Day 48.. Run off from the soil using R/O water came in at 4.5 a while back. Crazy low. I've been flushing with tap water, which is ph 8.4, for the last three waterings, watering every three days, and today was the first day I fed with 5-10-5 AO Bloom. Most of the fans are gone on all the plants....your classic yellowing leaves with brown spots from low PH. The two smaller, younger plants were both transplanted into Roots Original a few days back......they both have a while and should recoup in a few days.
The purpose of breeding the Alien 4 was to improve bud size and decrease the stretch while keeping the color and flava profiles somewhat intact, as well as staying within the Chemdog line. The cross will move forward with one pheno at this point....this pheno being like her mother in many ways....large, stanky, blue, Afghan Skunk inspired buds encrusted with resin. The other breeding pheno looks more like a heavy yielding sativa skunk, with buds so resinous, they look grey, and smell like oranges, cat piss, and rotten meat. She's quick in every way....growing, budding, finishing..... and has unbelievable frost layering on chunky nuggets. 3rd pheno is heavy A4, but the buds are larger(although most still smaller than a golf ball) and quicker to finish. She grows the same as the A4....stretchy but will yield solid when SCROG or super cropped. I personally love the smell, density, and looks of the buds but wont be breeding her because of the stretch. Pheno #4 has the largest buds and has looked like swag for weeks.....now starting to come out of her shell. Huge yield off her, either way.. I did not pollinate her....hope I don't regret it in a couple weeks.
I just installed Windows 8.1 on my computer....hate it. Many older programs don't work so I need buy W7 before I have more pics up.....sometime in the coming week maybe..
