Blue_Phlame
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^^ ditto, except on the other extreme in my part of the world.
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Blowmonkeys backyard bushes '06
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Blowmonkey
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Few days ago I found out one of the supposed males from OB#2 is actually a female, nice surprise, but I'm probably going to give her away to a friend anways. I've also re-potted most of the plants, 2 have gone into 30 litre pots, that's before they're going in the full ground, and a couple others have been re-potted into 12 and one into 15 litre pots, those were still standing in 7 and 12 litres. So far I've counted 6 females and 3 males, the rest I'm still not sure of. Almost all of the clones I've taken have shown roots, so it won't be long untill I can definitively say which is male and which is female.
fairnymph
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I don't smoke but I love gardening, and those plants are beautiful! Impressive. 
hedgewitch
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go you... a friend who is helping me took the smallest plant to his home to put under 24 hour light to see if that will give it a boost... the thing really is diddy
Blowmonkey
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Weather has been horrible for the last week here, it has been raining pretty much every day, heavy winds the last 3 days, so the plants haven't made much progress. A couple even started to show yellow leaf tips because of the wet feet they've continuously been getting, so I placed a bit of styrofoam on top of the pots, covers it up nicely.
I've been a little premature in my sexing again, one of the taller plants (pic #7) is not a female, it's another plant which has been growing smaller side-branches in the armpits of the regular side branches. This is driving me a bit crazy actually, I've never had so many plants with the same trait, it starts off looking like pre-flowers every single time.. The one posted after that one (pic #8) IS a female, so that pretty much evens each other out.
Also took 4 clones yesterday from a female OB from pheno #2, put them directly in the earth, see how that goes. I haven't had much luck with water cloning this time, something that went well last year.
I've been a little premature in my sexing again, one of the taller plants (pic #7) is not a female, it's another plant which has been growing smaller side-branches in the armpits of the regular side branches. This is driving me a bit crazy actually, I've never had so many plants with the same trait, it starts off looking like pre-flowers every single time.. The one posted after that one (pic #8) IS a female, so that pretty much evens each other out.
Also took 4 clones yesterday from a female OB from pheno #2, put them directly in the earth, see how that goes. I haven't had much luck with water cloning this time, something that went well last year.
Just gotta hope all the rain comes while they're still vegetating. I was unlucky enough to get 2 weeks of almost non-stop rain a few weeks before I intended on harvesting my Ice plant. That was the most rain i've seen in Sydney in such a short period for years as well, so it was extremely frustrating. I ended up losing quite a bit to mould, and the rest had to be pulled early so it turned out to be the worst stuff i've ever grown.
I had a Widow and a Skunk plant out there at the time too, but were both still vegetating. We barely got anymore rain after that, and since the sun intensity is great for outdoor growing down here, these two plants thrived during flower and turned out to be my best plants to date. In retrospect, it was a real rollercoaster of a grow season, but definitely ended on a high.
I had a Widow and a Skunk plant out there at the time too, but were both still vegetating. We barely got anymore rain after that, and since the sun intensity is great for outdoor growing down here, these two plants thrived during flower and turned out to be my best plants to date. In retrospect, it was a real rollercoaster of a grow season, but definitely ended on a high.
Blowmonkey
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I've used little to nothing actually, gave them root stims once or twice or something, and dosed them once with spore elements and such. Feeding nutes is really not all that necessary, potting soil gives off an adequate amount of nutes for about 3-4 weeks, after that you have to think about re-potting or giving them nutes to keep them going.
I just checked again on them btw and the plant I was referring to in my last post, the one which I thought was a female (the big one in pic #7), is a male, it just started to grow it's first balls.. To put things in perspective, I'm still not sure on 3 plants: the OB from pheno #1 (first pic on the previous page), the PP you see in the second pic and an OB from pheno #2, the one with the whorled phyllotaxy. I've got 4 males (an OB from pheno #1, the unknown seed I found outside and 2 PP's) and 6 females (4 PP's and 2 OB's from pheno #2).
So far so good. I'm keeping my fingers crossed on the OB from #1 being a female. That's one pheno I really can't afford to loose. If anyone can remember last years grow, you would understand.
I just checked again on them btw and the plant I was referring to in my last post, the one which I thought was a female (the big one in pic #7), is a male, it just started to grow it's first balls.. To put things in perspective, I'm still not sure on 3 plants: the OB from pheno #1 (first pic on the previous page), the PP you see in the second pic and an OB from pheno #2, the one with the whorled phyllotaxy. I've got 4 males (an OB from pheno #1, the unknown seed I found outside and 2 PP's) and 6 females (4 PP's and 2 OB's from pheno #2).
