Haha yessir, I wish there was still the dancing man smiley icon to insert, because I would have a whole line of them here! Thanks a bunch for checking out the pics!
I have not harvested anything prematurely, I am still just starting the flush for these plants so I don't think they would have the best of flavors with so much chlorophyll and salt to cover it up. But the smells are insane for sure! The grenades are still putting off lemon smells, but completely overtaken by sweetness, it went from lemon heads to lemon jolly ranchers! And the LADs are all getting a little kushy, but some citrus and lavender are also present! I had a good friend in the garden last night and he helped me check the density of one of the LAD buds. . . he ended up with super greasy/sticky fingers that he couldn't keep away from his nose for the rest of the night, he said it smelled just like a freshly opened box of fruity pebbles, and he was going to go buy a box because he got such a strong craving for it!
Thanks a lot KILLERCHEF! I am very proud of these girls, growing up so fast :D! I can't wait to try out all the different flavors from this round!
Great question soser! When I take my shots I do it all very fast in a very specific way: I wait until a couple minutes before lights out in the flowering room, then I open up the quadruple doors to the veg closet so that light from in there spills out into the flowering room. It isn't much light, but it maintains the photo period of lights on for the few minutes it takes me to snap all the "light out" shots. So when I use the flash it isn't disrupting a lights out period, because the plant still think the lights never went out. Then I close up the closet doors and leave the garden so the plant still get at least 11:55 dark time, which is plenty to not disrupt the photo cycle. Thanks for the kind words!
Haha, yea flowamasta I was gonna message you when these were all said and done and say I thought the Alien Grenades would be a great strain for your garden! The colas are super super tightly packed and the stretch is really limited, I didn't do any temp tricks to reduce stretch so if you did it would probably not stretch at all! A great strain for a height restricted garden no doubt, and I think one of them competes for frostiest strain in the garden right now! Thanks for kind words and the laugh!
Thanks so much KennyP, I have only seen deficiency/burn signs on two plants so far which I believe is based on a little nutrient build up in the media of those plants closest to the fan drinking more than the rest but getting watered just as frequently. Since noticing that at the start of last week I have been watering those plants more often and with more water. My runoff for the trays is now back where I want it and everything is looking happy happy again!
Thanks Ken, I am really surprised how fast they are swelling right now, I was ready to rule out one of the Alien Grenades completely until a week ago when it started pounding on the weight! Now that plant is leading the charge in that tray! The frost is very exciting! I am happy to be running some of my keeper cuts of (strain)xThe White because it really shows of the difference in trichome structure! Both look pretty much the same in photos, especially from a distance the crosses with The White tend to look super caked. . . but in person, close up, it is obvious that the strains from Alien have longer stalks and larger heads on the trichomes and they are packed almost equally as dense on the buds so I really cannot wait to sample these flowers when they are dried and cured!
Wow, thanks a bunch G-rod, that means a lot! I hope you get something really special, there has got to be some absolutely insane stuff in a full pack because I only popped 5 beans and there are multiple keepers on the table right now! Happy to share, makes taking the photos that much more worthwhile.
-Meeks
