They are not all boys. YAY! There two tall Soulmate ladies and two Killer Grape 99s now. I will take some tops off and stick them to root. Slowly but surely is the pace with seedlings.
The autoflower is on auto and drinking the 2 gallon pot dry on a regular basis. It is beginning to offer up a pine scent.
Nut picking and cracking has been going on around here lately too. Many of the pecans dropped early so it’s a hunt to find the good ones. Those usually show up with lighter colored shells with very distinct black stripes.
Wow, just read your thread @buzzmobile , what drama! From trees falling on your house to a flooded grow room due to hurricane, i couldn’t put it down! I’m happy to see everything is back on track now. I love the way you keep things rolling along! Continued success!
Edit: Is pecan wood nice, as a source of smoke for smoking food? Never tried it but it seems like it should be.
Thank you for the kind words and for reading my thread, @Budderton . I started growing in the basement here in 2002, and it has been an evolving process.
Pecan wood is excellent for smoking foods. It has a very sweet smoke smell without being overpowering. One of my uncles and his brother had a BBQ restaurant and they exclusively used pecan for the pit grill. My cousin and I spent a summer with a log splitter and a pile of pecan logs to keep the fires burning.
Swing by the next time you’re in the neighborhood and I’ll send you home with some chunks of wood and nuts.
It has taken some time to settle into a daily rhythm. Appliances decided to die a few weeks apart. First was a refrigerator which needed a part to repair it. Bad news came with the words, :“Part discontinued. Out of stock.” OK ordered a replacement. Several days ago the gas water heater crapped out and I decided to go with a new one. The water heater is in a closet which is situated directly above the landing downstairs. The plumber asked about access to crawl space to run the popoff valve discharge. I just said there was a sump below that coud handle the job. Gas line runs through the basement and comes up through the floor also so I asked if its location and shutoff valve were OK. Much relief when he said both were good.
Gelato buds peeking at the newly installed discharge pipe in the background.
I have been collecting their offerings. I use wax paper held under the flowers, and then the branch over the paper. Some gentle taps on the branch releases pollen and some spent flowers onto the paper. A few more taps on the paper gathers the pollen and flowers to the center. I then tilt the wax paper slightly downward and tap the paper from below to bounce the flowers out of the collected pollen and eventually off the paper to fall below.
This one of my pollen chucking girls on her first run. Cindy 99 x Jackberry is in its fourth week of flower. She will move into the beginning of the fifth week tomorrow.
I took some cuts of Apple Fritter and stuck them in 4" pots this time. At least 6 cuts stuck in 2" pots have withered with one that appears to be hanging on. Sometimes the 4" pots work when a 2" fails.
There are 4 Apple Fritters and 1 Purple Hindu Kush clones below.
I fed and watered the flowers and veggies this morning. I pulled the lid from the 4" potted cuttings I stuck. There was a tiny shroom in one of the Apple Fritters.
I scoped the autoflower and the trichomes are mostly clear with a hint of cloudy in some. I put a 1 gallon jug of water on the rim of the 2 gallon pot to keep it from falling over on its neighbors. It has grown into a top heavy girl.
