All your budz are looking great as usual. Those Powies look happy! I feel like a proud papa just seeing there getting ready to smoke.
I had an aphid and whitefly battle for the last couple weeks that I won, but not without casualties. They are all bagged and tagged but I had to move 
and get them harvested before Those greedy bugs turned them into husks.
Yep, you should feel like a proud Papa bro! Thank you so much for giving me a shot at these beauties! 
There’s a bunch of Baja Blast, Soul Mates and (Coffee hasn’t kicked in yet!) ‘something’ x Baja Blast (SFV x Blasts) coming on now with a few in 15 gallon bags and the rest still in 3 gallon squares or 2 gallon Airpots.
I’m still battling whitefly here too! Little fuckers are a pain in the ass! Yellow sticky traps and defoliating ALL lower leaves ‘helps’, but it’s still a battle! “One & Done” works, but with our extreme UV (guessing?) it’s always a question of fan leaf damage here, even when I spray at sunset. I discovered a row of Mulberry trees nearby that are infested and a giant clump of a pretty flowering vine that forms a huge visual barrier around 1/2 of the Lemon Grove that also has a ton of them but is too big to take down…endless battles! Good luck bro!
@Budderton Yep, those SF x JC are sticky as can be! When I run my fingers through the fan leaves to scare up any whitefly they feel like sandpaper from all the resin glands! Wish I was better w/describing smells, as they have a very unique one!
Looong day! Dealt with the paperwork and raced off for the supply run. Made it back by mid-afternoon and we continued repopulating the Lemon Grove area with some more of the 3 gallon plants. Everybody’s on the drip system and they seem to be enjoying being out in the full sun.
Here’s some portraits for the bean donors! Thanks guys! There’s more of all of them scattered about, but I shot a representative pic of these.
Meanwhile, I picked up another of the industrial fans, but a bit more powerful than the old one. Pulled the old one from the upper greenhouse and moved it down to the E&F tables where the plants think a real hurricane has hit! Hoping it makes life miserable for the whiteflies!
This meant we had to re-re-organize the plants in the upper greenhouse to keep everybody happy! Just when I almost had everybody memorized by position! 
I’m just lovin’ the look of things in here! 
A few more additives for the living soil mix. There was supposed to be a delivery of 40 kilos of worm castings but I haven’t even had time to check if they arrived?
Found a few more females declared this morning and think I’ve spotted two that I believe are gonna go male soon. Hit one of the Powie Poison’s with another male I had stashed up the driveway, though the male SFV x Baja Blast wasn’t very far away overnight. (Did that female pairing yesterday, rinsed her down this morning, moved her back out and chopped the male back almost to the trunk.) He was a healthy sucker and just might come in handy again in a week or two. The half dozen female Peshawar Joe’s from @Upstate in the big bags in the palm grove are overflowing the top of their cages on stilts already! I though I’d done a good job pinching them as I’d been warned to do…but I should have just kept doing it it seems! They’re 2m.+ already and it’s only May!
Okay, time to dig into some dinner! Tomorrow’s another Doc Day…it’s ALWAYS something! 
Hope you have a great day everybody!
EDIT: Whoops, forgot some! Here’s a portion of the E&F tables, still pretty full!
Okay, back to dinner!
Looking good @Tlander! Im busting ass lately myself and look forward to some more free time to interact here. @Jimdoors crazy plants, those Durban venom. Any chance theres any Upstates whatzit genes in there? Looks alot like the east manipur i grew that went 23 weeks. I’m sure some Manipur crosses ended up in the whatzit
The durbans Venom is Durban poison (tlt) x (panama x bangi haze) x (durban poison x Appalachia) so no Upstates whatzit in it but did plant 4 more of them. The DV that I grew indoors didn’t foxtail like that thinking its slightly reveging or maybe just pheno.
