Baker's Best: take 3

So about 2 weeks in on my current and 4th grow. This is the same mystery purple strain I tried on my 1st grow outdoors, and 2nd grow/1st indoors that I had to neglect due to family situation where I was absent for a month.
1st outdoor result(had to harvest early bc bud rot and 80%+ humidity for coming weeks)

2nd grow attempt(indoors)


Current progress


I find it interesting that 2 of the girls(i hope) grew the extra long first true leaves, whereas the 3rd is more balanced


Doing all organic, 2x 100watt Geciliaoran G1000 LM301H, 3gal fabric, 32x32x60 tent. Soil is a mix of seed starter from 2 years ago with some epsom starter soil, and the last 2 grows plant matter being fully decomposed! love it, soil always feels a little moist, nice and darkish brown. but they're starting out well! Stay tuned for some badass purple nuggets come 3 months from now!

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Week 3.5

girls are doing good, though the skinnier one is much weaker/less rigid, not sure what's going on since they're all the same strain, from the same branch I got seeds from, in the same soil mix with the same treatment. beats me, though I am curious what she's lacking or if its just a weak seed?

I noticed how the 2 that started with the middle finger of the 3 finger leafs/first set of true are the ones doing well compared to the weaker girl.

Week 3.5
I was considering going all natural on this grow to make it as speedy as possible. BUT couldn't help but top them once. I started out at 18/6, then 6 days ago - last friday, I dropped the "lights on" time by 1 hr, then another hr half Sunday and Tuesday. So she's down to 14/10. I topped today so I won't adjust her down again till tomorrow to spread out the disruptions some. I know most people go straight 12/12 from veg cycle lighting but some part of me - call it stupid or call it intuitive, tells me to do so.

Also watered/fed with just epsom salts to give some magnesium+sulfer. Which I know that cal+mag nutrient suck is coming since I've probably triggered flowering to start.

Day 32
Found out girl on the far left is not a girl, but male. Chopped her up with scissors to add to the soil composition tote.

Now just the two. Not nuts on them, but no white hairs anywhere yet either. I hope they're both female because the one pheno has thin leaves(bro science says more sativa based), and the other plant has thick blades where bro science says more likely to be couch locking.

Day 32 since seedling
Man the less rigid girl really grew over the last 24hrs. Wild and awesome when you see these growths!

bignugs68 said:

Day 32
Found out girl on the far left is not a girl, but male. Chopped her up with scissors to add to the soil composition tote.
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Now just the two. Not nuts on them, but no white hairs anywhere yet either. I hope they're both female because the one pheno has thin leaves(bro science says more sativa based), and the other plant has thick blades where bro science says more likely to be couch locking.
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Just my two cents, but those are not anywhere near thin leaves or sativa looking. These are thin sativa leaves, and no where near the thin leaves from some of my sativas, just the first pic that popped up. This is not bro science but experienced growers talking, please get some experience before spouting what is and what isn’t “bro science” it’s where bro science starts, people not knowing what they are talking about and spouting it as fact. Your plants look like typical hybrids, which I’m sure they are.

Edit: by the way, your plants look good, not dogging them at all.

Hook Daddy said:

Just my two cents, but those are not anywhere near thin leaves or sativa looking. These are thin sativa leaves, and no where near the thin leaves from some of my sativas, just the first pic that popped up. This is not bro science but experienced growers talking, please get some experience before spouting what is and what isn’t “bro science” it’s where bro science starts, people not knowing what they are talking about and spouting it as fact. Your plants look like typical hybrids, which I’m sure they are.

Edit: by the way, your plants look good, not dogging them at all.

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Damn, yeah those are thinnest leaves I've ever seen. Did you see the first pic of of when i first grew this strain? Top of the page.

The difference was that was outdoors, but the leaves are vastly thinner. Not as thin as yours, but nonetheless that's part of why I say bro science. Same strain, just one gen difference, but the leaves vary quite a bit. Sooo what affects blade width and does it really hold significance?! Or how reliable is it as a metric to guess cerebral vs body high.

I don’t think you can jump to the conclusion that all plants with thinner leaves are sativa or all of them are more of a cerebral high, but you can imo say that it is a strong indicator. For instance, I have never seen a pure indica, or anything even claimed to be pure, that doesn’t have wide leaves. It gets confused the more the hybrids are around muddying the gene pool. Don’t get me wrong, some hybrids are among the best strains, it just gets harder to depend on leaf width to judge for certain, but as a general rule thinner leaves are sativa leaning, and extremely thin leaves are heavy on the sativa side, and will produce a more cerebral effect. You’ll find yourself turning up the music and get something done rather than watching a movie or sitting on the couch.