Hydro Grow: California Orange Bud

[Murciano207]

Originally Posted by Ms.Fox

This will be my first hydro grow! I have faith that it will go well! FloridaBud and I are competing to see who will have the healthiest plants and highest yeild, while considering each strains estimated yeild!
Here's the box I will be using.

love your box

is fantastic

I hope to see it full of buds

How can I subscribe to the post?

kisses beauty

[McBudz]

^ Ya just did :)

[Ms.Fox]

Thanks rome420, StonerGrower, eitay69, Murciano207!

Murciano207: Yes, as soon as you reply to a post, you subscribe. I love the BloomBox! It's contained and easy to use!

The B52 has really started to impress me with her buds. The way she has grown is a little skimpy on the large fan leaves, so more light is reaching more bud sights. I will have to tie her down soon as she's growing too close to the lights. The COB is bushy and small. I'm really glad I cloned her.

Day 23

B52


B52


B52


COB

[Minus]

Looks great Ms.Fox. }:-)

[Andy Botwin]

Ms. Fox-

I have to say I've enjoyed the Journals!

I have the same table as you and FloridaBud (not the whole box, just the BCNL flowering table).

I was wondering if you have had any issues with algae or large pH jumps overnight (mine will go from 5.0 to 6.3) ? If so, what did you do?

I am about two weeks behind your schedule.

Keep up the good growing...

- Andy

[4twenty4all]

Your plants look great Ms. Fox, can't wait to see some new pictures.

[Ms.Fox]

Thank you Minus, Andy Botwin, and 4twenty4all!

Andy: I had problems with ph when I first started running the box, but not any more. I don't have any algae problems.

Today I had to tie down the B52. I didn't go too far with it, but I will gradually. The COB is doin great! She's sooo cute and bushy. The next time I grow I'm gonna plan on not letting them veg for so long. I would hate to have see what my box would look like if I had more plants. Overcrowding would be a serious issue.

Day 27

[Dr. 215]

Wow its crazy how different those plants are, they look like completely different plants! Man i love Cannabis. They look great!

[Ms.Fox]

Thanks Dr. 215! It is quite interesting!

Here's some non HPS shots for yall!

Day 29



B52





COB - Ooops... This one's still sideways... LOL

[Ms.Fox]

Well... I've made the decision to pollinate a couple COB buds to make me some fem seeds to keep on hand. Here's a pic of my COB male outside. He's actually doing really well considering he came from hydro and then was planted in soil.

[Ms.Fox]

Thanks everyone!

[McBudz]

nice. The male looks pretty healthy. Did you leave him be or have you been water and feeding?

How do you know they will be fem seeds?

[Ms.Fox]

Thanks! I left him be. I didn't think he would even live.

I thought if you pollenate a female plant that it would produce feminized seeds. I guess I'm quite wrong about that seeing a thread about how to get feminized seed. Wow... I've been going around blind... Lol. Thanks ;-) I'm still gonna do it just to make sure I have backup.

http://www.420magazine.com/forums/fr...zed-seeds.html

[McBudz]

here is another method. I got if from another magazines website...

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.

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.

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.

[Ms.Fox]

Wow! Interesting. Thanks sooo much! I think I may try this once I have more established COB plants. Have you done this before? It makes a lot of sense. A female plant that remains un pollinated feels that she may not spread her lovely self around, so she's got a backup plan. Very interesting.