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Beautiful garden
Thanks 4 sharing
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Nice little phase in the Ruderalis lifecycle. Every morning it presents you with ripened seeds. Sometimes just hanging out or sitting on top of the soil. At least 200 seeds so far, at least that many to go.
Todays haul.
Amnesia auto with the pink hairs (zoom in). Pollinated her on two buds this past weekend with a little bit of Ice Pixie pollen that fell on the counter after drying it and packing it up. Grabbed the paint brush and quickly scooped it up and immediately went outside to get her pollinated. It worked!
Moroccan Lion auto, with the curling sugar leaves that have frosty undersides. No real smell yet but I’m looking forward to trying these out. The twin colas these ladies form look dense. Hoping they give off a magic scent that keeps caterpillars away, cause if they don’t, they will be ravaged. Plenty of beans in progress on these three ladies.
Blue Dream Bx F2 got too tall… and while gorgeous to admire, really impractical for me to maintain. I just want the amazing smoke their mom brought to the party last year… I don’t need to be falling off ladders trying to prop the main cola up in October. Would love to see what’s required to grow these in a tent without them touching the light. Super cropped with the others that were over 5 ft, this past weekend.
Select reversals done two weeks ago on single branches of particular ladies are starting to show progress. The reversal spray was Chrysal Alesco instead of STS. First time using it, and I’m hoping the study saying the pollen it produces is more viable… is accurate in my case. Going to get some pollen sleeves to hang over the branches that have been reversed. Hoping to collect enough pollen to apply some to individual buds and get viable beans later to bring to life some of these dispensary plants I got cuts of at the beginning of the season.
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Triangle Kush auto officially entering harvest window. Very rubber and fuel smelling.
El Diablo auto has another week or two to go. Very sticky. Not super loud, so far.
Bubba Kush with the wrinkles. Finally getting some size on her.
Tangie GAK stem rubs smelling like milk tea and rose water. Being in the netting for too long left a limb weak so I applied some support tape and hopefully it’s just a matter of time.
Super Silver Haze finding her stride with a bit of shade and space out of the netting.
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Amnesia auto getting frosty
Tangie GAK reversal bananas 
forming
Ice Water doing the same dance
Randos…
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Another morning in the garden.
Triangle Kush auto is ripe. Coming down this weekend.
BluGlu …just a tiny one… that looks healthy and is male. Gathering some pollen and doing manual application.
Tropicana Cookies
Honey Glaze
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Gave the ladies a light defoliation this weekend.
True OG
Mango Lemon Haze
Permanent Marker
Grapefruit Diesel (cousin it)
Reversal beans from Chrysal Alesco (single treatment 3 weeks ago)
Harvested the Triangle Kush auto and El Diablo auto. El Diablo main cola just prior to chopping.
Randos…
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What is you formula for your STS + Chrysal Alesco mix
Nice Documentation, Awesome plants, Keep up the Great Job.
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Thanks for taking a look and the kind words 
I used Chrysal Alesco as a replacement for STS. The complete solution that was used is:
- 250ml distilled water
- 1.25ml Chrysal Alesco
I mixed those two items into a spray bottle and applied it liberally to individual branches. There was enough spray for 1 branch on probably 15 plants in five gallon buckets (at 4ft tall going into flower).
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Where’d ya get your method and ingredients for using that? I use STS, but that sounds very effective considering you sprayed only once
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My bad @anonymous510 … I see at the top of this thread I said “STS and Chrysal”. I deviated from the plan.
I initially planned on applying STS to some branches, and Chrysal Alesco to other branches (same plant) to compare methods but I only followed through with the Chrysal Alesco spray.
Why? It cost me less money, and I got lazy and didn’t want to add it to my work load with all the manual watering/feeding I’ve been doing in the hot weather.
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Good time for a check in on this season’s original goals!
- Grow out seeds that I made last summer outdoors, a cross of GG4 and Blue Dream, to select a male and female with the best traits to take to F2 seeds
I grew out about 25 of these seeds. There was enough variation to see there’s some fun in here, but I didn’t find any “must keep” specimens. One standout was purple stemmed, growing like a mad lad, and scented the air with cologne de sulfur. Not what I’m selecting for.
Got a male in the back with traits I like and I’m collecting pollen. I have another lady that was the best of the original six seeds I popped, in a 5 gallon and she’s a bit frosty with a good mix of the traits from mom and dad. I’ll attempt to use his pollen on a bud of her’s, but she also already got hit by auto pollen I’d collected and might be too far into bloom. I will also store his pollen for other future candidates. Not bad, not great
- Grow regular auto seeds to pollinate themselves and make more seeds, but also to capture pollen for further auto breeding.
