Random Thoughts: Plants & Genetics

[Jackalope]

These damn plants are just amazing. The dead Banana Sorbet looks like it just may pan out. There are 2 places with new growth. Not even near the buds where I thought they would come from. They are on the main stalk. Only 2 places but that should be enough. I only need one to make a clone. New growth is starting on the Strawberry Lemonade also. It is starting in the buds where I expected it too. A bit soon to call it a success but things are looking good.

The Strawberry Lemonade is the key component to this project. As of now I still don't know which Banana Sorbet I will use if they both regenerate. My main hope now is that the Ghost Train Haze will make it through. If so I will drop one of the BS at least. I may just use the GTH and call it good for hybrids. They BS are frosty as F**k and have a real strong body high. I don't really like that type of high that much. The SL has the type of high I like. Maybe mixed they will have more head to the high. Mostly it will matter how many clones I decide to put in the tent. That and how many seeds I will try and get from the project.

 

[Jackalope]

Regeneration is going quite good. The one plant I need too is. That is all that matters. If others want to come along for the ride that is fine.

I am reworking my plan for reversal. I have found a great helper in Rich Farmer for STS. So I am going to do one clone with STS. I am going to do a different clone with a different treatment. I still have a different STS formula and the Tiresias Mist left to try. I have had some success with the TM before. I am going to do 2 different reversals this time. Even if everything regenerates. I will need to have room for 2 reversed plants. If they both work great. If one works fine. My chances improve with multiple try's. If the GTH doesn't regenerate I may do all 3 different sprays. One should work.

That's the new plan. I have veggies in the tent with them now lol.

Final weight on the last BS was 2 and 3/4 not 3 like the others. No use keeping it but I still am just for kicks.

 

[Dankman_420]

Rich is a good dude. Are you planning on collecting the female pollen for use at a later date

 

[Jackalope]

Hell yeah. If I get enough. Any time I reverse a plant from here on out I plan to save pollen if i get it. I just don't know if I will ever be saving any male pollen anymore. If feminizing projects don't work I will just move on to the next strain. I have so many I don't need any one strain to be perfect. Out of all my seeds I have tons a keeper pheno's.

I also am planning on maybe keeping the SL plant around. If it makes it. Plants are totally dieing now with just a few green sprouts. I don't know for sure which ones will pull all the way through. They are trying though. I think humidity is the problem. None of it LMAO. I moved the humidifier to the room with the reveg tent. I have to leave the door closed to keep humidity over 40%. Plants are dry now so it is no big deal. Humidity runs 28% to 31% normally. The bags I used helped a little but even spraying the inside of them the air soon changed back to normal. I hope the humidifier works.

I had almost decided to take down the last SSH. Then last night I noticed new stuff going on. Hairs are mostly dry now but that says nothing. I have a few cloudy trichomes and no amber to speak of. I think it could use some more time. So hard to tell with some strains. I have seen a lot of wild shit after the hairs have all turned red. Looks like the plant is in bulk up stage now. Something I had yet to see it do. It has been getting bigger but not bulkier. Hoping this means it will be ready in a week or so.

 

[Dankman_420]

Rich is a good dude. Are you planning on collecting the female pollen for use at a later date

Haha I didn't word that correctly. Are you going to have girls to get pollinated with the one you're reversing at the same time or do you not have them around the spray and just collect it to manually apply later I'm not too educated about reversing. But I'm interested in it

 

[Jackalope]

No... Before I always took clones and sprayed one whole clone expecting it to pollinate the other clone. This time I am only doing the tops of the clones and letting them pollinate themselves and anything else around them. I don't know that any of the Banana Sorbet will make it through. Don't know that I care either LOL. If there is a room issue they will be dropped anyway. I am kind of liking the 3 different sprays idea. 3 times the chance of success. More then one will probably work if any of them do.

 

[Dankman_420]

Ok cool so you can do it all at once with just one plant. I'll be trying to make fems after summer

 

[Jackalope]

Anyone following here that have not heard the word. Oldgrowth has went into hospice care in San Diego. He mentioned it in my "A few Thoughts" thread. It is now his thread. Anyone that wants to share a few words with him can do it there.

 

[Jackalope]

Ok cool so you can do it all at once with just one plant. I'll be trying to make fems after summer

Funny how it works. Damn good thing people don't self pollinate. Single people have been trying it for years.

 

[Dankman_420]

I was thinking about reversing and the small nanners wouldn't drop large piles of pollen like male sacks. So all in one process makes perfect sense.

Old growth and I have not crossed paths here that I remember. But I saw the post he left and it's heartbreaking and positive at the same time. I could tell he is at peace and has a great love for the plant. Old growth if you are reading this you are in my thoughts and prayers. God bless

 

[Jackalope]

He guides a lot of newbies around I know. I don't think he drops by here. His grows were nice outdoor ones if remember right. Hard to keep total track of everyone one and what they do LMAO.

