Thai Stick

[PotChimp]

This is from that plant Graytail nicknamed ThaiDawg It's one of my clone/reveg plants I was going to regenerate the mother with, but I saw seeds on it today:

I'm not taking any chances with it being a hermie (some of the seeds are too new to be from that Chemdawg D BX3 plant I think) so I chopped it up this morning. I've got plenty of seeds from that same mother if I want to see what the cross is about.

 

[PotChimp]

A few of the lower Thai Stick female branches look like they should:

But most of the top ones look burnt up. Still flowering out normally, but leaves are dropping heavy:

One thing's for certain. There's a lot of places forming seeds from the pollination:

 

[Big Budha]

Chimp I want to pollinate my Thai Stick plants at what point do I apply the pollen 3 to 4 weeks after the first signs of pistils? or longer due to the longer flowering time of the Thai Strain? Any help will be appreciated.

 

[PotChimp]

I just did mine at around ten weeks from seeing the first hairs and I'm seeing signs the pollination took I think personally there's a pretty big window for doing it, even though I wish I would have pollinated at around 4 weeks. I have eight weeks left to chop, so I think that'll give the plant enough time to make viable seeds.

 

[Big Budha]

Thanks Chimp I'm gonna pollinate at 4, 6 , and 8 weeks three separate buds and see which one works best

 

[PotChimp]

Here's the latest on these Thai Stick plants They look a little better than they did the last time coming into the home stretch. But still look pretty rough:

But as far as the pollination, seeds are forming:

 

[Canna Montana]

Totally looks like seeds! Congrats!

 

[PotChimp]

I gotta go in collect pollen and cull the male today there's so much of it everywhere it's going to be a pain in the a.....ah..... AHH-CHOO!!!!!

 

[Canna Montana]

I gotta go in collect pollen and cull the male today there's so much of it everywhere it's going to be a pain in the a.....ah..... AHH-CHOO!!!!!

I hear ya! Ours makes me stuffy. We have a fem DDA auto pollinating a Purple Kush and a Fruit Punch

 

[PotChimp]

Purple Kush is a really good strain.

 

[Canna Montana]

Purple Kush is a really good strain.

I will always have a place in my heart for PK. She was our first harvest. She actually self pollinated, so the plant we are breeding came from a seed from our first harvest. Pretty cool, huh?

 

[PotChimp]

Yeah that is cool.
I chopped my male Thai Stick plant down after collecting pollen a few days ago. I'll get a pic up of the two beat up Thai Stick females tonight. I looked it up and even though I know it's open to discussion, the article I read said that 600 watt light bulbs should be from 2' to 4' away from the nearest part of the plant. I'm way closer than that.

 

[Weaselcracker]

My Thai Stick is pretty beat up too. I'm not sure what to do differently next time as I'm not really sure what beat her up in the first place.
And my 600s are about 12" away at closest point generally. Have been for years.

 

[PotChimp]

Hey good to hear from you
I know exactly what I'm gonna do this time, but I don't know if it's going to work or not. I'm going to start a Lao Sativa and Hoa Bac grow soon. It's going to be granular food with one compost tea feeding per month. I think feeding them is what messes them up
I like the mix I did for these, but what I should have done is mix the amendments together and used 1 Tbsp./gallon of soilless, just like the ones you buy. When I think about it, the mix I put straight into soil amounted to about 1/2 to 3/4 cup/gallon of soilless.

 

[Weaselcracker]

Yeah I've been wondering. I've been feeding mine almost weekly at low levels same as the other sativas. I feel like she'd be happier being washed out less, and left alone more, to grow a colony of little bacterial and fungal friends. Or something. I can't really see classic nute burn signs - but a lot of leaves are dying off. Buds are still slithering slowly onward though.

 

[Graytail]

I wonder if it isn't humidity with the skinny leaved plants.

I saw the table for Vapor Pressure Deficit again the other day and it's shocking. RH should be in the 70s to 80s if you're running high temps in the 80s.

 

[nivek]

Hmmm. Intrereting indeed

 

[PotChimp]

Sounds like a carbon copy of what I have going on. There's almost no good leaves at the top just curled up brown ones the buds are moving along though.

 

[nivek]

Humidity, hmmmm, an issue for me indeed,, my semi arid climate makes high humidity a problem, ha, Spider mites love low humidity too, adding to the issue,, my thais are curly shrively mitey mothers too. 30 to 50 is my usual humidity, with a humidifier running continuously, I just maybe never had the issue front and center, like it is here and now,, what to do what to do,,,

P.s, I have no idea what that chart is measuring, but i do dig the relevance of humidity,, cheers

 

[PotChimp]

Thai Stick - 14 weeks and 5 days from flip; looking crispy:

I got my seeds though: