We Can Make Sandwiches
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Some of my first bean orders were for mr nice..got mango haze and pink floyd . Anyone ran the pink floyd?
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GOLDBERG71
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For what ever reason the mango haze is the ONLY one I've tried and COULDN'T bring myself to smoke it. The taste IMO was awful. I've run dam near half the strains they have and it's the only one that not only won't I smoke but I'd give the beans I have away. No one I gave it to had a bad word to say about it. But if I won't smoke it I won't grow it.
I looked at pink Floyd but I purchased the doors instead.
blowingupjake
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Nice report Goldberg!
La Nina is next on my list! Just gotta clear out the remaining Critical Haze clones to make some room.
As a side note- Critical Haze is the biggest yielder I've ever grown! Definitely up there for commercial status. Potency is nice too.
Keep up the Nice work!
Jake
La Nina is next on my list! Just gotta clear out the remaining Critical Haze clones to make some room.
As a side note- Critical Haze is the biggest yielder I've ever grown! Definitely up there for commercial status. Potency is nice too.
Keep up the Nice work!
Jake
GOLDBERG71
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That's good to know. I prefer top shelf! But not all my patients agree. To many IMO care more about looks and cost. By looks I mean the further it gets away from indica nugs the less they like it. But when they don't know what they're smoking the story changes.
blowingupjake
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No doubt man, that's why I'm retiring the CH cut I've had for a bit and opening up the La Nina and Mango Haze straws!That's good to know. I prefer top shelf! But not all my patients agree. To many IMO care more about looks and cost. By looks I mean the further it gets away from indica nugs the less they like it. But when they don't know what they're smoking the story changes.
Its so funny that you say that about people and indica's. People are so unwilling to try something new....
More fluffy sativa nugs for us!
Wouldn't have it any other way.
Happily hazed,
Jake
GOLDBERG71
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I'm open to trying anything. Id prefer tight nugs any day. But I'm also not closed minded. Indica/sativa leaning flowers has nothing to do with how I select for personal use. I try to be as blind as a grower can be when it comes to making my choices. I try to reserve that for tie breaking. Sometimes I'll save more than 1 cut. 1 for me and 1or 2 for everyone else. Generally speaking I don't mind fluffy. What bothers me the most are the stems. Extreme SATIVAS I reserve for personal use. In the future I'll use them as a parent to something much "tighter". I'll clean anything for myself but beyond that the amount of time it takes to clean is a top priority. If I could only clap my hands and the shit clean itself!
I can dream can't I?
GOLDBERG71
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I have an original amnesia that I got as a freebie with my first order. It's the only order I've placed from someone other than MNS. I still mostly bought MNS gear but I really wanted to try AK 47 so I started with attitude. Then I found the auctions - at the prices I've been picking my gear up at I just kept buying until I got everything I wanted to try. It might be years away but my next order will be someone else's gear.
But back to the OG Amnesia. It's one of the strains I have selfed and crossed with several strains. I've only popped the selfed seeds but I found a keeper. That buggers has TIGHT LONG SATIVA flowers. There's no fluff great flower to leaf ratio. The fox tails are tight and braided. If I remember I'll snap some picks I've got at least a half dozen hanging now.
But back to the OG Amnesia. It's one of the strains I have selfed and crossed with several strains. I've only popped the selfed seeds but I found a keeper. That buggers has TIGHT LONG SATIVA flowers. There's no fluff great flower to leaf ratio. The fox tails are tight and braided. If I remember I'll snap some picks I've got at least a half dozen hanging now.
GOLDBERG71
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I've been working through my first handful of new strains. G13/WIDOW -- NL/AFGHAN -- SKUNK HAZE.
Early take seems to have the G13/WIDOW the winner. There were 4/6/6 females respectively. They all smell excellent.
G13/WIDOW all seem to have nice fairly tight buds. There is a little leaf to to the flowers but nothing to really worry about.
NL/AFG 5 of the 6 seems to be very identical. The leaves of those 5 got purplish color especially on the under side of the leaves around the flowers. The surprise to me at this early stage was that the flowers weren't denser than they are. I expected very dense indica flowers that's not the case with these 5. The 6th female on the other hand didn't get any purple and the flowers were both noticeably larger as well as tighter. Visually at this point this will be the winner. I haven't gotten around to testing it yet so I can't say it's a tight indica yet. But it surely is closer than the other 5. It might not be what I select for myself but at the time of completion I do expect it to be mine as well.
