He's right thou.. Durban is a TALL strain.. Mine's a hybrid that was bred for SOG.Just a note.. My durban's have purple in the stems all the way through the grow, and I think I saw some on your pics.
DP is known for it... Mine got like 4 feet tall with squat lighting, and a newb at the wheel. Super smoke thou.
I topped my new ones a week ago, and they're purty. And purpley and branching and what not.
If at all possible, I'd love to see some close up pics of you topping. You know, a before, a during (as you are in cutting position), and after. I've seen representation pics before, but never an actual plant being cut. Might be kind of hard to do alone, but just a thought. Keep up the good work FPF. I love the discussion on the thread.
Learned that shit the hard way. DOH!!!! Oh, and don't forget to pinch off those bottom budlets right away to promote hevier tops, and less low grade bottom nugs. Thats what I did with Chrystal, and she turned out pretty damn topheavy. HooRah!!! Sorry you probably already got this under control, but I just am in an informative typing mood. lol sorry.
Thats exactly why I love the seeds. You get a variety, and if you take a little time you weed out the males you'll still have some wicked females to play with (WOOHOO!) and mother up. I know how you feel though, and figured you'd say no, but just so you know the offer will stand until I run low, and by then I'll have new crosses, and more refined and stabalized versions of these. Just so you know, there are some really good ones. may get you to rethink seeds tho. How about Island sweet skunk x Oregon grape? or Chocolope x (G13 x Purple Nepal f1)? or ((NL9 x Mikado) x Lambsbreath) x Trainwreck ?? nummy tasty treats. True Cannasuer crossbreeding.
lol, Just messing with you man, but if you change your mind...
Stable yes, but as a hobby breeder I like to think of each fem seed that you cross into a pure strain as a taint if you will. Think of your childrens children. If you have a bowl of pure water (regular seed) and occasionally add a drop of black dye (fem'd) and breed, and cross, and inbreed, and then add another drop of black dye, and so on, you will eventually end up with a 'true' hermaphroditic plant, each generation will potentially herm with less and less stress until it is auto programmed just to do it all the time. Your bowl of water would be gray, and eventually it would be all black. That 'Occasional bad apple" that your talking about (if your talking about the rare male) is probably one of the more pure phenos present in that lineage after feminizing stress. one of the stronger genes pulling thru, but definatly not always, as that 'black drop' will always be there like genetic heart disease.
What pisses me off is that now that more people demand feminized seed for the ease of not having wo weed out males (lazyness) the breeders are producing more of them, thus adding more black drops more frequently. Although with compitant breeders (like GS, Nirvana, Subcool, ect) they know better than to let those lines mix into regular seed, but alot of them don't know, don't care or whatever, and then those seeds go out into the world and eventually will be breeding with everything else. Just look at the NL strain, or Bubblegum, or G13. If you find a true strain of one of those your in the money. IN..........THE............MONEY!!!! they're all crossed with something, was it fem'd? probably not because it's a fairly new practice as far as breeding goes, but just think about those 'Top' strains now, and what they can breed with in the wrong hands, and what their tendancies will be in the next 20 years.
Phew.... Sorry guys, but I was just itching to get that out.
sorry for the book, and the heads I probably just exploded, but that is the reason that I dont like fems.
......to make a long story short. lol
Ya, topping, and lots of LST and supercropping if neccissary. I look into my crystal ball and see you first tying the branches down to keep height to a minimum, and later tying them up so they don't bend and break. What Irony, huh? I can tell you one thing tho, if you end up using something to tye them, I'd go with wire over string, or thread etc anyday. keep in mind with heavy bud formation the thread close to th buds will hold moisture and promote budrot, while wire will not.
Hey Fry Was a bit busy for a while. Just caught up with you. I would do like you said, flower in 2 weeks or boom, big jump!
