Nothing appearance wise has changed much in the flower tent, was hesitating to even bother posting, these are easily the longest running afghans I’ve done. I think they’re all going to go 80+ days.
There’s two early finishers that are starting to get milky, so maybe 10 days on those but they still have a lot of white pistils.
I always made my own holes in the rapid rooters. Ive tried both root riot and rapid rooters for cutting and found the rapid rooters throw roots quicker.
The prime enemy of super dense squatters like this has reared its ugly head.
Thankfully the botrytis is only present on one plant and only then on two tops which I hacked off. Checked every plant and tried to do more defoliation but it’s an endless battle with these plants, they’re ALL LEAF MATTER!
I’m going to have to side with @8k_feet on this one. I have swapped over to root riot for cuttings, they’ve been woring great. Flip the cube upside down, make a new hole in the bottom, and insert cut.
I never had much success with the Crimea by soaking them, similar to your results. Manually cracking the seeds will lead to a higher germinate rate and is what I would recommend. My procedure was similar to the one on TLT’s website for the Crimea. The Crimea seeds likely require a stratification process to help them break dormancy which could explain why they don’t readily germinate via the more conventional methods.
I’ve been growing Afghani plants in New York for two decades or so. When the plants pre- sex, I wait until those calyxes are mature, and then I take them off the plant and smoke them. I noticed that these first calyxes are often the ones to get The rot, because they are so old by the time harvest time comes around, and they never see any air movement way down there on the inside of the bud. Nice looking plants though, and it looks like you caught The rot early enough. Nice job.
What I thought was bud rot was just leaf necrosis after @lefthandseeds convinced me to actually open up some colas and check. Whoops!
Six of these plants are really close or ready for , milky trichs abounding. Going to give them a few more days on a fresh res just because it feels right.
I’ve been dosing with .1g per gallon of hydroshock and it seems to be working really well - not a hint of algae/slime. I did this check on the plant I thought was rotting.
That second plant is an all natural weirdo - it’s like 3 colas compacted into 1, its lower branches are doing the same thing also, it almost looks like a mutation!
I should’ve just said Chlorine, straight up pool shock. I add .1g/gal every 4-5 days because it wears off, so 4g when I’m running a 40 gal res, a pithy amount.
There’s an amazing article on hydroponic disinfection here if you want to deep dive:
I dunno if you care or have time - basically chlorine is the “best” option for disinfection because such small quantities aren’t really shown to affect the plant (plants can actually uptake much higher ppm of chlorine and be fine), but it does also have negative affects on plant matter. It’s a two sided coin.
The opposite is throwing in “positive” bacteria to counteract the bad stuff, which @lefthandseeds is having a go at now. (that article I linked once again goes into this)
You may want to carefully Harvest that mutated plant and put it back into veg. That’s a great mutation. Kind of seems polyploid but without that funky look. It would be a shame to let that one end its existence without ever being hit by some pollen. @lefthandseeds, is this common in your Leb line? What a great job you’ve done! These look so different from the Lebanese I grew. These look like a lost Afghan lineage or something. Has anyone tried these outdoors in a humid area?
Rigged up my new drying tent, pretty happy with how it came out.
I set it up with a 4” ac infinity to a small phat filter, and am going to only run the fan when RH is above 60 via an inkbird controller.
I’m also pretty excited because this can be a male tent as well when I figure out another hydro setup to feed them. Probably just end up doing a DWC bucket or two.
Should be able to hang a lot of flower up in here!!
Thanks, these unleashed some kind of ancient Afghan. It’s a crazy one to defoliate, but turns out some great herbs, some with very aggressive indica stone. Some phenos really hit hard, most have really nice bud shapes from the Dakini kush. The Domina makes some phenos have these weird fat diamond point foxtails that extend off the main. Like this (black dom):
I took down the two kush leaners (really short plants on the far right in pics).
They yielded a shocking amount just based on how dense they are - the shortest one had both sets of inner and outer (light exposed) branches and each filled a drying shelf.
They are so gassy it almost made me nauseous toward the end of chopping. Major chemical vibes in there too - gas, dank fruit, chem.
I was mixed up as to what strain I was looking at. Beefy little plants that’s for damn sure! No doubt, looks like some kind of ancient Afghan for sure. Looks like some powerful smoke.
