tough crowd around this place… guess this thread isn’t interesting enough LOL
I’ll finish updating tomorrow 
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Not “interesting” enough? I see so much! The @Tonygreen Stat Line is one I would like to run at some point. You’ve got Rude Dog in there. That has me curious about a possible outdoor choice to try. That big Shish looks to be well suited to be the holiday tree in some big govt building. Perfect! For me, I see a lot I’d love to run.
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I’m sending you some of the stat line seeds… not many but enough to give you a taste hehehe
The expression of Rude Dog is kinda meaty smelling… with some dank spices. Hard to describe but needs to cure. The clone I took rooted after weeks of doing nothing so what the hell, she earned a spot in the greenhouse. LOL
Tomorrow I will dive into the Long Valley Royal plants and why I selected what I did. Gonna be some epic ladies coming from those. I took clones of one so far and was really iimpressed with how fast and vigorous the rooting went. Immediately out to the sunshine at first sign of roots and instant new growth happening … I like it.
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Outstanding! I’ve seen some grows caused me to think Stat Line has been overlooked. I’m curious. I’ll look.
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This is the way. Positive vibes…
~nugzz
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Nice update, thanks!
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K where was I…
Long Valley Royal Kush… of all the seeds I have popped since 2015 when i returned to the grow room… these have produced some of the most potent cannabis I have consumed in many years. Watching friends who have toked for 30+ years nearly slide out of thier chairs… or going to bed fully clothed with boots and jacket still on… ya these things happened LOL
Getting that late night phone call of “what did you do to my husband??” haha
So ya. this seed line is some of my most prized beans and I thank my buddy Kevin from fresno with the hook up. He grows some nice trees and I bug him continuously to join one of the foums I am on but he is just not into “playin on the net” as he puts it.
So my pheno hunt from the remaining seeds of this lot has come down to these plants. There are 8 females but I think I will be axing #8 and just keeping the 7 pictured here.
I have just topped them all as they were pushing past 3feet and I can’t have that LOL not this early.
The narrow leaf ladies are the ones to watch and that is what I have been selecting for along with the stem rubs which are a super fuelly and fruity smelling and that all important tackyness to the stems. The residue that comes out of a plucked fan leaf stem is sticky on the fingers… oh yeah!
So here is #1
#2 (my personal favorite at the moment)
#3
#4 — this one is a prime example of the narrowest leaf expression that I have been selecting for.
#5
#6
and #7
There are 3 males but for some reason I didn’t get them all.
These 2 are probably the keepers going foward though. One that came from the last seed pop looks pretty haggard from stress testing out in the yard. He will bounce back with a good feed and a transplant. The stuff all over his leaves is dried mud from the yard. He got blown over during the winds we have been having and it took me a day or two to notice LOL
so that’s it for now… more next week
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What do you mean, “that’s it”. Looks like a lot from where I sit smoking, and now drooling. Maybe that’s a clue to germ more.
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That’s it!! LOL
for today
when in doubt… pop more seed I say LOL
You’ll have to be the one poppin them though… my plate is very full
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So much going on at your grow, wow all the plants look so good. Those long valley Royal Kush look amazing. What is the flower time on those? Look like mostly sativa with those thin leaves. I bet they have a pretty descent stretch in flower.
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Not sure where you find the time to do these updates with all you have going on, but it’s much appreciated @SHSC-1 Looking forward to future updates. Love seeing the variety. Outstanding work man!
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Lot of work all the way around for this guy.
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Yeah for sure. I can’t even imagine how many plant tags and sharpies he goes through in a year.
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No kidding.
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plant tags hehehe funny those come up.
I keep the lids from plastic containers like the big coffee cans we buy that have yellow plastic lids. I keep the lids and cut them into plant tags. We also go thru a lot of feta cheese and we buy it in square containers that are also perfect for cutting up into plant tags. It’s a habit from way back LOL but hey… I’m recycling !!
I think I spend about 2 hours a day in the greenhouse depending on the day. The real juggling act was vegging all these plants… plus all the one’s I’ve killed while pheno hunting… thru my 7.5 x 7.5 foot veg room starting with the christmas day seed pop. Keeping them all happy was a chore n a half… mixing bottled nutes that were new to me due to not being able to get general hydro flora… that messed with me and my plants but forged ahead.
Now that they are out in the greenhouse and in soil I can just feed them my well water without doing anything too it. I might give them a boost once flowering sets in but keeping it organic with the alaska 0-10-10 with gypsum and molasses. I keep it real simple because the season is short and they don’t need much extra in this soil mix.
