,
"Who's relaxed"?
Good day to you Les!
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General thought section
Well it looks like the flowering is going quicker than I thought, I presume there will be KC-45 ready before when I predicted it would be ready. Looking like 1-2 weeks for the most mature flowers. I have realized that these buds are not going to be very big but they will be intricate.
Upon detailed examination of the flowers and trichomes using a jewelers loupe, I am finding the most mature flowers to be ready to harvest in approximately ~1.5 weeks. The trichomes are mostly cloudy, with a lot of clear ones. Found a couple of ambers, but still less than 1% amber (that's fine). The next plant after that should be ready not much longer after, probably ~2.5 weeks for that one. And probably ~4 weeks for the larger force flowering specimen.
The buds are not super compact, but they are moderately tight.
Floral clusters of calyxes covered in resins with many hairs protruding, signs of increased pistil whithering in the most mature specimen.
I am inclined to take a sample cut and test the waters. Clearly these flowers are not anything like traditional modern day hybrid strains with the floral structures. Smelling of the terpenes resembles multiple things, one way to think about it is "Lemon Pinesol" or "Lemon Tart" I detect much less spice, the flavors are dominated by pine, and acidic lemon flavor.
Small signs of fox tailing are starting to occur in the tips of some flowers on the most mature specimen, this is another indicator that we are approaching my harvest window for that plant. I am going to juice them up with the 0-8-1 solution grade bat guano by Earth Juice to put the icing on the cake.
I should mention that I previously fed the force flowers with a full strength combination of D&S Step 3 and SNS-604B. So I will do a 1-2 day flush using Final Phase flushing solution.
Additional LST was done to the female Blueberry x SM plant, I anchored her 2 respective fim branches outward so we now have 2 nicely symmetrical plants, one MW and one BB x SM. They are looking good, now I just need some Swiss Cheese to catch up and my buffet will be complete.
Plans to transplant these insanely vigorous KC-45 clones into 7 gallon growing bags, still not sure if I want to let them flower out for the extra bud or try to get seeds with CS. Ehh.. I could probably use a little extra bud this year because the yields are generally lower.
Big natural KC-45 still showing slight leaf tips being burned, some are a little bit necrotic, but over all its looking really healthy. She's definitely pre-flowered all/most of her sites. But she's still determined to put everything she has into growing out her nodes from branches I previously LSTed. The center boquet is getting pretty tall, it is about 6 inches from the vertical height limit, so I will probably tie that main tip forward and anchor it to one of the wooden stakes, it's not gonna look as good but it might have to be done. I'm really blown away by how the branching took place on the center boquet, can't believe the sub-branches took so well! The plant likely has a small phosphorous def. I am waiting as long as I can to give her the 4-5-4 Dr. Earth tea that will be brewed. Waiting till she decided to kick into flower for sure, don't want to run up all my precious nitrogen before the end.
It should be duly noted that the pot the natural KC-45 is in is pretty damn small, it has to be less than 5 gallons as can be seen in the comparison picture.
I can say for certainty that I got the bang for my buck when I spent 25$ including shipping for the 10 regular KC-45 seeds (6 were female) that I got from Herbies last year.
Super stoked to medicate with some KC-45
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