Maybe some black paper to put under the male plants. Because when you touch the male, pollen going to fly everywhere. The paper will fall on it to collect and store.
Is there anyway my friend you can upgrade your light. You clearly know how to grow with what youre working with.
Marshydro is a sponsor of 420mag. Their lights are great for the money.
Just think for the money would make things simple.
This is what i call the vital 3 on growing cannabis:
1) light
2) genetics
3) environment
No particular order, but really invest, so you dont waste time and money. Just my take friend.
I dont like spending money at my age.I have a couple different spot planned for additional grow areas, each with one of these hanging overit (and rigged up so the lamps can be raised or lowered as needed.
The corner setup here is fine for now. After all, it did get my babies this far, to the point of even flowering with a couple. And with the lamp's hood adjusted so it is pointing more toward the white painted wall, it should be even more efficient with a lot of the energy being bounced back onto the plants. But new spots are always good.
I may even find another spot or two for the blurple lamps that are down in the basement grow room, which haven't been used since 2020.
I am also enjoying the challenge of figuring out methods to maximize grows on an almost nonexistent budget and simply making best use of space and resources I have at hand, possibly to where I could accept the title of Efficiency Expert, if Necroplantser never works out.
Pondering whether or not I should set up something in the attic as well, but that would likely be where plants end up being sent to die due to very much out of sight, out of mind. One expansion at a time though.
Excellent work my friend, thank you.I reckon it is time to officially close out this journal with a summary of how it all ultimately went down.
First, there were several boys, two of which had been planted in the enclosure. Took out the weakest one and collected some of its pollen sacs, and let the big one stay a bit longer than planned. Anyway, the third Wildling was a girl, and assumed the name of Fawn (yes, I name my major project subjects, usually with some sort of over all theming). So he big brother ended up pollinating her real good, which achieved one of my major objectives for the project... I have bred a confirmed brother/sister pair together (I am calling this noble breeding instead of inbreeding); and if I am understanding correctly, this warrants a name and claim for what I call a Generation 0 or baseline strain. Anyway, I'll talk more about that in my next journal. The bud is pretty decent as well, confirmed by at least one outside unbiased test subject; so that means my smokable bud off the grow objective was achieved as well.
Sadly, the pollen I saved from her brother molded in its baggie. Guess I should have used a dessicant packet after all. Fortunately, Fawn had several other brothers, and they all have saved pollen sacs for further experiments. In fact, I am wanting to get Wildling-2019 genetics introduced into other strains I am working with; in hopes the seed hardiness and quick initial growth can get introduced to the others.
I also still have one surviving subject for this project, one of Fawn's brothers, who has been on my nightstand since probably even before his sister flowered.
I need to get him prettied up soon, and get the dry leaves trimmed off as well as the pollen sacs snipped and gathered, and see if I can get him looking healthy and happy again. I am hoping to at least have him around until 4/20. And with the closing of Project X2022:1, he will become the subject of my first Pollen Chucker project.
I still ended up having a great harvest, despite only Fawn being a girl. Around mid September, my neighbor, who was moving out, remembered the tragedy of my grow and actually thought to ask if I could take on a few of the plants he couldn't take with him; which ended up being 1 Bubblegum and 3 Birthday Cake (2 of which were pretty much dried and cured already, looked like they had both had stem damage and he tried the duct tape bandage repair). Anyway, the Bubblegum and the third Birthday Cake were planted in the cage with Fawn where they were able to actually continue growing and budding. The other two Birthday Cakes were harvested and then their branches processed over the course of the next 2 or three weeks. The first one produced only 0.6 ounces of extremely dry, but still buzz generating bud, which is actually in a sealed Land o Lakes butter tub out on the front porch, as what I call Quick Dip, basically for a quick top off of the pipe. It also produced about 4 or 5 seeds, only one of which sprouted and started growing nicely in its styro cup. But due to my idiocy, it failed; and none of the other seeds have shown any signs of life. I am guessing that the tiny amount of seeds compared to what the other Birthday Cakes and the Wildling produced, are an indicator that that one self pollinated, and they would have been feminized "pure" Birthday Cake seeds.
The other two Birthday Cakes, like the Wildling, gave an imperial buttload of seeds, so I suspect that the BCs actually got pollinated by my Wildling boi, making them BC Lites. More on that in an upcoming journal as well. The 2nd Birthday Cake gave 2 ounces of smokable bud and 1.6 ounces of Pixie Dust trim; and the 3rd gave 2.2 ounces of bud and also 1.6 ounces of Pixie Dust. The Bubblegum gave 2.4 ounces of bud and 2.8 ounces of Pixie Dust. And finally, Fawn herself produced 5.2 ounces of bud and 5.3 ounces of Pixie Dust. Not a bad haul for 2022, though didn't quote reach the Pounder Club last year, pr achieve singularity, where my supply at the end of the harvest is greater than it was at the end of the previous harvest.
The Bubblegum also gave just a small handful of seeds (only just reached double digits with another one found in the bud recently). So I am assuming the BG was self pollinated and that these will be female.
Not a bad seed haul, if I may say so myself.
Will likely get new journals here going tomorrow.
