What I said 10 days ago...
Well, I appreciate that, but these are the clones and seedlings I have. And they were already in the ground ten days ago.
I already did one seed-replacement :-(
To plant different seeds at this point would mean throwing away the plants I now have to plant 20 MB??? :-(
I get the idea that MB from this valley should be a cinch for him to grow. But... 20 each monster all-THC plants??? Mercy!! And what CBD would I put with it??? (Because THC without CBD is not the best for me.)
I put 9 Dr. Seedsman CBD, because they are only small little bushes.
I also put (I thought) 6 european 1:1s (but only 5 of them are fems, and one was an unknown male that is now dead).
There were 2 Northern Light CBD sativa (and I wish I had put more)
2 Pineapple Kush sativa (no CBD, no idea what mold resistance--we have to see if it survives) :-(
1 Cream & Cheese 1:1 sativa (super mold resistant. No idea how it tastes.)
5 Mango Biche 3-4 meter all-THC monster regulars, we will see how many male and female, but those will all need to be paired with CBD, and I only put 9 little CBD bushes.
(After this last week, I plan to involve myself with collecting MB pollen and seeding a branch on the best MB seed mothers, and then destroying the males. And I think I need to oversee that personally, or I will end up with a seeded crop.)
(I think long term, once I get settled, I might take back over my cannabis garden... But for now he can grow.)
Nope. European. This was that "volunteer mystery" seed that came up, and due to a combination of factors, I thought I would grow it out and try it, just in case (long story). But it was a male, and the bugs were eating it, so whatever it was, it is gone now. (At this point I am not sure why I chose that.)
(Onward and upward.)
OK, so to run those high-wattage LEDs, you must have a power source now. What I recommend are low-wattage LED bulbs and a lot of them, so that all plants are getting the light, and from different angles. I use eight 13w daylight spectrum bulbs in my little greenhouse. These are not "grow lights", they are just inexpensive 13w LED bulbs.
Thank you!
I understand the concept of 13w bulbs.
At first I thought of the solar party lights, because it sounded like there would not be electrical power, and I wanted to try an off-grid solution.
It seems like the party lights might be suppressing flowering on the MB (because it is flowering time now), because the lights are directly over the MB. But not suppressing anything else.
Anyway, the party lights are too weak!
Thankfully, there is electric power. They put the greenhouse about maybe 50-60 yards/meters away from the contractor's house, probably so they could deter theft. (People do wander onto the farms at night, and stuff can come up missing.)
I figured the China-special LED light panels would bring the flowering under control quickly (like a tourniquet), and then we could come up with a better solution long term.
They are nominal 1500W or 1250W, in reality they draw like 150W or 125W.
There are six of them.
The plan is that when the contractor's son returns from his winter break, he will route the party lights around the perimeter of the greenhouse. But probably it would be better to put a string of the 13W lamps, like you have, because the reality is that the party lights are not nearly as bright as I thought.
(Nice try, no blunt.)
I went searching for the dimensions of your greenhouse.
Would you please tell me the dimensions again? (It looks like a good setup.)
Eight each 13W daylight spectrum bulbs for how big by how big??
I recommend midnight, 2am, and 4am, for about 3 minutes each. If you can't program your timer for 3 periods, I would pick 2am. Just 3 minutes.
Ok, well, oy.
Shed sent me a Kannabia article before on
Gas Lantern Routine. It said 1 hour for best results, so now I am not sure.
I understand that the idea is to disrupt the sleep cycle, meaning to wake the plant up, so that they do not sleep long enough to produce the flowering hormone. (Haha, they do not get their pregnancy sleep.)
Are you saying that the plants really need just a few minutes, and that is enough to wake them up?
The minimum increments on my timers is 15 minutes.
Like, would like two shots of 15 minutes work good? That would be half as much energy as an hour.
Or would one shot of 15 minutes work?
Should be OK as long as the lighting is dependable.
The power does go out, but for some reason it is usually during the day.
My general sense is that you probably won't find high quality genetics for CBD down there in Colombia, from local breeders, type II or III. They may claim 14% CBD, and you might be able to believe it if they show you a valid lab test result or results. It could very well be that only some phenos (and who knows how rare) will actually reach 14% CBD.
I like your thought that Sativa CBD and Calima Diesel are really just two phenos of the same strain. That makes total sense.
The Breeders rep said their numbers were from a lab test.
Sativa CBD sounds good at 14% CBD, but I think I prefer the idea of Calima Diesel, which has almost as much CBD (13%), plus 6.8% THC.
(2:1 always works well for me. I always like to see a 2:1. And it is a diesel flavor...)
If I were you, I would just wait and get seeds from GTR.
Hahaha, I think I may ALSO get seeds from GTR!
I have lots of seeds for the moment, but I WAS thinking about cloning...
Only, after seeing the way things run this past week, I wonder how well the contractor and his son can be relied upon for cloning at all.
I say that because first, he almost killed the transplants. He did not follow my instructions at all. And it seems that he cannot recognize a FLOWERING MALE in his grow? And he cannot recognize that it is ALSO getting eaten by bugs (and his son probably never even sprayed it once???
Oy, I am not convinced he knows anything about cannabis, or cloning, or that it will be done right.
I kind of need to keep the contractor because of the cash crops, BUT:
If I have to run night interruption lights one way or another, then I think I should go ahead and start the seeds myself the start of March, and then bring him the seedlings when I come to remix the soil.
And then we run night interruption all winter, so the girls get good and big.
And then just hand him more fem starts each March. And let him grow those out with night intteruption, and pull the lights in September.
It will cost some in seeds, but I have plenty of seeds right now. I just need to grow all of those seeds out.
And if I ever take the garden back over once we get settled, then I can run a proper clone and male tent.
I have enough seeds to run for several grows, actually. I can let the contractor grow those seedlings out.
If I ever take the garden back over, then I can run a proper clone tent, and a proper males isolation tent, etc..
But I think if I try clones and males tents with this guy, I will just end up unhappy, with a ton of seeded weed from one strain.
At a purely medical level that works--but the reality is that different strains work for different situations for me. It is better to have more than just one kind of strain. And it does not seem like this guy wants to understand that.
So I will just hand him seedlings each March or April...
Once I use up the ones I have, then I will buy more. And hopefully I will be in a situation where I can clone by then, so I can maintain the GTR seeds. Because Sour Hawaiian Haze and Sour Lifter sound very good!
I am looking forward to Harlequin CBD, and Charlotte's Dream (Charlotte's Angel x Blue Dream). I loved Charlotte's Angel CBD Auto, just that the auto stocks are not always mold resistant.
Anyway, GTR is definitely on my purchasing radar! I just need to discipline myself, and grow out what I already have first. Haha, because I love buying cannabis seeds too much!
Haha, is there a 12-step group? Haha.