Thanks @Jimdoors for that! I too was wondering if it was trying to re-veg, but it seems to be holding back on that so far. Now it looks a little odd in structure, as we’ve removed all the fan leaves as they were fading and I didn’t want any mold sneaking up on me without seeing it. I’ve really thought it was just about done for a month now, but she keeps kicking out more white pistils daily! I don’t think I’ve ever grown a plant that’s looked like this before! The long buds just ‘glow’ with all the white pistils everywhere! There’s one more outside (the one I seeded) that is looking much closer to ‘done’ with more browning pistils. I’ll try to snap a photo later today after the doc’s visit.
Thanks again for sharing these Wonders of Nature with me!
Starting off, here’s a Black Bat Lily puttin’ on a show…
Here’s that seeded Durban Venom @Jimdoors that’s been outside the whole time. We moved her under a roof to protect the beans from recent showers. We’ve only taken about half the fan leaves off her and she’s quite a bit farther along in bud development than the other two.
This ‘fiddlewood’ tree has the most amazingly strong-scented flowers! Really easy to root a cutting, just stick it in the ground. This one’s so tall it blocks the sunlight until 10:30 am and I’m tempted to cut it…then it blooms and the fragrance is so overpowering I can’t bring myself to cut it! 
Today was one of those days!
Here’s one of the two Durban Venom from the upper greenhouse. Decided this one is gonna foxtail itself out and I saw some decaying single-bladed leaves down deep inside, so today was the day. She was only about 5 feet tall, but boy there’s some weight to those buds! I think these are gonna be the type of thing you smoke the sugar leaves and all, trimming would be a nightmare!
We’re in the time of year where it takes all day just to check for males that might have decided to show themselves. I’ve set up a color-coded system of tags; orange, green and red, that make it a little easier to prioritize but with these numbers it’s still an all-day job! Found 4 more males today, only one of which is in a 15 gallon bag already. Managed to pinch out the tips again on almost all the new plants in the Lemon Grove and the E&F tables. There’s gonna be a lot of highly-branched plants around here! Showered off another Powie Poison and moved her back to the upper greenhouse to see if we got a good seed-set…I think it’ll be packed as I gave her 3 days & nights with the male draped all over her! Chopped the male way back but gonna keep him around until I see seeds forming.
Came across a couple videos that ‘might’ be of interest to some of you;
And these two links;
This is the website of the Thai company the above ‘fluff-piece’ is about;
Over and out!
Colored tags for females, males and unidentified good idea think I’m gonna to have to start doing this. That durbans venom does look to be a pain to trim I’m curious do all three have similar smells? I had one lemony pangi pheno and the rest had a light carrot smell with more floral Durban smell with the best one having a much stronger carrot smell but tasted very good similar to durban poison with cure. I also made this cross in reverse Durban Poison x Appalachia (mom Durban pheno) x Durban x pangi (dad carrot smell) but haven’t had a chance to grow them . Thank you for growing these. I just started some more aruno thai 8/8 and squirrel tail 2/2.
Hey @Tlander!
The Garden is looking great!
All very nice specimens all over the place.
You are gonna have so many plants flowering this season!!!
Love it!
Funny you sent that text to me and I read it, didn’t realize it was that company.
My neighbor is one of the guys managing the “experience” side of it.
This I believe is phase one of three for that farm.
It is gonna be a big one for sure, throwing lots of cash at PR and Marketing.
Anyway, hope you are having a great day!
Thanks for the eye candy, Im missing my girls while away…
Cheers bro!
Well that looks suspiciously like what we know as ‘golden penda’. Xanthostemon chrysanthus, is it the same? It grows natively here in the northern rainforests. There is also a white one, which is a smaller tree, and a red one which grows right up on cape York and is rare. I have yet to find a red one, not through lack of trying lol. They are beautiful trees. Here is a picture:
Red one:
White or ‘little penda’
Yep, I think it’s the same thing! I have yellow ones and orange ones. Both varieties produce viable seed in small globular fruit. I think I bought them as seedlings in Bangkok many years ago for use in a landscaping project…these were the leftovers! Most all of mine are at least 5 years overdue for transplanting and have rooted through their pots into the ground. We just started to do some airlayers on them as I don’t think we could dig up the rootballs or remove the old pots without major damage.
