Ahhhh, how time flies. Clones have been taken and rooted, rinse and repeat. Took another twelve today from A and B. C turned out staminate and was set aside for later.
Immediately after taking this picture I knocked the whole tray over and likely killed a bunch
The extras were blended with sugar and fed back to the community.
Immediately after the last update some 14ga. silver wire went into a jar of 0ppm water. A quick google search lead to lots of contradictory suggestions, like:
low voltage produces the best results, and higher voltage produces the best results;
that 30ppm is plenty, and that I’ll need at least 50ppm;
that hot water is the best, but the microwave will perturb the waters vibe, and the water will remember, and the water will kill my plants in revenge.
But everyone seems to be successfully reversing their plants regardless of method. Then I started thinking about STS and now I’m thinking the only thing that actually matters is the silver gets inside of the plant.
Not sure if there is a best time of day to spray, but today is the fifth day of once-a-day spraying. Gunna give em another day or two before they get flipped.
The girls never reversed so there must be a minimum ppm threshold of silver. The setup produces 16ppm CS pretty quickly, but after every length of time the ppm doesn’t rise any further. Going to get a different power source with a lower voltage and start over with two fresh clones.
For the moment, the two big females have been flipped along with the male I detailed above. His structure is a bit middle-of-the-road, not too lanky, not too compact. Heavily Aromatic. Bonus points for preflowers on Jungle Spice #6’s
I hadn’t realized until today that Bodhi released the Azad Kashmir, unmixed, for a charity event. Wonder what his selection criteria was.
I call the girls Seven, and Twenty-three. The males are M1, M2, M3. This first pollination with M1 should be done on or about the first of August, and another clone of each female will go into flower with M2. Assuming a third run starts before Halloween this whole project may be complete before Christmas!
Bursting at the seams over here! The first flower looks like it’ll open overnight, so he’s sleeping on the top bunk from now on. The roots are growing in a thousand ml glass honey pot to make it easy to get him in the best position to pollinate. Will update in the morn if they get freaky.
On an unrelated note, these nuisance caterpillars are completely incapable of sustaining themselves on any of my plants. There’s one pepper plant that has gotten a few single nibbles here and there but that’s the only one of them, and one of the azad got bit one day when she was a little sick due to overwatering, but that’s all.
Of note: this caterpillar spent the entire night on this plant and I cant find a bite anywhere. I didn’t even bother taking it off just in case it can prove me wrong.
Straight water from here on out… On second thought I might give her a little coconut water with it, the extra cytokinins should be good for seed development.
On a quasi-unrelated note: Got a proper power supply for the Colloidal Silver. Going to make a new batch and retry for some femmes.
Yeah I much prefer regs too, if only for the sake of increased diversity.
Femmes are nice for pure bud runs though, and a lot of people I know have no interest in breeding. Easier to pass em some seeds than a clone too and god I love simplicity.