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Seed popped above soil 3 days ago (today is Sunday). Will be converting this feminized plant to male with STS. around week 6. Will be starting a female as the seed plant in 3 weeks. The staggered dates should be good to for pollenzation. The pollen should start dropping as the female is showing pistols.
Gaia Green pre- mixed into media at 3 table spoons per gallon.
Weird new growth on the plant. Very small deformed and twisted leaves. Checked for pests with a microscope but no pests. Since I am using guia green organic fertilizer in 75% coco 25% peat mix I keep the water Ph at around 6.5. I checked input ph 6.5 and checked the run off water and it came in at 7.15. Not sure what to make of the PH fluctuation.
I used plain tap water PH'ed with no Cal/Mag mixed in this time.
STS was ordered a couple day's ago to convert this female to male. Week 5/6 is usually when auto's start to show sex so I am hoping to receive this soon.
Started STS treatment on this plant on friday. WIll continue every friday until it starts showing polin sacks. Doing the treatment on 4 branches that I have marked with zip ties.
At the moment the plant does not appear to need any more fertilizer and I susspect this cultivar does not like heavy feeding.... the guia green was a little to hot to begin with.
3 applications of STS and half of the plant is showing male pollin sacs. I will probably self pollinate this one and the other plant.
THis plant turned out to be much taller than expective. Although I let it grow naturarlly with out any training. The plant that is 5 weeks behind this one will be train for height. This one is too all for my 2x2. at 32 inches to the soil.
The STS was added again on Friday. 4 Applications 7 days apart for each application. Half the plant is converting to male nicely. The other untreated side is fully female. STS has worked much better than Colloidal Silver with no apparent harmful effects to the plant.
No pollen yet but the pods are getting pretty big so I am expecting them to crack open and drop pollen very soon.
Have moved away from the Mr Canuck's Guia Green in Coco plan and have been following the GH Flora trio using a Coco feeding schedule. Keeping water PH around 5.8-6.0. The plant has recovered from the weird twisting an odd growth pattern after a few weeks of the GH feeding program.
Missed a week in the log. Christmas kinda got in the way.
All male pollen sac's have opened. I put a fan on the male side to blow pollen on the female side. Seems to have worked. Although a converted female to male produces very little pollen, it seems to have impregnated a few of the female branches.
One of the pictures clearly shows seed pods forming. Fingers crossed that the experiment will be successful.
Time to take down the seed branches and dry it out. Gave the plant an extra 4 weeks for the seeds to ripen and mature. I'll keep the log open so I can report on the seeds harvested. The seed pods look very full and plump so I am hoping for a bountiful seed harvest.
Some of the mail branches had enough female in them to produce seeds as well but I will leave those branches alone.
Harvested about 150 seeds. The experiment was a smashing success. Will def. do STS over colloidal silver in the future. Never had success with colloidal silver but STS worked great with very little effort. Based on how many seeds I was able to harvest the STS payed for itself 10 times over.
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