And the Beat Goes On…
One of my Frankie Mom’s started looking a little haggard and, after exhausting every other diagnostic possibility, I realized she was root bound. D’oh
I took a deep breath and set up to do my first bonsai root pruning.
I started by re-reading the Bonsai Mom tutorial by Oldtimer1
Then I summoned up some gumption with a couple of tokes of Frankie bud and began chopping off “Mom’s” arms & legs.
She was pretty crowded in her half-gallon pot, and she suffered the indignity of my clumsy surgery with good graces. Now, with fresh soil and a bottom feeding with some weak sauce nutes, she seems to be recovering nicely.
I’m also pleased to report that Frankie’s Daughters are beginning to show wispy pistils after just a week of flowering photons. Where pistils appear, buds are sure to follow but it remains to be seen what they’ll look like (or how they’ll smoke!). All I can say for sure is that there will be lots of them.
Hilda
Olive
I am preparing one of the Hilda plants for backcrossing with a Frankie clone and, taking @gpaw’s sage advice, I’m trimming her down to facilitate some selective pollination.
Here are my two Hilda plants. The one on the right has been sculpted for a seed run. I’m letting the other one take her natural shape with minimal training or defoliation. Both of them are stretching inches per day.
Here’s a question for Y’all
Thanks to @Gpaw I may have an opportunity to dose one these Hilda plants with some of his OGer Kush Encore pollen. I wasn’t planning to do any F1 crosses at this time, but if there’s any enthusiasm for that idea I’d give it a shot.
Fem Frankie Hilda x OGer Kush 
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