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I’m really looking forward to this grow show my brother!
It really is the year of Stank Bros!
We got 3 months from next week to wait for Snomoji fems and the other crosses from SM2 and GMOGG4 to be here in seed form.
Until then it’s time to show them a proper DF run of Topsail Haze, GMOGG4 and Fam95
It really is the year of Stank Bros!
We got 3 months from next week to wait for Snomoji fems and the other crosses from SM2 and GMOGG4 to be here in seed form.
Until then it’s time to show them a proper DF run of Topsail Haze, GMOGG4 and Fam95
How's the rooms going D.f?
As I know you are a Blueberry fan, check out some of the phenotypical expressions I found in the latest pops.
https://www.icmag.com/forum/icmag-v...2000-mars-hydro-tent-~-blueberry-f4-adventure
As I know you are a Blueberry fan, check out some of the phenotypical expressions I found in the latest pops.
https://www.icmag.com/forum/icmag-v...2000-mars-hydro-tent-~-blueberry-f4-adventure
Hope all is well with you and just busy
Time flies, been a month and a half since last post...
Hope all is well d.f and you are getting ready and excited for Spring!
Hope all is well d.f and you are getting ready and excited for Spring!
Not trying to talk for DF but I know he’s good and has a bunch of updates coming.
That's great to hear, thanks for the update!
Sorry to say I - I took in a TropCherry cut at an event that was infected (not visibly) with powdery mildew.
Even though the new intakes were away from the rest of the garden - the cat comes and goes if I forget and leave a door open. Chewing leaves of various plants in different areas...spreading the funk with him...
Best I can figure....
I about had it completely cleared up and even had begun sanitizing the room, containers, walls, fans, etc...when it popped back up on none less than TropCherry.
Life happened. I got busy. Didn't check things for a few days and it had spread across all the mothers in that newly sanitized area with a new found vengeance...
I still have Oreoz and Topsail Haze - as mothers. EVERYTHING else. Null and voided out of sheer frustration.
I was starting to get a list. I think the one hardest to get back will be the SoCal Master Kush. I was really excited about that one.
Gman and Chaco have the FAM95 secured. I wasn't stressed about losing the mother here knowing she was safe else where. Same with many others plants.
Nothing - truly LOST - just not in my hands any more.
I just got out of the hospital Friday 13th - acute renal failure due to excessive dehydration, caused by vomiting excessively, brought on by PTSD and an anxiety disorder.
I'm okay - will be okay. Life will continue. Fortunately.
The garden will continue - same direction, different pace.
Since we have this amazing moon event this weekend that I seem to be reminded of at least 5 times every time I look at the internet - I'm dropping some seeds today. Stuff I've talked about and have been itching to get at. Nothing hype beast or anything like that. Just good 'ole fashion beans from buddies. They come in little clear ziplock baggies with permanent marker on the outside, so if you touch them too many times without sprouting them the label rubs off and you no longer have any clue WTF they are anymore...
Those kinds of seeds. The best kind. From friends. From F.AM.I.L.Y. From others really just trying to do their part to help overgrow the planet with increasingly better cannabis.
Always seems we hit a "peak" or "top tier" - and then something else comes along and once again starts the fun all over again with a new spin.
I'm mostly - trying to GET BACK - to exactly what I want to see in the garden and sprout things that further compliment those goals. There is a TON of stuff out there these days - it's easy to drown in it - and never actually ever grow what you INTEND to. I've see a few of you dropping some old beans lately, looking for old fire because the new is just a spin that starting need the old to re-infuse it - to make it interesting again.
So, I'm all about that line of thinking. Benchwarmer, Subrob, ProdigyGrower, IPK 2.0, Spaded n Faded, ChemDMillionaire - I see you all. I wanna throw down too!!!
