Barney's Farm Pineapple Chunk Fem

This has to be one of the most confusing strain reviews I have ever seen online. I too got the itch to order due to the description of what barney posted. I will say so far the mothers look more indica dominant. I did grab the feminised seeds and actually in the process of flipping the first cuts just to see if they were female (no hermied mothers). No use of doing alot of clones to get all male or hermied plants. So its been a long process for me. The mothers are atleast 3 months old and more cuts have been taken based on the cuts that were flipped. I will get a journal up on them. I will say it did take a F**nnn long time to get any bud sites, so this might take long? It took about 2-2.5 weeks. Anyways, along for the ride.

I'm having a whale of a time with them lol, one has stretched out and has gone from 2.5ft to 5ft from coco level in just over a week :O the others have stretched but at about 4ft :/ pistils have appeared all over and its looking like they will be a good producer, originally looked quite indica dominant, all newer leaves however look very sat :/ weirdest plant I have grown so far, i have a mutant that is separate and my god it stinks to high heaven in veg :O
the statement about beautiful structure is very true.... lets hope its as good as it looks.....
i will add some pics at some point

any one with any updates?

I will say all barney's new strains grow really wierd, both my lsd and pineapple chunk were mutant sprouts, 5 in total. I have one completely indica chunk, short fat leaves that got topped early and took forever to recover but is my biggest plant now, took off like a rocket at about 2 months, growth patterns and even the colors resemble the strawberry it was germinated next to... Florigens anyone? Lol the other is strange aswell, left it alone til 10 pairs then topped, strangest looking plant aside from the other chunk and lsd i've grown. Looks like a tropical pine of some sort, fern shaped 11 fingered leaves, bottom half indica but after about 2 months the leaves thin out and fingers multiply. I've nicknamed thisone 'pineapple trunk' because the stem is already as wide as a tube of liquid nails and solid as f. Everyone of my supposed sativa dom hybrids from barney's have taken about two months to stop growing freaky. A lot of people ditch these slow starters and keep the vigorous growers-don't! These little mutants are awesome pheno's and about two or three generations on they grow better than any plant i've grown before- ie, run a clone off a clone off a clone, take them in flower trust me and they grow with no mutations as big as you want them. I'll be flipping this lot in a week, just fixing a small mg deficiency first so i'll keep you updated

Just wanted to post my pineapple chunk day 43 from seed.Grow 12/12 from seed its the one closest to the camera. aprox. 2.5 feet tall.
Not really stinking that much but that could be due to the 8 ball kush behind it. Now reading through this thread and seeing all the hieght problems I'm glad I decided to LST and keep it in a 8" pot.

I'm a little worried about how big these things are going to get when i flip them after almost a 4 month veg, i've trimmed them heavily but they are still at least 60cm wide and high already lol

I'm growing the pineapple chunk and I'm not having any of the problems a lot of yall r having my pc is short bcuz i lst'd her but she is filling out beautifully and is smelling up my whole room...

so this Pineapple Chunk is a new strain? i hear great things about Barneys genetics. i need some beans. its going to be a huge order and need to wait a few more weeks.

beautiful pic nonetheless. barneys allegedly had mutant strain reports from growers, having too many or malformed fan leaves. i never had a problem with my barneys farm red dragon or laughing buddha.
before blaming the genetics though i would go through all your growing criteria like air and water quality, nutrient levels, temperatures etc. some turned out to be nutrient deficiencies.
barneys farm is still a standby breeder for me and i even like greenhouse still despite the controversy, i've never gotten screwed over from any of those guys.

Red dragon and laughing buddha are two of the farms more established strains though- the problems seem to be with this new series of hybrids released, not just limited to barneys either. I had leaf problems that took forever to crack, these things like mg levels that would be fatal to any other strain i've grown. Could simply come down to how the breeder raised the genetics, over several generations they get used to and thrive on different nute brands, ph, ppm etc. If they bred the seeds using bubble with ro water and synthetic nutes at a low ph and you throw a seed in hot organic soil and it will take some getting used to

I had 2 mutants out of 4 (I gave the other away) one mutation which I kept was just two main stems one plant (chopped the little un) the mutant not pictured here is elsewhere and its a stinker.
as for ph/ec etc mine is all balanced as are my temps controlled. To be fair it seems like its flowering quickly and looks hardy..... we shall see....

I thought i had more mutants but it just turned out to be strange nute requirements lol. I do definately have one mutant though, refuses to grow over 30cm high and has such dense growth some leaves are being snapped off at the stem from overcrowding. I didn't lst this one, just like it stopped lol

I agree with Barneys being one of the most thorough marijuana botanists in the world..(strong words i know).I have reservations about greenhouse.I planted 9 PCs in Asia last year.Because here we get 12/12 all year round plants flower after 3 weeks.Growing mother plants is a sun and cfl combo!!The PCs where a mix of 3 phenos,Sative Dominant ,Indica Dom, and 1 true looking Sativa-Indica cross.An unusual plant,as it has very noticeable variations.But i take my hat off to Barneys for PC,controversial almost,but got me smashed to bits after 2 bongs,great smell,taste,and very enjoyable for all occasions as it had a bit of everything.

i need help on these pinapple chunks i got 4 in a 120 by 120 darkroom tent with 600 watt air cooled thyve been going 3 weeks from seed now and seem slow maybe its just me but people on here are sayin they get overly tall will i be ok in this size tent? or do u think i should scrap them and get different seeds?

they are tall, but not quite that tall i don't think - this is my second year outdoors with them - first time it was a tall thinish plant - maybe 9 - 10 ft then this year i have a skinny 8 foot one on the large side..

I have to add some pics.... i'm more than impressed with the flowering of this plant, it stinks, its producing well and i'm doing nothing out of the ordinary....
after the initial stretch, minor training the plant is just trying to pump out buds like nothing i've grown before, pics will be here in the next few days.....

mine just started smelling.. i had forgotten how nice the fresh aroma is from that one.. i have two and one of them is the biggest plant in the garden - without any extra fertilizer..

I ordered PC seeds last week for my first grow in my closet starting to think its not going to fit lol Lets hope i can keep it small

OK... so the low down I have on these in my now personal experience.... is
FUCK, I'm impressed, really impressed.
3 plants + 600w sun master + ye olde barn reflector + coco + canna coco a & b + rhizo + zym + (molasses + hammerhead + overdrive + gh ripen in flower) ph 6.0 upped to 6.3 through flower.
LST and medium defoliation.
one plant finished with 30-40% amber in 7.5 weeks (5 dry zips) then 7-8 days later.... 19.5 zips from the bigger gals that were left to finish off. lots of resin.
its dank, i mean real dank smelling almost as bad as real uk cheese...not that bad but almost lol, pretty good taste and deffo a nice creeper that you get half way through a banger and you get a slap in the face, long lasting too.

bag appeal - 8
taste - 7.5
yield - 9
high - 8 creeper / relaxing-sleepy
smell - 8 kinda cheesey but not :/
easy to grow
stabilty.... well of 4 that were popped, 1 finished quickly, with average yield 2 were stonkers which really yielded and smelt more and the last is a low yielder with average smell so far of the 3 that have been chopped i wish i'd took cuttings of the heavier yielders... doh!
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oddly... I did have a runt that went else where with a rhino runt and is just getting its few days of dark before the cull and I have to say even that has done ok, not great but ok.
definite cash croppers delight