tOfficial “Weed Growers” Thread

[batchaps4me]

Those are just the ethos seeds. I also have a good group of Humbolt's too. I had some seeds left over from last year. And I ordered more Blueberry Muffin because everyone loved the taste. The plants were all 6 - 8 foot with big buds that shined white and glistened. Very little trash to deal with during harvest and when breaking them down. So I have to grow them again.

But through reddit, I found out about ethos and it took me a long time to get those seeds....like 6 months. I was on a waiting list and at one point just gave up thinking I was blown off. Then I got the text saying they could fill the order and they showed up within a week.

In a few months I'll know if all the hype is real.

Let me ask you and @outofyourmind a seed question or two. Back in the day, the feminized seeds that you could buy were guaranteed either 3 or 4 females per five seeds. Is that still about par? If so, have you thought about removing the males to an isolated place along with a female to seed out the plant? A few folks I know had a separate indoor grow for this so that they would always have good seed.

 

[dikowt dowg]

Let me ask you and @outofyourmind a seed question or two. Back in the day, the feminized seeds that you could buy were guaranteed either 3 or 4 females per five seeds. Is that still about par? If so, have you thought about removing the males to an isolated place along with a female to seed out the plant? A few folks I know had a separate indoor grow for this so that they would always have good seed.

I don't know the answer for fact. My opinion from speaking with others is that these days, the major seed banks genetics are so good, that people rarely get males when buying feminized seeds. Like this ethos brand, they don't sell non-feminized seeds from what I can tell and when a person is lucky to get one by accident, it's like hitting the lottery. So I'm guessing it's more like 1 - 100 these days.

Last year I bought just the regular seeds from humboldt and a couple other seed banks from europe. My initial thought was I would use a male to cross pollinate several females so I would have seeds of my own of these new strains. But some of the plants (especially the humboldts) were just too nice looking and I didn't know how crossing different strains would work out anyways. So I killed all of the males.

This year, I bought just the feminized seeds of the blue berry muffin and the seeds I got from ethos only sold as feminized. So, I'm sold on feminized seeds.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

I leave the genetics and propagation to others.

I only want the one plant (my Rebel Yell!) but I try to maximize it.

 

[dikowt dowg]

If so, have you thought about removing the males to an isolated place along with a female to seed out the plant?

I missed this question. Prior to pot being legal, I didn't have access to seed banks. Every year I had to select a male or two to use to pollinate the female plants I wanted to work with the following year.

I have screwed up so many good plants, but through that have come up with systems that worked for me.

I will advise, never put a male anywhere near a female unless you want 10 billion seeds in that one female. You must be very careful. I would take a paper bag out to a male plant and stuff a flowered limb into the bag and shake it up to get the pollen off and into the bag. Seal the bag. Then...take that bag to a female and take one limb of the female and very carefully stuff that limb into the bag. Shake it a bit, remove the limb and quickly seal up the bag and leave the area. Hopefully you don't allow too much dust to escape from the bag and screw up the rest of the plant.

Done properly, one limb from a female dusted up pretty good will produce hundreds of seeds.

 

[outofyourmind]

Let me ask you and @outofyourmind a seed question or two. Back in the day, the feminized seeds that you could buy were guaranteed either 3 or 4 females per five seeds. Is that still about par? If so, have you thought about removing the males to an isolated place along with a female to seed out the plant? A few folks I know had a separate indoor grow for this so that they would always have good seed.

Haven't done it enough to know for sure.
I buy feminized seeds and have not found a male plant yet.

I thought about segregating the males and all that, but it's just too much work for me right now.

This is really my first Summer grow with controlled conditions, vs last year I put a seed in the ground and watched it grow.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

I missed this question. Prior to pot being legal, I didn't have access to seed banks. Every year I had to select a male or two to use to pollinate the female plants I wanted to work with the following year.

I have screwed up so many good plants, but through that have come up with systems that worked for me.

I will advise, never put a male anywhere near a female unless you want 10 billion seeds in that one female. You must be very careful. I would take a paper bag out to a male plant and stuff a flowered limb into the bag and shake it up to get the pollen off and into the bag. Seal the bag. Then...take that bag to a female and take one limb of the female and very carefully stuff that limb into the bag. Shake it a bit, remove the limb and quickly seal up the bag and leave the area. Hopefully you don't allow too much dust to escape from the bag and screw up the rest of the plant.

Done properly, one limb from a female dusted up pretty good will produce hundreds of seeds.

First year I did it I used seeds that came from my product I'd purchased. I had 5 germinate and they were all females.

After that it was clones all the way. I lived in the heart of the activity and I could find clones almost anywhere. Not 20 different varieties like now but Time Warp, Pine Berry, Northern Lights, etc.

I'd give a guy a big bottle of homemade wine and he'd give me 8 clones which was more than enough. I'd put them right on my sundeck and I lived in the flightpath of the local airport. The RCMP helicopter used to cruise right past me. But I had the plants cleverly disguised... Fake flowers. Yellow and red.



