Those are really cool.
What kind of pepper is that?
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What kind of pepper is that?
That makes sense. I got some Peruvian daffodils about 3 years ago, and they have yet to bloom. They’re about 60 cm tall now.
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Hatch green chilis, but I was told since they are not being grown in Hatch, NM they are just green chilis. lol
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curious… how much of an increase in temp do you have in that setup with the insect netting?
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There are a number of green chile strains. Check out the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University where they work to preserve the old lines while investigating new breedings.
They currently sell seeds for these Green Chile varietals (and lots of other types of chile peppers too!):
Barker’s Hot
Chimayo
Lumbre
NuMex 6-4
Big Jim
Conquistador
Espanola
Joe E. Parker
Sandia Select
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I don’t think there is an increase in temps at all. It supposedly cuts sunlight by 2%, but you’d never know it by standing inside. Once the plants start budding we will set up the fans on a temperature timer to start a few degrees above the dew point to keep the moisture from the humidity down. Last year the temp timer seemed the same as the recorded weather channel temps, so if it changes it at all, it’s negligible. Once inside the net, it seems the same as being outside.
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I freaken love green chilis! Thanks for the link!
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Okay so @Herbie and @HolyAngel There is a skunky pheno on the SSDD’s? Since you two have been playing with them , how many pheno’s have you found? The only one I grew last year was very sativa like and a fruity (strawberry maybe) candy flavor. Probably more like kool-ade.
The sour butter I hear everyone speak of was what the cross Maui Wowie x SSDD tasted like. I believe it was a cross Sebring did. My friend in the high desert grew that one out.
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In the original f1s/2s there are definitely some skunky funky phenos to be found. I’d say the majority of the f1s actually were all skunky funky smelling. The Sour butter pheno has like a 10% chance of showing up in the f1s. I saw one in 15 beans.
If you’re running my ssdd bx1 tho, I’ve not seen nor heard of that showing up. Closest should be a spicy/peppery/musky smell from the Starlite but ive only seen that come through in notes on the backend, while still getting sour butter and/or blue(berries) up front. ^^
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The male I used to make f3’s had some skunk to him. I liked his structure and vigor. There is bound to be some with the f3’s I sent. The mom I used was like unto the mom HolyAngel chose though. She was one of two.
I think the number of pheno’s possible increases in the f2 and f3 generations beyond what you might see in f1’s and as breeders/growers get further along in the fgens you would see less in the number of pheno’s
I have seen a lot of variation in this strain.
Edit- to add that each of those mom’s would undoubtedly differ, I don’t claim the clear headed daytime high he has from his mom… I only have a moving target atm no mom chosen in this gen…yet
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Felt well enough to get some stuff done in the garden. A few succulent transplants and fed the tomatoes and container cannabis this stuff. Everything I’ve fed this stuff too has loved it so far.
Did a super long watering inside the net. This is the 7th year of drought here in Cali so I basically have zero water table. My soil is so loamy and fast draining there’s really no such thing as a deep watering. You could kind of water forever and ever and you would still have to water again in a day or two. Anyways, I don’t remember giving you guys pics of the last few plants that went in the ground lately
Cheese
SSDD BX
Love Fire looking at this pic, that bottom branch needs to go. It won’t make the canopy of the plant
And some of my lilies bloomed apparently
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So, my apprentice is not able to take any plants after all. My man’s buddy wants them, so I went out and pruned and supercropped them for him. He’s gonna pick them up later. I hate seeing perfectly good plants go to waste. I was about to stick them in 10 gal containers and flower them out if I had to. They are all really rootbound and stunted at this point. They will end up petite plants anyway. My guess is a dry qp each. Yield like an indoor plant run at this point, I suppose. They have been in the 2 gallon containers for a long time now. 2 of them need a major cal/mag dose at this point. I never mixed dry nutes into these containers when I transplanted. I was expecting them all to go in the ground. I liquid fed them yesterday, but they need a transplant, nutrients and some love. lol I’m so much nicer to plants I know I’m gonna keep.
Did a stem rub of C99, does smell like pineapple to me. SSDD has a skunky smell. Love Fire smells like a cake or something and Jack Herer smells like curry (but I do have a flowering curry plant like 6 feet away) def some spicy herbal smell. The grape ape reeks in veg almost as strongly as the orange goji. You can smell it throughout the backyard. None of them are even in preflower.
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I’m such a freak. Just checked back in last year’s log. The plants looked the same at this time last year. Why do I always get paranoid and think they are behind every year? I was saying the same thing last year at this time. Only difference was my crazy cheese plant was budding for a week already. I had that one crazy early plant. The 2nd was the Azad Kasmir around the 24th of July. Makes me happy that I log every gosh darn thing every year. So I can look back and see how freaken crazy I am. 
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Just read this about C99
“Through a long process of back-crossing over three generations, Cinderella 99 was created by Mr. Soul of the Brothers Grimm. The result is a cross between Princess and Cinderella 88, which was bred specifically for indoor setups. The strain is rather short for a Sativa and rarely grows over 100 centimeters. Growing well in hydroponics, Cinderella 99 can reportedly produce up to two pounds per square meter (or 1,000 watts). Recommended for moderately-experienced growers, this strain finishes flowering in about fifty days.”
So, I have no idea what 100 centimeters means but it’s not suppose to get large. Looks like it was bred for very large yield. May end up like that 5 foot UFS18 I got like 2 lbs of dry bud off of a few years back.
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That ssddbx girl looks right to me! Skunky stem rub at this point isnt unheard of. I can see a lot of the mom coming through in the leaves and structure 
Hope that draught eases up a bit for you, but the plants look great as always! 
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The cultivar is called Big Jim. 
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I grew there Cinderella xx and it was top 3 most potent strains I’ve grown. Brain melting high
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meesh, your flowers are lovely! you have such an appreciation for nature and its beauty. i’m curious have you ever grown dahlias? my mom had grown them for a period of time a while ago, and i remember some of those flowers being so amazingly gorgeous.
is cinderella xx from the more recent brothers grimm and available nowadays? i’m still a neophyte to the history of these seed strains, but i had read that brothers grimm had lost their original stock, so the quality of their recent genetics didn’t seem to compare to their original versions for a number of people. so i’d love to know if their current strains are killing it.
i was actually just listening to mr soul’s interview on the potcast today. it’s such a great podcast for getting insight into these long-time breeders and their processes and thinking. highly recommended for anyone interested in getting deeper into the why’s and how’s of doing more than just “growing weed”.
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I grew it about 4 years ago. I believe it’s one of there newer crosses. It had zero smell and I mean zero smell. But. It was so damn potent. I think the Brothers Grimm strains with xx at the end are updated versions of the originals. Expensive seeds though. I paid 35 dollars per fem seed.
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