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One week from seed. Using a Soil-less mix of Coco coir, perlite, vermiculite, worm castings, greensand, Garden lime, Soil Acidifier, kelp meal, and Peruvian Seabird Guano. Mostly eyeballed the mixes so don't know the exact concentration, but the girls have really liked it aside from the rain flushing a good amount of the nutes out.
Started the Malawi and Hindu Kush from seed at the beginning of this week. The Northern Lights and White Widow are feminized. The Hindu Kush and Malawi are regular. Hoping to catch some pollen to create some F1 inbreds of Hindu Kush and Malawi.
Planted the 4th Hindu Kush (HK4) the middle of last week, the picture was taken closer to the end of the week, had a planter open up because one of my White Widows was being attacked by a very small caterpillar. Neem Oil seems to have resolved that. Heavy Rains caused a bit of a slow down for the first few weeks, but they are really starting to take off now that most of the rain has ceased.
Started preflowering this week. Pretty sure I'm getting greater than 14 hours of light per day. It's a long Summer before light gets below that, like end of July - beginning of August. Will they hold off on flowering until then or does this mean they are going to flower early?
Hey there they wont flower early because they dont have enough time to fall asleep to get their minimum dark hours for flowering, it takes them a while to switch off that's why, so you're all good to go ! hope this helps ! 🚀
Moved a Malawi (M1) and a Hindu Kush (HK1) outside of grow space. Pretty certain M1 is male and am still waiting on the determination for HK1 but all other indicators seem to point in that direction. Moved the small Northern Lights to the garden to conserve space and see how well it does in the ground. I know the bugs are already enjoying her leaves.
Ended up with 1 Malawi and 2 Hindu Kush Males. Gonna be able to produce a bunch of varieties of seeds with controlled pollination. Looking to make one branch on each of the remaining females for each of the males. Hoping to do the same with the rest of my malawi and hindu kush next year so I can produce stable seeds without inbreeding.
The two Hindu Kushes that I thought were males turned out to be females. Huge bummer because I transplanted them already and can't really move them back and they were the larger HK's of the 3 I planted. The place that I moved them to is more of a bug market place, not wanting to use 1 of my 6 on a plant that is gonna be eaten alive so I took them down. Luckily the Malawi male is definitely a male, so maybe I can create some gigantic decendants of all my other females as Malawi is apparently one of the tallest sativas.
These are the ones that are still vegging. NL2 is a freaking bush and Malawi is getting taller every day. It's stalk is about a quarter sized width at the base. Northern Lights has a surprisingly large stalk for such a short plant.
Think NL2 and HK might have started flowering. Not certain yet. It just seems like their leaves are darkening and the branches budsites seem to be changing the same way NL1 and WW1 did their first week of flower.
Had two plants (NL1 and WW1) that are more mature than the rest that started flowering, will add more pics to this week when the rest start in a couple weeks I'm guessing.
Northern Lights is either a week ahead of White Widow or they both started flowering at the same time (their leaves changed to a much darker green simultaneously) and White Widow doesn't show clusters as fast as Northern Lights.
NL1 Growing budsites like crazy. I think it's like 16 decent tops plus the main cola.
WW1 has about 24 good tops. Some branches have decent sized branches.
Malawi was around 7 foot this week.
Skipped WW1 this week to catch it up with NL1 because I think they started flowering at the same time.
Malawi is about 7'6" - 8' tall. Stalk is about as round as a mag lite tube.
I want to do some controlled pollination but prevent pollen from blowing to other branches while doing it. Anybody ever tried mixing pollen with water and pouring that water over the buds. I also wonder if it could be frozen in this form if it works.
Water kills pollen so unfortunately that wont work. It is best to put the pollen in a bag and tie it around the bud yiu want to pollinate and shake the bag. Just leave your fans off for a while after doing it so right before lights out is a good time. Unfortunately there is always a risk of pollinating more buds however you do it. Some strains like to go hermie after they are pollinated also so keep an eye out for pollen sacs after pollinating
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