Total Noob using teas and I am a believer

you might even be able to use pepper spray but i have never sprayed roots with it and wouldn't suggest it unless you find someone who has you trust. but you can spray the soil down and it will slowly get to the roots and kill them.

hyroot said:

i found reds baby picture

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Where did you find that?! Take it down immediately. Never dance with the devil in the pale moon light.

RedCarpetMatches said:

So out of the 4 GG males....one appeared a week ahead of all the other similar ones. This strain seems pretty stable already! The male is very similar in structure even to my female, who is just an inch shorter. Think with these already great genetics, I'll hit up one of her branches and get enough GG funk to last a long time. If I only pollinate one good lower branch, will that effect the overall potency?

Now when I pulled the males, who were all strong mind you, they all had nice bright white roots...with f'n gnat larva on em?!?! How the effe. Two CTs, crab shell, cooked with EWC and lobster compost, and top dressed my own VC. So I watched these SOBs, and it appeared the roots weren't damaged, almost like they were trying to bite through a tire. Were their jaws gone from the chitin bacteria? I don't have too many gnats, so should I be concerned? The roots looked great...except for larva.

You guys (except hyrootrot) are great!

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If you pollinate just a branch the rest of the plant will still be perfect, I did it very often. The pollinated branch is sometimes already dropping seeds before the bud is ready, does slow it down a teeny bit, but quality on the sensi bud is just fine

hyroot said:

Back crossing is crossing 2 f1's with original parents then cross 2 f2's.

blood orange ,ssdd

bo f x ssdd m = f1a

bo m x ssdd f = f1b

f1 a x f1b = f2

then cross f2 with original parents. And continue. After about 8 batches you have a fully stable back crossed strain with fewer phenos.

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Thing is, in that first generation already you have so many individuals to choose from. For each seed you don't pop you miss out on a possibility. And you don't know what a boy brings to the table unless you use the pollen, same for girls you just don't know what traits they are going to pass on... So you have to cross each possible mum to a few dads, and each dad to a few moms. Then you have to grow out and smoke quite a few girls off each cross to see what the babies do. If you have moms or dads from other gene stock that you KNOW the dominant/recessive traits for and what they pass on, this can help you figure out what the prospective parents do a lot quicker. Way I see it, selection of parents for the first BX can take years. In the process, you have to hang onto ever single plant in clone form and keep track and so on. That's why GOOD IBL's like Soma's gear are so special.

RedCarpetMatches said:

I have read many times, that this mysterious plant can convert to female under certain conditions for the first critical month. Those factors being more blue spectrum, RH around 60, low temps around 72, and NO stress...or buy/make fems of course. I've read this stuff over and over to the point where I actually followed it. Always had a good ratio until now...where it's freezing, barely any humidity, and maybe the 12/12 from seed. Just unfortunate out of my 3 top shelf packs and stow's strains...mostly male. Weird and no science to back it up.

Trousers (can I call you T-bone) do you recommend Soma style or CS for making fems? Thanks in advance T-bone.

Speaking of fems, I just got packs of Delicious Seeds Fruity Chronic Juice, Sugar Black Rose, and Cheese Candy fems!!! Time to reverse this curse!

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Tbone is fine, lol.

I would recommend STS or colloidal silver. I have never used STS but I heard it is only one application. It is reliable and much easier than rodelization with the same results. Look into storing/preserving the pollen so you can use it later on different plants. A friend of mine wipes some all over a q-tip then stores it in the fridge for later. You can freeze it too if you do it right.

As soon as I buy a new house I'll get back into seed production, pheno chasing and crosses. Right now I have to build up my reserves. I only have about 2 ounces left to last me the next month. Yikes.

My Bhodi b**ch is real heffer!!! The stud was tall, dark, and smelled better than a female. Pretty boy meets Big Bertha...hope the babies don't look like T-bone.

Mad Hamish said:

If you pollinate just a branch the rest of the plant will still be perfect, I did it very often. The pollinated branch is sometimes already dropping seeds before the bud is ready, does slow it down a teeny bit, but quality on the sensi bud is just fine



Thing is, in that first generation already you have so many individuals to choose from. For each seed you don't pop you miss out on a possibility. And you don't know what a boy brings to the table unless you use the pollen, same for girls you just don't know what traits they are going to pass on... So you have to cross each possible mum to a few dads, and each dad to a few moms. Then you have to grow out and smoke quite a few girls off each cross to see what the babies do. If you have moms or dads from other gene stock that you KNOW the dominant/recessive traits for and what they pass on, this can help you figure out what the prospective parents do a lot quicker. Way I see it, selection of parents for the first BX can take years. In the process, you have to hang onto ever single plant in clone form and keep track and so on. That's why GOOD IBL's like Soma's gear are so special.

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Soma doesn't have any IBL's. Inbread line, thats crossing a strain with itself. Like old school master kush is an ibl. hindu kush x hindu kush. Soma Rockbud is Skunk x Big Skunk Korean x Afghani x Afghani Hawaiian

Will stressing the plant while she's beginning to produce seeds (early from male) have any effect on seed quality. I've never seen or heard about it, but what if a seed making mom also goes hermy?!

