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That broken Cola is still holding on strong, I think it just might make it. These plants are so strong it's amazing the things they can come back from.
Pictures are going to be coming tomorrow. They are really starting to put on some mass now but are still showing mostly clear trichs.
thats amazing that the cola is going to make it. I marvel at this plant.
Good to hear you'v manged to save the cola.. :thumbsup:
Any pics?
Here are some long awaited pics.
First I'll be doing doing seperate posts in this thread for each of the ladies. Each girl will have about 3-5 pictures each.
Then I'll follow it up with the side by side comparison from the last picture date to this picture.
Lady Number 1:
This plant is very interesting. Originally it looked very indica dominant. This plant was also a scraggler. A runt if you will. IT's growth was always slow and never seemed to put on the length that the other plants did.
This plant has recently shown accelerated bud growth in the last 2-3 weeks (this is around the same time I transplanted. coincidence.. I think not!). Since that time the buds have gotten very very sticky despite the apparent absence of frosty/heavy trich formation.
I love the smell of this plant. It smells of Mango/starfruit and within the last week the plant has also taken on a candy/bubblegum flavor scent. So imagine a pink bubblegum that also smelled like mangos.
The buds are very very top heavy. If I shake the branch gently from lower to the main stem then it will continue to shake for about 15-25 seconds after my hand has been removed from the branch.
Picture 1: Overall shot of the plant.
Picture 2: Top view shot of the plant
Picture 3: Close up of a bud
Picture 4: Another close up of a bud
Lady #2:
This sexy Lady has been one of my favorites to watch grow. She has several long sexy cola, or legs as I like to call them, covered in buds from the top all the way to the main stem. Very heavy cola's with sticky leaves and buds although there is no heavy trich's forming.
She smells like a orange/lemon combination. Definitely a sweet citrus/acidic smell to it. I love lemons and I love oranges so let's hope that the smoke is similar to the smell.
All though there is no heavy trich formation the buds on this plant are very sticky. If I use 2 fingers to touch the plant and then touch my fingers together they will stick and give a good bit of resistance before they come apart again.
This plant is also the one that suffered the broken cola. It's been hanging on well considering but it doesn't seem to be healing. As I was moving it back from it's watering station (the bathtub) back to the flowering chamber the cola finally broke. It was again hanging on by a thread. I could foresee this being a problem and the point of the break was not looking so good brown/black... I was also concerned about it being a point of infection. I made the hard decision to go ahead and cut it for ease of maintenance and to protect the health of the rest of the plant. Sacrafice 1 smaller cola for the life of the plant.. don't even need to think twice about it.
Picture 1: Overall Shot of the plant
Picture 2: Shot of a cola. Couldn't capture all of it on camera in detail without backing far away.
Picture 3: A not so good close up of one of the buds.
Picture 4: Shot of the broken cola
Picture 5: Close up of the break point
Lady #3:
This plant is pretty much Lady #2's twin sister. They are very similar to each other with only very slight differences.
Lady #3 is also very tall and sexy. She has many legs/colas that are covered with buds from top all the way down to the main stem. Her buds are very sticky and smell like oranges, unlike Lady #2 which smells like a combination of orange/lemons.
Not much to cover here because she is so much alike to Lady #2.
Picture #1: Overall shot of the plant
Picture #2: Shot of one of the colas.
Picture #3: Close up of one of the buds.
Picture #4: Another close up of another bud.
Lady #4:
This one is a late bloomer. Took a very long time for this one to start taking off in bud and pistil formation. At one time I had seriously considering trashing her to make room for the other plants instead. I'm glad I decided to hold on. Despite the fact that she looks to be about 3 weeks behind the other plants I think it's going to be one of my bigger yielding plants.
Her main cola is very wide and densely covered with buds that have not began to plump up yet. this plant is still heavily producing calyxes and pistils. With very little to zero hairs turning red yet.
This plant has a scent very similar to any of the diesel strains. This plant is already sticky and has some visible trichs. I'm hoping this plant will put on the resin I couldn't get from the other plants. This is all because of the crap genetics. However it's amazing to see how much better the buds look/smell and feel compared to the original it came from (mexican shwag brick weed).
Picture 1: Overall shot of the plant.
Picture 2: Shot of the main cola. You can see the top part of my hand at the bottom of this picture. Should give you a decent reference for size of that cola.
Picture 3: Shot of another smaller cola
Lady #5:
This is the original lady. She started 4-5 weeks before the other. She was my only survivor out of an initial set of 18 plants. Very strong and robust she made it through all of the horrible things I did that the other plants couldn't tolerate.
It's amazing the strength this plant has to bounce back. Had I taken care of her properly I have no doubt that she would have made some very fat buds.
Unfortunatley me and this plant have a love/hate relationship. She was very beautiful, lush and looked promising in vegetative state. However in flowering she's never really matched up to what I felt she should have looked like. Her buds form at a very slow rate. In addition to this her colas are very small in comparison to her sisters that started vegetative state 4 weeks before she did.
If I had to do it all over again I don't think I would have allowed for the plant to go into flowering with so many colas. Has in the neighborhood of 50 side shoots. Of which 30-40 are colas or trying to be. Give a second chance I would cut all the scrawny shoots and only would've have left the strongest looking 15-20. I would've given the plant a week and a half to recover and then I would've lollipopped the first 3-4" of the bottom of the remaining colas. Given it another week to heal and then put it into flowering. I think this would've given me better results. All in all I think the problem is that the plant has too many cola's for it's size. Dividing nutes between all these colas as well as all of them fighting for light through a tight/crowded canopy I feel has let to the lack of heavy weight production we see here.
This plant I think will still give me about 3 oz if I'm lucky. Originally I was anticipating around 5-7oz or so, but I've given up hope on this plant putting on any bulk. It has tons of tiny budlets that will never mature and it's too late for me to strip them without herming the plant. It's a shame too.. it smells orange/citrus like with a combination of diesel. Really unique scent.
Picture 1: Overall top view of the plant.
Picture 2: Cola shot
Picture 3: close up of a cola
jesus D...gorgeous ladies man...i cant wait to see weight per plant...insane lookin plants man...
WT