42 Year Old Bag Seed!

[GreeenFingers]

Yeah if it is anywhere near a pure sativa you are looking at between 12 and 16 weeks to finish, if this is the case you might not see trichomes for about 2 months into flower of course strain dependent but pure/equatorial Sativas will take forever to finish so patience will be a virtue

 

[BigIrishDoode]

yup i have a sativa that takes forever to show them but be patient they are coming!

 

[oldrthandirt]

Hey everybody, Thanks for the comments.

stfpaul, tender age! hrmpf!!!!!!!!!!! Thats why I use a 50X microscope instead of a 10X like you youngsters!!!!!!!!!!! As for Karma, that could be. My family came from the Appalachian Mountains and made moonshine so they may be messing with me for not doing like they did!

So far Harriet has been in flower for 7 weeks and I knew going in that harvest would be in late Oct. or Nov. As for Runt, If it goes another month I will be super surprised. I am thinking hard about stakeing it because it is having a hard time keeping its colas from falling over. I have been taking Runt and Harriet out to the porch to get sunlight and took a couple of pictures. I wish I had a better camera to show the colas.

The colas on Runt are getting long and heavy.

 

[oldrthandirt]

i have never heard of anything but light causing a plant to stop flowering its a hormone /auxin that causes a plant to flower,to much light destroys the auxin, so they flower since they think autumn is coming, that plant may need less light than the others, try removing her to a dark place or covering her with a lightproof plastic bag or something, i have heard that low co2 can slow growth, but to my knowledge it does not effect hormone levels
what are you lights set for? most strains will flower with 12 hours UNINTERRUPTED darkness but some need as much as 14 to flower well, they do look healthy and happy, i have to water my plants every day both in soil and coco, or the growth slows and the begin wilting if i skip a day,
hope this helps

BID, I have had all my plants on a 10 1/2 light / 13 1/2 dark schedule now for about 4 weeks and they have all responsed to it well except Ozzie, who didn't start to show pistils till I put it in the window which is natural light schedule(I live in the sticks so night is DARK) with just some light till about 10am when it starts to get direct sunlight. I have watched how I water the plants since they first started and I have to water Runt and Harriet both daily(about 6 oz of water) but Mini monster and Ozzie both every other day. As for nutes, Runt will take anything I give it but the others showed stress if I added nutes more than once a week at half doses.

 

[BigIrishDoode]

she could just be a slow bloomer, its all good, those slowpokes usually produce huge and powerful in the end!! im loving watching them live and grow

 

[Jimmycricket]

OMG its the man, the myth, the legend, the Irish guy!

 

[hightimes4evr]

This is exiting!

 

[BigIrishDoode]

 

[oldrthandirt]

OK done my last chemo!!!!

Had to stay in the hospital the last few days and asked wife and mom in law to take care of the plants. God love em they did good. Ladies are doing very well.

The first night in the hospital mom in law told me she had taken the 2 plants out of the window(Ozzie and Mini Monster) and put em on the front porch to get some good sun. So I be thinking thats ok. I got to the house today and first thing I see are the plants and WOW! They have grown 6 inches!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ask if they had been watering them and what does Mom in law say? "yes! and we even added tea to them for you"

"What kind of tea?" I ask.

"Liptons" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess the old saying is true. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Same thing for plants?

Took some fast pictures of the box and Runts nugs.

I really hope those nugs finish soon, the smell is strong and sooooooooooooo tempting!!!

 

[BeemerBill]

OTD Glad to hear you had your last chemo. You will be in my thoughts for never having to do that again.

Your plants are looking really good and it won't be long now and you will be token on some good stuff from the past.

 

[soysawce]

Wow what a read. I was drawn in to this one . This is one of the few journals I read every page on. I love these plants! My plants are coming along nice too

 

[fish cake]

great news about not having to go throught that stuff anymore
and your mother inlaw is welcome to help care for my girls anytime she has done you proud!
the pics look great.
any trichs yet?

 

[oldrthandirt]

Howdy all,

Soy, Welcome to the grow. I have been trolling your grow for a little while now and hope you have as much luck as I am.

Beemer, Thanks for the comment and the temptation is getting hurrendous!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nope no Trichs yet but the buds are really filling out. Shytes and giggles I used a tape measure and they are about 2" round now and have completely filled the areas between the upper branches. Now the lower buds are starting to fill in too. Runt has 5 main colas and there are 3 smaller colas that are filling in. The mains are getting so heavy that they are starting to bend over the stalks so I am going to stake them. I can't wait to see how much weight I get off this plant!

