Update: Mid-March 2020 - some ... weeks into flower 
Happy Sunday morning my good 420 folks - where we find ourselves halfway between hash Wednesdays and continue to watch and experience various dystopias at various proximities. I laced my Sunday morning with Bubba Hash and I’m very relaxed and fairly pain free. In a bit of a low ebb post too much gardening activity: raising the roof (mostly my helper did that), manual drenches and a weaponised foliar spray every 3 days including today. I’m more than a bit sore from all that and immune flaring as well (which is weird in this global ‘climate’ because it always feels like flu but it isnt, I’m pretty sure, I don’t have fever or sniffles, just raging sore throat and extreme fatigue and this has been a regular post-exertion visitor for 3+ years now, so nothing actually new, it’ll pass
). My medicinal ministrations are working and I’ll go back to sleep soon.
We got the final stage of installing the rain cover done
and here is the raised bed as of yesterday.
Most of the plants are showIng fairly good resistance to the white fly problem. All the plants have them and they’re very terrible in the whole garden (the whole property really) but the cannabis plants (except Lilly) are showing little damage compared to other stuff and are continuing to ripen well it seems. Lilly is taking it the worst. White fly are all over her top a lot of the time, regardless of spraying.
It’s not surprising Lilly is taking it the hardest as I had more trouble getting her to robust health than the others. I’m just plugging away doing a spray every 3 days until harvest probably!
Both Cat drenches and a post-Cat watering have happened in the last 2 weeks. Weaponised foliars vary from 1/4Brix to 1/4 Destress to Castille soap. I’m tidying up lowers and old leaves in little bits here and there and thinning out the indicas a bit where airflow might be needed more.
In the bigger picture, my ongoing project is to find and ‘audition’ good strains/chemovars for my outdoor conditions and these were all chosen for particular reasons - chiefly being fairly quick to flower, resistant to mould, pests, heat and cold. At this stage of the grow I usually start to have an idea how that is going...
Pakistan Chitral Kush
I chose PCK to continue exploring my newly-discovered love of Kush. It is listed to have good resistance to pests and mold so I am assuming that’s the case (again, I trust ACE’s claims completely). It is making very juicy, thick, leafy colas which make me very nervous !
As much and as regularly as possible, I am carefully opening up the little flower buds, away from the stems, to create space for growth and airflow.
It is just starting to show the colour...
Lilly
I am also exploring sativas and Lilly is a fast-flowering descendent of a Congolese line and has been recommended to me by a few folks for that reason. I’m totally stoked to have got some seed
and to get one growing and I’m really looking forward to it - if it can get it to finish!
Flowering time information is standard in this cannabis community. What is hard to find, is data on how quickly a plant will transition in its given growing circumstances and that is something I am wanting to take into consideration more and more. This Lilly, in these conditions at least, is sloooooow
. It was 2-3 weeks later than all the others to start flower. It’s going to be a while yet. I think it’s about 3weeks in now - just finished stretch.
Star Pupil x Weapon X
This one was the unplanned choice this year. It arrived as a freebie from Mass Medical and, always being on the hunt for good pain-relieving meds and currently having a thing with the purples, I was immediately intrigued. So when I read that the Weapon X brings good rot resistance to the cross I figured it was worth a run.
So far so good, but it is also making juicy, leafy, buds. We’ve seen a lot of it’s beauty lately so here’s just one more
Purple Satellite
Star of the show today! Showing itself to be very well suited indeed, this one is making very pretty flowers that are easy to spread out and promise some nice spears in the not-too-distant future
Every year I spend many moments indulging in the mesmerising effects of sitting and staring at my plants and admiring their everything. This year I’m also admiring their very existence!
I’m really not at all positive about when flowering started - I don’t remember making a specific note of it for the different plants and can’t find it entered anywhere. I am pretty sure PCK started first and I’m fairly certain that they all, bar Lilly, had started by end of the first week of February, which is within the usual window. That puts them between 5-6 weeks into flower, I think. I’ll feed them GI and water (maybe Trans water) from now until finish, which will be anywhere from 2-5weeks away.
Thanks SOG
And welcome to my garden this fine day.
Being Sunday it’s
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as well as
so take your pick of any or all and enjoy the show!
Please include ur thoughts during "Weekend Update" about what u c that indicates that u have a couple of weeks b4 harvest. Tric's are not cloudy yet?
Thanks parnelli - I actually consider quite a few different things when thinking about when to harvest so it’s a great question:
-the estimate of the breeder or timing based on having grown it before or knowing folks that have - those are guides;
-pistils turning brown/orange and receding and the production of new pistils slowing significantly or completely stopping - I’ll harvest when there a still a few new ones, depending on a combination of other factors;
-the general shape and look of the colas/buds - are they still filling out? etc.;
the ripeness (or not) of the trichomes - ratio of clear (pre-ripe), cloudy (ripe), amber (THC degrading to CBN) as personal desires dictate; and,
-sometimes the general overall look of a plant that is in the “time-window” is a factor for me too, just a general ‘ready‘ look can happen - can’t really explain that. Sometimes they just look ‘cooked’ to me. I think I’ve seen when I’ve been too late at times too and they looked overcooked (I dunno how else to describe it!).
Then it’s a general instinctive weighing up of all these factors - which eludes description and is probably a little random and influenced by mood
. It’s a relationship to how you like your cannabis and I feel like it develops over time as you grow and consume it.
More specifically to your question, even though nearly all those trichs in this SP x WX pic are fully cloudy,
there still are heaps of new pistils popping out all over it and not very many (if any) dried and receded ones,
plus, no real sign of any amber trichomes at all and the buds are still visibly growing and filling out. All of that, alongside the breeders estimate of about 8 weeks to flower and knowIng I’m somewhere around the 5+ week mark, tell me there’s 2-3 weeks to go for it.
Hope that wasn’t too long of an answer! I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to describe it all
.
Finally, before I sign off from yet another miraculous and magical week in my humble garden of Eden, the frog life sprung back in to action with gusto after the recent rains and I was lucky enough to catch this beauty resting amongst the sorrel between white fly snacks
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Be safe and take good and extra special care of yourselves, lovely 420 crew.
Looks beautiful Amy, gorgeous pictures. your frogs appears very content. I am still so relived Eden survived its ordeal.
