The LS x GK (75% of the slots) and one ST#3 start to rush as hell without a single hint of PK, I’m happy. They like my ugly tubes more that i’ve planned for the moment. I’ve changed a little my feeding chart to continue the Root Excellurator until week 4 (at 0.2ml/liter), the pivot point that i want to reach is the plants filling the tubes with roots.
First prototype error : i’ve underestimated some Archimede’s principles with a too tall “NFT-style minimum level”. The height of the uniseals alone was enough and perfect. With a hammer (jeremy clarkson style), i’ve pushed a bit more the water ducts of the pump to gain one big centimeter. Just perfect now.
For the hawkeyes, the white spot are just residual plastic “sand” of the cuttings.
At this point, i need to slow down the clones in the vegetative side to don’t reach this state (flashback pic), that ask too much daily maintenance :
So i start early, because most of the JH F8 clones that are waiting will need to stay there one big month in 2 liters medium before i can free somes slots in the tubes :
Before
After
2 males ST#3, 3 males JH, one JH mother of three years (all renewed near each month), a step of three years is finishing gently. The biggest one btw. Only the JH mother will remain because i need her as weed reference for further selections, and also because i love to smoke her in a daily basis.
I’ve eliminated the LSxGK F2 that you will flower first in this diary from the project and from the genpool after twos years, a bunch of harvests, a bunch of samples of friends (with similar hybrids) and deliberations. I trapped myself in this line with twos final females but i don’t regret the time spended. She was special and strange in a way, with a specific soul. Now, the DJ Short Grape Krush is on my list of strain to experiment pure (as stoner) even if it’s not really my range of favorite profiles (hazes).
Even with some mileage, i’ve not eared my instincts and customs with this line but i took the time to reach a 100% rationnal decision. I was unable to extract one single male from this line, they were all very bad in term of quality. In this case i generally throw the line very quickly. Sometimes in plain selection, i flush the space without any pity.
imho, A F2 line that is unable to produce good males or at least balanced ones is generally not a line that will survive to the “F4 divine judgement” (lol) in term of average quality and that will be very resilient in a bad sense. The performance was good, but the potency of the weed is finally boring both in traditionnal hash and in dryed flowers, when used daily for a long period. A bit too “stoney” for the project too, a messy stone. I’ve nothing against messy stones, i love the (old) Skywalker of DP or the (old) Sensi Star of Paradise, but it have to be enough potent and long lasting to be interessting and ludic. Unfortunnally it was not the case, and my new condition don’t permit to maintain her, for her later performances. You will see this round a true exctinction of a good strain lol Funny, i don’t have thinked about that.
So, i empty actually the vegetative space to launch a new selection. With the LSxGK or with the new one wich is coming (not fixed yet), i want to print a bit of “us trend” as “taste agent and spice” of the 3way that i’m slowly building. Not an outcross, more with an offroad blend picked by guys that are saturating to grow the sames clones all the year by obligation. You known, this offroad way to search something enough special and/or disturbing. The goal being to find a female-host to welcome a specific ST#3 x JH male, then enjoy the fruits a fews generations.
It was the “inner” share on the what is happening, and what will happend maybe the next ten harvests in this diary ^^
Let’s show more how i generally prepare the clones (except for seeds) to flower them :
From the moment when the stem is cut in clones to the presence of a true trunk, i don’t touch the clones outside minimal maintenance (dead leafs). Training included.
For now, the main goal is the same that usual : to choose the twos best main stems.
A bit more radical because these clones are ready to flower, but the slots are all full. They have to wait a big month for the lucky ones.
I just cut the trunk this time to the first true secondary stems, it give me twos weeks to equilibrate the twos news stems.
I’m more proud of this one of course ^^
I regulate the height simply by pinching the most vigorous stem of the twos
On the stem the most i can over on the tops. The difficulty on the JH blood is that it become quickly woody, reacting fast to this agression. But the next harvest you will see that it value the efforts with this blood.
Now, a very quick overview on a training variation that i use for my moms/pops. It’s trendy today to give a name to everything, lets call it “upside down training” lol
This is the patient, a JH female that i love globally even if she’s a bit bitchy sometimes. Nothing really unusual on the shape for the moment at first look but i’m preparing a long term relationship with her. Offspring is allready garanteed on clone’s sisters, i can have fun with her now on long time periods.
Top to bottom :
The last pic is the initial top of this long stem that i train along the trunk. This is the average lenght i’m waiting for to train again the top, like that :
During the build, it boost quickly the productivity of a little specimen in term of donor of clones, when you take them large and thick and in one shot.
That’s the problematic of SOG in tiny spaces, the source of the clones when you must fill a 12 slots trays in one time and to keep a good flow in veg in same time, between the buffer of the flo, the selections and the renews of specimens.
To keep fresh and tender over and over the same moms/pops is a pain until they are backup in seeds, now that i’ve only one P1 not to maintain but to play with … it’s like :
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But it will not last so long lol, one round and it’s over with the injection of a new strain in the game soon ^^
Yesterday one of my intake have fall, after 2 years of non stop service. My fault. The space between the tubes and the wall of the space is very very tiny :
During maintenance i’ve maybe moved the tubes and blocked the motor of the intake, it finished it ^^ Well, it was the time to change it, no regret except using it instead one single RVK. I usually use this things for the bulbs only, to can near litterally “put the bulbs on the flowers”.
One trick for those who have twos left hands like me :
That’s how my universal adaptator look like. Patented off course lol That’s for a diameter wich is inferior that the orginal. For the reverse, just warm gently the plastic with fire to form it.
I present the tube like that in pressing. For me it’s like to discover sparks on silex at this point.
Then i release and it take the form. And now you start to ask yourself how the fuck you thinked about that and if it work.
Ugly, messy, but done in 30 sec and it work ^^ Forgive me but i have to accustom the reader with my “Dr frankenstein manner” to maintain this crazy space in life ^^
Have fun everybody, enjoy your favorite herbs and nothing else !