DV8
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So which one are you most looking forward to having in the jar mate?
Stunger's Organic Soil Stealth Balcony: Landrace Mulanje & Other Sativas
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ChocolatChunk
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Tango- tangie x mango LOL just got me a few beans of matter of fact... But they just say tangie x mango didn't name it but Tango is appropriate.
Looking mighty dank and like another member mentioned better everyday!
I wish I can smell through the device's.
Looking mighty dank and like another member mentioned better everyday!
I wish I can smell through the device's.
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Well, I grew the Mango Sherbert last year and after a long testing period, she was my favourite, but unlike last year, this year I have been 'droughting' her and I am going to try and keep her going for another 2-3 more weeks! So by then I reckon she'll hit spectacularly.
But the 2 sativas are both looking really good, and both so far have been surprisingly strong against pests. They've got potent smells coming from them already.
The other thing is, since I scissor chopped, dried off and ground up some of the early Mulanje, I have been favouring that as my daily go to. So I can only imagine what these 2 could be deliver in another 4-7 weeks, if all goes well they should be awesome.
Cheers CC, it's getting to that time, I can really smell the hints of dankness in the air these days, and I am naively hoping I'm the only one! Wouldn't it be nice to click a 'dank button' on a journal to smell the plant in question.
ChocolatChunk
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Makes me want to get some of that Mulanje... A couple of my plants are looking a lot like a nigerian landrace but it took 3 generations to bring it out.
Very lovely sweet dank smells though. And a dank button! I love it!
Very lovely sweet dank smells though. And a dank button! I love it!
ChocolatChunk
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I hear that though I am the same way when I get home and I can smell the girls from outside it gets me a bit nervous bc I know I'm not the only one who picks it up being so close to neighbors in the city... Cant wait to get my own place with more room.
I'd be curious too about this. I have some Ecoworks EC (Neem) right now I was considering using on the current plants. I wasn't sure what would be better, since the product is pretty flexible. Would it be better to apply as a foliar or to feed it to them in the soil?
Stunger, Catching up on your balcony grow and liking what I see. I’m at the point of your stem break and repair and recalled a pic in this group that shows the sharp edged plastic wire you are using cutting into the plant. I lost a few precious main bud sites recent grows due to LST with the same twist tie wire pulling too hard on tender new growth. It took me awhile to determine that wire is fine flat against the stem, but is like a knife if on edge at the stem. I switched up technique for LST in my current GSC grow, using rubber coated wire “S hooks” at the stem and twist tie wire from the hook to the pot rim. Seems to be working nicely and I will be able to reuse the S hooks. One pic of the new LST technique. I’m anxious to get all caught up. CheersUpdate - Gender checking - node closeups
Greeting 420 folks! Today, I have again been looking closely at the nodes to see if there are any signs of gender showing. I couldn't discern anything to go by, but I have put some of the pics below if anyone else thinks they can see anything, and also as a reference for referring to for the next grow.
Honduras/Panama x Purple Honduras
Malawi/Ethiopian x Mulanje
Best wishes to all
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Cheers CC. My brother is growing a Mulanje too, so hopefully I'll get to sample some of his when ready. With the breeze carrying the smells, you have just got to hope that it is too indistinct for those who unwittingly inhale it.
I am not an expert in Neem, but for my 2 cents, I have added Neem meal to my soil this grow. On previous grows I have foliar sprayed with Neem too, but so far not this grow.
Thanks Cr8. Yes that type of wire is plain nasty and damaging. Unfortunately, it was all that was available when there was a break in lockdowns that allowed me to go to the shops. I have since bought some of the soft wire that looks identical to what you showed, which I have since been using on the plant stems and connecting them to the pot rim with the 'hard' wire, but in future I won't be using any such hard wire directly on the plants again, it's destructive. Thanks!
Stunger, I’m really enjoying catching up on your balcony gradually over several days as I tend to do. LST looking great. I love the idea of walking out on that balcony looking out and looking down and smiling. CheersTraining Update
Greetings 420 enthusiasts! This update is covering some of the training that I am giving the balcony girls.