SKUNK/HAZE 4 of the 6 seem to be identical. Fluffy semi thin sativa leaning flowers. Haven't tested and grew in 1 gallon pots but yield surely show a weakness at this point. The 5th was the tallest and needed to be bent over. This plant had the tightest buds of all 6. Once again I haven't tested these but visually this one as been marked as a keep and eye on and test early. Will get back to you when I get her done. The 6 had me keeping a close eye on throughout the grow. Structurally it is perfect. Every branch grew directly upward without long side branches. The leaves weren't large and it allowed plenty of light to get deep in the plant. This is a sativa that was growing what I'd refer to a long continuous banana buds. It was filling out very nicely. But I had to harvest at day 70 because it was starting to show nanners. I caught it early and at the time of cleaning was barely noticeable and easily knocked off. If it wasn't for pollen I think the plant had about another 2 weeks left to finish properly. I'll never know if it would have filled out as nice as I think it would have. I'm currently running it again because I had such high hopes for this cutting I wasn't waiting for a test to rerun it. I know my rooms light proof so there no reason I shouldn't expect the exact same results. But I'm hoping for no pollen this time. I was really hoping to cross these last 2 to make my own fem seeds to search deeper in these genetics. But if pollen shows again I'll have to lose it and crack more seeds to find one like this without the nanners.
Early take seems to have the G13/WIDOW the winner. There were 4/6/6 females respectively. They all smell excellent.
G13/WIDOW all seem to have nice fairly tight buds. There is a little leaf to to the flowers but nothing to really worry about.
NL/AFG 5 of the 6 seems to be very identical. The leaves of those 5 got purplish color especially on the under side of the leaves around the flowers. The surprise to me at this early stage was that the flowers weren't denser than they are. I expected very dense indica flowers that's not the case with these 5. The 6th female on the other hand didn't get any purple and the flowers were both noticeably larger as well as tighter. Visually at this point this will be the winner. I haven't gotten around to testing it yet so I can't say it's a tight indica yet. But it surely is closer than the other 5. It might not be what I select for myself but at the time of completion I do expect it to be mine as well.
SKUNK/HAZE 4 of the 6 seem to be identical. Fluffy semi thin sativa leaning flowers. Haven't tested and grew in 1 gallon pots but yield surely show a weakness at this point. The 5th was the tallest and needed to be bent over. This plant had the tightest buds of all 6. Once again I haven't tested these but visually this one as been marked as a keep and eye on and test early. Will get back to you when I get her done. The 6 had me keeping a close eye on throughout the grow. Structurally it is perfect. Every branch grew directly upward without long side branches. The leaves weren't large and it allowed plenty of light to get deep in the plant. This is a sativa that was growing what I'd refer to a long continuous banana buds. It was filling out very nicely. But I had to harvest at day 70 because it was starting to show nanners. I caught it early and at the time of cleaning was barely noticeable and easily knocked off. If it wasn't for pollen I think the plant had about another 2 weeks left to finish properly. I'll never know if it would have filled out as nice as I think it would have. I'm currently running it again because I had such high hopes for this cutting I wasn't waiting for a test to rerun it. I know my rooms light proof so there no reason I shouldn't expect the exact same results. But I'm hoping for no pollen this time. I was really hoping to cross these last 2 to make my own fem seeds to search deeper in these genetics. But if pollen shows again I'll have to lose it and crack more seeds to find one like this without the nanners.
blowingupjake
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Ive found (and many others have too)that the MNS Haze crosses are super sensitive to nutrient values... not saying that's the issue, but something to double check for sure.
One of my CH cuts would herm HARD if fed after week 6. This last run I left her starving and she finished without a single nanner. Sure, she looked like dog shit with all the yellow and brown leaves but the buds came out a nice green and golden color and after the manicure looked like top shelf.
Just my 2 pennies.
Jake
One of my CH cuts would herm HARD if fed after week 6. This last run I left her starving and she finished without a single nanner. Sure, she looked like dog shit with all the yellow and brown leaves but the buds came out a nice green and golden color and after the manicure looked like top shelf.
Just my 2 pennies.
