The James Gang

[H.A.F.]

Might not be a good idea to put those cuttings back under 12/12, especially with them coming from a flowering plant. You want to get them going back into veg asap.

I have been chewing on that since last night and this will probably be more thinking out loud...

I have two plants that are damn close to harvest, and they'll go dark very soon if not tonight. That fixes the room situation and the badseeds can go in the big tent until they show sex. I might end up having room to keep three.

Either way, in a few hours they'll get to 18/6. Other options I was considering is to seal up the seedling tent pretty tight to get the rH up, then ditch that propogator.

I could also just stick them in the empty spaces in the propogator, but I am in the process of opening it up for the seedlings to get them hardened off. Opposite of what I want for the clones.

 

[H.A.F.]

HCxRS 1 - Close but no cigar

Early Skunk? Fuck it - close enough. For a plant to be called "Early" 11 weeks of 12/12 is all you get. I need the room LOL

And the best part is the Angel Hears is also close enough. I have the clone going and this monstrosity can leave the room! And it's a bowl-trim job for the most part, so I'll have to see what's there and how I hang it or if I just bowltrim it wet and put it in the mesh baskets.

The VSL should be this week.

 

[H.A.F.]

Both the AH and ES were really light, as was the rest in the tent, so I soaked them good and put them in the dark for at least the night to re-hydrate while I water everything else. Then start from stratch figuring out what needs to be on a shelf then adjusting the lights, then getting the bagseeds moved in.

 

[H.A.F.]

For what it's worth I went with the original idea for now. I just cut a notch out of the top (now bottom) of each cup so some air could get in. Stuck the mini heat-mat under the tent I did this first thing - which is why plants ended up ready so it was a big fat waste of time LOL

 

[H.A.F.]

Aaaaaand, the deed is done.
The current lineup is
9 PD

The conglomerate. Can't see it but I stuck the two clones in my new 3 gallon pots that are 3 gallons. The Angel heart looks like it'll need the extra room, and I just don't want anything hindring the Homecoming Queen during the final stretch.

Stuck the beans and HQ clones in here for now, because I'm done tonight. But I can fuck with these until tomorrow at noon. I'm thinking about unplugging one light in the seed tent, and putting the clones back in there, under the gentler light. This is a 260W, but dialed back.

 

[H.A.F.]

Here's the one week look. Mixed results as far as growth rate. The tiny ones are the worst of the helmet-heads, but all look to be surviving so far.

I switched to little square pots just for space, but I am going back to the double solo-cup method from now on. Solid dark cup on the outside, Clear cup split in half set into it. Little notch at the base of the split for extra drainage, and to make the split easier to fold open when transplanting. I like being able to check the moisture level and roots at a glance.

 

[H.A.F.]

The Angel heart is bulky. 434g from the corner plant. The smell is a sweet/sour/fermented thing. Just plucked the fan leaves and lower bud leaves with big stems. Either bowl reimmer or scissors later, or both. The trays are the Early Skunk.

That little short chubby plant weighed in at 300g whole with no fan leaves (it fit nicely in that little silver bowl)
I snipped every nug off the stems, and it weighed ~250g.
Ran it through the bowl trimmer

Except for the 4 tops it looks like Brussels Sprouts.

 

[H.A.F.]

I went ahead and mixed the trim from both, since neither was very frosty. Even after the bowl-trimmer on the skunk there's not much there. Buds were frosty as hell though, the Angel Heart to the point that untying the branches had my fingers sticky like I was playing with pine tar.

Both are from Mr. Nice, reputable breeder, so I have high hopes for the buds still. But this takes me back to running the ILGM Dutch-fems. All were reliably potent (like you could send every plant to the lab and it would come out the same no matter what you fed them) but a short curve on the "wow, this is awesome" scale.

I'm hoping that's not the case, because both smell really fine. But the Early Skunk smells suspiciously like the ILGM Superskunk. The Angel Heart smells good enough I won't be klilling the clone even though I'll have three ounces from the corner shelf plant.

