Beautiful close-ups, Amy! That PCK is looking top-notch. 
Amy Gardner Of Eden v1.1: Outdoor 420 Featuring Star Pupil x WeaponX, PCK, Lilly & Purple Satellite
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parnelli
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Lookin' good - thanks for the pix
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How lovely it is to lie-in on a rainy late-autumn morning, listening to the pitter-pat on my roof and knowing that my plants are nicely undercover 
In the bigger plan, I had expected to be dropping the first seeds for my indoor run this week, with the new moon as I like to do.
When I made that plan, I was not expecting much produce at the end of this season. Since that’s turning out to be quite different and several oz seem to be coming my way - I can relax a little and start with the next new moon in April. Will be around 4/20/20, or 20/4/20 depending n where you come from. Either way it seems perfect! It’s 4/20 all month with our date format
Things are in prep for that. The grow space I want to build seems a long way away so the tent is being prepped again. A few days ago my helper cleared it all out and gave it a good wash w vinegar and baking soda and then we sprayed it lightly with a clove oil dominant mix as an anti-fungal. Smells delightful in there.
Empty tent ready for clean and reset
I also checked in on my soil supply and I have about 25gal of cooked second run soil ready to go. It’s been cut with a small amount of cococoir so it will be fun to see how it goes. It will likely be my last run w the kit products. I have enough of most of the core products left, only issue will be doing a HBB run without Tea. Doc has given me a good alternative, involving a brewed tea w castings and Roots! powder. It means the kind of manual labour i was aiming to avoid by getting the kit in the first place, but I’m hoping my helpers will be able to do the bulk of the physically demanding aspects (like setting it up, carrying water and cleaning up afterwards!).
The whole run will be experimental and at some point I hope to be ‘auditioning’ some new ‘Amy grow styles’ for my future.
It’s very nice to be planning ahead for plants
In the bigger plan, I had expected to be dropping the first seeds for my indoor run this week, with the new moon as I like to do.
When I made that plan, I was not expecting much produce at the end of this season. Since that’s turning out to be quite different and several oz seem to be coming my way - I can relax a little and start with the next new moon in April. Will be around 4/20/20, or 20/4/20 depending n where you come from. Either way it seems perfect! It’s 4/20 all month with our date format
Things are in prep for that. The grow space I want to build seems a long way away so the tent is being prepped again. A few days ago my helper cleared it all out and gave it a good wash w vinegar and baking soda and then we sprayed it lightly with a clove oil dominant mix as an anti-fungal. Smells delightful in there.
Empty tent ready for clean and reset
I also checked in on my soil supply and I have about 25gal of cooked second run soil ready to go. It’s been cut with a small amount of cococoir so it will be fun to see how it goes. It will likely be my last run w the kit products. I have enough of most of the core products left, only issue will be doing a HBB run without Tea. Doc has given me a good alternative, involving a brewed tea w castings and Roots! powder. It means the kind of manual labour i was aiming to avoid by getting the kit in the first place, but I’m hoping my helpers will be able to do the bulk of the physically demanding aspects (like setting it up, carrying water and cleaning up afterwards!).
The whole run will be experimental and at some point I hope to be ‘auditioning’ some new ‘Amy grow styles’ for my future.
It’s very nice to be planning ahead for plants
dynamo1
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On wards and upwards, 
Looking great down under Amy. Love the bud spreading tip. I have never heard of it. The flowers look beautiful. I just finished a plant called icy hot. The cube x Pakistani chitral kush
Really nice effects and it looks beautiful too.
cheers from across the pond
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Really nice effects and it looks beautiful too.
cheers from across the pond
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I would think it would be very satisfying to see all those whitefly carcasses when you're out in the garden. It's good you could attack them on multiple fronts at once so they didn't just get chased around the plants like a game of whitefly tag!
I think Lilly has more than 2-3 weeks to go based on the size of the buds and the huge numbers of sparkly white pistils, but I've been wrong about harvest dates before
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SPxWX is really turning out to be a beaut, and so much more purple than the Purple Satellite. But those PS spears!
Congrats on the tent reset too!
I think Lilly has more than 2-3 weeks to go based on the size of the buds and the huge numbers of sparkly white pistils, but I've been wrong about harvest dates before
.SPxWX is really turning out to be a beaut, and so much more purple than the Purple Satellite. But those PS spears!
I do that after I harvest and wash to keep them from rotting as they dry, but it never occurred to me to do it while they're alive...
Congrats on the tent reset too!