Jake
GOLDBERG71
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Well here's what I can tell you about me.
My first rule is ---> KISS --> Keep It Simple Stupid!
My second rule is ---> when it comes to feeding less is more. So I'm not one of those who puts as much nutes in as the plant will tolerate. It's actually the opposite for me. I try to give each plant only what it needs when it needs and only as much as needed.
The Skunk/Haze I was referring to is a few days shy of 6 weeks into flower now on the 2nd run. Ive figured out my nutes very well at this point. It took a few years but I finally learned what I consider the biggest fallacy. You don't stop feeding veg nutes on day 1 of the flowering cycle! Of course each strain is slightly different but I've got my nutrients down to almost a science. So it's very small adjustments between strains.
I know it's a well discussed topic feeding sativas and or hazes less. But I've never read about nutes causing pollen late in flower. I've had a handful a herms and to me a herm shows male traits early and often at all bud sites. These plants are culled as soon as I spot them. I've also had several that just have the rare nanner here and there but this only happens very very late and barely causes any pistols to fertilize. These I don't consider herms.
This plant is the first that I'd say falls in between these 2 categories. It was close enough to completion that I pulled it. But at that time each flower was getting a single male pollen sack at tip of each node. So each bud was getting more than 1 pollen sack overall. Maybe I'll try just water from here on out because until the pollen showed its face it was a beautiful specimen. I've worked hard to make sure my plants look nice and healthy from start to finish. But if this single strain needs to finish all yellow leaved and visually ugly to keep the pollen away I think I could get over that.
GOLDBERG71
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I really liked these bulbs until they started to fail. Some as quick as 2 weeks. BUT IT ONLY HAPPENED WITH MY LUMATEK 600 WATT BALLASTS. The 1000 watts I ran on phantom ballasts had no issue.Well I got my new bulbs that I'm going to try this next go. I started with MH veg and at the flip moved to HPS. Then I evolved to MH through the stretch and start of flower development. Now I'm going to try this new FULL NOVA bulb from sunmaster. As I've mentioned I've realized there wasn't enough "blue" light early in veg. but all I could do is switch between MH and HPS. Since I have 4 hoods in 1 room I've thought about doing 2 MH and 2 HPS and rotating the plants daily. But that's to much work. Rotating each pot where it sits is enough work in that department for me. So I've found this FULL NOVA bulb from sunmaster. I think it's just what the doctor ordered. I'm going to post pictures of the spectrum of light both give off. I'm expecting them to work much better and I think I'm going to wind up using these bulbs for the whole grow from now on.
FULL NOVA-the black line that runs across the spectrum shows the VISIBLE light that a plant sees. See how full that area is below the black line.
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HPS I was using ---> see all that space under the black line with no light present?
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As you can see not only is there tons more blues but there's also a lot more reds!! I know I'm giving up a little yellow but I'm gaining so much in other areas I'm not concerned about it.
So I think there is a problem with combatability with my lumatek 600 watt ballasts and this model bulb. I don't blame the bulb or the ballast. They just don't mesh. But the bulbs are nice. I don't think I'd use them start to finish ONLY because the trade off for full spectrum is lower PAR watts. But I'd surely recommend them for the first 2 weeks of flowering. They'll keep the stretch down as well as start adding the Reds and oranges.
Nothing ventured nothing gained.
Angry Pollock
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Had the nl/Afghanistan 2 years ago. Actually had a few that had a pinkish hue to them. Was worth keeping , but I have a 10 1/2 week Super Silver Haze mom and I can't keep them all.
dave chull
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dang guys at seedsherenow need to follow those standards
Morphote
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Growing a pack of SSH right now: 26 seeds, 11 females, 3 males (1 kept). Here is the link: http://www.mrnice.nl/forum/super-silver-haze/14225-questions-finding-ssh-mother.html. Feel free to post any questions/comments you may have.
M.
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blowingupjake
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Good to see a familiar face over here.
Your SSH stable is looking good my man.
Stay hazed,
Jake
Morphote
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Thanks man. Will post pics of all the girls, in order, soon.Good to see a familiar face over here.
Your SSH stable is looking good my man.
Stay hazed,
Jake
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MadGreek
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They've had it for decades. Thanks. That really was not the question though. Has any seed bank crossed Mr Nice with TW?