Maria's Subtropical Outdoor Guerilla Grows with Connoisseur Genetics (Perpetual Journal)

[Maria Sanchez]

Spring-Summer Grow -- Maria among the Hazes!

Day 153: 135V + 18F

Two Grail x ThaiFrican and One Lemon 'n' Lime Jones

The left is the 'medium' pheno.
She was laying down, and now staked in this pic, so her leaves are facing towards the camera.
She's putting on a nice flower structure, with some stretch but mostly keeping it short and not too stretchy (so far!)
The right is the 'taller' pheno.
She is slightly slower, but also putting on her flowering structure now, too.
Can't see Miss L'n'L Jones from here, as she's on the other side facing south.

Looking at the 'medium' pheno up close:

Looking at the 'taller' pheno up close:

And a closer look at 'tall' pheno side branch:

She has a lot of branches like this, easily more than a dozen.
This is actually one of the smaller ones on the north side, whereas the ones in the south / front are much stronger.


One Lemon 'n' Lime Jones

She is mostly hidden within these sativa/hazes, even though she is a sativa-dom plant herself.
She still has more of that look of the SSSDH or a SSH -- sati heavy but with weight and bulk to the flowers.

It's really hard for me to get a good pic of her.
She's just become one bud -- the bottom half about 50 cm is just bare stem,
and the top half another 50 cm is just one dark and fairly leafy bud, seems like stretch is done for her.
She still has a long way to go as the flowers are only just getting going.
Her younger sister -- harvested months ago now! -- had a real pungent chemical smell to her.
Let's see if she has the same.

One Revegged Grail (NvHz x Mullumbimby) (NLD pheno)

Ran out of prepared stakes and zip ties, so used a branch nearby to hold most of her up.
A bit messy, but it works.
Her leaves will turn back to the sun soon.

Quite delicate tops on her.
She has about 5 or 6 main big tops, with many side branches on each one.
Starting to take her flowering shape now, but a bit behind the Grail x ThaiFrican girls.


Seven SSSTN (Sticky) x ThaiFrican seedlings

Forget to take pics of these little ones.
Like I said above, one of them is showing some pistils.
The others are not showing sex, yet.
But should be fairly soon, within the next week or two or three.
I'm in no rush, and really just want one or two nice boys.
Going to cross these back to their mom, SSSTN (Sticky).


One last family pic to finish off with:

Hard to get a good angle, and the pots are heavy and I don't want to move them around a lot for pics.
Left, close to camera: one revegged Grail (NLD pheno)
Middle: two Grail (fast pheno) x ThaiFrican seed plants, one Lemon 'n' Lime Jones seed plant (hidden)
Right in back: two revegged SSSTN (Sticky and Fluffy pheno)

It's getting busy up on this balcony!!
Need to think about staking for the next visit.
There are a few usable broken tree branches nearby I can use.
If they have a few little side branches then I don't need to tie much, just thread the girls through the branches.
Don't really want to use string, and even though I used two zip ties this time, not ideal, either.
Maybe strips of cloth would be better and not cut into the stems.


Peace and Love,
~MJS

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Haha, these girls are all over the place today!
I had to spread the three pots further apart to give them more space.
Will find some bricks or blocks to help anchor the pots too.
Things are really starting to get exciting now!

 

[Hasch]

Wow, seems the girls are really shooting up + filling out now.

Thanks again for the pix, love the new viewing angle.

Wind season mostly over or coming up now?

Good luck for your grow!

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Wow, seems the girls are really shooting up + filling out now.

Thanks again for the pix, love the new viewing angle.

Wind season mostly over or coming up now?

Good luck for your grow!

Hola!

They sure are.
These bigger pots + osmocote + natural compost --> happy plants!
I did add extra 3-5-5 today, not only relying on the osmocote.
And it is pretty mild, won't burn them at all.

Once they get near harvest, I will move the pots over to get those cool background pics I had before.
I just don't feel like doing that every visit and update.
And, as you can see, there are other apartments opposite.
I'm trying to keep things low key, not much movement, wear dark clothing,
and now I can mostly work behind the plants using them as a screen for tending to them.

Windy season is basically just rainy season, so months more, until about ... Sept or Oct on average.
But this exact location gets regular strong winds from one direction,
but actually blocks the direction that the typhoons come in.
Which is good -- regular strong winds keep those stems strong, but block the really vicious stuff.

