Highgate Atjeh (Aceh) Outdoors

These guys - I really didn't expect so many to germinate at all, but they did..! And they're all coming to term, which is nice :) I might even keep them indoors if the autos finish before these guys start flowering. Also if there is space (thatI doubt...). Ultimately, my plan is to take a cutting from one of the CBD mix while it is flowering - they are all feminised, so hopefully that will mean all the CBD mix are females - and then, if there's a male in the Highgate x Atjeh seedlings that are also coming up, I'd like to pollinate the flowering clones so they produce some seeds for next year. There were 20+ of the seeds that were popping up, and since that's a LOT of plants - I've had someone take them off my hands, who will return any males they find, since they're not interested in seeds or cross-breeding. I just like to grow the plants and train them (I would like to try a few bonsai), but some people grow them for, well ... for the medical benefits ;) Ideally, I'd also like to pollinate one of the autos, if I can take a viable cutting from any of them, or pollinate one of the Northern Lights since this is more like the Highgate Atjeh (50:50 sativa:indica) and see if I can get a batch of seeds that will be autoflowering... If that's the case - then, next year, I will grow some of the autoflowers and let them all pollinate before using colloidal silver to hopefully feminise some batches of seeds in order to introduce a Highate Atjeh Auto strain. I'd rather do it with the Royal Dwarf, to cut the size and bush the spindly plants out a bit next generation, but that might have to wait for the future. To pollinate one of the Northern Lights I think might be not quite what I'm hoping to achieve... This is one of the main reasons I keep trying with RQS' Royal Dwarf, even though only one has ever germinated and that plant is looking seriously ill right now. Easy to grow, perfect for beginners?! Those little buggers have been a nightmare..! It was a rare thing to be able to get the Landrace Aceh seeds from a crop I found in Indonesia, and the males that came from that pollinated the Highate #1's that were growing up until a few years ago, OK - but this is the first crop of seeds that I've grown from that so I don't really know what to expect - other than Highate #1 is basically crossed from some bush weed from Jamaica (seeds taken from "wild" Lamb's Bread) that pollinated a White Widow from a headshop in 'Dam, and those guys were fairly tall and with long colas - so with the Aceh, they will probably be even more tall and spindly... Also more sativa-like, which isn't a good thing for me. I'd like them to be a lot shorter, and with more dense colas - even if it was only on the main stem... The purple colouration on the underside of the leaves is interesting, as I didn't see this before. I wonder if it will continue. I'm hoping for the Painkiller XL, Medical Mass and Royal Medic continue to grow strong and be able to take flowering clones from these to pollinate. Though... odds are this will be the first year ever where there are no males, now I actually want some (of course it won't be..!). Early days to be getting carried away but with any goal: See the goal you want to achieve, work backwards to figure out how you will get there - when you get to what you can do now, do it and try to stick to the plan. Improvisational methods are acceptable only if they achieve the objectives in order to achieve the goal. Weed: Just Do It.