Okay I think this will be longest post I have made to date, but I have a lot of information to go over.
On Friday night after work I went to cut down the Widows Red Berry Cheesebake and the Samsquanch OG F2 that is when I noticed two problems. First problem was as soon as I picked up the first plant I could see that a large colony of small flying bugs had made a home in my tent under the plants. These bugs where in the soil when I bought it and normally they never get out of control like this. But on closer inspection I found out why they got out of control. The containers I have been using are cheap throw away baking pans and after three months of holding soil and water they began forming holes in the bottom and sides of the pans which gave the bugs more room to take over. So all three plants got cut down and the tent got an alcohol wipe down to kill all the bugs.
Worn out pan
Now I have given the three plants enough time to dry out and jar so here is some pics of them and final weights.
Samsquanch OG F2
29 inches tall
2.09oz final weight
Widows Red Berry Cheesebake
19 inches tall
2.86oz final weight
Ghost Rose
26.5 inches tall 1.33oz final weight
Next is the Coked Out Girl Scout. She is on week 7 of veg. and I am about ready to flip to flower in a few more days. Would have done it a week ago but this plant is a slow grower.
Last week I said I had a new seed started and if it took hold I would show it off. Well it did so here it is.
It is a GG#4 auto from @Qtip Thanks again for the beans.
Now onto other newsā¦since my main tent is empty it means it is time for me to do my Tampa Crippy run. I will forgo the backstory on this strain in order to keep this post from becoming a light novel, but I am doing a three plant setup in the tent for this run and I will be using 15qt. plastic storage containers. I dropped three seeds in water yesterday and all three have popped open.
I am not doing any sign ups for the seeds at this time. I want to wait until the seeds are done and I know what I have, so I do not offer more than I have. I do want to invite a few people to this, @OriginalDankmaster96 since you just finished up doing some of these seeds I would love to have your take on things during this grow. @Astrodude you were kind enough to offer up some of your old school Florida seeds in exchange for some of these seeds when I did this run, so I wanted to keep you in the loop on this run. @Florida_man_genetics I know you were looking for these seeds from another thread, so pull up a seat.
I donāt know how to say this to on my b-day of all days, but I feel I mustā¦neither of us will be making seed from Tampa Crippy. I had high hopes for TC, but the intersex trait is in my B pheno too. The clone/seed plant doesnāt express it, but itās still present in the genetics. That means all 3 are intersex, but unfortunately the progeny are bonafide hemies at a high rate I might add. Over half just confirmed. This means itās unstable and there will a low rate of true females from seed. I believe the stamen is invasive as it hangs on the axial lowers, so unlike the clones where I showed inactive surrounded by the bud clusters, this can spread. In fact Iāve seen swollen bracts and this early there should be none. Xmas bud isnāt the culprit. This is all Tampa Crippy. So grow and enjoy it, but donāt bother wasting time doing seed. I canāt in good conscious use TC for a project now. The line isnāt a true female to start w. Iām thinking of reversing to PTK and Xmas instead. Probably start a few of those Corn soon from 808 and see whatās there. Disappointed but we must face facts of instabilities being spread in already delineated gene pool of selfing. Based on what Iāve seen I donāt think selfing is beneficial to the futureā¦