Karma & Horti....Sour Power test grow

[SmokinErb22]

Sorry for the brief delay, unexpectedly relocated. More space for these babies though!

9/10 germinated.

little bit too long in the paper towels (a method I haven't used in years), but all seem to be pulling through so far.

I'll have pics once my internet is hooked up, just wanted to get this running.

They'll be vegging under T5 and 400w mh. Flowering will be in a vertical stadium. Maybe 4000w. I've got 3000w ready and believe im acquiring another 1k in the next week or so. Kinda winging it with no real plan yet.

 

[SmokinErb22]

Okay about time for an update, sorry for the delay's Karma.

Been busy with the relocation as well as my vacation to Jamaica! But now all is well. I've lost few plants, but still have 6 to grow out.

Losses were grower error. A bit of neglect up until now, but these girls have my full attention at this point. Stretch due to getting weak light in the corners of my veg area, and then kept the light far away during my vacation.

Anyway, here they are. Sour Power x Biker:

They'll be vegged until sex shows, then flowered. Second run will get more veg time after I eliminate any undesirable phenos.

 

[SmokinErb22]

You can see here they stretched a little bit early on, its all taken care of now. Starting to stack nodes like they should.

 

[SmokinErb22]

These are the slowest to show sex of anything I'm running currently. It's all I'm waiting on, actually then off to flowering.

Guess on early preflowers - 3 male, 2 female, 1?

That's just a guess though. I'm fairly confident in the 2 females. The males have oddly shaped preflowers that resemble a female preflower (prior to releasing pistils), only more bulbous. Rather than the tiny ball on a skinny stem.

I'll upload some pics within the hour. Slept in, still working on my coffee.

 

[SmokinErb22]

Nodes are finally starting to tighten up a little bit. Need to get these in 2gal containers and flower 'em.

 

[SmokinErb22]

Well I've pulled all but 3 up.

Only willing to say one is PROBABLY a female, she just needs some water. Was given some after taking this photo.

The other two left I'm leaning towards male, but can't really tell. I'm just gonna flower 'em all out next week if nothing definite is showing.

Got a really high % of males this run. Lost 3 due to my error... probably the females right there. Either way I got a brand spankin' new cloner I've been itching to use

 

[SmokinErb22]

No, I didn't top her. Nothing really to report yet. Node spacing is a bit further than it should be. Only got one female out of these and so I just flowered her small and took some clones.

I'll be documenting a clone run as well, gonna try to tighten up them nodes a bit and give it another shot.

 

[Gardening Angel]

Hey smokinerb22,

Nice job so far

How was Jamaica ?,
I got 50/50 on the male female ratio on my testers

Thanks
GA

 

[SmokinErb22]

Hey man thanks for dropping in. I haven't been around much, so sorry for the late reply. Jamaica was amazing! Really hoping to maybe be able to go back next year.

Glad to hear you got good ratio on yours! Seems to be the case with other testers too, probably just luck of the draw. Not to mention, I killed off a few in the whole moving process.. that was probably my females right there.

Either way, up until recently I was rather indifferent with this particular plant. However now... this girl is starting to come together. Lookin pretty greasy. Very sticky. Apologies to Karma for putting 3 weeks between photo updates.

No hermie tendencies. And she's been stressed (I stress all test plants). Very easy to grow. Nice thick sturdy branches that look to hold their weight well. Stacks buds pretty nicely. It's really a pretty... boring plant to grow, almost? I haven't trained or done anything other than give this girl water. Oh, I removed large fan leaves after the stretch. That's it. Almost everything else I have requires some type of staking/training. Not this girl though. She takes care of herself pretty much.

Smells are still developing. she's real slow to come off as an impressive plant, but she definitely is. Gonna get another run with this girl, i'd like to see at least 12 of 'em in there.

 

[Gardening Angel]

Hey erb22,

Glad to hear you had a good time i did not think you would have a bad time there

Thanks for the update

GA

 

[SmokinErb22]

 

[TrinZilla]

Looks like some nice dense flowers there. Looking foward to a flavor update.

 

[HortiLab]

Looking good SmokinErb22!!

 

[gaiusmarius]

super nice job, looks like a very interesting cross.

 

[SmokinErb22]

Thanks, everyone. I keep seeming to run into technology issues (laptop won't charge, now) but this girl is coming along real nice.

She finally stinks. I'd have to check the odors again, but there's some lemony sour funk with some earthy undertones going on for sure. First time I noticed any smell from her and it's quite a strong odor. Really came out of nowhere. Very happy with this!

Again, very easy to grow. Needed the least attention of anything in the garden.

I know I didn't do my best job here, so will continue this thread with round 2 - better veg and more plants.

Buds are rock hard, I feel like with proper veg (my lights were too far away, caused stretch and spaced buds) this could yield quite well too.

 

[Crooked8]

Looking great! I loved my sp x b testers. Out of 5 phenos i only kept one but it is stupid nice!

 

[DJXX]

i have the 2 girls still in veg...i should have kept a male...i had 7 to choose from...yours look sweet..can see the Biker in it...hope mine look as good as yours...i sexed mine then put it back in veg and it went through two months of funky reveg leaves..the stem rub on both is insane...they are bout ready to go into the bloom room...DJXX

 

[SmokinErb22]

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These will unfortunately be the last two photos of this particular run. No worries though! I'll be running some more clones fairly soon and documenting that here as well.

That said...

This shit is the fucking bomb. Every single person I've given this to absolutely loves it. I'm definitely getting another pack or three to see what else is offered here.

Small, rock hard nugs that absolutely REEK. Very strong smelling stuff. Very sour-y and there's a distinct lemon/orange/citrus there too. Flavor hits on the exhale and lingers for several minutes after the hit.

Potency - 8/10. Onset is rapid and definitely not a creeper. Very easy to control how high you get with this stuff, and its strong enough to get seasoned smokers properly medicated.

edit: Last picture? Who am I kidding, I've got dried herb I can photograph. I'll post back in the near future with some dried shots.