Harry's 2nd Grow - LST

[Ms.Fox]

Beautiful pics! Good growing! They're lookin mighty tasty!

[Harry Red]

Thanks so much everyone, for the support, motivation and kind words!!

Here I am at day 70 of 12/12 and I'm starting my harvest.

This first lady (Sheena clone) started poppin out a few male flowers. Not sure if it's something I did, stress or genetics but it was late in the cycle so it didn't really matter.

These nice and hard with an amazing sweet and piny aroma. I clipped 3 joint sized buds 5-6 day ago, one from each variety, to check the trichs. I let them dry and did an initial smoke test and this one tasted just like it smells, sweet and piny with a hint of citrus. The high was excellent. I expect it to be really good when it's dried out.

Here's some pix!!












Next on the horizon will be my skunky plant (Fast Betty clone). She has a really sweet skunky taste. Not a foul skunk smell & taste but a nice mild one. The high was very good on this one as well. I'll flush her tomorrow and take her when she dries.







Right behind that will come the Roxy clones (two of these). These are the hardest and most dense of the buds. This variety has just a hint of skunk, a hint of sweet citrus and hint of spice. It tastes great and the high is already outstanding and will probably improve a little more before it's harvested.





Now that I've got the plants sizes a little better under control, these all turned out super. I've had very few fan drops, with much more dense buds and I think I'm getting the peak taste, smell and potency of this strain now.

I'm doing a happy dance right now.

I'm just glad y'all can't see me!



Harry

[McBudz]

Make sure you keep the pollen from those male flowers you can make feminized seeds with your next crop. Put it into a ziploc and refrigerate it. Should stay good for a couple of months. next crop use a paint brush and paint some onto so lower buds of you females. voila fem seeds..

See article below....

RODELIZATION: SOMA'S WAY TO FEMALE SEEDS

Creating feminized cannabis seeds is an art. Just like art, there are a few different methods of application. I have used gibberellic acid, pH stress, light stress, and fertilizer stress to force my female plants to make seeds.

Story by Soma

Creating feminized cannabis seeds is an art. Just like art, there are a few different methods of application. I have written about some of my different methods of making seeds in previous HIGH TIMES articles. I have used gibberellic acid, pH stress, light stress, and fertilizer stress to force my female plants to make seeds. All of these methods are harsh on the plants, and some, like the gibberellic acid, are not organic. In my search for cleaner, more earth-friendly ways of working with the cannabis plant, I have found a new way to make feminized seeds.
Feminized seeds occur as a result of stress, rather than genetics. All cannabis plants can and will make male flowers under stress. Certain strains like a higher pH, some a lower one. Some like a lot of food, some like much less. There is quite a lot of variety in marijuana genetics, and you can't treat every plant the same way.

It takes many harvests before you really get to know a particular strain. Just like getting to know human friends, it takes time. I have grown the same strains for close to a decade, and am truly getting to know every nuance the different plants exhibit. I can recognize them from a distance. I must say that I get a lot of help from my friends, both in making seeds and in learning new and better ways of working with this sacred plant.<br
I named this new method "Rodelization," after a friend who helped me realize and make use of this way of creating female seeds. After growing crop after crop of the same plants in the same conditions, I noticed that if I flowered the plants 10-14 days longer than usual, they would develop male "bananas." A male banana is a very slight male flower on a female marijuana plant that is formed because of stress. Usually they do not let out any pollen early enough to make seeds, but they sometimes do. They are a built-in safety factor so that in case of severe conditions, the plant can make sure the species is furthered. <br

To me, a male banana is quite a beautiful thing. It has the potential of making all female seeds. Many growers out there have male-banana phobia. They see one and have heart palpitations, they want to cut down the entire crop, or at the very least take tweezers and pluck the little yellow emergency devices out. I call them "emergency devices" because they emerge at times of stress.

In the Rodelization method, the male banana is very valuable. After growing your female plants 10-14 days longer than usual, hang them up to dry, then carefully take them off the drying lines and inspect for bananas. Each and every banana should be removed, and placed in a small bag labeled very accurately. These sealed bags can be placed in the fridge for one or two months and still remain potent.

