Just checked the last update, nice growth
Thank you, 50 CENT.
hi cannatari good luck your grow, those little baby plants will turn into monsters
Thanks, Billy.
Wow, glad to hear they recovered. Don't feel bad, I did the same thing.

Live and learn, right?
LOL, I've since done the opposite and underfed them. Living and learning.
Good looking "ladies" here C.
I ll follow your thread, it s probably gonna be a great one.
See u.
Thanks maxibiogreen, nice to meet you.
Hi Cannatari-
Hope ya don't mind if I tag along as your thoughts and questions help me organize my breeding attempts. Keep up the good work..
Welcome to my thread and thank you for the compliment, SurfdOut.
Well, I have some very good news to report. One of the seedlings smells EXACTLY like mango fruit! While the rest of the seedlings have your typical vegetative/skunky smell, one plant stands alone with a distinct mango smell to it's vegetation. It's the one with the blue circle, duh:
So, does this mean that Selection In Small Spaces is complete?
I really had no idea that a mango pheno would distinguish itself so early. I cannot accept in my mind that one of these other plants will exceed this plant in mango expression or that this plant will somehow become less mango upon flowering. I'm half tempted to cull the other plants upon a female confirmation from this pheno but I will wait until I have a cured sample to make that decision. My goal from the beginning has been to find the 1 best plant. I prefer to flower only 2 plants of the same cut at a time in my area. I would rather rotate the MH with a second variety all together than with a 2nd place MH pheno so I may never even flower the other 15 plants. Crazy, but I'm that convinced. This plant is in a league of it's own. She makes all the other plants smell the same and nothing like mango.
So, here is my description of this plant:
Out of 16 plants, she is number 11 in height, having 5 plants taller than her.
Her leaf stems are about 60% purple. The other plants range from 100% to 0% purple on the leaf stem.
Her leaves are dark. The other plants are about 30% dark leaf and the rest are pale green.
The shape of her leaves is truly hybrid. Some of the other plants have wider leaves and some have narrower leaves. Height does not seem to coincide with leaf shape as some of the shortest plants have thin blades and some of the tall plants have wide leaves. The widest leaves amongst the stock belong to one of the short plants though.
This pheno is overall an excellent example of a true hybrid. It's neither tall nor short, it's leaves are neither wide nor thin, her coloration is in between all the other examples I have to compare her to as well. None of the other plants look like her at all.
So, as it stands, the selection process will be continued after a rotation of this pheno. This will put me 2 rotations ahead of my goal to use my flowering area exclusively for the best pheno than the standard selection process if the pheno is proven. If she is not proven then I have delayed the selection process by 1 rotation. I'm confident that this plant far surpasses a second choice for justifying the delay. I would not even consider postponing if I were to choose from the other 15 plants. This plant is that unique.
To keep the selection process moving, I will locate a tray of cuttings of the other 15 plants outside in a few weeks to sex them. I will then have females to choose from for the next rotation as an option. I am still curious about the other phenos but I'm also visualizing the outcome of a jar of each right next to each other, "resorting" to smoke the other pheno.
To conclude, I'm very happy about this discovery and satisfied with altering my procedure to accommodate the new information. I think it's a good experiment that can contribute some useful info. I still have several weeks to experience these plants before I follow through with it so it will be interesting to see if another plant reveals a unique quality in the mean time.
Advice, comments, questions and/or answers all welcome/appreciated.
-canna