My girl is jealous of my new babies that are now on the way, Just because i like to check on them as much as possible. Woman want you attention all day everyday!!!:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by senorx12562
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My girl is jealous of my new babies that are now on the way, Just because i like to check on them as much as possible. Woman want you attention all day everyday!!!:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by senorx12562
Hey that main cola pic at 46days is sweet and tasty looking! I like the name too pale pachyderm is unique.
Thank you for the kind words, LSY. They all look that way, although they aren't all that big, but a few are a little bigger, and I've got one plant with 2 mainstems and 2 colas that size. Last set of clones I took I should have about 80% that make it to flower, which is sufficient for my purposes, as I don't have veg room for more anyway. Thanx for stopping in.
Thank you for visiting Frosted. They are actually just White Rhino, but I can be a smartass at times (I'm sure you're all saying "No, not you"?)Quote:
Originally Posted by frostedwonder
Thats great cuz i know you were having a problem with the clones. I tried to make 2 in my life and i just cut them below a node with a set of small leaves if i can and put them in soil, water and grow. Made sure the leaves were under the soil and they both grew? One was a small branch that broke, so i thought i would experiment, it turned out to be a hermy. The second time, i had a shoot growing out of the bottom and cut it at a slant, stuck it with a couple leaves in the cup and filled with soil. Its in the log, still growing? But never tried large scale crop and if i did i would use clone rooting gel or something. Thought about it for outdoor grow, but not sure yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by senorx12562
Let me know if you flower that mother, im still thinking the mother will drop leaves like the clones did, but just curious if it will or not:D
Keep er Green my friend:weedpoke::rasta:
That is still the plan, but the improvement since I repotted and added cal-mag to my feeding regimen makes me think that at worst it was a combination of problems. Now that mother's new growth only has three leaves, so I don't know if I should flower it or not, or maybe wait?Quote:
Originally Posted by LetsSeeYa
the 3-bladed leaves means your plant is stressed. you might want to wait before you decide to flower. i mean she will flower, but it could impact harvest. i've seen a plant go from throwing normal leaves to single-bladed basil looking leaves and back again. she's now in flower.
but that's just my $.02.
-shake
Wow I was having a moment I didn't even think about White Rhino... or because as everyone knows they are apart of the five odd-toed ungulates family Rhinocerotidae. But they probably hang out with Pachyderms when they have good herb!
All my White Rhino's were male (3 out of 3) which sucked for me but I still have a few seeds, now I just need the space...ugh. I do think they are nice plants though even from just growing a male.
Oh you guys talking about three bladed leaf on your plants made me look back to photo's of my past grows and I had issues that showed that as well. Just didn't know what that meant. Learn something everyday on this site! Great Thread!
Yeah, it was a test.lmao. I never said I was smart, just a smart-ass.Quote:
Originally Posted by frostedwonder
Yup that you did, at least you warn...Although if you breed something cool please do call it White Pachyderm it would be cool to hear people talk about it in group settings. Save the White Pachyderm its running out!
naw its the PALE pachyderm.. and i would love to have some of that shit.. make people look real funny at you and when you get high it would be a right mouth full to say..
if you brbeed that strain make sure to send some this way and i will make it rule the north.. lol pale pachyderm love it the infamous PP pot or would that be PPP?? :greenthumb:
-MG
I ment to say Pale no no I ment to say it...you don't know you ain't my underwear! lol
I'm actually working on a little breeding experiment right now. I've got 2 males from an unidentified batch of seeds I received as a freebie for ordering from Amsterdam seeds. I took them out of my flowering room after I id'd them as males, and put them in my bay window to flower since it's the right time of year. All I know is what I can tell from looking, which is that it's an indica or indica dominant strain. (Pictured with 2 females in front and males in back.) I'm hoping to get some pollen and get some seeds for both the original strain, as the females are still in flower, and maybe to cross with a white rhino from my current batch of clones in soil, which are probably about 3-4 weeks out from flowering. Maybe that's what I'll call the cross. The males have started to flower and have some pretty nice pollen sacks developing. The breeding part of it is actually far more interesting to me than the growing part. I just don't see a practical way to meaningfully experiment and refine in the time and space available to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by mainegrown
I'm thinking I'll pollinate one or two flowers at a time with a paintbrush or something so as to get some unseeded buds too. Anyone know about this procedure, or about "diluting" the pollen with flour, as I've read about? Help me out here oh wise ones.
Hey Senor,
Excellent grow and effort, hope you enjoy the fruits of your labor. I've enjoyed your grow log and appreciate your sharing of information. Thanks for the inspiration. Best wishes to ya!!
G
Thanx.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phunnyman
im not too knowledgeable about breeding but if you read the grow bible then you can know what i know..
if you want a copy let me know and i will post one up/send you one from a junk email
-MG
I'm not sure which book you are talking about, but I have the Cervantes book, "Marijuana Botany" by Clarke and one other. I am always up for anything I can learn from.Quote:
Originally Posted by mainegrown
Check out this link:Quote:
Originally Posted by senorx12562
GrowMoreWeed.com - Guides to growing cannabis weed marijuana
Well Senor i know if you keep those plant togther like that, it will seed your whole female. A small breeze will put pollen all over those females being that close. Iv never made seeds yet, but from reading most people keep a male in a different room. After the plant flowers iv read people put a wet paper sack around a branch and rattle it a bit, for the pollen to fall off and attach itself to the bag. Then they take the bag to the female after it has dried out and put it around a lower branch of there female and rattle it again to pollinate that branch only. Then carfully take the bag away from your girls, because that pollen travels easy and fast.:wtf:Also, if the pollen is kept wet, it wont leave the plant, but thats something you need to keep up on.Quote:
Originally Posted by senorx12562
But iv never done this. But if i did, thats what i would do. I am sure someone will chime in w/ more experience making seeds. But i know if you let those plants become to good of friends the female will be filled with seeds. If i understood correctlly:D
Good luck my friend:thumbsup:
:rasta:
I've read an article about pollenation about a month ago.
