AK Bean Brains

klyphman said:
Are you talking aphids inside or out?

I also had crazy aphids last year (outdoors). Bought some ladybugs and re-located every daddy-long-leg I could find to my plants. It took a week or two, but soon all the aphids were gone and my plants were crawling with ladybugs in all phases of their life cycle. Daddy long legs everywhere and even some parasitic wasps joined the party.

Cool to see natural solutions instead of chemicals. Fingers crossed this year.
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I had them inside. I know it's probably not popular, but I used Avid to get rid of them. I've been using that for spider mites for about 20 years now. Luckily I'm usually able to spot pests early and spray just the plants affected without having to spray everything.
 
Bumping this thread with a short (not very exciting) update on my AKBB grow. NL1 x Big Skunk/NL1 (anyone grow these out yet?)

3 of 3 popped, but 1 seedling barely made it above ground before giving up. The other two are looking nice and are starting their second set of true leaves. Watching the weather and will probably get them in the ground at the end of the week.

Soaked 2 more, but 1 has turned dark brown/black and hasn’t popped in 4 days. Not hopeful. The other one was started a few days later. Hasnt popped yet, but it is still early days. Fingers crossed.


@psychadelibud How are the Beatrix Choice progressing?
 
To whoever ordered these seeds during the 4/20 sale, but didn’t bother paying for them, thank you.
It’s rare that I get to swim through the wake of someone else’s mistake, and benefit from it, but here they are.

I’ll be using these Super Skunk BX in some future breeding projects that I have planned.
I’m excited to see what the results of crossing them to my cut of Grape Ape will be.
I also have some Jack Herer x Vortex seeds from Dominion that I’ll be crossing these to in hopes of recreating something similar to Jack Flash.

Now that I have the BX secured, I’ll probably be planting the Skunk #1 x Super Skunk pretty soon.

The Sunset Octane x TKNL5HAZE freebies sound really appealing, too.

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Looks like 2 or 3 of the beans have cracked but aren't showing a tap root yet, so I'm going to give them all another 24hr and then plant em in solo cups. Decided I am going to flower out the whole pack and look for a new mother (possibly) as well as collecting some pollen from any stud males and hitting @Useful Seeds Chem D x Banana OG with em. Usefuls Chem D is super dank, the clones are reeking its that potent; now I figure 2 of AKBBs heaviest hitting strains crossed to that dankness is just going to produce some magic.
 
Bad Karma said:
To whoever ordered these seeds during the 4/20 sale, but didn’t bother paying for them, thank you.
It’s rare that I get to swim through the wake of someone else’s mistake, and benefit from it, but here they are.

I’ll be using these Super Skunk BX in some future breeding projects that I have planned.
I’m excited to see what the results of crossing them to my cut of Grape Ape will be.
I also have some Jack Herer x Vortex seeds from Dominion that I’ll be crossing these to in hopes of recreating something similar to Jack Flash.

Now that I have the BX secured, I’ll probably be planting the Skunk #1 x Super Skunk pretty soon.

The Sunset Octane x TKNL5HAZE freebies sound really appealing, too.

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If you ever plan to take that to a F2, keep me in mind! Nice score!
 
klyphman said:
Bumping this thread with a short (not very exciting) update on my AKBB grow. NL1 x Big Skunk/NL1 (anyone grow these out yet?)

3 of 3 popped, but 1 seedling barely made it above ground before giving up. The other two are looking nice and are starting their second set of true leaves. Watching the weather and will probably get them in the ground at the end of the week.

Soaked 2 more, but 1 has turned dark brown/black and hasn’t popped in 4 days. Not hopeful. The other one was started a few days later. Hasnt popped yet, but it is still early days. Fingers crossed.


@psychadelibud How are the Beatrix Choice progressing?
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Sorry, I've been away from the forums for a couple of days working on my outdoor plots while we're in the middle of blackberry winter. Best time to get shit done.

I seen previously you asked about the NL1 x Big Skunk/NL1 and meant to answer you then. I have not grown it completely out yet but have it going right now atm. I will be flipping to flower in the next week and half or so. Need to get them out of the half gal coco containers tonight actually and start transplanting to the 3s...

They're super nice so far, nice funky stem rubs and the structure is great! They seem/look/feel like tanks, super hardy and old school.

I am really loving everything I am running right now and I feel like this will be the best grow I've had in years! Takes me back to old times and places...

The beatrix is doing great! I had a little hiccup with them at first and didnt think 3 of them would make it but they did! All 5 of mine are up, AK has successfully germed all of his also so far but his have not came up just yet.... Here is the beatrix as of yesterday.