For the next phase, you need to have a separate crop that's already 2 1/2 weeks into flowering. Take your sealed bags of pollen out of the fridge, and proceed to impregnate your new crop of females. To do this, you must first match the female plant and the pollen from the same strain in the previous crop. Shut all the fans in the growroom down. Then take a very fine paintbrush, dip it in the bag of pollen, and paint it on the female flower. Do this to each different strain you have growing together. I have done it with up to 10 different kinds in the same room with great success.

I use the lower flowers to make seeds, leaving the top colas seedless for smoking. This method takes time (two crops), but is completely organic, and lets you have great-quality smoke at the same time you make your female seeds. If you're one of those growers who's never grown seeds for fear of not having something good to smoke, you will love this method.

You can also use this pollen to make new female crosses by cross-pollinating. The older females with the male bananas can be brought into the room with the younger, unpollinated females after they are three weeks into flowering. Turn all of the circulation fans on high, and the little bits of pollen will proceed to make it around the room. Do this for several days. Six to seven weeks later, you will have ripe 100% feminized seeds; not nearly as many as a male plant would make, but enough to start over somewhere else with the same genetics.

As a farmer who has been forced to move his genetics far away from where they started, I know very well the value of seeds. My friend Adam from ThSeeds in Amsterdam has a motto that I love to borrow these days: Drop seeds not bombs.

[TxState]

WOW Harry excellent buds!

[McBudz]

you're leaves are always so shiny do you armorall them? :)

[Ms.Fox]

Sweet! OOoooo! I hope you kept that pollen. ;-)

[Harry Red]

Thanks MS.Fox, TxState & McBudz.

No, I didn't save any pollen from her, as I'm unsure if it might just be a latent hermie trait. I do have clones of her though (as well as from the other plants) so I'm keeping the genetics alive. I also took a select clone from a buddy who is growing another strain of Mexican Sativa.

I'm actually just starting a new grow from some special seeds that were given to me. I do plan on placing any males that arrive into the tron (in another room) and gather some pollen. This will probably be my only chance for more exotic indoor strains and Indica dominant varieties so I want to save any genetics that show up, even if they are male.

Btw, I forgot to mention that I ended up with around an 3/4oz of smaller, but nice, buds that I didn't bother hanging. I just bagged 'em. I also have around 1 oz of lower scrub buds and a huge amount of trim for making some hash with.

I love me some hash!!



Harry

[4twenty4all]

They look great Harry! Are those 5 gal buckets? Damn, they look good! You are sure dialed in now. Excellent!

[Dr. 215]

Wow, great job man, i hope the cured product tastes as good as it looks!

[flyfishinrock]

Dang Harry they look beautiful
Good job, really looks like 1st class smokins

[Harry Red]

Appreciate it, Dr. 215 and FFRock!

Originally Posted by 4twenty4all

They look great Harry! Are those 5 gal buckets?

Yep, regular 5 gallon buckets. You can see it a little better in these pics.

I trained the main stalk down and around to right a little.



I really like how this one turned out. It produced 3 main colas, with 7-8 nice secondary colas, and it grew to around 4' tall from the top of the bucket..





Harry

[Be IRIE]

What a fine job you have done Mr. Harry... I bet you have cannabis coming out of your ears... I can't wait to see what you can do with an Indica... Great job!!!!

[Harry Red]

Thanks Be IRIE. I've got 'em a lot better dialed in on this grow. I might have a chance to get an Indica dominant strain if these beans I just planted sprout. I'm just not sure of the age of them, but they looked good so I'm hopeful.

I had a branch spit on me. When I checked the plants today, one branch that was supporting 3 secondary colas had splintered and they fell over. I used a stake to prop it back up and back in position. I'm taking it in a few days so it doesn't matter much at this point.

Just flushed the skunky plant and had it out of the box so I thought I'd snap a pic. It has 5 main colas and quite a few secondaries. I ran 15 gal through and will harvest when she dries.





Harry

[Ms.Fox]

Wow! Cool pic! Luvin the colors! ;-) I think you thumb is waaaaay greener than mine.

[McBudz]

Damn Harry you definitely grow some freaky plants. Amazing.