Happy Monday! Hope your weekend was high...
We have flipped the girls to 12/12. Did it a few days ago. They're so freaking big! I'm scared they will outgrow the room if I wait any longer.
The TWILIGHT GS1000 GROWSTAR LED light is producing PERFECT plants. Mine are usually pretty healthy but I have to say the GS1000 is outperforming my expectations! I have never seen better growth and health even with HID lighting!
These Hyenas are ready to go crazy and pack themselves with juicy seeds. These genetics are obviously good candidates for seeds, as they are lush, big, fast-growing, and I already know the buds are the frostiest and stickiest I ever had.
The branching is strong and they are going to flower very aggressively in a couple weeks so I have to begin the treatment of a couple branches on one plant to induce male flowers.
I will be using a Silver Thiosulfate solution commonly marketed for this purpose. You isolate the branches and simply spray them for a week or two at which point they should pop with male flowers full of 100% female pollen. All the dynamite genetics of my Blue Hyena contained in those little morsels of matter, it's exciting for sure.
I have six potential seed mothers. Two phenos it seems...a shorter one and a tall, very robust one. I have four of the big ones, and two of the smaller ones. I have gone far enough to know they are different. Sadly, I will not use the two smaller ones, since I want these seeds to be as awesome as possible and knowingly including two phenos in a seed run is counterproductive to that goal. I know many breeders accept the presence of several different phenos and still put the seeds out there. I also get that a lot of growers won't have a problem with multiple phenos if the buds are awesome.
However, I personally want to reduce the incidence of different phenotypes and make my seeds produce the best possible results for those who will grow them. So, I will be using one of the prime girls for pollen, and fertilizing the other three.
Only three seed mothers worries me. I sincerely hope there will be enough seeds from this, if I don't get 5,000 it's hard to see the project as something that could meaningfully impact the growing scene. That is essential if I want to become established and have multiple different Hyena strains eventually enter the growing universe. So if I come up short I will likely have to put off the release of the strain until I can run one more seed grow. That is going to be a test of my growing skill I guess.
Meanwhile, the heat is rising, we will have temps in the 80s next week and more after that, so it gets over 100 degrees in the lab without intervention and that ruined an entire grow last summer. So I installed a large portable AC unit and so far it seems to work. The test will be can it keep the dogs at bay when the summer hits? I have no real plan B so I kind of have my eggs in that basket for the moment. Pray.
One thing I can do to mitigate the heat is shut down the lights in the nursery where we are still growing four autos. They are all in various stages of flowering and I thought about running them completely in there but I decided the winter would be a better time to do that, when I could use the heat from the extra lights.
So I put them outside.
We have about four acres and it's very private but I have decided not to do much outdoor growing because it would jeopardize my indoor endeavors plus outdoor pot is full of "extras". I have become spoiled by perfect weed. So these are so small I can just tuck them back in an isolated little area and they will get nice sunshine.
Here's how they look planted.
A single-cola plant is one of the four, it flowered from birth and it's a nice nug.
Another variety, Wild Thailand Ryder...might be tasty in a month.
So we will see what has happened with them in a while.
That's the update. I begin the treatments to induce male flowers on a female plant tomorrow morning. I feel like Dr. Frankenstein, or perhaps Frankenbud. No torches or pitchforks, please. My monsters won't hurt you.
Peace, Hyena
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