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Roll up for the Monday update, starting with more pollen collection!
I noticed last week that the Sour G STS in the tent had developed a thrip infestation:
It hadn't been sprayed for pests since just before the STS spray started 43 days ago so bugs weren't a surprise. What was surprising was that no other plants have thrips, nor have I seen them in over a year!
Anyway, before I sprayed them I thought I would try one more shot at getting pollen, this batch cleaner than the last. So I didn't move it for 3 or 4 days, and then Saturday morning I tapped it over the foil and plucked off some easy-to-reach sacs, and put the results in the drying box. That night I dumped the contents directly into the 80 mesh sieve and brushed everything through onto the counter:
Here is what I collected:
Looks much cleaner than the last batch. I grabbed more silica balls and funneled it all into a tiny ziploc:
There are some black specks in there which I'm guessing are thrips that came off with the tapping. Off it went into the fridge!
I then sprayed the plant with 2:9 iso (no trichomes on this plant), and have been doing it twice a day for 3 days. Starting tomorrow I will just do it daily at lights out. No more pollen from this, just whatever self-seeding it did. It's on flip day 40.
Next up was attempting to do some cloning using sand and citrus leaves. @Carmen Ray posted a video here showing how to root lemon tree leaves in a pot of wet sand so I thought I would give it a go. It recommended river sand but I had construction sand on hand so I went with that. It didn't drain as well as I had hoped so I mixed in some perlite as well:
Lemon leaves, satsuma orange leaves, and two lavender cuttings. It's in total shade outside. We'll see!
Last for the weekend was thinning the Jack Herer 1.1 clone on flip day 21 yesterday (forgot to measure so I'll do that tomorrow).
Here is was before:
And after:
@Jon asked me for some pics of what to take off and when to stop taking off so I'll include some pics of that here. I will state up front that I did not thin this pre-flip the way I normally do because of timing issues, so this is not really the way I normally would be thinning post-stretch. Still, here it is:
This obviously comes off:
Another spot before:
And after:
Once I'm done working from below, I work from above.
Before:
And after:
Here is what came off just from that area alone:
And here are all the branches that came off (the little larfy bits were already binned):
The pH on the Jack Herer ProMix HP had drifted to 6.4 so I went to the 80/20 blend of nitrate/ammoniacal nitrogen to lower it for the rest of flower. I use that for two weeks worth of watering, and it takes 2 gallons every other day now.
The transplanted Summer grow look happy and they go back into full sun tomorrow. Pics then.
I hope you all had a great weekend!
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I noticed last week that the Sour G STS in the tent had developed a thrip infestation:
It hadn't been sprayed for pests since just before the STS spray started 43 days ago so bugs weren't a surprise. What was surprising was that no other plants have thrips, nor have I seen them in over a year!
Anyway, before I sprayed them I thought I would try one more shot at getting pollen, this batch cleaner than the last. So I didn't move it for 3 or 4 days, and then Saturday morning I tapped it over the foil and plucked off some easy-to-reach sacs, and put the results in the drying box. That night I dumped the contents directly into the 80 mesh sieve and brushed everything through onto the counter:
Here is what I collected:
Looks much cleaner than the last batch. I grabbed more silica balls and funneled it all into a tiny ziploc:
There are some black specks in there which I'm guessing are thrips that came off with the tapping. Off it went into the fridge!
I then sprayed the plant with 2:9 iso (no trichomes on this plant), and have been doing it twice a day for 3 days. Starting tomorrow I will just do it daily at lights out. No more pollen from this, just whatever self-seeding it did. It's on flip day 40.
Next up was attempting to do some cloning using sand and citrus leaves. @Carmen Ray posted a video here showing how to root lemon tree leaves in a pot of wet sand so I thought I would give it a go. It recommended river sand but I had construction sand on hand so I went with that. It didn't drain as well as I had hoped so I mixed in some perlite as well:
Lemon leaves, satsuma orange leaves, and two lavender cuttings. It's in total shade outside. We'll see!
Last for the weekend was thinning the Jack Herer 1.1 clone on flip day 21 yesterday (forgot to measure so I'll do that tomorrow).
Here is was before:
And after:
@Jon asked me for some pics of what to take off and when to stop taking off so I'll include some pics of that here. I will state up front that I did not thin this pre-flip the way I normally do because of timing issues, so this is not really the way I normally would be thinning post-stretch. Still, here it is:
This obviously comes off:
Another spot before:
And after:
Once I'm done working from below, I work from above.
Before:
And after:
Here is what came off just from that area alone:
And here are all the branches that came off (the little larfy bits were already binned):
The pH on the Jack Herer ProMix HP had drifted to 6.4 so I went to the 80/20 blend of nitrate/ammoniacal nitrogen to lower it for the rest of flower. I use that for two weeks worth of watering, and it takes 2 gallons every other day now.
The transplanted Summer grow look happy and they go back into full sun tomorrow. Pics then.
I hope you all had a great weekend!
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Very possible farside, very possible! Great review by the way...everything is alright sounds excellent about now.
It didn't look defoliated, just a little cleaner. Great job!
