Farmerlion's; Just A Grow, Ya Know

[farmerlion]

Great start there! They have momentum I see!

Thats good to hear Lebanese has been an effective medical strain. What are the effects of the Lebanese? Is it indica leaning?

Love those volutneer plants! They teach you how to grow.

Hey pipeline, thanks for hanging out. I had some genetics that didn't come up last season and I was crushed! Especially the Phitsanulok Thai x Ogers Kush,(Mother of Pearl) it was gifted from a friend and I hate to disappoint. I didn't want to ask for more, hey you give me your genetics and I couldn't get one to grow??? feeling like a noob.

So I'm hoping it's the Mother of Pearl and not the Chocolope. Both are similar genetics, one being considerably more rare and treasured. I would hope for a female of her so I can use the faster hybrid as a male donor and keep her memory around going forward.

@FletchF.Fletch, thank you for stopping by. I'll try and find some of your posts or work. Welcome my friend.

Outside of watering and feeding the fungal repositories my work is pretty much over. The soil maintains itself from here through harvest. I just have to make sure to protect it from grasshoppers and the like.

This is what I love about this style of growing, everything is all in the foundation/preparation leading into the season. I started the soil a month before seedlings. My soil is at mid season form before anything pops out of the dirt and only get better as I add new fruits to the colonies. Everything is already processed by a plant therefore is immediately ready to be taken up by another plant.

Nothing has to be broken down by decomposition, that takes weeks in a mulching time table. Watch down the road on before and after pictures. They go from happy to praying plants within hours of the repositories being fed. That's the best we can do for our environmental conditions.
Peace farmerlion

 

[farmerlion]

Pipeline, sorry brother I didn't answer one question. To me the Lebanese is more sativa but clear like a mild mushroom experience. Happy, up, awake let's go walk the midway at the fair and check out the lights. Good people watching weed for us introverts that don't always interact socially.

I consume though grinding bud into yogurt or just straight up eating a bud. I don't smoke at all due to severe lung problems. I do decarboxilate in my Nova Plus machine. To me it takes a little of the fuzziness out.

Momma came home with about 12 pounds of fresh strawberries today. So tomorrow some will go into the blender with 5 bananas and make some delicious smoothies for the girls. I will make new repositories in the grow bags. I will post some pictures tomorrow.
Peace farmerlion

 

[farmerlion]

Ok, today it's time for a strawberry banana smoothie topped off with some Humic and Fulvic Acids! Mmm Mmm!!!
I started out with all new repositories in different places to move colony locations throughout the grow bags. This will ensure the healthiest soil environment that I can provide for the plants to feed in.

All the plants are responding very well as expected. Some bags had multiple seeds dropped in the same holes. I will go through at a later time and figure out which ones to cull.
I'mcuriousabout double planting some of the Auto genetics in 35 gallon growbags. Also tripleplanting the 45 gallon growbags. This wasn'tthehot ticket with regular or feminizedstrains 5 seasons ago. One plant in 35's and two plants in the 45's produced most bud and strongest plants.

Now that the soil is 7 years old I'm curious to see if it performs better after being dialed in? I also have time to monitor them closer than I did working 80 hour weeks. Have a beautiful day my friends.
Peace farmerlion

 

[farmerlion]

Good morning beautiful Ace family,
The girls certainly liked their strawberry banana smoothies from yesterday. I went out to have coffee and mist them and they were physically bigger since yesterday afternoon.

After visiting with my friend from Cryptic Lab's (Mystic Funk) I decided to germinate two seeds. These will be a month behind other genetics as far as vegetative growth goes, but what we can still learn this season about flowering onset and finish times is still viable information.
I'll try and find them a spot in a bag with the best sunshine available with existing plants. They will have an uphill battle for sure, but some of the best lessons and teaching times are through adversity.

I hope you all have a beautiful upcoming week, be blessed in all you do!
peace farmerlion

 

[farmerlion]

Hey all,
Some friends were off today and came out fishing. The fishing shut down a few days ago and they only caught 4 small walleyes. A bad day fishing is better than a good day at work!
So I met them at the cleaning station and kept what was left over after the filets were taken out. Into the blender with some strawberries strawberries Mmm, Mmm!

Nothing but the best for my girls.

I did make new repositories for this meal into the soil. The colonies will have this consumed in a couple days. The plants are starting to find their legs. Seems about the 3rd node of growth when they start grabbing gears of growth. I added a little of the Source Plus to the lake water I blended everything up in. The Humic and Fulvic Acids are like steroids in the repositories. (In The Midnight Hour She Cried MORE, MORE, MORE) Billy Idol came to mind, it was fitting. The two seeds of the Vain Janglings should be ready to drop in the dirt tomorrow as both cracked today. I like my name versus the #8 female, but nothing has been named or stabilized completely it's still nomenclature.

Well anyways that's what's going on in the greenhouse today. Have a wonderful week, thank you for stopping by.
Peace farmerlion

 

[farmerlion]

HAPPY FATHERS DAY ACE FAMILY,

I hope all you men have a beautiful day with your families. My kids are all off living in different areas of the State or Country.
It's a beautiful day here today as well yesterday was very nice also. I thought I would post some picks from the greenhouse this morning. I purchased some flowering plants from a greenhouse that was having their end of season sale.
The first couple are Lebanese x Auto Malawi. The fourth is the Phitsanulok Thai x Ogers Kush or Mother of Pearl. These are the two oldest plants that were volunteers from last season.

The fifth is Auto Zamaldelica f x Highland Nepalese Grape m. The last picture is a Blue Thai female x Purpura Regina male. I might/should end up with multiple males, then I will cull what I'm not going to use in an open pollination.

Yesterday I took the last half gallon mason jar of buds soaking in Everclear and distilled it down after using a French press to strain out all plant material. Here are the four small bottles of oil that were left at the end of the day.
Have a wonderful day my friends
Peace farmerlion

 

[farmerlion]

Good Dall All,

Yes the plants are still small but some phenotypes are showing up, parental donor dominance and early leaf structure. I don't do stem rubs until the plants have hardened off.

It's to easy to bruise the plant and stunt growth trying to be anxious. Early on they all smell the same to me anyways. Here's some random pictures after a good misting. Peace farmerlion

 

[pipeline]

Looking great! Getting some momentum and branches now! Don't you want to pull those weeds? Why do you do companion planting with flowers, disguising them? If you companion plant with flowers I would use peas or clover, something that is a legume and fixes nitrogen for the plants to compensate for lost root space.

Thanks for sharing! Looking forward to watching them take off!

 

[farmerlion]

Hey all,
My project is only partly finished. I removed the smaller leaking valve and decided to upgrade the old hash washing machine. I ordered a 2" dump valve and the needed 2" copper tubing to complete the project.
Tomorrow I will solder the connections together and give everything a thorough cleaning. The ability to evacuate the water much faster will give better a better idea on what's left to glean or if it's cooked.(so to say)?

I'm going to go fill up my water tank with lake water and call it an evening. All the girls are gaining so much mass lately, it's very exciting. I hope you all have a great weekend. Momma and I are celebrating our 17th anniversary tomorrow, so tomorrow is lady lion's day. I cook and she gets the remote for the TV.

Peace farmerlion

 

[farmerlion]

Looking great! Getting some momentum and branches now! Don't you want to pull those weeds? Why do you do companion planting with flowers, disguising them? If you companion plant with flowers I would use peas or clover, something that is a legume and fixes nitrogen for the plants to compensate for lost root space.

Thanks for sharing! Looking forward to watching them take off!

Hey Pipeline, there's no hiding them when they're 6' tall. Just shits and giggles I guess?
The soil has an abundance of everything it needs between the (fish, potatoes, bananas, strawberries, blueberries, pineapple and watermelons.) The Source Plus and Sea-90 for supplemental and micronutrients.

Tomatoes and Tomatillo's do very well in my soil, I'll see how flowers do through harvest. Today I finally tracked down Hollihock flowers. I will plant those next season providing the good Lord leaves me around to do this again .
Peace farmerlion

 

[sneezydog]

Cool to see this in a grow, thank you!

 

[Creeperpark]

Happy 17th anniversary to you and the miss. Thanks for sharing your expertise Friend.

 

[farmerlion]

CreeperPark, thank you kind Sir. Momma and I have had a very nice day. I made a big brisket for supper with beans. Now it's time for a nap.
Peace brother

 

[farmerlion]

Cool to see this in a grow, thank you!

Sneezydog, thank you for stopping by. I better post some new pictures of the grow. Everything is growing out, up and robustly in the last week. They loved the fish once the microbial colonies dispatched it in usable nutrients. This does take longer than a fruit or veggies smoothie.

The first three pictures are left, center and right side from inside the greenhouse. The last two are the Lebanese x Auto Malawi plants I'm guessing the taller of the two is a male.

The last picture is of the Mother of Pearl ( Phitsanulok Thai x Ogers Kush) they both seem pretty homogenous at this stage of growth. The Thai leaf serrations are noticeable and the wider leaves of the kush. By the end of July we should have a better idea of what they want to be as far as phenotypic expressions go.

The Lebanese x Auto Malawi are quickly evolving. Going from 3 leaf bracts to 5 then to seven leaf bracts. As they go to the 8th node of growth, we'll see if they go to 9 leaf bracts, combine 7 and 9 leaf bracts staying there throughout harvest?
I don't recall if I had any higher count bracts with the Auto Malawi in the past.

The Auto Zamaldelica seemed pretty consistent as well from memory, I would have to check my notes to be sure. The Highland Nepalese Grape father donor of the Auto Zamaldelica cross I've had 21 to 23 leaf bracts on that line, multiple 15 -18 leaf bracts. I only kept the highest one.

Have a wonderful day Ace family
Peace farmerlion

 

[farmerlion]

Hello friends,
Things are picking up steam and filling out quickly. I did find one grasshopper this morning, but everything is of the size now that they can't kill anything, as I did lose a seedling or two.

We have been getting a little rain at night, the barrels are full. So nice to have 100 gallons of backup that I don't have to go fill. Most of these are the Lebanese x Auto Malawi and the Blue Thai x Purpura Regina. I will explain the parental donors of this cross. It should be something special for northern outdoor/greenhouse growers like myself.