6 - Gemma: ChemLab: (ValleyDawg xI95D) x I95D: [(SFV OG x Sour Diesel/Stardwag) x I95D] x I95D - These are NOT retail. She had always described the I95, pheno D, male she selected to breed more heavily towards the OG side of the I95 equation. More than I was interested in the cross itself, I liked the tactic used. I won't expand further and I want to see how it plays out across the plants.
7 - Xochi: Goat and Monkey Seeds - Dubble Trouble: Sour Dubble x Triangle Kush(r) - 'nough said 'bout that one.
6 - MeltingPot - Queen Hippo: (GMO x Legend OG) x Animal Cookies(r) - Pretty certain the GMO x Legend is Joe Schmoe creation - and if you know anything about the type of plants he aims for. There should be power in these beans.
12 - BobHemphill: Crickets and Cicada - Dinosaur Cookies: Berner's cut Girl Scout Cookies x (Triangle Kush x SSSC M10) Bob is killing the indica game right now and I had to try this mash up GSC/OG - with classic, true, real, Afghani #1. I'm excited to try these. Right up my alley.
12 - Endur: Calco Genetics - Blueberry Parfait: Blueberry x {Blueberry x [Cherry Pie x (OGKB Cookies x Tahoe OG/GDP)]}
Easy enough...not really. A LOT of work went into stacking this gene pool. I've been very impressed with the photos and flower I've sampled from Calco. He's doing some great modern re-worked Blueberry infusions. I'm told the Blueberry cut was selected by NorCalBob from DJ Short stock. Don't know the exact amount but was significant. Need some blueberry in this garden. Like last year!!
10 - Benchwarmer - Stank Bros F2s - (Chem D x Sour D IBL) x (SSH x Chem D IBL) The original cross was a mash up from multiple packs of two of RatDogs lines - sorted, selected, bred - by Phillthy - and kept in the universe by by some amazing friends that live in cold places. To see these grow - might just make me cry. Sincerely. Thank you. This is where Phillthy and I were taking things and what we were seeing at the time as being a priority focus. That SSCDH male. That ChemSour mom wasn't the loudest terp monster around - she was like a diet light sour/garlic chem. But she was COATED. ABSOLUTELY COATED in trichs. And she was stupidly potent. We jokingly called that cut Casper Chem - because she'd make people white out. Like literally, you could watch the color leave their face as cold sweats start and the room beings to spin a bit. You have to lay down on the floor. First time I smoked her, I wasn't warned. I pulled a casper. Full on. Disappeared to the bathroom for about 20 minutes...laying on the tile floor, cause it was cold and solid and firm and I was sweating profusely and could tell my face was white as a bleached sheet. Point being. It was stupid potent. I wouldn't even say it was necessarily a "quality" high. It was more like let's see who can eat the spiciest pepper- cannabis version. She'd smack you...LOL. And I miss that RAW potency, to be honest. True, one hit, better quit. It was, Phillthy grown after all. Let's be fair.
6wk
9wk
ANYWAY - Thank you, everyone. For dealing with my inconsistencies. Seems if I grow clones it's an eh....it's secure thing. If it's seed, it's on the line - to be lost forever!!!!!
Let's get to it! I'll be posting regularly as I'm not really supposed to do anything that causes an exertion or makes me break a sweat - more or less. Easy does it. Rest posts in between progress. The way it used to be when the world was still sane.
dank.Frank
Even though the new intakes were away from the rest of the garden - the cat comes and goes if I forget and leave a door open. Chewing leaves of various plants in different areas...spreading the funk with him...
Best I can figure....
I about had it completely cleared up and even had begun sanitizing the room, containers, walls, fans, etc...when it popped back up on none less than TropCherry.
Life happened. I got busy. Didn't check things for a few days and it had spread across all the mothers in that newly sanitized area with a new found vengeance...
I still have Oreoz and Topsail Haze - as mothers. EVERYTHING else. Null and voided out of sheer frustration.
I was starting to get a list. I think the one hardest to get back will be the SoCal Master Kush. I was really excited about that one.
