Growing With Mr.Sparkle : 2021

im more suspecting and have CS routines in my mind so i just spray once or twice a day typically morning and lights off till i see pollen sacs which is typically about 10 days or so.

Though there is a timing thing if done early you dont have to spray much which can be a couple times issue is if they are already boosting into flower you have to knock back their ethylene production to convert so it takes more to do so thus my heaver spraying.

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Iā€™ve read that too much STS can be an issue, hence the ā€œfully saturate plant every 5x days before darkā€ in comparison to CS which is applied daily. @JohnnyPotseed was so kind to mail me enough STS supplies to make 2000ml of concentrate so iā€™m DETERMINED to get a system locked down cause Iā€™m feeling that A LOT of seed runs are coming up in my future :hugs: :fist: :seedling:

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Talk about awesome to come home too; thanks so much again @Mr.Sparkle (aka? :fish: :bulb:) !!!
Also thanks for the addition going onto one of my many nute-buckets!

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Minutes after grabbing my mail I dropped 5 Trizzlers in some H2O. I just couldnā€™t wait. :laughing:

Thanks @fishbulb!

Glad thatā€™s catching on. :wink:

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Thatā€™s cool looking.

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ive found at least the STS/AgNO3 i make to be more gentle on plants vs CS which just beats the crap out of them, and still i make a 2x concentration, only reason i go so hard is ive had issues going too light.

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I really hate to sound stupid. I would like to know what youā€™re talking about. Iā€™ll see a lot of things around here that Iā€™m not sure of Iā€™m not at your level so it really doesnā€™t matter but I am very curious. I donā€™t expect you to explain that to me now Iā€™ll try to find out.

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Youā€™re making feminized seeds? Is that correct

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yup

and feel free to ask questions cause thats how we all learn

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Correct!

I was given a clone of Kosher Kush which iā€™m still growing as a mother plant. I fell in love with it after the first crop of itā€™s citrus rich flavour + great high. I want to both preserve and share this magic so iā€™m trying out STS.

The idea is that by spraying a Silver Thiosulfate Solution on a female plant at the start of flower & continuous intervals for a period of time it will force the plant to produce male flowers with pollen that will result in genetically female seeds.

So i have 4x clones going; 2x getting sprayed with STS and in flower, and 2x more in veg noding out in air-pots waiting for the pollen. I plan on collecting, drying and storing for the time itā€™ll take after i flip the to-be-pollenated.

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Aka Jew Gold? Before it was renamed as Kosher Kush.?

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So in order to make feminized seeds you need to create pollen from a female plant, in order to do so we reverse a female plant to produce said pollen, the two most common methods are to either use Colloidal Silver ā€œCSā€ or a solution of Sodium Thiosulfate and Silver Nitrate in water which people call ā€œSTSā€ though thats just an abbreviation of the first part.

Anyways in order to reverse a plant like Pigeon say you start spraying just before or just at the onset of flower what this does is the plant absorbs and takes in the silver which inturn block ethylene production in the plant, doing so then makes the plant express male and produce pollen though that pollen only has XX chromosomes and when paired with another female all off spring will be female as there is no Y chromosome to allow a male to appear.

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Yesiree! And :star_of_david: Gold is :100: :fire: .

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Thatā€™s what Iā€™d sayā€¦ clear!! Thanks!!! :seedling: :clap: :clap: :clap:

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I just planted a Trizzler myself. Had a spot (and a pot) open up in the tent from chopping the Ghost Rose so I figured why not throw one in. Canā€™t wait to get Trizzled :smiley:

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Soon as I have space Iā€™m gonna do a sea of autos cause compared to the amount of attention required when I am working on photoperiod plants in RDWCā€¦ growing a pile of autoā€™s is something I can do while asleep :laughing:

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Thatā€™s the plan for me too. Iā€™m waiting on some one gallon air pots. Was supposed to get six but they only had 3 in stock. Got them for $6.50 a piece though! I just need the Chocolate Thai and Lavender Frosting to finish up to clear up some space so I can put the Pennywise into a flower tent by itself. Iā€™m limited with space and since itā€™s illegal to grow in my ā€œlegal stateā€ I try to keep it at 5 because the penalties increase greatly after that. I figure I have a much better chance at defending a small obviously personal use grow as a medical patient in a legal state.

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I got my paperwork framed and mounted on the wall letting anyone know:
ā€œFuck-off, Iā€™m fully legal up to 29 plantsā€. :laughing:

@Slick1 , really hoping you can get more than 5 going one day! (youā€™ll need more tents. I got my 2x4 after the papers came in :laughing:

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Me too man. I still donā€™t need a ton but Iā€™d love to run at least 10 autos at a time.

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I got the paperwork because I found a place thatā€™ll do it for me for FREE; and rather than all eggs in 4 plants for medicine, I can now breed and grow samples! My Solocup run is 6x diff strains to see how each helps our issues. Before this it was frustrating to spend all the time growing something to find out it sparked a bad reaction (anxiety, etc) with my partner, or didnā€™t help my pain or focus issues. Now Iā€™m so much less stressed out as I can grow variety, find a winner, clone and breed it, STS and seed for preservation and sharing!

Freaking wonderful tbh. I havenā€™t been this stable for a while and I know itā€™s cause of the biofeedback I get from my plants :smiley: :hugs:

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