Novarin THCV - pheno run

Transplanted to 25-liters basket. Trained the plant. And accidentally split the crotch. Bind them back as usual. Two main branches are developing well. I trimmed the lesser lower braches off. And I kept the two main stems with the split. Tied the split labeling wire. Five days later, the split healed. Main stem grew and wire bit into the growing stalk. I then change the wire into a softer plastic rope. By the end of week 8. The split mostly healed and I removed the rope. Then I tried to train the two stalks. And I broke one stalk. Full Moon Party is brittle with hollow stems. The stems behaves like ruderalis. Oh well, I feed Full Moon party with Root Start additive. This Roost Start has NAA that thicken cell wall. I must wait one more week before attempt to clone. I never had luck when I tried to clone hollow weak branches. Cheers.

Elite Seeds Novarine THCV pheno selection run. After slow start, Novarine THCV seemed to have established root system. And the two plants are growing normally. There is a bit nutrient locking out from excessive Nitrogen. I am transplanting these next week. So, at this time, I am not to worry about too low pH. Plant 3 is growing outside. I am still delaying decision to scrap the slow plant. .

Elite Seeds Novarine THCV pheno selection run. Novarine THCV plant 1 and plant 2 are more than ready to come outside. I have re-potting them with fresh soil and earth worm casting on the last day of this growing week. Also pinched the top of plant 1&2. I tasted the tops. They were very spicy. May be this THCV is meant to be cooked instead of smoking. We are having summer storm. Heat and humidity are high. There should be no issue during vegetation stage. I hope that Plant 3 just had a slow start. At the end of the week 4, plant 3 is the same size as her brood mates after week 2. I moved her back to ICU light box. Hope she would make some progress next week. .

The first week that I put Novarine 1 and 2 outside was full of rain with low light. Novarine stretches and became fragile. I tried to train top of Novarine 1. And I screwed up. I broke of one branch. Thinking about chopping the top for clone later. This would leave the base to spread. It would slow down growth for a few weeks. But I did grow Novarine too soon in the year. Delaying it a bit may be good. Plant 2 leaves were yellow. Sure enough, pH was too high. It is almost neutral. Funny that on plant 1, soil pH was the same but she was quite green. Perhaps more indica in the genetic blend. Next couple of weeks, I’ll try to lower pH with wood vinegar and humic acid. .

Recovering from high pH with mixed successes. And aphids starting to build up colonies in my garden. Novarin plant 1 kept on stretching after one top branch broke off. She has only one top and is 55 cm stretchy tall. She was grown with same soil mix and had the same pH but there was no sign of leaf trouble as in plant 2. Seemed to be an easier phenotype to grow. Plant 1 is getting tall. I am thinking about cutting her off low to let the tiny branchlets at the bottom grow. It is a bit drastic. On the other hand, I am getting into my wet season. Plants will have to veg for three more months before they go into flower. There is plenty of time. Tackling pH issue. I added wood vinegar to water. The watering pH was around 5.5. Use the sour water twice. And the soil pH did not budge. I think the problem will go away only when I change the pot size with new soil. I think charred rice husk and large pumice tends to increases pH. I need my acid producing microbes. Plant 2 leaves were yellow. It seemed like starving plant. And since I did not get pH to move down, I fed by spraying a quarter strength of orchid fertilizer on leaves. Newer leaves on plant 2 seemed to have green up. But there are still yellow leaves in the middle. Next week, I spray one more round. Plant 2 is either difficult or has voracious appetite. I do hope for plants that eat plenty. Looking at the leaf shape on plant 2, I doubt that she is a heavy feeder. The only way to find out is to slowly increasing the feeding push. Plant 3 the runt plant is 3 weeks behind her siblings. Leaves are big and wide. I am letting her run for a couple more weeks. Next week, I’ll be spraying plants with metharhizium anti insect microbes at least three rounds. Forecast is full of rain that will wash off the spray.

