Congratulations on a fabulous amount of bud off your plants, and the many seeds! I'm interested to see what solutions you will find to the cloche challenge
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Thanks Carmen! I am so pleased to get the seeds. Speaking of cloches that would have to be able to handle wind. Today it is gusting 110kph!Congratulations on a fabulous amount of bud off your plants, and the many seeds! I'm interested to see what solutions you will find to the cloche challenge
LOL thanks! I am aware of what prunes are, I was referring to the expression "do her prunes."Prunes are a type of dried plum that is apparently great for constipation.
Thanks Joe! I didn't scrimp on the screwups, but importantly I did get some great bud and seeds, as well as the experience of growing sativa which flowered a month longer outside than I'd ever had before. It was cool to find out it was doable.Plenty of top shelf smoke, and a ton of quality seeds for the future. Nice one.
I'm just imagining a grow room made of cardboard, hanging off the balcony, tied down with bungee cords and duct tape, trying to survive the winter storms and wind
If you could turn the balcony into a greenhouse of sorts, secure from the wind and rain, that would be ideal.Thanks Joe! I didn't scrimp on the screwups, but importantly I did get some great bud and seeds, as well as the experience of growing sativa which flowered a month longer outside than I'd ever had before. It was cool to find out it was doable.
The mental picture of cannabis plants hanging off the balcony in a storm is a bit wild, but I'm glad you can see my concerns! But still, it has got me thinking, as it would be great to have some sort of (well secured) cloche approach if it allowed a plant to happily grow over winter.
Wow what a wonderful harvest brother…. Congratulations on a great summer growing and enjoy the fruits of your labour. The buds look deliciousHarvest Update!
Greeting 420 enthusiasts! My apologies for the slowdown of posts. The final Mulanje seedling died after slugs and injury got the others. It looked well aside from a half chewed cotyledon, but I think a lack of water combined with getting 'pot cooked' in some rare sunshine didn't help. And besides, I really couldn't see it working out at this time of the year, but I didn't want to chuck a load of time into it, not outdoors in winter.
Anyway, altho I grew 4 females, my early star girl, the Mulanje, took a bad turn and she was given an early chop. It was bloody unfortunate, she had looked so majestically promising. It was suggested that I may have overdone the top dressing with her, I respect those opinions and they are most probably right. But nagging at the back of my head I feel I may have stuffed up the watering of her (as well), when the summer was starting to heat up I became (in hindsight), too bloody 'splash happy' about the watering. My pots are all heavily drilled out, and as I measured the temperatures coming off the balcony stone tiles at over 50C/122F, the plants would visibly wilt every day. I had given her up to 2 drinks a day, but some hot days, especially after I measured the balcony and I realised how hot it was getting, I gave her even 3 drinks a day. I can't help thinking that may have contributed to her decline even if the top dressing didn't help either. For future grows I will go back to once day unless badly wilting - lesson learnt. Anyway, I trimmed off about 2 oz of the early Mulanje as it was too good to chuck. Even though it is early picked it gives a middle grade high that is still better than a lot of bag weed. I forgot to put that in the picture but it was immature and I didn't count it in the harvest totals.
Harvest numbers
215g Mango Sherbert
151g Malawi/Ethiopian x Mulanje
141g Honduras/Panama x Purple Honduras
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507g or 17.9oz
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Just over a pound, I can't complain about that!
Harvest jarred up
The big jars are 1.5L in volume.
Seed harvest
You can see the Mulanje seeds are definitely not the best looking, I mean they don't look good for germination chances, but I have already sprouted 4 of them so they 'hatch' quite fine.
The 3 others of course are beautifully mature, I didn't count them but must be a few hundred of each.
4 resulting seeds types;
Mango Sherbert x Mulanje (labelled 'MS')
(Malawi/Ethiopian x Mulanje) x Mulanje
(Honduras/Panama x Purple Honduras) x Mulanje
Mulanje x Mulanje
Still to come is a smoke report of this harvest. So far I have only tried the final Mango Sherbert, and that is only because I chopped her first.
Of the 2 sativas I have only tried the 17-18 week harvested buds and they are very nice, the Malawi/Ethiopian x Mulanje seems especially fire. So I am quite interested to see what the final harvest at 20 weeks will be like, the nice thing with the Malawi/Ethiopian x Mulanje is that only half an oz was harvested early, the majority of the plant went the full 20 weeks and is yet to be tested!
Anyway thanks for dropping by, keep well, and may your gardens be blooming!
