Small veg update on 6 of the 13 ladies in the plot this year:
Zkittlez x Purple Urkle
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Maui Wowie x Purple Urkle #1
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Pure OG Kush x Chemdog 91 (left)
Humboldt's Most Wanted (right)
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Savage Purple x Girl Scout Cookies
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Albert Walker x Bubblegum
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Couple of these plants are showing great outdoor potential. When I pop seeds I'm usually searching for Phenotypes/Genotypes that work well for my specific little area. I like a balance between potent medicine and an easy outdoor plant that doesn't fuss much. Some plants just work outdoor and are super easy, and some just lose the fight outdoors from day 1. Over the years: Kush hybrids have seemingly been my easiest/favorite plants to date. Something about a 70/30 or 60/40 dominate Indica hybrid that isn't SUPER purple but just has hints/swaths of purple in her bud. Thinking back over the years my favorite #1 plant in the plot where always kush genetics: Candy Kush, Whitefire OG x Tahoe, Bubba Kush, Black Cherry Soda, Cream, Red Cream, OG Kush, Platinum OG. All of these plants where potent smoke, and easy to grow.
Maui x Urkle #1 is such a thick beast I probably won't have to use a secondary external cage on her. The branches are thick and strong which is a trait I look for. I get a heavy amount of wind and a decent amount of rain the first two weeks of October that make thin/weak branches snap easily. Walker x Bubblegum is showing a really nice formation to her budding sites and structure, she also literally smells like ballpark gum right now when I brush up against her.
The Savage Purple x GSC AND the Humboldt's Most Wanted both have high potential too, at first both ladies where showing some traits of being heavily Indica. Every stem/branch is so fat and she stayed very low to the ground after topping. However, after a few weeks of veg and cleaning of the internal growth I'm starting to see some spaced out nodes and lankier bud sites and both are going to bush out a bit more. Which I'm happy to see because in the past I've noticed I like the golf-ball nugget kush type plants over the long donkey dick cola hash plant type nugs.
For contrast: I have a Do-si-dos X Obama Kush from Founding Fathers that is just staying pure Indica, she isn't getting tall and every branch/stem on her is like a sausage link. The node spacing is so short shes probably going to be bud stacked ontop of bud stacked ontop of bud, and she just doesn't wana bush/spread out after topping. Acting very similar to the Deep Chunks I topped last year (Never top your deep chunks by the way lol just let them christmas tree out)
Zkittlez x Purple Urkle (im calling her Zurkle for now, I got dibs on that name lol). Great plant structure, much like the Savage x GSC she started off super indica and short/bushy but now is starting to get some air into that inner growth. This plant I have high hopes for.