Night Owl Seeds Zamaldelica Express - Day 53 from first true leaves

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Initially had some deficiencies due to underfeeding. I bumped my feeds up to full strength where I feed my photos to green these ladies up and it seems to have barely worked. I'm back down at 'auto' strength now to coast through ripening.

Using GH Flora Micro and Bloom, 2ml/g Micro and 5.5ml/g Bloom (that's my half strength flower formula).

Autocobs are about 6.5" from the tops, about 12" from most of the plant material, 18/6 lighting. Lefty took better to the LST than righty. Righty self-topped, splitting the main automatically right at the 6th node.

AC infinity 4 inch with controller, usually in the 50-65% range and 69-81F. They share my 2x2 with my outdoor veggie seedlings so I keep it humid, no issues with mold or anything so far *knock wood*

They both smell aggressive. Like when people say animals can tell your mood by how you smell and what hormones you can give off; these plants smell feral. 70% citrus, 5% urine, 15% artificial floral, 10% mango candy. Not much frost on the spindly sativa pheno on the right, Lefty is coming along nicely though.

Lefty is also significantly chonkier, looking like a much heavier yielding pheno.

Looking at a late May harvest I think but sometimes these things sprint across the finish at the end.

 

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My photos are finished so I moved the Zamaldelica into the flowering cab under the HLG 135W to finish out, timer on 18/6.

Today is day 59 from the first true leaves.

 

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Day 64 updates. Still no milky trichs, thinking 2-3 weeks.

 

[Kurtdigglur]

Lookin good. ZE is on my radar. I was looking at the NO strain guide on reddit and seen the description of ZE, and realized I made a mistake on my last drop purchases... Soon..

 

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Lookin good. ZE is on my radar. I was looking at the NO strain guide on reddit and seen the description of ZE, and realized I made a mistake on my last drop purchases... Soon..

Yeah I threw these in my tent as an afterthought and now I regret not doing these seeds as big monopots in larger containers. The yield on the darker left one looks to be amazing, but I sorta didn't grow her right to take best advantage

 

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Day 67 from the first true leaves. All the tichs got milky in the last 36 hours and she's doing that end of life pistil explosion some tropical strains do. The old pistils are dark red and brown, but in the last days they've blasted out another 30% brand new white ones. I transitioned to plain water and I'm going to wait until I get a nice solid amber coverage. She's not growing new clear trichomes, just new pistils, I'm actually surprised at how uniform and consistent they are in that regards. Looking for the heavy side of ripened since she has tropical sativa genetics which tend to make me tense and irritable.

The color is some of the most shockingly beautiful cannabis I've ever grown, absolutely breathtaking appearance.

I'm also surprised how fast she's finishing, the small containers and super intense light probably contributed there, but I think it's only like day 75 from soaking the seeds. Guessing another 24-48 hours maybe at the earliest, I'm actually looking at a traffic jam to get into the drying tent since my photos are still hanging in there.

 

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Also, although some of the purplish color is likely from some nutrient issues as well as the light, I can confirm the calyxes under the leaves are also purple, so definitely a strong genetic component to the color. I wonder what she'd look like in TLO under the sun

 

[Kurtdigglur]

Yea definitely looking pretty purple. Nice job homie!. Excited to hear how she vapes or smokes!

 

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Day 71, plain water in the morning then maybe we're done?? The trichs still have some wiggle room, probably just entering where I want them really. The inner canopy still has good turgor and they're both drinking the water I'm giving them. Taking it day by day, each morning making sure it's not totally amber-city. Hopefully they'll stop drinking before everything ambers out, that's the cue I look for with autos like these. Yield is going to be amazing for these small containers.

Color is world-class and smell is totally unique. Artificial tropical candy, all day.

 

[BassAce5000]

Day 71, plain water in the morning then maybe we're done?? The trichs still have some wiggle room, probably just entering where I want them really. The inner canopy still has good turgor and they're both drinking the water I'm giving them. Taking it day by day, each morning making sure it's not totally amber-city. Hopefully they'll stop drinking before everything ambers out, that's the cue I look for with autos like these. Yield is going to be amazing for these small containers.

Color is world-class and smell is totally unique. Artificial tropical candy, all day.

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Class job, looks fucking great. Can’t wait for that smoke report.