Thanks BC! I'll get a smoke report posted before too much longer, cheers.Wow what a wonderful harvest brother…. Congratulations on a great summer growing and enjoy the fruits of your labour. The buds look delicious
Thanks BC, for saving @Stunger 's post within your response, which we all wouldn't have otherwise, since he apparently deleted it after posting, which is of course ok because, while I could read his report sent as a notification by email, but when I went to look here on 420 it wasn't there, as it had been deleted, so you did us all a service and thanks! He has gone silent these past few weeks, so now we can all see why, the photos are the perfect ending to this grow.Wow what a wonderful harvest brother…. Congratulations on a great summer growing and enjoy the fruits of your labour. The buds look delicious
@Stunger ,Update - Final days - another partial harvest - Hon/Pan - Malawi/Ethiopian x Mal - immature Mulanje seedling
Greetings 420 enthusiasts! We are getting increasingly closer to the sharp end of the grow. I spotted a few small bits of either stem/bud dying off or pest damage that I removed. The majority that I removed has no damage but contains within it small bits of damage so I am using the removal as a partial harvest at around 19.5 weeks of flowering.
The final days of the plants on the balcony
Partial harvest/pest damage removal
I did another round of partial harvesting to include removal of some small bits of pest damage. In total I guess I have lost about 25% of the Hon/Pan to damage, but the actual damage to the Malawi/Ethiopian x Mulanje has been so small it would probably fit in a matchbox.
Honduras/Panama x Purple Honduras
Malawi/Ethiopian x Mulanje
Some seeds harvested so far from the Malawi/Ethiopian x Mulanje
Mulanje seedling growing from an immature 16 day old seed
This is out in the weather, and has already been hit by wind, rain and slugs which have eaten 1 cotyledon as well as the tip of 1 of it's first leaves. The other 3 seedlings look worse for wear, slug eaten and weather beaten and are not likely to make it.
Thanks for dropping by, keep well, and may your gardening efforts be dank and productive!
Ahoy Dear Freind,
Different and yet to be elucidated? That’s all we get?Ahoy Dear Freind,
Your photograph of heavily droughted Mango Sherbert has solidified my opinion of your gardening prowess.
You have truly become a Cannabis Crafter.
We are gathering data on this end and believe that during drought the plant actually produces a different and yet to be elucidated cannabinoid that might account for the dramatic increase in potency.
Awesome job bro.
Must be what the P stands for!THCP perhaps? If what I heard is true even a slight increase in that could have an effect on potency.
Cheers Emeraldo, As far as I know that post was never deleted, it should still be here. With nothing on the balcony except empty sulking pots there's not a lot to contribute, but I'll post a smoke report before too much longer and then in Spring I'll be kicking off the next grow!Thanks BC, for saving @Stunger 's post within your response, which we all wouldn't have otherwise, since he apparently deleted it after posting, which is of course ok because, while I could read his report sent as a notification by email, but when I went to look here on 420 it wasn't there, as it had been deleted, so you did us all a service and thanks! He has gone silent these past few weeks, so now we can all see why, the photos are the perfect ending to this grow.
@Stunger great harvest report matey! Hope all is well with you!
Thanks Jon, I am just thankful to be able to fill some jars with some good potent buds.Congratulations on the super harvest @Stunger! Over an elbow from three plants works for me every time! Very impressive, great work. Great journal as well. As we’ve come to expect from you! Happy 4th!
Edit: my apologies for accidentally tagging Rex. I know who I’m congratulating. Lol. Sorry! Fixed it!
Cheers Azi, I have always selectively pollinated where I tie a 'marker' around those stems. I do 'whole plant drying' and when it is done and ready for jarring I go thru the 'marked' stems closely for seeds. As you saw, I got plenty of seeds from where I deliberately pollinated so I didn't bother looking too closely for the occasional seed elsewhere.In the next day or two I'm going to harvest a plant I tried to pollinate and I think I can see a few seeds poking out of their husks so looks like my pollen chucking was at least partially successful.
Since I've never done it before I wondered if you had any tips or tricks to get all the seeds or if I just have to hunt them down bud by bud.
Since you seemed to get a nice haul from your efforts last grow, I figured you'd be the one to ask.
Thanks Maritimer! It was a wild and fun ride stressing her like that. I am looking forward to any and all advances in research on how to improve the cannabinoid profiles further. Always good to have the actual experience of trying things out oneself.Ahoy Dear Freind,
Your photograph of heavily droughted Mango Sherbert has solidified my opinion of your gardening prowess.
You have truly become a Cannabis Crafter.
We are gathering data on this end and believe that during drought the plant actually produces a different and yet to be elucidated cannabinoid that might account for the dramatic increase in potency.
Awesome job bro.
Cheers Carcass, oh yeah, I wouldn't want a light going on the balcony, even if it was in a light box/wind proof box I'd have no way to get the electricity to it. Nah, I am only considering a glass/plastic box that affords some protection from the cold and weather the winter brings.
Cheers Tim <edit> sorry, I have edited that as my wording could give an unintended message. But here are a couple of droughted Mango Sherbert bud pics, see what you think.
Well written, and very interesting, Stunger!
Thank you for the update, and it's great to see you!