This one was also one of the freebie packs. I've never completely grown out anything at all from AK, yet. Working on it lol...
I'm strictly flower too. I'll wait to see how yours come out, I have a backlog of his stuff to run.. next one up is romulan x grape pie.
I actually just dropped 3 of these a couple days ago. Stoked to hear how they're growing for you! I've got 4 of his Romulan BX4s going too.If anyone has any Dope Beard Durban beans, I would pop those soon as you can! As far as veg goes, it's one of the most impressive so far... you can tell its gonna have baseball bat buds erecting all over it! The nodes are stacked and full up the entire branch! The Dope Beard was only topped once and it has like 12 plus long ass arms shooting out all over the place... You can tell she is ready for flower as I have my plants on 24 hour veg and it's starting to bud already... The stem rubs smell potent, dank and sweet! I'll try and get some pics up soon... I am finally flipping tonight
Awesome man! You're gonna love them I bet... All phenos are freakin' impressive. Here is one, look at the tops and thickness of this amazing canopy!
Sheesh, that is impressive. Happy plants!
What is the purpose of Florel? I did a quick search and the article I read said it was to keep unwanted fruit from developing on ornamentals. I didn't read too deep because using it on cannabis I'm sure serves a different purpose.Flowering has began!!! Damn I'm super excited!!!
Got my drip lines setup and everything in order... Been dying for this day to come, and to be honest I should have already flipped last month! That is how far behind I am, well add a touch of (laziness) to that also hahaha....
I am very concerned about stretch. AKBB recommended that I run the first 12-14 days on 10 on 14 off, to initiate flowering faster... said that it works and after that you set it in 12/12. He said that back in the 80s this is the cycle that they would run in the trailer parks up in Alaska, due to the short head space of the old mobile homes... So we shall see.
I am also using a couple products that will help, one contains triacontanol and the other a kelp extract which does help stacks the nodes closer... As bad as I hated to, I sprayed them right before lights off with Florel also (Ethephon which converts to Ethylene)... It is absolutely safe, the only precautions to take with this is during application, it can irritate the skin according to the research, although I have never had any issues whatsoever and I do not wear protective gear when I spray. Anyway, it immediately converts to Ethylene gas and once it evaporatesit's gone, there is no residues, it is not systemic either. It's the safest PGR on the market and is the only PGR approved that I am aware of for use on food crops...
I have only ever used it in case I have stress during the grow or growing a hermie known strain. It definitely has always worked for me. But supposedly it can also reduce stretch by at least a quarter and up to half which is a lot! It's supposed to initiate flowering much much faster also, basically overnight from what I understand. The info out there of its use for this reason is very limited, so this will be a nice experiment.
We shall see....
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Nice update--cool to see the Beatrix Choice doing well. Someday I gotta get an indoor grow space going. Although being limited to outside does help me keep the obsession in check I suppose--I'm sure my wife is happy with that.Flowering has began!!! Damn I'm super excited!!!
I've been looking for that taste for years now. I've very old school, and the best weed I've had always tasted like hash. I talked to AKBB about that flavor and he knew exactly what I meant and said none of his stuff really had that old school hash flavor. He'd like to have that himself. Maybe he found it in the G13 cross. I guess I'll have to give that a try.
