Today is Thursday, and week 3 is coming to a close. Big developments guys. I know i promised pics and boy do i have some! I anticipated the male flowers to begin opening by the start of week 4, so i wanted to give them a chance to produce enough pollen before removing the branch and finishing it in a vase (as per product instruction). Wednesday i neglected my girls, and to my immense surprise, there were at least a half-dozen individual "bananas" open with their male parts flappin in the breeze today when i went to go check on them.
My wife assisted me as we removed the male branch from an otherwise beautifully female Blue Widow. I cleaned it up a little bit an stuck it in a vase. We used an old (but sanitized) makeup brush to caress a few open male flowers and hand pollinated both the ChemDawg and one of the Mexicans. So far, i must say, i couldn't be more pleased with the results of
Tiresias Mist. Everything has happened exactly as predicted, and the final step, we will find out in 45-50 days.
(Chem breeding, Mexican breeding, Male branch)
I also noticed that they are starting to eat about 1gal every 2 days, so i am incorporated a 2nd watering during their weekly schedule. Their diet now follows a F-W-W pattern and looks like this:
Mon:
Sensi Bloom 1400-1600ppm
Wed:
SNS 209 150-250ppm
Fri:
Black-strap 300-500ppm
You may have noticed that the 2nd "watering" isn't just water. I really like using Black-strap Molasses about 2-3 weeks into flower, as it seems to really make their resin heavy.
Apart from the obvious rockin-and-rollin the girls are doing, things that cant be seen from a photo; Blue Widow is starting to smell real funky. Like bad feet skunk. The Mexicans are smelling a little fruity almost? Too young to tell for sure. But that Chem...oh baby, well it smells like chem but with a hashy kick.
(Blue Widow, Blue Widow, Blue Widow, Chem, Chem, Mexican)
Ok thats all i got on these girls for now, thanks for stickin with it!
Much love
-SlightlyToasted