Improved grow after trying to lower pH and lowering feed. Plant 1 got too tall. And I transplanted her. Plant 2 is spindly. I have ran out of humic acid granules. Need to get new can to mix in soil. Plant 3 loves the out door. She stretches tall and put up new big leaves in just one week. Think I’ll keep her after all. Over all, Novarin grows like land race Thai. They feed lightly and likes organic compost tea. They allow seem to love natural sun. Day temp is about 39 C with high humidity. I last may be 15 minutes in the sun then I have to run for airconditioned room. Think I’ll feed them with more sea weed to control height. As it is, this looks like a long grow.

Novarine 1 and 2 are improving with soil change. Key was to lower pH. Charred rice husk was bad for these. New soil has soil has earth worm casting and granule humic acid in. I couldn’t find enough wild purslane. So I got wing pod purslane from flower shop and plant them as base cover for my cannabis. The roots seemed shallow. I think they will help improve soil microbe and over all conditions. Even if they don’t help with the grow, they still look nice. And I think they will recycle very well as a fertilizer. Plant 1 got taller and the height is 97 cm. New leaves are big and wide. Stems are hollow and buckled when I tried to bend her. I am waiting a week for the stems to harden and will top her. The shape is ungainly. Main stem is thin and is more like a vine. I am planning to take a clone out of this number 1 plant. Plant 2 is also getting bigger with soil change. She is behaving nicely but noting strange like number 1. Plant 3 is catching up fast. She is nice but I am not excited by the way she is growing. Yup, Novarine plants grow like a Thai cannabis. Too much feeding will ruin them. They love natural tropical sun and more organic fertilizers.

Not the easiest plant to train. Novarine likes to climb up like a vine. I should top her early. This week, their leaves improved with as purslane companion plant grow. Thanks to my ZA friend. And Novarine likes a bit sour soil with organic nutes. They do look like Thai Sativa with Rudelaris blend. Outside, it looks like they can go over 3 meters tall if I am not careful. Novarine 1 keeps going up. She is 127 cm tall. I have crushed her stem and wanted to top her. I wanted to use the tops as clone. Does not look like it will be done that way. Her tops just keep shooting up. Next week, I shall use smaller branches from Novarine 1 to clone. And I’ll let Novarine 1 do whatever she wants to. Once the clones takes root, I’ll put her into flower to test the effect. So far, I don’t like the shape and should start over with clones. Novarine 2 shape is similar to Jewish candle holder. Not really a stable shape. Need to stake her and prop her up. Trimmed of branchlets and started to clone. This phenotype is more picky with nutes than Novarine 1. And she is not my favorite during veg. Novarine 3 started slow. Could be from immature seeds. Her growth pattern is similar to plant 1 but is slower by two weeks. I inadvertently cracked and bended her stems in various spots. And I propped her up with wires. I think I would just keep the clone from wither Novarine 1 or Novarine 2.

Hope to avoid heaviest down pour months. I put Novarine 1 and 2 away from night light to flowering spot. After one week away from night light, the flowers that I see are from purslane companion plant. Novarine continues to veg. And Novarine plants are vegging well in Thailand 39 degree C. No complain at all. Leaves are bigger and stem stretched. Novarine 1 is a single stalk plant and is 160 cm tall. This plant has to be topped very early. Since I did not transplant, I have to feed the girls. And I started with half strength bloom mix with bat guano, molasses, and sea weed tea. Also fed her with compost tea. This tea is made from fruit market waste and usually stimulate flowering. And I sprayed her with Epsom salt as I do with my Sativa. Novarine 3 is pacing along just fine. Last week I cut branchlets to clone. And all took root after a week. This is quick and easy. I did not even put them in light box. Later, I shall keep a couple of phenotype 2. And I can veg these clones longer for better yield. Novarine THCV seemed to be uniform and not have wildly different phenotypes. It may have taken a few breeding generations until Elite Seeds got consistently high THCV. The produce was listed as “proximamente” for a long time. And I think phenotype uniformity is a consequence. Regardless, I cut some branches off phenotype 1 this week. In one more week, I should have more clones from plant number 1. And By the time dry season arrives, I should have a couple Novarine THCV going.

