Donkey Dick and VT local IBL Indoor/Outdoor 2008

Well I got a late request for a different strain so now this is going to be a 2- IBL grow log.

The second strain is of mysterious lineage but it is a local IBL that a grow buddy was working for nearly the past decade. He's just relocated to the Southwest and I have inherited the seeds from his final seed patch. It has been bred to finish on time in central Vermont. The heritage includes something called 'green lifesaver' that I've never heard of elsewhere, and by appearances there may be some Northern Lights influence in there as well, and Skunk#1 heritage in outdoor lines is common in New England, but who knows?! The past several generations have been going fully, truly purple WELL before the cold nights of fall arrive. It doesn't have a name, but the guys call it 'purple shit'.

Here's the seed starting method- a dozen seeds in a small glass vial with a few drops of water.

Donkey Dicks are on the top shelf of the wire rack. My 250MH finally shit the bed and I need to get it serviced. Luckily the local hydro shop owner is a talented electronics troubleshooter- anything from twitchy ballasts to laptops with bad circuits. Anyway the Dicks have to chill under flouros for a while and got stretched sitting under a dead lamp for the last week. They have enough secondary growth that I expect to be taking cuttings this coming weekend.

Wow...looking very cool...:thumbsup:

I have a Q... what nutes are you using?? And what will you use when they are planted out??

Right now I'm running Cornucopia nutes, which are also a local Vermont creation. They're next to impossible to find, but one hydro shop in Putney carries the whole lineup.

Outdoors, I plan to use bat guano.

well U have done it agen stinky.:thumbsup:

and I cant wate to see what U do outdoors.:D
and I too will be doing an outdoors also.:D

well have a good one stinky.

lookin lovely stinky....like the germ method...beats my paper towels way to hell....lol, gonna try that next time...that strain sounds insane!...
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whiskeytango

wow, that is quite a lot of beautiful plants!

Okay the VT local stuff germed overnight. Root tips are showing, but barely extended. So they are going into soil this evening.
Score is: DD @ 42 days, nearly ready to clone, still not showing alternating nodes or preflowers. VT @ 2 days, germed and ready to plant.
Thanks, Melodious Fellow. Those ones on the bottom shelf are my mother plants- examples of many of the strains I have been lucky enough to grow over the years.

Excuse my iggy-ness, but what is Local IBL, Stinky?

Thanks!

Shov

Hey Stinky, glad to see your writing a new grow log, indoor/outdoor at that! Should be very interesting.


Shov

would you send me an email, if you could please

shov

In Bred Line.

Basically, a close group of growers in a certain area passes the same bunch of seeds around for long enough that the strain drifts into something stable and perfectly adapted to the local climate.

The method behind this is what the outdoor growers I know do each year: They plant one seed patch among the group of growers and select only the hardiest, most vigorous male every year to pollinate the patch. All other males are killed, leaving one sexy male and all the females. Then, at harvest time, they find the most spectacular female from that patch based on whatever the priority is- yield, vigor, flavor, mold resistance, etc- and save only the seeds from that one desirable female. These are saved for planting the next spring, and the cycle repeats.

Wow IBL is amazing, maybe I can try to create some seeds outdoors this summer. I also like the compacted DD's and lastly the seed stash box. I'd like to have a collection like that.