Back around after a lot of life events recently.

[choomseed]

I will feel as if I'm being vague
as far as pictures and description,
but I'll get to those slowly as I
settle back into things and show.

Hello again cohorts of cannabis
on International Cannagraphic..
It's been a good while since I've
been around - a huge shout out
to my closest friends here: DJXX,
PakaloloFromPNW, Gardening Angel,
Mikenite69, MrGoodBudz, and SG1.
Sorry if I forgot anyone here It's
been a minute for myself. I'm in
the PNW and enjoy sativa doms..

I am starting to breed ball python
morphs on the side, I should have
a clutch by next season. Right now
my ball python collection consists of..

1.0 Mojave Spider Pinstripe
0.1 Butter Pastel
0.1 Ghost
1.0 Fire Spotnose
0.1 Odd Regular (dinker), possible Yellowbelly, possible Spotnose

I had a good first run in the new
garden, time to breathe after chop.
Everything is in veg room now but
have some transplanting to do..will
add more pictures and links to threads!

Old grow with my Gish aka (Querkle X Flaming Violet)#3
in the foreground. This was from my mentor's shop 1 year ago

TGA subcool's Querkle i did from about 2 years ago now..

At the moment, after culling everything, my garden
consist of these strains I'll recall from my memory..

Big Bottom Leaf*
Blue Orca
DJ Short's Blueberry
Super Lemon Haze
Northern Lights#5*
Khalisi*
Flowerchild
(Headcheese X Sour Bubble#22)#3
Querkle
Doughberry
Sour Bubble
(DJ Short's Blueberry X Sour Bubble#22)#8
Sour Lifesaver
Master Kush
Purple Trainwreck
Sour Power X Biker Kush

strains I plan on getting back,
rather soon for a few of them;
Deadman
Headcheese
Vortex


I ran a handful of my crosses
I may elaborate on later though
some of the results were nothing
to write home about, what I am
mentioning are my Sour Lifesaver
and Sour Bubble crosses; though
I believe there's tons of potential
in the Blueberry X Sour Bubble &
Headcheese X Sour Bubble with
a lot of hunting; though my favorite
pheno of all, BBxSB#8, has the
best structure and I was SO excited-
but the leaf to calyx ratio on the
buds was really shitty. I think that
the density and structure make my
Blueberry X Sour Bubble#8 pheno
worth selecting for next time, adding
in more bud and flavors.. the thing
that was peculiar about the #8 pheno
was, it was the only out of dozens
that had it's unique structure, most
reminiscent to my original male from
last year, Sour Bubble#22. Excitement.

I am excited to run Blue Orca (thank
you man), and Master Kush for the first
time; as well as MORE of Big Bottom
Leaf which I cannot get more of..the
Flowerchild from PNW_grown's work
he did for Ken is really good..I want
to see more of PNW_grown's strains!!
Khalisi was too bomb..unique flavors.

I forgot what else I was going to say,
it's best to end it while I'm tapped out..
When I'm stoned spacing out, most of
the time usually, I tell people if it's
important it will come back to me so
if it is anything worthwhile; I will come
back and post it. Here's some photos
I will need to dig up many more now.

Another oldie from my mentor's shop

My Mojave Spinner ball with my garden preflip

A few weeks before chop, I need to get more
pictures that show off all of the different views
of the garden..Blueberry X Sour Bubble#8 is
viewable in the bottom right of that picture &
Flowerchild#7 is whats in the back left corner
tall, then dark to the right of that is Khalisi#1
next to Khalisi#7 then to the right of it the
superior Khalisi#6 which is next to a Blueberry
thriving in the right corner of the room, which
is just partially in view. Sour Power X Biker
is out of view in this picture, big in bottom right.

I'll space out to transplanting and hopefully not
be too long before I dig through more pics, hoping
these don't suck too bad. It was good going through
memory lane while trying to find what pictures to
use, but I don't know which of my new shots I'll use.

choom(0:

 

[Ncogneato]

Very nice grow shows! Welcome back. Many of us come and go. That's life.

 

[HatchBrew]

Choom welcome back man!! Great to see you posting pics and tooting a great line up.

What is your new set up like?

 

[choomseed]

@Ncogneato: Very nice grow shows! Welcome back. Many of us come and go. That's life.

I assumed many of my friends on
here expected me to come around
again once I had my chaos sorted.
At the time of leaving, I was moving
stuff out of the house I live at now
and back into another house in town;
on top of quitting my job being cold
turkey from a heavy supply & setting
up my grow - to being busy working
it. I took someone in Jan, kicked them
out early April, on top of recently having
a girlfriend which is a lot of investment.

