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Put colchicined treated plant into flowering spot. She did not budge for one week. Only after two weeks did she started to put out pre-flower pistils. She stretches to 95 cm tall. This lady does what she wants. There are a few days of rain. Nothing to worry about at this early stage. Male flower induction on White Critical went okay. Only the top bouquet remains female. The rest of the side branches are showing round male flowers. I find it interesting that I blasted the top cola with more silver stuff than the side branches and she still remains female. I expect the pollen to bloom any time this week. With female top there is a potential for selfing of White Critical. Since I did not make clone, seeds from White Critical will be a side benefit. I planned to check if polyploid plants can be cloned. And I’ll take a couple of lower branches off to see. Healthy Golosa plant that was not treated is also doing well. I am putting into flowering spot a few days ago. She is 85 cm tall. Sick and small Golosa plants continue to recover. And I moved them to 25-lites basket. They sure have taken a long time to recover. Over all, these are not looking too bad as long as I don’t feed them. However, my cool season is coming to a close. Usually, Indica do not produce much in this wet heat.