Random Thoughts: Plants & Genetics

Dankman I will try and find keep up when you start a journal. If I don't make it don't despair. I am prettys low online and don't make it around this sight very well. Always here if you have questions.

I know one thing it is a hell of a lot easier to solve other people's problems than it is to solve my own LMAO. I know more about marijuana and genetics than I do about growing. Like a lot of people I am barely holding on when it comes to growing.

A lot of that has to do with growing so many unknown strains. (My go to excuse) When I get to the time I am only growing a few strains. It will be easier to nail down just what each strain wants. As of now with treat them all the same attitude. I end up with plants some plants that are well fed while others are lacking. One thing for sure you can't treat all strains the same. They are all going to want shit at different times.

There is a difference in smell, size, and high between plants that were grown right and those that were grown OK. I got the chance to see that up close and personal this year. 3 different strain reacted differently to the feeding schedule. One tent was always behind on food after I went to flower. The other because it was a week behind got food at the right time. There are changes in all the strains. Mostly in size but smell is affected also. My guess is the high might be different to. Kind of has to be. Hard to notice too much as there is still the pheno thing to consider. Only one strain did the same in both tents. It was a hybrid and had a big window for nutrients. They never got to little or too much.

I was still amazed at the differnce. What I thought was good growing before wasn't. I have lots to learn if I want all my tents to end up like the small tent did this grow. I know it is going to involve more feeding. So now I am going to be running the risk of overfeeding as opposed to underfeeding. My old montra if you don't hurt them they will be fine is not going to cut it anymore.
 
I would've never noticed anything wrong from the nug shots I've seen. Your girls always seem to be super frosty and healthy. Atleast they sure look amazing in the pics!!
 
Ha Ha Ha like I would post pictures of the bad plants. You can look like the best grower in the world if you only post the great plants LOL.

It is not that I try and hide it. Why take a picture of something that is not beautiful. I have lots of plants that don't look good enough for photos. Other just don't photograph well. I don't know why.

It takes the perfect combination of plant camera and me to get pictures good enough to post. Just like I know if my pot is good by trying store bought stuff. I have seen way to many picture of pot plants. Knowing what a great picture looks like helpsme find them not take them. I just take a bunch of pictures and hope I get at least a couple I can play with.

Soon I will get a chance to try some nug pictures. It is going to be a interesting finding the right way to photograph them.

Just thought of another must. I have to try and get a picture published in High times. Over the years I have seen tons of pictures from others and have never submitted one to them. Submitted one plant for "plant of the month" and didn't win. It must be fixed LMAO.

A old saying comes to mind. Lower your expectations and improve your average. If I can't win here I might better go to a lesser site maybe I can be a winner there LMAO.
 
It’s not about great looking plants though. I always post the bad with the good. It’s about knowledge and sometimes we learn more from our bad plants than we do from our perfect ones.
 
I totally agree Pennywise. I just don't post pictures of the ugly ones LOL. I am sure you are right that the info will help others. If I showed my problems and what I did to solve them it would be helpful. Thing is I don't always know what the problem is or had caused it myself. If I KNEW for sure what I was doing that info would be helpful. Me just kind of guessing it could cause more problems than it solves.

That is another reason I don't try and diagnose plant problems that others post. Guessing helps no one. My knowledge of pot and genetics is far more substantial then my growing knowledge.

I am more then happy telling people I don't grow very well. No need to show them picture proof of that LMAO.
 
Pennywise said:
It’s not about great looking plants though. I always post the bad with the good. It’s about knowledge and sometimes we learn more from our bad plants than we do from our perfect ones.
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Maybe I will finally use the macro lens I have somewhere for my Nikon. I found an interesting $28 LED Commercial Grow Light Bulb on Amazon that I'm thinking about using over a single small size hempy container... something to combat cabin fever over the next couple months. The light bulb is LED full spectrum 200W equivalent that draws 25w and has a 50deg beam angle so this should be enough hp to grow a nice plant in a micro footprint .... the light is pretty small, under 4" dia. I can take one of my freebie seeds and see what happens with it.
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Maybe I will finally use the macro lens I have somewhere for my Nikon. I found an interesting $28 LED Commercial Grow Light Bulb on Amazon that I'm thinking about using over a single small size hempy container... something to combat cabin fever over the next couple months. The light bulb is LED full spectrum 200W equivalent that draws 25w and has a 50deg beam angle so this should be enough hp to grow a nice plant in a micro footprint .... the light is pretty small, under 4" dia. I can take one of my freebie seeds and see what happens with it.
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I tried that once. Ended up with bigger lights anyway LOL. I can't get by without my HID lights. My smallest light in use now days is a 400wt HPS.
 