Now I'm way less busy since the recent
chop, and doing transplanting while I'm
trying to help my partner heal who lost
a parent very recently..right after I take
her to Pike Place and have the best day,
the next morning she woke up to hearing
her dad screaming. Mom passed asleep..
So fair warning if I'm not around as much
I'm trying to help with things.. but when
I am around there will consistently be pics
and updates; mainly why this IC is new.

I love all of you farmers here so much!!

@HatchBrew:Choom welcome back man!! Great to see you posting pics and tooting a great line up.

What is your new set up like?

Oh!! I spaced hard and thank you so much
for reminding me on top of remembering
me! Currently I am running 3 Gativas for
bloom, and have 2 VHO t5 racks that work
fucking terrifically. One for veg the other
for my male chamber out back, though I
plan on utilizing both of the VHO's for veg
when I move the veg space - I will use
other florescent lighting for the males as
they do not need the quality of my VHO t5
lmao. The new veg space will be able to
utilize both of them just fine.. I saw you
were mentioning DJ Short's Blueberry &
the Northern Lights#5 in Pakalolo's thread.

Do you ever plan on going to Hempfest this
year or any cannabis event? I'll get 50 posts.

This is a picture of my Fire Spotnose male
ball python, a 2-gene co-dom morph combo,
as soon as he was taken out of his package.
He escaped the snake bag inside of the heat
pack insulated walls, so he was named Houdini!
He's hiding his head in this picture, I'll grab
some more in a bit! He is an incredible example
of the spotnose morph, with an intricate headstamp.
With the fire gene in there lighting him up, he will
make really interesting things...I want to pair him
with my Butter Pastel female, & something like
a Pastel Spotnose Yellowbelly or Pastel Vanilla,
or Spotnose Yellowbelly Vanilla, Pastel Spotnose
Vanilla...Spotnose with lots of shit makes insane
stuff, but for now I have combining Fire + Vanilla
with the Spotnose pattern..Fire and Vanilla are
both highlighter genes that have a unique reaction
to eachother, creating the Cream ball or Vanilla Cream;
which when the versatile and popular highlighter co-dom
Pastel is added into the mix - it creates the Vanilla Scream.
Which is INSANELY clean.. I don't think Spotnose Creams
let alone Spotnose Screams have been produced yet, and
regardless of it being a new combo or not - it's one I want.

The Cream and Scream combos are always bright and
very smeared, while Spotnose is a pattern gene and a
very busy one at that - no matter what it's paired to,
consistently holds pattern onto combos. Especially ones
that wash, blend, and smear...it got me thinking now..
Imagine this snake below, with the pattern and headstamp
(will show pics of Houdini's head asap) paired with it..

My next investment, though a reptile show is soon around,
is a Black Pastel Trick het Ghost male for my Ghost mother.
It's a 2-gene co-dom morph combo that is heterozygous for
the Hypomelanistic/Ghost recessive gene. Out of the genes,
there are dominant genes, co-dominant genes aka co-doms;
then recessives - which require both parents to have the gene
in order to get the visual result. Doms and co-doms can mix
visual combo results in one breeding, though two of the same
co-dom morph paired together chances a superform, or a x2
of the trait in an animal basically. There's A LOT to play with
and a flavor for everyone. It just isn't the regular & albino now.

The Hypomelanistic/Ghost trait does fantastic things
but especially when utilized with dark paint jobs..the
hypomelanism gets rid of the black and darker pigments
so you're left with a very blushed out orange and grey
python. The Ghost morph acts as a high-end highlighter.

This is from a clutch of Spotnose Yellowbelly Pastel
siblings together produced by Chris Hall in Texas..
a really good breeder to work with and QUALITY..!

To everyone who enjoyed my Querkle picture, here
is yet some more bud darks for you..I like rhodies.

choom(0:

 

[Bob Green]

Those are some nice snakes! Did you breed any of the ones in the pics?

I used to grow in the PNW a long time ago myself. I was reading the Piff thread and saw you mention the old O.R. Cut. I was kinda blown away. One of those backwoods originals for sure. Is that cut or it's crosses still floating around? Talk about expando to the max, max, max!

Nice list of goods you have going on.