Gman and Chaco have the FAM95 secured. I wasn't stressed about losing the mother here knowing she was safe else where. Same with many others plants.
Nothing - truly LOST - just not in my hands any more.
I just got out of the hospital Friday 13th - acute renal failure due to excessive dehydration, caused by vomiting excessively, brought on by PTSD and an anxiety disorder.
I'm okay - will be okay. Life will continue. Fortunately.
The garden will continue - same direction, different pace.
Since we have this amazing moon event this weekend that I seem to be reminded of at least 5 times every time I look at the internet - I'm dropping some seeds today. Stuff I've talked about and have been itching to get at. Nothing hype beast or anything like that. Just good 'ole fashion beans from buddies. They come in little clear ziplock baggies with permanent marker on the outside, so if you touch them too many times without sprouting them the label rubs off and you no longer have any clue WTF they are anymore...
Those kinds of seeds. The best kind. From friends. From F.AM.I.L.Y. From others really just trying to do their part to help overgrow the planet with increasingly better cannabis.
Always seems we hit a "peak" or "top tier" - and then something else comes along and once again starts the fun all over again with a new spin.
I'm mostly - trying to GET BACK - to exactly what I want to see in the garden and sprout things that further compliment those goals. There is a TON of stuff out there these days - it's easy to drown in it - and never actually ever grow what you INTEND to. I've see a few of you dropping some old beans lately, looking for old fire because the new is just a spin that starting need the old to re-infuse it - to make it interesting again.
So, I'm all about that line of thinking. Benchwarmer, Subrob, ProdigyGrower, IPK 2.0, Spaded n Faded, ChemDMillionaire - I see you all. I wanna throw down too!!!
6 - Gemma: ChemLab: (ValleyDawg xI95D) x I95D: [(SFV OG x Sour Diesel/Stardwag) x I95D] x I95D - These are NOT retail. She had always described the I95, pheno D, male she selected to breed more heavily towards the OG side of the I95 equation. More than I was interested in the cross itself, I liked the tactic used. I won't expand further and I want to see how it plays out across the plants.
7 - Xochi: Goat and Monkey Seeds - Dubble Trouble: Sour Dubble x Triangle Kush(r) - 'nough said 'bout that one.
6 - MeltingPot - Queen Hippo: (GMO x Legend OG) x Animal Cookies(r) - Pretty certain the GMO x Legend is Joe Schmoe creation - and if you know anything about the type of plants he aims for. There should be power in these beans.
12 - BobHemphill: Crickets and Cicada - Dinosaur Cookies: Berner's cut Girl Scout Cookies x (Triangle Kush x SSSC M10) Bob is killing the indica game right now and I had to try this mash up GSC/OG - with classic, true, real, Afghani #1. I'm excited to try these. Right up my alley.
12 - Endur: Calco Genetics - Blueberry Parfait: Blueberry x {Blueberry x [Cherry Pie x (OGKB Cookies x Tahoe OG/GDP)]}
Easy enough...not really. A LOT of work went into stacking this gene pool. I've been very impressed with the photos and flower I've sampled from Calco. He's doing some great modern re-worked Blueberry infusions. I'm told the Blueberry cut was selected by NorCalBob from DJ Short stock. Don't know the exact amount but was significant. Need some blueberry in this garden. Like last year!!
10 - Benchwarmer - Stank Bros F2s - (Chem D x Sour D IBL) x (SSH x Chem D IBL) The original cross was a mash up from multiple packs of two of RatDogs lines - sorted, selected, bred - by Phillthy - and kept in the universe by by some amazing friends that live in cold places. To see these grow - might just make me cry. Sincerely. Thank you. This is where Phillthy and I were taking things and what we were seeing at the time as being a priority focus. That SSCDH male. That ChemSour mom wasn't the loudest terp monster around - she was like a diet light sour/garlic chem. But she was COATED. ABSOLUTELY COATED in trichs. And she was stupidly potent. We jokingly called that cut Casper Chem - because she'd make people white out. Like literally, you could watch the color leave their face as cold sweats start and the room beings to spin a bit. You have to lay down on the floor. First time I smoked her, I wasn't warned. I pulled a casper. Full on. Disappeared to the bathroom for about 20 minutes...laying on the tile floor, cause it was cold and solid and firm and I was sweating profusely and could tell my face was white as a bleached sheet. Point being. It was stupid potent. I wouldn't even say it was necessarily a "quality" high. It was more like let's see who can eat the spiciest pepper- cannabis version. She'd smack you...LOL. And I miss that RAW potency, to be honest. True, one hit, better quit. It was, Phillthy grown after all. Let's be fair.
6wk
9wk
ANYWAY - Thank you, everyone. For dealing with my inconsistencies. Seems if I grow clones it's an eh....it's secure thing. If it's seed, it's on the line - to be lost forever!!!!!
Let's get to it! I'll be posting regularly as I'm not really supposed to do anything that causes an exertion or makes me break a sweat - more or less. Easy does it. Rest posts in between progress. The way it used to be when the world was still sane.
dank.Frank
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welcome back hope you are feeling better soon! good luck with those beans.
Yeah man wishing you the best. Seeds are more fun!
CannaRed
Cannabinerd
Hoping for a quick recovery. I had an incident just like that, a couple days before 4/20. They telling me it's either CHS from over saturated endocannabinoid system or it's Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome from Stress. I can see it being either one of those. I'm highly stressed and was highly over saturated.
I haven't taken more than one puff in a day since then. And some days I don't take a hit at all. I'll stop for a few months, and see what happens, but if it's stress caused then I know for a fact I'm gonna get more stressed if I can use my favorite all natural stress killer.
Good luck brother
I haven't taken more than one puff in a day since then. And some days I don't take a hit at all. I'll stop for a few months, and see what happens, but if it's stress caused then I know for a fact I'm gonna get more stressed if I can use my favorite all natural stress killer.
Good luck brother
eyesdownchronic
Active member
Wishing you all the best...
@Chunkypigs - thanks man. Looking forward to your outdoor again. You've gotten better and better each year. Always fun to watch.
@Itsmychoice - yeah, buddy. You know it! For the love of the hunt.
@CannaRed - I hate the "unknown causes" of your situation. At least I am fully aware of why and how and what - and even the why - it's the WHEN and WHAT that triggers it - that always surprises me most. The hardest part is having that understanding, going to get help knowing exactly what you need to get things back on the rails - while doctors take $40k tests to figure out a physical cause - and eventually conclude,the physical damage still exists and is present, but no underlying cause can be determined, so the patient is right. Be careful out there - and don't let it get like that next time. This was round 3 of this sort of thing in the past couple years.
I couldn't imagine myself, internally having to accept - damn - cannabis???!!! I truly hate that for you. I sincerely hope you keep digging and trying to simplify everything in your life so you can narrow down any possible cross-interactions. (not suggesting you haven't done so, just thinking out loud.)
@eyesdownchronic - Thank you.
So. Seeds were planted.
Time for a reality check - and how plant math works - and exactly why plant numbers are such an absurd barrier for patients trying to maintain a consistent supply. Out of these, how many will actually be keepers?
So. The 5 x 5 will flower 12-16 ladies. 4 x 6. 15-24 ladies.
Need = 27-40 ladies to make it worth a run.
If you just accept a 10% failure to germinate and a 50% loss to males, you need to start about 88-100 seeds, as male population could exceed 50% or be under, for that matter. The idea to make certain you have enough, regardless.
This is in part why I like to mix some feminized seeds into drops like this. It gives you a set number of MINIMUM needed ladies to fill the room. Means, I should start close to 27 fems + 2.7 more for 10% fail rate, call it 30 - to ensure the minimum number is achieved via at least one means of germination.
