I find it tempting with multiple breeders represented to want to do comparisons. Since I only popped one of each strain from a handful of breeders and pheno variations are inevitable, that alone makes comparisons somewhere between anecdotal and deceptive. They were started at different times and then thrown into a less than optimal situation at various young ages. Now they've been up-potted into different sized pots with a mix of soil combinations. Kind of makes comparisons pointless. This one is just for fun and variety in jars this fall.
It worked out that they were ready to up-pot just after the little heat wave, and now they are in their final pots and facing a week of much cooler temps and have noticeably slowed down, as would be expected.
The FB Gorilla Cookies is the first to show sex, 23 days since she popped.
I think the best looking ones are the DP Cindy Jack and the Meph HubbaBubbaHaze, in terms of tight inter-nodal spacing. The Cindy Jack got topped this morning (they get topped after the 5th node).
The biggest so far are DP's, Glueberry OG and then Daiquiri Lime. They were started between 3 and 5 days before the rest and stretched a lot. I'm not sure how much their age combined with environmental conditions has impacted their size, vs. how much is genetics. Both strains are known to have the potential to run long and grow big.
Here's the Mendocino Twenty20 Triks, which struggled with the heat, but I'm giving it support and I'm sure it'll be fine when the good growing weather settles in.
And finally the "little miracle" of the bunch, the FB Strawberry Banana. This is the only time I've ever had a seed that put out a root and started it's stem but could not bust out of its shell -- that I
successfully helped it. She was not going to make it, and I did some luck-infused surgery with a utility knife with a fresh blade, and carefully cut the shell off. She's so stunted that I would not be surprised if she lived her whole life in this one gallon pot, but I'm glad she made it.
There are so many variables. I think that when they are very young changes can impact them hard. They were all popped within a 5 day period, but the oldest were 16 days old and the youngest 11 days old when they went out into a heat wave. I think those days really matter, some impacts were obvious right away, some might show over time. Some might be impossible to accurately identify, given the countless variables.