Taking My Chances With The Devil: Dark Devil Auto & Devil's Crack Auto

Just me and my almost 2 year old boy today... leaves me some time rambling. Lol.

Devil's Pitchfork x Trailer Trash Betty:
Currently Have 5 plants total. 2 are short, fast flowering and purple. 1 is green and tall with lots of branches, took longer than the others to set flowers and stretched for quite awhile. Then there is 1 that is growing like the lanky one but appears to be turning purple. The last 1 has very little branching, is developing at a standard pace and will be purple. 4 phenos out of 6 seeds from 1 cross. Almost makes selective inbreeding or cloning mandatory.

I had chopped and dried the Male Purple Afghani x BCBD Purps flowers. I fear they were too young, but I didnt want to impregnate plants that wouldn't produce ripe seeds. This method is 50/50 successful. According to the pollination I attempted last night and the condition of the pistils today, this time was a fail... out w the need for a male segregation area so I can be certain of my pollens maturity. Whether pistils are brown or not tomorrow I will be misting the tent with good ole tap water.

Thinking about crossing AC/DC with Harlequin or vis versa. Just trying to lock the CBD rich traits in so I am guaranteed this kind of medicine when I need it. For variety I would share pollen throughout the tent for some nice phenotypic variations. The Harlequin I used to smoke tasted like smooth spicy black cherries. Worked perfect for my nerve pain. Never had AC/DC, just know it might be good medicine for self injurious autistic behaviors....... Gotta take care of everyone ya know.

Summer Sativa Lineup as of today is 2 or 3 of each Punto Rojo x Durban Bubble, Zam Pan, Columbian Gold, and 4 Micro Trailer Trash Betty's to guarantee a male.

Edit. Also going to slip a feminized NL or two in there so I have something to harvest while I wait on long cycle sativas.
 
So, as always I do a terrible job at documenting harvests.

I took the top 2/3 of NL x DDA and put her in for low and slow. The lower third was roughly chopped and set aside for hash.

Sensi NL was chopped up for hash, except for the three best tops. Those were left on the branch and hung in my tent. Temps vary from the upper 60s to upper 70s and fantastic air exchange. Should take about a week to dry.
Sensi NL

Sensi NL


Sensi NL

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Sensi NL

Sensi NL

 
Dankman_420 said:
Hopefully you can lock in the CBD your looking for
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I think I have 5 Harlequin seeds and 10 AC/DC. One option, one I think might be my best option, would be to pop all 5 of the Harlequin and just breed those all together so I have more to play with later. With the wife going to school soon, I definitely need to get the CBD flowing.
 
Me personally I would work with those Harlequin seeds. Not a bad idea popping all five at once. If you don't see a boy then treat the best looking plant to try to make some pollen. With her ancestry (Colombian Gold) and being a Sativa dominant strain with CBD in the 8-9% range it's great for chronic pain and all sorts of anxiety, sleep disorders, and arthritis. Grow some of those out and find your favorites (not how they look but how they work) and then consider crossing in the AC/DC to see what the extra CBD will do for you.
 
I am looking for the right time to do a breeding project with the two Candida CD-1 seeds I was gifted. Some will disagree but the majority feel the Candida CD-1 is the highest CBD plant you can currently grow reaching as high as 20.6% with the THC never going above 1%.

I need to make a bunch of these and get them in the seed bank.
 
I love Harlequin. When it was clone only I scored a cut for $25 and an agreement that I would not "donate" any clones or flower to other dispensaries. Unfortunately unbeknownst to me it was an untreated outdoor clone with severe spider mites..... I killed the plant and shortly thereafter medicine shops got closed down for the commercially licensed weed to move in.

I think I am going to commit to a Harlequin CS project. I can just keep trucking that way. Do seedlings in the mars300 space bucket for a couple of weeks and transfer to the tent. By then Punto Rojo x ( Mazar x Guerrero) will be finished.

I checked roots on Sensi NL. They were perfectly fine. Seems like she had a bit of a leaf mutation. Buds looked fine. Yield looks on par with what I have come to expect in that particular container/medium. I still don't weigh harvests, haven't found a reason too.

