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Hey sir not trying to clog your thread. Wanted to show you my NL. If you don’t mind me asking what was the cross for glass slipper and can you get seeds. I’d love to try my hand at recreating. I’d love to help in any way. Have a good one brosef.
-J


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@Baltimore Howdy,… Well, the Glass Slipper is a cross of Marc Emery’s Northern Lights #5, and Brother Grimms Cinderella 99(F1). Ive seen others crossing pineapple, etc… with the Cindy, but not the NL5… Quite unique. But, Yah… The Emery seed stock is non-existent But, The c99 is still available… But, its later generation, of course. Should be very potent, either way. I might do the “colloidal silver” method after the temps cool down… Maybe early fall? Cant make any promises when… If Its a success, Ill hit u up. Just keep monitoring my threads, you’ll know when their available. Have a good one, time to roll a phattie. Good Evening. :slight_smile:

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I hear ya bud. Just checking on ya. Glad your well. You’ll get it back up and going. I figured it was NL5. Yeah ice smoked Cindy but different companies breed different strains. Just wanted to offer anything I could. Your not lieng the reflectors I see smaller deals. I’ll keep my eye out for a larger model. Hortilux bulbs are the bees knees.

Alright my friend. You have a good one. Oh yeah love the Johnny Bravo. Be safe.
-J

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OG…Why do tampons have strings??

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Floss​:nauseated_face::nauseated_face::nauseated_face::nauseated_face::nauseated_face::nauseated_face::nauseated_face::nauseated_face: yuck lol

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Hahaha… close… So, the Man can floss after he eats! :laughing:

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Chilling on the river with my woman, grandkids … 70 degrees and sunny… beautiful

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Where’s the damn fishing pole???

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I know… Only staying for a little while… Bad excuse? Lol

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Anyone ever see this shit b4? Not a trace of them anywhere else on her/him? Is this a hermi? I mean I know it is but is it enough of 1 that I should kill it off. Hate to kill a 10’ er

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Hello OG! :slight_smile: Well, I looked through a ton of boxes in my garage this morning, and I found the “Colloidal Silver!” haha!

I knew it was in there somewhere. Got a batch of 8 GS in the rooting bubbler, and I have decided to take one of them plants and make some fresh GS seeds…

What the heck ya know! I will post the updates on this thread… May even do a step by step tutorial. Last time I done this was back in 05’, and was assisted by a good friend of mine. It was a complete success. Im sure i can handle the task. Stay tuned! :blush:

What is Colloidal Silver?
Colloidal Silver is pure, metallic silver (the element), in particles of 15 atoms or fewer, each with a positive electric charge and attached to a molecule of a simple protein. These electrically charged particles of silver are extremely small, usually ranging from about 0.001 to about 0.01 microns in diameter, and are suspended in deionized water. The force of the electric charge is stronger than the force of gravity, so the silver particles remain suspended.

In a nutshell how is Colloidal Silver made?
You simply pass a small electric current through distilled water using a pure silver electrode (im using coins). That is essentially all there is to it. Contrary to popular belief, distilled water will conduct a small amount of electricity, allowing production of micro particulate colloidal silver.

What does it have to do with cannabis?!?

We use Colloidal Silver (CS) for making FEMINISED SEEDS, which I'm a big fan of after having nothing but great success from them since i started growing a few years ago [​IMG]
(The basic idea being you regularly spray CS on a female to force it to create bananas ie. pollen ... you then use that pollen to fertilize another female (or even itself, ie "selfing"), and the resulting seeds are feminised due to the pollen coming from a female instead of a male)

Also, there are some other substances that can be used to force male parts on female plants, including STS (silver theosulphate, which is silver nitrate + sodium theosulphate) and GA (giberillic acid), but CS is non-toxic, easy, safe and inexpensive to make at home, doesn't require a DEA request form, and isn't a controlled substance. [​IMG]

Csilver is available from your local chemist (in low parts-per-million though), and is drank for good health (the silver helps kill bacteria etc). But its PPM is too low for what we intend to use it for - feminised seeds! So we need to make our own with a higher PPM ... no problems, we simply allow the electrical current to flow through the silver for a longer duration [​IMG]

