I am sure that you are correct, severe stress seems to be my story lately.
How long will that carry the plants...all the way through Veg & Flower? Say we did a 2 months Veg, and 2-3 months of flower? 4-5 months is that realistic, or will AACT(actively aerated compost teas) be required? Curious....new and want to learn.
The soil mix posted will be water only for the first full round. Yes,supplement with ACT,SST,comfrey,fish,kelp,nettle,borage,etc..if need be.How long will that carry the plants...all the way through Veg & Flower? Say we did a 2 months Veg, and 2-3 months of flower? 4-5 months is that realistic, or will AACT(actively aerated compost teas) be required? Curious....new and want to learn.
Also, what is the shelf life of seeds if they're stored in a cool (room temperature), dark, dry place? Curious as I would like to stock up on some Swami Gear.
I want to try them all!
I wanna throw in my 2cents... using a standard “Coots mix”, with high quality castings,properly aged/seasoned compost (comphrey, nettle, composted leaves w/black leaf mold my fav mix) sphagnum peat, pummice- or whatever u preferfor aeration & all the amendment goodies - basalt rock powder, neam meal, karanja, brown algae kelp, ground barley malt, etc-How long will that carry the plants...all the way through Veg & Flower? Say we did a 2 months Veg, and 2-3 months of flower? 4-5 months is that realistic, or will AACT(actively aerated compost teas) be required? Curious....new and want to learn.
Also, what is the shelf life of seeds if they're stored in a cool (room temperature), dark, dry place? Curious as I would like to stock up on some Swami Gear.
I want to try them all!
Also wanted to add that some girls exhibit the occasional “smooth pod” shaped calyx, that can be easy to mistake for a banana/herm. If you look closely at the closeup pic, u can see a hair coming out of one of em. Anyway, a partner was freakin’ out over it, so I wanted to pass on that its fine - its just a unique growth style that pops up in some landraces and certain old school strains.
Tricky question - Firstly- Im referring ONLY to Swami Organic Seed co’s genuine article, real McCoy Nl5 X Neville’s Haze. I believe its currently F5 from their 91’ line.
Now while this keeps the next level, legendary effects in tact in the line, it’s important to realize that it can take some pheno hunting to get what youre after. Just be sure that u take one or 2 clones off of EVERYTHING u send into flower. When your harvest is in, dried & cured, u can decide on which are keepers that u want & toss the clones from phenos that didnt make it to “keeper” status. So far, of the girls we’ve run, we have had 100% germination, one mutant & a ~2/3 female to male ratio. ~10% of females were obvious indica dominant phenos, both of them ripened in under 9weeks. But tbh, while good, the small bushy, quick flowering pheno is my least fav pheno so far. ~1/4females are looking like straight sativas. Most of the rest are sativa dominant, but with various obvious Indica influences. All the straight sativas are going 12 weeks+ & are still growing. Harvested 2 more of the “hybrid” pheno ladies this morning... Speaking of which, I want to recommend a certain pheno that we were lucky enough to find... its a sativa dominant pheno, thin sativa leaves, but without the height that her more sativa sisters have. Smell is very unique, & Im excited about the effect... she’s special. Now, the only sample Ive smoked of it so far, is a quick dried bud I clipped at the beginning of her harvest window over a week ago. The smell/taste is an extremely strong, bitter skunk, very difficult to describe... Reminds me of bitter Mediterranean herbs w/oil & vinegar... an acrid, pungent, skunk scent is layered beneath the initial nose scrunching bitterness, with definite spicey, sweet incense & woody notes blended in. But the awesomely unique and strong smell/taste is just the gravy on top Our excitement comes from how F’ing strong this gal is... I love when you take that first hit & instantly KNOW you have something special. Well, that’s definitely the case here 
Had 4 other ppl try it, and got 2 ppl saying it was among the strongest theyd smoked. I cant wait to sample the fully ripened, properly cured version! To those not used to growing the oldies, be careful... even plants that dont LOOK or SMELL like they are anything but “meh” quality, can be deceptively intense, effect-wise. So dont freak out if you arent running double rails of frost down every sugar leaf... her magic is in her effect. Definitely have some frosty phenos in there. But just be patient... Ive noticed these ladies like to frost up late, and seemingly all at once. This is connoisseur grade smoke... not for the grower trying for quick finishing “show bud”, that has great bag appeal, tons of resin, but average effect. Seems like the markets flooded with “show bud” pot :/ No, Swami’s NL Haze is for the grower who wants the best, who doesnt mind putting in a little work to tease out some next level, hippy head stash gear
Disclaimer- The girls in the big room grow with a standard coots mix, with compost tea & water only, and are obvioisly superior to the few that are in FFOF soil under a bottled feed regiment.Tricky question - Firstly- Im referring ONLY to Swami Organic Seed co’s genuine article, real McCoy Nl5 X Neville’s Haze. I believe its currently F5 from their 91’ line.
