hey sensi

out of all the pheno's it is this pure mango pheno that showed some slight signs of burning at the leaf tips, but nothing to worry about, the ec was atleast 2.0 most of the time , dipping down to 1.8 and upto 2.4 which is alot higher than you were running yours .. they handled it fine
2 of my phenos were low yielding the other 2 are good
some of the lower yield can be atributed to the larger pheno's taking up most of the space first, not giving the smaller pheno's as much light
i will be running the commerical haze pheno and the sparodic orange pheno as clones next time round i will also be running one of the flav pheno's which turned out to be a good yielding plant nice dense lemon sherbert smelling buds
i will top all of these i think its a good idea, top them a few times to make these grow into a large wide bush, the side shoots can be topped too
the 2 ah phenos and the flav are all big sativa structure plants, they need to be turned into bushes to force them to make more branches/colas
i would rather end up with big plants that i have to manage than smaller plants that do not yield to their full potential , so i will veg them until they are growing well top them when needed, in veg i am not sure how tall i will let them get before i flower them, i will wait and see how they grow and how many shoots they make but 12inch would be a max i think they will still get 4ft tall maybe even bigger
the best way to grow both pheno's i have i think is to encourage as many top colas , as possible in the space while removing any weak branches
using a screen could help to, just to keep the colas organised and stop them shading each other,
sometimes i top plants 1 week or so into flower, just before the buds come, this normally makes all the branches grow up into heads, as tall as the main head would be this is also a good idea i think, again i will watch them grow first and then decide how best to chop them into shape to produce this multi cola bush i am looking for
although these are big plants, the phenos i am keeping naturally want to be narrow with not many branches and inter node spacing is about 2 inch apart
i am going to pack them in quite tightly , i would normally have 4 per sq meter ill have 6 of these so i can trim them into shape, as i do not think 4 plants per sq meter will make enough solid thick branches, to produce enough colas to fill the space once the weak crap has been removed
i remove leaves / any foliage that blocks the colas
i will be keeping the sparodic orange pheno for quite some time, this one really is a lovely smoke, ill upload some pics when its dry, the buds are very frosted they sparkle in the light, they have very little leaf lots of light green swollen cylax , its a shame this plant is not higher yielding , but i look forward to the challenge of improving that somewhat
the commercial haze pheno, is nice too, but not in the same class/league as the sporadic orange
i will keep the commercial haze for a while, but its place in my grow room is not safe, the flav could easy replace this one as the main producer
for now i am happy to keep all 3 until i decide to run some more seeds most likely on the crop after this next clone run .. im sure the orange will be safe for along time, i doubt i will find anything with this much flavor in a hurry i am happy i found a winner
