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Two healthy Golosa plants are finally growing at the pace where they should have been doing. The key is not to feed them at all. Only earth worm casting in in small 7-lites pot is enough for Golosa. And they do not like to be handle. No matter how gentle, they slow down after transplant. Golosa plants are compact and in general are column type that refuse to branch after the first round of early topping. I then her again late last week. This round, I sprayed them with brassinolide combined with BAP to promote side branching. The branches are developing well. I need to hardened the branches a bit before I can take clone to see how difficult they are to clone. Golosa is straight column short plant and sea of green growing style would be good. There is also big swing in different phenotype. Cloning is important for this strain. There is some small sign of mite. So, I whip up my anti bug microbes again. And spray them. Sick and small Golosa seemed to be recovering and start growing again after a month in ICU. To make things worse, mite feast on sick plants. And it further weaken them. I am not interested in these plants. They will miss the primary cool and dry season. But since I am winding down my main growing season, there is some free space. So, I am keeping them. Again, Golosa plants do better when I don’t feed them or stress them. I am still attempt to breed the plant that I think is polyploid. And I have been spraying White Critical Clone with STS follows by colloidal silver once a day for the past two weeks. And one good thing about spraying silver is that there is not mite on this clone whatsoever. As for getting pollen, seemed like small male flowers are forming. There is no round flowers showing yet. Perhaps I should have let the clone grown a little before spraying. The intended female plant is polyploid treated Golosa. She looks ready with her side branches starting. Normally, male flowers develop a couple of weeks before female. I think it is better to pollinate when female flower are three weeks old. Older male with younger girl, Again, I am waiting to see male flower cleary developing on White Critical clone before I start to put polyploid treated Golosa into flower. I spent my Christmas at a beach. And had the chance to pulled up some sea purslane (sesuvium portulacastrum). It usually works as companion plant to cannabis and helps keep cannabis roots healthy. However, sea purselane grows much slower than cannabis. And I think it is a good idea to keep mature batches going for transplant. They do need light and heavy feeding before they are big enough to contribute. In the past, when I am short of sea purselane, flowering type purselane will be better than none. Happy Newyear my dear gardening comrade. May all will be healthy and free in 2022.