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Day3:Mar10th: One of the Rasoli Seeds was well sprouted. and was moved to 1 inch rockwool
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Two of the Rasoli have made it to vegetation and are looking good.
Moved to 1" rockwool from paper towel for 3-4days well warmed, until roots show at cube edges when I moved to 4-6" pots of soil substrate, and back onto the heat mat/tent
They are getting 90-120min of real sunshine each day going forward for this week.
Week 3 included careful monitoring of sprouts in 6" pots, watching for roots to stick out from the bottom. Both the Rasoli plants rooted out well, and were repotted.
The two Rasoli that sprouted are well on their way. Transplanted from 6" pots to 2.5qt pots Mar30, after verifying roots visible on all sides of when removed from pot.
Rasoli #2 was unmistakably male when performing bug check this morning with a magnifying glass. WOW. No other plants of 25+ are showing sex characteristics.
I moved it to my isolation tent with stunted seeds on a 24hr light cycle this week. I will probably snip off the flowers, push it back to veg and breed with it. I would like to make lots more Rasoli seeds by inbreeding anyway; and the plan is to keep any males until I am sitting on a pile of seeds like with my first grow out of the ACE Double Thai.
Preserve the genetics THEN fiddle with phenotyping, cross breeding, and smoke quality.
14Apr: (day 38) - Rasoli landrace male looks not much like the female at this point. The male is now isolated with two other boys, largely outside and I will transplant this boy later this week, I wasnt sure I was going to keep it but it shows lots of purple and dont want to pass up a chance to inbreed this oddball. The female looks a bit lanky but has fully expressed female. I FIM'ed the boy a few days ago to keep it small and manageable.
21Apr: Happy 420. The Rasoli landrace effort consists of two plants, one very male, one very female - both very lanky. The male lives outside full time since last update and I didnt transplant it to try and grow it out, I just left it in the rain and wind. It showed a fully opened flower today; and I snipped off all of the formed flowers along with it. Plenty to gather when the weather is better. The female is in a 5gal pot now and got really lanky this week, but still showing pistil expression. For whatever reason, this plant is waterlogged and was droopy yesterday and today. I had one last year get 'stuck' in waterlogged roots too long and it was a mess. I learned to not only cut back on watering as a response, but to judge the next watering by weight. The next few watering cycles, I will put the lightest 5gal plant on the scale, and compare to the Rasoli female, with the goal to dry her out. Her leaves will also lift to tell us she feels better.
Honestly the Rasoli has been a bit of a disappointment, but perhaps its just going through a phase. VERY leggy, and rather unresponsive to nutes. At this point, I am favoring the Nanda Devi, and Uttarakhand over the Rasoli and Manipuri. If it doesnt flesh out a bit, I may get more aggressive with some FIM techniques, and see how it responds. This is the tallest of the landraces I am trying, but less than half the vigor of the others.
7Apr: at the beginning of week 4, we have two Rasoli's. One has decided it's a boy, which seems early as hell, but I have been on 14hrs which is a little close to diurnal triggers, so maybe my fault that it sexed early (not that its a boy). The fact that the other Rasoli shows no sex at this point hints that its a girl, so I can inbreed them. Fingers crossed. Pics later.
Plants, like animals, express sex differentiation as a fuzzy scale where lots of hormones are released. There are inter-relationships between PGR (growth) and auxins, cytokinins and a whole boatload of O-chem stuff that is largely under-studied. So, the Rasoli may have been 58% boy / 42% girl and then environment factors kicked the hormones into overdrive and it expressed itself male. This is not really 'stress' but instead 'adaptation'. Hybrids are IMO less susceptible to this than true landraces, but that's just my guess.
MrCrispy