Take it easy, Bob

 

[HillBilly1]

Welcome back Fellow Minion, I like the Yellow bellies
They are cool lookin

 

[choomseed]

Here I am again folks..it feels as if I'm introducing
myself again for the second time, too much is new
as of now. Don't know where to start thats relevant.
I have nine ball pythons in my collection now though
The way I look, think, and feel is different above all.
I'll have some garden updates whenever I am either
not too busy or not too lethargic to get some new stuff
while digging through for the old pictures now having
Sanctuary Gardens and Karma Genetics variety going.

Last time, I said that too much is new & that I could
maybe get pictures up if I wasn't too busy or drained.
The current self is pretty humored at the old self for
coining past events as busy, compared to recent events.
Way too much life. Not just gardening and herpetology.

I don't even know where to start, so I'll just stop to finally
bump this to let however few know that I'm still active now.

If I don't get pictures up in a timely fashion, I'll try to post
at least once a day, so I don't slip entirely off the map as I
did for many many months. Sorry for doing that to you guys,
catching up on a lot of journals makes me feel good. Hello!!

1.0 Super Pastel Huffman possibly heterozygous for Ghost
0.1 Pastel Enchi
0.1 Leopard Pastel heterozygous for Piebald
0.1 Pastel Ghost (BIG breeder)

Above are my new additions, I am way too lucky to own
a Huffman ball. This ball python gene is very untapped &
the potential is absolutely insane, I'm very glad to be one
of the not too many to have Huffman in their collection,
and a Super Pastel possible het., while being breeder size
to boot. I plan on utilizing my Huffman onto my Ghost mama,
this will be the test to see if his possible het. proves true.

Since he's a super, which is x2 of the same co-dominant
trait in the same animal (pastel + pastel + huffman), he
will NEVER produce a normal/wild-type animal, all pastel
something. So my Super Pastel Huffman is very useful...
I could sell him for a lot of money right now, needed cash,
but I want to utilize him for the long run which could be
more lucrative in the end, but for me the bottom line is
producing what I want to see. The Huffman can produce
the unseen, and I want to mix it with other sleeper genes.

I have better pictures of this very same animal above,
which is the one that was traded to the sand boa woman
whom sold him back to me for a steal, as she didnt fuck
with ball pythons. Just boas and rubber sand boas..came
with paperwork and everything. Truly my first lucky win.

So enough about my snakes for now, because I haven't
uploaded the pictures yet. Blue Orca, Flowerchild#3, #5,
and #7, all look great. Northern Lights#5, Dj's Blueberry,
Purple Trainwreck, Gish aka (Querkle X Flaming Violet),
Big Bottom Leaf, Doughberry, Blueberry X Sour Bubble #3
and #8, and Sanctuary Garden's Khalisi#6 is my current
lineup. I forgot to mention my Super Lemon Haze, though
she is smaller and action time is later; same with these
new strains I picked up - Purple Treat (Purple Dog Shit X
Dutch Treat), and Alien Stardawg - which I'm thrilled of!
The Purple Dog Shit strain is Freeze X GDP, so relation
to the Dogshit lineage - not trying to confuse folks but
PDS is a good PNW strain. I can't wait to run this strain!

@Bob Green: Those are some nice snakes! Did you breed any of the ones in the pics?

I used to grow in the PNW a long time ago myself. I was reading the Piff thread and saw you mention the old O.R. Cut. I was kinda blown away. One of those backwoods originals for sure. Is that cut or it's crosses still floating around? Talk about expando to the max, max, max!

Nice list of goods you have going on.

Take it easy, Bob

A very belated but happy reply Bob!! I too am blown away
that you know about the O.R. strain. It was short for original,
and my mentor has told me so much of it..and made a cross
from it as O.R. being the mother, called Deadman; which is
another PNW classic in itself. The creator did not like it, but
it still circulates outside of his garden. He is an indica lover,
and enjoys that people still enjoy his forgotten creation...

If you know of anyone with O.R. Id love to hear about that!!

And I haven't produced any myself, but my Ghost is proven,
making beautiful babies for her previous owner. I have plans
for her this fall, and if (IF) I pick up any breeder sized females,
any Huffman combos I can do. I'd want to utilize a cinnamon
or black pastel, since the Huffman gene and cinnamon are allelic.
The Siren, aka Huffman x cinnamon, is a morph that produces
no normal offspring, much like a super form. More fun to come!

I hate feeling like I've fallen out of the loop, but content with
where I have come to currently during my hiatus from here..

choom(0:

 

[choomseed]

well im back again.....again again...not sure why ICmag was changed so much, the new layout, all of the old posts deleted, everything wiped clean...so many memories and information i cant get back...so why? what even happened??

I am a glass artist now, 10 years in.... and i had over 20 snakes they all died when a heater malfunctioned..