 

[Jackalope]

The last SSH is still looking ok. Nothing bad is happening anyway. End of the leaves are burned from something. Lots of it is still there from a earlier overfeeding. It has been a couple of weeks since I cut the bud that I tried. Nothing bad has went on so I am hoping good things went on.

These long flowering sativa's are confusing. You don't get the magic if you take them too soon. If you take them too late they don't have any real head high left. Especially with SSH. Pretty sure the cup winner came from a Haze dominate high. I don't know what pheno they found that high in. I am hoping it is in the haze leaning pheno's LMAO.

 

[Jackalope]

And then I was done. Workers start showing up on Monday so everything is coming down. The last SSH has to come down. It is really close to being perfect. To get it there I would have needed to figure out just what this strain needs in the end. Yellow leaves has caught up with it just like the others once it got close. No big deal it had to come down anyway.

I did notice that watering's were starting to space themselves out some. I forgot to mention it, when it was one of my indicators that the plant wasn't finished. It still wanted water every 3 days like before.

Now that everything is torn down I have a better idea of how things will look with a hidden tent. Only going to be room for one of them. Good thing I changed that plan lol.

I don't know for sure what plants are even going to make it. The only real hope is the Strawberry Lemonade. These plants stayed way to long with very little humidity. I will be more prepared next time. If no plants regenerate. I may run a couple auto flower plants in that tent.

 

[Pennywise]

Are you revegging?

 

[Jackalope]

No. From the looks of the Strawberry Lemonade it isn't going to make the transition after I took the plastic bags off. If it finally pulls through I am going to keep it as a mother till I find something to cross it with.

Pretty sure I am going into auto flower mode. I have decided to grow more smaller plants in this case too. I want to look at a few different strains. I can do this if I stay small. I don't want the Jack 47 taking over everything. By managing pot size I can make room for more plants. Before I was only going to get to look at 2 or 3 strains tops. I want to do at least 4. I think I will do better production wise too. I have no idea what these plants are going to do or if they will do it together. It is easier to make things smaller. Then it is to wish them into growing bigger LMAO. Here are my choices.

Colorado Cookies, Dutch Passion
Jack 47, Sweet Seeds
El Fuego, DNA
Pineapple Express, Barnes Farm
CBD Exodus Cheese, Greenhouse

I think I can get all that done in that little tent. I still need to see how the pots line up. I am thinking I can get 6 in there. LMAO. I know I am pushing things!

I still have at least 4 different auto freebies from Royal Queen, Fast buds, and Seedsman to consider but I do believe I will be giving those away.

 

[Jackalope]

House looks empty without tents in every spare space LOL. All my big plans bashed to pieces LOL. Not positive where exactly I screwed this project up. I thought everything was going to be ok. Oh well the only real lose is the Strawberry Lemonade. I would have loved to be able to self that plant. I have 3 more seeds but there is not a chance a plant like that will show up again so easily.

The Banana Sorbet showed me I can't pick a plant for a great high by the looks LMAO. No shit Sherlock. As big and strong as my keeper plant was the high was nothing impressive. I need to figure out how I want to continue from here if I decide I want to make a few seeds. I have The New coming up. It might be another strain I want to save in some way. It and the Strawberry Lemonade both have Larry Og in them.

 

[CannaFish]

believe

 

[Jackalope]

LMAO. I do!

 

[Jackalope]

I finally got around to trimming the last SSH. Wow it did a lot in the last few weeks since I tried it. Maybe there is going to be more to the high on this plant then I have seen so far. I just quit looking at it other then to watering it and make sure things were still OK. It did things while I wasn't looking.

Not sure how much sitting in the dark for 3 days did. I don't think it did much. It defiantly didn't hurt it. All colas were laying over with weight. I know for sure it went through the bulk up period. Whether it got the chance to totally finish trichomes is yet to be known. Everything had to go so I had no choice but to take it when I did.

Things with the house are as bad as I thought. Glad I don't have anything going on. It will be a bit before I start any auto flower plants. Garden vegetables are my new thing for a month or so. I am doing container gardening so anything I learn will help me in other places. I also know more about container gardening then I do about growing in the ground. This garden will teach me a bit about large containers too. Going mostly with 10 to 20 gallon pots.

 

[Jackalope]

Something funny popped up yesterday. I went to Rollitup web site because Useful seeds was there and I was hoping on some extra info. The Guy never once answered any of my post or commented about my picture's. He did with lots of others. I got the feeling I wasn't good enough for his attention.

What is funny. One of the subjects that popped up was a mix pack of his strains. Lots of comments on that part. My comment was that he should do more then one mix pack so people had choices. No one never said a word about my idea. They just talked around my comment. I just noticed he just released 3 different mix packs. They start with pack #2 so there may have been 4 at one time. It is nice that he did what I mentioned. It was a good idea. I just find it funny how they acted like I wasn't even there. Only one person on the thread made any real comments on my posts.

Only reason I was there was to get a little info. I got that. I now know I won't be back to Rollitup. Them folks are full of themselves.