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never occurred to me to do it while they're alive...
seems a naturalcontinuation of teh tip spreading once you get into it. It’s harder with tightly packed indica style nuggety buds and colas that’s for sure - and while I’m super careful I do cause a few injuries sometimes and will gently grab whole little flower to stretch ot out ifI cant get a good hold on a leaf to tug on. If it is really stuck to the stem, the leaf can tear a bit. I don’t mind squishing a few trichs to make the space - the pay off seems worth it.I read yesterday on the RQS blog about environment (I’m coaching a friend so was looking for good clear info to introduce the basics) that colas and buds that get better wind and airflow get fatter because the plant favours places most likely to get pollinated and cannabis pollinates on the wind.
I don’t know if thats been obserevd in any controlled growing situation, but RQS blog info is pretty good in general and it sure sounds logical! That could be a contributing factor to the flower swell that the spacing out encourages.
Budrot risk was my first motivation. I think it mitigates that a lot. (Plus all my plants this year are listed as having significant resistance to mould).
It totally is! There are still a gazillion out there - things are so out of balance.
I am keeping their numbers fairly low on the canna babies ... just!
You could be right. I dont know exactly when pistil hairs strayed appearing in the tops but it is supposed to be a 6-7weeks flower strain - which is a big part of the reason I was interested in it. (And didn’t factor the very long time it took to startthink Lilly has more than 2-3 weeks to go based on the size of the buds and the huge numbers of sparkly white pistils, but I've been wrong about harvest dates before
). Think it was about 3 weeks into feb. I’ll take it just by it’s looks now and see where we end up - it must be about to ‘happen‘ fast from now if it’s going to finish that quickly! 
IKR!
spears!
SPxWX is really a smashing totters of nearly all the purple genetics our there!! SO i guess it;s not surprising.The greenness of the PS is quite a surprise although it’s turning some lovely purples now. Tropics (breeder, Green Mountain Seeds, and 420 member) says nearly all phenos are purple all the way through so this one seems to have the rarer expression - it was very purple in stems in early veg, then it just stopped. They are so far known to be very consistent in pheno. Hopefully @tropics will drop in the forum at some stage and give us his take on it.
MAybe the fire traumas changed the genetic expression... it happens with people.
Thanks buddy! feels good to have it clean and ready to goThanks buddy!Garden is looking fabulous and critters!!!’
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I’ve been Reardon back over what TRFopics writes about the Oaxaca Gold that is (I’m pretty sure) the parent line of a Purple Sateliite.
Here’s the Highland Oaxacan Gold description
I’m not sure if he’s released the other parent, Nepalese sativa, or whether it’s just used for breeding...
Here’s the Highland Oaxacan Gold description
which is pretty long (recommendable read tho!)... but the main point of interest today is that there is a purple expression and a green expression that still has some purple in the finish. That seems to match what I’ve got giong on here In the offfspring - except... the PS info says the parent was the purple line of the Oaxacan. I guess it could still be possible for a green one to express.Highland Oaxacan Gold is a sativa variety from Green Mountain Seeds and can be cultivated outdoors (where the plants will need a flowering time of ±70 days). Green Mountain Seeds' Highland Oaxacan Gold is/was never available as feminized seeds.
Green Mountain Seeds' Highland Oaxacan Gold Description
This Highland Mexican line is absolutely unique to Green Mountain Seeds. This Oaxacan Gold is the corner stone and backbone to most of Vermontman's breeding work.
Vermontman's strain of Oaxacan Gold came in on a shipment through Marthas Vineyard one Kilo made it into the hands of a good dealer friend of mine in 1979.
This new Mexican Sinsemilla ran a hefty unheard of price of $200.00 an ounce. The bag of buds were amazing spears of barely seeded golden goodness, I was out of stash and I could not pass these up. Score!
Upon smoking my first joint I knew this was something amazingly special as it hit me right between the eyes and took me to another totally high, powerfully trippy place that led to incessant breathtaking laughter that went on for hours. We nick named her Skull F***.
I immediately called back my buddy, lets call him Dennis, and asked if he could pick out every seed he could find. He halfheartedly agreed, after all he was a stoner. This was in late winter, with spring right around the corner. These first Oaxaca Gold seeds were started under Florescent lights then moved out to make shift plastic tents to be hardened off. At this point in time the only cannabis available to me that would finish outdoors (20 miles north of Boston) was some no name Indica that was fairly early and not overly potent nor consistent, but made round leafy buds with some purple and would finish at about head height.
