Pope Grows Dope

PopeCrisco said:

Late last night I graduated the last round of cuttings from their solo cups to their grow bags. I am eyeballin' midweek for flip.
Here is our first planted, first cut, and one of the last cuts of this project. View attachment 5478140

Both one and five seem to have the most even spread of branching, and show about the same degree of high vertical growth.
Two and Three have a really tight, but also very dense vegetative growth. 2 is showing the most vertical vigor of her sisters, and thinner leaves than Sak 3.

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Of all the girls 3 smells most like bananas, almost like laffy taffy if you ask me, My GF (not a pot enthusiast) thinks it "just smells like a plant."

And 4, the odd girl out, wants to be the long tall Sally. She is as tall as the smallest of the girls from the first round, and is putting most of her energy into being the tallest and thinnest of the brood (left).


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All done, you can stop peepin. Much appreciated.

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Looking fantastic in there!!!

Senokai said:

Looking fantastic in there!!!

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In no small part to the work that you and @THT put into breeding!
I really think you have some nice looking, vigorous plants here. I am salivating with anticipation for the first sample from this harvest!


We flipped to flower last night. Despite the 2-3 week difference when cuttings were taken, the canopy looks like the flowers will be relatively close in height, if they last cuts have anything to say about it.



This project started in mid-march. While I would be closer to harvest if I had done my standard 3 girls from seed with the intent of flipping to flower, learning to clone has provided new opportunities.
It has been a lot of work, all with the "hope" that I have something I want to keep. Regardless of the results, the cloning project has put me in a position to be ready and able to save genetics with the 222, and that promises to be rich in returns.

It has also been an invaluable learning experience. Just like looking at a stranger's family album I get to see where these siblings express similar traits, and how they diverge. I can see how one plant is struggling in an environment that its sibling (at least so far) shows no issues. I can see what the same genetics looks like over about a months time, side by side. I can see how an optimized (to the best of my ability) environment compares to one that is not, with the exact same genetics. It is the difference between knowing something, and experiencing something.

To any new growers reading this, I suggest you might want to sacrifice variety in a grow for the opportunity to experience see the variation in one set of genetics across multiple plants, just to get grounded in the amount of variety that can be expressed.

It will be exciting to continue to track their flowering, and taste the fruits of the experiment.







Other errata

With the outdoor harvest in the next month or so, it looks like I will not have an empty tent to house the drying bud. Being early fall we might be able to skirt with the drying rack in a back room currently only occupied by cats. Otherwise I might invest in a third tent and a back up filter, but that is a conversation I would like to avoid with the missus.

With the primary tent free, I might be able to fit in another grow before my tent gets full with starts for the spring garden.
My current plan is to grow out a few of the Romulan testers that I picked up recently, along with a cut from the 222 and the sole Cadillac Rainbow that I was able to get from the pack.

I really wanna' purchase some new genetics, but I have a lot of seeds already. (in no small part to the generous freebies of 1212 Seed Co). As well I would like to budget in a bowl trimmer and a bubble hash bag set before the outdoor harvest commences. Easy to do, but it is a choice I have to make.

Maybe waiting will present an opportunity for Bodhi to come out with something new and wonderful based on the Blueberry Hashplant, but probably will just lead to another diversion (heh).


Anywho, all this to record the fact I am cutting my plants exposure to light.

Happy Growin'