Green Gelato Automatic making fem seeds

These are from the R1 seeds I made from my Royal Queen Seeds' "Green Gelato Automatic" I bought, and grew, and made fem seeds from last year. I'm going to make more fem seeds this grow. I originally kept a video journal, so a lot of my pics will be cuts from videos, and not the best quality.

Plants are growing great under the MarsHydro TS600, in the Generic 2 x 2 tent. The 2 plants in the back are a week ahead of the others (3 weeks old). They are to be reversed into males to make pollen for feminized seeds. They get started 1 to 2 weeks before the seed mothers. I make Silver Thiosulfate (STS), and I am also experimenting with a STS Gel formula. STS is a silver based formula that causes female plants to hermy, and produce "female" pollen that only produces female seeds.

The future seed mothers are 3 weeks old now, and have pistols. They have been transplanted into their final 5 gallon fabric pots, placed under the MarsHydro TS3000 20" from the tops, and are being fed full strength Jacks 321 nutrients.

I just noticed my PH has been around 7, and a couple of the seed mothers are showing CAL/MAG deficiencies.. I use well water, and I don't have to adjust it in the summer, but around late fall the PH raises. I forgot to get good pics of the seed mothers, since I was focused on the STS formulas at the time, but these are the Pollen donors transforming into male flowers. 5 weeks old. The seed mothers are coming along nice with dime sized buds on them. I Topped them all at the 5th node, just before the cola, so the canopy would all be even under the lights. I just sprayed these reversed buds 1 time only on day 17, after the first STS treatments, with 50ppm of Gibberellic Acid (GA3) to stretch them out away from each other. Gibberellic Acid causes plants to stretch enormously, and PPM's of 50 to 100 can cause females to reverse to males.

A few days after the Gibberellic Acid treatments. The flowers have stretched way out, so they don't stay too humid, and they release their pollen easier. Week 6 for the pollen Donors.

Now we're back on track with the 6 week old mother plant Diary. The last couple of weeks were showing the pollen Donors, which are a week ahead of the seed mothers. I chose the 2 frostiest, and most Sherbert smelling out of the 5 potential "Seed Mothers" that I grew to pollinate. I pollinated all the tops, and let them sit in that enclosed room, by a window for 12hrs., then I saturated them with water to kill any stray pollen. The next day, in fresh clothes, I moved them back to the grow room, which is a 10' x 10' room, but I'm basically growing in a 4' x 4' area, under a MarsHydro TS3000. In 35 days we should have ripe fem seeds!

We are moving right along with the 5 Green Gelato Automatic R1 plants. The buds are really coming on now, and all the plants look and smell exactly like the original plants these came from, and all are 1 phenotype. This is a frosty (24%THC), very narcotic strain.

These beauties grow Super fast, hard, and fat! They are starting to really frost up now. They are pretty sensitive to PH, and I was running high in the beginning, but now that it's corrected they are growing great.

Oh yeah! Plants are starting to fade and look crappy:) I'm feeding only water now, letting them eat themselves, and the excess nutrients. I'm seeing a few amber trichs on the leaves. They should be ready to chop next week.

It's time to harvest the seedless plants. The pigeons were very disapointed that there were no fem seeds to be had in theses first plants. The seed mothers need another week to reach the 35 day from pollination mark. You can see seeds in a couple of the photos. They're already turning brown. The plants are very hard, full and frosty! They smell like sherbert, and they all look alike. I'm very pleased:) Time to get these cleaned up, chopped down, and hung up to dry!

The grow was super fast and awesome! From seed to harvest in 73 days! Thats amazing! They're suposed to reach 24% THC, and I beleive it. They are covered in frost, and will get you completely baked! The reversal of the pollen donors went flawless, and the seed mothers produced over 1000 fem seeds for the future. I'm a happy grower😁