Sorry about the awful lighting, those HPS throw them off severely.


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I forgot to mention.... We have another we will be working on also that I got ahold of called M48. Akbb has already popped his M48. I have not, yet.

M48 is Super Sativa Seed Clubs South African Haze which was listed in the 1990 or 1991 seed catalogues, or both. I originally was told it was m39 (south african haze) but I knew that m39 was Skunk 1 x Basic 5. So I contacted my connect and explained it. Hes an elderly man and got confused, so he corrected it and looked at his package. I have pics of the original packaging he had sent to him from SSSC and they're 100% legit. He also has 4 of the original seeds still left in the package. They came in plain brown mailing envelopes written on the outside the with the #m-- that indicated the strain inside. This is going to be interesting.

I know of no one else with either the beatrix nor the south african haze from sssc... and if so, I'd question the authenticity of it. The beatrix is very distinct and right off the bat you'll know it. The beatrix has very long petioles and the entire structure of the plant is just unique and looks like nothing else.

You can see in this old pic from the catalog the super long petioles...


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psychadelibud said:
I forgot to mention.... We have another we will be working on also that I got ahold of called M48. Akbb has already popped his M48. I have not, yet.

M48 is Super Sativa Seed Clubs South African Haze which was listed in the 1990 or 1991 seed catalogues, or both. I originally was told it was m39 (south african haze) but I knew that m39 was Skunk 1 x Basic 5. So I contacted my connect and explained it. Hes an elderly man and got confused, so he corrected it and looked at his package. I have pics of the original packaging he had sent to him from SSSC and they're 100% legit. He also has 4 of the original seeds still left in the package. They came in plain brown mailing envelopes written on the outside the with the #m-- that indicated the strain inside. This is going to be interesting.

I know of no one else with either the beatrix nor the south african haze from sssc... and if so, I'd question the authenticity of it. The beatrix is very distinct and right off the bat you'll know it. The beatrix has very long petioles and the entire structure of the plant is just unique and looks like nothing else.

You can see in this old pic from the catalog the super long petioles...


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Great to see these were viable! I assume you're going to open pollinate and bring these strains back to life?
 
mindriot said:
Great to see these were viable! I assume you're going to open pollinate and bring these strains back to life?
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Yessir, that is my plan. I am going to open pollinate both the beatrix and the m48... I'm going to open pollinate ALL old and rare lines that I can, and preserve them in the freezer. One day I'll have a huge collection when the only thing in the World left over is, cookie gorilla cake gushers... smh.

I will probably produce some hybrids with them too.
 
psychadelibud said:
I forgot to mention.... We have another we will be working on also that I got ahold of called M48. Akbb has already popped his M48. I have not, yet.

M48 is Super Sativa Seed Clubs South African Haze which was listed in the 1990 or 1991 seed catalogues, or both. I originally was told it was m39 (south african haze) but I knew that m39 was Skunk 1 x Basic 5. So I contacted my connect and explained it. Hes an elderly man and got confused, so he corrected it and looked at his package. I have pics of the original packaging he had sent to him from SSSC and they're 100% legit. He also has 4 of the original seeds still left in the package. They came in plain brown mailing envelopes written on the outside the with the #m-- that indicated the strain inside. This is going to be interesting.

I know of no one else with either the beatrix nor the south african haze from sssc... and if so, I'd question the authenticity of it. The beatrix is very distinct and right off the bat you'll know it. The beatrix has very long petioles and the entire structure of the plant is just unique and looks like nothing else.

You can see in this old pic from the catalog the super long petioles...


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Never got to try it but I love to see thing coming back from the past. Interesting looking plant can't wait to see how they turn out.
 
psychadelibud said:
Ladies and gents.... the time has come! Soon the process will begin!

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Akbb and myself are fixing to start working on this collaboration. Gonna work it on both ends, cannot wait to see how these turn out and get them put in the hands of all the old cats that miss the Beatrix and those who never got to experience it (including myself lol)... Have tried a ton of old sssc selections over the years but never had the Beatrix that I am aware of!




Also got these....:bigjoint:


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The Beatrix Choice that the guy with the bag on his head is holding, can be grown identically like that out of a 39oz coffee can. My buddy had several of those in his closet back in the 80's and was the most potent herb I have ever experienced. I have done everything mind-altering besides DMT and that stuff is in a class of its own. I am very excited to see this project come to fruition after searching for years. Best of luck to both of you, and keep us updated!
 
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