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The Perm (2) & Grape Gas
The 2 perms are 35 days above medium and the grape gas is 9 days behind….no preflowers yet on her but I did top her a week ago. They’re on SIP bases and the top of the tallest perms main cola is getting 45 DLI…. the rest of the canopy is in the 35-40 range, except the GG, but she hasn’t stretched yet. The spots on some of the upper leaves are from when the plant stretched into the 55 DLI zone for a day or 2. General Hydroponics flora line at 1.4 EC with weekly applications of recharge and floralicious Plus (top watered, not in the SIP bases).
This is my first time with modern auto flowering genetics and they are much different than the diesel-ryders I grew back in 2009…. ordered the Seeds from attitude, was like a 2 month long process from ordering the seeds to actually getting them with zero updates along the way
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Grape gas is definitely catching up.
It’s 9 days behind the 2 perms and was topped on its day 19. Still in stretch, but towards the tail end of it
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I think she caught up
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The grape gas is finishing its stretch up and starting to stack sites. Like I said in the first post, this is my first run with modern auto flowers (diesel-ryder back in 2009), but they have _quirky_ traits/tendencies. The grape gas did a great job filling out its half of the tent without any training. I kept the growth off the perms budsites, but aside from that it’s just been keeping the reservoir full. It’s behind 9 days on the calendar from the 2 perms, but also behind more than that developmentally. It was topped on it’s 19th day and didn’t show preflowers until it’s 32nd day….. now nearly the entire canopy is at the same height and pretty even with the highest points on the perms.
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Getting there….56 days on the perms and day 47 for grape gas…. was checking trichomes on the perms, the back one is definitely ahead developmentally. It’s wild how you can absolutely see a difference in the flower size from day to day. The 2 perms are starting to reduce their water consumption while the grape gas is ramping up. Feed has been between 1.3-1.5 EC throughout their life, really only the ratios have changed (using flora series from GH & calmag plus top watering Recharge and Floralicious Plus every Sunday, which also serves to keep the moisture gradient & prevents the top from drying out too much)
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Day 65 on the 2 Perms and 56 for the grape gas….gg is 9 calendar days behind as well as was topped on its 19th day and didn’t show preflowers until day 32
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Pictures from a couple branches from the larger perm…. can’t wait to start on the other…. despite the plants looking nearly identical, the flowers are different. The smaller plant had purple throughout from senescence and its more greasy as opposed to this one which has more sandy feeling trichs
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Pictures of the 2nd perm trimmed up…. as well as the remaining grape gas. I had to ziptie the base to a tent pole, she got so top heavy with the taller chunky colas made it fall over into a tent wall lol
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Grape gas taking her sweet time to ripen, she’s been on her own timeline the entire grow, so not surprised. Probably going to harvest the photos this week and this will be the last plant going from my late spring/summer grow. Had to anchor it to both sides of the tent poles
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Took her down yesterday at 84 days. Heavy plant. The buds got big and dense as well
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It worked out so that the grape gas was harvested at the same time as the photos, and it’s great! Yielded well, buds have a great aroma to them and are very dense and heavy.
The thing that surprised me about this plant was how well it did, even being slightly neglected as the 2 perms had priority and this plant just filled in its little 1.5′ x 3′ area literally as densely as it could and then when the 2 perms were harvested, it had the whole tent to itself to finish out its bulking phase and ripening. It went the full 84 days and was chopped on day 85. It would have been a BEAST had it been able to take over the entire tent, but I had no idea that the perms would get as big as they ended up. I did top this one after looking through the discord and seeing pictures of others getting quite tall. It still got pretty tall, but stayed manageable, except having to ziptie the base to the front tent poles so it didn’t topple into the back of the tent once the buds started getting heavy and having more leverage.
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