Indicas Grow & Experimenting Genetics Part II - Winter Indoor Organic Grow

[Danishoes21]

I've really busy at work... insane actually.

The girls are almost there, light is at 11/13 they should be a week or two from harvest, also harvest is gonna be by sections since I have some lower branches producing seeds.

Great weekend to all

 

[CA215]

Yes sir Danish, I'm using about 3-4 tablespoons for a 5-7 gallon cylinder pots/bags measuring ~ 12 inches in diameter.
I'd say shoot for a coating on the majority of your top soil

 

[SweetSue]

And sprinkle more on after you water and the surface has dried. Easy does it though dani. You don't want too much DE in the soil. It's a fine line. You're an intelligent gardener. Trust your instincts and err on the side of caution.

Edit: If the critters you're chasing are on the leaves you can dust the leaves with a puffer. Something to consider.

 

[Danishoes21]

Hey Guys thanks for the support and help.

The girls have the days counted, just going to sample a little fresh bud, but I checked trichomes and they are al most there for my taste. DE was applied at a good timing, buds seem to be almost extinct.

Something interesting my new BC Mango Cross plants are thriving nice and they are going to be interesting to see what 11/13 does to them, I want the sativa lineage of these girls. And yes just touched them and they smell like mango. Sad thing is One came out male (so my Feminized seeds test is busted) I gotta work more on the genetics of my seeds. The male BC mango is gonna go thru a lot of stress, I have already topped the plant while flowering, and broke the main stem in half, Im taking it to the extreme I want the male plant to become hermie.

I will post some pics before harvest.

CA SUE

Positive vibes great week to all!
Cheers for a successful summer season

 

[Danishoes21]

Things have been really agitated right now, so I have neglected my Journal but not my grow. I have very interesting things to show, I will have a photo update this Sunday.

-One of the BC mango cross has the hermaphrodite genes from the Mexican plant, but here is the catch, only the two lower branches are showing full male clusters, with some nanners, the top of the plant is completely female with only pistils. I can see both traits in this plant she look very promising. Hope I can get here to fully flower.

 

[SweetSue]

Things have been really agitated right now, so I have neglected my Journal but not my grow. I have very interesting things to show, I will have a photo update this Sunday.

-One of the BC mango cross has the hermaphrodite genes from the Mexican plant, but here is the catch, only the two lower branches are showing full male clusters, with some nanners, the top of the plant is completely female with only pistils. I can see both traits in this plant she look very promising. Hope I can get here to fully flower.

i look forward to the photo update. Your garden is always so interesting dani.

 

[CA215]

i look forward to the photo update. Your garden is always so interesting dani.

As do I, patiently waiting with my vape stuck to my face
Hope the agitation has subsided and everything is running smoothly for ya dani!
Keep it positive, as always, stay vigilant brotha

 

[Danishoes21]

First let me start by Congratulating Sue for her MOTM March win, well deserved you worked very hard and your lovely plants showed it.


Now on to the Update;

The Harvest, after around five months of weird experiments with UVB light, photoperiods changes, and a little pest problem here and there, lost some plants in the way, but only the true strong made it to the end. Im pretty pleased and blessed with the grow over all, but being real to myself I have a lot of work to do with my indoor technique, have to work a little more on my soil mix.

I chopped 90% of the plants, left the couple buds where I still wait some seeds. The plants where washed using the same solution in previous grows, distilled water, peroxide and sodium bicarbonate, drained the water, wrapped in absorbent paper, they decarboxylated in the convection oven at 100 degrees for 5 minutes. After the whole day resting in the oven I passed them to a cold night next to the fans in the grow tent, Avg temperature lower 20's celsius.

Im going to try to do the sous-vide experiment with some buds, another thing I want to try is drying the buds in rice. Tomorrow I try this.

In terms of smell; very citrus almost makes my mouth water like when you chew a lime. Not a spicy but very citric tone. Jollyrancher is what comes to mind.

In terms of trichomes, I am very very excited to try this, tricks are well developed you can see they are all over the leaves. Different type of flower, less calyx to leaf ratio.

