Re: Still Growing- SoCal Hybrids & Mexican & Colombian Sativas Under Sun Natural Syst
Ok, so I snapped few day pics with my new camera. This is gonna be exactly 14 days of flowering for Grape Ape and one or two days less for Grape Dog. I count flowering from the day I see first pistil growing from an already formed flower cup.
Grape Ape is a stretchy beast, one of the stretchiest plants I ever grew actually. Unusual vigour in flowering, which is the opposite of slow growing in veg. She quadrupled in size since I started forcing flowering, and she still spurts some vertical growth, but much less than few days ago. Usually when they stop shooting up, then buds are bulking up for real. Smell on her for now is a mixture of sweet and spicy scents: mango & black pepper, which is exactly the same kind of thing I had going with my Green Crack last year. My thought is that all Skunk#1 crosses usually start producing these terpenes in my soil. I got 15 colas with my LST technique. She started sweating out resin 2 days ago, so she's not lagging behind in trichome production, but structure is definitely sativa like. Also, excellent branching.
That's her:
And this is one of the broken branches few days later. As you can see the new tissue has grown there.
Grape Dog is a weird plant. While in veg it was very stretchy and lanky, since it started flowering foliage has been growing very slowly, but buds have very interesting structure. They're fattening mostly from the bottom, and they started producing a lot of resin as soon as the heatwave came. Defintely indica leaning pheno with red petioles all over and light green fan leaves, which yellowed as soon as I gave her lithotamnium, and that's why I'm gonna give her a boost of compost tea before she advances more to see if this improves the vigour as she could use some more foliage before she turns completely to reproduction. Very little branching, similar to what I experienced with O.G. Kush. Smell for now is musky gasoline, yeah more on the chemical side, almost no sweet accents here. Could that be a trait taken after Chem Dawg? It's quite possible.
That's her:
About my new soil, which I don't know if it can be High Brix soil yet as Brix are quite low, so let's call it low nutrient soil. No pests of any kind whatsoever, which is a visible change from my compost soil mix I've been using for many years. Also, slow fading. While before old fan leaves were just yellowing and falling out in 3-4 days, now they yellow, turn partly brown, or just light green and develop brown flaws, but it's hard to pluck them as they're just hanging there. They do not fall off by themselves. Terpenes production has improved as well, and buds do not go through floral phase any more, which is different. And least but not least the main stem really gets bigger in this soil. Changes are not dramatic then, but they are noticeable. I'm really looking forward to check how quickly they finish in this soil and if the yield and the taste improves.
) and started making roots yesterday 
..am almost sure it's not an af 
