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Looking good amigo
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Thanks bud. I keep meaning to report how much I liked that last Miracle Warp. I am smoking it today in fact. Not many crack my lineup as flower. An easy high.
I have 2 of the Mac/DLA5 just starting to flower that I am optimistic about. The DLA5 dad might be the star of those crosses from our buddy @rosinallday, I have loved everything from that DLA5 dad.
I almost culled this Apollo 11, it got its ass kicked by spring storms but managed to thrive, might be special fun, it’s a survivor.
What is this about you thinking about a greenhouse? Expanding maybe?
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You getting some nice apple terps on that? Every seed I popped of the miracle warps had those nice apple smells. I have one that I'm keeping my eye on right now, I really like it. Make sure to post those dla crosses, I'll be getting around to mine at some point. And that Apollo 11 looks nice, nice open structure for sure. I have a 12 x 26 hoop house right now. But what I really need is a lil chunk of property with a couple bigger houses. I want to do pheno hunts from my own stock and others too. 80% cover gives out pretty nice buds for outdoors. I really just want to start going through a lot of seeds. Special plants are in the numbers imo. The way things work out for me, it will be middle of summer before I can pull it off and I'll have to wait for the year after, lol.
Baja.Beaches
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12 x 26? Wow, I did not know you had that kind of space. Cool. every year I say I am going to build an insect screen house, budworms are crazy here but I like seeing the plants so I keep fighting them instead, someday. My climate is great for pests. Ha.
That last MIracle Warp is still hanging so haven't smoked it yet but smell & frost are both stellar. Apple candy on all 3 early on but finished with a heavy Apple fuel smell. A happy high too.
That last MIracle Warp is still hanging so haven't smoked it yet but smell & frost are both stellar. Apple candy on all 3 early on but finished with a heavy Apple fuel smell. A happy high too.
Baja.Beaches
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I don't usually keep track of flowering times outdoors, seems like nature's photo period has its own ideas & overrides expectations so I usually just observe & respond to its needs. I did go back through my notes tho & the last one went closer to 10 weeks. Hard to count exactly since there isn't a flip to 12/12 but I pulled the 1st males about 10 weeks before harvest.
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I debated if it was worth continuing with this thread, not a lot of interest in backyard grows but thought I would share this minor catastrophe.
Before & after pics. with one of my 91 Skunk VA x Skunky Brewster from @Schwaggy P.
First pic was the day before. I saw the baseball bat colas were starting to lean. We had house guests & I was distracted. I had planned to add support as soon as the guests left, it did not last that long.
It was windy & light drizzle when the heavy branches split. I have dealt with this for many years but never had one split so completely. It split into at least 6 separate stalks all laying in the dirt. They were so sticky that the dirt is kinda embedded in some of the colas. Wish I had taken a pic but didn’t think of it.
Those colas were tall & extra heavy, so heavy that duct tape could not hold. You can see my zip tie solution, at least get them off the ground, it was close enough to ready that I was hoping for an extra week. For as bad off as it was it kinda recovered. This last pic is 4 days later & trichomes are turning quick.
It is so dang stinky & sticky now that it will not be so bad to harvest early. Sometimes some stress is a good thing, but never had one split like this. Ya never know.
I hope I have learned a lesson. Ha.
Before & after pics. with one of my 91 Skunk VA x Skunky Brewster from @Schwaggy P.
First pic was the day before. I saw the baseball bat colas were starting to lean. We had house guests & I was distracted. I had planned to add support as soon as the guests left, it did not last that long.
It was windy & light drizzle when the heavy branches split. I have dealt with this for many years but never had one split so completely. It split into at least 6 separate stalks all laying in the dirt. They were so sticky that the dirt is kinda embedded in some of the colas. Wish I had taken a pic but didn’t think of it.
Those colas were tall & extra heavy, so heavy that duct tape could not hold. You can see my zip tie solution, at least get them off the ground, it was close enough to ready that I was hoping for an extra week. For as bad off as it was it kinda recovered. This last pic is 4 days later & trichomes are turning quick.
It is so dang stinky & sticky now that it will not be so bad to harvest early. Sometimes some stress is a good thing, but never had one split like this. Ya never know.
I hope I have learned a lesson. Ha.
Baja.Beaches
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Here are the other 2 91 Skunk VA x Skunky Brewster from @Schwaggy P. At about 6 ft they are beefy & stinky, I will keep a close eye on them.
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Shitty that it happened, but interesting none the less. Don't abandon your thread bro, I enjoy checking out what you have going.
Baja.Beaches
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Thanks for saying so @macsnax.
I am surprised at the plant's response, leaves are still standing up but white hairs are turning red & trichomes are ambering up fast. A couple days at most, I chopped some of the biggest colas this morning to encourage the rest. Seriously fat colas, beautiful but dirt is embedded, it is not rinsing out.
Getting it to ripen a little more was the main plan though & I kinda got away with that. Most will be hash.
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I also realize that I named it wrong. Dang.
It was one of the 91 Skunk VA x Granny Skunks that split, not the Skunky VA which is doing well.
It was one of the 91 Skunk VA x Granny Skunks that split, not the Skunky VA which is doing well.
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More crazy shit in the crazy shit year...huh? Well shit...at least the hash will save the day.
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Hash does save the day & my fave but summer is a crummy time for ice baths here.
This is what became of my last heavy split stalk a few weeks ago. it was a Lemon Banana Sherbet. It did not recover well from the split, plenty of trichomes but it was not going to crack the lineup & I had another that was beautiful. I was out of drying space so I made hash with fresh buds. It hung overnight then straight in the washer. I sure went through some ice.
A smaller yield that I expected, this is about 20 grams but nice, it smells & smokes like bananas. Now to wrap in cellophane & cure for awhile.
