Totemic

Im still gonna figure this one out. Might be better to find a grow shop in each province or the like to distribute. It will be fresh seeds from this years run so will be in time for a winter indoor run since next years outdoor is so far off....

@Toby They get about 8 to 9 hours direct sun. Been in direct sun since planting the beans.

Update time. A week on and plants are getting into some serious veg now. Catch you next week.

I would donate a span of beans for next years outdoor. Gives me a chance to see my beans in others care.

Nope. Thats going black. Indica is dark yes, but those leaf tips are telltale.

I totally agree. The Canna industry is exploding and already plenty Cannabis is good but not great. The craft breeders started this revolution and will continue to play a vital roll in the foundations of canna culture.

Day 19 Ama bluecheese 1 in the cup in front of your screen. Or its the screen messing with your camera but yeah she looks full of N to me.

15 Jan is basically the start of flowering time outdoors....I do understand that time is past but earlier in spring would be great. Make the Outdoor growoff a 18/9 yearly kickoff date. That means seeds break ground at the Spring equinox.

Im afraid the roots dont have the equipment to absorb CO2 to any positive effect. CO2 is absorbed through leaf stomata, close to the chlorophyl and light. Water is absorbed by the roots and photosynthesis combines 6 H2O with 6 CO2 to get to the dextrose. Further Cannabis is a C3 plant and can only really start using CO2 with measurable results from 800ppm atmospheric CO2. Along with that is the need for intense lighting and higher temperatures to power this turbocharged photosynthesis. In short your entire grow needs to be entirely sealed to achieve this. Plus dissolving CO2 into water means that there is less room for dissolved O2. Roots just love O2. Keeping your grows real simple will benefit you in the long run.

It has affected my golf game. Never played and when gerook I dont give it a single thought. If its got balls I dont like it. But give an engine and tyres.

Let that net fill to at least 80% full. Then continue to tuck the first week or 2 of flowering. To me that net is only 30% full. 2 extra weeks of veg will make a huge difference imo.

She is very dark, borderline N toxicity. You can see the leaf tips are starting to curl. Cut back on your feeding to once a week. And stop with the Mg foliar altogether. She will grow better with less N and Mg than she is getting now.

The best way I can explain the hermie phenomonon in cannabis. All cannabis plants can "hermie" as they fall into the category of dioecious plants. This simply means that male and female flowers are usually on two different plants. What's interesting to note with almost all plants in this category is their ability to also produce the opposing flowers to ensure the survival of the species. At the very core of it, that is what all living organisms are hardwired for. So this really is less of a trait and more genetic hardwiring, a common foundation for the species. The trigger is stress and this is where the traits come in. The trait is finding the genetic expression that can tollerate the highest amount of stress and not hermie. Some genetic expressions have a low stress threshhold and hermie just by looking at them wrong, while others can withstand massive fussing. Also it is interesting that "hermie" is actually a wrong term but so widely used that it is accepted. All your "perfect" flowers are true hermie flowers and defined as having both male and female reproductive parts on a single flowers structure. Cannabis keeps its flower structures distinctly seperate. So back to the point... stresses can be so subtle that you as a person may never know what the stress was. Regardless, once you have identified a plant "hermies" then you can assume its a stress so yes that genetic expression may not like your indoor environment and need outdoors to feel they arent being threatened. So the key is finding those plants that can tollerate the most everyday stresses without the survival response kicking in. All hermies should be discarded to try and eliminate the low stress tollerance trait as it carries over and offspring and genetically even less stress tollerant thus going hermie even easier.

Your guess is as good as mine. Id put my money on a 2.5-3.5m conifer. If she slows to 10cm a week she should be about 1.8m by the end of Jan.

As another week passes I have decided to leave this female as is. I have always wanted to see this strain in open ground untouched and shes putting on a show for me. 8 weeks and 90cm and only alternating nodes now Also did a little LST on one of the other chocos this morning.

Make no mistake. Plenty of the genetics around are off shoots from dutch. What makes strains mediochre is all the chucking. The Fem industry is also to blame. Finding a good female and then just feminizing seeds is really damaging the gene pool. In the long run its the guys who are building strains and line breeding, picking out the gold from the normal that brings out the best in cannabis. I dont work on much but have been culling off hundreds of plants in my persuits. Persuits that have made me smile as I see the results year after year.

Jup. Just watch us oakes who have been working a thing for everyone over the last few years.

Outdoors I also find that staking a plant is less beneficial. You effectively give the plant a crutch. From daily bending in our SE winds the trunk and branches grow much stronger and thicker than indoor plants. This genetic line has been built to carry her weight. Just wait and see.

We have sand sand and more sand here. I have to heavily fertilize the rest of my veg in the garden. But as for my cannabis, I do dig out a deep hole about 40cm. Lace the bottom with a handful of bonemeal, then fill up the hole with my own soil mix. Its about 50l of soil in there. This way I will be making this piece of backyard super fertile over the next few years. I havent moved....my whole backyard did though.

2 weeks later and the females are settling in well. Structure forming quite well. Currently 70cm and considering if I want a conifer or if I'm going to top at 1m. The bottom pic is the male I chose out of the males. The same bushy structure is one of my selection criteria. He is going into force flower for pollen collection now before summer is out.

You guys really shade your plants? I have never had to shade plants. If they have enough water and enough nutrients available those plants pray to the sun in 46 degree heatwaves and grow so strong...

The thing with food grade ethenol is that you can drink it. It becomes an issue then that full government taxes and duties need to be levied. Prices I have gotten for 96% from Protea chemicals was just about R7k for a 25l. Works out to the same amount of actual ethenol if you purchased 70l of vodka and distilled the proof up. That price doesnt sound right 420. That sounds like the price for denatured ethenol. You dont want the denatured stuff. Poison to your organs.

6 weeks and the first confirmed female is in the ground. ->

Those are plain old Virginia gold. I like the mild tobacco and the size of the leaves make great blunts. I would grow out more types if tobacco wasnt such a mission to get the babies big enough and in time to plant out so I stick to one. I wish those were baby woodrose. I do have heavenly blues coming up in the garden though. Those are Jelly Melons.

A month in and the Chocolope is well on their way with another 9 a week out of the soil. The kabbalah didnt make it. The seeds were too old I guess.