Finally got the Wu Tang Tent is up and running. Everyone has their sailin’ shoes on and will be flipped this weekend. Still on MegaCrop through 1st week of flower.
Flower Tent 2 has been at 11/13 for about a week. Got their first meal of flower nutes today. Nobody showing yet.
Onward!
Well, I’ll bite… what is Wu Tang? A strain? a breeder?
If you don’t know I’m not risking telling you. Wu Tang Clan ain’t nothing to F’ with.
Ok, so that’s the pet name for the tent and the crew inside?
Yeah. And the number of individuals and diversity of those strains that make up the members. Tilted oleskool musings. Good morning brother. Hell I overslept. It’s 7 o’clock! I get up at 5:30! Uh oh. Better extend my wake & bake and ponder this phenomenon.
Blessings…
Ahhh, that makes sense. I’m not really up on the story of the Wu Tang Clan but I get it.
@Muleskinner’s C-99 makes for a stellar Wake & Bake.Thanks @Muleskinner ! Hope you have a great day.
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It all started in the slums of Shaolin…
Glad those seeds turned out well! Crater Lake would be better named “zombie weed” because it turns you into one! Extremely powerful, crippling high. Effective at wiping out any kind of bad feelings, anxieties, etc.
I just finished drying a big C99 female and getting the bud into jars, very psyched as it’s been about 2 years since I harvested one. Now remembering why this is my favorite strain. You can enjoy the fruity taste all day long without getting sleepy. Provides both pain relief and a happy, euphoric feeling.
I missed it so much I spent the last week feeding wet flower into my Volcano vaporizer and inhaling “steam hits”…now the buds are finally dry I’m in cannabis heaven!!
You are right on point on both counts. Two of my favorite strains of all time. I got rid of all my Grandkids early today. Ms oleskool and I just finished a fat joint of my Crater Lake #2. The darker colored pheno. Now we are null and void till the news comes on! The C-99 is delightful as usual. I’m still partial to your C-99/Romberry from times gone by. I absolutely love that cross. Over ripe peaches and fresh grapefruit. Long lasting high. Makes you walk around with a smile on your face. I love that shit! Here’s to you @Muleskinner. Grower, Breeder extraordinaire and old friend. Peace
thanks man, agree on those C99-Romberry plants. I’m still holding a dozen seeds of the original cross I made from 20 years ago, been meaning to grow them out & make some more.
I’ve been doing a bunch of experimenting with my super-soil mix, doing test runs & sending samples into Logan Labs for analysis. If you pay a few bucks more, you get to talk to Bill McKibben, a nationally renowned agronomist. He was a big help. It’s hard to do seed runs when you’re not sure the plants will finish flowering sucessfully.
Bill helped me to realize the mix was too hot with too much of certain minerals (Sulfur and Mag.). His advice to reduce added compost and nutes and eliminate the Langbeinite was spot-on. I just started more Cindys and things are looking good, should be doing more seed runs this fall & winter.
I’m a believer in sometimes less is more. Thanks again man. Keep me posted on those Cindy projects. This batch I just grew checked all the boxes!
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yup, Bill had some interesting stuff to say. Great guy, his background is in commercial agriculture consulting, but he’s adapted well to helping cannabis growers. A lot of his advice goes directly against stoner wisdom.
For example, for organic container mix Bill advises no more than 5% pure compost. Whereas traditional stoner advice (“Clackamas Coot” recipe) says 1/3rd aeration, 1/3 peat/coir, 1/3rd compost. Bill says 33% aeration is too much. By taking the heavy compost out you can run with less aeration, I’m trying 25% in this batch. Also using more vermiculite instead of perlite to increase the cation exchange rate - when you’re confined to smaller containers you need to increase the ability of the medium to exchange nute molecules with the roots.
He said if you want to boost the living soil factor, use hummus-type products instead of compost. Compost is an unpredictable wild card that can release too much of certain things into the mix and cause burn or lockout, and it’s hard to know which one is happening.
hope things are going well in the Texas heat - a old friend and drug-war activist mentor of mine just moved back to New England from Lubbock. Old-school Texas guy. He may not go back this time - I told him once you’re in a legal state you will find it difficult to move back to a prohibition state.
Very interesting indeed. Some thought provoking shit brother. Gonna have to roll another joint of Crater Lake and ponder that shit. 
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I’m set to make some seeds this run. My oldest boy, Tbone, has an empty tent that I can put a male in and harvest some pollen. The possibilities are many as I have a variety of strains going atm. It’s my first time so any tips are welcome.
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“The Good Son” 
my only advice is watch the outflow from that male shack - if it’s in the grow shed w/ the females there could be trouble. I try to keep the male in separate room inside the house, or at least in a closet w/ the door closed and a HEPA filter running in there.
Good advice. No the tent I speak of is in his bedroom in the house. Not near the shed. 
That’s what stopped me up to now. I had no way to segregate a male. Must the lights stay on 12/12 for the male? Should I continue to feed him flower nutes? See…I have questions. Anyone?
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the male will need 12/12 to start flowering, but once he’s begun to flower I doubt it matters if he goes back to longer days. The males usually produce the pollen 3 weeks into flower. You can leave them in the flower tent w/ the females for the first 2 1/2 weeks of 12/12 - it’s only that last few days they need to be segregated. You’ll see the little balls appear and get closer to popping open, time to move him to the male shack. It’s really fun, you’ll love this 
when I lived in an apartment I would leave the male in the flower tent until the time came, then I would just move it in front of a sunny window and wait for the pollen. You could also move him to the veg tent the last few days & collect the pollen in there.
