Hello it's been a while then...
Postman, I'll be playing with some crosses and backcrosses over the next few months so expect great things!

The temps are beautiful. The flowering girls potted up with compost again are basking in the light- I added another 400w of HPS now that the temps are under control. Everyone is loooking good.

I started some skunk #1 and Northern Lights recently as well. And something else... although I will have to go have a look... oh yes, I remember what it was, it was a cross I made a year ago that the most recent generation had a pheno that stank almost like kerosene, and I am growing out a bunch of seeds from that particular female.

Why skunk and NL? Couple reasons... I need a good male, basically. My recent genetics acquisitions, the Kush, Afghani, and PPP are all in female clone format and I feel that having a couple males of VERY well stabilized strains is vital. To this end I also popped some more seeds from the Yeags Alaskan stock in hopes of a good male, as that strain is nice and predictably hardy.
I'm still having a hell of a time with the clones, since my mother plants are still stressed from my coco fibre misadventures... I'm not on top of things enough to give coco the attention to detail that it demands to really produce, and my pH was consistently FAR too high for that medium. Back in compost I'm free to water happily with unadjusted tap water, lol.

After a permethrin bomb and a few good spritzes of rotenone, I haven't seen a thrip in my veg closet in a couple weeks. Rotenone isn't the best stuff to be around, particularly if you are a thrip, but for humans either, so I basically sprayed, ran, and shut the damned door behind me, lol.

The five local cuts that I was gifted recently, the afghan and kush, are potted up in compost and growing very well- thanks man. They are still too small to really show their true structure but I will post pics soon to see if one of the old-timers around the boards can distinguish which is the Kush. Only one came with a label.

Well I guess that's the update for now. Seeya next time...