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Ok, ready to flip 6x of these F2's, 99% sure they're fems and they're all in 2gal's. Will flip the 6 tonight and add any that haven't sexed 100%, there's two that could go either way and 5 males for sure. Keeping the rest going for a few days in the tent until I'm 100% sure, there's one male that stinks pretty good,I may clone it to try later. They've started pre-flowering so the rest will be pretty obvious to sex in the next few days.

2 of the fems (back-right) are sat-dom and starting to stretch, the other 4 are more indi-dom, shorter, stocky with very tight nodes. There's 3x that smell awesome and one of those is skunky, like road-kill skunky, interesting as none of the F1's I ran had that smell profile. Haven't done any training as I want to see their natural growth patterns.

Last group shots, 19 days out of their party cups:



Fems in 2gal's:


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WhooHoo, confirmed a couple more fems this morning so looks like 8 of the 13 will end up fems Will up-pot and add them to the 6x 2gal, lots of footprint coverage left under that LEC. Those tiny cups you see on the floor are 2 oz. party cups I'm running just to see if I can grow 12/12 from seed in those and how long I can keep them going, a side grow to the Party Cup comp going on in the LED section. Day 25 for the 1x 10gal and Day1 of 12/12 for the 6x 2gal Blue Ripper F2's...




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Some Blue Ripper pollen off the 1gal male, good haul for a 1gal plant, it's mixed 3 to 1 with flour. I left the Harlequin and Blue Ripper in the tent while I was collecting the pollen to make sure they were well pollinated, about 5 weeks for some Blue Ripper F2's (tester batch) and Blue Ripper x Harlequin F1's to see if I can develop that into a THC/CBD strain.



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They look healthy as a mofo! Just found your thread

Mason Jar 92705 said:

They look healthy as a mofo! Just found your thread

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Hey cheers and thanks for popping in. Those F2's are seedlings from the bigger 10gal behind them, hoping to find some winners and not seeing any duds so far, even the males look good

Ok, some good news and final config for this Blue Ripper F2 pheno hunt. The final, final tally (last few finally showed their sex!) was ** 10 ** fems from the 13x original seeds (actually 16, 3 culled at the beginning). 3 males left and one smells dank, will decide whether I keep one for future pollen when I get a minute.

Culled one of the 10 fems, it was nothing special in smell or structure. The rest smell and look good enough to flower out to test, 9x 2gal in a 3x3' or so is perfect at this size. They're taking 34" x 34" and have started stretching since they were at 14/10 for 6 days before moving them into the flower room. They'll spread out a bit now so will end up ~3.5 x 3.5' which is fine under the 315w LEC.

They're all indi-dom, a couple have some sat-features but even those are maybe 50/50 while most are 60/40 or 70/30 leaning towards indica's. Regardless of structure, most have the 9-point leaves around the main. There's basically 2x smell profiles, all are strong, a couple are outstanding. One profile is close to the original F1's with the more fruity/blueberry smell, the other smell profile has some sweet/fruit in the background, but more skunky/earthy/kushy smell. Hoping the smell transfers to taste on at least some, a couple are very strong considering they're not flowering yet.

Here's the final footprint, re-setting the flowering time count to Day 8 as of last night. They were at 14/10 for 6 & 7 days so they'll be closer to a normal 12/12 flip using this count. They were all starting to stretch but now under the CMH it'll be interesting to see how much more they stretch. Expecting a couple of them to shoot up and will even out the canopy later once they finish stretching. Flowers should show up by the weekend as they were all showing pre-flowers at different stages. Only change now would be if I misread any but pretty sure they're all fems, hopefully no tranny's in there




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Fucking eh! Great day for Canadian med growers. Bottom line is the right to grow our own meds is now considered a right and no one, including a new government can take that right away as it has been ruled our right under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by our highest (Federal Supreme) court. Fuck yeah!



Ottawa, February 24, 2016 – A judgment was issued today by the Honourable Michael L. Phelan of the Federal Court in file T-2030-13:

IN THE MATTER OF NEIL ALLARD and others v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF CANADA

Summary: In 2013, the plaintiffs instituted proceedings in Federal Court in order to challenge the constitutionality of the new medical marihuana regime.

The federal government previously put in place the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations [MMAR] in 2001, repealed the MMAR on March 31, 2014, and put in place a substantially different regime under the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations [MMPR].

More specifically, the Plaintiffs seek Declarations from the Court under section 52 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the Charter) that the MMPR are in violation of section 7 of the Charter and not saved by section 1. Furthermore, the Plaintiffs seek Orders from the Court under section 24 of the Charter for an interim and final remedy.

The action was heard at trial before Justice Phelan over three weeks in February and March 2015, and then re-opened in June and July to receive submissions regarding the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R. v Smith, 2015 SCC 34 (issued on June 11, 2015).

The Court has concluded that the Plaintiffs are entitled to a declaration that their section 7 Charter rights have been infringed by the MMPR and that such infringement is not in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice or otherwise justified under section 1. The declaration will be suspended for six (6) months to allow the government to respond to the declaration of invalidity.

Light one up for Her Majesty!

Humanrob said:

Light one up for Her Majesty!