Space
The space required by the developing plant's canopies does get very tight, and on this grow I have 4 plants on the balcony, it gets 'tricky' applying training to such tight canopies. When I have to turn the canopies around for access, I have to do so without causing contact damage when the plants jostle against one another, and plus I have to do my best to avoid making noise to keep the neighbour's attention from looking up and wondering what's going on. Also too, opening the bi-fold doors of the balcony becomes an issue, as they open outwards and can be blocked by the pots and canopies. I find it hard to purposefully prune off weaker growth, previously I have tended to fit them in some other alignment by supercropping.
The main training aim
My main training aim is to try and keep them close to this current height until their main growth has stopped and budding has taken over, then I should have enough height in spare to allow them to grow but still remain under the horizontal sightlines of neighbours.
The 3 LST girls
These 3 plants have had their mainstems trained out in a leaning clockwise curve by using a number of garden ties.
Secondary growth encouraged with LST to 'fill in spaces' while hopefully keeping the canopies to a uniform height.
Astoundingly, the injured Honduras/Panama x Purple Honduras is the most vigorous of the 3. She is the hardest to train, each node of growth really requires LST before it gets too woody and becomes impossible to train. She has already almost doubled her width at the injury site. So, if she's not bothered, then I'm not bothered.
Mulanje
The Mulanje was germinated 5 weeks or so before the others, she was hexlined so when trained out horizontally, she has become more 'pancake like' than 'Christmas tree' in shape (which is what I wanted). She'd be less than a foot tall currently, and is showing some new stretching growth.
The Mulanje's stem growth is looking quite 'spindly' compared to the other girls, but she is looking nice and healthy as far as I can tell, I am interested to see how she develops from here.
Here she is after she has received her first round of supercropping this afternoon. I have made use of @InTheShed's supercropping approach where he uses paper clips to assist the 'folded over' supercropped branches to stay in place. Unfortunately where was a bag of paper clips when I needed to find them? So I just cut up previously used plastic coated garden wire that is a heavier type to give a bit of extra weight, and hooked over the folded stems.
And another pic from more side on.
And just for completeness, here's the Mulanje male. Initially I hexlined it too, but now that it's a male and given that I am only keeping it for pollen, I am not too bothered about training it further if it stays within reasonable size limits.
That's it for now, it's a hot day here, be well folks!
That Mulanje is just sativa spectacular. Cheers StungerUpdate with LST training
Greeting 420 enthusiasts. The balcony girls have been stretching up and getting a bit close to where I want them. I need to allow them enough height so they can fully carry out their flowering growth without exceeding permissible stealth limits and showing themselves to the neighbours. I would prefer to time it so at that real flowering point I no longer have to concern myself with their height, just that they have enough room to bloom out to their full potential without me having to take last minute remedial action (of course if I have to, then I have to).
I checked all the plastic coated garden wire ties and I loosened several that I found were showing pressure on the stems that if left unadjusted could start to cut into the stems.
These pics were taken early evening, and this time I tried to separate the plants so to photograph each one a little more clearly than my last attempt.
The balcony girls from the side window
Malawi/Ethiopian x Mulanje
I carried out a little LST on her, she didn't really need much as her height was pretty good but I further bent and tied the mainstem around, and lightly adjust a few of the other minor stems to sit down a bit. Picture taken straight after LST so not so pretty.
Honduras/Panama x Purple Honduras
She has shown strong growth, especially considering the almost 3/4 broken through mainstem injury she had a few weeks ago, and for that she got no binding just a blob of arborist goo over the break. Her pic was taken straight after LST so not her prettiest at the moment!
Mango Sherbert
She started life as a mutant and was almost dispensed with as having no potential. When I tried to pull off the membrane that was sticking her cotyledons together I pulled the seedling right out of the soil which can't have been good for it. Anyway, she is now growing like a powerhouse, and is getting the tallest of the 4 of them so tonight she's had some LST and her picture taken straight after.
Mulanje
Well that brings me to the Mulanje. I didn't touch her at all today. She has a couple of stems that are teasing the height limits, but I am reluctant to supercrop her because she is looking so nice and I am wondering if I can get away with leaving her as she is in the hope she will only want to grow another foot (which I can accomodate). However, I may have to take remedial action if she exceeds her height quota! In meantime here she is, untouched, I think she is looking really nice, her once frailer stems are thickening up.