Tomorrow, maybe tonight, I'm going to pull out a couple of the Devil's Pitchfork x Trailer Trash Betty (s) for pics. Wild freaking branching.
 
@TorturedSoul you were wondering in a thread I can't find about plants with 3 branches/leaves/buds per node making it to the finish... in about a week and a half to 2 weeks she will be done

Punto Rojo x (Mazar x Guerrero) day 1 of week 9 in flower.
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Yeah, thanks, I've been trying to follow along
 
NL x DDA buds in the fridge look amazing. Unfortunately no time for pics just yet. The Sensi NL buds hanging in the tent are drying a bit faster but not too fast at all. Might be able to smoke them in 3-4 more days, I think the fridge buds will take at least 2 weeks.

Decided to wait until Punto Rojo x (Mazar x Guerrero) is finished to make a batch of hash. Considering trying dry ice for the next round since I only have one good bucket. She looks like she will be done by Sunday, the fluffiness is a bit concerning for yield but I can get over it so long as the quality is there.

With everyone being so far along in flower i decided to cut Mega-Crop from the feed cycle for the next couple of gallons and watch the plants for negative effects. If I do need to switch back I will stick with the 50/50 nute mix from start to finish. I was considering getting some powder koolbloom..... then I got to thinking that my average plant does start to finish in 11-13 weeks (3-4 weeks seedling/veg, 8-10 weeks flowering) so I shouldn't be rushing things any more that I already am. Some cultivars start flowering sooner than others, some show sex and then slack for a week or so, some show sex right on day 21 and immediately stretch. Growing multiple cultivars sure makes for an interesting time.

So, this upcoming Harlequin grow should be fun. Since it is something new and something I see as an important genetic preservation project, I may have to give them their own journal. Seeds will get scuffed up and soaked for 24-36hrs starting Friday evening. Start them in rockwool cubes in my space bucket and leave them in there for 1-2 weeks, put them in the flowering tent, and start applying CS when I see the first pistil. Prune the males and put them back in the bucket under now under 11/13 lights to collect pollen in case my reversal fails. Hoping for 3 females and 2 males, fingers crossed....

Need to get some heatsinks for my vero 18's. With this many plants my footprint seems weak. Of course it should seem weak because I am running just shy of 24w/sq foot. I could probably use a Mars300 heatsink with a 12v fan mounted on the back. Only be driving them at 700-750ma. I will peel that 1100k cob off it's Heatsink and mount 2 Vero 18's and a fan tonight.... if my math is close it should be about a 50watt fixture. I need the light and these drivers are all I have to work with.
 
Ganjagrowergu said:
HARLEQUIN SEEDS....put them in the flowering tent, and start applying CS when I see the first pistil.
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All the research I did prior to trying my hand at reversing female plants with the colloidal silver told me to start applying it 7 days prior to the plant being flipped. Or in the case of autos start applying it on about day 20 anticipating it will start flowering around day 25-28 or thereabouts. In other words start applying it to the plants about a week before they go start to flower.

A quick question. With your Harlequin seeds being regular seeds, why if you were to find a male would you also want to treat the Harlequins with the CS other then to make fem seeds?

I don't think with growing weed there are all too many hard fast, set in stone ways of doing any one thing. Lots of people do lots of things in lots of different ways. As long as the way you're doing something works for you then that's all that matters. I always strive to keep everything as simple as possible.
 
beez0404 said:
start applying it 7 days prior to the plant being flipped. Or in the case of autos start applying it on about day 20 anticipating it will start flowering around day 25-28
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So, based on this, it seems like I should go with that day 20ish deal, because my photos behave like autos under the 11/13 from seed light cycle... almost exactly as you describe. Thanks for pointing this out
beez0404 said:
A quick question. With your Harlequin seeds being regular seeds, why if you were to find a male would you also want to treat the Harlequins with the CS other then to make fem seeds?
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Kind of complicated but I guess not really... I need feminized seeds to make growing one plant at a time simpler. I want to keep this one in rotation, maybe 6-8 plants per year.