6 - Fatso x Animal
7 - Dubb x TK
12 -BTY s1
2 - bag seeds, *not assuming s1, but fair to assume fem
That's 26. I called it good - close enough. 10% fail rate is 2.6 or 3. Figured I could at least count on 23.
72 - 26 = means 46 more chances. 10% fail rate assumed (4.6 ~ 5 plants), loss 50% male rate - leaves you with maybe 18.
23 + 18 = 41 hopeful ladies, whose only desire is to catch my eye, be chosen by me and declared "special"...
I like where this going....
NOW THEN:
Since you just saw how I personally break down "plant math" and decide how may to start, I hadn't originally selected enough beans.
So, a couple new challengers, have appeared!!!
8- MoneyMike - TopDawg Seeds: P1 x (GDP x Tres Haze) - These are not retail seeds. I was blazing some seeded P1 with @MOneYMiKe and @Brotherindca. He said to take a few if I wanted. So I obliged. Wasn't greedy. Just what fell out as I packed a couple bowls. P1, is $'s selection from the ChemSour x SSCDH line @Phillthy made. It's a haze leaner. Tres Haze is JJNYC's Chem D Bx2 x O. Haze.
2 - Bagseed: from purchases. 1 Bernie Hanna Butter from Gifted Curators in DC. 1 Super Lime Haze grown by Certified Magic, distributed by Cookies in Denver.
12 - *No Permission to names*: BTY S1 OG. Long story short these seeds stem from a cut that has been verified from all parties involved to have been given "just kush" - from Josh D directly, even before the OG moniker caught on. This is a dream of mine. It's like stepping back in time. I can't wait to see what these produce!!!
dank.Frank
@Itsmychoice - yeah, buddy. You know it! For the love of the hunt.
@CannaRed - I hate the "unknown causes" of your situation. At least I am fully aware of why and how and what - and even the why - it's the WHEN and WHAT that triggers it - that always surprises me most. The hardest part is having that understanding, going to get help knowing exactly what you need to get things back on the rails - while doctors take $40k tests to figure out a physical cause - and eventually conclude,the physical damage still exists and is present, but no underlying cause can be determined, so the patient is right. Be careful out there - and don't let it get like that next time. This was round 3 of this sort of thing in the past couple years.
I couldn't imagine myself, internally having to accept - damn - cannabis???!!! I truly hate that for you. I sincerely hope you keep digging and trying to simplify everything in your life so you can narrow down any possible cross-interactions. (not suggesting you haven't done so, just thinking out loud.)
@eyesdownchronic - Thank you.
So. Seeds were planted.
Time for a reality check - and how plant math works - and exactly why plant numbers are such an absurd barrier for patients trying to maintain a consistent supply. Out of these, how many will actually be keepers?
So. The 5 x 5 will flower 12-16 ladies. 4 x 6. 15-24 ladies.
Need = 27-40 ladies to make it worth a run.
If you just accept a 10% failure to germinate and a 50% loss to males, you need to start about 88-100 seeds, as male population could exceed 50% or be under, for that matter. The idea to make certain you have enough, regardless.
This is in part why I like to mix some feminized seeds into drops like this. It gives you a set number of MINIMUM needed ladies to fill the room. Means, I should start close to 27 fems + 2.7 more for 10% fail rate, call it 30 - to ensure the minimum number is achieved via at least one means of germination.
6 - Fatso x Animal
7 - Dubb x TK
12 -BTY s1
2 - bag seeds, *not assuming s1, but fair to assume fem
That's 26. I called it good - close enough. 10% fail rate is 2.6 or 3. Figured I could at least count on 23.
72 - 26 = means 46 more chances. 10% fail rate assumed (4.6 ~ 5 plants), loss 50% male rate - leaves you with maybe 18.
23 + 18 = 41 hopeful ladies, whose only desire is to catch my eye, be chosen by me and declared "special"...
