The James Gang

[H.A.F.]

I spent yesterday packing up seeds. just into brown paper envelopes that can absorb moisture if needed and they're still open, but they are all apparently the viable ones. i hand sorted out the misshapen ones. Anything possibly viable I kept. If it don't pop, no loss. I packed up 5 packs of a dozen beans each that were all dark and pretty. For some that's what I'll give away, for others that's all I'll keep. Still sorting it out in my head. Some were just plants I had in veg that would have been monsters if I kept in veg them until after the chuck. Not doing that for smoke I've never tried (but I'll use it for breeding ), Those might end up being the best ones. Marigold seeds drying in the background.

I only have the 2 Flashback 68 pheno's going now, And regardless of smoke I have settled on the short lime green one. The taller one is taller (I grow inside), and it carries a varriegation trait that does nothing for the plant. It's on one limbs of the back left one

And also popping on the clone forest so I'll just get that clone/mom ready to flip. No problem getting more of the smoke but it's not the keeper. I also have all those beans I bought to pop so I won't be keeping more than one long-term. So far the version in the 5/pot is shorter, flowers quicker, and smells a little danker.

I have the Dog-rust rocking. This likely comes down 11/11 at 10 weeks.

The 4x4 has all stages of flower in it. The leaves on that Dubstep are crazy. Nothing wrong with the plant, she smells spicy/sweet and good, but the shade leaves are all like Wavy Lays potato chips.

These are all the same flip for now but stuff is gonna stretch. It's only 2 weeks untill I start harvesting a few and making room so I can rearrange easily. I think the closet will end up with the Pink Floyd (right 3), and it'll go 14 weeks and be a pain in the ass.

 

[H.A.F.]

I am committed to keeping the three 1968 clones until I chuck pollen on them. I want to grow out some of the smoke too so getting them clonable is first priority.

For the Chem91 I have the peanut butter one and the real deal. If I like the real one better I don't need either mom. I'll do several clone runs every time I pop a bean to get a stash, but no need for a long term relationship.

For the Flashback, same deal since I have so many beans and all phenos seem legit. But since I want to keep working that line I'll be popping a lot of hopefully similar weed from MY beans. And then chucking that back on the Flashback 68 (and the three 1968) to make my final product.

Untill I settle on males for that final breeding step/project Andy is the only one that gets any of the Flashback cross. He sounded as excited about those as I am.

Besides the F2's and the FB68 crosses, the Ricky Retardo was the loudest seed mom of the bunch. Super lemony but not like fake lemon. The Tire Fire actually had a smoky smell that might have been in my head but I have one in early flower now so we'll see. The Headline mom had a crazy blueberry smell I didn't expect, and the Blue Jack City had that blueberries and blue cheese combo that's suprisingly nice.

The UK Cheese x T-1000/Old Family Purps from CSI getting hit with the GMO, ChemD/I-95 is gonna be wild but should be fun to just run a tent of and see what happens. Same with the Hollyweed x TKM10 cross.

My PB cut of Chem91, the Muttzarella (UK Cheese), and the Blue Nose Pitt (West Coast Dog) crosses are all Chem91 family.

The Blue Nose Pitt, Dubstep, and Oilspill are the ones I haven't smoked but made crosses with.

 

[H.A.F.]

I bought a brick of cheap coco and used it to beef up some outdoor potting soil. Lots of compost and worms in the 100g cloth pot.
Anyway, the boards on my porch are 5' long. I opened the door and talked to this one (mustache) while it ate thaw-damaged pizza rolls. The opossum also came up and tried to get some but scurried when I opened the door. the marking looks just like a mustache shape when it looks directly at you.

This is the CSI reg tent.

And the once and future mom tent.

All the seed plants lost their lower leaves and any limbs from the seed leaf and 3-blade node. On the 1968 those actyallu looked good so I left the limbs but took the leaves.

The Flashback 68 keeper left and the Chem91 legit cut that is a keeper at least to make more flower.

That's it for moms though. I am getting these ready to flip as soon as I harvest the first two FB68. The tall, light green FB68 and the peanut butter Chem shrub are gone. I topped both for now without cloning . The FB68 will get a 7g and flip as is or I may take a few more limbs off. I may clone up the shrub and do more of the multi-clone pots with it. Might stick it in a big pot and let it go. It only needs 8.5 weeks then it's gonna nanner. The flower has aged well so I might as well get one more run out of it. Two weeks to let the limbs grow out. Might as well get it into a big pot now to get the limbs going good then clone the tips and leave enough to flip what I don't clone.


