I do enjoy it very much though some days I dread it LOL
Most of my friends and my brother think I’m nuts physically moving this many plants every day. I am disabled and won’t be getting any better but the old saying “if you don’t use it, you will lose it” is kind of the mindset I have. In 98, a year after the workplace accident, I was told I would be in a wheelchair by the time I was 50. I am 54 and still getting around on my feet. It’s a challenge though and it’s painful. When I am done moving the plants I am spent… literally. Soaked in sweat and the body is screamin for me to stop. That is the reality if this misadventure I am on. I need the exercise and I push through it and that is what has kept me out of that wheelchair. I feel it won’t be long though unfortunately so I’ll just keep pushing myself. The light dep run gets me back in shape for hunting season … which I live for. Then I take it easy all winter sitting in my ice hut over a hole in the ice… smokin fatties from the greenhouse harvest and poppin seed for the next seasons greenhouse run LOL
maybe next year I will have some kind of light dep system set up so I don’t have to move the plants but was too broke this year to go down that path. Next year… ya… I’ll do it next year
well more sad news from the greenhouse as I discover another plant with nuts forming… hmmmmm. It’s a Long Valley Royal this time and the smallest of them overall. It was also the fastest to root … kind of a bummer but not critical.
Still have a packed greenhouse and a few less plants just makes for more room for the rest and better airflow.
Because I try and make most of my personal smoke for the year ‘and’ make seeds under the sunshine… I need to be extra careful spotting nuts on the ladies and catch them before they open. So far so good in that department.
It’s troubling me that I found a hermie in the Long Valley Royal… I mean there is some old school sour diesel in there so it could be a recessive from that part of the gene pool perhaps.
That’s one thing about the way I practice light dep… it is stressfull on the plants there is no doubt. That coupled with my rudimentary greenhouse and no real way to control temperatures… more stress on the plants. So I figure by the time I weed out any stressed out plants… what is left over should be nice hardy breeding stock.
So today we are on the cusp of finishing up week 3 of flower and the girls are ready for pollen.
I’m behind as usual but I have been collecting pollen from the males continuously for the past week and have a very nice amount from each male. Enough to put 20 or 30 pollen packs into the freezer for long term storage and enough of each male left over to do my work in the greenhouse.
Just gotta make up some bags for doing branch in bag selective pollinating and its gonna be sexy time in the greenhouse
So I have axed gorilla bubble bx2, darlins net s1, gg4 s1 , slurricane s1 and now a long valley. I’ve grown lots of the long valley beans and this is the first intersex plant I have found so I am confident going forward that it’s not an issue in the line but a stress reactor from the environment and handling during the light dep moves. This happens every year so while it sux balls I won’t get to smoke those plants… at least I know they aren’t going to pollute my seed making efforts.
fun times!
So the hermie pandemic that swept through my garden extended beyond the plants i mentioned in the last post. Some discussion in my sponsor thread that fills in the gaps.
I have pulled more plants and chopped them…including 3 bikers, a fire ogkb, another long valley and I think that is it. I may kill the remaining bikers as well but I’m watching them like a hawk.
None of the plants that I found nuts on were going full blown hermie , they were popping nuts on the lowers , tucked under the flowers. When I carry the plants to the shed at night and out in the morning I can clearly see a lot of those lower flowers and is how i spotted most of them.
I’ve gone over every brach of every plant now… took several days but I am confident going forward.
So that still leaves me with a greenhouse full of plants still so I can’t bitch too hard.
I had lots of breeding plans though and some of that is now cancelled for the time being.
I found the reason this has been happening and it is/was a light leak that only happens between sunrise and 7:30 so all the plants in the first two rows in the shed were probably getting very minimal sunlight… I don’t know if it is enough to fuck up the plants but it’s the only problem I have found. On the outside corner of the building facing east the corner molding is missing and there is a small gap at the top letting in a sliver of light… could that be it? I’ve sealed it up good now.
We’ve had a lot of really windy days the past few weeks and I’m guessing that plywood edge shifted somehow. Anyways… onwards.
I am pulling plants to be pollinated today and doing the deed in the shop.
So far I have done:
GSC x Blue Kush , GSC x Scoutbreath male 1 and 2, GSC x Frosty male LVRK
Scoutbreath 1,2 and 3 x Scoutbreath male1 and 2
Chem D x Scoutbreath 2 , Frosty LVRK and Fire OGKB f2
Scoutbreath #2 x LVRK frosty male.
yup everything expressing the slightest hiny of intersex is getting the axe. I am pretty sure i have found them all but will continue to be vigilant daily.
So far we have escape the fires and crazy enough… it was +2 C here this morning and even though the sun was out all day we only got to 23 C
Usually we are 10 to 12C overnight and 28 to 32 C this time of year.
A lot of these fires are being caused by stupid people and there seems to be a lot more of them and on top of that BC wildfire is in the business of managing fires, not putting them out.
