Awesome work, bro! They all look super healthy but I'm a bit surprised because of the diesels. I once had the NYC diesel from Soma and she behaves much more like a haze. I would have expected the same behavior from the diesels.
The start with 13,5/10,5 was a bit too early. With such a stretchy strain I would start with 12/12 and use 13,5/10,5 from the 3rd or 4th week when preflowers from the first small nugs in each node and stretch is almost done.
I did it exactly the same way and started with 13.5h and had exactly the same delay. When used with 12/12 I get preflowers within 3 to 8 days. Cuttings are usually a bit faster like seed based plants but thats because of their genetic age(the mother of a 14 day old cutting could be 1 year old).
Your test also shows that pure sativas tolerate a bit less light and that one should not apply the laboratory conditions from Chandra in an closed indoor environment. Even with CO² and optimal conditions 1500μMol/s/m² would burn them their little asses off.
All in all a pretty good and well documented thread. It's simply a pleasure to see how its going on..
Thankyou man!
I agree with you.
I expected the nyc diesels to be as tall (which these aren’t) and more bushy (like these are) than the super silver hazes. All plants are from seeds. So there is a chance that i’d gotten an indica-like nyc diesel pheno, but two of them makes that less likely the cause. Since hazes turned out much closer to what i expected for manifolded plants under these conditions, it rules out conditions or manifold causing diesels to be the way they are. My conclusion is that these are not diesels at all. The seeds came from Southern Oregon Seeds, clearly marked as their own version of nyc diesel (the hazes also came from SOS, but were bred by Greenhouse Seeds). SOS’ version is obviously somethingelse-indica-like. Making lemonade from these lemons, i have a good test of these conditions for both indica-like and sativa-like strains. Whatever they are, if i don’t fuck them up they are gonna have beautiful colas.
I intentionally held off on the emerson boards until stretch appeared “over” and pistil balls had formed at the tips of mains laterals (at about usual wk 3 timeframe that 8 week plants tend to “end” stretch - these strains are much longer flowering period).
My thinking, was that the far red initiator at lightsoff would speed up changeover to flowering. Given the expected 11-12 week flowering period of these strains, and the fact that the indica-like plants hardly stretched at all, i could have been correct in expecting faster flower switch over. But, looking at much longer internode length of parts of hazes that developed in weeks 1-3, especially at same or higher light intensity than later, the far red likely also conttibuted to stretch. The whole setup is new,?and there were several problems during week 1 that i believe delayed normal week 1 transition, this also contributed to the abnormal stretch.
At end of week three i switched lightson:lightsoff to 12:12, and almost immediate sawvmajor increase in growth (emerson boards also started then). Given that ppfd was, by then, backed down to ~1000, the growth spurt came from either or both the emerson boards and the longer night length. I think both contributed, because emerson effect is a documented reality in other plants, and there is grower evidence that the longer the lightsoff petiod in combo with lightsoff far red also has this effect.
The indica-like plants do tolerate a somewhat higher dli than the hazes. However, nowhere near the 65 dli implied by chandra’s work. I strongly believe that chandra’s results, while they may be replicable (for 30 minute exposure) do not directly apply to plant leaves under at least 12-hr exposure to extreme light intensity near 1500 ppfd, no matter how “optimal” the other conditions.
Your comments are particularly appreciated, given your obvious expertise snd helpful comments all over riu. Someday i hope that the laws change, so that we all can appreciate pictures of what must be the beautiful plants that you grow.
Hopefully the next two months (maybe less with the far red and emerson effects), goes well.