True story man that would suck. I'll have to be careful if I use them in drinks.
So things are looking good guys. I'm in the middle of week 5 now (about 7 weeks from 12/12) These girls are starting to noticeably bulk up now. I do have some fox tailing which I always seem to get so I'm gonna do some research into what might be doing that. But the rest of the buds are swelling. Most of these girls will be getting about 2 more weeks depending on how they look. Some of the BK have got so much sugar on them its crazy. I don't know for sure that the new additives are doing it, but they look nice. I was thinking those things may be why I've been able to run my ppm lower this grow then in the past. The additives could be letting the plants use the nutes better or easier...I don't know but this harvest is gonna be nice!
The male strawberry is starting to form some nice little flowers so I moved it near my upstairs window, and put a piece of cardboard right under the branches to catch the pollen when it falls. Then I'm gonna prolly pollinate 2 of the clones in the next batch of plants. This will be my first experiment with breeding so I'm excited. I feel like even though I don't know much about the strawberry genetics, from what I can see they should be decent.
The Cindy have actually grown about an inch which I'm happy about with how slow they have been moving. The critical jack is also about an inch taller and going to get cloned in the next few days. I've got a tray full of clones that are all rooted I will be putting into party cups tomorrow. Then I can take another batch of clones off everything including the CJ, and maybe the Cindies too which I'm torn about. With how slow they are going I was thinking it might be better to wait till they get a bit larger to clone them. I was also considering putting them into flower and then just cloning them a week into flower once they start to stretch. Hmmm so many choices, but I think with this batch I'm putting into cups I'll be able to go ahead and weed out the random other BK clones I've got. I've got a few real nice ones I'm gonna go a head and run, but a bunch that are kinda scragally I might cull. The WW mom is huge again and ready for another batch of clones to come off so I don't think I need the BK, and I would like to save one of these strawberries as a mom too I think as long as these clones all flower out good. I suppose if these all get nanners like this one did I won't be keeping them, sadly I havn't seen much growth since I found the nanners. It seems to be swelling up a bit but not getting any taller, I don't see any signs of seeds but its possible it could be making them inside. Either way its covered in frosting and smells sooo good. I wish I could place the smell, but I havn't figured it out yet.
Well guys you have a great night, I'm gonna visit THE DOCTOR for some meds and then call it a night. I'll catch ya tomorrow!
Peace TC
