Escape Velocities: Syenite's Stealth Miniatures

[DonkeyDick]

cascade of promises or potentials. A string of dreams. A hallway of different doors, futures.

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(Nothing to add. I like the way you think).

 

[syenite]

What a great collection of firing neurons up there sy! You obviously have taken your interest in cannabis genetics and turned it into a serious research project.

It's really pretty but I don't understand it. Or need to really!

Pennywise is a frickin' encyclopedia of exactly this thing. He has so much genetic history stored in his head that it's amazing to read. Ping him when you run into questions like that.

Thank you Shed! Haha yes I have been following Penny's thread and hassling him every now again, especially because he's a big fan of the Katsu crosses, too!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Sy. I’ve been on a similar journey, and after playing around with different cultivars over the years, have decided to return to the great NorCal Skunk #1 (not the later skunky Amsterdam version, but the original sweet one). After all, it was bred to excel here.

Gracias, Felipe! Yes I'm fascinated by the Skunk. Again, one of those classics that is hard to find a good version of. Would love a link to the breeder page if you have one handy!

Interesting post mate. Reminded me of a convo I had with the local hydro shop guy recently. He advised me to stick with the older strains if I wanted consistently good results. His words 'stay away from the ones with silly names to attract kids, the ones that look, smell & will get you about as high as a packet of sweets' Made me chuckle.

Haha hey Vet! I'm no traditionalist eh. I'm sure there's some truth to the hype, and I won't dismiss anything just because it's hyped. But I'm sure there's some truth in what the hydro guy is saying, also!

Only one way to find out, eh?

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(Nothing to add. I like the way you think).

Yeah this is really just a synthesis of many of our discussions!

 

[Abstrakt]

Smoked up all my headstash from this harvest. It was toooo good haha

On the topic of genetics, the best kushes in my opinion, afghani reigns supreme. &Hashplant.
Very curious where the best haze originates.

 

[FelipeBlu]

It looks like it’s still possible to get the true Skunk #1 from One of our sponsors The Vault

Feminized seeds are also available, but the description of a strong skunky smell makes me wary..

 

[syenite]

It looks like it’s still possible to get the true Skunk #1 from One of our sponsors The Vault

Feminized seeds are also available, but the description of a strong skunky smell makes me wary..

Oooo! You've grown this one out, Felipe? Very interesting.

Haha yup I'm gonna be dealing with some very loud plants very soon! The Glue I have is already a stinker in veg.

 

[BeanTownFan420]

 

[BeanTownFan420]

Smoked up all my headstash from this harvest. It was toooo good haha

On the topic of genetics, the best kushes in my opinion, afghani reigns supreme. &Hashplant.
Very curious where the best haze originates.

 

[syenite]

Nice to have you stop by, BT! What are your favourite things to grow/smoke right now?

 

[FelipeBlu]

Oooo! You've grown this one out, Felipe? Very interesting.

Haha yup I'm gonna be dealing with some very loud plants very soon! The Glue I have is already a stinker in veg.

For many years - here and in Colorado. It’s definitely worth trying if you can. Now days, I get my Skunk seeds locally - and she isn’t a sponsor haha.

 

[syenite]

For many years - here and in Colorado. It’s definitely worth trying if you can. Now days, I get my Skunk seeds locally - and she isn’t a sponsor haha.

That's fantastic that you have someone producing/working those seeds locally. Having that trust/knowledge is invaluable.

I would need to do a bit of research to know if "that one" on The Vault is legit!

 

[Amy Gardner]

Hi Sy - loving the look of all the plants and the spaces and the discoveries and the trouble shooting and the happy daytime tokes! Life of a grower is good even if things are rough, right!

I picked up a few thoughts while catching up

2. Light intensity and distance

TLDR; my lux meter was doing weird stuff and I couldn't leverage the lux readings from my last grow. It's working properly again and I could finally be confident about how much light the plant's getting.

Curious about this b/c I’ve been wondering about mine...

know it's a bit funny to up-pot just before flip, but it's definitely better than leaving it as it was.

I do it every time! I nearly always up-pot the day I flip.

weather this spring has been an absolute #### ####### ######... ############# ####### ####. ####. ######.

I’ll add a second ######^(@%@! that!

So my strategy is now to find the stories, and then, with that information, try to find a source as close to the original breeder/distributor as possible.

Although most of us just use @Pennywise

like to know whether a breeder has selected carefully over multiple generations, or, on the other end of things, if they are putting out first generation hybrids without any testing or selection. (The latter case isn't inherently bad, btw, it's contextual like everything else!)

