Ravenplume
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Alright, this can be considered my general journal that covers my entire 2023 grow (individual journals will get updates soon). This is going to be a short one, since we are getting near the end of the season (then I will open a general journal for post season projects).
So anyway, as far as I can tell, all four primary subjects out in the cage: Bitter Sweet Pie, Feyleaf Generation:00, Birthday Cake Lite, and a guttersnipe that I do not exactly know what she is, other than either a Feyleaf or Birthday Cake Lite; since she was transplanted from where she grew up at the end of the front porch, in an area where I only processed FL and BCL, so had to be from a seed from either of those.
I'm not planning on taking any cuttings off her or try to get her pollinated, and am just going to let her flower and bud as normal. If she self pollinates, then I guess I can name and claim, since that would be like breeding two siblings together. Right?
Next are the 2 Bubblegums...
They both appear to be girls as well, which is no actual surprise to me. I figured that with the very small number of seeds (I think I am up to 11 total now with the one I recently found in the tin of Bubblegum trim) and the high morality rate are a good indicator that the mother plant from last year self pollinated, the ultimate GFYS, so would be feminized. I am going to try to keep them going through the rest of the year, instead of letting them flower and bud out, though it is tempting to let the biggest one bud. Still, going to attempt to get cuttings from both regardless.
Then there are the Birthday Cake Lites. Looks like I have three girls, 1 in the cage, one struggling in a Planters canister, and one in a small plastic trash can planter.
The one in the Planters canister was looking rather sickly and limp when I brought her in, but an hour and a half later, she "reinflated."
The other is looking small but healthy, and will be getting a cutting or two taken before she is turned over to her oldest brother (the one that flowered early inside this past winter, then revegged a month or so ago on the porch and has flowered again.
Quite a few of his pollen sacs have opened up already, so I am guessing this is a good time to gather them all? The other three BCLs I had out back in planters of varying sizes also flowered and are boys. Thinking I may harvest their pollen right away as well, just snipping the flowers into a baggie with a dessicant packet, or do they need to mature "on the vine"?
The other Bitter Sweet Pie flowered as well, and as expected, is a girl. I am now keeping her under 24/7 light to reveg in case the cuttings I take from her big sister out in the cage tomorrow don't make it (still have had zero luck with cuttings...at least ones I have taken myself)
And finally, I have only 2 surviving Feyleafs: the girl out in the cage, which will have cuttings taken, and one that has been struggling along in a styro cup. It almost fizzled out on me, but I decided it was a good subject for an exercise in necroplantsy, and sure enough, it recovered, though it is still pretty anemic. It also flowered, and is a boy. So that means, if the pollen is viable, I can breed him with his sister out in the cage, and generate a new generation of Feyleaf seeds. I am considering them G:00; and any offspring will be declared G:01. Perhaps next year, I can then try to make feminized Feyleaf. Or perhaps that will be part of the post season project when cuttings begin to grow and mature. Who knows?
I will give more in depth updates in the individual journals soon.
So anyway, as far as I can tell, all four primary subjects out in the cage: Bitter Sweet Pie, Feyleaf Generation:00, Birthday Cake Lite, and a guttersnipe that I do not exactly know what she is, other than either a Feyleaf or Birthday Cake Lite; since she was transplanted from where she grew up at the end of the front porch, in an area where I only processed FL and BCL, so had to be from a seed from either of those.
I'm not planning on taking any cuttings off her or try to get her pollinated, and am just going to let her flower and bud as normal. If she self pollinates, then I guess I can name and claim, since that would be like breeding two siblings together. Right?
Next are the 2 Bubblegums...
They both appear to be girls as well, which is no actual surprise to me. I figured that with the very small number of seeds (I think I am up to 11 total now with the one I recently found in the tin of Bubblegum trim) and the high morality rate are a good indicator that the mother plant from last year self pollinated, the ultimate GFYS, so would be feminized. I am going to try to keep them going through the rest of the year, instead of letting them flower and bud out, though it is tempting to let the biggest one bud. Still, going to attempt to get cuttings from both regardless.
Then there are the Birthday Cake Lites. Looks like I have three girls, 1 in the cage, one struggling in a Planters canister, and one in a small plastic trash can planter.
The one in the Planters canister was looking rather sickly and limp when I brought her in, but an hour and a half later, she "reinflated."
The other is looking small but healthy, and will be getting a cutting or two taken before she is turned over to her oldest brother (the one that flowered early inside this past winter, then revegged a month or so ago on the porch and has flowered again.
Quite a few of his pollen sacs have opened up already, so I am guessing this is a good time to gather them all? The other three BCLs I had out back in planters of varying sizes also flowered and are boys. Thinking I may harvest their pollen right away as well, just snipping the flowers into a baggie with a dessicant packet, or do they need to mature "on the vine"?
The other Bitter Sweet Pie flowered as well, and as expected, is a girl. I am now keeping her under 24/7 light to reveg in case the cuttings I take from her big sister out in the cage tomorrow don't make it (still have had zero luck with cuttings...at least ones I have taken myself)
And finally, I have only 2 surviving Feyleafs: the girl out in the cage, which will have cuttings taken, and one that has been struggling along in a styro cup. It almost fizzled out on me, but I decided it was a good subject for an exercise in necroplantsy, and sure enough, it recovered, though it is still pretty anemic. It also flowered, and is a boy. So that means, if the pollen is viable, I can breed him with his sister out in the cage, and generate a new generation of Feyleaf seeds. I am considering them G:00; and any offspring will be declared G:01. Perhaps next year, I can then try to make feminized Feyleaf. Or perhaps that will be part of the post season project when cuttings begin to grow and mature. Who knows?
I will give more in depth updates in the individual journals soon.