In terms of weight; Pheno#1 30 grms wet with stems. Pheno#7 20 grms wet with stems. So Im looking at about 20 grms dry in total, crossing fingers for that. The buds really seem dense.

Pheno#1

Pheno#7

Before & After the Wash and ready for the oven

 

[SweetSue]

Well, they turned out right nice, didn't they dani?

Drying in rice - that's interesting. Have you seen this done before?

 

[Danishoes21]

BC Mango Cross

This ladies are growing with that force I saw before in the Original Bc Mango, Pheno#1 is a perfect mix I would say in terms of having the traits of both plants very visible, but she is a little lanky and strecthy. As weird as she may seem the lower branches have male clusters below the female pistils, something I guess comes from the wild structure of the Mexican sativa, also the dark green leaves, and the 5 leaflet that I can see resembles in. The smell of Mango is present but never as the original Bc Mango. The bud structure I find very interesting, Im lucky if she gets the foxtailling bud... The Pheno#2 totally different traits, more short, more tight internodes, different color, even the leaf tissue seems different when you touch them, I don't see that mexican sativa traits there but still seems like a good plant.

My Pheno#3 the male, I say I wasn't going to chop this one but instead do mad science with the plant, I top the plant and broke the main stem, I will defoliate and top every branch where the male cluster start to build up. I want to see what the limit of this plant and If I can make here change sex. Already the plant looks insane lol.

They are under 11/13 photoperiod since the begging of this month, they started at 12/12 from seed. Lets see where they end up.

BC Mango Cross Pheno#1

BC Mango Cross Pheno#2

BC Mango Cross Pheno#3 Male.

 

[Danishoes21]

As always commenting and suggesting is widely encouraged.

 

[Danishoes21]

Well, they turned out right nice, didn't they dani?

Drying in rice - that's interesting. Have you seen this done before?

I haven't seen it. But I think the rice will absorb the moisture from the bud, came to think about this after I dropped my cellphone by accident in chicken stock in the restaurant and I remembered that if you stick it right away in rice you could rescue the phone from dying, and so I did and I actually did save my phone, the rice absorbs the moisture. Im just trying to apply cooking techniques to my GREENS lol. tomorrow I will document the rice experiment. Then If I can sous vide tomorrow I will also documented.

Before going in to the Jars for curing I will take close ups of the trichomes.

 

[Danishoes21]

There has to be a way to extract the moisture without sacrificing girth of the buds. Normally I lose 75% of weight after drying...

 

[SweetSue]

There has to be a way to extract the moisture without sacrificing girth of the buds. Normally I lose 75% of weight after drying...

That's pretty standard. I lost the same amount. It's all that moisture weight in the stems and branches.

 

[Danishoes21]

I kinda think that the rice could also take out all the moisture and then shrink completely the bud, if left for a long amount of time in the rice.... Its a gamble. But then experimenting is that... you win, you lose.

 

[SweetSue]

And a well-lived life has many, many experiments. Be gentle with the rice covering so as to preserve the maximum trichomes.

 

[Ranger275]

I always cure w/a couple of tbsp of rice in the bottom of the jar. Kind of a poor-man's Boveda62. The white rice is easy to see and separate when you get to the end.
I suppose you could bury the buds during drying. Rice is pretty light and shouldn't hurt the buds/trichs if you do a gentle pour.

 

[Danishoes21]

I always cure w/a couple of tbsp of rice in the bottom of the jar. Kind of a poor-man's Boveda62. The white rice is easy to see and separate when you get to the end.
I suppose you could bury the buds during drying. Rice is pretty light and shouldn't hurt the buds/trichs if you do a gentle pour.

Good to know Ranger. I did the rice all day yesterday. They are in jars today but still 50% moist.

 

[Danishoes21]

Temperatures are decent so Im letting the girls get some of that natural mystic

 

[Ranger275]

Ain't nothing better than the real thing, Baby.
[Ranger sings along while dancing w/the sun]