I like where this going....
NOW THEN:
Since you just saw how I personally break down "plant math" and decide how may to start, I hadn't originally selected enough beans.
So, a couple new challengers, have appeared!!!
8- MoneyMike - TopDawg Seeds: P1 x (GDP x Tres Haze) - These are not retail seeds. I was blazing some seeded P1 with @MOneYMiKe and @Brotherindca. He said to take a few if I wanted. So I obliged. Wasn't greedy. Just what fell out as I packed a couple bowls. P1, is $'s selection from the ChemSour x SSCDH line @Phillthy made. It's a haze leaner. Tres Haze is JJNYC's Chem D Bx2 x O. Haze.
2 - Bagseed: from purchases. 1 Bernie Hanna Butter from Gifted Curators in DC. 1 Super Lime Haze grown by Certified Magic, distributed by Cookies in Denver.
12 - *No Permission to names*: BTY S1 OG. Long story short these seeds stem from a cut that has been verified from all parties involved to have been given "just kush" - from Josh D directly, even before the OG moniker caught on. This is a dream of mine. It's like stepping back in time. I can't wait to see what these produce!!!
dank.Frank
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Best of luck for everyone trying to get healed up. I chased a pain in my mid-section for a while and only ended up with hospital bills!
Can't wait to see how the dinosaur Cookies turn out. Those caught my eye about a year back but never ordered.
Can't wait to see how the dinosaur Cookies turn out. Those caught my eye about a year back but never ordered.
Shit bro good to see you still at it.
But take it easy ffs. As usual the plants live better than we do, I guess that is just in our nature.
Don’t skimp on the fluids.
But take it easy ffs. As usual the plants live better than we do, I guess that is just in our nature.
Don’t skimp on the fluids.
is that the math for one keeper?
do you also clone each one to 'keep' just in case?
that is quite the undertaking Frank.
hope you're recovering and sad about PM wiping out your mothers.
be well
do you also clone each one to 'keep' just in case?
that is quite the undertaking Frank.
hope you're recovering and sad about PM wiping out your mothers.
be well
@trichrider - Just explaining how I personally attempt to figure out how many seeds to sprout to fill the space I have. Nothing more.
Yes. Just one clone of each. I'm sure I'll be able to discard some plants over others before they are done flowering for the first cycle. I could have sorted all of one seed type or mixed it up a bit and gone for a flavor run... Regardless. It'll be nice to fill some jars.
To be determined...
dank.Frank
Good to see u still pushin man! Sucks about the powdery. What I’ve found clears it up andkeeps it gon is chitosan, i import kilos from china and mix a few tablespoons in a gallon and spray, never have to worry about powdery anymore.
Good look on the reminder to pop some beans! Im bout to get to diggin in the vault…
I been dealin with some root aphids, thinkin of mixin some neem seed meal, crab shell meal, de, and cinnamon into my coco and see if that dont do the trick..
Lookin forward to seein your next run, i got an outlaw cookies mother ima take cuts of in the next week and she will befirst thing i run inside when i fire it back up, also throwin a few outdoors.
Been takin ashwaganda and daily vitamens for health, along with reishi, chaga and lion mane mushroom, sposta help with a lot of things. Look into meditation too, power of now a good book could help with some of the psychological/anxiety and whatnot.
Good look on the reminder to pop some beans! Im bout to get to diggin in the vault…
I been dealin with some root aphids, thinkin of mixin some neem seed meal, crab shell meal, de, and cinnamon into my coco and see if that dont do the trick..
Lookin forward to seein your next run, i got an outlaw cookies mother ima take cuts of in the next week and she will befirst thing i run inside when i fire it back up, also throwin a few outdoors.
Been takin ashwaganda and daily vitamens for health, along with reishi, chaga and lion mane mushroom, sposta help with a lot of things. Look into meditation too, power of now a good book could help with some of the psychological/anxiety and whatnot.