So last frost date finally arrived, I went fast to work amending my favorite spot between north and southbound lanes of I 95. With access off a clover leaf and through a culvert that ran a clear clean brook right under the north bound lane of the highway. Great under cover access and a steady supply of fresh water, though to make this passage I had to wade through shin deep, and sometimes cold water. I had to take off my shoes, just role up my pants and just get my feet wet. I switched to trash sneakers after banging my toes on rocks in frigid brook.
So in the middle of a giant patch of Chinese Knot weed, tucked atop a hill open to all day sunlight smack dab center of the interstate I tilled and spread 100 lb sacks of Manure compost and oat straw I hauled slung over my shoulder. In fact it laid me up with back pain for days.
My regular staple Indica got premier spot right up in the front of the newly tilled and amended patch. My new Mexican plants all female about eight Oaxacan which were already a bit taller, looking totally different in structure lined the back two rows of the garden staggered in a diamond pattern. With the light gold color of the oat straw mulch conserving moisture and reflecting up the precious early June sunshine to the newly planted Mexican ladies. Back at home the Oaxacan males took up residence in pots.
Owing most of what I knew about growing cannabis at this time to High Times Magazine on learning sexing and so on I powered on.
Summer went on and these thin leaved Oaxacan beauties towered bigger and bigger. With ample supply of water from the brook and heat from the steamy sunny summer days, and relative privacy from the north and south bound lanes of traffic. Tucked in through all the summers months.
As conditions started changing, with late summer light still beaming strong a baby food jar carrying half opened male flowers of the multiple potted boys from back home were brought in and methodically broken open one by one releasing pollen very carefully onto one each of the earlier tagged single long buds one each of the precious new ladies.
The days grew shorter, the air grew a little more brisk fall started setting in.The swollen calyx's steadily growing along with the density of the giant spears. By the end of Sept, the Indica ladies in the front of the garden were ready to come down.
But the slender leaved totally bushy now monster Oaxacan were thick with pistils in tight clusters that ran up the whole stem, at around 8 to 9 feet tall. Oct 7th came around, to an untrained eye the buds looked like they could be picked. But thank you again to High Times, I said not yet!
Heavy rains from a major tropical systems marching north slammed the patch with winds and heavy rain. The plants tied up with twine to the best of my ability to near by trees and tree branches cut and pushed into the earth like stakes, held them steady through their soaking. Though the massive arms of buds were left arching over under their own weight, and some of the main branches split and had to be mended with layers of twine wrapped around the main trunks to hold and mend themselves back together.
The soaking of the rains left them dripping and drooping, But no mold!
Then out came the sun again and the last of the promise of Fall warmth.
Over the next two weeks is where the magic really happened, the buds swelled like nothing I had ever seen before. Light to medium frosts hit, they seemed not at all negatively affected.
Now the third week in October the landscape all around turned autumn gold and red and the Chinese Knot weed now dropping the last of their yellowing leaves and the greener than green towering Oaxacans were losing their last bit of cover, time to act.
So under the cover of nights darkness and dimmed out glare of rush hour traffics lights end, I coined the phrase, Mid nite farmer. Bag after bag cut and stuffed, and that all to important one separate bag that held the one pollinated heavily seeded branch of each spectacular Oaxacan lady who saw her last moon lit night. While the air filled with the sweet knock out fragrance of fresh Balsam fir forest, fruit and of course victory, a successful harvest.
This is how this unique Oaxacan Gold line started with me on my life journey.
Mold Resistance: Very high {mind your nutes}
Fragrance: Definitely a low odor strain, but sticking your face into a sack full Oaxacan Gold makes you upon first whiff want to just climb into the bag and breath. Slight Balsam fir, hash, incense, slight fruit.
Potency: Powerful! Very high. Hits fast! First right between the eyes but in the most pleasurable way. Very motivational but you might forget what you were doing.
terrific for Socializing, but you might forget what you are saying which can lead to gut busting group Laughter.
Cerebral, reflective, great for hikes or gardening or just being in nature, my artist friend says it lends him well to falling into his painting.
Taste: Fast cure buds:
Very smooth lung expansive, have a bit of a pine, floral, very slight fruit very easy on your throat. I liken it to a really fine dry wine, very subtle not like the loudness of most of today's strains in taste but certainly keeps up in potency while remaining impeccably and definitively unique.
Taste: long cure
Like a fine wine, not to sweet, but also not void of sweetness..
Hits the Palate with creamy goodness, extremely reminiscent of classic old school Thai stick, loose Thai or Gold Buddha stick.
Culture: needs a longer veg time to carry massive weighty buds. Sensitive to heavy feeds of organic or synthetic Through selective breeding time has been shortened to end of Sept to first week Oct outdoors.
