Totemic

Day 35 Mid flower update. Not much happening. Seeds are developing well.

There will be a few phenos that range between Chocolate Gelato and Blunicorn dominance. Sounds like it smells like a Gelato dominant pheno with a high myrcene content. My favorite terpene, and the one I'll always select for.

Don't stress too much about the cold. Your plants are going to grow a bit slower and will be colorful, but they'll still grow. It's not the temperature doing that to those girls. I'd literally stop everything(watering, feeding, no fiddling) for the next 7 or more days. If you don't get an improvement on that, then that soil is off.

Shew.. Plenty setbacks on this one, other projects distracting me. Got 11 going on these. They've been outdoors but the cape weather has just been terrible for more than a week, so they have been moved indoors since the veg tent is somewhat reset.

Yeah you not going to get the best of them with only 8 weeks. 10 weeks minimum, and some might like an extra week.

Awesome packaging design. When and where can I get mine?

It's the nature of the F2 line, it's genetics, and the foxtailing is dominant from the chocolope NL. The gelato cut is also not a big yielder but produces these smaller indica nugs. They fair well and express with uniform genetic foxtailing to build quite a bigger bud than winter would produce

Awesome!!!

Day 28 Only 3 phenos remain. #1 Been the standout plant since early veg. Her terpene profile is that exact sweet ice-cream on the nose. Her frost development is on point, and she has a large bract size. I'm loving the main cola she is developing too. #6 This is what I would call an average expression of this generation. Nothing too special about her compared to #1. Her terpene profile is also sweet, still developing but not quite that pronounced ice-cream I'm after. Her cola development is distinctly different to #1 #2 This is the gelato dominant pheno. Compact nodes, battling with shade avoidance and not opening up quite as much as I'd like, but the terpene profile is on point, and she has frost and yield development potential. #1 (left) and #6 (right) Overall my main interest is my #1 pheno for this round. The F1 generation gives you the dominant traits of the 2 lines expressed. #1 fits this perfectly, but in the f2s recessive traits from both lines are going to express. This means that while #1 is an absolute stunner of a plant, it may not be the plant here that produces the best set of activated recessive traits in the next generation.

The plant is still effectively in veg mode for 10-14 days after the flip, and just like stretch above ground, the roots also go through an explosive growth phase as the plant prepares itself for peak flowering, so a repot on the same day as flip would be benificial

Our local landrace populations are hermie riddled, tall sativas, and not worth breeding with indoors. They don't suit my taste and preferences

Yeah man, I consider my space dialed in, and I still average just over 500g in 1.2x1.2 To the OP, Double your space to 1.2x2.4.... Half your wattage by dropping the HID, and run 720w of Led in the double space. Then you are going to hit your 800g+ mark.

And the male has been cut down, given a good neem spray and back to veg he goes to reveg.

Yeah just like growing, there are many ways to approach it with no right or wrong really. Some breeders collect and work with lots of pollen at the same time. It's real easy in my mind to loose track of particles that can't be seen singularly. So to avoid cross contamination I only work with one type of pollen in a 2 to 3 month period, or 4 to 6 males a year.

Day 21 The view of the remaining 6 yesterday afternoon. Had them out of the tent for a good inspection. 2 more have been cut. No13, the outlier from the start is just a weak plant, while no11, is showing its hermie nature quite oddly, pushing growths along a fan leaf stem, but nevertheless has been cut. Wherever there is abnormal growth in that nodal area its a clear indication of the hermi trait. Even though those arrowed growths are showing only pistilate and not a single ball sack yet. So that leaves me with No1, 2, 5, and 6. Their side views. All virtually the same height at 70cm. No1 No2 No5 No6 And of course let's not forget the male. He is now reached his peak at 6 weeks of flower. I have been monitoring his development, deciding if I want his pollen. He produces copious amounts of pollen, pushing a fair amount of resin glands... Overall a lekker male. Something that many aren't doing. Don't grab the first pollen that your male gives. Grow him all the way out and check him out. As always I don't collect and use pollen, but always a live male, so he is joining the remaining 4 in the tent for only 2 days before going to reveg. That's more than enough time to ensure a full pollination. Wish I had a better camera to better capture some of his features I like. The view of the 4

What an interesting few months it has been. The culmination of 1 year of pushing totemic as an official brand in SA, I have distributed a little over 45 000 seeds, 15 000 regulars and 30 000 feminized seeds. I feel it is important for me to share this with other local breeders not at all to flex as some are assuming, but to illustrate how big the local industry is, how big the need is, and how much of our economy is still flowing out to the international market. I feel I'm drowning and can't keep up with the market! I'm not here to compete with other local breeders. Breed your fire. Let's grow this industry together.

She is nearing the end and may only want water. That curl in the leaf could be overwatering and nute burn that's progressing. What you'll find with the green Gelato is that it does not fade to purples and reds. She goes light green then yellow.

Man, you just don't realize.... You are one of the OG growers I have looked up to while I have been learning through the years... Thank you. Your feedback means the world to me, and I hope what I'm working on continues to improve the local industry as a whole

Looking beautiful man

Day 14 All 6 are still around. They've been moved to a new space where they will finish up. Cleaned up a lot of the lower growth. It seems I have a purple pheno among them. Also added some predatory insects I was gifted by @GreenGrow Garden Route I don't have any mite issues but prevention is better than a cure I guess.

Looking damn good man. Seems you got a nice spread of short Gelato dominance and some Slurricane dominance in the taller phenos

Hope you cloning that top

For veg they have been pretty consistent with a shorter expression, but remember that I have forced the tight nodal spacing with light. As they progress through stretch the different or similar heights will be clear. Males, even from a similar pheno group tend to exadurate their main cola to get that pollen as high up as possible

Closeup on the male

I've been watching quietly wondering why they are just not looking 6 weeks old