So far so good. I'm keeping my fingers crossed on the OB from #1 being a female. That's one pheno I really can't afford to loose. If anyone can remember last years grow, you would understand.
bagera tomorrow
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It's good to hear they're doing well, but seeing it would be even better
Sprinklervibes
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Do you have the link for your grow of last year?
It's been shitty weather here too, in Belgium. My friend is growing early misty or early girl, don't remember, his plants are still less than 10-12 cm high
And he started with 5, but lost two before they even sprouted. lol. stoners 8)
It's been shitty weather here too, in Belgium. My friend is growing early misty or early girl, don't remember, his plants are still less than 10-12 cm high
And he started with 5, but lost two before they even sprouted. lol. stoners 8)
hedgewitch
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yeah weather heres been a bugger... dull overcast and rainy, i'd be surprised if this wasn't england
the plants gorwth just slowed so much it was surprising, they're still growing steadily, just so much slower.
i nearly snapped one in half today though :S knocked it and snapped the stem kinda, but i checked on it later, was looking none the worse, in fact almost better, i'm sur eit will heal
the plants gorwth just slowed so much it was surprising, they're still growing steadily, just so much slower.
i nearly snapped one in half today though :S knocked it and snapped the stem kinda, but i checked on it later, was looking none the worse, in fact almost better, i'm sur eit will heal
Blowmonkey
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Should be alright, they usually get a lot stronger after recovering from such an injury, people even do it on purpose and call it supercropping.. Never understood it myself though, there's other, better ways on improving strength of the stems.
@ bagera, I'll post some pics in the coming few days, there isn't much to see yet, except for the yellowing leaves and all. Whole EU seems like it's going through one depression after another, so it might take more then a week for some nice weather & noticeable growth again.
@ sprinkler, here's last years growlog:
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=207224
These are the plants that produced what little seeds I have, for the people too lazy to spit through the link.
OB pheno #1:
OB pheno #2:
Purple Power:
@ bagera, I'll post some pics in the coming few days, there isn't much to see yet, except for the yellowing leaves and all. Whole EU seems like it's going through one depression after another, so it might take more then a week for some nice weather & noticeable growth again.
@ sprinkler, here's last years growlog:
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=207224
These are the plants that produced what little seeds I have, for the people too lazy to spit through the link.
OB pheno #1:
OB pheno #2:
Purple Power:
megalomania
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wow man..looks amazing wish i had that
hedgewitch
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*drools*
man thats good looking
well the weather perked up today, and th eplant looks fine, quite happy in fact (insofar as a cannabis plant can look happy)
i also have adeded to each pot something i got at the garden centre today... basically its granules that inolcutale the roots and soil with fungi to create some Mycorrhizal association (MY-co-RYE-zal). thats when fingi hyphea are attatcfhed to teh roots, basically extending the root sytem by quite a bit,
the fungi take sugar from the plant, and in return gives the plant nutrients from the siol, from dead plant and animal matter that it can break down and even some times from mineral rich rocks
most plants have this (some odd ones dont, e.g. brassicas) including cannabis, its can really improve growth massively
it also means that rather than being cared for by me the plants are mostly cared for by something with millions of years evolved practice
man thats good looking
well the weather perked up today, and th eplant looks fine, quite happy in fact (insofar as a cannabis plant can look happy)
i also have adeded to each pot something i got at the garden centre today... basically its granules that inolcutale the roots and soil with fungi to create some Mycorrhizal association (MY-co-RYE-zal). thats when fingi hyphea are attatcfhed to teh roots, basically extending the root sytem by quite a bit,
the fungi take sugar from the plant, and in return gives the plant nutrients from the siol, from dead plant and animal matter that it can break down and even some times from mineral rich rocks
most plants have this (some odd ones dont, e.g. brassicas) including cannabis, its can really improve growth massively
it also means that rather than being cared for by me the plants are mostly cared for by something with millions of years evolved practice
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Blowmonkey
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hedgewitch said:
Hey, that's pretty cool. The mycorrhiza fungus products are really starting to gain ground overhere in Holland, they're hyped to death (with good reason), but are expensive as hell, 60 euro's for 100 grams and 4-5 grams is needed per plant. That's a bit too much for my standards. How much did those granules cost?