If you want seeds (tiny) of the orange ones (no idea how rare/common they are?) just let me know. I sprouted some a few years back and had some success. The orange ones are not flowering yet this year, but I’ll try to send you a photo when they do.
Interesting!! I have always thought they were exclusively native to here, I know there is an orange one that grows up in the Northern Territory.
Absolutely man!! That sounds unreal, I can try to hunt down some little penda seed for you if you like? they also make great landscaping plants, shrubs more than trees, and they flower at a slightly different time to the golden penda, so if you plant them all in bulk you get masses of colour over 2 or 3 months. They are hardy af too, the golden penda are used as street trees here,they can even cope with the cold to a point.
I’ll DM you after I check up on them later today. Think it’s best to wait and harvest them very fresh the next time they set fruit. You’re probably correct about them being exclusively indigenous to Aus, mine were from a landscaping wholesale nursery and likely imported.
Just watched the video you posted TL. That lawyer has a lot of common sense and makes some great points. Seems like everything isn’t set in stone yet, there’s still hope. At least some reprieve till next year. Hopefully the scene can get organized and talk some sense into the ministers responsible for writing the new cannabis mandate by then.
Either way, sounds like you’ll be able to continue on the green wave this year at least! Happy growing!!
A nice overcast day here for a change. It’s been down-pouring less than a few miles away for hours but just a few minutes’ drizzle here. But that doesn’t mean things aren’t SHAKING around here! Apparently, about a mile offshore we had an earthquake this morning! Neither I, nor my crew, felt it but it’s listed on all the geological event sites.
Here’s some shots from this morning’s check-up. All’s good! Figure there are 3-4 ‘ready’ but by tomorrow night (Saturday here) we’ll make the call. As long as it isn’t pouring here yet I want to let 'em keep going. Lots of just-starting-to-flower plants that have been pinched multiple times.
Durban Venom @Jimdoors
Corey Heime x Blue Kush @Tuned Don’t know how much longer I can let this one go. The fan leaves snap their petioles at the slightest touch and the fan has snapped lots of them off already, but I can’t afford to let any budrot get a start in there!
A couple of the Peshawar Joe’s overreaching the 2 meter cages in the Palm Grove! @Upstate Most of them are like this now, with 2-3 only staked as they were already too wide for the cages.
Colombian Gold x Cobra Lips @Budderton
Okay, Lunchtime!
Whatever you think is best TL to avoid budrot. Always a gamble with plants in different climates. 
Peshawar getting big! I hope some make it to flower. Just got a report from slain in Thailand or Australia ( he goes back and forth) and Peshawar held up really well.
Yo @Tuned ! Just prior to sunset tonight I decided to take off all the fan leaves and prep the Corey Heime x Blue Kush for harvesting tomorrow afternoon. I tend to defoliate 'em on the plant so I can keep an eye out for budrot. But this plant was just a dream to clean up! I basically did a complete ‘trim’ of the entire plant with just my fingers! Every fan and most sugar leaves broke off at the petoile/stem joint perfectly, leaving just beautiful buds to harvest tomorrow! Sticky as can be with sandpaper-like fans. Stinks like hell/heaven, but I suck at describing scents!
Can’t believe I didn’t shoot some ‘afters’???
@Upstate Yobro, the Peshawars are mostly already declared as females! I got lucky and only one of them in 15 gallon bags turned out to be a male. I chopped him way back, dug him out and transplanted into a much smaller pot hoping to save him for some seedwork…but it didn’t work out!
Here’s a few of the **CH x BK’**s roommates in the upper greenhouse…
We’ve been doing a little time in trim jail every day and jars are filling up again! BobbyBudz’z Powie Wowie is my current favorite, but there’s something new to try almost daily now! And a little bit of the gifted ACE Zacatecas Tribute from @BobbyBudz goin’ into the jars!
Well have some Fun stuffing those Jars @Tlander, wild looking Budz for sure.
Congrats on Producing so many Nice nuggets
Nice work OG’rs sending T such wild Strains. You Guys Rock
@BobbyBudz @Tuned @Upstate @Budderton @Jimdoors etc etc
@Tlander smelling any blueberry on that DJ Short?
