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Colombian Gold Grow: Come Learn With Me How To Produce Your Own Seeds!
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Got it thanks!
I normally see hairs the first two weeks of July
But I just harvested an outdoor Trans Siberian Auto x ?maybe my WW? she was all cloudy and just hit 70 days.
I had a TSauto outdoor 2 years ago and she was close to a WW I was trying to reverse. I got 2 mature TSx?WW? and a bunch of immature WW. She grew to one small cola and is in the fridge drying.
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Well it will be interesting to see what you get with the GG4 X SDH auto outdoors. I suspect not too awful much.
I’m looking forward to growing out one of your Sensi Northern Lights seeds outside this summer beez 
It’s great to hear that you have lots more of them 
It’s great to hear that you have lots more of them
Sounds about right!
so you you move it back to the regular flowering tent for that?
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@Amy Gardner once the threat of accidental pollination is gone it's safe to flower the reversed plant anywhere you like. Cutting off the branch with the pollen sacks and spraying the plant with water takes care of the viable pollen that could be just sitting on the plant. That way you could, in theory, move another plant into the breeding tent and be treating her next.
Thanks beez - that seemed the logical thing, but it’s always good to check, right!
Speaking of checking things, how long did your Columbian Golds you grew take to flower?
Speaking of checking things, how long did your Columbian Golds you grew take to flower?
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Amy...….the Colombian Gold is a sativa dominant (something like 75% sativa) hybrid strain. I flowered the first one (without seeds) for 9 weeks and the second one (without seeds) for 10 weeks. I saw no appreciable difference in the two sisters giving one a full extra week of flowering. So if and when I grow the strain again it would be for 9 weeks...flip + 63 days.
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As some of you may know on a trial basis I have switched from growing in Promix with synthetic nutrients to growing in my homemade organic soil. My oldest plant in the organic soil is a strain from @SeedsMan that I really love called Girl Scout Crack. She is at flip + 48 days today. On the Seedsman website the flowering period is listed as 7-9 weeks. This plant is a clone, the second grow for this strain. The first go around I harvested the plant at 57 days and I suspect this one will come down around day 60. So far no problems with the soil. The plant is starting to cannibalize a number of its fan leaves and it's showing some autumn colors. But all through the grow it's been happy and healthy.
Here is a bud on my Gorilla Glue #4 plant that as of today is only at flip + 35 days. The plant is thriving in my organic soil. This plant is also a clone taken from the GG#4 plant I reversed recently for S1 seeds. Not a big producer by any stretch of the imagination, but goodness does she produce some TOP quality buds. She has about 3-4 weeks to go before I harvest her. I'll keep an eye on her trichromes to tell me when she's ready.
And finally, here is a strain called Jellium. A member (somehow) of the Cookies family. Today she is at flip + 44 days, so just a few days behind the Girls Scout Crack plant. This is my first time growing this strain and was caught off guard by how tall she got. I did not do this plant justice and proved to myself that I'm not as good a grower as I thought I was. Once she got above the lights and I tried super cropping I found her branches to be quite stiff due in part to the Pro-tekt I fed her all through veg. I managed to get several branches to bend under the light. But I also completely snapped off three branches which I had to toss out. I took a clone from this plant and A) didn't let her get as big in veg. B) bent her over and tied her down with some LST C) flipped her earlier then her mom. All that proved one thing to me. She doesn't like to be trained. She'll stay under the light but her yield will be modest at best. Here is a photo of the mom in flowering.
Hope everyone has a spectacular weekend!!
Here is a bud on my Gorilla Glue #4 plant that as of today is only at flip + 35 days. The plant is thriving in my organic soil. This plant is also a clone taken from the GG#4 plant I reversed recently for S1 seeds. Not a big producer by any stretch of the imagination, but goodness does she produce some TOP quality buds. She has about 3-4 weeks to go before I harvest her. I'll keep an eye on her trichromes to tell me when she's ready.
