Cannatonic

Some pics of a Cannatonic at week 10.

and a nug close up:

on a side note, some rhubarb growing nearby!

Past purples…

We love good strong purple herb here at P. Stone, and to that end, we are always interviewing these herbs.  Many of these herbs taste great and smoke good, but have less than desirable strength.  The love of purple, however, drives us to keep looking.  Here are a couple of purple herbs that were grown out just cause they are purple, one was used a a mother for 2 crosses, and one was thrown away.

Purple Kush:

This plant came to us out of Jackson Mi, and we have no idea of the actual make up of this plant.  She finishes in 8 weeks, and smokes big purple and ranging from candy kush to black licorice undertones depending on the nutrient regiment.  She dose not push much weight, and only is significant as a connoisseur strain.  We used this female in a cross with a male from the cali connection purple diesel, and also with a bounty hunter dad from hazeman/motarebel.

Frisian Dew: by Dutch Passion

We put 5 of these plants outside in 2009, and got 5 crazy different plants.  A plant that grew past the 10 foot top of the grow, and one that didn’t make it past 4 1/2 feet tall, with the other 3 in the range between them.  The plants also varied just as much in nugget density, from completely airy and open to tight and dense.  The only common themes to the Frisian Dew were the purple color and the taste.  We did not like the taste, in fact, a friend of P. Stone said “its not frisian dew, its frisian don’t”.   The flavor started of great, tasting of fruity pebbles, but quickly went south with an unpleasant taste that cant be described, but can be hated.  Needless to say, this whole strain was selected against.

P.O.W. and pow again…

P.O.W. was posted before, its here.

We reported last that we were looking at 5 phenotypic looks of P.O.W. and we showed you 3 of ’em.  Lots has gone on in the selective process since then, the pow# 4 was very slow in veg and was selected out for that reason.  We are sorry to say that we never got to take even 1 pic of her in flower, as she never made it.  On a much better note, we would like to point out the pow# 7 that we also been looking at.  She is the largest of the pow plants that we looked at in terms of nug production, very large, dense, and fat colas.  The 2 plants that are being considered for breeding at the moment are the pow #7 and the pow#9.

The #9 behaves more like a sativa dominate, she likes to put space between her nodes and reach out and stretch.  She will turn mostly purple in color with sexy bright green leaf margins on the interior of the bud structure.  The smell on the #9 is purple tangerine mixed with g13 funk all on top of a velvety kushy base , hard to describe, wonderful to puff.  Production on this plant would be on the high side, around 500-600 g per 1000w light if temps and nutrients are properly maintained.

re post: P.O.W. #9

Now on to pow# 7, this plant will put some purple on the leaf tips and perhaps a touch here and there on the nugs themselves.  She has a much more g13 smell and very little of the citrus that the #9 has.  In addition, she shares the kushy notes the #9 was described having, but in the #7 they are a bit more intense.  This is a very indica dominate plant with little or no room for reaching and stretching.  When put in flower, she grows a bit, then just stacks on huge buds.  Although we are just getting to know this plant, we believe we can pull huge harvests with this plant.

P.O.W. #7 pics taken at week 6 of flower.

To be honest both of these plants are worthy of breeding, but because we have a sexy cannatonic strain that is very close in flavor and buzz, we will only be using one of the P.O.W.s.

P.O.W.

The P.O.W. by Hazeman.

At the moment we have sorted 5 female pows, and discarded 5 males. Of the 5 females kept, 3 of them ran 9 weeks and were large producers. 2 more are still in the sorting phase, and info will be posted as soon as it has been collected. Of the 3 that have been sorted, all of them had a great cerebral buzz, and strong flavor ranging from purple tangerines to liquorish and funk.

P.O.W. pheno 2:

The #2 is the only pheno that hasn’t shown purple color at least in the leaf. This pic is taken at 6 weeks.

P.O.W. pheno 3:

The #3 at 8 weeks, a week before harvest. Some purple noted on the leaf margins, no purple noted on the bud structures.

P.O.W. pheno 9:

The #9 at 8 weeks. This plant finished with mostly purple leaf and the bud also had some purple on it.