Hello OverGrow!
The 1st plants we are looking at today are the Durbans @Jellypowered gifted me. They were originally from @Baudelaire’s FDM Seeds Durban mix breeder’s pack.
I took these next 3 pics in my flowering room 10 minutes before the HPS came on.
Both #74 and #75 are getting very close to harvest. Pistils haven’t change yet in this photo, but today, 3 days later, 74 has some pistils turning. Probably still has 10ish days. #75’s pistils still haven’t changed yet today.
I tried taking some photos last night with the HPS on. I was able to get enough of the light from the flash on a closeup to counteract the HPS a little. Let me know what you think…
The cola on #74 is HUGE, the largest cola I’ve ever grown. Yet, It is not a hard bud yet. I Wonder if it will get hard. My Blonde strain greatly favored sativa and it never really made hard buds, but it also didn’t make any buds ever that were that big! I didn’t shoot it, but I held a bic lighter sideways against the bud. I could see plant on each side of it. The leaves look like nutrient burn. This surprises me because if you look at the first pic, the one of the entire flowering room, every plant in there is very green except this one. Even its sister plant that has been side by side with #74 from day 1 getting the same food at the same amount (actually, the tall one got about a cup more because she was drinking heavily). Its probably one of those things that is individual to the plant, like a personality.
Speaking of her sister:
The way #75’s horizontal branch’s buds are growing reminds me of when I was growing ScrOG. That was a very useful technique, but it doesn’t work very well on tall plants. Spreading out their branches puts a lot of buds out of the working area of my lamp. Funny thing, the reason I don’t ScrOG is because since I changed over to coco and changed the nutes I was using as well, not to mention using a root innoculant, My plants at minimum double their size now in Flowering. I can no longer put an 15-18" plant in and have it only put on 4-6 inches.
Next comes the gorgeous LowRyder x LaDiva auto from @ReikoX. She will finish just before the Durbans from the look of her, even though she was germinated a month later.
She really is a pretty little girl! I love her colors! And, she has give me 22 seeds already. Big seeds too! She just couldn’t hold on to them anymore.
@cannabissequoia, I didn’t think to mention it before, but I did freeze enough pollen to do many back crossings with the father. BTW, I’m pretty certain autos can’t be cloned.
One more picture of LR x LD.
Here are the 3 babies I put in to bring my schedule back in line. They are just about over the boring time. Two have 3 hands the last has tiny leaves sprouting for its third hand.
Bad news on the Headband front. The one I had in a pot didn’t survive. I have been spending time on the old seeds thread and watching videos. The best advice I’ve found comes from a video uploaded there by @Enstromentals.
I am making some sprouted seed tea and I have some gibberellic acid coming. These are both ideas from the video. I did a search on gibberellic acid and it apparently is an amazing substance and actually should be a giant help germinating really old seeds. I also have some fulvic acid arriving tomorrow. (How did Amazon get the USPS to do Sunday deliveries, anyway?)
I do have 3 (BC Mango x BC Night Nurse) x Diesel Moonshine seeds peeking out of their shells. I’ll be planting them in a day or so.
That’s it for now.
Cheers
C50