Our province is littlered with replanted forest that was never thinned and it’s just a tinder box waiting to happen regardless of this bullshit climate change narrative.
Lots of media bluster about these fires as well and sensationalizng it for the government’s climate change . pay more carbon tax and it will go away bullshit LOL
On the news they say it’s a record heatwave across my region … tell me where that heat wave and drought is… I’m not seeing that here. W have had ample rain… everything is green… the weeds on my lawn are thriving… the sky is not falling
Fire season isn;t over yet but I think we will be dodging it this year.
Up north they just made a cliuisterphuck of everything doing backburns in the wind again…but hey… if it works in australia where they invented the “back burn” it must work here right?
Sometimes… most of the time these fire crews lay a back burn and the wind changes and now you have a massive fire instead of a manageable one. That is how they do things up here.
yep i have to agree with you. that carbon tax rebate check tho!!! lmfao. remember the crew of women firefighters getting all the media attention “first all female blah blah” then they fkd up and caused that huge fire around calgary and then all a sudden no media about them haha. just glad your safe
My wife is 3 hours south of me (driving 100k an hour) staying in hotel in a town called Merrit. A small crew from our hospital is pulling shifts so they could keep the hospital and ER open. They are so short staffed due to employees evacuating or on standby as the fires near kamloops is displacing a few hundred homes I hear. Plus they airlifted elderly and palative care out of kelowna and salmon arm and some have landed at the merrit facility, Won’t see the wife for a few more days but after that she will be off again for another out of town gig. She wants to go north and help out the hospitals accepting evacuees and critical care so we will see what happens.
Yup, I’m hoping to pay more carbon taxes on top of the carbon taxes on top of the regular taxes…hopefully we can get this global boiling under control…lol.
40million in Canada
400million in North America
I hardly think our carbon tax is gonna do fuck all…as China opens and fires up its largest coal plant…lol
I’ll get pics of plants tomorrow , they are really starting to put on the flower now.
I have some good news in the doom and gloom… I discovered that the ogkb 2.0 I am trying to reverse is starting to produce some pollen!! I’m gonna have to coax it out of her but the ripe pods definately have pollen in them so I’m gonna start trying to collect it tomorrow.
Be nice if I could get enough to hit the ogkb 2.0 and a couple others… we;ll see. Weds and Thurs are the last days I can pollinate to be able to have the plants finished on time.
well thats it for me, I’m tired and gotta fo lay down for the night
g;nite all
Well it’s an overcast day due to smoke blowing in overnight from the wildfires. None are anywhere near us , it’s from the other fires either far north or south of us. Smokey though… making for a much cooler day today so I can get lots done in the greehouse with thinning leaves and tying/staking. With the plants that were culled there is actually some nice space between the plants and things are looking up. Spent an hour this morning scouring the plants for nanners and found none… happy day!!
It’s cool enough today I am going to do some branch in bag pollinations and get all that out of the way. My window for pollinating ends on thursday. The plants are 28 days of 12/12 today.
Ideally I would pollinate the beginning of week 3 but it is what it is. I allow 10 weeks of 12/12
on the calender and I want 6 weeks to grow mature seed so we are right on the margins here for getting pollinations done.
anyhow, I took 98 pics this morning and can’t post them all LOL so I am gonna go thru everything and get some pictures rolling. Plants are looking right on point for 28 days in despite the chasing of some issues. I hit them with 8mls/gallon holland secret Micro (5-0-1) and a teaspoon of Alaska Morebloom (0-10-10) and topped that off with a smidge of Garden Pro Super Bloom (10-40-25) to hit all the bases. I’ve followed that up with 2 waterings of gypsum and epsom salts and everything seems to be happy now. Some heat stress on a couple bigger plants from the 52C last week but all in all I am happy with where the plants are at for this stage.
From here out it will be water/gypsum and end of the week I’ll give them another shot of the superbloom. and then water only “hopefully” till the the finish. I’ll be throwing in a few gypsum/molasses feeds in the final weeks as well.
So here’s is some pics as the greenhouse fills up in the morning.
most of the pots are #7s and there are 3 or 4 plants in #5Ts
The 4 plants in 15gallon totes which are those blue ones in the last pic. There is also the two plants that aren’t in the pic that are in 18gal totes.
Here are some pics of the plants in totes.
Pink Kush in 15 gallon tote
OGKB 2.0 in the 18gallon tote… the other pics came out fuzzy so will get more later. This one is just loaded LOL and the scrog kinda went lopsided but whatever… she’s gonna turn out nice.
and last the 2017 Shishkaberry in an 18gallon tote from the 40+ seed pheno hunt and boy am I glad my hunting skill were on point for this girl. She is fuckin awesome if I do say so myself I totally lollypopped her yesterday to clean out her lowers. Was a big pile of prunings when I was done.
Plants look great, and glad to hear you got the light leak figured out. I like how you didn’t get all mopey because you lost a few good ones…plenty of other good stuff in that greenhouse by the looks of it!
