AKGramma's Perpetual Grow

Looked over the grow today. One of the Mysteries from Nirvana is sticky all the way down its red branches, and I can see a thick layer of trics through the 40x loupe. However, there STILL is no sign of sex. But I have to assume this one is female, just by her phenotype and the sheer number of trics on her veg parts. She has very thin leaves, obviously Sativa dominant, and has a fruity-earthy odor to her leaves.

The other mysteries display the gamut of phenotypes, so it is interesting to watch them develop. It's hard to be patient for signs of gender, tho. I SO want to switch them, but I really don't need a dozen plants, coming to harvest at one time. Way too much work to trim all at once!

The Auto Fem Diesel Berry's buds are firming up nicely, and she is almost at her 60 day minimum for harvest. I'm going to try a gradual harvest, taking the main cola first, and see if the rest of the buds progress any further. After a week, tho, I figure she will be done. The strain is on my wish list for seeds. I do not think I am going to get exotic seeds locally for a while. It seems that Northern Lights and White Widow are the favorites among smokers.

So, the best I can do for them now is trim the skirts a bit, since those branches will never develop into flowers. But they WILL make good tinctures!
 
I have decided to name the sticky mystery plant "Sticky Missy" and clone all I can from her, using Sue's zip-lock baggie method. If her harvest is as sticky as her veg parts, I def want to continue that strain, even tho I only know it's Sativa with a fruity-earthy ancestry.

I will upload pics of the "family" when I do. Mother will remain under 12/12 and the clones will go in veg with the BBL mother and clones.
 
As promised, here are pics of Sticky Missy and 4 clones I took from the lower branches today.

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With luck, the "mother" will turn out to BE a female, and I'll have four healthy clones to perpetuate her lovely stickiness!
 
I notice a very delicious scent filling my house from the Auto Diesel Berry who is coming up on 60 days. Weaselcracker suggested I hold off until the leaves start showing some autumn colors, before I start harvesting her. I know she is close, because some of her lower branches are losing their red and turning yellowish.

I saw a couple female preflowers on two of the lanky mystery sativas under 12/12 and I THINK I saw one on the Polar Express auto.... FINALLY!

Everything seems to be running in slo-mo with the short days and cool nights.

I planted the First lady seed I was gifted, and put her in the same container as the other peat plugs with slow seeds. I don't know how much longer I should wait, but since they don't take up much room and all fit in a quart zip-lock baggie, I can wait.
 
Weaselcracker said:
With luck, the "mother" will turn out to BE a female.

No doubt. It sucks when your mother turns out to be a male. :hmmmm:
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Reminds me of the TV show "Code Black" where the head nurse, who is a male, is called "Mother". :laughtwo:
 
I have to give a huge shout out to Weaselcracker, who kindly shared the SNS products he won with me! I am going to have to read the instructions well to learn how to use them! Apparently SNS was amenable to sending the prizes to WC's friends!
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You're welcome Ak. Wasn't really 'mine' to give exactly but somehow I got the honour of giving that stuff away, which is extremely fun. Cool of SNS to give away all that great stuff, and cool of Mr Teddy to let me divert the mail. :thumb:
 
The clones I took off Mother BBL (also a clone from the original seeded mother) on 10-16 are showing roots against the clear solo cups I rooted them in. So I figure they rooted around 2 weeks, and the roots finally got big enough to hug the walls of the cups. I have the baggie open to gradually acclimate them to the 40% ambient air.

I took 4 more BBL clones today and am trying the rooting gel along with a sprinkling of rooting powder.

Two of the soil-layered clones failed because they were too close to the top of the soil and the soil dried out. So I cut those from the Mother, to use in this clone set of 4.

Since the last 2 clones were successful, I used the same method: cutting at a 45 deg angle near a node, scraping the stem along one side of the stem to the cambium layer, and a generous application of rooting medium. They were inserted at least 1" into the soil and the cups put into large plastic baggies. These are also fairly large clones at 5+ inches. As with the last 2, I only removed the larger fan leaves, but did not trim back the others.

If this continues to be successful, I won't have to worry about buying Bubblelicious seeds until this family of clones loses its vigor.

The only other plant of note is the ripening Auto Diesel Berry, who is using up her fan leaves more rapidly, now that she is at her 60 day minimum harvest date. I will give her at least a couple weeks more, unless she suddenly shuts down her pistils and leaves and says "I'm done".
 
I seem to be having some luck cloning, using some of Sweet Sue's methods. :cheertwo:

I am still acclimating the Bubblelicious clones I took mid October (rooted 2 weeks later) to house-level RH. At least I can leave the baggie open most of the day. I have about a half-dozen more assorted clones of promising mystery Sativas and the BBL mother, who is doing well in the closet under 8 CFLs.

Still watching the Diesel berry Auto, and wondering how I'm going to harvest her. She is mostly one 36" long stem with a large COLA and several smaller colas nestled in the nodes. She's dropping 6 - leaves a day and her pistils are 90%+ brown. I also want to take pics with a ruler for you all (if anyone is still reading this) and hopefully have one pic good enough to put into Nug of the month.

I'll see how my day goes, if I can eke out some harvest time.
 
I did it! I harvested the Diesel Berry Auto!

The final beauty shots:

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Trimmed up. Not much to trim, really. Everything was rich with trics and oh-so-pugnent!

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And the COLA weigh in, wet. 25 grams! The biggest I ever grew!

