@HolyAngel Yes, yes, and thank you!
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Yeah, it’s been a long time since I’ve blazed either the Malibu or the Lemon Thai, pretty stoked about that cross. I’m thinking it’s leaning more towards the Malibu, but I’m just basing that on the lanky structure. I actually planted six of those seeds, but lost five of them due to the fucked-up soil mix I started those seeds in. Fucking blows…
Yeah, I’ve got like a page-and-a-half of his gear. I know I‘ve been saying this for years now, but I WILL start making seeds at some point haha, probably gonna be sooner than later. I really just need to end up with more than one or two females of whatever I plant every time I fucking plant seeds. This “plant six seeds, end up with one female” shit is starting to get ollllllllld haha…
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Can’t speak too much to the plants that made the line, just what I worked with directly.
The 4sd x ChemDD was given to me by jm420. Rez gear was always hit or miss depending on which drop and what came out of the seeds. There’s plenty of evidence showing quality sours and chems, and just as many showing bunk middies, which fluctuate with the drop. Chem bx2, fire… Chem ibl, garbage… But surely someone out there found terrible plants in the bx2 just like another found a gem in the ibl… Results that can generally be expected when you’re chucking in a closet with minimal selections and 1x1 crosses without testing progeny. It’s one thing to distribute with a $25 donation to St. Jude, a far different thing to charge $200 for a pack of untested gear.
I don’t know what selections went into choosing the SD IBL males, but I can say the cut I used (4sd/chemdd) to cross to the sour jack was heavy sour leaning. Sour spears, swollen calyx look, straight gas, and some color. She was picked to keep around over a better structure and yielding 4sd/cdd plant based on her terps mainly. If there’s ever a question of what to keep, I’ll always defer to terps.
Karma’s sour cut has been through the ringer and is well documented. To say the whole line is garbage is the same as saying the whole line is gold. All comes down to the plants and selections, but the genes are there imo.
Hope you find something nice. The sour jack male stacked heavy. I, unluckily imo, wound up with only 3-4 males from a couple packs of the sour jack, all but one was sexually unstable. So we had to chuck what was left, which was the single sour jack male. We also ran a pack of karma’s jack right next to it, and every male in that line came out sexually unstable, and females just didn’t stack or produce like I wanted, so there’s no straight jack hybrids or even maternal jack crosses.
I ran a bunch of Tony’s bubblehead, which is Karmas headbanger (Biker x Sour), crossed with Tony’s GG line. I only poppped 19 fems and pulled a few sour leaning, with one that was straight sour gas, spears, propping floppies as some might say. Chucking poly x poly, you’re going to get stuff all over the board, no doubt, and we’re all comparatively working with tiny populations.
Ras is a good dude and knows his shit, no doubt.
All I did was pop a few of the already produced 4sd/chemdd and chucked the only stable sour jack male I found on the nicest girl.
Good vibes, hope it helps, but all comes down to the plants. Fuck the names, a good plant is a good plant, lineage just gives you an idea of what to expect.
LD
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Thanks for so much information on your sourcing and breeding dude that’s incredible
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Another happy holiday mail day today, I got in packages from @DefNSmokn and @Weednerd.Anthony
DefN just ran the absolute hottest giveaway this season and I was lucky enough to be there and paying attention at the time, thank you homie!
And Anthony just delivered me the last component of our upcoming Vortex Co-op Run with some of the coveted Producer’s Overstock from Badger and a surprise for me, another @Tardis808 Vortex F2 preservation project pack! Now @buckaroobonsai and I are each gonna end up with one after splitting the first and it turning out to not be needed for the Co-op Run, very cool everyone!
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Enjoy the vortex brother ! I’m so excited to see what you do with the run and very excited to run the F2’s once you finish as well!
And I can’t wait to get my guerilla fume crosses in hand, I’m sure it won’t be long now seeing as you got yours !
I love days when the postman brings me my beans ! Always makes my day even though I have quite a collection already haha
I’ll be following along to see your progress with everything @Dirt_Wizard as always I love seeing your work!
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Oh wow! Too cool 
many thanks to @Tardis808 @GBSG and of course @Weednerd.Anthony for swooping in and saving the day! 
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Very nice!! Glad to see they made it without issue!
You have got your hands full with those fume crosses and Vortex beans!!! 
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Thank you thank you everyone, it never gets less interesting here at the Magic Wand Factory as grow season progresses! Been busy and missed my day 21 defoliation yesterday, I’m about to get started on that but figured I’d post one last “before” update. It’s not going to be a radical schwazzing, I have enough room in the tent to be generous, but I’ll be taking a decent amount of leaf off after cleaning up some vining earlier this week:
I did get the veg tent potted up to gallons and they’re looking great, a couple being pretty heroic with new leaves and growth, they’re also dropped way down from the light until I lower it later today so they might be stretching a little after being bombarded at 18" until now:
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Cloner is bubbling with the Cindy Mix cutting, about to finish up defoliation with the mom and then I’ll post some stripped tent photos:
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Day 22 defoliation is done, and the tent reloaded with a lot of breathing room and space to flop a bit as they bud up. I ended up taking all red stemmed fans, as well as most leaves with stems over an inch long, and also removed a few little vining branches and lower budsites to focus all the energy upwards. I’ve never done this before so rigorously, but I’m really looking forward to the tent full of frosty spears instead of leaves. Been getting real sick of popcorn trim jail and having that much leaf mass in the tent pushing humidity up in flower.
I see a lot of people getting great results at growing almost all A-grade buds this way, and I’d rather pull eight or ten perfect dry ounces of potent tops than a pound of mixed goods at this point. Hopefully I’ll end up with a pound of dank and this will be the level up I’ve been trying for in my growing techniques. Gave the girls a strong drink of the old General Organics BioThrive Bloom (2-4-4 plus 0.5% mag and 1% sulfur), the last liquid nutes I expect to use in flower, to help them bounce back in the next few days, besides that topdressing that should just be kicking now after a few weeks. Everything I’ve read that seemed knowledgeable said that with this technique you need to push high nutes and micros immediately afterwards to get the most positive effect and bounce-back from the stressing, I’ll be giving them a SEA-90 foliar tonight at lights off and some Mr Fulvic in tomorrow’s water.
The aftermath, headed back to the nitrogen cycle:
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Hell yea @Dirt_Wizard i hear you on the larf dilemma, battling it myself and thinking the same thing, way more ruthless on the leaf stripping next go round. Got the same care package from Def today as well, couldn’t have been happier on a Monday 
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Now I’m offended LoL 
I made mine for 3$ 
Oh and I’m taking notes from your defoliation, I’ll be hitting 21 day mark soon…
But i doubt there’ll be anything to defoliate, coz I’m gradually plucking 5-10 leaves daily…
I do the same too… 
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Crossposting:
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Whooooeeee them girls are perky!!
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Doing my best to treat them right over here, I think that the Stonington and fish bone meal topdressing at flip is what I was missing to keep them powered through flower steadily, and the defoliation is making those nodes stack already, I’m really happy with things here
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This run I’ve got the UV going again to try and get the terps and THC percentages up, and the other thing I need to do is to set up an air intake from outside to run at night mixed in, to drop tent temps those last few weeks below the 76F ambient in the basement. Hoping to hit 60 in the tents at night and get some better expressions in late flower!
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It’s definitely true what they say about terpenes being a defensive mechanism, after the defoliation and pruning, I opened the tent the next day and it stank! Before pruning, a faint weedy odor.
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What do you fellas suggest for an affordable silica product?
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