It seems that if I save some Male pollen, I can always make more regular seeds right away when I grow out the first of the S1s this fall.

Also if my first ever CS reversal fails, I have a backup with the males. Redundancy. It would be nice to have a stash of pollen and a couple hundred female seeds.

I rarely follow anything with growing to the "T" . I think that while there are some constants, everyone's "T" is a bit different.
 
Very purple tent this winter....

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Devil's Pitchfork x NL x GG#4?

Devil's Pitchfork x NL x GG#4?


Purple Afghani x BCBD Purps

Purple Afghani x BCBD Purps


Devil's Pitchfork x Trailer Trash Betty

Devil's Pitchfork x Trailer Trash Betty


Devil's Pitchfork x Trailer Trash Betty

Devil's Pitchfork x Trailer Trash Betty


Devil's Pitchfork x Trailer Trash Betty

Devil's Pitchfork x Trailer Trash Betty



I never talk about this one
SSDC

SSDC

Or this one
Punto Rojo x Unknown Swami genetics

Punto Rojo x Unknown Swami genetics


But of course a group shot...
Looking strong

Looking strong

Quite the group of plants.
 
@beez0404 after having time to reflect, I won't be treating the Harlequins with silver until I get a good number of regular seeds put away. Simplify things, yeah... especially with the summer thing happening soon and the requirement of medicine production, not experiments.

I suddenly find myself in possession of more sativas than I may be able to grow over the course of this summer. Having a bit of a problem prioritizing cultivars. I will eventually figure it out. Lol. I should have room for 4 larger sativa females, 3 smaller Trailer Trash Betty's including at least one male, and one or two other coffee can size plants (maybe DDA and one of the Northern Lights).

Been wondering how DDA would do now that I changed things up a bit. Not my favorite cultivar to smoke, but super fun and fast to grow, also it wouldn't hurt to make a few F1s with Betty...
 
Any way you go you can't go wrong. Just make sure to have a plant ready to flower when you harvest a plant is the best advice I can give you. I always have more plant vegging then I do flowering. I always hit a plant that just isn't going to cut it. And because I have others available I don't blink an eye culling an under performer.
 
I'm thinking that I am going to be starting to cut clones again until I get the room squared away. Clones cut from a flowering female, after reveg, should be ready to flower while the mother finishes. So right before pollination I will cut like 3-6 clones of each female. By the time my clones are halfway through flower, the seeds from the mothers should be dry enough to plant. Unless cloning goes really well of course and that might just continue.

Rather than ghettoed together lights, I have feelers out for some scrap aluminium and am working on a custom fixture designed just for this odd tent size.

Working out my next move. Found a 5000k Vero29 cob that would be great for veg, I have a heatsink, need a driver.

If I don't go that route I was considering switching this tent over to 1 3000k Vero18 per square foot (22 watts each)and putting the 4000k QBs into a veg/auto closet. I would have better coverage, less watts and more "proper" spectrum light. All things considered, I have no effing clue what to do. Lol. :lot-o-toke:
 
What are the dimensions of your flowering tent?
 
I know where you can get a 288v2 quantum board SAMSUNG LM301b for $240.00 with free shipping.
 
beez0404 said:
What are the dimensions of your flowering tent?
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32" x 48" x 60"
beez0404 said:
I know where you can get a 288v2 quantum board SAMSUNG LM301b for $240.00 with free shipping.
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That is a great deal right there. Problem I have is that I just spent $80 on Vero18s. I could spend more on drivers but I have 4 identical high voltage (55-100v) low current (.75a) drivers on hand.

I think buying the either older version 5000k or 5600k vero29 and a driver for veg/clone will cost me about $25. If I do this and spend maybe another $40 on the rest of the bits, I could keep the QBs where they are and just have a boatload of light for flowering... checking on my hang drying Northern Lights, I need more light. Buds are lacking density and there is no reason for that other than lack of light at this point, the buds were ripe at harvest. Perhaps 2-3 more days and I will know for sure.

Discussing finances and logistics tonight with the wifey.
 
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