The writer of the article said he kept a male when he wanted to breed. He made it quite clear that absolutly NO pollen was aloud any where near his grow room. Thus he kept the male in a box on the other end of his house. Using hepa filters on all air exits. He also made it quite clear that he never went near a male before he tended the females and always showered and changed clothes after dealing with the males.
When the males would flower. He would take a small jar(like a pomento jar) and tap each open male flower into the jar to collect pollen. Then he'd cut back or distroy the male. He kept the pollen in the fridge or freezer saying it would last five months.
I'm pretty sure he added a small amount of water to the pollen and then barely dabbed a tiny bit on specific flowers he wanted to pollenate AFTER moving said plant to the (previously) male box.
Again the male pollen never entered the flowering room, and the pollenated female was removed before pollenation to avoid any chance of seeds in the current crop.
So, I have to agree with LetsSeeYa. If those male flowers open anywhere near your girls it's gonna be SEED CITY.
Otherwise looks great! :thumbsup:
Yeah, that's why I moved both males to a different place in my house. The picture was taken before I was sure that they were males. I as well intend to only mess with the males after I'm done in my flower room for the day, and to bathe and change in between. Once I get a little pollen, I will stash it in the fridge in a light-proof container until I'm ready to go. I also don't think I will ever try to pollinate anywhere near my flower room. Females will be moved somewhere else for that procedure. I'm kind of looking forward to the process actually. For me it is kind of like a science experiment, and I dig that kind of stuff.
Yeah id bet it would be interesting too. Iv heard the pollen lasts a long time, stored like you've said. I read this guy keeps clones in his crisper for up to six months. My big outdoor plant grew a seed, but i didn't know what it was until later. I think my hermy got it just a bit. I found 2 seeds:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by senorx12562
It would be interesting to intentionally breed something you like into a perfect strain you enjoy the best.
:rasta:
If I'm not lookin to produce seeds, I take NO chances with male plants. None allowed on the premises and I'd apply the rule to within three blocks of my grow if I could.Quote:
Originally Posted by senorx12562
But I am looking to produce seeds. That's kind of the point.Quote:
Originally Posted by leadmagnet
hey from what i can tell you DONT WANT TO WET THE POLLEN.
wetting pollen makes it inert and is one of the ways that you can help stop pollination from a hermie..
just what i have read
~MG
I think wetting the pollen stops it from flying around rather than making it unable to fertilize the female. The water causes transportation problems rather than fertilization problems. If we provide the transportation, the pollen still works. In fact, I'll bet the advice to wet it is to make it easier to get it only where you want it, its probably kind of "flyaway" otherwise, since it's designed by evolution to travel by wind.Quote:
Originally Posted by mainegrown
that would make sense (i may have been :stoned: when i read that :greenthumb:).. give it a try then
and make sure you let me know if it works
~MG
That's what Cervantes sez.Quote:
wetting pollen makes it inert
However, since he is to horticulture what Geraldo Rivera is to investigative journalism, I'd scout up further confirmation.
I've always thought that, too, though.
Is there a seminar you could go to and ask? :D
Hmmmm......Maybe.Quote:
Originally Posted by DreadedHermie
i know aquatic plants release their pollen directly into the water and it floats on top of it. this is called hydrophily. i'm not sure about terra firma plants though.
i happen to have some pollen at the house, perhaps it's time for an experiment?
-shake
i would imagine an experiment would answer this real quick..
time for a new thread?
i would like to hear in detail what you do and how you do it..
scientific method maybe??
:twocents: only..
~MG
As you all probably know, it's been cold as shit lately, night before last set a new record of 16 below. I've noticed some interesting effects. Among them, my ductwork carrying air from outside to cool my lights froze pretty good, and the combination of the cool temps in my flower room (down to 58 degrees at night) and the impending maturity of the girls caused some purpling to start. Check it out. I guess now it's purple rhino.
Temps are supposed to start rising, so I can't see any harm. Hope you're all having a great day (well most of you).
i'll have to come up with something. scientific method for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by mainegrown
-shake
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Originally Posted by senorx12562
i was really hoping there man..
and shake just make sure im there for your lil experiment man
peace ya'll im off to the land of dreams
~MG
This grow was not my plan anyway. Next one though (already about 2 weeks in soil vegging) I get out my paint brush.Quote:
Originally Posted by mainegrown
Looking nice from here.. I always worried about the swing of temps more then the ave temp stressing out the ladies. Next cab I build will be Geothermal....ok so maybe not but I feel ya on being cold as shit! -19 without windchill here!
man now im thinking im in the tropics.. unless you are talking in degrees C then we about the same.. its close to -15 C here..
~MG
I don't know about frosted, but I'm talking fahrenheit, so you are in the tropics, although by Sunday we're supposed to have a high around 50, also F thankfully, or I'd have big problems and they would have nothing to do with plants.Quote:
Originally Posted by mainegrown
ouch that is cold man.. i know what you are talking about..
last year the coldest place on earth (outside the polar caps) was about 50 miles from where i am now..
~MG
Its cold as fuck here too Senor! my nightime temps are 10 degrees celcius in the Cab....
P.s.... Those BUDS in the pictures above look Fuckin HUGE man!!
Is it just the picture? how big are they?