I’m pretty sure she’s taller than 10’ now @ColeLennon. On Wednesday night we had a wild downburst for 30 minutes, sounded like hail on our roof and I thought for sure there’s damage, especially to her, towering beyond any support I can provide. I left the house ~4am for work Thursday and wasn’t able to check on them until Friday morning. No storm damage to anything. Although the shitterpillars and the rain have conspired to ruin some 907 buds. Little bastards. Applied the Captain Jack’s Dead Bug Brew (Spinosad) last night in the last few minutes of dusk to all 3 plants, label rate 15mL per L. I’ll apply BT again and get on that train spraying every 3 days rain or shine. But the spinosad should cover me for a few days and I want everything dead before the BT routine fires back up again. I think I had this issue because I stopped spraying due to the intermittent rain last week. Little fuckers had just a few day window and they took it. NOT AGAIN.
@Hashpants I haven’t tried BT at heavier rates, I learned back in late June to respect labels/application rates and frequency. Does it work better? I thought quantity was relatively unimportant it was just thorough coverage that mattered most. I’m following the instructions at 5mL per liter. Here’s a link to my earlier IPM mistep: Over Applied Neem and Burned my Shit
@Ottafish the local grow shop told me not to mix them. I don’t understand why but that’s what they said. I picked up a jug of Insect Frass LABS Ferment I was cautioned that this would rapidly increase the breakdown of my organic matter and to lean towards 1/4-1/2 the low-side of the application rate until I see how things react. He said he applied the low-side and noticed N toxicity the next day. So maybe this helps in several ways, particularly releasing lots of the nutrients the plants need now, especially Panalawi. So I’ll apply a dose this morning, 1/4 low-side recommendation and we’ll see how they look Sunday. And the chitin. That should help too, terpenes and resiliance.
Regarding ripeness, the IBG is leading the pack and seems to have about 50% darkened pistils. It doesn’t look like scope time yet, although maybe this morning I’ll bring a nug in and check. 907 still has mostly white pistils and I think at least a month on the clock. That’s consistent with what @LD50 observed, she wanted to keep flowering longer than expected. They are CHONKER colas. Jeez, peeling them apart yesterday was a chore I’ve never seen anything like this before. I’m kinda surprised I didn’t find more rot than I did.
Today I’m going to do some pollination. I’m going to dust a Panalawi branch with Zamdelica Express Auto pollen from @Morde and some 907 Blue Genes lowers with NL1 and Black Domina x TKNL5Haze pollen from @Klyphman. Thanks again to those generous folks. I think this is my last pollination window with good probability of sucess so the timing of receiving the pollen is perfect. I’m not even worried about frost until end-October, so 6-7 weeks left on the clock today basically. I’ll let the lowers keep going even if the tops are ripe and harvested for the seeds.
Pics later. Have a great morning guys.