Katsu made a nice newsletter post about this recently, about variation and discovery. Stability is sometimes really important. But when it’s not - it’s not, really.

cascade of promises or potentials. A string of dreams. A hallway of different doors, futures.

I often call a seed a promise when I drop it... little promises into water

scale of lifetime

please don't pollute the waters for the rest of us by making seeds and distributing them.

regardless of my opinion about that sentiment, which I generally support, it gave me a sense of connectedness and accountability to a greater whole that is so rare in this day and age.

To me what you’re touching on there is the integrity in our relationship with the plant.

So.. do I want to remain within the Chem-Kush-Diesel empire, or shoot out towards the other edges?

Spend some time reading the Real Seed Co. blogs. That really get you ruminating

On those Skunk and Haze things that interest you, I have a large pack of something called The Cure, by Mr Nice Seeds (also the source of Nevilles Haze). They are regs and I have about 20 of them. It’s a long term project for me to do something with them one day - there is reputedly some excellent phenos in there. It’s Skunk and Haze lines.

Hope you’re doing well today

 

[syenite]

Hi Sy - loving the look of all the plants and the spaces and the discoveries and the trouble shooting and the happy daytime tokes! Life of a grower is good even if things are rough, right!

Curious about this b/c I’ve been wondering about mine...

Yeah, I have two and one of them is completely untrustworthy!

The problem is now I can't grow without one. I just find it so handy for consistency, especially when I'm still adapting and dialling in the setups!

I do it every time! I nearly always up-pot the day I flip.

It makes sense. Flowering stretch is kinda like "super veg" time, despite it being nominally a stage of flowering.

Katsu made a nice newsletter post about this recently, about variation and discovery. Stability is sometimes really important. But when it’s not - it’s not, really.

It's the old tension: explore or exploit? Should we keep walking or should we just start drilling down?

I often call a seed a promise when I drop it... little promises into water

Chain of deferral!

Real Seed Co. blogs

OMG! This is a bloody goldmine. Thank you.

On those Skunk and Haze things that interest you, I have a large pack of something called The Cure, by Mr Nice Seeds (also the source of Nevilles Haze). They are regs and I have about 20 of them. It’s a long term project for me to do something with them one day - there is reputedly some excellent phenos in there. It’s Skunk and Haze lines.

Wow! That sounds amazing!! I look forward to witnessing that

Hope you’re doing well today

I am well, thank you! Tired and too much coffee but that is all too normal!

 

[syenite]

Auto FAIL

So.... I may have been neglecting the auto.

I may have let it dry out a little.

The auto may have started flowering.

I may have kicked it out of the box.

Thanks,

Syenite aka "Auto Grow God"

 

[InTheShed]

Easy come easy go!

 

[syenite]

Easy come easy go!

Will you let me go home?

Yeah, it wasn't the best call to start that one for a number of reasons:

- The box is already small enough, and Grub was trained without consideration for another plant
- Auto vegging under 12-12
- Auto in a small pot
- 2 plants in the tiny box contributing to a higher RH (with my eye to the flowering Grub)

That's the last we'll see of that trellis... for a little while. I will use it again, but unlikely to be in the same circumstances.

I will be trying 2 plants in that box at some point, but they will be photos so I can continue indulging my totalizing egomania exerting a high degree of control relative to the constraints.

I will be growing an auto at some point, but it will probably be a solo grow in the cabinet that Loom is currently in.

 

[syenite]

It's also given me a good starting point for trying to understand how 2 plants could work in there.

 

[syenite]

I couldn't do it.

F#ck's sake.

After evicting her from the box, I sat her next to me at the dining table while I worked.

Big mistake. We really bonded in that short time. I realised how much we had in common.



Told you all I was sentimental... and now she has a name!

Wish, HSC Blue Dream auto, day 26 above ground

My question for now: is the LST worth persisting with? Or is there so little time until budding kicks in that I should just leave her upright so the main cola can get as much light as possible?

Sigh... the drama!

 

[InTheShed]

Just fell off the toilet, and here I thought I wouldn't see that lattice for a long while!

I'd say let it go untrained.

 

[DonkeyDick]

She’s going to be a beauty.
Off course you can’t cull her with a name like that!
I say train her. I want to see that trellis in all its glory.

 

[syenite]

I'd say let it go untrained.

I say train her.

You demons!

@13goody13 .. I see you online! Please be the tiebreaker.

Pistils came out in the last 24-48 hours. Do you think there's any point in LST here? I don't know how much more this plant is going to grow. If it's barely going to get any taller, I'd be inclined to let it go straight up now.