Week 7 seeds. Plant 6 on week 5 of flower. Seed buds are growing new white hairs and are flowering again. Seeds are immature.
So this can continue for weeks. Pretty soon this will be a 6 month grow. Tropical sativa's can be multi year plants.
So hurry up and be patient. Seeds are taking a long time.
The conditions are cool and dry.
I'm out of cal mag so for now I am using hard tap water. That water has a pH of about 7.9.but the soil pH is acidic..I am using a biological bacterial anti fungal and I assume biological activity from the bacteria lower the soil pH and make nutrients more accessible for the roots. I can always switch back to distilled water if I see.a problem.
great job man looking into the path less trodden. get off the cookies train everybody, make your own seeds! make your own crosses! this guy knows the true path to Cannabis Bliss! But seriously good job man making your own seeds and trying these lesser known now days strains. I too love the old varieties and make my own seeds, well did for years till now that I am homeless, I have a grocery bag of thousands of crosses and many pure type reproduced varieties for the future. maybe ill grow outdoor under the sun next season? Hey also, look in with these sativas, 11/13 or ten/14 hours, it will speed up bud maturation and flower development and whatnot a lot. a mistake i made in the begining was using 12/12 for equitorials, now i know. i have grown khalifas durban, french touches mangu carrot, zomias lao and many others, all fantastic but they take skills and dedication, every grow is a learning experience for sure. great job man keep up the good work!
@Greenwizardly123, plant 5 pollinated the entire grow. Now all of the buds are growing seeds. That really wasn't my intention, I was just going to pollinate a few buds. It looks like I'm going to get hundreds of seeds though. Oh well, this is now going to be a seed harvest. When the seeds are ripe I'll chop them down. I'll clean out the seeds and smoke the remaining (actually vape) the remaining bud. The already vaped buds and the oven heated leaves will be used for making cannabutter, which I add to coffee for a potent buzz. Plant 6 meanwhile has been moved outside. It is barely starting to flower. It was just undersized and shaded by plants 1-4 along with plant 5 the male. Plant 5 is no more, plant 6 is sitting outside for now, plants 1-4 are in their final run and growing their seeds.
As far as your comment on the "Cookie Train", everybody is growing auto's. 80% of what is being grown and sold has Russian Rudialis genetics and afghan or a sativa or all three. But it is all Rudialis var. THC hybrids which didn't exist until the late 90's. They have replaced the land races in the legal markets. The landraces that are still grown in the world supply local and often illicit overseas markets. Photo periods are always more potent and are closer to the original landrace strains. Landrace strains are also hybrids, all marijuana is hybrid. There is no original cannabis strain left anywhere. They all migrated from somewhere and they all have been cultivated by farmers, even the wild marijuana has farmed genetics. The closest thing to original cannabis would be strains grown in Tibet and China. Cannabis evolved around 20,000 years ago in the Tiberian plateau and was deprived from hops, which are fermented to make beer..Farmers took it to SE Asia and then it found its way into India from there.SE Asian sativa was exported to central and South America and Mexico. Selective breeding programs produced the local strains such as Columbian Gold, Panama Red, and Mexican strains.
Almost all indica comes s out of Afghanistan's Kush mountain where poppies have also been grown. It is the result of selective breeding by local farmers who prefer certain phenotypes.
If I could only recommend one stain for somebody to grow for the rest of time it would be skunk #1 photo's. That will produce both sativa and indica phenotypes in a few individuals whenever you have a big grow going. Then you could select those if you ever wanted to.
It is balanced hybrid that is often crossed with a lot of other stuff by a lot of breeders. It's the modern original