Time is getting away on me lately, it’s been 12 days since my last post.
My dogs are just going to need to get used to me spending 1-4 hours a day in my grows and here at OG.
Here are my Durban females (@Baudelaire’s FDM Seeds Durban mix from @Jellypowered) :
Judging by how they look, they have a minimum 2 more weeks, probably a bit more, to go.
And closeups on top colas:
The larger cola (on #74) looked much better with flash, while the scrawny one (on the fully seeded out#75) looked better without flash.
I bent over the top of #75 a week ago. It bent very cooperatively. I have a soft twist tie holding it in a nearly 90° angle and the branch is putting slight pressure on it. I need to keep an eye on the ground around it since it also got as soon as it showed primordia and the seeds are extremely mature, 45 days of mature.
Next is a photo of #80, the LR x LD auto (seeds from @ReikoX):
This plant was also pollinated as soon as she displayed primordia. Her seeds are so mature the seed pods are splitting. That’s why there is a plastic pan under her. Today I found 3 seeds in the pan.
Her pistils haven’t even changed yet, so she probably has about 2 weeks to go as well. She is so sticky, when I started to remove the yellowed fan leaves, I only got 7 off and I was too sticky to continue. I’ll take more off later when I am gloved up. The fans leaves are very large and removing the yellowed ones should allow more light to the lower and inside buds. That is undoubtedly what #80 has in mind anyway. 
I mentioned at the last update that I had started more of the LR x LDs because it was taking so long to germinate the Headbands seeds (from @Scissor-Hanz) that my schedule was thrown off. I have 3 above coco, in 8" pots. They are 21 days since germination. I’m waiting for them to start growing more quickly before posting pics of them.
I’m still monitoring the Headband seeds. I have one that I buried from the neck down 6 days ago it neither looks like it is growing nor dying. Got my fingers crossed! Here is what it looked like 6-16-18. It looks exactly the same right now.
I am not going to try more until I have tried the techniques people are describing in this thread:
I ran across about 500, maybe more, old seeds ranging from 11-15 years old. I’ll be trying these techniques out on these seeds. Not so much to see if any of them will pop (they weren’t stored anywhere near properly) as to practice the techniques to get them right. Then I’ll return to the Headband seeds. However, if I do get some to pop, I’ve got some White Widow, White Russian, Karpov, Neville’s Haze, and one I can’t remember. I wrote SRL on the container and I can’t for the life of me figure out what it is. To make matters worse, I never saved a copy of the CBay web page for that one either. It was most likely the last seeds I bought back then. It definitely has the youngest date on it.
I also have a bunch of bag seed, with the oldest date on it, which makes sense. Once I had started buying seeds back then, I didn’t grow out bag seeds again until sometime around 2008/2009.
I also am going to put off trying the OG Kush seeds I got from @Sebring recently until finding a good method for popping old seeds to avoid wasting anymore than necessary. I only have 20-30 of them and the strainbases all say It is mostly, if not 100%, indica. Interestingly, I have more indica dominant strains than sativa dominant or strains that are listed as 50/50.
My next seed grow is going to be seeds from @Jellypowered again. They are @Kalgrae’s seeds from his pollen chucked giveaway. The ones I’ll grow out next are BC Mango Night Nurse Diesel Moonshine ((BC Mango x BC Night Nurse) x Deisel Moonshine). I’ll be starting 4 or 5 of them after I’ve slept. It’s been damn hot and humid around here lately and sleep doesn’t come easy. 
That’s all for now.
Cheers!
C50