In the next update they will be recovered from the LST and should be looking much more chirpier! I can't wait for the bud and trichome pics in the coming weeks, wow, as an outdoor grower it is such a long wait but so lovely when the growing season comes around again!
Be well everybody and thanks for dropping in!
Love the blue sky shot off the deck as we would call it here on the 3rd Coast, West Michigan. Plants looking great…still a bit behind. CheersGeneral Update
The wind is getting up a little today, gusting 50 - 60 kph. The sun is beating down, the plants are due for another water, and the balcony space is getting tight as the canopies expand.
Mulanje male
I moved him to the back of the house to be diagonally opposite from the girls, this position seemed to work well a couple of years ago when I last ran a male for pollen. I then found no unwanted pollination occurred to the females.
The balcony girls are getting bigger and it was time to put the balcony rail herb planters up to help shield their advancing height. But now their expanding canopies are making it tough to move them about without jostling against one another and potentially causing damage.
A couple of days ago after carrying out additional LST on the mainstem of the Mango Sherbert that the very next morning I found the mainstem had broken 3/4's through. I used some arborist goo and electrical tape to make a 'Turkish splint' and by the following day she seemed back on pace.
Turkish Splint applied to Mango Sherbert mainstem break
Pic of the 3 LST girls
Mango Sherbert & Mulanje
Mulanje
And to finish with the view from the side window!
Well folks, thanks for dropping in, keep well, keep safe, and may your gardens be bountiful!
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Update + Mostly pictures + day 13 of Mango Sherbert's water restriction phase
Greetings 420 enthusiasts! Because I have applied droughting techniques to the Mango Sherbert for the past 13 days, these daily updates are mostly to show her ongoing progress. Once she is harvested I'll be focusing more closely on the 2 sativas.
She is looking worse for wear, but I think she doesn't look too bad all things considered. I removed the top of one of her colas the other day because a caterpillar had caused some rot. Today after a semi dry and grind of the good part gleaned from what I removed, I found her quite punchy, it bodes well for another couple of weeks or so, the droughting should further improve the potency.
Mango Sherbert
Thanks for dropping by, keep well, and may you be relaxing with a great smoke.
Greetings 420 enthusiasts! Because I have applied droughting techniques to the Mango Sherbert for the past 13 days, these daily updates are mostly to show her ongoing progress. Once she is harvested I'll be focusing more closely on the 2 sativas.
She is looking worse for wear, but I think she doesn't look too bad all things considered. I removed the top of one of her colas the other day because a caterpillar had caused some rot. Today after a semi dry and grind of the good part gleaned from what I removed, I found her quite punchy, it bodes well for another couple of weeks or so, the droughting should further improve the potency.
Mango Sherbert
DV8
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Congratulations on the GJOTM mate, well deserved.
You do a beautiful grow, but a detailed and interesting journal with fantastic pics and information on top.
Well done mate!
You do a beautiful grow, but a detailed and interesting journal with fantastic pics and information on top.
Well done mate!
i'd love your climate. super wicked as always stunger.
tangwena
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That resin on the MS has sure come on since the drought treatment.
Congratulations on your well deserved GJOTM win! There's always something interesting to see here!
ChocolatChunk
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Yes your like praying to cannabis gods please be the only one who knows its your secret plants that smells so good in the air when it gets carried in the wind just right. Love them sunset pictures thats a good one !
Congrats on the well deserved win! I always look forward to your updates. Great pics and the process of your grow is very well described.
Jungle Joseph
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Deserving win, congrats.
Love the sunset shot.
My heart skips a beat when I see droopy leaves on a plant.
Looking really good.
Love the sunset shot.
My heart skips a beat when I see droopy leaves on a plant.
Looking really good.
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Thanks Joe. I thought yesterday evening's sunset silhouetted the plant quite nicely!
I get the heart skipping, I have had quite a few occasions of it in the past from growing outside and not always being there to water them. But this time it is a planned phase of water restrictions, it is definitely not pretty, quite gnarly, but the results can be very nicely potent which my early testing yesterday confirmed.