[aerokrafter]

Not a lot of information on these, so I thought I would share my initial impressions.

13 of 13 popped. 4 females. I am currently running three clones of each female in test.

In veg all seemed quite simular with wide leaves and thick stems being the norm. No special coloration or aromas were evident.

20 days after cuttings were taken all clones were topped and pruned to 2 shoots. 10 days later the clones were transfered to bloom (my baseline that I start everything with).

Going into bloom there was some variation: One shorter(8-10 inches) two medium(12-14) and one tall(14-16).

After 14 days of bloom everyone doubled in height and started to differentiate.

At 21 days they have really started to look interesting:

The short one is very dark green, lotta trichs for this age and lemony meat stenchy. Its about 28" tall and both branches fully enveloped with bud sites. Not the grape I am looking for - but this plant has the look and smell of something devastating.

The tall one averages 38" tall has very thick stems and some of the largest fan leaves I've seen fully 16" across at 21 days! This one looks like it wants to reach up, rip the light down, and just suck on the raw current. It has an undefined sweet aroma that I hope evolves into my target grape.

The two medium ones are a mixture of the first two phenos. The Punnit Square gods must have smiled upon me.

At this point I was a little concerned about running out of room. I run aero and trellis all plants to optimize light. So it doesn't take much to have an instant uncontrolled jungle.

Here's the really amazing thing - at day 23 they quit stretching and started slamming out bud. I have looked at a lot of plants over the years, but I don't think I've seen a plant slam on the brakes and make thumb sized, crystally buds this fast.

It was impressive enough that I went and snagged some other packs of d420's gear to see what other interesting genes he has lurking.

Early impressions are very good - I may not have my grape yet - but these are some damned interesting plants. I'm not ready to proclaim anything without smoketests, and have seen beautiful junk plants before, but Galactic Grape has gone to the top of my interest list in my prospect stable.

-AK

[Nor'Easter]

well I would be sold on the name alone, good luck man!

[aerokrafter]

Update Day 56. Phenos 1,2 and 3 are finishing. I'm pulling one plant of each type at 56, 60 and 65 days. Giant pheno looks to go 65.













-AC

[aerokrafter]

Here are some dried nug shots from the day 56 chop.

Pheno 1 - Candied Grape flavor with a fuel undertone. Tastes like grape skittles and smacks with a nice hammer.

Pheno 2 - Mostly fuel and fire with a candy afternote. Head Spinner.

Pheno 3 - burnt candy - devastating weed.

[aerokrafter]

Some method notes and yeild results from day 56 chop:

I normally run 18 clones in an aero36 with a 1K horti on a mover. Two of my testees where late to show their testes, so only 12 plants went forward.


This is my information gathering run so I start with my base nute, prune and timing stats. I'm trying to find out for each pheno:

veg time
topping strategy
prune schedule
nute strength
#days for best chop

So the yeild numbers are far from optimum, I'm also pulling plants from smallest to largest as i go through the 56, 60 and 65 day chops.

pheno 1 - 1.6
pheno 2 - 1.4
pheno 3 - 1.4

Not bad really. I know already how to improve this from what I've learned so far. My target for "runners" is normally 1.7 - 2.5 average per plant. I'm confident I can get to the high end of that scale in the shakedown run.

Most impressive plants all around - the only other thing I'd like is some color - but it is only day 56 after all.

-AK

[aerokrafter]

Day 60 Update:









Couple of late nanners on pheno2 - All aromas intensifying as the clearing started a couple days ago.

[aerokrafter]

Day 60 Nug Shots:








Little more of everything (smell, taste, buzz) - looks like day 60 is best for these.

Production: p1 - 2.0 p2 - 3.3 p3 - 1.6

One more update to go. Day 65 will have one more plant of each plus all three pheno 4 giant plants. P4 looks like it wants to go 70+ but it will have to go on day 65.


I have a shakedown run ready to rock on phenos 1,2,3. I'll post if interested. I hope this information is of use to those considering these seeds. I've ran through many many packs of seeds and never found 100% keepers before.


Questions / Comments are welcome


-AK

[aerokrafter]

Day 65 sneak peek I couldn't resist showing




I'll be back in a few with chop and dried shots, final numbers etc.

All I can say is WOW!

Thanx d420!!!

-AK

[d420]

Awesome Aero.. I am glad you enjoyed them bro.. thanks so much for posting up some pics as well..

[aerokrafter]

Day 65 Update

While prepping for this update, I realized my enthusiasm for this plant is going to make this missive run a little long. Since there isn't really a lot of info around on this plant - I didn't think you all would mind.

Here are the survivors on day 65 - last day standing



You can see all 4 phenos getting their last light.


I will run through each pheno on its own.