And finally, here is a strain called Jellium. A member (somehow) of the Cookies family. Today she is at flip + 44 days, so just a few days behind the Girls Scout Crack plant. This is my first time growing this strain and was caught off guard by how tall she got. I did not do this plant justice and proved to myself that I'm not as good a grower as I thought I was. Once she got above the lights and I tried super cropping I found her branches to be quite stiff due in part to the Pro-tekt I fed her all through veg. I managed to get several branches to bend under the light. But I also completely snapped off three branches which I had to toss out. I took a clone from this plant and A) didn't let her get as big in veg. B) bent her over and tied her down with some LST C) flipped her earlier then her mom. All that proved one thing to me. She doesn't like to be trained. She'll stay under the light but her yield will be modest at best. Here is a photo of the mom in flowering.
Hope everyone has a spectacular weekend!!
The autumn colors is just the plant doing what it does naturally. 
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With the exception of the Gorilla Glue #4 plant I'm seeing more color changes growing in the organic soil then I ever did growing in Promix with synthetic nutrients. I'm just stating facts, not complaining. Just what I'm observing with this first group of organically grown flowering girls.
What's nice too is that I've kept back some buds from the Girl Scout Crack, Gorilla Glue #4, and Black Cherry Punch plants I grew in the Promix. I want to do a taste test to compare the organic buds to the promix buds.
What's nice too is that I've kept back some buds from the Girl Scout Crack, Gorilla Glue #4, and Black Cherry Punch plants I grew in the Promix. I want to do a taste test to compare the organic buds to the promix buds.
There’s a difference in taste for real.
As some of you may know on a trial basis I have switched from growing in Promix with synthetic nutrients to growing in my homemade organic soil. My oldest plant in the organic soil is a strain from @SeedsMan that I really love called Girl Scout Crack. She is at flip + 48 days today. On the Seedsman website the flowering period is listed as 7-9 weeks. This plant is a clone, the second grow for this strain. The first go around I harvested the plant at 57 days and I suspect this one will come down around day 60. So far no problems with the soil. The plant is starting to cannibalize a number of its fan leaves and it's showing some autumn colors. But all through the grow it's been happy and healthy.
Here is a bud on my Gorilla Glue #4 plant that as of today is only at flip + 35 days. The plant is thriving in my organic soil. This plant is also a clone taken from the GG#4 plant I reversed recently for S1 seeds. Not a big producer by any stretch of the imagination, but goodness does she produce some TOP quality buds. She has about 3-4 weeks to go before I harvest her. I'll keep an eye on her trichromes to tell me when she's ready.
And finally, here is a strain called Jellium. A member (somehow) of the Cookies family. Today she is at flip + 44 days, so just a few days behind the Girls Scout Crack plant. This is my first time growing this strain and was caught off guard by how tall she got. I did not do this plant justice and proved to myself that I'm not as good a grower as I thought I was. Once she got above the lights and I tried super cropping I found her branches to be quite stiff due in part to the Pro-tekt I fed her all through veg. I managed to get several branches to bend under the light. But I also completely snapped off three branches which I had to toss out. I took a clone from this plant and A) didn't let her get as big in veg. B) bent her over and tied her down with some LST C) flipped her earlier then her mom. All that proved one thing to me. She doesn't like to be trained. She'll stay under the light but her yield will be modest at best. Here is a photo of the mom in flowering.
Hope everyone has a spectacular weekend!!
Awesome beautiful girls there Beez!
Would you care to share your soil mix?
Have you ran the same mix from the beginning all the way through?
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The mix is simple.
Determine how much soil you want to make. Let's say 10 gallons. Which will end up being more then 10 gallons....you'll see what I mean.
1 part Coast of Maine Lobster Compost
1 part Earth Worm Castings
1 part Rabbit poop pellets (dried out)
1 part Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss
2.5 Gallons each of the four items above.
Then add perlite to your desired consistency. I like my soil to be a little faster draining so I added about 1.5 gallons of medium sized washed perlite. Wash it to get all the dust off of it.
Final ingredient is Coast of Maine Stonington Blend Organic plant food.
I added between 3 and 4 cups to make my 10+ gallons of organic soil
STIR IT TILL YOUR ARMS HURT......rest for a few minutes then STIR THE HECK OUT OF IT AGAIN. Then once stirred extremely well I used a misting nozzle on my hose to wet the top and stirred, wet it again and stirred and kept doing that till it was nice and moist but not necessarily wet if that makes sense. I did this mix in a huge tote and put the lid on tight when I was finished. I let it sit for 12 days before I began using it for my plants. Currently every plant I have from a seedling to ready to harvest are in this soil.