Novarine 1 and 2 are not budging. There were rain this week and plant bend over. They still are happily getting longer. Yes, Novarine is behaving like a Thai land race. So, I expect flowering season starts by late October. Novarine 3 is also getting along very well. Strangely enough another plant is not flowering either. This is a Fast Buds fast flowering version tester. So, I can’t blame Novarine for not flowering out door in mid-summer. Since they are not yet flowering, I added more earth work casting. But I also gave each 1 teaspoon of bat guano and molasses. Clones started to rooted. And I have more clones than I need. I may try to flower the biggest clone instead of the main plants. Best not to replant the clone that I want to flower then. Keeping Sativa weed in small pot and let them be root bound usually get them to flower.

Still no sign of flowering. Transplanted Novarine plant 2 into a 50-liters container. The spot is under a big shorea plant. Shorea is a South East Asian medicinal tree. This is minimum light spot in my yard. Hope she would flower. I choose plant 2 because I think plant 1 will stretch even further. Plant 1 was also moved to a shaded spot under an tree jasmin. This Millingtonia, Indian cork tree. I have sweet flowers all year round. People told me that dried tree jasmine flower mixed well with weed and is good for people with ashma and sinus. Kind of useless since why would asthmatic people even smoke? Plant 3 is my back up until I come up with a way to put her into flowers. Clone are doing nicely. And I am growing 3 clones from plant 1 and only one clone from plant 2. I’ll be donating the rest to friends with weight and blood sugar issues. By year end, I probable keep only one or two clones. One clone from bigger branch is growing just fine without any benefit form lighted grow box. Feeding plants with mid-level dose of cow manure tea and earth worm casting tea to keep leaves healthy. They should have been given a light dose of fertilizer. However, the flowering purslane are also eating and feeding soil microbes. Got my paws on triancontanol and brassinolide. Perhaps these will jolt Novarine THCV into flowering. Triacontanol won't dissolve in neither water nor alcohol. And it is emulsified with polysobate. Mixing of Triacontanol Triacontanol does not dissolve in polysorbate. It is rather emulsified. Means that it need to be melt and there need to be water added. My steps, 1) heated 70 grams of polysorbate in a big heat resistance glass cup. I used a beaker. Mix in 5 grams of triacontanol. And it does not melt. 2) Put in 100 cc of water and put in microwave. After the mix is boiled, triacontanol melt. There is foam. So a bigger cup and a spillage plate would prevent problem with my better half. 3) After heated, the mix is better. Then I added hot water from to make total 250 CC of solution. Then, the mix is clear. 4) Label the dose with pencil. This works better than labeling with ink. I use 5 cc at a time for my entire garden. 250 CC would last me 50 doses. No need to buy so much. This is cheap. Let’s see next week how effective they are.

