Yeah me too! lol It smells so damn good it’s raised my hopes again. My friend who isn’t picky got an early sample at 2 weeks of cure and the first smoke report was that it was that it tasted dry and the effects were weak, which would be expected. He swears that the second time he smoked it a week later it tasted better and had a nice relaxed high to it. Not sure what’s placebo and how much it could have changed in that week in a cigarette cellophane but I’ll take it!
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Bro the pennywise you can’t smoke it and if it’s in week 4 or 5 of flower and you pollenate now , you’ll need at least 6 to 8 weeks to produce seeds total 14 to 16 weeks invested or you can cull it and start a short flowering strain or run clones
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You’re probably right but I hit it earlier tonight. The light’s on and it’s not taking up space I need at the moment so I’m just gonna let it go. I wasn’t planning on hitting it again but now I definitely won’t.
I’ve got my auto tent running still and an empty pot in it waiting for the Lebanese seed to germ. I scratched it up and put it back on the worm castings earlier so fingers crossed. The auto tent is scratching the itch for faster stuff.
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(sends voodoo vibes of seed wakening)
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I need them cause she doesn’t wanna pop!
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Are they old seeds ?
Or just a tuff shell to crash
Try scaring the surface of the shell , soak in water with hydrogen peroxide( just a splash )
Or there’s my new all time favorite cut a small pice of aloe and put the seed inside the aloe and check it each day
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Apparently one excellent way of storing aloe vera gel is by mixing it 50/50 with honey and adding a little ascorbic acid… I’m thinking I may try this eventually, though I’ve had 100% germ rate since starting to use a heat pad. Once the seeds get older, that may change. I don’t exactly want to cut a whole leaf off to get one piece of gel per seed, but when I can strip the rest and store it to use for the next grow as well as using it to sweeten my oatmeal in the morning, that’s a win/win. 
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Thanks for the tip 
Paps
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Kinda like using honey for your childs allergies.
Being specific to your geospace is probably important. I’ve read geo specific mycorrhizae are real good, and shipped in, not so good. We make our organic compost, teas and nutes. Creating “local” bacterias.
The concept of local honey and aloe is very much under study.
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I’m not sure how much difference using local anything would make, when we’re talking about indoor growing in as controlled an environment as we can make it… obviously you’re more used to outdoors, I’ve seen the pictures of the farm. 
There, it certainly makes sense that it would make a difference using amendments that have microbes adapted to the same environment as the one you’re introducing them to.
The strains we’re growing also generally aren’t landraces, having been adapted to grow reasonably well for indoor growing and controlled environments. Landraces don’t typically do well indoors unless they have fairly specific conditions, from what I’ve read - conditions closer to what they’d experience in their natural environment. That’s probably also where indoor growers would benefit most from having access to amendments made in that locale, if it’s at all possible… it probably isn’t, most of the time. Unless you think I should be looking for honey and aloe from Maine because I’m using Coast of Maine 
's Bumper Crop for my compost? 
Not sure what @Slick1 would have to look for, he’s using Happy Frog iirc.
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I have been growing indoors longer than 30 years, never hydroponic sans soil.
Soil Double potting only, no flow table or constant flow experience whatsoever.
Kinda dutch potting/octopots. Scrog always, lollipop after budding starts. Foop Everything
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Not sure their age. The first one popped but somehow ended up on top of the soil in the pot and the tail turned green. Put it back under but it never grew. 2nd seed wouldn’t germ, tried cracking it and soaking no luck. I’m on the 3rd now. It’s been sitting on worm castings for a week no luck (after being in a paper towel for at least a week). I scratched up the surface last night with some sandpaper and put it back on the castings.
I’ve seen the aloe trick and I’m definitely intrigued.
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Apparently one of the leaves fell off my aloe plant while I was busy saying I didn’t want to cut one off, so you could try it pretty easily if you want to.
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Yeah I’ll take some aloe off your hands!
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Have you tried threatening it yet?
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I did that with clones. But I see how it would work.
Eh, I would say more berated than threatened but nothing is off the table.
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Just some updates cause it’s been a minute. Here’s the seeded branch from the Black Cream auto pollen.
Good plant
Treated plant. The pollen either didn’t take or it’s not going to in time. I’m going to pull this plant today or tomorrow and washed the airpot well in case of any residual silver. Something will take it’s place.
Lavender Frosting still kicking even with her nonexistent fan leaves.
I’ve mentioned it in passing in here but never posted pictures. The Pennywise was a seedrun attempt and because of that I wasn’t trying to grow what I normally would from them. With airpots you can put the bottom part of the pot anywhere inside and these are recessed almost halfway to intentionally keep the plants smaller. Just shows how formidable the strain is that she did that well in that little amount of soil. When I cull the treated one I’ll take a picture of where the bottom is.
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Nice to see my boy appears to have knocked up your girl… 
Congratulations papa! lol
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Yup and as my plans change and warp moving forward I’m trying to decide if I want to run 3 gens and make an auto from it. Have some thinking to do on it since I have to reveg the Pennywise and change gears from what I had planned anyway.
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