Zephyr grows and creates

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I have some sinsemilla going in the flowering tent right now. This is the final cycle for my guava hashplant “F” f1 mother plant. This will also be the last cycle for my Raspberry Afghani bodhi tester cut (goji raspberry sharpie f2 x old mother ghani).

Here they are, doing their thing. As you can see these mother plants are old and sparse, and have put out a lot of clones. To control the height and hopefully increase the production of the top colas, both of these have had some light training during stretch.

I love how different these are. That’s the raspberry afghani on the left, and the guava hashplant on the right.


This is the raspberry. check out these thick curly pistils that droop over, and the downturned deeply serrated leaves.

I’ve been calling these melted ice cream nugs.

The dried nugs smell exactly like vanilla ice cream, strawberry, and lime with a hint of fresh Jordans. The live flowers are pure lemon and nike rubber.

Here is the guava, looking like the total opposite of the raspberry with its arrow straight hairs sticking straight up. (compare it to the raspberry bud on the front left.)


starting to get pretty faded and showing a few orange pistils. This one flowers within 45 days, it will bulk up a little more and be done soon.

emits strong vegetal planty smells and occasionally a brief blast of skunk while growing. I don’t use a carbon filter, although I do have an ambient air filter running to keep the place from smelling too dank. The flowers themselves will have a mild sweet toasty black pepper and bitter kush smell.

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update / correction on my germination results

Guava B f2 - 1/3
I miscounted the Guava hashplant B f2’s. I actually had two sprouts. The one I mentioned that grew in a loop eventually didn’t make it, but the other sprout was fine. Just a little stunted. After establishing roots, it’s growing fine.

And some clarification on the mistakes I made when starting these-

I was rushing when I started soaking the seeds and made a couple mistakes

  1. I didn’t sterilize the glasses before soaking the seeds
  2. my lactobacillus serum may have been too old, but I used it anyway

After soaking for one day, there was some kind of cloudy transparent film visible around the fresh guava ix seeds. I think it may have been some sort of bacterial or fungal bloom, or possibly just waterlogged remnants of the membrane that grows between the seed and calyx clinging to the surface of the seed.

Because I wasn’t sure of the cause, I treated all the seeds to address the possibilities that it may have been caused by the old lactobacillus serum, or environmental contamination.

In my usual seed starting method I would switch the seeds to a very dilute hydrogen peroxide in water solution after soaking for two days in water with lactobacillus serum.

I overcompensated and used too much hydrogen peroxide in my attempt to treat the bacterial or fungal bloom.

So to sum it up, my germ rates may have been slightly higher if I had followed my own procedure a little more carefully when germinating the seeds. Fortunately, the ones that sprouted were seemingly unaffected.

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My red heri fruitbud beans had that Saturn ring.
All 6 perished

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lebanese guava update-

veg development of lebanese guava
(guava hashplant f1 B clone x lebanese open pollination)

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2 days ago

it’s only 2 but they are very uniform. strong hybrid vigor. their growth is much more vigorous than the pure lebanese or pure guava hashplant.

Denser growth and broader leaves than any of the parent plants.
No internode spacing at all.
(definitely genetic because my veg lighting is low wattage t5 fluorescent).

This cross must have brought out some deep recessive indica genes from the parent stock.

I’m very excited to see what these are like when I flower them. I’ll be growing these sinsemilla for medical use to see what this line has to offer.

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What strength of H2O2 do you like for your solution?

Cheers
G

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seedlings

2 weeks ago


3 days ago

edit- these are a little past due for a transplant, hopefully that’ll happen this week.

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quick update, and planning for the next grow cycle-

transplanted two Guava F f2 seedlings #3 and #5 into a 7 gallon pot. I am growing sinsemilla, so these will be two in a pot to save space until I cull the males. They look good, very vigorous, but a little rootbound and dry.

The two lebanese guavas sharing a 10 gallon container just went into flowering to be sexed.

The guava F f1 cut in flowering is almost done. The raspberry afghani isn’t far behind.

I have two sensi seeds maple leaf indica plants in veg. They are mature and grown to the full width of their containter, and one has just put out female preflowers. (which is a convenient trait.) The other is still in veg, and I am hoping it is a male.

These will go into flowering as soon as the current batch of sinsemilla is finished. If I get a male and female I will pollinate and preserve it for future medical use.

I would probably throw in a few of the guava hashplants to get pollinated as well, that would be a useful hybrid if possible.

Once I am able to start my maple leaf breeding, I will be able to switch my veg tent to cmh lighting to flower a big batch of sinsemilla.

When that’s done both tents will be deep cleaned after about 3 months of perpetual growing in preparation for the next breeding project or medical grow, depending on my needs at the time.

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One of the best smoke I have smoked hands down that and Wakeford

all the best and grow well

Dequilo

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what’s the wakeford? a local variety?

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the one I grew was the first one I do not believe at first it was reeferman but someone he work

with at the time

it was done for an AID patient I believe, it smelled like silly putty after dried

stone you into the pavement

But I had just started growing again 2000 -2001 and bought seeds which was a new thing to me

and thought that shit was like Burpees always going to be there

not so, find something you like make beans as it could be gone

make seeds and share them

Dequilo

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If your looking for wakeford sinister seeds has a version 2.0 which is quite good grew it a couple rounds back knock out smoke.