After applying brassinolide, pistils started to show. This is unusual for Thai dominant strain. Hope they don’t, revert to veg. Plant 1 is showing pistils. She is tall and standing at 180 cm. In the back ground, there is an Fast Buds FF7 plants standing at about 2 meters tall. Plant 2, is in preflower. Pistils were seen. Nothing to get excite about. Again, hope that she doesn’t revert. Plant 3 has big leaves and is developing well. I need to find space for her to flower. Perhaps a good spot would be next to plant 2. Clones are doing wonderfully nice. Gave some plants away to friends with blood sugar issues. I like the way that clone from plant 1 is growing. She has big leaves and long stem. With early training, this can be managed. On the other hand, plant 2 is bushy and is easier to form. So, I am keeping a couple of each until I get to test the effect. For outdoor, plant 1 is good. For indoor, plant 2 would be a better choice. And Novarine, clones seemed to do well regardless if I use light box or not. May be it is because my night light is a bit stronger with solar powered night light. Feeding plants with mixture of two bat guano types. Fresh guano that is high in K and N. And guano phosphate from deeper layers of guano mine. Guano phosphate is from insectivorous bat cave. It is also call heavy guano, fossil guano, or rock guano. Guano phosphate is about 40% in phosphorus with low nitrogen and almost no potassium. It balances out high potassium guano during flowering. Moreover, Guano phosphate is pH neutral. This removes one variable away from soil acidity management. Another good thing that it is a good source of chitosan from insect remains. However, an annoying part is that a good part won’t dissolve. It is good as slow releasing phosphorus source for fruit trees but has to be use with care for ganja. . I put in one tablespoon of standard bat guano in six-liters water bottle. And I add another tablespoon of guano phosphate. Then, I put in another tablespoon of molasses and let the tea sit for 24 hours. And I use only the tea part. Undissolved pebbles were thrown under my lime bushes. Molasses will wake the microbe in guano before putting them into soil.

My plan was to feeding them Novarine plnats vegging nutes. This week, I gave the plants only guano. Normally, I ferment guano as a tea. This week, it rained almost every night. So, I gave guano as powder. So the fertilizer won’t get wash off each night. To dilute the guano, I put one table spoon of new guano (k) and half table spoon of heavy rocky guano (p) in a cup. And I add about 50 CC of earth worm casting to this cup and mix them well. I think diluting the guano help spread them more evenly. And 50 CC of earth worm casting won’t give off too much nitrogen. Heavy rain helped with bug control. The baby bugs drowned. Still, I spray one weekly round of anti-insect microbes. At this stage, the plant immunity seemed to be dropping. Together with microbe spray, I added iron and triacontanol.

After sprayed with brassinolide, Plant 1 and plant 2 flowers developed much faster. Big difference in one week. I also started to feed the two ladies with guano. Plant 3 was transplanted to 10 gals pot. I moved her to a shaded spot to flower. She has big leaves and stretches in similar manner as plant 1. Since this one grew a bit slower, I did not take clone from her. I also sprayed her with brassinolide and triacontanol mix. Two days after the spray, pre-flower is shown. Normally, it takes a week in the shade before preflower pistils would start. Clones: Clones from plant 1 stretched do much the stem started to break. I made an effort to prop up the branches. Lesson from mother plant is to leave Novarine with branches. Otherwise, she just wants to go up and up. I am not transplanting her just yet. She is long and tall but the root had not fill up the 3 liters pot just yet. Clones from plant 2 is slower and internode distance is not as long as plan one clones. A noticeable effect on brassinolide spray is the healing rate. I broke a couple of flimsy branches during usual training routine. The break mended and make strong callus within three to four days. This is one third the normal recovery time of previous incidents that went without these brassinolide. More leaf braches developed but not quite as pre-flower.

Plant 2 flower smell like tarty mango. And the flower bouquet looks legitimate after four weeks. Lightly fed cow manure then it rained. Plant 1 flower is developing slower than plant 2. It has a classic fox tail Thai sativa look. Think I shall feed bat guano next week. Novarine does not seemed to take much nutrients. And plant 3 just got started into this flowering game. Clones: Clones from plant 1 grow faster and stretched more than clone from plant 2. It is easier to see this stretch from clones than from seeds. Clones from plant 2 is slower and internode distance is not as long as plan one clones. If the effect from clone 2 has as much THCV as advertised, then I prefer this shorter and faster phenotype. The timing of clones vegging is fine. In a couple more months, they will be the size that I like before going into flower. So, early part of flowering should be in the rain. And as flower stack up, the weather should be drier by then. Had featuring guests this week. It’s a singing family band call the Geckos.