But I have two weeks to decide. Watching the smoke stash diminish makes you think different than when you have a harvest hanging. They might both just be compost. I have seeds and the PB-Chem x Taxi crosses might not nanner and be better smoke.

 

[H.A.F.]

Not weed. I bought a 24-pack of safron crocus bulbs from Baker Creek. Supposed to get them in the ground in fall so they pop up first thing in spring. Plant in shaded areas because they bloom before trees get leaves. I split the 'corms' 50/50 inside and outside. The ones inside are doing what I expected, and one looks ready to bloom. Some didn't pop yet didn't pop but a few have multiple stalks popping from one. They were stuck in like a double-six domino

Coming back from the mailbox I saw this. I guess the freeze we had was enough to simulate winter, then the warm spell got some moving. No stalks to speak of but I harvested my 3-per-flower stigma.

I checked a recipe and it calls for 10 strands to make safron rice. I think I'll use all 15 LOL

 

[H.A.F.]

what's gonna be funny is if I think safron flavor sucks LOL

 

[H.A.F.]

This is veg and the moms now

And this is the two former moms. I'll flip when I have room.

 

[H.A.F.]

Game on. This will never be a cash crop, but for me weed never will either. It's more about the growing, and these are easy. I'm not sure what type of cycle they'll go through inside but I have them under 12 hours of light and they love it. They don't need water unless the soil completely dries. I think that harvesting as soon as they open is probably better than waiting. These look healthier than the outdoor flowers, no floppy stems, so I wonder if there will be a difference is thread quality. Outside the stigma were dangling below the petals when the flower closed for the night, then stayed there under the flower after that.

 

[Fiddler's Green]

Those saffron flowers are neat. How did the rice turn out?

 

[H.A.F.]

Those saffron flowers are neat. How did the rice turn out?

I haven't messed with it yet. I have gotten a few more flowers worth from outside and there are more popping up. I know they will have an "end date" so I want to see how much I actually get before I use any. What I am seeing on the inside clusters is probably the beginning of being able to divide them for more bulbs.

 

[H.A.F.]

More about getting them flipped so I don't change my mind, but also so they don't get too big. The Peanut Butter Chemdog is done being a mom, as is the tall/light green/varriegated FB68.

I have the three 1968 on the back wall, and the Flashback 68 mom and Chemdog mom on the right with the PTK reg front right corner. the three Paki are on the left and the 6 Uzzbeck in the middle. I think the soil may have been mixed a little hot or not rested enough for the Uzbek because the new leaves look funky. But what is crazy is that they look funky the same way the Dubstep does. Wavy Lays fan leaves once they spread out.


That's 10 regs to flip at the new moon and nothing behind them so it's seed dropping time. I have a handfull of untried fems I want to run and some packs of older stuff that may or may not germinate. If I do get a mess of regs again I know I can deal with it. The 1968 is a Vietnamese landrace and a Hawaiian heirloom strain crossed. I think the Vietnamese Silver Leaf will be the first of the oldies to get wet. I'll soak them and get them in soil, but if I don't see a few tails after the soak I'll get another pack wet.

 

[H.A.F.]

The Flashback 68 mom I have I may hang onto. The clones are looking almost done at the 8-week mark while two other versions are still about half-brown. Shorter, quicker, and it should be the same weight as taller ones - just less node-space.

The Chem91 S1 clone I have isn't really a mom, but I want to make more smoke even if it's just flipping the mom like I just did on the others. I'll need to clone the FB68 soon so that may prompt chopping up the '91 and doing a sea of green with what roots.

 

[Fiddler's Green]

What size pots for the SOG vato?

 

[H.A.F.]

What size pots for the SOG vato?

the 5-top is in a 10g, the 2-fer is in a 7g.

 

[H.A.F.]

The first round of FB68 was 2 of the dark/short clones, a tall light green seed mom and a third seed, not cloned. They hit 8 weeks today and one won't make it to next Monday. Of the two one looks slightly less advanced than the other so it'll go long. But both are getting that dull look to the olcd sugar leaves/bud leaves. These aren'f frosty enough to get that extreme powdered donut look but in the zooms it's obvious. 4 days would put it at a 60-day cut. Some of these actually lose potency as they get older (like Chemdog) but get a better overall profile. I'll take one now, one later.