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Is pretty cool what these plants can go through and keep trucking. That kind of stuff will make me look at this plant and wonder, lol.
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An update on the resilience of the split Chem.
It is doing better than I expected. Tough girl. Those zip ties have to be cutting into the stem even tho I tried to keep tape under them. It is doing pretty well all in all & is finishing.
The 4 fat colas I cut are smelling awesome. I rinsed them well before hanging. I will need to sample that soon.
Interesting to observe the response.
It is doing better than I expected. Tough girl. Those zip ties have to be cutting into the stem even tho I tried to keep tape under them. It is doing pretty well all in all & is finishing.
The 4 fat colas I cut are smelling awesome. I rinsed them well before hanging. I will need to sample that soon.
Interesting to observe the response.
Baja.Beaches
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Putting new bulbs in my Dynatrap. This thing is a major part of my budworm battle.
Not a zapper, the amount of moths this thing catches is crazy.
A huge help in my battle but does not work on the Pieris rapae, the imported small white cabbage butterfly since it is not a moth. Those picky suckers are attracted to glucosinolates, meaning they love the stinky stuff, often they mostly ignore the fruity strains. I am spraying BT every 5 days but will still lose some buds to those suckers.
It has gotten considerably better the last couple years running the DynaTrap. I’ll take all the help I can get.
Not a zapper, the amount of moths this thing catches is crazy.
A huge help in my battle but does not work on the Pieris rapae, the imported small white cabbage butterfly since it is not a moth. Those picky suckers are attracted to glucosinolates, meaning they love the stinky stuff, often they mostly ignore the fruity strains. I am spraying BT every 5 days but will still lose some buds to those suckers.
It has gotten considerably better the last couple years running the DynaTrap. I’ll take all the help I can get.
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I stagger crops in the garden, I can usually get several crops out of that area in a year.
The mid June plantings are also a month early. Not sure why. Weird year for sure. Another one of my crosses, P91 x SSDD, started late but down to its last day or two. I expected it after Halloween.
I harvested that split chem this morning. Sometimes the plants that get stressed like that can be special. Sure pumped out some smells. I got a stinky garage.
I am sick of trimming! Too much all at once. I bought an extra Trim Bin to enlist trim support but my friends are a bunch of slackers.
The mid June plantings are also a month early. Not sure why. Weird year for sure. Another one of my crosses, P91 x SSDD, started late but down to its last day or two. I expected it after Halloween.
I harvested that split chem this morning. Sometimes the plants that get stressed like that can be special. Sure pumped out some smells. I got a stinky garage.
I am sick of trimming! Too much all at once. I bought an extra Trim Bin to enlist trim support but my friends are a bunch of slackers.
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Talked to my buddy who...I believe...is somewhere East of your general locale @ about 3000 ft....
All of his plants are on schedule. He said the big difference in his area this year has been wind. Very windy.
Told him about you/your garden and that I wasn't sure WHERE you were....but you were "close" and that your season had been really weird/things finished really early. No budworms for him...fortunately.....might be the added altitude.....dunno. Either way...he was pretty interested/amazed at the differences.
Hope all is well........
All of his plants are on schedule. He said the big difference in his area this year has been wind. Very windy.
Told him about you/your garden and that I wasn't sure WHERE you were....but you were "close" and that your season had been really weird/things finished really early. No budworms for him...fortunately.....might be the added altitude.....dunno. Either way...he was pretty interested/amazed at the differences.
Hope all is well........
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If he is at 3000 ft he is a ways east of me, probably a good growing area, hotter days & cooler nights work well, as you know.
I am on a canyon rim at only about 200-300 ft, my house doesn’t really have the ocean view but if I walk across the street we do. Very coastal weather. This has been a really weird year in the ocean too, the warmest ocean water ever recorded in my area. Felt like Hawaii.
I originally thought that the earliness was due to that weird wet winter, but my June plants are a month or more early as well. I have a number of friends growing further inland & a bit north, they say they are not early.
Kicking it around with a couple buddies we came up with a theory that the warm water is a factor. the ocean temps definitely affect coastal weather & winds big time. Who knows but in ways it makes sense. Of course we were quite high while discussing it.
Then there are the budworms...the worst of it seems to be an urban thing, my rural friends aren’t fighting that dang white cabbage butterfly either. One of them turned me on to that DynaTrap, for him he says it completely solved his worm problems. For me it helps but It is still really, really bad here.
Do you feel like you are on schedule?
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He's sitting just on yer side of the hills...and not too far from dropping off into the Anzo. Yup...warm days and cool nights. You can look waaaaayyyyy down the valley West towards the ocean from the bottom of his road...
He grows massive plants....2-3 times the size of mine. Just built a big hoop house too... (first guy I partnered with 30 years ago....and have know since we were teens back in the Midwest)
Pretty much on schedule here....but a few plants have been a bit slower than I thought they would be. Fortunately the weather is allowing me to really let them run out fully. As a result..everybody is gonna get around 11-12 weeks. That usually isn't the case. Will make for some nice budz this year. >>>Stoked<<<
Our worm plague is Fall webworms on the cottonwoods. Really bad this year. Just getting over it. Fortunately they don't seem to eat weed...
He grows massive plants....2-3 times the size of mine. Just built a big hoop house too... (first guy I partnered with 30 years ago....and have know since we were teens back in the Midwest)
Pretty much on schedule here....but a few plants have been a bit slower than I thought they would be. Fortunately the weather is allowing me to really let them run out fully. As a result..everybody is gonna get around 11-12 weeks. That usually isn't the case. Will make for some nice budz this year. >>>Stoked<<<
Our worm plague is Fall webworms on the cottonwoods. Really bad this year. Just getting over it. Fortunately they don't seem to eat weed...