TO MAKE A COLLOIDAL SILVER GENERATOR ...
You will need: a 9V power adapter that outputs DC, two alligator clips, a soldering iron + solder. (If you dont have soldering iron you can simply wrap the wire around the alligator clip base in a coil and that will suffice, but youll get better contact if you solder it).
- Get a power adapter that has an output of 9V DC 600mA or thereabouts. Output must be DC, and 9V/600mA seems optimal from what I've read and been told
- Cut the end off and discard
- Split the main wire into its two smaller sub-wires (no need to pull them apart all the way though). Dont worry, we dont need to know which is positive/negative.
- Use wire-cutters to remove the plastic shielding/insulation to expose the actual metal wires, about 1 inch is enough
- Solder the wires onto alligator clips ($0.50ea from your local electronics store)

If you dont have alligator clips Haps suggested a good alternative - drill a hole into each coin and coil the wire around that instead.

TO MAKE COLLOIDAL SILVER ...
- Get some distilled water. Do not use any other type of water due to impurities. At your supermarket you may find distilled water next to spring water, but it may also be in the ironing products isle as it is commonly used for steam irons.
- Attach each alligator clip to a chunk of PURE 999 or 9999 SILVER (i just got two 1oz coins from the local Mint, approx US$20ea, but 1/2oz coins wouldve been suffice - i didnt realise how big 1oz of silver was!)
- Make sure each coin is half-dunked in the water, but that the alligator clips themselves arent touching the water, then turn on your generator and leave it for about 7 hours. (goldking leaves his on "overnight" and thus probably gets an even higher PPM, but has had good results from it!)
The end result: the electrolysis causes microscopic silver particles to be suspended in the water (= colloidal silver aka CS). The rig basically looks like this when in use (the only thing in contact with the water is the silver, not the alligator clips or anything else):
[​IMG]

It's also recommended you use an airpump with a clean (not used for anything else) airstone to help keep the water moving.

Also you don't want to leave the CS generator running TOO long or the silver particles in the water start getting too large - ~8 hours should be plenty.

USING COLLOIDAL SILVER TO MAKE FEMINISED SEEDS ...
Start spraying your target plant with CS just before you send it into 12/12 flowering, and keep spraying every few days. I won't go into details, but the CS causes the female to produce male flowers/pollen. Collect that pollen, and use it to pollenate another female (you can pollenate the same female that you CS'd (aka "self'ing") and indeed you may have to if you have a clone-only strain, although that may lead to more hermaphroditic traits, but I wont go into details on that). Anyway, because you've pollenated a plant with pollen from a female, the pollen can only create female seeds.

There's obviously a lot more to it than that but hopefully this brief explanation will help people understand the basic jist of it [​IMG]

ps. I don't recommend drinking home-made CS unless you've done your homework because the PPM may be too high, which is great for making feminised seeds (we need a higher PPM for that) but may have risks with human consumption - too much silver can cause argyria, a condition of blue or gray discoloration of the skin, so always buy it from your chemist if you intend to use it medicinally. Also if you do drink it medicinally it's recommended you also take additional probiotics (like Yakult), because the silver also kills a lot of the good bacteria inside you. So do your homework first!

don't know what the RULES are for misting the plants,but i soak the heck out of mine when i spray,every day, not just a lil damp mist,thats why if i had to pay $20+ for a lil bottle at the health store, i could never afford to use CS.

i touch my ingots together to look for a miniscule spark arch to see if every thing has positive contact and is working. the spark, if there will be very very faint, kinda like rubbing a cat on the wall, the sparks are hard to see
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Cause if you don’t light the fuse it could blow your damn hand off!

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Never had that happen to me. It looks as if your plant has reverted back to veg… At least on that branch… Hmmm, I would have to blow that image up to really tell ya whats going on… anyone else??

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That bud does look like it’s trying to reveg. Did you have a light interruption sometime during the Grow?
Great pic! Good luck!

:cowboy_hat_face:

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Im confused oleskool… Please clarify old buddy :slight_smile:

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It actually did reveg. But that was around April 13. I had my whole grow that was inside but after a series of unfortunate events I had to move everyone outside. But those male flowers just popped up yesterday

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My phone sucks taking pics I’m going to Clean it up and I’ll take pics of all the girls I have here at home

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Ok, makes sense. That plant is confused. Has the flowering hormone kicking in, and its still vegging. Yup , one mixed up plant…and severely stressed. If it were mine, I would just chop off that whole branch,and keep an eye on it. It may go into full blown flower still, or the whole plant may hermie. Give it a chance, and see what happens. Good luck bro :slight_smile:

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