So... its important to understand that Gas & co, use a breeding practice called “open field pollination”, instead of the usual “Best looking male X best looking female” style of breeding. While the latter can be a good to produce homogeny & uniformity, the open field pollination style is better for keeping ALL of a strain’s characteristics in tact in future generations. EXACTLY what the serious grower & aspiring breeder wants
This is a looong way of saying that there is a very wide range of flowering times in the Swami Nl Haze line. I see this as a great thing. You want a shorter flowering, more indica leaning girl? Its in there, just select for it. You prefer the powerfully intense, sativa dominant, classic NL5 X Haze rushy, racing high? Its in there
To Gas- working with a group of vets here, paying it forward best I can... was asked to pass on a “thank you” message, sooo...
. Many are adamant RKS is extinct, and gone forever, breeded into oblivion...
My thoughts exactly! I CANNOT miss out on this...(Get in line BEHIND me Sour Wreck
_LOL...Just Kidding! Only Teasing!
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Already worried someone is going to buy out the whole lot. {/quote]
maybe they will limit purchase to 2 or 3 packs, i just want one
So have faith & believe... I am THRILLED with the results of the couple dozen we’ve popped (total, spread over 3 gardens), but while we DID get at least 2 keepers (probably 3 - looking at you, skunky sativa pheno!), we culled 1 mutant in seedling stage, ~half dozen in veg & of the girls we have/are harvesting, most wont be back next cycle. You WILL get non-keepers, is my point - is I dont want anyone to miss out in this, because they grew out a few seeds, didnt get anything special & so assume its a BS line. It is the REAL DEAL. Have faith... I PROMISE you wont be disappointed
Growing from seed in hope of providing my own medicine, not able to have perpetual yet. I smoke what I grow so having different Phenos can be a nice change, usually, one flower is better and disappears quickly! Thanks for the nice genetics, maybe I won't stress my next grow as much.Tricky question - Firstly- Im referring ONLY to Swami Organic Seed co’s genuine article, real McCoy Nl5 X Neville’s Haze. I believe its currently F5 from their 91’ line.