 

[Old ST1R]

The Angel heart is bulky. 434g from the corner plant. The smell is a sweet/sour/fermented thing. Just plucked the fan leaves and lower bud leaves with big stems. Either bowl reimmer or scissors later, or both. The trays are the Early Skunk.
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That little short chubby plant weighed in at 300g whole with no fan leaves (it fit nicely in that little silver bowl)
I snipped every nug off the stems, and it weighed ~250g. View attachment 84985
Ran it through the bowl trimmer
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Except for the 4 tops it looks like Brussels Sprouts.
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Looks like broccoli to me.

 

[H.A.F.]

VSL coming down this morning

 

[H.A.F.]

The VSL was 317g wet so the three plant total should be around 7.5 oz. That's using the 20% mark so it'll probably be half a pound. I think that the longer flowering plants al seemed to bulk out fine. VSL's hanging on the right. Out of curiosity I took some of the lowers from the Angel Heart, and the lowers from the two tall cola on the VSL (they all match now) and run some of each through the bowl trimmer.
I also plan to run a few nugs from each through it after it's dry, then hand trimmed just to compare the three.

 

[H.A.F.]

Crazy stuff. Had three plants, including one sold as "early" go into week 11. The three in the back I planted a month later are almost done as well.

Hippie Crippler x Girl Scout Cookies both look like pure fire. The VSL and Angel Heart were dominating the tent smell-wise, so I haven't realy gotten anything from them.
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[Punisher84]

Crazy stuff. Had three plants, including one sold as "early" go into week 11. The three in the back I planted a month later are almost done as well.
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Hippie Crippler x Girl Scout Cookies both look like pure fire. The VSL and Angel Heart were dominating the tent smell-wise, so I haven't realy gotten anything from them.
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Nice. I have 2 or 3 of the Gsc x hc going now. One is about 10” shorter than the others. Be interesting to see if it’s different throughout flower.

 

[H.A.F.]

The other side of being a tester is that I have the 4G x WLD.
Also looks like fire. Much frost!

Cool looking pac-man calyxes clusters

But she also seems to have made a few beans. No other suspects in the tent, and no obvious pollenators on this plant. So the info goes to @J.James and I have most of a pack of beans left that now have a question mark, and he has a strain he may or may not work further - but based on one plant it ain't much info. That is what I am fixing inthe future. Better drops for testers.

 

[H.A.F.]

Yesterday I noticed some crazy leaves going on with a few of the bigger Paradise Diesel - this morning it's on most of them.

My forst thought was when Bugs Bunny spills the gumball machine of Martian seeds, then you see the tops of their hair popping up through the cracked ground


Anyway, got a couple of shots right at lights out

 

[Old ST1R]

Yesterday I noticed some crazy leaves going on with a few of the bigger Paradise Diesel - this morning it's on most of them.
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My forst thought was when Bugs Bunny spills the gumball machine of Martian seeds, then you see the tops of their hair popping up through the cracked ground
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Anyway, got a couple of shots right at lights out
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Could you please try to get the tops more symmetrical and even out the canopy a bit?

 

[H.A.F.]

So far the clones are liking the set-up. only 65w, and pretty high up. mini-heat-mat and that's it. Staying right around 84F.

All remaining seedlings have gotten over any issues even though some are straggling

And the Mimms Kush x Zerelda triploid looks like it's gonna keep it going. Don't know if I'll shoot for a three-top or just let it go.

 

[H.A.F.]

Could you please try to get the tops more symmetrical and even out the canopy a bit?

Exactly why I don't scrog. The stakes have that rubber-wire holding each top in place.
But I can yank them out and inspect, prune, water, feed, hug - whatever. I don't think they've gone back in the same position after any watering. The shortest one is by the fan, and the tallest one away from it - that's about it.

 

[Ozjet68]

Could you please try to get the tops more symmetrical and even out the canopy a bit?
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Could you please try to get the tops more symmetrical and even out the canopy a bit?
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Surely a grower of his caliber owns a spirit level ? WTF

 

[H.A.F.]

Damn. The thing I just noticed about the PD is that they all look to be on the same schedule, and based on the 3 getting done in the other tent that were planted at the same time I don't think I found that early finishing cheese pheno I wanted. As it has cured though, one of the Hippie Crippler x Rosetta Stone (the one that wasn't a larf-monster) has almost that same smell going on.

It's not as sharp as the PD was, a little more sweet, but it smells like opening a bag of cheetos.