Colombian Gold Grow: Come Learn With Me How To Produce Your Own Seeds!

I had 3 of the Gelat.OG seeds from @SeedsMan I started all three at the same time. I kept one and gave one each to two different friends when we got together. I took a cutting off mine yesterday actually and squeezed her into the flowering tent. Definitely a big leaf lady.
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Anything with Girl Scout Cookies in it just has to be good right?
 
Yeah, I think the plant might only have a total of 15 leaves :laugh: but they're HUGE leaves.
 
Hash Hound said:
hey beez I thought you were 100% perlite, but it looks like a soil mix in some of the pics.
Did I miss the switch?
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I'm a ProMix BX guy, Hash Hound. I tried the perlite hempy pots for a few plants and have nothing against it. I just "know" the ProMix better. That said I will never ever germinate seeds using any method other then in a hempy/perlite solo cup with 1/4 strength nutes.
 
When I first got into growing I had a mentor of sorts. A man of mystery if you will. In his head he carried volumes of information about growing cannabis. One thing he taught me was when a plant gets to the last 4-5 weeks of a 10 week flower to pull them out and remove the dead /mostly dead leaves. He explained that as a leaf dies the leaf stem will shrivel up and basically rot. When this happens there is a strong possibility you will see some sort of mold or rot.

So about once a week I put the late flowering plants up on a trim table and remove the above mentioned leaves. I was doing this today when as it was happening I realized I was cutting through a bud stem along with the leaf. I watched this pretty big bud fall onto the table with a thud.

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I was a little ticked off at myself for not paying close attention to what I was doing. But to use an old phrase...…."When you're dealt a lemon you make lemonade.

So here is a taste of Colombian Gold lemonade. About 4 weeks from harvest...…..well, I guess that's isn't true is it?

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SweetSue's cosmic team made you do it...all part of her "let's try some early harvest buds and see if we like them" phase!
 
40% early might be a touch too early. I think the high would be quick, like a mule kick in the chest with a head rush on the side. I think too it would not last very long.
 
Only one way to find out...
 
No seed making project is complete with a test germination. Here is a list of the autoflower seeds I bred this winter.

The Quarter Pounder auto was my reversed female who produced the pollen for this project.

Quarter Pounder auto S1 fem seeds Qty. 70 seeds
Quarter Pounder X Stardawg auto fem seeds Qty. 147 seeds
Quarter Pounder X Gorilla Glue auto fem seeds Qty. 257 seeds
Quarter Pounder X Dark Devil auto fem seeds Qty. 22 seeds
Quarter Pounder X Tangerine Dream auto fem seeds Qty. 290 seeds

Still on the vine is a large Colombian Gold bud that was the last plant pollinated with the Quarter Pounder auto mom/dad.

Since the Tangerine Dream X QP was the cross I had the most of I stuck four of these seeds into a hempy solo cup with a dome on it and sat it on the heating mat. As a rule hempy solo cup seeds sprout in about 3 days. The first of these sprouted right at the end of day three, the second one early on day four, and the third at the end of day four. I hunted around with a toothpick and found seed #4 which has cracked and has a tiny tap root sticking out. I relocated it to the center of the cup and put it under about 1/4" of perlite. I have to see if it will sprout.
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I floated the perlite today to see how the roots looked on the first sprout. I'm quite pleased at the length of this 2 day old root.
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So I am going to check off the box (do they germinate) off for the Tangerine Dream X QP seeds. Next up I'll try the Gorilla Glue X QP to see how they do.
 
Great summary and damn site better germination percentage than the pack of JH autos were purchased and shared last year for an group grow.

Nice work beez!
 
It has a lot to do with germinating in a hempy solo cup. My success rate increased significantly after switching to hempy for germination.

Seeds are expensive, and we don't get to plant but a handful a year.
 
Imagine if we really could grow a whole handful! :eek: :cheesygrinsmiley:

My hands are fairly small, and still, a whole handful of seeds would be easily 100! Wooo wooo! Imagine that!
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Imagine harvest day? Makes my fingers hurt just thinking about it.
 
A few posts back I shared a picture of the freshly sprouted Quarter Pounder auto X Tangerine Dream auto plants. The next day (yesterday I think) The fourth and final one sprouted. It is still in the hempy solo cup. I relocated the other three into 2 liter bottles. I have a volunteer who wants to take a shot and grow these out.

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