The middle and lower left are the goners. But the back left is a seed plant I didn't clone and it's going longer, maybe 10 weeks.

The 2-fer clone pot above are cuts off this seed mom that I vegged a bit (back left). She put on spears, but has the varriegation thing she passed to the clones,and is also looking like 70 days. And niether has the potency of smell the shorties do. That's why she's the mom. Her 5 babies look like a hobbit forrest or something LOL

In here I raped and pillaged. They lost leaves and limbs, and net time they'll lost lower nodes on the limbs I keep. All based on 'pistil-count'.
The FB68 can rock no pruning all day long and the lowest nugs will make bong-rip sized nugs. Completely worth it, but that's rare.
This is the assorted Greenway fems on the left. Lime Green Skunk on the stand, Helens Melons then the Toke-a-cola up front.
Center row is Purple Floyd also Greenway fems, and the right is Pink Floyd from Mr Nice. By the time thtese get done stretching I should have room to shuffle things around. The Pink's have haze in them so I expect stretch and more weeks. The back one is already getting limb-y, but it's two-sided.
The opposing limbs I kept are long but the ones front and back were short, they got snipped so she's a candelabra at the bottom.

 

[H.A.F.]

This is me chatting with Mustache while it nibbles cat food. I had the bowl on the rock (dumb-ass) and the opossum tipped it over and scared itself away. I'll never get a good shot of an opossum. I sat down with the door open where it couldn't see me and it climbed up and peeked over the edge to make sure I wasn't a threat, then it went back to eating.

I zoomed in and you can see just a bit of how super soft and fluffy and shiny the coat is. Cant-not-touch

 

[Big Terps]

O go for it HAF.. go pet it while its eating..
Just make sure ur video is recording when u do.. lol

 

[H.A.F.]

Didn't need the skunk to get my sinuses cleared out. I got all my hot peppers dried and ground up. Gloves yes, mask no. Next time maybe mask yes? I have several plants still producing but only one not represented here. The Tobago Seasoning pepper is a scotch bonnet looking pepper, but has a smoky sweet flavor and very little heat.The next flush of them is about 40 peppers so I'll have enough to dry. Just watching the weather for the first hard freeze and I'll have a haul of lots of varieties, hot and sweet. The Chiltepin from last year was bountiful but this year not so much. The tree is still full but I get most of the seeds out and there's not much left.

 

[H.A.F.]

I shut down the 3x3 so I could rearrange the veg room. The moms are all here and the regs will get topped next watering to get the 4 keeper limbs growing. The 1968 will get bigger pots then.

I put the Flashback mom in here

And the peanut butter Chem91 mom in here. No clones. 2 are coming out of here in the next week so it'll spread back out. This tent has the light mounted from the spreader bar on the ceiling so it ay have to be my tall tent.

The Pink Floyd, Toke-a-cola and Helens Melons are getting stretchy.

 

[H.A.F.]

I would rather have more room to grow more beans I made than having to keep track of moms. Since lack of fire isn't gonna be an issue I'm just vegging out the Chem 91 S1 clone for a while to get more smoke out of it then flip it in a big pot.

That leaves the three 1968, and the short/dark green/short-flowering Flashback68 as the keepers and I am good with that. I plan to pop more of the FB68 fems occasionally and see what else is in there, then when I do the final chuck I'll probably pop half a dozen just to catch pollen.

The 1968 seem to be shorties so keeping them in veg a while won't be hard. Taking a top clone will be less likely but letting the top keep growing and taking a few loser clones when I can is nothing. And as soon as I get clones I flip what's left so I can smoke it. Might only be one or two keepers for smoke, but for preservation/breeding I'll keep all three.

That means the next drop will include some Dirty Flashbacks. I have a sack of about two dozen seconds that may or may not germinate that will get wet first. I pressed each bean with my thumb and some werre hollow and squished, these are the ones that didn't.

if none crack then I'll drop a dozen of the pretty ones to get ~6 girls if they all pop. I can start my hunt for the FB68 traits in both the boys and the smoke immediately, and also make sure I didn't breed hemp.

 

[H.A.F.]

taking a few loser clones when I can

Pretty sure that was lower. But in the end it's germplasm. if some loser limbs I would have snipped and trashed can root so be it - that's all I need.

It's just the whole cloning process that doesn't thrill me. I thought waiting for beans to break soil tried my patience until I was waiting 2 weeks for a slip to even start swelling up to produce root nubs.