Anyways, I made some pics yesterday and meant to put them up over night, but fell asleep pretty early in the evening, so I'll post them now.
Females:
1) Purple Power, topped this plant twice, yet it still looks kind of spindly. Probably need to transplant it into a bigger pot for some more width, it's now standing in 12 litres.
2) Another PP, this one's in a 15 litre pot and enjoying herself. Not really sturdy, but nice posture nonetheless.
3) My biggest plant, also a PP. She's over 1.90 standing in that 30 litre pot already, probably 1.60 without the pot. She's got the thickest stem of them all, yet she doesn't really want to fill out, she likes height.
4) PP which I've put in the full ground already, doesn't like the wet feet she's been getting, turned a lighter colour. Also looks like she's beginning to flower.. Could very well be because of auto flowering genes, or because she hasn't been getting much light this last week, it has been clouded nearly every day, so that might've cut off some hours out of the light cycle. But it LOOKS like she's starting to flower, so I could be wrong.
5) OB from pheno #2, the one you could see in the last time I took pics, nice and bushy.
6) The other female OB from pheno #2, this is the one which I thought was a male.
Blowmonkey
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Plants I'm stull not sure of what the sex is:
7) OB from pheno #1.
8) One of, if not the nicest PP I have. Needs re-potting, you can see she's got wilting leaves because of this, not because of too little water because they've been getting enough over the last week. Still standing in 12 litres, don't have a clue as to which pots I could transplant her in. Don't want to waste too much soil by putting it in a 30 litre pot, it could be a male.
9) And another OB from pheno #2, the plant with the whorled phyllotaxy. Has made a bit of a growthspurt compared to what she looked like at first.
3 of the 4 males:
10) The PP which I thought was a female the last time I posted pics. Too bad it's a male, one of the taller plants, started to bush out as well. You can also see another male in the background to the left, in the big container of soil. Couldn't get it over my heart to kill it, yanked it out of it's pot and put it overthere. It's back where it came from, that's the little plant I found growing outside in the same container. It'll have to die soon though..
11) And the OB #1 male, going to use it to make some seeds. Hopefully with the other OB #1, if not, with an OB from pheno #2, I'l cross my fingers hoping the OB #1 will be the dominant one in the offspring in that case.
7) OB from pheno #1.
8) One of, if not the nicest PP I have. Needs re-potting, you can see she's got wilting leaves because of this, not because of too little water because they've been getting enough over the last week. Still standing in 12 litres, don't have a clue as to which pots I could transplant her in. Don't want to waste too much soil by putting it in a 30 litre pot, it could be a male.
9) And another OB from pheno #2, the plant with the whorled phyllotaxy. Has made a bit of a growthspurt compared to what she looked like at first.
3 of the 4 males:
10) The PP which I thought was a female the last time I posted pics. Too bad it's a male, one of the taller plants, started to bush out as well. You can also see another male in the background to the left, in the big container of soil. Couldn't get it over my heart to kill it, yanked it out of it's pot and put it overthere. It's back where it came from, that's the little plant I found growing outside in the same container. It'll have to die soon though..
11) And the OB #1 male, going to use it to make some seeds. Hopefully with the other OB #1, if not, with an OB from pheno #2, I'l cross my fingers hoping the OB #1 will be the dominant one in the offspring in that case.
hedgewitch
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auto flowering? does PP have ruderalis genetics in it?
and the stuff i got was a sachet of stuff costing 75p (just over 1 euro) for a 75g packet
[edit] a product called rootgrow (i don;t think this counts a sources as its a generic product fro any plants basically)
oh and the weathers great again today... looks like we could be heading for a sunny spell after all
and the stuff i got was a sachet of stuff costing 75p (just over 1 euro) for a 75g packet
[edit] a product called rootgrow (i don;t think this counts a sources as its a generic product fro any plants basically)
oh and the weathers great again today... looks like we could be heading for a sunny spell after all
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Blowmonkey
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Thanks for that link. :D But I'm going to remove it anyways.
hedgewitch
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kk, i wasn't sure
hmm, can't find anything that meantions ruderalis in PP
edit:read the old grow log, so there is ruderalis in there? my suspcions were confirmed. so heres the question, is that a strain characteristic or was it bred in by your friend you got ht eseeds from?
hmm, can't find anything that meantions ruderalis in PP
edit:read the old grow log, so there is ruderalis in there? my suspcions were confirmed. so heres the question, is that a strain characteristic or was it bred in by your friend you got ht eseeds from?
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