Sex change is complete with the Headband clone. I will be moving in 2 Headband clones 1 Genius and 1 Tangilope along with them.

I really hope the problems I ran into reversing a female plant was because it was a selfed strain. I am not having any problem turning them male. I am only getting pollen from some of them. I don't know for sure thelast ones didn't put out pollen. I will be harvesting the plants with the feminized pollen soon and will find out for sure. I can't see anything but that does not mean they are not there. The regular plants are putting out more seeds than I thought they would. Maybe there is hope. I did know there was going to be seeds in them. I saw a couple. None of that with the feminized plants.

Because of all that. I am not planning to feminize anything but regular seeds. I have lots of regular strains I am going to want to self along the way. I will just make hybrids from them.

I did get lucky on the clones I chose. I ended up with the best Genius and the best Tangilope. IF the Headband does put out pollen then I think I am going to be a happy man.

I got my new tripod now so I hope to be adding new photos soon. Plants are all in one tent now. Might better get one more pic of the tent while it is still full. That is not going to last much longer.

I know I have said all that before. Plants are really finishing this time lol. The fact that all plants are finishing slower than I thought. Tells me that it's not me it's them LMAO. In the end it doesn't matter. You harvest when the plants are done. Not when you want them to be done.

All the new strats are doing good. I only had older soil for them and am not sure exactly what they are in. Got to make a soil run before repotting to 2 gallon pots.

The plan this time is to not top any strain. I am going to use a combination of super cropping or bending. the Indicas will get super cropped and the sativas are getting bent. I want to see how that goes.
 
I heard that Pennywise. I am hoping that is part of the problem in my case. Problem is. The Critical from Dinafem reversed fine. 2 plants were pollinated. One was with a early finishing plant. Plus he selfed it.

The selfed plant is the one I tried to reverse. I know it reversed fine the first time as I have 2 types of seeds from it. That is what got me thinking it might be a problem with selfed plants. My mentor said the Dinafem produced clouds of pollen.
 
Running regular seeds can be a pain in the butt with all the boys. I have a very limited quantity of Sensi NL S1s that I was considering selfing because they come from a selfed cutting of a NL that produced 16oz indoors. Your information was helpful in letting me know that attempting to reverse one of these may result in the wasteful use of at least a portion of a heavy yielder and my limited quantity of CS.

Instead I will try to reverse one of my own hybrids and get my own thing going. I crossed a Devil's Pitchfork F1 with two female phenos of TTB and will end up with what I estimate to be about 100 seeds. That TTB, although not the most flavorful, was a smooth as silk hard hitting smoke. The neighbor lady never gets stoned off of one bowl, but she sure did the other night.. It was fun watching the confusion hit her when she suddenly realized how stoned she was. LOL.

I also have my Devil's Pitchfork F2s (some may be autos) and crosses with a Sensi NL x Nirvana NL IBL and a Sensi NL x GG#4. Those three crosses provided about 30 seeds each, keeping me rolling in beans.

Sorry to ramble on your thread, I have been mostly unplugged lately so I find myself rambling around my watched threads after catching up on things.

Peace
 
Not a problem. Rambling is the whole Idea of this thread LOL. I find I teach myself more when I type shit out and ramble. It gets ideas out of my head for more to form.

That's great to hear about your neighbor. TTB is the first strain I learned that you can smoke yourself past too high LMAO. Sounds weird but I have seen with lots of stuff. Had it happen yesterday with The Basic 99.

Some strains after just a couple hits I get high as f**k. Head swerling and everything is really spacey. Kind of uncomfortable because you are so high. Smoking more is not what most would do. Not me LMAO. It really works with some strong strains. Smoking more brings you to a more comfortable place. I have never figured out why this does what it does. Seems backwards.

There are times when this might be a bad idea. Paranoia comes from smoking to much of certain strains. Mostly that is with sativa dom strains. It might be worth a try with hybrids and indicas.
 
It has been a few days since I have posted any eye candy. The last Putin's Crack finely finished so here goes. Not great pictures but it sure gives you a idea of how big she was.
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Not a whole lot of smell with this plant growing. Now that she is trimmed it is starting to smell. Pretty sure this one is going to be the pheno this strain was named for. It is amazing how something can smell so little alive and so damn strong dead and drying.
 
I know they are producing better than the previous plants I have grown. Don't know if it will be stronger. It is a feminized F-1 so has a few phenos. Most are strong to really strong. From Dank as hell to Cherry AK. Thats what I like about this hybrid I kind of don't know what I am going to get. I do know that found one I don't like yet. Some may not have the THC levels as others but they all have a nice happy high.
 
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