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Week 1 on 12/12 Plants are looking happy. Ive changed my mind. I will not pollinate one of these clones with the F4 VI male. I am going to wait for the F4 VI that is outdoors to start flowering, and select a strong purple male to cross with the F1 BW x VI cut. Im going to do this right and make...

Plant #1 is really unique. Its looking more and more like a pure sativa. It is slow growing but the overall flower structure is quite beautiful. This plant is starting to remind me of a Cantaloupe Haze that I grew back in 2011. My gut tells me that this plant is going to produce some amazing...

Week 4 on 12/12 I increased light by 30min All the plants are looking good. I top dressed half a teaspoon of blood meal and fish bone meal. They are drinking 1.5-2 cups of water a day. The temps have consistently stayed around 88f. Today I turned off one of the lights because the temps were in...

Why dont you just start seeds outdoors in May? I would germinate the seeds on the second week of March. They need at least 4 weeks of maturity before they can flower, and by then the days have started to get longer. This year I noticed volunteer seedlings sprouted in Feb, in my raised bed that...

My answer the original post. Its always first and foremost genetics. If a plant has excellent genetics and is growing in a nutrient rich medium, it will produce frosty flowers. The plant has to be well fed, obviously. Light helps the plant produce bigger flowers, not more trichomes. Ive seen...

Op, chop that plant down. Harvest early and start over. Its not worth the effort to try and bring her back to good health. The best advice I can give you is never ease up on the nitrogen. Feed all the way until the end. They tend to need more of it once they start flowering. Sativa leaning...

Well this is an interesting surprise. One of the F1 plants that I took out of the tent, because I spotted two male flowers on it, has done something ive never seen before. The male flowers never developed. They dried out and just fell off today. This is the plant that was the most sensitive to...

Ive selected three males and took cuttings. Male #1 - Indica leaning but displaying all the desired traits. Male #2 - A more balanced hybrid that is displaying all desired traits. Male #3 - An attractive anomaly. Appears to be a smaller plant in structure, but its proven to be quite hardy...

Week 3 on 11.5/12.5 I increased light by 30 min. Everything is looking decent. Flowers are starting to show more character. Plant #1 - Stable and slowly trudging along. She has dropped a few of the lower fan leaves. I tried giving her some blood meal to see if it helps. Considering that she is...

Two F1 clones were shuffled into the flower tent. For the sake of simplicity, Sunday will be documented as day one of flower. The F4 Valley Ice male is week 2 into flower. I have the male in the living room, and will start collecting pollen in about 2 weeks. I also have plenty of fresh Durban...

I tossed the F1 plant #1 back into the tent. I cant shake the feeling that this girl has it in her to finish properly, now that she has been pollinated by the Durban Poison male. Maybe she will relax a bit and wont produce anymore male flowers. I cut of the small branch that had two male flowers...

I planted 12 F4 seeds that come from the purple mother. Im going to cross a purple male with SSH to make some F1 seeds. I also tossed a clone of the F3 mother into the flower tent.