Have on hand the following to use as both foliar sprays and/or top dressings.
Kelp Meal (Ascophyllum nodosum) Coast of Maine
Rabbit Poop....Look on Craigslist for rabbits for sale in your area.
Coast of Maine Stonington Blend Organic Plant food
Seabird Guano
Earthworm Castings
The 5 items above are all I've added to my plants once into flowering. Prior to flowering they needed nothing but water. And not every plant has needed any of the 5 items above but I have them just in case.
This is just what I'm doing. I like it so far very much.
Determine how much soil you want to make. Let's say 10 gallons. Which will end up being more then 10 gallons....you'll see what I mean.
1 part Coast of Maine Lobster Compost
1 part Earth Worm Castings
1 part Rabbit poop pellets (dried out)
1 part Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss
2.5 Gallons each of the four items above.
Then add perlite to your desired consistency. I like my soil to be a little faster draining so I added about 1.5 gallons of medium sized washed perlite. Wash it to get all the dust off of it.
Final ingredient is Coast of Maine Stonington Blend Organic plant food.
I added between 3 and 4 cups to make my 10+ gallons of organic soil
STIR IT TILL YOUR ARMS HURT......rest for a few minutes then STIR THE HECK OUT OF IT AGAIN. Then once stirred extremely well I used a misting nozzle on my hose to wet the top and stirred, wet it again and stirred and kept doing that till it was nice and moist but not necessarily wet if that makes sense. I did this mix in a huge tote and put the lid on tight when I was finished. I let it sit for 12 days before I began using it for my plants. Currently every plant I have from a seedling to ready to harvest are in this soil.
Have on hand the following to use as both foliar sprays and/or top dressings.
Kelp Meal (Ascophyllum nodosum) Coast of Maine
Rabbit Poop....Look on Craigslist for rabbits for sale in your area.
Coast of Maine Stonington Blend Organic Plant food
Seabird Guano
Earthworm Castings
The 5 items above are all I've added to my plants once into flowering. Prior to flowering they needed nothing but water. And not every plant has needed any of the 5 items above but I have them just in case.
This is just what I'm doing. I like it so far very much.
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I have two plants getting real close to harvest. The first at flip + 49 days is Girl Scout Crack from @SeedsMan Flowering is shown on the site as 49-56 days so this is at the start of the window. As I am new to growing in organic soil I thought I would harvest a test bud today, trim it up, and check out the trichromes really closely. After doing that I'm not sure she'll be ready to harvest at 56 days and be how I prefer my plants to be and that's 85% cloudy and 15% amber. I'm seeing about 70% cloudy and 30% clear on the test bud.
My old benchmark is if you think it’s ready let it go at least another week.
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This next bud is from my Jellium plant which today is at flip + 45 days. The person who shared a clone with me said he's harvested this strain in as little as 40 days which is what stirred up my interest in the plant/strain. I decided to take a test bud for closer examination to see how it was coming along. It is actually a little ahead of the Girl Scout Crack plant above with 80% cloudy and 20% clear trichromes. It does however still have quite a few white pistils yet. But they're starting to turn orange. These two plants smell pretty similar to each other and I guess that makes sense since they both have GSC in their lineage.
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I agree with you on that Penny. No since being impatient at this point. Not with all the time and money invested in the plant. Doesn't pay to harvest it early.
Nope and that extra week or so will pay off with increased terps.
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My @SeedsMan Girl Scout Crack plant is winding down and I'll most likely harvest it in 7 days. I was checking it out today and spotted this little gem peeking out of one of the buds. The pollen courtesy of my Purple Punch plant that I reversed. The Purple Punch plant didn't produce all that much pollen and I decided to just leave the reversed branch on the plant and leave it in the tent with my Girl Scout Crack and Jellium plants which were both in flower with white pistils. I'll have to keep my eyes open when I'm trimming. I wouldn't expect too many seeds but will be on the lookout just in case.
