I got a whole collection of different hempy buckets/containers. The worst are rectangle containers about 6” inch tall but much wider and longer. Wanted to try wide instead of tall containers but that wasn’t a good idea. I’d use larger containers if I’d grow from clones or fem seed. Regular buckets work well but also means more perlite and nutes than I need to get a full house. Cheap stuff but I like to waste little. I saved the jugs from previous runs too, when they dry out I can pull it out and shake off much of the perlite, which I’ll reuse in a soil grow some day. There’s a layer of clay pebbles on top and most got some at the bottom too. Keeps the algae grow down a little and helps preventing drain hole from getting blocked with perlite. Just a habit after I had some left over after the hydro grows with net pots.
Sounds like you have a similar outdoor flower period as we got in NL, though usually I could plant outside in May, the problem is september and october where it gets rainy and/or cold. I honestly don’t know what people grow outdoors nowadays here, many of the modern hybrids aren’t very suitable. In the old days afghani, hindu kush, purple#1, skunk, especially skunk when not everyone knew yet what cannabis plants smell like. Nowadays people get scratch cards in the mail so they can learn how cannabis and even xtc labs smell like so they can snitch. Anyway, top44 seems like a reliable choice in any case, not the strongest stuff but can be good daytime smoke.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, preflowers after 5th node is pretty consistent, topped most just above it and that plan worked out, still get to sex them early:
Same plant as last pic in previous post, pistils a little out of focus but definitely female
Found two more females, and one male. Not the best angle and pic but the erect stalks the balls got makes it obvious with naked eye.
Keeping ‘m all for now, don’t need their space yet and will collect pollen from at least one.
Aside from different leaves and structure I can recognize the 3 wineballs by the reddish color on new leaves too, fairly confident it’ll produce red or at least pink bud like its parents. If all males I’ll chuck on CH.
Will be switching to 12/12 in a few days.
I really wish I could recommend it, it’s cool on paper, yield just sucks and it’s clearly not strong. I bought them years ago, quite possible they selected better parents in newer generations.
It’s either pink pck x sh (produces better than the sh x red pck), or, sensi hindu kush x pck. Will have to read older posts. I remember making the latter cause I wanted to beef up the pck by using a basic kush rather than a modern hybrid. Regardless, only one way to find out, just want 1-3 females.
