Bob's Journey into Hybridisation and Genetics - For Dummies

[Bob's Auto's]

I always pollinate on the first sign of orange pistols. I think you can wait a few days buddy

Thanks mate. I'll check back with you in a couple of days, might even be a week as it doesn't look like they are stopping popping pistils anytime soon. But if you see it's time, please do tell me. I'll be showing off my two ladies in waiting every so often.

 

[Sawney_bean]

Thanks mate. I'll check back with you in a couple of days, might even be a week as it doesn't look like they are stopping popping pistils anytime soon. But if you see it's time, please do tell me. I'll be showing off my two ladies in waiting every so often.

I will do mate

 

[Bob's Auto's]

Hey Friends

You are looking at one happy camper you guys...Look at them pompom's.
This is my lady in waiting, the small pheno. But oh, does she produce a nice set of flowers and clearly she isn't done yet.

A lot has been going on lately...One is that I've sprayed them again...with Boom Boom Spray, that is. Guessed the ladies deserved a nice treatment after the distress they've been in. That Boom Boom spray does my ladies good. Some extra nutrition combined with plant based goodies.

Mixed up 1ml with 200ml water and shook it well before applying it from top to bottom. For my 60x60cm tent this is more then enough to give all the plants a nice dousing.

Then dropped the light intensity to 20% for about an hour and slowly took it back to where it was before the spraying. ie, 73%, which gives me a DLI of 42Mole, nice

Healthy looking plants. And also cool how they shed their own leaves when deploid of nutrients...Amazing how nature works, right?

I also helped the plants along by removing the fan leaves which were interfering with the space of another plant.
ie, If it produced a shadow on another plant, it got removed.

This resulted in below removed leaves. Some of them look really healty, which were removed by above mentioned priciple. Other, which look yellow fell off or came of when touched lightly. Better to remove them before they start to mold up on the soil's surface.

This created some space between the plants. Good for air movement and light to get to them lowers. The downside is that I've just removed a couple of the plant's solar panels.

Just before she got plucked underneath her skirt.

My large pheno lady. I'm starting to get high hopes for this one...Let me explain. Since I've always wanted to do a DWC, I'm planning to do a "one big plant DWC" next season. The tank I'll be using is 70L, but only 50L will be used. The rest is to keep the pot secured in the top of the canister. But more on that on a later date.

The underside of the ladies after removing the surplus leaves.

Front left and back left are the two ladies in waiting. The rest is present for my pleasure

Other angle...

Last picture, I promise

Hehe, to end today's post another time lapse. Duration = 55 hours, speed = 30fps. Enjoy

Regards,

Bob

 

[Sawney_bean]

Hey Friends

You are looking at one happy camper you guys...Look at them pompom's.
This is my lady in waiting, the small pheno. But oh, does she produce a nice set of flowers and clearly she isn't done yet.
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A lot has been going on lately...One is that I've sprayed them again...with Boom Boom Spray, that is. Guessed the ladies deserved a nice treatment after the distress they've been in. That Boom Boom spray does my ladies good. Some extra nutrition combined with plant based goodies.
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Mixed up 1ml with 200ml water and shook it well before applying it from top to bottom. For my 60x60cm tent this is more then enough to give all the plants a nice dousing.
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Then dropped the light intensity to 20% for about an hour and slowly took it back to where it was before the spraying. ie, 73%, which gives me a DLI of 42Mole, nice
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Healthy looking plants. And also cool how they shed their own leaves when deploid of nutrients...Amazing how nature works, right?
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I also helped the plants along by removing the fan leaves which were interfering with the space of another plant.
ie, If it produced a shadow on another plant, it got removed.
View attachment 1640382

This resulted in below removed leaves. Some of them look really healty, which were removed by above mentioned priciple. Other, which look yellow fell off or came of when touched lightly. Better to remove them before they start to mold up on the soil's surface.
View attachment 1640383

This created some space between the plants. Good for air movement and light to get to them lowers. The downside is that I've just removed a couple of the plant's solar panels.
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Just before she got plucked underneath her skirt.
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My large pheno lady. I'm starting to get high hopes for this one...Let me explain. Since I've always wanted to do a DWC, I'm planning to do a "one big plant DWC" next season. The tank I'll be using is 70L, but only 50L will be used. The rest is to keep the pot secured in the top of the canister. But more on that on a later date.
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The underside of the ladies after removing the surplus leaves.
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Front left and back left are the two ladies in waiting. The rest is present for my pleasure
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Other angle...
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Last picture, I promise
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Hehe, to end today's post another time lapse. Duration = 55 hours, speed = 30fps. Enjoy
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Regards,

Bob

Very nice indeed mate.
I would be happy with that tent. Excellent

 

[hecno]

Have to agree , all looking mighty fine .

 

[Bob's Auto's]

Very nice indeed mate.
I would be happy with that tent. Excellent

Have to agree , all looking mighty fine .

Thanks for the kind words my friends
I am quite satisfied with the current result myself

I've been watering the plants every day ever since I sprayed them with the Boom Boom Spray...Quite happy with the vigor the ladies are showing.
This is the large pheno girl in the back left. Don't think the pistils are where @Sawney_bean would like 'm to be for pollination, but still I'm sharing you guys...