 

[ojd]

Gave the plants a watering today.
No pics.

All seem well, though the Grail x ThaiFricans could do with a little more nutrients I think.
The medium Grail x ThaiFrican in particular is showing good flowering shape, setting out her flower structure.
Lots of little flower branches popping out from the main branches.
Then the tall Grail x ThaiFrican is next in terms of progress.
@ojd -- what kind of flower structure does the ThaiFrican have? (Outback x (NvHz23 x Kariba)?

SSSTNs and Grail NLD are still just showing a few pistils but not really changing shape, yet.

L'n'L Jones is of course still bulking up.

Tall Grail x ThaiFrican must be almost 200 cm tall now, 78"!
Medium Grail x ThaiFrican, both SSSTN, and the Grail NLD are all about the same height, +/- 160 cm = 63".
L'n'L Jones hasn't grown much for a while, she's less than 100 cm = 39".

Hopefully some rain from now through the weekend will keep their water levels topped up.
I won't be around to baby them.
Temps about the same, high/low of around 32C-27C.
Humidity still around 80% or so, the usual for here.

A huge spider -- like, the size of my hand if legs included -- had spun a web just at the top of the stairs.
I almost face-planted it, as I carried the water bucket in.
Had to break a little bit of its web to get through.
Then a few minutes later I did it again, but worse!, and had to pull its wire like silk off my cap!
I met (meaning, walked into!) one of these last visit, just down outside the bat cave.
Their web silk is incredibly tough, and I've heard they have a nasty bite!

Coming along great , getting big some of them to , and not in full flower mode yet some of them, going to be some big 1's.

The ThaiFrican has 2 main phenos ( Outback Haze leaners grow kinda spaced out buds with great foxtails and the Dankincense leaners more straight long colas , both really great strains for exotic Haze/Sativa's

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Coming along great , getting big some of them to , and not in full flower mode yet some of them, going to be some big 1's.

The ThaiFrican has 2 main phenos ( Outback Haze leaners grow kinda spaced out buds with great foxtails and the Dankincense leaners more straight long colas , both really great strains for exotic Haze/Sativa's

Yeah, they could get pretty big, for sure!
And the stretch for the SSSTN and Grail are barely beginning...

Thanks for info on the ThaiFrican phenos.
Hard to say right now, but the taller girl is looking more like long spear colas, and the medium one is maybe a bit more spaced out.
The Grail mother for the Grail x ThaiFrican cross were quite solid and thick, not open airy type formation.
But it's hard to say what a polyhybrid is going to end up like, right?
Anything's possible!

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Spring-Summer Grow -- Maria among the Hazes!

Day 156: 135V + 21F

Made a visit today, to water and see if I can tie them up with something.
Temps have been hot again, high/low of about 34C-28C.
Was a tiny amount of rain yesterday, but nothing really.

I just took in some gardening string for the tie back.
Thought I'd try to find something on site, as usual.
As luck would have it, on the way there I first found a nice broom handle -- perfect!
Then I found two nice pieces of construction re-bar (is that the term?).
And then another piece of something like looked like window framing or bathroom runner.
The idea was to just stake those in, and do a very simple string tie around the plants.

When I got to the site, I found that they were all back up nice and tall!
Except one branch of the SSSTN (pic below).
So maybe they were just chilling out after the wind and rain last time.
Whatever the case, a tie back is a good idea -- these girls are tall, and sticky growing!

No family pics today, I did more flower shots, so you can see how their development is going.


Revegged Super Silver Sour Thai Neville (Sticky pheno)

Now that these two girls are flowering, I can affirm which is Sticky and which is Fluffy.
My original guess was correct, but now I'm like 90% certain.
Sticky is more straight and solid, Fluffy is more delicate and branching out.

Let's have a look at Sticky.
She's slightly taller than Fluffy, and now looks like she may stretch longer, too.

Revegged Super Silver Sour Thai Neville (Fluffy pheno)

I think the two colas in behind are both Sticky, so you can see the height difference.
I really wonder what her flowers will be like this time.
As the first time, she was stunted and shaded out by Sticky, and by the time she was hitting flower, it was like already past the winter solstice.
So she flowering with increasing light hours.
May have contributed to her having a lot of male flowers at the end of the flowering phase.

