Oh great, apparently we're growing now!

[catbuds]

I usually have to ask other people to save me pollen! But I also soak my seeds in apple juice, hoping that may also encourage feminism. Not sure, it doesn't hurt. Once I decide what I want to continue out if my grow, I revegatate then clone. Now a days, I usually only use seed if I have nothing to clone from. Hell I haven't changed strains for around 25yrs, maybe more. That's the reason for my posts about small strains. All the new ones out, & I haven't tried them yet! Right now I have no seeds or anything to clone from, so I'll be hitting up the seed banks. There are threads on here about re-veg if you want to give it a try. Play around with stuff, it's fun. Hey fun's a girl thing, remember Cindy Lawpener (spelling)? LOL! GIRLS RULE!

P.S. almost forgot to answer your question. I usually keep fruit in there till the buds are about the length of the first joint on my pinky finger. Change out the fruit before it rots. Guess you figured that! Ha! Ha! Get the guys thoughts on ethelene too. There's more than one way to do anything & they might have ideas on this too. I've often wondered about mango. Hey, it would double as air freshener!

Damned, I'm gettin' silly. Must be past my bed time!
Peace!

[tlranger]

Like they said, once you found the first one for sure the others get easier, compost pile, or smoke if your buy ruling tobacco.

Impressive start, I don't think the fifty-fifty boys-girls is one of m.nature's rules, have seen extremes my self, but forcing sex change, I bet will come back and bite you

Reveging works

[Buggy]

Thanks CB and TL.

All the possible girls are hosting a peach and banana in the pots... They will be frozen and used either as fertilizer or banana bread later on so no waste!

Boys weren't touched today as kids decided to be wanting to spend time with me. Can't blame them too much, but the morning shall bring their deaths! (evil cackle! DUNDUNDUN!) The plants' that is, not the children. That would be more frowned upon (maybe?) than my forest.

It's sad that I'm killing off over half of what I've worked so hard on. I NEARLY want to go for feminized seeds next time, but too expensive for poor people like me.

Instead, I'll be planting a number of seeds soon to allow enough time for them to be harvested so as hubby doesn't run out of his meds in the meantime. I'll also take some clones from the for-sure good girls too as assurance, and try revegging too. Shouldn't be too hard considering all the plants I've brought back from the brink of death (clearance racks at box stores!).


I didn't look closer at anyone today, but I'm planning on doing a half-strength MG bloom boost spray on the leaves in the next day or two. There are no buds started, so it shouldn't be a problem. I'm also working on getting the other nutes for use soon - likely FF or similar. Just have to wait a couple pay days. (big bill this check, birthday right after the next. THEN I should be able to - hate tight budgets, but have to pay for meds and dr visits) Update soon on gender issues.

Also, we're likely seeing a local doc group for his MM certification soon. They aren't badly priced, we just have to do the state fee plus doc fee (under $200 for it all it looks like!) and we'll be able to have 2/3 of the current plants... it's why the nutes have to wait a while. We have good enough nutes although they are a little strong in nitrogen and aren't "organic", but it's OK for a first grow for just him. In a few more grows I'll likely start using my own home-made mix like I do for my other plants, but I'm not positive I won't scar them too hard either right off the bat. :/

More tomorrow or Tues.

[Buggy]

Small update.

I did a quick check of the boys this morn (one sickie kid in my house, so not much time to do anything), and one has a female flower on it. :wtf: Effect from the banana in the pot?

Totally a boy before yesterday - balls EVERYWHERE. Will check number later, gotta get to work.

[Buggy]

WOOT! 1 girl so far - #13 of all things. Too bad I didn't see she was a girl last Friday the 13th 2013 LOL! 15 may also be a girl. I think it was #8 that had the single female flower on it? Everything was a bit mixed up thanks to hubby looking at everyone earlier. Oh well. But most of the boys are chopped and hanging upsidedown as someone wants to try smoking them. *sigh* I'll try to get him to make hash at least, but... Oh well.

BUT YAY! First girl! Camera out of batteries, so pics tomorrow.

[catbuds]

Boys beat the blank. Pretty weak & taste like crap. If I smoke too much male I usually get a headache. They make very low grade hash so I never felt it was worth the time & effort. Then again, I silk screened, & there are better ways to do it. Maybe tlranger or shovle can coach you through some better methods. But if it were me, I'd maybe only keep some to tide me over till my buds were ready or I cold get some.
Know about the battery thing. B.S. degree in photo + 20yrs pro. Ruined a wedding I shot once over battery (re-chargeable didn't hold charge), nearly got sued! Horticulture was always my main thing though. Best thing about photog was I could work florist/greenhouses full time & photog on the side. Kept me from getting bored.
Everything will fall into place for you &by the end of next season you'll be asking yourself what took you so long. I can't wait for you to harvest & enjoy your first grow. Its really a big thrill!
Girls rule! PEACE.

[tlranger]

I get rid of all males into compost, no trace and the most good out of it

[Shovelhandle]

zero use for males except pollinating for seed.

[Buggy]

Shovel, Ranger, I totally agree! I really don't think there's any reason to hang them up, but... *sigh* HE thinks he should. Apparently when he was younger and smoking for fun, he and his friends would always smoke one friend's dad's males (grew a lot in his attic apparently, and had a huge can of pollen - which is another reason we're keeping one boy so husband can start his own pollen collection). Yeah. Sure. Whatever.

So far I've chopped down 7 completely.

Two fairly obvious males I "topped" again and have fruit around them JUST to experiment. I'm going to see if it will rebud with female flowers. It's been made fairly short, and I'll LST it if needed, but I'll hide it in the outdoor garden around a forest of roses, raspberries, lilies, and glads IF it rebuds with female flowers. It will stay outside so any pollen released (if it does) won't affect the females. We'll see what happens.

1 is likely male, but I'm still unsure so better safe than sorry so it's not chopped until I see lots of balls on sticks instead of tiny baby balls in a few spots. Peach and banana in the pot to encourage.

5 are still unknown for male or female. Not enough signs yet, but should be soon. A couple show SOME signs but aren't big enough yet to be clear.

4 are FEMALES though! YAY! One has TEENY TINY hairs, so it almost was on the unknown list. But no, I saw two barely-there hairs just sticking out of a flower port.

So, to compare for my records with the pictures of who's what so far:

1 - unknown

2 - unknown

3 - unknown

4 - DEAD male

5 - likely male

6 - female - VERY small hairs on one flower

7 - unknown

8 - DEAD male

9 - DEAD male

10 - DEAD male

11 - DEAD male

12 - DEAD male

13 - female

14 - male, topped

15 - female

16 - DEAD male

17 - male, topped

18 - female!

19 - unknown


With current use, we need only about 1 ounce per 4 weeks in combination with other medications to generally help with his pain. So if we only have 4 females total, that should be plenty for when these are harvested for us to start a new crop. (before drying, that is). We'll see. But I'm REALLY happy with the current report of 4 girls. I've worked hard on these and want a good harvest! Heck, I won't be profitting from the crop other than paying that much less in medical costs for my husband (who's pretty expensive, BTW, with everything he needs let alone his cannabis treatment!). It's gonna save us a LOT of money this way. Very pleased that this should mean that we don't have to purchase more of this med possibly ever again as long as we're careful with out supply and grow cycles.

[Buggy]

Error - never mind.