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:theband: :party:
 
I nearly killed the ladies in one veg tent for lack of water. I cleaned them up, soaked them good, and decide to switch them. Some of them are 3 months old and quite large. So I have 2 units in flower now. Not sure if the Auto Polar Express will recover enough to finish flowering. She suffered the worst from dehydration.

In The other flower unit, the mystery plants are finally showing! Those Sativas sure took their time! All but one very bushy mystery plant are very lanky and strung out. I probably wont get more than a few grams out of each. But my grow is so small, I need every gram.

In the closet, mother Bubblelicious is filling out, and needs training. I see her eventually filling the 4 x 8 closet and giving me many clones! Since she is the family's favorite, I really hiope I can keep her healthy.

Two of her clones needed up-potting. One clone had a sturdy root system and the transplant went without a hitch. The other had a lot of thin, weak roots, and most of them broke off, but I continued with the transplant with plenty of Mykos and put a cover on it to maintain moisture till it grows more roots. So they are in the 1/2 gallon juice jugs, officially juveniles now.

The rest of the clones look good on top, but no roots yet.

it has been weeks since I planted the rest of the gifted seeds, and I see no signs of life. I hate to give it up, hoping they will wake up someday and sprout.

The big fat colas from Diesel Berry are still damp after a day, even tho my house PH is 40%. They are much bigger than I am used to. No chance of mold, but Im watching them carefully. Gonna have to hang them in the closet. My whole house smells of Diesel Berry!
 
Why is it that my favorite, bushiest plants turn out to be male? *sigh *

Almost overnight my favorite mystery sativa, all bushy with green slender fingers showed up with gobs of pods. I have decided to breed him with a female mystery Sativa plant from the same breeder. If I get viable seeds, they will be good enough for family use. I'm going to have to go by scent, since I don't know the ancestry. But also, I'll choose the best looking mystery lady I have.

I still have some pollen left from a male BBL (indica), so I might try one more time for a successful breeding with a female BBL clone when she is mature enough.

So, back to my lovely male Sativa. I am trimming out the small branches below the canopy, saving the strength for the main branches that have pods. On the branches with well-developed pods, I trimmed off the upper leaves and encased them in ziplock baggies. The pods are still early in development, so I wont try to rush him along.

Sources I researched says to feed them as if they are in veg to make sure the male is strong and healthy. So he will get a lot of TLC till I get as much pollen as possible.

So, another experiment!
 
I've isolated the male in a large, almost transparent trash bag and put him back in the the flower unit, where he was. He needs to recover from my trim job. I left him enough branches with pods to continue making pollen.

A peek inside the other flower unit shows that the Polar Express Auto recovered from my neglect, but when the lights come on, I will have to trim off the leaves that didn't make it.

Mother BBL needed a bit of training, and I'm going to have to raise a couple lights. At this rate, she is going to fill my closet. She's in a 3 gallon trash bin now. I wonder if I should transplant her to a lower, 5 gallon bucket for the long term. What do you all think? She's in veg, so no worries there.

I made a list of all the existing and future cannibus shops in the area, and have left messages for a couple of them on FB about getting seeds from them.
 
Why is it that my favorite, bushiest plants turn out to be male?
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Ahhh.... yes, there are quite a few differences between the sexes and your observation echos thru the Halls of Growing like many others over many years.


So, another experiment!
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You go girl!


I've isolated the male
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Do you think you can keep it's pollen from spreading to the ladies?
 
Here are front and back pics of the same Diesel Berry Cola shown wet in post #832. Dry weight 7g. So that was close to 70% loss in water weight. I got 1 OZ dry from the plant and have them hydrating back up to 63%, which should add a g or so.


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Most of the other buds were 3/4" - 2" and filled out nicely.

Not sticky like the Bubblelicious, but plenty of fragrance.
 
Tead said:
Ahhh.... yes, there are quite a few differences between the sexes and your observation echos thru the Halls of Growing like many others over many years.




You go girl!




Do you think you can keep it's pollen from spreading to the ladies?
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I did bag him up pretty good, but he is in the same unit as the other mystery Sativas, so if he should sow his wild oats, no harm. I figure, since I really am not fond of the amount of time and trouble it takes to grow Sativas, that a mystery strain with an educated guess as to ancestry, will be fine for family use, with trim and leaves for edibles and oil.

The male has the phenotype I love so much and the ladies have a nice fragrance, not skunky or dank. I hope the offspring gives me a phenotype of the father.
 
The Diesel Berry auto buds are in the burping phase. They sure have a strong scent! I think I am absorbing some of that goodness through my fingers, cause I sure am sleepy a lot! :cheesygrinsmiley:

I'm still babying the first 2 BBL clones I successfully rooted and up-potted. I want to be sure they are going to survive without their domes before putting them with the others. I have more clones still in baggies, as I took clones over a period of 2 weeks. Still waiting to see roots through the sides of the solo cups.
 
Getting lots of pollen from the mystery Sativa male! He is COVERED with pods! I've managed to catch plenty in the baggies. The mystery ladies aren't ready to pollinate yet, so will have to store the pollen till then.

Sources say to freeze it. Do you agree? Or do you store your pollen differently?
 
I haven't had to store it much or even use it much but I think, from what I read, the main trick is keeping it dry. People sometimes mix it with dry flour to try and help keep it from clumping. If freezing then condensation might be a problem. Once it stops being dusty enough to float through the air it's not going to work as well.
 
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