Quick little veg side update!
First and foremost, the Perkin's Cut Cannatonic is killin it! I'm so happy I finally got her to take to my growing practices. I gotta say, I already see an enormous difference in the genetic expression of this plant when compared to my friends canna grow (shots fired canna!). I will point out, that this cultivar is the only one that kind of struggles in his garden... it rarely looks happy and vibrant and by the end of flower the leaves are just miserable and looking tired. All his other cultivars grow fine. I'm wondering if this Perkins is just getting tired and needs some natural healing
The differences I'm seeing are stem structure and appearance; more robust, better color and less rigid. Another difference is much faster growth, and I'm only vegging under a 400w MH Blue by eyeHortilux. His seem to take quite a while to veg. Now we do have some significant environmental differences... he grows with LED and his temps are definitely warmer than mine (in a good way). So There are some other influencing factors. Anyway, here she is....
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Next up is the Cookies 'n Chem from Greenpoint. I still can't determine the sex but it's very close. I suspect by this weekend I'll have them narrowed down. All I want is one lady! Anything more will be a bonus. They are very indica dominant in appearance. The leaves are massive, most are far bigger than my hand. They're also not easily coaxed into promotion of side branching. I've been pinching them regularly. If I don't see any improvements by the weekend I think I'm just going to top them and make it happen the hard way haha. Overall though, very healthy.
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The confidential cheese is overdue for flower, but hanging on just fine. I'm putting them in this weekend. They are some of the best looking I've grown to date. Huge lush canopy, which is great because they don't stretch much in flower at all. So the bigger the better. Going to lollypop the shit out of them on friday night and put them in at the end of the weekend.
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And finally a full veg shot wrap up. The 4x4 is WAAAAAAAAY overcrowded and I'm thankful it hasn't been detrimental. I'm upgrading to something bigger soon. I can't put them through this anymore lol. I just had too many going at once and ended up getting jammed.
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One thing I'd like to wrap up with... I can't say quite enough how fucking pleased I am with this eyeHortilux "Blue" MH. It's such a great spectrum. Color Rendering Index (CRI) is around 90 if I remember right. I'm actually going to flower under these bulbs and see what happens. They have enough reds for it. I'm curious to see how it affects the transition between veg and flower. Switching spectrums so abruptly like that from MH to HPS... yeah that's beyond unnatural haha. So I'm going to go veg through flower using only the Blue eyeHortilux. If it goes well, I may consider picking up some 3k spectrum LEDs, timbergrowlights 3VL in particular, to put between my 600w HIDs to add some red spectrum and get a nice balance. Anyway enough rambling.... Flower room updates coming in a day or two. Didn't wanna blow my whole wad in one post LOL.
May the microbes and fungi be with you! Peace....