While most of these big tops got tied inside the string, I left a few outside, let them flop a little and get the light from other angles.
Here's one branch, not sure which pheno, but looks more like Sticky, that is lying almost flat straight, curling up to the sun:

Taller Grail x ThaiFrican

Look at this girl go!!
From the base of the stem, she's about 215 cm tall or so, which is 7' tall.
Gonna be one big spear cola up top, and lots of branches as well.
The branches have a beautiful shape, starting more horizontal but curling up to face the sky.
Sounds a bit like the long cola pheno of the ThaiFrican OJD mentioned.

This is one of the lower branches, and it's at the back, not a big one at all.

I think this is the top of one of the bigger branches.
This whole branch is not like a little tree itself, with her own side branches a foot long.

Taller girl still has stretch in her.
Her leaves are going from five-blade to three, but I'm not sure how much more she has.
Will she reach 250 cm = 8'? Maybe!

Medium Grail x ThaiFrican

Medium girl is a bit different.
She's hit about 160 cm or so, 5' I think.
Most of her stretch is done.
All the way down her branches she has lovely little flower tufts popping out.
Sounds more like the ThaiFrican spaced out foxtail colas, perhaps?

Let's have a look at one of those bud branches from the side.

The differences between these two phenos is becoming more obvious now they're flowering.

Peace and Love,
~MJS

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Spring-Summer Grow -- Maria among the Hazes!

Day 156: 135V + 21F

Lemon 'n' Lime Jones

Let's try to get some better pics of the Jones girl.
She is such a different plant to her garden buddies!
Unfortunately, due to her thick leafy bud, the bugs like nesting up in there and making webs...

She's got a lot of trichs on her.

Still many weeks to go on her, as it is mostly white pistils under that leafy clothing.


Revegged Grail (NvHz x Mullumbimby) (NLD pheno)

This lovely lady is always the thirsty girl.
She's in the smallest pot, after all, originally and after the re-pot.
She handles it well, but has lost a fair amount of fan leaves to yellowing.
I think I should probably feed her a little more, to be honest.
She is maybe about 5'6" or so, about 165 cm.

Flowering signs progressing nicely.
She is somewhere between the Taller GrxTF and the SSSTN in terms of speed and development.

She has about six or so big tops, and many more smaller tops down below.
Here's a look at a couple of those up top to show the flower situation.

Leaves are a bit droopy because she was a little thirsty when I got there.
She's had plenty to drink since then.

Seven SSSTN (Sticky) x ThaiFrican seedlings

Finally remembered to take some pics of these little ones.
They are tiny and crowded out, sharing space on the edges of the big pot.
Growing like the little 'weeds' they are, hahahahaaaa!

But... two of them need a coming of age party.
We have two girls!
The rest, still shy....

On the left is the broom handle stake, and straight behind is the main stem of the 'Taller' Grail x ThaiFrican.
Didn't take pics of all the other ones, but you can kind of see them in the background of these two pics above.


Bonus Bat Pics and Cat Pics

Not only do we have bonus bat pics today, we also have bonus cat pics!

I think this is the same 'Flow Cat' as my avatar, who was sitting smoking in a comfy chair, saying 'Stay Chill'.
But Flow Cat has now smoked a few Js of the SSSTN at this point, opening her third eye and an halo, and is now hungry for some cat snacks.



Peace and Love,
~MJS

 

[BC LONE WOLF]

Great journal, and the phenos are really awesome. I gotta try some SSSTN

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Great journal, and the phenos are really awesome. I gotta try some SSSTN

Thanks Mr Wolf.
Yes, you definitely have to try some SSSTN!

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Made a quick visit to water today.
Temps are high and they are hitting that age when they drink a lot.
Plus I may not be able to water in the next few days.

I keep saying 'Rains season is just starting', but, not much rain, still quite dry.
August rainfall this year just slightly lower than usual.
But almost all of it came in one day, not very helpful for these plants.

All looks good.
They're at that flowering phase when you can see development even over a couple of days.
Very exciting!

They're still losing a few inner fan leaves, yellowing off.
I just run my hands through and they tend to drop right off.
Nothing too serious, but they could probably do with a feed.
A little N and a bit more P and K obviously.
Not sure if I should top up the Osmocote or use the Peters directly, or both?

Taller Grail x ThaiFrican must be about 220 cm.
Medium Grail x ThaiFrican, Grail NLD, and SSSTN Sticky around 180-190 cm.
SSSTN Fluffy around 170-180 cm.