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where can I get him no IG or Facebook I am an OpenGrow member still I did see him post here

once so I may just message him here

thank you

Dequilo

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Yup or I can pm you his email if you want

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that works and thank you

Dequilo

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Guava f2 B #1 smoke report follow up-


I’m hitting the last nug from this plant. This was a great batch. Not as many seeds as I had hoped for, they were all right at the surface. It’s just too dense for seeds to form inside the buds. Fortunately the lightly seeded bud was excellent smoke.

The ambient smoke smells great, and the smell is stronger than usual- I run air filters so usually I don’t smell my own smoke at all. The smell is sweet, with an aromatic like cedar wood, a hint of skunk, and another complex organic smell… possibly dried mushroom.

As it cured, the creamy mango smell of the buds really came out in the smell and flavor. The passionfruit notes aren’t as intense after a complete cure, and neither is the gas, but it’s still there.

This has a really intense passionfruit and mango flavor as an aftertaste. You really get the passionfruit flavor on the cough, kind of like the old strawberry cough. It’s smooth but definitely a heavy hitter like the classic chem.

This pheno has an intense, fun, happy high. Very relaxing, but not as subdued as the F phenos. Bright and creative, with a mild sense of excitement. The high is the same as it was on day one. The medicinal effect is the same, but it is even more effective after curing. Relieves pain and leaves you feeling comfortable without introducing any extraneous physical sensations.

This is exactly the kind of medicinal effect I am looking for. Pain relief which is very effective yet almost transparent.

this was the only one that has that fruit juice flavor. It really is very similar to that passionfruit mango juice squeeze I was talking about. Especially now that the gas smell has faded as it cured.

a friend gave me this general guava smoke report for several phenos-

it’s like going for a walk with a blanket. It’s very comfortable and relaxed, but you can still go for a walk and get stuff done. You can still be functional to do whatever work you need to.

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guava f2 B #2 initial smoke report

Smells just like a strawberry rhubarb pie with a slightly burnt crust. Very fruity, but with a hint of smoke or char.

In flower this plant had an intense smell of overripe fruit. At harvest, it smelled really dank and gasoline like. As it dried, the fruit smell intensified and became more tart, and the gasoline smell faded into a smoky charred aroma. There is a hint of cream in this one as well, much like the f2 b #1 and the outdoor guava B f1 clone.

On the inhale it tastes like it smells, tart strawberry, and a sweet burnt sugar char. Tastes similar on the exhale, very sweet. Then, like a surprise twist ending, you get a totally different flavor on the cough.

It’s an intense japanese food flavor, like chicken yakitori or maybe an intense miso soup made with dried salted mackerel broth. It’s really weird. At first I was really confused (and high), and I thought it was a lingering flavor from something I ate earlier. It was so unusual, it took me a long time to put it together that the flavor was the bud I was smoking. Hit it again this morning. Intense yakitori flavors. Super weird.

Both Guava B f2’s have intense flavors on the cough. (Kind of like the old strawberry cough.) I think I may be developing a taste for this one, but obviously I prefer the intense mango cream and passionfruit flavor of b #1.

B #2 follow up-

The smell changed substantially after a long cure. The sweetness is gone. it now smells like incredibly sour fresh strawberry and rhubarb, instead of a sweet and jammy burnt pie. The smoky burnt aroma has faded, but there are still definite hints of burnt pastry in the background. In addition to the sour fruit smell, there is an additional funky fermented note like apple cider vinegar and active yeast cultures.

Even though I loved the flavor, smell, and high, I didn’t end up smoking a lot of this one. I overdried the buds, and they weren’t in great shape because of the late harvest to get ripe seeds. The flower ended up harsh because of the overdried raggedy buds.

Yesterday I shucked it all and broke it down to make hash. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anything so crusted in keef. some of the buds had so much resin on the interior surface area of the buds that keef poured out of them like sand when I broke them apart. The keef got everywhere, even though I was wearing gloves and handling it carefully. Keef got all over my clothes, in my hair, in my eyes, and up my nose.

The keef from this one spreads like glitter, it gets everywhere and you can’t clean it up no matter how hard you try. There was so much keef all over everything that by the end, I was absolutely fed up with it. I can’t work with millions of tiny crystals, so I’ll use alcohol to fuse them all together into one giant crystal.

I’m going to set up my enail again soon and want to have plenty of good concentrates to vaporize. This will be insane as a concentrate.

I let this one go way too late trying to get ripe seeds. It has particularly large seeds which took forever to ripen, by the time the seeds were ready some of the bud was dead or dying. This plant really suffered from being overripe, I lost about a third of the harvest to die off (ie buds drying out and browning on the plant).

This pheno was a very very quick finisher, which made decent sized insanely dense colas. But very difficult to produce seeds from. Really unique smell and flavor, excellent potency, stupid levels of keef production.

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Great descriptions sounds like quite the smoke fruit and Chinese food interesting mix .

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Save me a few of these Zep, sounds yummy.
We talking 1-2 hit shit?

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Harvested my raspberry afghani cut for the last time. the fresh buds smell like rubber, specifically a new pair of nikes, and lemon juice.


tangled mess of golf ball tops and little nug berries. Very medicinal.

Made this surprisingly potent cannabis juice. this stuff is hitting.
water, raspberry afghani trim, 4 carrots, 2 apples, 2 tangerines, a little plain yogurt, and a spoonful of honey. Blended thoroughly and strained. the plants will get the pulp as mulch.

Very tasty and refreshing. This should help me recover from an abdominal / core muscle injury. The weed flavor is barely there, just a vegetal spice like nasturtium flower petals. Might add some macha powder to the next glass.

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The good news is you got the seeds matured so you can reproduce this pheno at a later date! :+1:

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