RedCarpetMatches said:

Will stressing the plant while she's beginning to produce seeds (early from male) have any effect on seed quality. I've never seen or heard about it, but what if a seed making mom also goes hermy?!

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I don't know. I have a theory about fem pollen from hermies. If the male flowers grow at the end of flower they will be more fem pollen rather than at the beginning of flower. I'm sure just like flowering females, any stress during 12/12 is no good.

watch some weed nerd (subcool) episodes on you tube. Check out the breeders section here.

hyroot said:

I don't know. I have a theory about fem pollen from hermies. If the male flowers grow at the end of flower they will be more fem pollen rather than at the beginning of flower. I'm sure just like flowering females, any stress during 12/12 is no good.

watch some weed nerd (subcool) episodes on you tube. Check out the breeders section here.

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Yeah, but I only like you guys and my selective threads. Just ask Ham how I tend to rub people at first , or scroll through last couple of pages on Bodhi thread

RedCarpetMatches said:

Yeah, but I only like you guys and my selective threads. Just ask Ham how I tend to rub people at first , or scroll through last couple of pages on Bodhi thread

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at least read an watch. You don't have to comment. Like most in these threads I read as much as I can about botany and horticulture. I enjoy all types of grow videos.


also I can't help but keep laughing everytime I see your baby picture.

Trousers wants to share

Positive vibrations to all the Organic Bros.
I've been drinking delicious DIPAS, smoking one of my organic crosses and generally enjoying life.
You can legally get top notch, A+ beer and cannabis genetics within a few miles of my house. Shit is getting better.
The wife just poured me some of her birthday present, Angels Envy Bourbon. Not too shabby, just needs a tiny bit of water to open.

Gonna preach a bit:
I recently read a garbage study that links schizophrenia with marijuana use. So many people are taking this as an implication that marijuana causes schizophrenia.
The percent of people that have schizophrenia has been pretty much a constant since they kept track.
Since the 1950s until now the percent of the population that has schizophrenia has remained fairly constant.
The amount of people that use marijuana has skyrocketed since the 1950s.
If schizophrenia were caused by marijuana use, wouldn't we see a corresponding rise in schizophrenia?

The more cannabis is studied the better.






6 girls vegging under LEDs taken through blue and brown sunglasses.
From the bottom right going clockwise:
Blueberry
Skunkberry
Pineapple Express
Hindu Kush
Jedi Death Star
Sensi Star

The Blueberry is a sativa pheno available from a dispensary, I can get it any time. We will see how good it is. It comes highly recommended.
They actually label it "Blueberry INDICA" The leaves are so thin people would ask if it is a sativa. They are almost as thin as Mexican sativa leaves.


Listening to this tight now.

[video=youtube;OBUF3UoOvoI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBUF3UoOvoI[/video]

Up next:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BSwbhZFBkA

Love the view into your mode T.

[video=youtube_share;xtbYOjj3IBg]http://youtu.be/xtbYOjj3IBg[/video]

You guys are a big pick me up these days. Thanks my brothers.

hyroot said:

Soma doesn't have any IBL's. Inbread line, thats crossing a strain with itself. Like old school master kush is an ibl. hindu kush x hindu kush. Soma Rockbud is Skunk x Big Skunk Korean x Afghani x Afghani Hawaiian

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NYCD got back crossed twice according to his site after the Hawaiian got added. Inbred, not a lot like Swerve but just enough to make it perfect...

RedCarpetMatches said:

Will stressing the plant while she's beginning to produce seeds (early from male) have any effect on seed quality. I've never seen or heard about it, but what if a seed making mom also goes hermy?!

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Well my personal opinion is the healthier the plant the better always. Never thought about herm flowers on seed moms. Good question.

RedCarpetMatches said:

Yeah, but I only like you guys and my selective threads. Just ask Ham how I tend to rub people at first , or scroll through last couple of pages on Bodhi thread

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LOL... Yup.

I built a ghetto composter out of a trash can by screwing some paddles in the sides and drain holes in the bottom. I put some maple leaves moss and a bit of nettle in there. This weekend I'm going to harvest some seaweed to add. Should I grab a salmon to put in there? Also finally looked up horsetail. That shit grows everywhere just not right now.

Steelheader3430 said:

I built a ghetto composter out of a trash can by screwing some paddles in the sides and drain holes in the bottom. I put some maple leaves moss and a bit of nettle in there. This weekend I'm going to harvest some seaweed to add. Should I grab a salmon to put in there? Also finally looked up horsetail. That shit grows everywhere just not right now.

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No protein or dairy. Just brown and green. You said yo have a bunch of lavender near you right? That'll be some awesome compost!!! Look into the rice wash serum to speed things up, along with cow poo, throwing in some worms, etc. If you have a lot of meat to use, maybe also look into "Brokashi" lol.

I do got some lacto-b. Why no fish? "Brokashi"seems cool, even cooler than brodocking.

Red






That will do pig... That will do