The hard part of this job is about to start and that is moving the plants into the shed by 8pm and back out to thier greenhouse spot at 8am. I learned from another grower who I respect, schews from over at icmag. His plant amaze me and he’s such a laid back cool cat. He talked about doing light dep like I do by moving the plants into darkness. The trick is to always put the plant in the same spot on the ground and always make a mark on the pot that faces the same direction at all times. This keeps the plant clocking correctly with it’s orientation to the sun and other nature forces … sounds like bro science but its not. I used to get plants hermying on me until I started following that method of keeping the plant in the same orientation/direction.
anyhow… I just blended some 22 month old super silver sour diesel haze blended with some 88g13hp wrapped in a rolling paper smeared with a liberal coating of freshly made honey oil… so excuse my ramblings
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Interesting Thanks for the tip. I hope to give light dep a go next year and will be taking this knowledge to the garden. I have a bad back which has caused me to not try this. But I plan on building a flat bed trailer that I can tow in and out of a blacked out structure. We will see though. Sometimes my imagination exceeds my motivation.
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I can relate to the bad back…I’ve got some pretty major spine and pelvis issues from a workplace injury in 97 coupled with a congential defect in my tail bone where the top segment didn’t fuse when i was a wee little fetus. So that segment was forced to act as a vertebrae and that workplace injury put an end to that. Been a tough journey with pain and mobility managment… If my doctors knew what I was doing they would be like “WTF Man!!” LOL
My decision to use #7 pots instead of my usual #5T’s might have been a dumb one but I just had to try it this year. I figure I will use a dolly with a strap that holds the pot from moving and I’ll just wheel them in and out of the shed.
On the other hand, the summer light dep gives me lots of exercise and keeps me moving in preparation for fall hunting season hehehe
This just might be one of my best starts to the season yet and I’m hoping things go smoothly from here on to harvest time. I caught a glimpse of a black critter a couple times around the greenhouse and almost thought my eyes were playing tricks on me till today. Some kind of black furry creature the size of a kitten and super fast. My fears are that it is a pack rat but it might be a pine martin… which i really don;t want to fuck with LOL
So I’m gonna go get me a live trap and try and catch whatever it is. It;s living in the greenhouse and under the shed so I’ll figure out what it is when I catch it 
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I use 7’s for my indoor and they get heavy for me sometimes. I have a couple of plant trays I use to bottom feed and catch what flows down from the top when I fertilize 3x a week. I never leave them in the trays though. So it’s a bunch of lifting them in and out. The extra effort is worth it especially in the summer months. It can get quite humid at times and don’t need that extra water on the floor adding to it.
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How long are you typically vegging for in those 7s? I used some once when my tent was new. Seemed like overkill to me, but my experience level indoor was minimal.
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veg time wasn’t really a consideration here. The larger pot is more to provide more soil so that the pots don’t heat up as bad in the hot sun. I painted a bunch of the #7 pots with white spray paint and it really does seem to be reflecting the heat instead of absorbing it.
I also wanted a standard pot size this year and I have more #7 pots than anything else. I also figured that yield might be better given the larger rooting area the #7 will provide.
Over the next 11 days I need to flip everything so some will have only had a couple or more weeks to settle in to the pots.
Technically the #7 pot is not a 7gallon as it holds exaclty 5 gallons of water at the normal filling capacity. Right now with the hot weather we are getting (30C-ish and mid teens over night) the plants are drinking 3/4 gallon of water every 48 hrs. On the cloudy cooler days the watering interval is 56 to 72 hrs.
I came into this season very broke and had minimal to spend to get everything going. I went to my recycled soil pile and figured I might get close to what I need for the season if I just reammend it. I broke it into 3 piles and then added back sheep manure, bonemeal, gypsum and dolopril. I also added sulpher powder and diatomaceous earth as there are so many ants and spiders it is geting a bit silly. At end of season last year I found large ant nests in the pots when I was dumping them out on the pile so the diatomaceous earth was kinds necessary.
So I was real nervous as I started transplanting my plants into the reammended recycled soil. I have to say… the explosive growth in my greenhouse is just nuts this year and I think the soil came out pretty much perfect and the plants are loving it. Hopefully I can stay on the water only program right to the finish but i do have 0-10-10 alaska fish emulsion on standby.
Last night a little before sundown I took a schwack of clones from the plants that will get flipped tonight or tomorrow night. I should have flipped them on the 2nd or 3rd so I am behind a week already… Gotta get on the program here or it will be winter when my plants finish LOL
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