@bonghopper - Thanks for the heads up on that strain. It's reassuring to know some are finding success with outdoor strains this far north! I appreciate the info.
@teide - Glad to hear you were able to get your hands on the DB and QB! I have not tried the Moon Duck but I was generally impressed by the couple of photos I saw on IG. Both of the Quack Bastard females I had turned out completely purple. If you'd like I can take a photo of the finished crop of them. It wasn't much but it's definitely as purple as it gets. I'm excited for the cool plants you have yet to see!
Update time! I will begin with photos and then transition into smoke reports and plans.
First off we have the flowering Mnogolistka (Multileaf).
Easily the smallest plants I've flowered yet. I believe the males are auto-flowering. The reason I suspect them is that I've never had any strain begin flowering under my veg lights at 18/6. I looked back at when I germinated them, and it was on November 2 so they've been alive 76 days now. While I do think it's a little fast... I did let them get quite root bound which I typically do for my parent plants. I had no idea the males would begin flowering under 18/6, so that kind of threw my plans off.... or did it??
M1 clone, thankfully starting to kick into flowering. I actually can't believe how she went from dark vibrant green to being potash deficient in like 2 days. They'll really sucking up the nutrients it seems.
M2 male. He seems to be the taller of the bunch. He seems like he's going to start dropping pollen soon... I hope the females are far enough along to accept pollen. I will install some muffin forms tomorrow to attempt to capture some of the pollen. I want as many seeds as possible.
M3, my personal favorite specimen of the group. Her traditional Mnogolistka leaves are just beautiful. It seems her growth structure is much shorter than M1 sister, so variation should be good between the females.
M4 male. He seems to be plugging right along behind the M2. He does seem to be a little shorter/slower than M2 but I'm hoping between the two males that I'm getting some good genetics being passed on.
M5 female. It's the most interesting specimen of the group. The leaves are a lot more 'spiky'. The plant in general just seems like a 'spiky traditional leaf'.
Between all 3 females and both males, I hope the offspring will provide some good plants to work with moving forward. Additionally I'm also trying to root some clones I took off M2-5. I didn't take one from M1 because I still have a M1 clone donor.
The interesting thing is, the male clones did not have any preflowers on them when I clipped them off. I've kept these clones on 24/0 in an attempt to get these clones to root. If they do root, I will maintain them on 24/0 until they are large enough to flower alongside my other mutants.
If these do not root, I will attempt to reveg the plants to take another crack at it. More on that later.
@teide - Glad to hear you were able to get your hands on the DB and QB! I have not tried the Moon Duck but I was generally impressed by the couple of photos I saw on IG. Both of the Quack Bastard females I had turned out completely purple. If you'd like I can take a photo of the finished crop of them. It wasn't much but it's definitely as purple as it gets. I'm excited for the cool plants you have yet to see!
Update time! I will begin with photos and then transition into smoke reports and plans.
First off we have the flowering Mnogolistka (Multileaf).
Easily the smallest plants I've flowered yet. I believe the males are auto-flowering. The reason I suspect them is that I've never had any strain begin flowering under my veg lights at 18/6. I looked back at when I germinated them, and it was on November 2 so they've been alive 76 days now. While I do think it's a little fast... I did let them get quite root bound which I typically do for my parent plants. I had no idea the males would begin flowering under 18/6, so that kind of threw my plans off.... or did it??
M1 clone, thankfully starting to kick into flowering. I actually can't believe how she went from dark vibrant green to being potash deficient in like 2 days. They'll really sucking up the nutrients it seems.
M2 male. He seems to be the taller of the bunch. He seems like he's going to start dropping pollen soon... I hope the females are far enough along to accept pollen. I will install some muffin forms tomorrow to attempt to capture some of the pollen. I want as many seeds as possible.
M3, my personal favorite specimen of the group. Her traditional Mnogolistka leaves are just beautiful. It seems her growth structure is much shorter than M1 sister, so variation should be good between the females.
M4 male. He seems to be plugging right along behind the M2. He does seem to be a little shorter/slower than M2 but I'm hoping between the two males that I'm getting some good genetics being passed on.
M5 female. It's the most interesting specimen of the group. The leaves are a lot more 'spiky'. The plant in general just seems like a 'spiky traditional leaf'.
Between all 3 females and both males, I hope the offspring will provide some good plants to work with moving forward. Additionally I'm also trying to root some clones I took off M2-5. I didn't take one from M1 because I still have a M1 clone donor.
The interesting thing is, the male clones did not have any preflowers on them when I clipped them off. I've kept these clones on 24/0 in an attempt to get these clones to root. If they do root, I will maintain them on 24/0 until they are large enough to flower alongside my other mutants.
If these do not root, I will attempt to reveg the plants to take another crack at it. More on that later.
Fear not I have plans to work the Double Scorpion line next year, which is 50% Lagkitan and 50% Punto Rojo (grinspoon male phenotype). I also have some other really cool landraces to explore.