Medium Grail x ThaiFrican has finished the stretch I think, really quite tight.
Taller Grail x ThaiFrican has a bit more stretch left in her.
Makes me think that both of these crosses should finish fairly early compared to the others.
The SSSTN sisters and Grail are barely starting on their stretch.

Another little SSSTN Sticky x ThaiFrican seedling has shown sex -- another girl!
We're now 3 out 7 ladies for those.
I'm in no rush for a boy, they can take their time, the pistils aren't full bloom.
Yet.

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Spring-Summer Grow -- Maria's Haze Heaven Hacienda!

Day 161: 135V + 26F

Update time.
It's been hot, sunny, no rain at all.

Family pic

Left: two re-vegged Super Silver Sour Thai Neville (phenos 'Sticky' and 'Fluffy')
Mid: two Grail project (NvHz x Mullum F2) (fast pheno) X ThaiFrican seed plants; one Lemon 'n' Lime Jones (hidden)
Right: one re-vegged Grail project (NvHz x Mullum F2) (NLD pheno)

Two Re-vegged Super Silver Sour Thai Nevilles

Getting into their stretch now.
Almost hitting 180 cm = 6' tall.
The branch I left laying down has grown up, almost straight.
Pulled a couple of side colas out of the restricting string, let it spread out a bit more.

Re-vegged Super Silver Sour Thai Neville (Sticky pheno)

If her first round is anything to judge by, she's got another maybe 60 cm = 24" of stretch in her.
This will be the biggest main cola.

Re-vegged Super Silver Sour Thai Neville (Fluffy pheno)

A little more delicate, but spreading out nicely.
The first round with this girl, she was blocked out by her sister and stunted for weeks and weeks.
So it was hard to know really how she responded to flowering initiation, and how long she took.
But at this point, she looks very similar timing to her sister, 'Sticky.'

Two Grail x ThaiFricans

It's obvious which is the 'Taller' pheno, and which the 'Medium' pheno, right?
Really showing their differences now, in flowering.

'Taller' Grail x ThaiFrican

Such a classic sativa!
Moving along nicely with the flower development, but still has a fair bit of stretch in her.
She has branches on her branches on her branches.
Some of the bigger side branches are like mini trees themselves.
She has lots of space , so the inner flowering sites are still getting plenty of space and light for flower set.
Let's have a look at the very tops of a couple of side branches.
(I'm not tall enough to really focus on her main cola up top.)

It's just the very top, not showing all the further secondary branching a bit lower down.
And another.

She's going to have long, pointy colas by the look of things.

'Medium' Grail x ThaiFrican

Meanwhile, this girl is taking a different shape.
Her stretch is pretty much done already.
Now lots of leafy buds popping up at every point along those branches.
Looks a bit like some of those Nepalese landrace / wild plants.
And a lot like the herb we had locally when I was at high school.

I should have taken a pic of one of the branches, showing the flower formation all along it.
Next time!
(I think the cola in the background right is one of the biggest branches from the 'Taller' pheno.)

Peace and Love,
~MJS

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Spring-Summer Grow -- Maria's Haze Heaven Hacienda!

Day 161: 135V + 26F

Lemon 'n' Lime Jones

Hidden in behind those two Grail x ThaiFrican queens of the garden, is this lady.
She's such a different creature to these full sativas, but quite content.

A foot-long deep green stinky bud!

Just hitting that point when the older calyxes mature and pistils drop,
but most of the calyxes are fresh, and just reaching peak flower production.
Have to keep an eye on bugs making nests inside her flowers.


Re-vegged Grail project (NvHz x Mullumbimby Madness F2) (NLD pheno)

Last but not least, this lady.
I gave her a top up with some more Osmocote, but she's doing okay, just a minor issue of dropping older leaves.
(They're all dropping older leaves, but it's natural, and they have plenty of leafy material on them to hit flowering with full strength.)

Low angle photo, but she is 180 cm = 6' now, I'm sure.
Just starting the stretch here, too.
Gonna be fun with this girl!

She always has this delicate, dropping look to her, but she's quite happy.
The red on the petioles comes and goes, but nutrients seem to be fine, no K issues that I can see.

Happy growing, my friends.
The fall / autumn will soon be upon us!