In shorter more northern or in mountainous regions finishes wonderfully in same time frame but exemplary results are realized when brought in and finished under red heavy LED or HID lights, best under LED.
After many years of culture an anomaly occurred, purple pigments started to show on the advent of switching to LED grow lights.
These traits were selected by using males with red stems and females with purple calyx to bring out a totally purple line with a slightly more blue green foliage and very wonderful purple calyx and buds upon finish. This expression became especially more pronounced when being grown under red heavy Led grow lights and is not temperature dependent with that development a slight more berry to the fragrance became endemic to the Oaxacan Gold Purple line. This Oaxacan gold strain now runs in two parallel lines one green one purple just only slightly different from each other but both as wonderfully consistent as clones but certainly each with their own merits.
I’m not sure if he’s released the other parent, Nepalese sativa, or whether it’s just used for breeding...
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Everything I’ve found written about the purple satellite confirms it’s definitely the purple line of the Highland Oaxacan that was used in the breeding.
This makes me think it has to be possible that even within the purple line you can get a throwback to a green phenotype that behaves just like the way the green line is described, getting some purple at the end.
All the write ups also say it is extremely uniform in phenotype - so I have an outlier here that’s for sure.
This makes me think it has to be possible that even within the purple line you can get a throwback to a green phenotype that behaves just like the way the green line is described, getting some purple at the end.
All the write ups also say it is extremely uniform in phenotype - so I have an outlier here that’s for sure.
kelticBlue
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I got lost in your PCK trichs. I had to fire up my gps to get out. 
So cool love the close ups.
purple trich stalks
I am thinking happy days with the purp Sat. ....wearing the green.
So cool love the close ups.
purple trich stalks
I am thinking happy days with the purp Sat. ....wearing the green.
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Thanks keltic. I get lost in them too!I have some new pics to drop of the Gorgeous Green Purple Satellite, but with so little chatter and noise here, if I do I will fully overload this page... so in the meantime (while we trickle toward 20 posts on this page), here’s what seeedfinder says about it - can I assume that Hashman and Tropics are the same person?
Ace Seeds say this:
So according to Seedfinder above there is perhaps a little indica in the mix, that‘s good to know.
Ace also says
Almost all
... I have more seeds, maybe next year I’ll get some pink pistil hairs!I’m totally happy w it, dont get me wrong, it’s frogged gorgeous! The only possible down side with this green expression is that the green ones in a purple line often get reported to be more potent and more racey. And while that’s what some folks like, I’m definitely looking for that second thing the seed finder quote says: “warm head high ... no heat racing”.
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purple trich stalks
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Because I really don’t want to clog up this page with another photo heavy post and none of you fine folk who have dropped in to read are inclined or able to help me get this to a new page, by dropping a post or 2... I will just have to...
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...do
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Heavenly Hybrid
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Did you make it yet?
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Heavenly Hybrid
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Ok go
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Update: A Green Purple Satellite
It seems a very rare expression that this Purple Satellite has not produced any pink or red pistillate hairs, so I will consider it a special privilege indeed. It’s not like I don’t have plenty of purple going on in the garden, and the jars, already! And I have about 4 seeds left so i feel confident in a purple one down the track..
It is still pumping out the white hairs, while starting to look ripe overall. I’m still expecting it has soem time to go - but I will start checking trichs with more scrutiny later this week.
It is definitely getting the purple the way it is described in the Oaxacan green line - which was not the parent here (but comes from the same gene pool).
I had fluctuating sunlight levels again, from intermittent clouds, and I let the flash compensate in the cloudy moments. Makes for some really different looks, but all these were taken in the same 15minute period.
Couldn’t be happier! The lack of purple is a definitely a surprise but not a disappointment, at all. I am still over the moon to have any plants at all. Just imagine how good I must feel to have this one!
Quick cameos from PCK and SP x WX, just because
You cant see it in those pics, but yesterday i spotted some tiny bit of mould on the PCK - not rot or PM, some actual fluffy bits, so it’s coming down today. There are plenty cloudy trichs. I probably could have taken it last week, and in the future I might take it earlier outside. It is supposed to have resistance to mould, but the conditions here are pretty tricky in Autumn - even tho’ it’s been drier than usual - and we’re getting overnight rain quite a bit so the cold humidity is upon us (and them). Not ideal.
So, harvesting PCK today!
Hopefully I will stay out of the way of any of these deadly (to me) critters. Don’t want to go to any hospital at the best of times, and this is definitley not the best of times out there! It seems fitting to include the critter that signifies ‘threat’
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And one that signifies ‘balance’
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