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Lol, pretty sure we'll be smelling a lot of ganja up here today. It's even sweeter because the decision is a middle finger to the prime minister that got the boot a few months ago. He shoved this new program down our throats, lined up all his buddies with large/commercial grow op licenses, then took away med patient rights to grow. Would love to see the look on his face today and how much money he and his cronies just lost. Those commercial grow ops were counting on medical to keep them going until they legalize recreational, but that'll take a couple of years minimum and few of them have enough business today to stay afloat that long. Now with patients re-gaining their right to grow, it'll be even worse for them. Love it when the little guy wins against "the man"

Recently upgraded my phone app for the Foscam WiFi cameras in the rooms. Screenshot quality is much better, better than the PC/Mac app imo. The flower room has a high res camera so it gets a little distorted but quality is pretty decent. Software is amazing for a phone app, controls for everything you can do on a PC/Mac but on your phone. Nice.

Flower room cam, screenshot on my phone, this is exactly what I see on the phone in landscape mode (Blue Ripper 10gal):



LED Tent cam screenshot (seeded Harlequin and Blue Ripper plants):



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Something I'm trying out. Kind of a joke side-grow in the 8th Party Cup competition going on in the LED section. 5x Blue Ripper F2 seeds in 2 oz. party cups (plastic shooter cups). The grow is a bit of a joke, can't see them going the full round in those tiny cups, but will give it a go. What I do like about these cups is using them to start seeds going forward. There's always the odd dud seed if I'm doing a bunch, this will save time, medium and let me "up-pot" any potential keepers to 16 oz. cups if they're contenders.

Day 3, 2x have popped through quick but all are looking like they'll break soil in the next day or so. These are fabric-lined with air pruning holes for the comp, hoping the air-pruned cups can get them through the cycle.

Keeping them watered is going to be fun! They're too small for even the small Blu Mat carrots. I'm going to try basically using the fabric as a wick system. The tray they're sitting in is a bird feeder and about 2" deep, thinking if I keep a small amount of water in the tray, the fabric will wick the water up as needed. Wish me luck!




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Well that King cloner off e-bay seems to be working just fine. A bunch of clones from those F2's in the flower room. 2 batches went in, some are 12 days (most started showing roots around 8 days), some are 6 days and just getting bumps. Looks like they're rooting about the same rate as the F1 keepers I'm running, so far so good.




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Clone king is a good rig IMO, bought a couple of em.
I DIY'ed a different lid, 16 - 2" holes, colored plugs, easy to keep track of different strains,
Used a black plastic cutting board.

Love the root porn !

Oh, good luck on the party cup competition ,
though I have to root for hyroot, he's using my cross, blue balz.
Be fun to watch

BobBitchen said:

Clone king is a good rig IMO, bought a couple of em.
I DIY'ed a different lid, 16 - 2" holes, colored plugs, easy to keep track of different strains,
Used a black plastic cutting board.

Love the root porn !

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That's a great idea, it would be easy enough to have different lids for these, I like that lid design, no possible way it'll leak. I don't mind the 36 sites but will rarely use them, another with say 16 2" sites would work 90% of the time and would use standard plugs. I like the size of it and the res, much easier to change/haul water than that 16 gal tote I was using! Not worth DIY'ng the whole thing at the price they sell these for. Bought one for my son too, he's been hesitant to try aero but this unit is a no brainer.

BobBitchen said:

Oh, good luck on the party cup competition ,
though I have to root for hyroot, he's using my cross, blue balz.
Be fun to watch

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Thanks, you should have gotten in on it! Blue Balz vs. Blue Ripper, may the best cross win - lol I'm just hoping to get a fem or two, last round I dropped out right away just bad timing, previous one I ended up with only one decent seed and it ended up male - a 2ft. male in a party cup mind you



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Shots of the flower room. Day 31 for the large 10gal and Day 13 for the 9x 2gal Blue Ripper F2's. All are coming along well and healthy, 2gal's are starting to throw buds. They're all very indica in structure, a couple have sat-leaning leaves but still very indica structure. Smell-wise there's basically two profiles, a sweeter/fruity version with a skunky background, and a very loud skunky version, both dank There's 3 of them I'm calling the purple pheno. On the leaves leading to the largest fans they have a purple stem leading to a bright purple/red dot in the base of the leaves. Checked them all and they all have the 9-point leaf trait from the first sat-dom pheno. The 9x gal are taking 3 x 3.5' now and ~18" from the soil, still stretching a bit.




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Blue Ripper F2 seeds coming up in the LED tent, Day 27, there's no doubt they took that stud's pollen




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Pic of that Blue Ripper purple-dot pheno trait I mentioned in an earlier update. There's 3 of this pheno, the large fan stem gets purple as it gets to the leaf and ends in a purple/red dot at the base of the leaf. This pheno smells more skunky than fruity at this point.



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Nice healthy leaves there.

Good luck on the Dixie Cup Challenge!

JD

Javadog said:

Nice healthy leaves there.

Good luck on the Dixie Cup Challenge!

JD

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Cheers JD, liking the look of those F2's so far Will need the luck, looks like the fabric cups in a tray will work for watering though. The fabric's wicking up the water so I'm just dumping about 3/4" of water in the tray every couple of days, easier than individually watering them, specially the 2oz. cups

4x Contenders in the 16 oz. cups and 3x in the 2 oz. cups, off to the races. Don't mind the "security image", some rule they made up in the party cup comp (??). Stretching like mofo's but don't want to burn them before they establish some roots so keeping them low for another day or two.



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