w1ckedchowda
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Man either way I've just achieved a new found respect for you Zeus. This is a lot of really good information and phenos, you're very blessed and keep thinking the way you're thinking! I look at it like this: Keep your head down and keep doing your thing, but tell one person that you trust more than anyone if you REALLY need to. It'll take off all the weight on your shoulders, but only if you feel you should (ie: best friend or spouse).
Heres the table today, all the happy ones are really happy, and the 2 sad ones are looking dead. Goes to show you, root your goddamn clones properly or else.
On the table i'm running 3 phenos of my house strain, trying to decide which one is a right proper mother for my sog. Only time will tell, they all root with similar speed and are pretty much just as vigorous.
My house strain is called the spruce zeus.
I've been growing these genetics for some time now (since i started growing with any seriousness.)
originally feminized bagseed with about 20% hermies, I have narrowed it down to my 3 favorites. I'm just so torn over what to grow alot of.
Heres some shots of the 3 mothers,
I've nicknamed this one fruity,and it certainly lives up to that name. Its not as good a yielder as the other two but smells, and tastes so fucking sweet. It has many smaller trichs that stay white and never really amber off. It finishes in about 11 weeks in soil. The high from this bud is a very lucid 'clean' high with little burnout. Probably my favorite smoke of the bunch, very sour and a real crowd pleaser. but longest finishing time and smallest yield.
This one I've named Chunky and its the yielder of the bunch by a fair bit. If this were a commercial grow i would pick this pheno in a second. Thick buds that really swell and finish early. Big fat trichomes that are nice and amber at 9 weeks in soil. The calyxes on this girl swell up big time.
Strong skunky smell. The smoke from this one is pretty heavy, with lemon-skunky flavour that really expands in the lungs. Definitely a hard comedown from it too.
Pros- yield, bag appeal, flavour.
Cons- Very indica-y high that is not very functional. come down is pretty rough.
This one i've nick-named The Purple one. No guessing as to why its called that, later on in flower pretty much every leaf on this bitch turns a deep purple colour. It shows on the dried cured bud, but not as much as a "true" purple strain. In the last 2 weeks or so this one foxtails like mad, with chunky shoots coming out of everywhere. She yields somewhere in the middle of the pack, finishes in about 10 weeks with large perfume smelling buds that aren't peticularily dense or frosty but quite nice nonetheless. The smoke from this one is very flavourfull with hints of perfume, skunk and pine.
The high is fairly balanced, with a bit of a creeping spine chill, not as potent as the other two, but pretty good for those days when you're chain smoking joints and don't want to pass out at 5pm.
Three beautiful girls, One tough decision.
Not really a huge factor, but chunky sucks up nutes like mad whereas fruity and the purple one eat like birds and burn up if you dare feed them close to full strength.
I think its gonna come down to chunky and fruity.
I hate to call this the battle between quality and yield but it kinda equates to that.
Having said that, fruity is still not a bad yielder in the grand scheme of things and chunky definately doesn't lack flavour or potancy. I guess the thing to do is just bide my time, give each a turn on the tables and decide from there who is doing the best. After all its not like i'm gonna kill off any of these girls, they all have desireable traits and are the best 3 from probably 80 seeds. And i'm still going to have my soil grow, so if i decide i need to grow a bunch of each i can do that too.
Also i have all these nirvana white rhinos that still might impress me yet. and the church, and some jock horror i just popped, and always arjans ultra haze aaaaand some KC mango seeds. aaaaaaand some attitude freebee powerskunks, which i probably won't grow in my garden, Ive heard too much about 16 week flowering times and insane stretch with little of the things true powerskunk is noted for (yield, potancy) Next time someone asks me for some of my genetics, thats what they're getting, enjoy your weed, in 6 months!!!!
my mother room. Looking kinda empty right now, but not for long.
Anyways, when my grow's big problem is too many strains to choose from, i'm doin alright.
Happy growing y'all.
Great great job on the plants though, that purple fan leaf is humongous and the "chunky" seems very tasty. +rep
(me) left the cloner off for several hours and the clones got all wilty, but they've popped back and should soon be as happy and healthy as the ladies next to them.
I'm pretty excited for this gal ^ she smells so good and is as frosty as a january windshield.
