Amy Gardner Of Eden: Perpetually Organic

Thanks oh heavenly one! I’m so happy she’s healthy :slide: Momma is getting very excited indeed.
 
I've always thought that bracts were that shell around the seed that turns all papery when it's dried, and the calyx was the whole assembly. So I went and looked it up and ... just like pheno/chemovar, we've been using the terms incorrectly? :hmmmm:

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Umm - those images are incorrect according to what I’ve learnt.

The bract is as you describe - the teardrop shaped casing - and the pistil is made up of 2 parts, the ovule (hidden inside the bract) and the stigmas, which we see the tops of. I learned it from Mel Frank :) All 3 together make up a flower and buds are stacked flowers, technically ‘inflorescences’, which is just a great word.
 
In cannabis, we cannot see the calyx, it barely even exists.

This extract from a Cannabis Business Times article explains pretty much what was in my course. It’s referencing Mel Frank’s work as well so I suppose it’s possible that Mel is wrong, but I dont think so.

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When discussing specific flowering parts, botanical terms are routinely used. And here, confusion reigns. Foremost is the common, incorrect use of calyx. Growers read or hear about swollen calyxes being a sign of maturity and an indication of readiness for harvesting. And growers, touting a favorite phenotype, will refer to its high calyx-to-leaf ratio, meaning that within the buds, flowers predominate leaves. But, what are incorrectly called calyxes or false calyxes are correctly identified as bracts. (See photo on p. 52.) The correct term should be bract-to-leaf ratio.

Female cannabis flowers do have calyx cells, but not a defined calyx. The female calyx cells are part of the perianth, a translucent, delicate veil of tissue (about six cells thick) that partially encloses the ovule (prospective seed). Each female flower has a single ovule, which is encapsulated by its bracts. The bracts are small, modified leaves that enclose and protect the seed in what some growers refer to as the seed pod. The bracts, with their dense covering of large, stalked resin glands, contain the highest concentration of THC of any plant part. Bracts make up most of the substance and weight of high-quality marijuana buds.


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Fresh white stigmas on young Heliojack bud.
By definition, a perianth consists of a corolla and a calyx. In more familiar, showy flowers, the corolla is the collection of brightly colored petals we generally appreciate when looking at flowers, and the calyx often is the smaller green cup (sepals) at the flower’s base. Bright, showy colors, large flower sizes and enticing fragrances evolved to attract insects such as bees and flies, or animals such as birds and bats to collect and transfer pollen to other flowers. Cannabis flowers are not brightly colored, large or enticingly fragrant (at least to most non-humans); marijuana plants are wind-pollinated with no need to attract insects or animals to carry the males’ pollen to female flowers; hence, calyx and corolla cells never evolved into significant, attractive or showy parts.

Each female marijuana flower has two stigmas that protrude from a single ovule, which is enclosed by bracts. Stigmas are the pollen catchers. They are “fuzzy” (hirsute), about ¼-inch to ½-inch long, are usually white, but may be yellowish, or pink to red and, very rarely, lavender to purple. Many writers identify stigmas as pistils, and this, too, is incorrect. The pistil consists of all the reproductive female flower parts: two stigmas attached to an ovule. Each flower then has only one pistil but two stigmas. The term is misused in many books and seed catalogs that describe a single cannabis flower as having two pistils.

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Left: Red stigmas on Afghani landrace (1979); Right: Pink stigmas of Afghani/African hybrid (1982).
If pollinated, the ovule of each female flower grows into a single seed (an achene). The perianth, which, again, includes calyx and corolla cells, tightly clasps the seed and often contains tannins, which give mature seeds their markings. Spots, blotches and stripe markings are likely to be corolla cells. Between a thumb and finger, you can rub the perianth off of seeds.

Note: Pieces of this feature are excerpted and/or adapted from the section “Marijuana Terminology” by Mel Frank, from the book “Marijuana Horticulture Fundamentals” by Kenneth Morrow (aka “K”) of Trichome Technologies, published with permission from Green Candy Press
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So it's stigmas and bracts - got it. :thumb:
 
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:bongrip: Harvest and Early Taste Report: Early Miss

About 8 days into cure and it’s a little rough to toke :cough: :laughtwo: but it has a delightfully happy and relaxed effect. The pineapple terps are new taste and smell sensations to me but the ‘stone’ felt very reminiscent of teenage years. Things are goooood :cheesygrinsmiley:

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A hair under an ounce. Pretty happy with that from 8 weeks of not much effort at all and 2.5gal of living soil :thumb:

Hope everyone is doing well, or planning to :D :ciao:
 
Yes! On both counts :)

Oh... and I should mention it’s stoney after an initial relaxed-buz period of about 45mins. Fairly breezy for a while and then a super comfortable body stone and quietened mind. I’m going to be asleep pretty soon!
 
Amy Gardner said:
In cannabis, we cannot see the calyx, it barely even exists.

This extract from a Cannabis Business Times article explains pretty much what was in my course. It’s referencing Mel Frank’s work as well so I suppose it’s possible that Mel is wrong, but I dont think so.
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Here's a good infographic I found with these parts listed:

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Those are great looking buds, Amy! She'll smooth out with the cure! :goodjob:
 
I’m glad I haven’t harvested the DDA yet.

It’s bracts are turning purple from the lower nugs upwards and, after not much change in the terpenes for a while, this morning I got some prominent mango in the smell. That’s new. Not long, but not yet.
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And while I’m here, Sour Bubba is rollicking past the tops of the stakes and doesn’t look like stopping just yet!
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I backed the lights off a little bit today. Northern Lights was happier after getting dropped a little lower recently and I think part of its odd probs has been light fatigue. I was pulling 320 from the wall, now pulling 300w from the wall.

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Have a great day folks :love::ciao:
 
Non-update, update for the grow record. :nerd-with-glasses:

Sour Bubba was drooping very slightly down low yesterday and again this morning so got its first watering since transplant - a transwater. That’s nearly 3 weeks. I gave it the Recharge and worm castings hit at the same time.

Northern Lights has been flowering soooo slooooowly. I though it’d for sure be coming down before the DDA. Not so. I’ll do another full update on it soon but for now, I decided to bite the bullet and give the 2 consecutive Cationic drenches so the first one happened today.

It could go badly - I will find out.

It’s not advisable to give them to plants not doing well. This NL isn’t doing badly, but it hasn’t exactly been firing on all cylinders. I also know it hasn’t really filled the pot with its roots (because of the remediating late transplant), another factor to consider. But it has seemed a bit stalled a few times, in the flowering department so, while I may be imagining that, I thought giving the Cat (which is heavy on the ammoniacal nitrogen for stimulating reproductive growth) might help to push things along a bit. We will see.

:ciao: Happy weekend everyone! Saturday morning here :bongrip:
 
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