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thats the spirit.
Hopefully it'll just last you 9 weeks, hahaha. :rastasmoke::rastasmoke:
Since we discovered we were with seeds, we stopped regular nutes and went to Ph'd water with only CalMag. Today, before watering, we hauled out the microscope to check the trichs. They are at about 90% cloudy with quite a bit of amber.
All of our homework as far as when to harvest was based on being unpollinated. Now that we are "with seed" I suppose much of that goes out the window. We know that once they are "with seed" THC production stops and all energy is devoted to the seeds.
So, logic dictates that these ladies aren't going to gain any strength. We are not interested in fully developed seeds because, after thinking about it, we really don't want to perpetuate bad genetics so the seeds will not be saved anyway.
Long story short, we held off watering today. Our thinking is to go ahead and harvest in the next day or two after they dry out a bit.
Any thoughts?
We went ahead and pulled them all. The BA seems far less seedy than the AK.
We'll start fresh with a new grow. We're making progress on the new farm. We'll try to get as much done as we can before I have my next surgery. The next grow will have to wait until afterward.
Next grow will be to get 3 moms, 1 AK-47, 1 Blue Apollo and 1 of Killa's Purple Blend. After that, we start learning to clone.
At least we'll have plenty to hold us over until then.:jointsmile:
sorry to hear about the seeds tokers, but like you said, the lessons learned are invaluble! hope all is going well in y'alls neck of the woods!
can't wait to see what you guys do with killas purple!
hopefully my buckets will be up and running soon! the inspiration is nice by the way!
-shake
I just fell into the same boat toker. My timer messed up and missed almost an entire dark cycle and now the buds are forming seeds. Sigh... If only I was farther along.. Some of em arent even half way. Do you think I should cut em down or finish em out? There's nothing left too get pollinated.
Well, hehe, I guess seeds aren't a bad thing. But I think they will be more prone to hermie in future grows ?
Ditto on the prone to hermie greenatik. I've read the same thing. But, prone to hermie at least means female! We kinda figured there wasn't much point in letting our plants go longer since all the plant's energy switches to seed production. Ours were fairly close to finishing though.
Yup shake, seems the lessons never end.:jointsmile:
McToker,
Been one heck of a long time since I checked in. I see you had some Blue Apollo going. That was a nice strain I was growing at one time and really enjoyed it. I also had a plant hermi on me and pollinated only the bottom branches of the other plants. So your tops still may be seed free.
Another thing is pollination did not seem to effect the potantancy one bit. I did grow some seeds out from that grow and ended up with some really nice plants. So I recomend growing a few out just to see what you have. I was plesently surprized when I did.
JG
Hey JG!
I'll not say anything about the seed plants. I've already made my feelings on that issue.
JG ~ Thanks for checking in. One of the main reasons we selected the Blue Apollo was due to your grow log and your smoke report.
Shove ~ We are probably in agreement with you on the seeds. Since the papa was a hermie bagseed and the bagseed was already prone to hermie, I doubt we'll do anything with the seeds. We still have beans for the AK, the BA and Killa's Purple. With all those good genetics available we just don't see much reason to mess with the other. Our goal is to eventually have one good mom of each strain and just clone from there. The new farm design will have an area for moms/vegging, one for clones and one for flowering.
The buds were dry, after 3 days, and we just finished putting them into jars to cure. We didn't bother weighing them but guesstimate the weight at about 3 ounces per strain (BA and AK) for a total of 6 ounces. The bagseed we pulled earlier produced about an ounce. Weight is pretty light for that many plants but they weren't allowed to finish (as sinsemilla) as planned. Still, it's plenty to hold us over while we finish up the new farm.
We'll give y'all a smoke report in about 10 days.:jointsmile: