Bay Area winter/spring crop experiment 2018

Here are the 4 Alenuihaha...half rev-vegged, now re-flowering. Two shorter plants turned into lettuce. More leaf than I know what to do with. They seem a little more Indica driven, and that extra leaf when multiplied is a dealbreaker. It’s helped me make my selections, cuz come harvest time, every leaf counts.
Two taller ones are better, just stretched out and now filling in. The fact that these two still look good is a testament to their genes. I don’t know if I’ll have time to finish these before I need the space for my long season starts, but I can tell they are like what I’m looking for. Smells on all are lovely: tropical fruits like guava, pineapple, and one adds spicy. My favorite remains the beast in the right. Her clones will be gracing a spot or two in this hoophouse for long season. Long thin tropical spaced out colas...yum.

Chemdog. This one has weathered the wacky season perhaps the best. It stretched a little, and now is gonna fill in quick and looks pretty good...almost normal

Update: After a month of light dep decreasing to about 10 hrs of light, I harvested this past week. Not because everything looks completely ready, but because I need to prepare the space for long season crop. If it was gonna be perfect, I would’ve waited for it. But, it wasn’t. Funny buds on the seedlings...tiny, stretched then finished small. About what one might expect for plants that started to stretch into re-veg at week 4-5 of flowering, then got proper night hours for a month. Lots of good learning and got to pheno hunt two varieties, as well as finished out some pretty buds, especially Bay 11 and Chemdog. In contrast to long season...NO caterpillars, thank you, and no real PM problems...making harvest a breeze.
I will do this again. Planting in maybe mid-January, and starting light dep closer to first of March.

Alenuihaha: 4 females all smelled great. Light tropical fruit notes over a broad creamy base. The winner has cocoa in the base notes, and sour in the fruit...yum. She’s also the biggest, most narrow leafed expression with the least PM. All 4 are nice and frosty, especially the choicest girl. I’m gonna run her and her fastest and spiciest sister for long season and see how they perform. I imagine they’ll get huge.

PCK: These 4 females were much more varied in phenotype than the Hawaiians. All turned purple, one dark and almost pink, looks like it will dry to black. She was the biggest, smells very softly fruity and has less frost than... The winner: medium-big, very pretty structure, stacked for yield. Smells strongly spearmint-menthol-fuel. Super frosty. The male I selected matches this female...dead on. I chose not to make seed this round when everything went sideways, but I have some clones of him for this summer. I rejected the purple male.

The clones finished better, as they were deeper into flowering before the almost re-veg.
This is a bud of the my Jack Herer f2. She’s very narrow leaf style with running buds anyway. Add some extra veg stretch mid flowering and look out!

Here’s a look up jack’s skirt. Crazy stretchy. The smell though...wow! Cold spicy incense with overripe banana.

Bay 11. Stretched some and slightly larfy compared to a perfect finish, but still good.

El Sobilly said:

Update: After a month of light dep decreasing to about 10 hrs of light, I harvested this past week. Not because everything looks completely ready, but because I need to prepare the space for long season crop. If it was gonna be perfect, I would’ve waited for it. But, it wasn’t. Funny buds on the seedlings...tiny, stretched then finished small. About what one might expect for plants that started to stretch into re-veg at week 4-5 of flowering, then got proper night hours for a month. Lots of good learning and got to pheno hunt two varieties, as well as finished out some pretty buds, especially Bay 11 and Chemdog. In contrast to long season...NO caterpillars, thank you, and no real PM problems...making harvest a breeze.
I will do this again. Planting in maybe mid-January, and starting light dep closer to first of March.

Alenuihaha: 4 females all smelled great. Light tropical fruit notes over a broad creamy base. The winner has cocoa in the base notes, and sour in the fruit...yum. She’s also the biggest, most narrow leafed expression with the least PM. All 4 are nice and frosty, especially the choicest girl. I’m gonna run her and her fastest and spiciest sister for long season and see how they perform. I imagine they’ll get huge.

PCK: These 4 females were much more varied in phenotype than the Hawaiians. All turned purple, one dark and almost pink, looks like it will dry to black. She was the biggest, smells very softly fruity and has less frost. The winner: very pretty structure, stacked for yield. Smells strongly spearmint-menthol-fuel. Super frosty. The male I selected matches this female...dead on. I chose not to make seed this round when everything went sideways, but I have some clones of him for this summer.

The clones finished better, as they were deeper into flowering before the almost re-veg.
This is a bud of the my Jack Herer f2. She’s very narrow leaf style with running buds anyway. Add some extra veg stretch mid flowering and look out!

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I'm a greenhouse grower in Nor Cal. I use to pull 2 harvests per year/season. Now I have enough green houses to just fill them in may and harvest in Oct. I also do indoor with a partner in the off season. Only suggestion I have to you is....if you wana play around again. Invest in a small nursery style green house with a door and shelfs....the walk in style houses. They are much easier to control light and temp than the large hoop houses. Not to mention supplemental lighting and pulling plastic. You'd be surprised what you can pull in a small experimental house. I have a few I use to start my seedlings as well as experiments. They range anywhere from 200 to 700 bucks.

GL on the up coming season.