The first two pictures are the Blue Thai x Purpura Regina, the second two are the Lebanese x Auto Malawi. The fifth is the Mother of Pearl (Phitsanulok Thailand x Ogers Kush, Oregon Kid). I will post the Auto Zamaldelica x Highland Nepalese Grape in my next post. Those plants are a few weeks behind these as I was waiting for some genetics to arrive. It ended up working out great now I get to watch them in cooler weather flowering until late September early October.

The Mother of Pearl will go until it's just to cold. I'm guessing they are in the 13 -15 week range. Unless both plants are male, I'm hoping for a great male in the Auto Zamaldelica x Highland Nepalese f1's. That flowering onset and finish times works very well for me. Hence the majority of genetics are along these two lines from Ace. I have one Baglung Nepalese that I hope is a female, this would be a great base to strengthen in Nepalese genetics. The Baglung has a Mike Tyson sucker punch that most people don't expect.
Peace farmerlion

 

[farmerlion]

Hello again, let's take a dive into a polyhybrid that has multiple ties of relative/like genetics. The Blueberry, Thai Passion and Thai Skunk all have premium Thai genetics in there Genotypes. The Viking is a beast of an Indica selection from the same breeder of the Purpura Regina.
While neither of these two genetics are from Ace I felt they paired exceptionally well on paper for this hybrid. This version will get crossed to the Auto Zamaldelica x Highland Nepalese Grape phenotype, yes there's a lot going on. But there isn't many crosses that have Thai genetics in an Auto format and we know Ace does Auto's exceptionally well.

I don't have any issues with using others work as we don't really have any options these days. Landrace and geographic specific genetics are my preference, trying to stay close to the genetics origin. All that said to say I'm following this rabbit hole in a few selections to see if I can find something special? Back to my favorite Bible term Vain Janglings. Here is the Purpura Regina but not the donor I used. This is merely reference of the genetics.
I have pictures of some Blue Thai that I've had in the past, I'm not sure which album I have them in? I make no effort to hide my love for Lebanese and Nepalese genetics. For outdoor and greenhouse grows they are my Golden Standard.
I added the Blue Thai x Purpura Regina f1 it's now the top picture. The Purpura Regina is Thai Passion x Danish Passion x Viking an old Dutch Afghani.
Peace farmerlion

 

[Mitsuharu]

What breeders are the strains from other than yourself, the Blueberry for example!? The Thai Crosses are with Blueberry too? Maybe Dutch Passion strains?

 

[EnjoyingLife]

Hello again, let's take a dive into a polyhybrid that has multiple ties of relative/like genetics. The Blueberry, Thai Passion and Thai Skunk all have premium Thai genetics in there Genotypes. The Viking is a beast of an Indica selection from the same breeder of the Purpura Regina.
While neither of these two genetics are from Ace I felt they paired exceptionally well on paper for this hybrid. This version will get crossed to the Auto Zamaldelica x Highland Nepalese Grape phenotype, yes there's a lot going on. But there isn't many crosses that have Thai genetics in an Auto format and we know Ace does Auto's exceptionally well.

I don't have any issues with using others work as we don't really have any options these days. Landrace and geographic specific genetics are my preference, trying to stay close to the genetics origin. All that said to say I'm following this rabbit hole in a few selections to see if I can find something special? Back to my favorite Bible term Vain Janglings. Here is the Purpura Regina but not the donor I used. This is merely reference of the genetics.
I have pictures of some Blue Thai that I've had in the past, I'm not sure which album I have them in? I make no effort to hide my love for Lebanese and Nepalese genetics. For outdoor and greenhouse grows they are my Golden Standard.
I added the Blue Thai x Purpura Regina f1 it's now the top picture. The Purpura Regina is Thai Passion x Danish Passion x Viking an old Dutch Afghani.
Peace farmerlion
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I notice in this post you say you don't hide your love for Nepalese and Lebanese genes.


I assume you have some experience with the effects of Nepalese. I am curious to read about them if you're willing to share.

 

[farmerlion]

What breeders are the strains from other than yourself, the Blueberry for example!? The Thai Crosses are with Blueberry too? Maybe Dutch Passion strains?

Yes the Blueberry is in the Thai crosses, it's such an amazing strain and breeds very well with most genetics. I believe it's the Dutch Passion version of DJ,s Blueberry used by Dinafem. Dinafem was involved in some litigation and to my knowledge they haven't resumed breeding.
At the time I bought what I could find of the Blue Thai and about 4 other of the Dinafem strains, betting that they wouldn't be available for quite some time if at all again.

I'm very pleased that I did, seems that I was wise in doing so. The Purpura Regina is from Bald Monkey Seeds. At $20 a pack they are a fricken steal, they produced very well and made great hash. Most of it went to friends that came up from Arizona to go ice fishing.
I'm sure there's hash available all over Arizona, but they really liked mine. They went through 40 grams in a long weekend, being free didn't hurt.
Peace farmerlion

 

[exploziv]

Bro your plants "eat" better than some people!
It's good I found this thread so I can look more into your way of growing!