Aspirin: How long for effects?

[Rusty Trichome]

The "fem a female seed." Most of the special stuff I have is a fem from cross female pollination...does that make sense? I rarely cross one on itself. Does that put me in that category of femming a female seed, femmed last run? Don't have a male of the species, that is the damn problem. The only one I did that with was my white widow and came up with a very indica dom that has most of the taste, smell, and high characteristics of the original white widow and thus far (3 years) no tendency to herm. It does not look like it's mother at all.

The 'femming a female seed" is just a guideline to help keep the genetics sound. If there's no choice, there's no choice. But if I were paying top dollar for femmed seeds, I'd do what was necessary not to have to pay that price again, by making my own seeds.

New item...you mention large mothers. I don't bother, I just make sure I have a clone that took before the eldest goes into flower. If I did it keeping all sorts of mothers around I would be well over my legal count. Heck half my garden is 'mothers' in various stages of vegetative growth.

I was refering to a slow-growing female from the last crop taking forever to finish, while you have a new crop all ready to go into flower. With a 1000w HPS it's effective light range is up to 4 feet though, so I put the slow grower against the wall and adjust light to a happy middle-ground. When this happens, I often harvest her earlier than I'd like. Oh well.

About half make it to the flower room, the rest just perpetuate and the eldest get murdered if count is an issue. I develop tolerance so fast, I have to use different stuff every day to keep down on consumption.

I used to mix it up...sativa dom, then an indica, back-n-forth, mainly because of the tollerance issues. Now, I find myself pushing the seeds from sativa doms twords the back of the cupboard and going with the heavy indica's.

Are you running one growth room and one flowering room?
I did for years. Still do, but now I also have a seedling/clone room on fluoro tubes. From the fluoro tubes, they go to CFL's. From the CFL's they go to HPS. A slow rise in progressive light intensity. I got tired of coming-up short on plant count in flower, and I'd rather cull 50 seedlings due to a back-up, than have vacant spots in the flower room. :thumbsup: