Nirvana Papaya Grow

[Tokudai]

Welp, here's an attempted ongoing of my current Nirvana Papaya grow

10 seeds popped 10/05. Vegged for the first 2 weeks 24/0 in my 150W HPS/70W MH Dual spectrum cabinet, then moved to a 24/0 schedule in my 240W 6-tube flouro setup. Fed 1 tsp Fox Farms GB per gallon once the first set of leaves started dying off, then once more a week later. Very slow growth compared to the previous AI seeds from same vendor. One (back left corner) was definitely the runtiest and the front right was the strongest. The runt turned bright yellow and would not get any bigger through several weeks. Since it was dying and I had nine healthier ones, I sacrificed it for room and piece of mind. Maybe it couldn't handle the food, I still am not sure.

Up through the 30th day, the one larger plant dominated the others. All were vegged for 30 to 36 days, and I put a couple in the bloomroom at a time, a few per day. No clones taken, I figured if they turn out decent I'll try and reveg the best one. When they were put into 12/12, none of them had shown sex yet. Only 3 turned out female - the largest one and 2 others.. 3 of 9 (Well 10, dunno what the runt would have been)... The AI's turned out 4/10 so the papaya seemed on par with my Nirvana odds..

Fast forward to yesterday, day 23 of 12/12. You can see the distinct size difference of the 2 phenos I seem to have gotten. The pots are 9" tall for reference - the one large plant is easily twice the size of either of the other two. With the close up bud pics, the one with the trichomes is one of the smaller plants, and the large one, as you can see, has yet to develop any. Absolutely zero smell so far - even gently rubbing the stem/stalk I only get a real faint weedlike smell. Time will tell if this is a keeper or not.

Tokudai Reviewed by Tokudai on 11-28-2006. Nirvana Papaya Grow Welp, here's an attempted ongoing of my current Nirvana Papaya grow 10 seeds popped 10/05. Vegged for the first 2 weeks 24/0 in my 150W HPS/70W MH Dual spectrum cabinet, then moved to a 24/0 schedule in my 240W 6-tube flouro setup. Fed 1 tsp Fox Farms GB per gallon once the first set of leaves started dying off, then once more a week later. Very slow growth compared to the previous AI seeds from same vendor. One (back left corner) was definitely the runtiest and the front right was the Rating: 5

[True_Hippie]

looks very nice man....ipe: + :baggy: = me

[BIGtime]

beautiful lookin man. keep up the good work :thumbsup:

[BLaQLiGhT]

I see what you mean Tokudai, they are not growing to well. Flowering doesn't look like the problem to me though, they look like they didn't like their life in VEG to much so now they flowered out like this. I'm sure you will get a good smoke but I hope my Papya grows up happy and flowers like a Beauty . Keep Smoking Bro :smokin: , and keep Em Green :thumbsup: ...

[Tokudai]

Well they are progressing nicely, day 28. Can't see any deficiencies, so I'm gonna keep on this path. The small ones are not going to yield very well, but they are starting to fatten up a bit, and from the looks of the trichome development, should be a knockout. The big one on the other hand should yield pretty well.

'Nuff said here's some pics

[Kindbud]

phenomenal,tell me what the smoke is like

[GanjaSmugler]

nice!

[Tokudai]

Day 34 and all is well

The bigger one is putting on weight rapidly. From the growth patterns I am convinced I got two phenos - the large one and one of the smaller ones appear to be budding alike and smell almost identical except for size. They are starting to get a funky rotten banana/B.O smell and are starting to put on trichomes pretty well.

The other smaller one (second pic) has a sickly/sweet rotting fruit/catpiss type smell. This one is not budding like the others, not as many pistils or as fat/fluffy of a structure, but easily 3x the # of trichomes as the others.

I imagine the 2 smaller ones did not take to the transplant into larger pots as well as I had hoped, because other than a little nute burn on one, they seem to be doing well, just small

Neither are what I would call a "pleasant" odor, but having grown some "catpiss" smelling strains before, it won't (I hope) translate to that taste in the final product. I think thats what got me started using kitty litter in my filter instead of carbon!

'NI'll shut up now - Heres pics

[BLaQLiGhT]

WOW, I think they look really good. They are growing only one main stem which means yeild won't be to high but they look really good. I saw a Papaya plants that grew more side stems which grew more buds but the top of your plants look just like every other Papaya plant that I have seen. BIg fat colas that keep getting fat. I love it :thumbsup: . Keep Em Frosty Tokudai...

[Gasper02]

Bustin my cherry on this post!!! looks nice to me! been viewing this site for the past couple months just never really thought about joining but now that im a member i cant wait to comment on peoples posts and hopefully will have some pictures of my own up soon!