Zoomed in a bit for your eyes only 007

Right next to her is another larger girl. Almost as covered with pistils like her sister in waiting... Oh some of you might have noticed the first signs of frost...

Zoomed in again

The last time I fed the girls was about a week ago. So today I added 5ml Orgatrex and 5ml Bio PK 5-8 to 2L water and devided it over the pots. Starting to run out. So when it's gone, it's gone...

The value's inside the tent are perfect, for a lack of a better word. I think I've raised the output of the light to the maximum the plants will bear. It'll be lowered in the coming weeks anyway, but I wanted to give as much energy to the plants as possible, while everything is still in growing mode.
The temperature is perfect and VPD is between 1.05 & 1.1kPa.
CO² could be a bit higher, but I'll have to wait a week until I can go shopping again. Need to refill the water/sugar mixture...We'll see

All the ladies look fine...

...even the runt of the group is starting to put on some pistils

As usual...to end today's post another time lapse. Speed = 30fps, duration = 76 hours. Please enjoy

Regards,

Bob

 

[Sawney_bean]

Thanks for the kind words my friends
I am quite satisfied with the current result myself
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I've been watering the plants every day ever since I sprayed them with the Boom Boom Spray...Quite happy with the vigor the ladies are showing.
This is the large pheno girl in the back left. Don't think the pistils are where @Sawney_bean would like 'm to be for pollination, but still I'm sharing you guys...
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Zoomed in a bit for your eyes only 007
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Right next to her is another larger girl. Almost as covered with pistils like her sister in waiting... Oh some of you might have noticed the first signs of frost...
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Zoomed in again
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The last time I fed the girls was about a week ago. So today I added 5ml Orgatrex and 5ml Bio PK 5-8 to 2L water and devided it over the pots. Starting to run out. So when it's gone, it's gone...
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The value's inside the tent are perfect, for a lack of a better word. I think I've raised the output of the light to the maximum the plants will bear. It'll be lowered in the coming weeks anyway, but I wanted to give as much energy to the plants as possible, while everything is still in growing mode.
The temperature is perfect and VPD is between 1.05 & 1.1kPa.
CO² could be a bit higher, but I'll have to wait a week until I can go shopping again. Need to refill the water/sugar mixture...We'll see
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All the ladies look fine...
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...even the runt of the group is starting to put on some pistils
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As usual...to end today's post another time lapse. Speed = 30fps, duration = 76 hours. Please enjoy
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Regards,

Bob

llooking spot on mate.
another day or two and it's magic dust time lol .

 

[Antonio_DutchPassion]

Plants looking mighty fine again mate!

What a bit of time and TLC can do right

 

[Bob's Auto's]

Plants looking mighty fine again mate!

What a bit of time and TLC can do right

So right you are my friend...Let the bennies in the soil do all the hard work.
Now I can concentrate more on perfecting the other variables.

Oh, I've also installed a DIY (proper as it's electricity) UVA (365-370nm) cob light. It get's fairly hot, even with the heatsink attached. That's why I hung it on the monkey fan that's running at 2/3 speed. This will keep everything nice and cool. Turning it on in the tent doesn't do much light intensity wise, but the ten seconds I did before I realized that this spectrum is bad for the eyes, gave me welders eyes. A burning and dry sensation... Live an learn, right...

 

[Bob's Auto's]

Gooday to you all


I've been preparing everything to separate the two female's from the rest of the crew. Don't want a repeat like in the greenhouse, lol.
So yesterday I called my local kitchen appliances store and asked if they had a cardboard box from a large fridge lying around...
It was a large box, but had no top or bottom. That's usually where the Styrofoam sits. So I cut the flaps and folded a top and bottom.
Taped everything nice and shut and then made a rudimentary door.

To prevent the door from opening inwards I stickytaped a piece of leftover cardboard to the side.

This morning I continued on my little DIY project...
I wanted to add a layer of mylar so the light could bounce around optimally, even though the ladies will be in here for a couple of days, I still want to treat the well. They will be taking care of the offspring so they are as important as the ladies that are going to get me stoned

Now installing the mylar was kinda impossible to do with the box as it was. So I cut the whole damn thing open, layed it flat on the floor and sprayed an entire can of sprayglue over the carboard. After opening the windows the glue was dry enough for the mylar to be applied. This went a whole lot easier.
Ok, I'll admit...I won't be working in a carshop applying tinted foil, but it'll do the trick

Afterwards I folded and taped the box back up. Added two pieces of electrical wire as hooks for the light and gave everything a testrun.

While looking around in the box I accidentally bumped the cardboard doorstop and knocked it off. So this had to be mounted more securely. Added some woodglue and a couple of clamps. By tomorrow it'll be dry and strong enough for me to bump against
Also cut off the lower right corner so I had a place to thread my electrical wiring through. The lower clamp is preventing the view.

This is my first growlight, from before @Marshydro was so kind as to help me out. Haven't forgotten you my friend

This setup consists of three 50W 220/110V~ each cooled by a CPU fan recuperated out of the many old pc's, meant for thrash, we had lying around at work. Three colors or bandwidths as they say. Cool white, Blurple and warm white.

Hopefully this will be enough to keep my babymama's happy for a couple of days...
How long do you keep 'm separated from the others @Sawney_bean? And you shower them before you put 'm back didn't ya?


Regards,

Bob