okSo here we are stuck in the insane limbo that is the week between xmas & new year . I hope you all had a good xmas . before I start on the last GC,I would like to make a point on the hermy issues of the first two . Now although they received a good bit of stress about 2 weeks into veg there was one other seed that received the EXACT SAME stress . It was a freebie fem seed of cheese x Nepal from cannetics . They were priced at £20 for 10 fems . that's around $35 US . IT flowered out without any manners or balls . a bit of rust on the leaves(a cal/mag deficiency I think)and that's it . To me that's the difference between quality fem seeds and bunk ones.good ones can take a bit of abuse but the lower quality ones will herm up if you even fart on them.
Anyway The remaining green crack is into its 3rd week of flower . It has stretched a fair bit since flip and is now towering over everything else in the room .in the second week I was convinced it was on the verge of going full blown she-he.it looked as though there were loads of balls underneath the pistils reaay to grow out.it was only experience that told me to give it a chance but as I said I was convinced . just shows you what I know(not much).not a single ball to be seen . The tops look as though theyr going to be a decent size but I think the GC could have been kept shorter & denser if it had been vegged under hps lighting .The smell of the flowers are a bit different to the smell of the stem wen rubbed . I'm not good at describing smells but so far I would say it smells a bit like one of those fruit flavored cold & flu drinks you get.Also the cuts I took from this plant were the fastest and strongest rooters out of 4 different varieties.
The night temps in my room are less than ideal,sometimes going under 18°.this has led to the calyxs going purple alth I ugh they can't really be seen under the fuzzy pistils . here's a few pics.
you can kinda see the purple
here's the GC cuttings after 9 days in my bubble cloner.(above)
here's a shot of the cheese x Nepal defficincie manifesting itself on a leaf . I thought it was a cal/mag deficiency but I didn't have anything to treat it . would love to hear your opinions on it.
and on the bud leaves.