I already have a thread on this on another site, but I would like to share it here as well.
Here's some background information that I am going to copy from my original thread:
A good friend of mine received several packs of seeds from British Hempire. He offered to let me pick some, but at the time I was busy with Deep Spacey (Sweet Pink Grapefruit x Deep Chunk x Casey Jones).
I was helping my friend transplant his seedlings one night outdoors, when he offered me one. There were dozens of different strains, all planted at the same time, however the Malawi x Colombians were enormous, at only a week old. They were in 16 oz party cups. They had the largest cotyledons I've ever seen. At least 5cm long, and 3 cm wide, each cotyledon. They were very healthy and vigorous, so I decided to chose that strain, as I've never grown a pure sativa before, and figured here's the chance. As a seedling, and in early vegetative growth, my seedling had very large and wide leaves, but after about the 5th node, she began to have giant 9 leaf thin sativa leaves. She was a beautiful shade of green.
I started to flower her about a month into veg. I topped her a few times, and Super Cropped extensively, so I could maximize her yield indoors.
At about 16 days of 12/12, she began to show her preflowers, and her new leaves only had 3 leaflets. She was flowering under 320 watts of CFLs placed within an inch from the buds, as well as being outside under the full sun, for about 4-6 hours a day.
I do not have a camera myself, but was able to use one at about week 9 1/2 of flowering. You can see that the buds are just starting to fill out, and just starting to explode with trichomes. Around week 12 I took a sample, and while it was a grade A high, I knew it would be better if I waited. Around week 14, the buds really started to bulk up, but not in an indica way. They just kept throwing out more pistils, and the calxyes started to swell, and smell amazing. Early in the morning, she smelled like some sort of sandalwood exotic incense. It reminded me a lot of the smell of this old record shop that had a wall full of incense. Later in the day, it was extremely lemony and sour, as well as very pungent. It could easily nauseate someone.
Now, here are the pictures I was able to take. On the good looking pictures, I took them outdoors in the shade, with flash. The ones in the sunlight I didn't use flash. In my opinion, using flash helps bring out the trichomes a lot. On with my pictures:
Here's some background information that I am going to copy from my original thread:
A good friend of mine received several packs of seeds from British Hempire. He offered to let me pick some, but at the time I was busy with Deep Spacey (Sweet Pink Grapefruit x Deep Chunk x Casey Jones).
I was helping my friend transplant his seedlings one night outdoors, when he offered me one. There were dozens of different strains, all planted at the same time, however the Malawi x Colombians were enormous, at only a week old. They were in 16 oz party cups. They had the largest cotyledons I've ever seen. At least 5cm long, and 3 cm wide, each cotyledon. They were very healthy and vigorous, so I decided to chose that strain, as I've never grown a pure sativa before, and figured here's the chance. As a seedling, and in early vegetative growth, my seedling had very large and wide leaves, but after about the 5th node, she began to have giant 9 leaf thin sativa leaves. She was a beautiful shade of green.
I started to flower her about a month into veg. I topped her a few times, and Super Cropped extensively, so I could maximize her yield indoors.
At about 16 days of 12/12, she began to show her preflowers, and her new leaves only had 3 leaflets. She was flowering under 320 watts of CFLs placed within an inch from the buds, as well as being outside under the full sun, for about 4-6 hours a day.
I do not have a camera myself, but was able to use one at about week 9 1/2 of flowering. You can see that the buds are just starting to fill out, and just starting to explode with trichomes. Around week 12 I took a sample, and while it was a grade A high, I knew it would be better if I waited. Around week 14, the buds really started to bulk up, but not in an indica way. They just kept throwing out more pistils, and the calxyes started to swell, and smell amazing. Early in the morning, she smelled like some sort of sandalwood exotic incense. It reminded me a lot of the smell of this old record shop that had a wall full of incense. Later in the day, it was extremely lemony and sour, as well as very pungent. It could easily nauseate someone.
Now, here are the pictures I was able to take. On the good looking pictures, I took them outdoors in the shade, with flash. The ones in the sunlight I didn't use flash. In my opinion, using flash helps bring out the trichomes a lot. On with my pictures:
