Afghan and other Experiments Downunder

[sarah louise]

I feel I should update before the end of the year... so I'd better do it now.

The title begins with Afghan's, so I'll start there. In a couple of words 'pretty shitful' would be a good description. Four out of five sprouts have moved up to 10 litre pots, despite minimal growth, but necessary due to the weather. We have been averaging above 38 C (100 F) during the day and 21 C (70 F) overnight, with low humidity. Roasting weather.

I need to get them out of the pots, but without bed space with afternoon sun protection it isn't worth it. If it had been earlier in the season I would have chucked the sprouts at a week old and started again. Seeing as it isn't earlier in the season, I'll leave them in their pots and save the seed for next spring.

The sativa triffid is doing what these things do for the first month or so of flowering, ie growing, branching and growing some more. Only 2 and 1/2 months or so to go...

The pot plants are growing nicely, both confirmed female and still in vegetative growth.

Other than that, there are 4 sprouts that I manage to germinate from some old seed Nepalese seed. Out of 20 seeds 5 cracked, 4 sprouted and 3 look like goers. Quite pleased with them, I carried that seed home in the toe of my sock in 1994. Haven't bothered to point the camera at them yet.

That's all for 2007 :hippy:

[smokenss]

lookn good have a good new year.



:smokin:ss

[sarah louise]

Ta SS and happy new year to you too. :jointsmile:

Triffid measurements ~ trunk length 240 cm, vertical height 160 cm. Time to take a stroll through the parkland that backs onto my garden. I think I should be right for cover until she gets to 180 cm, but I'll still go and check the lines of sight.

Sara Lou :hippy:

[fUNKYcDOG]

they look g00d and healthy. keep up the g00d work....


w00t

puff - puff - pass

:jointsmile:

[DaddyzCrazy]

WOW!!!!!

Excellent lady you have there Sarah Louise.

Very nice job raising her. She looks healthy and happy in her new home.....

DC.

[Rock.Steady]

wow, and i thought i was patient.
wow, just wow.

keep up the good work.:thumbsup:

[sarah louise]

Thanks guys

I dunno Rock, you seem pretty patient. I don't think I would try and flower Thai, or any other long flowering strain, indoors. That is patience and dedication in my book.

The temps are supposed to stay up around 23 - 40C (73 - 104F) for another couple of days before a change. Everything in the garden is looking heat stressed apart from the triffid, she seems to be taking it all in stride.

Sara Lou :hippy:

[Shovelhandle]

Thanks for updating with new photos. I really love the look of The Triffid. I've not grown plants like that in over 30 years! Used to be that sativa was all you could buy here in New England, USA in the 60s and 70s. Mex, Jamaican, Colombian, Panama, Belize and other So. American sativas. The Eurasian indicas seemed to be all processed into hashish (not a bad thing).

Happy New Years Sara Lou and all the Cann.com peeps.

Shv

[sarah louise]

Thanks Shov and happy new year, she really is a pretty shrub. I do like the old fashioned sativas, even if they take forever to finish flowering. I don't function well (cognitively) during the day smoking indica, but have no problems with the triffids, so they will always have a place in my garden.

Sara Lou :hippy:

[sarah louise]

It rained... too much

The 22 mm Friday night / Saturday was great, but the 32 mm overnight, last night was too much for my big girl and she has snapped a main branch, taking out about 20% of the canopy.

At least the potted triffids (last image) are doing ok :hippy: