First grow (flowering stage only) with pics

[Chromophore]

I grow 5 or 6 varieties in my flower garden, depending on what re-seeds and what other types of seeds I can find. Buy them mostly from JL Husdon, Seedsman. My very favorite is a variety of D. Wrightii. It has a strong but graceful habit with huge, silvery-green leaves, and the flowers...hard to describe how awesome they are. Huge crystal white trumpets with subtle band of electric blue/violet at the very edges. The throat turns to a creamy butter color as it gets down to the anthers. They open at dusk and release an aroma that comes straight from Heaven. People on walks always stop at my house and marvel at them when they're heavily in bloom, usually in September. In the morning I find bees and other flyers down inside, rolling around totally intoxicated and coated in pollen.

[catbuds]

Yeah..... Angel Trumpets have a way of making even roses seem drab. I want to grow a bunch this year & get some new clematis to go with them. :

[Chromophore]

Ok, ok, I admit it...I'm weak. I gave in to my primal urges, yet again. Yes, that's right, I harvested a cola last night, even though I knew it probably wasn't ready and everyone has warned OMB and I to be patient. I swear the bud was telling me to do it. I hadn't smoked any so I know what I heard was real:weedpoke: Aside from that, my reasoning was that the buds seemed uniformly swollen from their bases to their tips, hairs completely brown, and the trichomes were mostly amber and cloudy. However, once I got the branch all trimmed up and hung, I took a nuggety little bud off of it and popped it under my scope. Down inside the calyxes the trichomes were dense and swollen, but evenly mixed clear and cloudy. No ambers. So the trichomes on the sugar leaves were more developed than those inside the bud. I guess the lesson here is that I need to stop using the sugar leaves to gauge ripeness. Oh well, it's just one cola, and not really a huge one anyway. I'll go back to twiddling my thumbs and checking my watch constantly....

Here's the workbench, patiently waiting for action...Attachment 297974 Some little nugs I've been sampling...Attachment 297975




Current batch of clones after 8 days...Attachment 297976 The front and middle are clones taken from my current batch in veg (Purple Wreck X Lemon Skunk). The front two are taken from the most vigorous plant and the clones reflect that. The rear portion of the tray contains my experiment. These are cuttings taken from my two "favorite" plants currently in flower (Afgooey X Lemon Skunk) from which I did not previously have successful clones. So far they look like they're doing ok. I'm following the advice given to me by several people and am watering them with oxygen-saturated water at least once a day. Keeping temp.s between 69-75F. What I would like to do if possible, is get those flowering clones to root, then try to continue flowering, but try to force one of them to produce male flowers. If I can, I'll take pollen and fertilize the flowering clone from the sister plant. Assuming I can even do this, is it a good idea? Are sibling crosses considered a wise move, or does that usually give unpredictable/poor results?

[Shovelhandle]

personally, I look for the majority of the trics to turn cloudy. My friends and I like like ti that way. All cloudy and amber is way late and too narcotic for us, usually. With some sativa strong strains you'll wait FOR EVER for cloudy to change to amber and it may never happen at all. So you probably have some excellent smoke from that bud when it's dried and cured.

[Chromophore]

Yes I know catbuds likes lots of ambers for her pm meds. I'm looking for something a bit more social and talkative. My patient does have pain issues, but she has made it clear that she doesn't want chronic that will render her inoperable. So maybe clear/cloudy is the way to go.

[catbuds]

You're going in the right direction with backcrossing siblings. I'm not even gonna try to spell this one, just give you an abrev. Gib. acid. Hormone to induce male flowers on fem plant.

[Chromophore]

Gibberellic acid. When I tried to type it the auto-correct gave me "Barbarella". LOL. Great advice catbuds, I have access to GA.

[catbuds]

Ok. I found the spelling....Gibberillic acid. You do however know you will be making feminized seeds, right? You can let her pollenate herself in addition to her sister. Google, cannabis & the use of gibberillic acid.

[Chromophore]

Attachment 297984gibberellic acid. She's a beauty..

[catbuds]

Ugh!!! I misspelled gibberellic! Hand wrote it & I made the 'e' too skinny! LOL! BTW.... why does your basement look like a lab? Hummm.... Are you re-creating Frankenstein's little buddy down there or something? Guess that would be appropriate since he's green!