I dropped collected pollen in the kitchen, twice, but managed to collect plenty and have it stored in the freezer. I also applied it to several ladies in the garden. Smooth sailing
- Grow a variety of clones I picked up from Bay Area dispensaries and S1 them too
We got clones, they got reversal bananas Smooth sailing
- Grow a small amount of select regular strains and hope for males and females to breed or collect pollen from
I grew out three separate varieties, and three seeds of each:
- Bodhi Seeds - Aruba x Everything
- Equilibrium Genetics - Skill Cole Jamaican x Northern Lights
- Equilibrium Genetics - Kali Mist x Malawi
I wasn’t necessarily impressed with any of these enough to have more pollen flying around, and I still have plenty of these seeds, so I took down the males and have one female of each.
Not bad, not great
Every year, I’m shown how much potential there is for my results to improve!
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I started at the thread linked below. A reply to it mentions how the study referenced 4.4ml to 1 liter of water…I just reduced to roughly one quarter that amount.
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BluGlu #15 giving me a chance to show off a little sloppy pollen collecting. I’m cool with any ladies getting pollinated so don’t try this at home if you don’t want a happy accident or 3000. I use this same sort of setup inside a garage but with bigger plants I can’t keep up with by plucking a few sacks every couple hours like this little guy.
Got the plant up on a table so its clusters of pollen sacks are eye view when I enter the area. It’s the first thing that draws my attention so I’m checking it every couple hours during the day and first thing at sunrise and the last thing at nighttime. Do sacks open while I’m sleeping? Sure. But I’ve only noticed one or two. The plant is small enough that I can manage to pick any pollen sacks off the plant with my fingers, and put them in the pollen sifter.
If you’ve collected pollen before, you know that the sacks give them selves away by being a little more “jiggly” when their branch is gently tapped… prior to opening fully. I grab those ones and throw them in the pollen box to dry out and open up. I collect pollen from the tray twice a day and put it into a small drying chamber (ammo box with dehumidifier).
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Twenty20 Honey Glaze
This gorgeous gal didn’t think I saw her sneaking thru the fence to bring color to the other side.
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Moonshine auto in a one gallon. A free seed I got in a package and just put into soil without finding out what the deal is.
Looking like one 12-15 inch cola. Works for me.
Amnesia auto in a tall 3 gallon.
Ice Pixie auto in a 1 gallon
Moroccan Lion auto in a 1 gallon
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Grew out three of these Equilibrium Genetics Skill Cole Northern Lights and the other two were discarded cause they were male or didn’t show attributes that were superior. First time growing it to get an idea of what they are worth…then I’ll give away the remaining seeds, or open pollinate indoors if I like it.
Tropicana Cookies this is a clone I got in the spring and was told I was an idiot for putting it outside 
Crockett Family Farms Ice Water (Purple Ice Water x Banana Sherbet) in a 5 gallon. Reversed and chucking that pollen. Buds getting the chill with that frost. If you’ve never seen pollen being collected in a sleeve, you have now! Bent the branch so it’s facing down and zip tied one on. Give the branch a good hard flick every day.
Crockett Family Farms Tangie GAK in a 5 gallon. Reversed with single treatment of Chrysal Alesco. Loudest in the garden, milk tea and candied sweets with an anise backend. This and the clone cut of Super Silver Haze are next to each other (also reversed) in hopes we get some freakishly delicious offspring.
Super Silver Haze in a 5 gallon.
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Really, really beautiful! 
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How’s the Bluglu doing?
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@mota Thank you! 
@Tejas I’ve got something going on with my foot, so just trying to keep them all watered and fed the past week. I can walk on it okay now and there are some yellow fan leaves on several of the plants in the mosquito netting so I’d held off on photos of those… BluGlu is one of them and is looking frosty. I’ll clean her up and get some updated photos on here. She’s the best of the 6 seeds I started at the beginning of the season but still showed more yellowing of the leaves than I’d like. I think that’s the GG4 mother coming thru because it’s also flowered early like she did. I say that because the seeds from the father Blue Dream and another female Blue Dream plant produced the 9ft plant I’ve got out back, which is only beginning to throw hairs this week (a full month behind it’s BluGlu cousin).
The male BluGlu (#15) will be done throwing pollen this weekend and I’ve got a bunch collected. There are three more BluGlu females in 1 gallon pots that are okay and so I seeded them but I may discard those seeds or just give them away because I didn’t find any female this go around that blew me away. Only several thousand more seeds to hunt thru to find her!
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