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Hey all - been some time since I last updated here. Had some problems because my bulb blew and I had to put up some flouros for a week or so before the bulb could be replaced.
In the meantime some Pehkuruder plants have made it to the back of the room - they're pollinated with Pehkuruder pollen - a small branch on my DSD "bush" is also pollinated on purpose.
Tonight I put in 2 mother plants after cutting clones from the bottom branches. The first mother is my trusty Swt#3 - never before have I grown her in a 12 liter bucket and never before have I grown such a big and branchy swt#3 plant - this might turn into a nice plant with a little luck.
The second mother is Freja - I've smoked her "pseudo-autoflower" buds and it was quite potent, sticky and smelling. Freja I grew outdoor last year had a really nice potency. Indoor I have no idea about how it will perform but with a little luck this could actually be a pretty nice yielder. It would be a bit of a dream to find a plant that clones well, can be kept as a mother with enough tlc, performs well outside and in, yields well, finishes fast, smokes good etc etc... Too many things to ask for in one strain I guess but it's definitely worth a try.
Never got any pics done actually - harvested the plant monday and it looks like I'll be lucky to have 150 grams... I think what really killed me was when the lamp blew and I had to give it flouros RIGHT when bud-building was at its peak.
Well looks like around 120-130 grams - bollocks!
The rest of it is finishing off a bunch of seeds fathered by Pehkuruder - with a Swt#3 and a Freja mother to keep her company, both in 12 liter buckets. They have been in there for 4 weeks or so.
Here they are side by side with Freja on the left. So far it looks like Swt#3 is frostier but it might just be because it's maturing faster than Freja.
Freja - I think the way she seems to be preparing for some fat buds is promising and I hope she will do the same outside. Smell is a little weak still but sweet with a hint of piney citrus:
Swt#3, piney goodness as usual and growing well. I could have wished for more tops.
Nope - only outdoors
Indoor I'll keep focusing on growing several plants but I might be going for a lower plant count. The Swt and Freja I have in 12 liter buckets are doing their thing alright - I wouldn't mind having 12 plants like that in my room instead of my usual 20-30.
Right now I'll be flowering some smaller swt though - perhaps with a couple of small Freja plants and perhaps even some Nugg-it.
Thanks - just want to log this to keep track of dates: Sun june 13 was the first day of 12/12 for the new batch, consisting of 22 small plants in 6.5L pots. More than half are swt#3 clones, got a couple of DSD clones too as well as 2 Freja clones - I wonder how the last ones will act when flowered as a small clone.
I also got some seedsplants in there - some fms grapefruit X Nugg-it and Swt*Nugg-it and I don't know if there might be some Nugg-it in there too.
I gotta get back with pics of that Freja - wow she's a beauty with a bunch of really fat buds. I think she's a 60 day finisher - perhaps I will be able to take her down on day 56 but we'll see. I have started a pure water diet so it will be well flushed for sure.
I saw the signs of mold starting in the large swt#3 top here around day 44 so all of the largest tops went down. 62 grams wet when trimmed close and all buds removed from the stem for fast drying - that must be around 15 grams dry - and what looks to be more than that amount left on the plant still so with a little luck I've got a 40-50 gram plant there.
The Freja must be even heavier than that although it doesn't have the same compact nuggets. Nice frost though - smell is kinda weak and piney/earthy with just a hint of citrus perhaps. If she can make buds like this outside then I will worship her
I harvested the 2 plants I had in 12 liter containers. Each of them yielded me almost 60g so I was very satisfied with that result.
June 22 a couple of Freja plants were introduced to replace males and today 6 Freja mothers were also put in the room - finally it's full again and I'm happy to be back on track with a perpetual grow. I've been missing that for a long time already.
Swt, DSD, Gf*Nugg-it and some Freja plants were harvested in the weekend.
A single Guerilla Grape female went in the closet along with 5 DSD clones for their first 12 hour night. I was gonna keep the smallest DSD plant for a mother but instead I went for one of the larger, bushier DSD clones because I want to grow a really nice mother of that strain to repeat last winters success with very colorful buds from the cold nights.
Well I've been here all along but just didn't really feel like posting as much as I used to.
Swt#3 will always stay in my garden because even though she sometimes gets a little moldy she's a fast girl with a pretty nice yield of solid nuggets.
I also started a hydro thread but never really got around to starting my bubblers because of some cloning trouble.