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.
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.