I cant believe my mom in law poured Liptons tea in Ozzie and Mini-monster but they seem to have liked it, so who knows!!! I have some property that is WAY in the sticks and am really contemplating doing an outdoor grow with some of these seeds just to see what I get. Mini is now about 46" high even after it got damaged and had a partial LST on it and Ozzie is getting huge. Its 44" tall(after a real good LST) and atleast the same around.

Mini does have flower on it but what is a little wierd is that it only has 6 sets of 5 leaves on it, all the rest are 3 leaves.

I will be cleaning out the box this weekend and will post a bunch of pictures then.

 

[CascadianDank]

Great journal. Congrats on this time capsule find AWESOME that they popped for you and are doin so good. Im all caught up and here for the duration.

 

[fish cake]

My Mother used to use tea too. sometimes the people that have been around have been around

 

[kimmy]

It's great that you got those old seeds to grow!

+ Reps

Did you take any cuttings before you started flowering them?

 

[sfttailpaul]

Howdy all,

Soy, Welcome to the grow. I have been trolling your grow for a little while now and hope you have as much luck as I am.

Beemer, Thanks for the comment and the temptation is getting hurrendous!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nope no Trichs yet but the buds are really filling out. Shytes and giggles I used a tape measure and they are about 2" round now and have completely filled the areas between the upper branches. Now the lower buds are starting to fill in too. Runt has 5 main colas and there are 3 smaller colas that are filling in. The mains are getting so heavy that they are starting to bend over the stalks so I am going to stake them. I can't wait to see how much weight I get off this plant!

I cant believe my mom in law poured Liptons tea in Ozzie and Mini-monster but they seem to have liked it, so who knows!!! I have some property that is WAY in the sticks and am really contemplating doing an outdoor grow with some of these seeds just to see what I get. Mini is now about 46" high even after it got damaged and had a partial LST on it and Ozzie is getting huge. Its 44" tall(after a real good LST) and atleast the same around.

Mini does have flower on it but what is a little wierd is that it only has 6 sets of 5 leaves on it, all the rest are 3 leaves.

I will be cleaning out the box this weekend and will post a bunch of pictures then.

Hey Old Hand... do you know if it was the instant/flavored tea? Or was it the traditional, regular tea? Maybe she stumbled on to something... I know coffee doesn't hurt and in fact I use it in my pesticide formula.
Some strains will have sets of leaves that increase after each quad and then decrease as she approaches flowering. EX: 3 leaves then 5, then 7, back to 5, then 3. I am not sure exactly which strain or if limited to Sativa/Indica ut I have seen this in real and read about this a long time ago. I am pretty sure it is in IBL strains and not the Hybrids, but am only 99.99995% sure.

 

[Buckshot]

OTD

I am glad you are done with your treatments ... your plants are looking great. Did you manage to clone?

 

[s1ingblade]

Sorry I couldn't find any info re: if you got any males? The females sure are doing well for being 42 years young

 

[oldrthandirt]

Wow, Howdy guys.. .welcome to the grow and thanks for the comments.

Kimmy, I took 6 trimmings for clones but none of them took since I haven't done it before. I do have more seeds (about 20 or so) so I will be growing more and have really researched how to clone since.

stf, It was good ole Liptons in the bag tea. Mom in law said she made it strong and poured about half a large mug in each plant. On the next grow Im going to experiment and try adding it. I have checked the ph from the soil on those two and it is reading 6.5 which is barely off the mark of 6.8 that I keep them at.

Buck, Nope no go on the clones. They all died on me before I could get any roots but thats because of lack of knowledge and equipment and I have or am fixing that now. I have reread some journals and cloning posts and also picking my Drs brain.

Arizona, Nope no males this go round but I am not giving up hope on the next grows.

Oh, I got out the 50x microscope and I gots Trichs on Runt!!!!!!!!!!! They are just starting but they are there. The small bumps on the leaves are the beginnings of the trichs. I wish I had a camera that could take the pics from the microscope.

Also I am getting a lot of lower fan leaves that are dying off on both Runt and Harriet but I had that before on other grows during the last part of the flower cycle so I am not too worried over it.

I grabbed Runt out and took a couple of pictures just before lights out to tease you. Tomorrow is "clean the box" day and I will be getting alot more pictures then.

Enjoy.