Refreshing mango smell. Well, I still can smell so it is a way to check if I caught Covid yet. Novarine plants in mid flower are healthy. Strong resistance to mold. And they are light feeder. Plant 3 flowers developed quickly and nicely. Clones: Plant 1 clone is ready for transplant. I am keeping only one. Plant 2 clones can use one more week before transplant. I hope the stem thicken a bit. I think I like plant 2 better and keeping two clones. Fed plants guano and salt peter. I mix half a spoon of guano and half a spoon of salt perter in 6-liters jug. Then fed three to four liter of the blend to each plant.

Remarkably uneventful. It rained heavily every day this past week. Plants are packing flower and seemed fine in the middle of the rain. There was no feeding as torrential rain would wash fertilizer all away. Plants are growing fine and packing flower okay. Plant 3 thin stems flopped from weight of water and flower. There was no breakage and staking will easily take care of the issue. Transplant clones to 25-liters basket. One clone from plant 1 and two clones from plant 2. Think I’ll harvest within a week or two to test the effect. Better harvest early with less weight than suffer from mold.

Novarine is coming down. It is very early but I don’t want to risk mold in 80% humidity and rain. Under a microscope, trichome still has a long way to go. It is short and generally clear. Regardless, these should give me a good idea of effect. Plant one was harvested. She had not lived her full yield potential. Again, it’s the wet season that I am worrying about. And after a few days, number two will follow. I want to check flowers weight and effect from each phenotypes and will dry them separately. Plant 3 flowers are thickening. Seemed that production won’t be too bad even grown in 30 liters pot. There was no feeding on plant 1 and plant 2 this week. I fed plant 3 with light dose of guano tea.

I let her go the full length the weight would have been better. Flowers is leafy and fluffy. This girl is hard to trim and I was lazy. It was raining all week. And Novarine 2 flower started to rot. This is the cost of my complacence. And I lost the top most cola. Oh well, there is still plenty left to test the THCV effect. Both plant 1 and plant 2 have many larf buds. It is okay for pulverized decarb powder as tea. However, I think it is better to trim off all the smaller branches and buds, the so call “lollipop” shape. These would only produce larf and add unnecessary work. Novarine 3 keep going. Flowers are thin and airy in the same manner as phenotype 1. I don’t like this. Regardless, I fed her with salt peter, molasses, and yoghurt. And I’ll take her down at the end of August. Number 3 is coming down by the end of August. No more small clone left. And the clones are getting too big too fast. I want to keep them in veg for at least two more months.

Harvest was not as it should be. This grow was “off season. And I did not let the plant reached full harvest potential for fear of mold during thunder storm season. Plant 1 yielded 46 grams, one and a half ounces Plant 2 yielded 57 grams, two ounces Plant 3 yielded 30 grams, One ounce Each plant grew differently. Plant 1 and plant 3 were slim Sativa type. They stretched tall without much root and branches. The internode distance was about 8 inches, 20 cm. Plant 2 develop better bush. She was still a tall Sativa but the internode distance was less at 6 inch, 15 cm. My preferred phenotype is plant 2. Plant 2 yielded the most with nice berry smell. She branches better with more volume in her flowers Novarine grows like a Thai plant would. Flowering is easier and shorter than a land race Thai. My impression of growing Novarine: Light feeding, top and train very early, trim to lollipop shapes. The sucker branches are tiny larf. These small branches are not only total waste of time but are also disease magnets. My impression on Novarine THCV growing characteristics. Highly tolerance of mold even in tropical raining season. Highly tolerance of insect and strong but not strongest tolerance to mites. I think the long inter-node distance helps with both insect and mold tolerance. But Novarine needs hep with trimming. There are too many suckers branches. High tolerance against sogging wet soil from three straight days pouring rain. However, I do use very airy coconut husks and grow in basket. I also use mycorrhizae and purslane companion plants to help feed the roots. In my set up, Novarine like only light dose of phosphate and phosphoruous. The leaves get yellow withing a day of bat guano. Novarine is tolerance to high pH. They were okay at 6.8 pH range. I should aim at 6.2-6.5. Novarine clones easily enough. And there are plenty of small branches during trimming.