So... its important to understand that Gas & co, use a breeding practice called “open field pollination”, instead of the usual “Best looking male X best looking female” style of breeding. While the latter can be a good to produce homogeny & uniformity, the open field pollination style is better for keeping ALL of a strain’s characteristics in tact in future generations. EXACTLY what the serious grower & aspiring breeder wants
This is a looong way of saying that there is a very wide range of flowering times in the Swami Nl Haze line. I see this as a great thing. You want a shorter flowering, more indica leaning girl? Its in there, just select for it. You prefer the powerfully intense, sativa dominant, classic NL5 X Haze rushy, racing high? Its in there
There is also a indica version, you know anything about it?Update on the NL5 X Haze... another girl came down. Still drying, but the wet trim produced a decent bowl of finger hash... and HOLY SHIT was it strong! Idk what the thc % or any of that... just that the EFFECT was ridiculously intense. Sooooo racey, damn! Pounding, racing heart, explosions of tingly rushy feelings shooting up & outward from the chest with every heart beat. Gripping on the face & mouth - sort of “headband-ish” in how much you feel it in ur face, mouth & head... I admit is was a wake and bake, and finger hash is obviously on a level above flower... but it was just straight scissor-scrapings. No acetone/alcohol wash or anything. Seriously though, it was def one of the top 20 (cannabis) highs for me, ALL TIME. Everyone dropped out before the bowl was finished, myself included - 3 bong hits wrecked me. Im obviously a heavily tolerant smoker, and even still - I couldnt bare the thought of going out into public - something that simply never happens to me anymore... THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH Swami & Gas! Ive wasted so much fucking time & money looking for this EXACT gear. Mr Nice, Greenhouse, Reserva Prevada - not knocking them as companies or anything... but Im sorry, their NL5xHaze offerings are total bullshit compared to these godesses from Swami Organic Seed co. SOOO HAPPY!
And I know Ive said it before, but dont be discouraged if ur only running 5-10 seeds and u dont find a keeper... Swami did a dynamite job keeping the bulk of the NL5 Haze genetic in tact. That means that the goodness IS in there... but it needs to be selected for. Ur simply not going to sow 20 seeds, get 10 females & have them all be homogenous keepers. Saying a genetic is “stable”, is really, the same as saying that its been bred into a genetic bottle-neck. With so many breeders going the “homogeneous, stable as possible” route, I worry about what traits, terps & unknown actors are being bred out
Reptisun isnt enough uvb, neither is the 1 or 2 diodes included in narrow band chinese LEDs. You need to get an arcadia brand t-5 fixture, and be sure to use the 14% UVB bulbs. They have to be RIGHT over the plant you wanna boost thc & resin production in. Unfortunately, the uvb dissipates fast - the lower buds will show no apparent effect, but the tops are OBVIOUSLY blessed with increased resin & thc production. I prop mine at ~a 45degree angle, to avoid blocking light from above. Best use is with a light rail, imo. I have seen zero additional benefit using UVB during veg or even during the first half of flowering. Plants that received it for the duration of flowering, showed the same - but not more- resin & thc production as the girls who only received uvb during the last few weeks of flowering. To save $, I only use them for the last 3 weeks of flower myself. It IS real, though. I live in WA where weed is legal (I LOVE THE FUTURE!!! Lol) and am able to walk in and submit samples to 360-Analytics, for thca & thc, testing which happens to be down the road from me. Havent done a properly controlled uvb experiment in years, but when I had the $ for it (its $25+ to test each sample, depending whatvu want - terpine analysis, cbg, cbn, molds, fungi, etc), I was seeing 3-5% bump to thcs, & an obvious to the eyes, increase in resin production. No change in flowering times noticed. And when I say “3-5%”, I mean 21% thca, increasing to 24-26%... not just 3% of the total, if that makes sense. Generally, its about a 15-25% increase in potency, seen in the uvb treated tops. I also wanna mention- topping & ScrOGing short Indicas lends itself PERFECTLY to this method. When the plant is only 12”-18” tall, and is basically just a mass of 9” colas, every bud can be hit with uvb, and the entire yield is equally killer. With anything past 18” tall or so, the mid-bottom buds just arent getting enough uvb to matter as much. Best results with a light rail, using very short plants, topped and ScrOGed so that no one top is taller than another. I used to keep this shit secret at all costs, as it really does give you an edge over those who arent using it. But as Ive aged & matured, Ive evolved my thinking & believe that useful info should be shared freely. This is VERY useful info & I highly encourage those who havent tried it, to do a side by side & see for themselves. Its maybe $75-$85 for the T-5 fixture plus the 16%uvb bulb. Not sure of the current price, its been a while since I bought one. Bulbs are in the $30-$35 range.