This was my second year garden effort.



And this was the main cola from the bottom pictured plant. It was massive. As long as my fibula.

 

[Kburjr]

Went to all started plants this year. 2 started clones(now a little over a foot tall) and 3 Dream Queen autoflowers started from seed which I get this weekend. Transplanting outdoors after this weekend.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Went to all started plants this year. 2 started clones(now a little over a foot tall) and 3 Dream Queen autoflowers started from seed which I get this weekend. Transplanting outdoors after this weekend.

We had sub zero temps the last 2 nights and a whack of hail/snow yesterday.

I'm waiting closer to 3 weeks to go outside.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

But it was sunny today after lunch.

Fickle weather.

 

[Kburjr]

We had sub zero temps the last 2 nights and a whack of hail/snow yesterday.

I'm waiting closer to 3 weeks to go outside.

We may get frost behind the front coming through tomorrow High of 83 tomorrow.. Hence, I wait.

Definitely will check long range forecast before transplanting.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

We may get frost behind the front coming through tomorrow High of 83 tomorrow.. Hence, I wait.

Definitely will check long range forecast before transplanting.

The creek in my back 40 went from not so much 4 weeks ago, to a raging torrent 2 weeks ago and back to not so much right now.

Today I woke up to rain. Sunny before I got out of the shower. Around 1 it got dark and thick rain/hail/sleet pounded for 45 minutes. Then back to sun.

I can't put anything young out just yet.

 

[outofyourmind]

I just survived my first weather event of the season.
60 mph winds, tornado near by
got some things blown around but the plants are fine.

 

[dikowt dowg]

First year I did it I used seeds that came from my product I'd purchased. I had 5 germinate and they were all females.

After that it was clones all the way. I lived in the heart of the activity and I could find clones almost anywhere. Not 20 different varieties like now but Time Warp, Pine Berry, Northern Lights, etc.

I'd give a guy a big bottle of homemade wine and he'd give me 8 clones which was more than enough. I'd put them right on my sundeck and I lived in the flightpath of the local airport. The RCMP helicopter used to cruise right past me. But I had the plants cleverly disguised... Fake flowers. Yellow and red.

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This was my second year garden effort.

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And this was the main cola from the bottom pictured plant. It was massive. As long as my fibula.

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Hahahaha ... This is my favorite. You do what you have to do.

 

[dikowt dowg]

I just survived my first weather event of the season.
60 mph winds, tornado near by
got some things blown around but the plants are fine.

The baby's fine. Save the plants.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Hahahaha ... This is my favorite. You do what you have to do.

Had some yellow ones and some white ones too.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

And those were all pictures of pictures. Which is why they were so dull.

 

[outofyourmind]

Just put 5 Autoflowers, 7 days old, outside in their pots.

Have 1 Autoflower that is the same age that has come up in the flower bed. It's as tall as the rest, even though it took a couple of more days to break the surface.

It's a little chilly and windy today, and for the next week, so I put some Mason jars over them.




There are 3 different varieties in the above group.

 

[dikowt dowg]

This is the latest up here that LE is trying and failing to crack down on. They are called a sticker shop. They sell you something like this

You peel off the back layer and stick it to something. So you pay $100 for sticker of a pot leaf and the store gives you a 1/4 ounce of weed as a gift for purchasing the sticker. There is a sticker shop in the Salmon Run Mall which is the main mall in Watertown. Every head shop is town is doing this now.

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[dikowt dowg]

Just put 5 Autoflowers, 7 days old, outside in their pots.

Have 1 Autoflower that is the same age that has come up in the flower bed. It's as tall as the rest, even though it took a couple of more days to break the surface.

It's a little chilly and windy today, and for the next week, so I put some Mason jars over them.




There are 3 different varieties in the above group.

I still have mine in pots waiting for trans planting. I'll get them in the ground over the next few weeks.

 

[outofyourmind]

I still have mine in pots waiting for trans planting. I'll get them in the ground over the next few weeks.

I germinated one Autoflower directly in my flower bed, and 3 in 1 gallon pots, all the same seeds.
I transplanted the 3 in the pots into the ground about 10 days ago. An experiment really, because they say don't do that.

Well, all 4 don't really seem to be getting the growth I had anticipated, but it's still early. They just don't have the time to catch up.


The 3 Photo periods I put in the ground are taking off great. I guess they have been in the ground for a month now. I think the soil mix is working great. No signs at all of nutrient deficiencies.

The 4 Photo periods I had in pots in the tent for the last 5 months, I have been taking them out and giving them sun, a little more each day.
Will put those in the ground next week after all the rain passes by. Should be acclimated to the Sun by then

I think our last freeze was in March. Can't remember it's been so long, and lived thru 18 Tornadoes since then.