Peace and Love,
~MJS

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Seven SSSTN (Sticky) x ThaiFrican seed plants --
So far, five out of seven females.
What?!
Where are my boys!?!

 

[Hasch]

Heaven hacienda
Nice one!

Have you thought about buying the whole derelict lot?
Keep the squatters in the basement and transform the place. Gardens, chill out areas, living quarters, drying room, communal kitchen, pool (spa?)...

Hell, I'd rent a room!

Take care dear Maria

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Heaven hacienda
Nice one!

Have you thought about buying the whole derelict lot?
Keep the squatters in the basement and transform the place. Gardens, chill out areas, living quarters, drying room, communal kitchen, pool (spa?)...

Hell, I'd rent a room!

Take care dear Maria

I don't think it's for sale.
And the whole lot would be well beyond my price.
Better anonymous.

 

[badass-eu]

Damn, they're going to go over the roof, well done you have a green thumb, they're tackling flowering without any shortage, they're already reaching heights, beautiful big trees in perspective, can't wait to see what happens next!

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Damn, they're going to go over the roof, well done you have a green thumb, they're tackling flowering without any shortage, they're already reaching heights, beautiful big trees in perspective, can't wait to see what happens next!

Haha! They're almost all over my head, for sure!
I just stick them in a pot -- with these genetics, nature does the work.
They seem pretty good for now.
Still have a long way to go, though, and for their size, those pots still aren't big at all.
I also can't wait to see how this is going to work out in the end!

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Spring-Summer Grow -- Maria's Haze Heaven Hacienda!

Day 165: 135V + 30F

Only four days since last visit and update.
Four days is enough that they will be thirsty.
It's still been hot, high/low around 35C-28C.
No rain.
Rains season just not here this year, which is a bit worrying.
Hoping the temps will start to lower and some rain come.


Family pic

All the girls are a little bit wilted from lack of water.
But should be no damage done, we'll just call it a deliberate 'dry cycle', shall we?!

Left: SSSTN girls
Mid: Grail x ThaiFrican girls and L'n'L Jones girl
Right: Grail girl

That's my watering bucket in front.
It's about 20-30L, but I just fill about 1/3 to 1/2 full each time I go downstairs to the pond.

Two Re-vegged Super Silver Sour Thai Neville (phenos 'Sticky' and 'Fluffly')

The tallest main cola:

A branch coming off a big cola:

Looking at the pics, these both might be Sticky pheno, oops!
Anyway, as you can see from the photo angle, she's towering way above my head these days.
Flowering, yes, but only just kicking into the stretch.
Of all the plants, these two are keeping their color the best.
A half dozen big strong colas are forming here, with another half dozen medium colas surrounding them.


Grail (fast pheno) x ThaiFrican (medium pheno)

Her top:

A side branch showing her bud structure:

Grail (fast pheno) x ThaiFrican (taller pheno)

Check out the top cola on this lady!
It's going to be a 2'-3' bud right there!

Some of her side branches are already bigger than many plants I've grown in the past, haha!

Her stretch is almost finished I think.

One interesting thing about this plant:
Even though she has this obvious and classic sativa shape to her, she is quite a bit faster than the Grail NLD pheno and the SSSTN girls.
Has some serious vigor to her as well.

One Lemon 'n' Lime Jones

Once I got home I realized I didn't take a pic of her!!
She now has no fan leaves on her, but the bud itself is still quite leafy.
Going into that bulking up phase right now, I think.
Didn't have time to inspect her for bugs, though.
The dry weather is helping her at this point.
Maybe a couple of weeks to go for her -- end of Sept possible?

Seven SSSTN x ThaiFrican seedlings

No pics here, either.
Still at five girls are two uncommitted.
But I think one of the uncommitted seedlings may be showing some male parts ... it's the tallest one, too!

Re-vegged Grail project (NvHz x Mullumbimby Madness F2) (NLD pheno)

Always have to get a low angle to get her in frame.
But this gets the light on her better than the other plants at least.
A couple of big colas here in this pic, a couple more out of frame.

Maybe mid-way through the stretch?
Just setting out her bones at this point, hehe.

Bats!

The light in the bat-cave was a bit different today, so maybe these pics are clearer.

Happy growing, my friends.
The fall / autumn will soon be upon us!



Peace and Love,
~MJS

 

[Hasch]

Garden of wonders





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