GreenHighlanders basic medical grow Part deux

Good growth compared to Oct 2, whats the wattage of each of those T5s? 4ft? , whats your light schedule ?

Strudelheim said:

Good growth compared to Oct 2, whats the wattage of each of those T5s? 4ft? , whats your light schedule ?

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Again that is the difference a little food can make lol
They are 4 ft sunblaster T5HO 6400k bulbs. They are 54 watts each. I run 18/6 for veg and moms.

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The Kush x c99 females still needing a transplant lol


5 MLH females. The plant in the upper right still is not clearly showing sex.


5 Lemon Lotus still not showing sex

3 Lemon Lotus males

3 starving Lemon Lotus girls


They will all be transplanted and get new homes in the next few days. The Lemon Lotus males and females , will be flowered out together in the hope of making seeds. This is officially the first time I have ever let a male plant live past showing its balls lol
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Ive had pollen show as soon as 2 weeks into flower. I would say instead of open pollination, you could flower separately, collect and freeze pollen and then you have future pollen for other projects. I recently flowered 20 males, and have enough pollen for many many projects. flowering males is annoying!

Strudelheim said:

Ive had pollen show as soon as 2 weeks into flower. I would say instead of open pollination, you could flower separately, collect and freeze pollen and then you have future pollen for other projects. I recently flowered 20 males, and have enough pollen for many many projects. flowering males is annoying!

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I would if I was trying to "work" the cross. This is just simply to preserve the genetics to give away to people and I will save some to hunt through later. From what little I know it would seem open pollination is the best option for preservation. It might take a lot of hunting, but the original should be in the offspring.
When you flowered 20 males how did you make sure cross pollination from one male to another didn't happen?
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GreenHighlander said:

I would if I was trying to "work" the cross. This is just simply to preserve the genetics to give away to people and I will save some to hunt through later. From what little I know it would seem open pollination is the best option for preservation. It might take a lot of hunting, but the original should be in the offspring.
When you flowered 20 males how did you make sure cross pollination from one male to another didn't happen?
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that was actually the thing, I mixed all the pollen together to make a blend of 7 strains, I then dried and portioned it into 7 pieces, and vacuum sealed each and put in freezer with silica packs. so now whenever I want some seeds I take one packet and brush on lower branches of whatever I have flowering. I am ok with a massive pheno hunt, I like all my genetics I have in the garden, so making hundreds of seeds of all kinds of mixing and matching for me to dig through seemed appealing. Will be fun to guess who the dad is in every plant I grow out of these.

Brushing on lower branches as opposed to open pollination gives you a mostly seed free harvest of nice buds, and just the lower small popcorn nugs will be seeded.

I noticed a few plants showing some frost in veg.
This is a Lemon Lotus male

And this is a MLH female.The runt of the litter.


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So I am finally in the midst of transplanting the females of Kush x c99 and MLH, and all of the Lemon Lotus, and I noticed I seem to have a bunch of plants showing female calyx's , but only a few that are also showing pistols. From my experience the pistols usually show within a day or two of the calyx. Some of these it has been a week or more of showing a female calyx.
Clearly showing sex is why I have held off on the transplanting. But the plants are telling me they cant wait. So they are all getting put into 7gal and situated in their new homes.
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Slowly getting things transplanted. Thank fuck cuz they are starved to shit. Other then the MLH which look much healthier. They were also in larger pots then the rest so didn't run out of food as quick.
The three in the upper left with colored sticks are kush x c99. The four to the upper right with no sticks are lemon lotus. The tallest was the first to show female. The two closer in the middle are MLH. They all got sprayed with neem at transplant and are now sitting under a 1k hps at a steady 24c with roughly 45-50% rh.
It is all fresh https://www.pthorticulture.com/en/products/pro-mix-mp-mycorrhizae-organik/. Per 7 gal of soil I added 1 cup of fishbone meal, 1cup of alfalfa meal, 1 cup of powerbloom plus, All gaia green products. I also added 2 cups of ewc and 1 1/2 cups of crushed oyster shells per 7 gal of soil.
I did not allow my soil to cook and actually havent for a couple years now.
They will most likely be getting two weeks or so veg before flipping. I would usually use a 1000w MH for that but in true stoner style I entirely forgot I threw out my 1000w mh when I shutdown. So cheap hps it is lol


The rest of my neglected plants waiting for transplant.
The four to the left in the white containers are Lemon Lotus male. Back left is an MLH. Next to that is one kush x c99 in the back and one MLH in the round pot next to it. Then the runt MLH by itself and then four other Lemon Lotus. Left-right.



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Next up will be Blueberry and/or SS x c99 aka sweet cindy. Both from peak.
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Noticed this little guy on one of the Lemon Lotus



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Another MLH showing male



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4 kush x c99 in the back left. 4 Lemon Lotus in the back right. 4 MLH the row closest in the picture.


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We have similar footprints. I like to do 4 by 4 feet. 4 rows of 4x 3g pots. Nice update!

how many more weeks of veg before flip ?

It is a 6x6 space. I usually do 12-16 7gal pots.

GreenHighlander said:

They will most likely be getting two weeks or so veg before flipping

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4 kush x c99s in the back left. 4 Lemon Lotus in the back right. 5 MLH in the front row.

The runt MLH



Still waiting on a couple Lemon Lotus to show sex before transplanting.

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GreenHighlander said:

Next up will be Blueberry and/or SS x c99 aka sweet cindy. Both from peak.
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I think you should run blueberry next. We could do a headbanger blueberry chuck. I'm thinking that would be a nice cross.

I might hold off on the BB. If it is anything like the BB I ran in the late 90s (which I hope it is) she does not perform well in anything other then perfect conditions. Which I clearly do not have atm lol
When I do run it I want to run a pack of his old and newest versions side by side. I have enjoyed all his crosses with the BB so I look forward to just the BB.
I have a feeling I have seen a BBx headbanger cross somewhere. Or it might of been Headband x BB .

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GreenHighlander said:

I might hold off on the BB. If it is anything like the BB I ran in the late 90s (which I hope it is) she does not perform well in anything other then perfect conditions. Which I clearly do not have atm lol
When I do run it I want to run a pack of his old and newest versions side by side. I have enjoyed all his crosses with the BB so I look forward to just the BB.
I have a feeling I have seen a BBx headbanger cross somewhere. Or it might of been Headband x BB .

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Yes blueberry is a light feeder during veg but likes her feed during flowering. I didn't realize he had made more than one version.

Kp sunshine said:

Yes blueberry is a light feeder during veg but likes her feed during flowering. I didn't realize he had made more than one version.

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The one I ran for a couple years was a light feeder the whole way. Anything over 650-700 ppm she hated. Any PH outside of 6.0-6.3 she hated. Any temps under 66 or over 76 she hated. Light too close, yup she hated. Everything about her was finicky as could be. The yield was medium at best even when dialed in and even with the necessary long veg.But she was everything BB is claimed to be. I swear that pheno would show her displeasure if there was dust in a corner lol
Mike is always working and trying to improve his strains. Thats how he breeds. When I asked what the difference was between the packs he sent, he said it was just the newest version. He added he feels it is an improvement over the other. I didn't ask how . I am sure if you were to email him he could explain it much better then me.

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