Update on my Blackberry Mouth pheno hunt - Day 37 Flower (since 12/12)
Had a touch of PM (a few pea sized dots on two plants) a couple weeks ago. Did a heavy prune as getting a healthy crop for my pheno hunt is way more important to me than yield (I still have jars left from last harvest). Probably an over-reaction but I killed one plant that exhibited it worst (room was getting crowded) and noticed that its mother in the veg room also had just a hint of PM while none of the other moms did. So in the last 2 weeks I've been treating veg and flower room with Elium. I haven't seen a reappearance, but will continue to be vigilant and err on the side of a bit of extra pruning. I have 4 other strains in the same flower room, but none ever showed PM.
Anyways, back to the fun stuff!
These are all in 5 gallon pots. My 24 seeds with plucking males and wimps has me down to 7. There is quite some variance between. As a new grower I've been measuring how much each plant drinks, and water/feed individually based on need. Here are some stats to give you a sense of the phenos I have left:
1 - 47.8L (TOTAL water/nutes consumed since popped in July)
2 - 40.7L
3 - 40.4L
4 - 45.1L
5 - 46.8L
6 - 41.5L
7 -
56.6L
I use Advanced Nutrients phPerfect, feeding at 75% suggested (I use 3ml/L instead of 4). They get Big Bud weeks 2-4 of flower. They get CalMax with each feed. I won't use anything else unless some reason to. I use a Feed/Feed/Water schedule. I only feed/water when needed... when you see how they have all drank different amounts over their life, what this means is that on any given day I am giving different things to different plants.
other notes...
they've been quite fragrant for some time. I ran out of time to do stem rubs yesterday when taking photos. I plan to do that today.
#1 has the most stretched node spacing AND drank the second most vs #5 which drank about the same BUT has very stacked dense buds compared to #1.
2&3 were always behind but still have nice looking nugs, just smaller than the rest. #4 is probably the most "in the middle" of the phenos
#7 has been a crusher from the get go. It drink and drinks.
informal
a little bit more class...
selected phenos 1, 5 and 7 - in order