Bob's Journey into Hybridisation and Genetics - For Dummies

Good morning ya'll!! Hope Santa brought everything you ever hoped for Especially you my friend Thanks again for the rep!!
As many of you, I'm mentally preparing for the second feast of the season...Christmas day. Off to the family in a couple of hours...

But for now let's continue with this grow...
I removed the male yesterday after dusting the entire tent with it's pollen. A couple of hours later I checked the tent after which I sprayed the plants with Boom Boom Spray. By this morning the plants had stretched quite a bit into the lights...This couldn't be, so I supercropped the flowering tops to create some distance between the plants and the light again.


Doing this will also give the side shoots some extra light to get at the same level as the main tops.
I did go a bit overboard and got cocky ending up breaking a top.


It was hanging on by a hair, but I think I was able to fix it with some tape.
We'll see if the fix will take if I don't see the top shriveling away in the coming days...





Regards,

Bob

Hey growers and wannabreeders
Hope you guys are enjoying the holidays? My ladies have been non-stop partying


They even shaved their legs


The only thing I need to do is give 'm a cup of water every day. For a good measure I use dechlorinated water, which is tapwater left to air out for 24 hours. I've also noticed that pollination was successful on the ladies that got the motherload. These were the girls I selected for pollination. The rest will also bear seed, be sure of that.


On some of the calyx's you can see the seeds growing.


While new pistils are forming the seedpods can ripen. Making sure the seeds are ready when the flowers are ready!


Frosty Slaughtered Lamb...Mhmmm... ♥



Of course there's another time lapse. As it's +four days ago since I posted, this one will be a doozy
Speed = 30fps, duration = 110 hours. Enjoy




Oh, on a sidenote, I was measuring and calculating and if I lay it on it's side, I would be able to fit a 60x60x140 MarsHydro tent next to the original MarsHydro tent, which I've been using for almost three years now! This would then be used as a clone and mother/father tent for the regular photo Widow project I'm about to embark on. Since this will take quite some time, I was thinking...and installing the cardboard box for long periods of time in a warm humid environment didn't seem like a good idea. Using it as a temporary pollination station is just a-ok, but long periods is just asking for mold... If my plan comes a foot I would be able to hook up the clone/mother/father tent's ventilation behind the original MH tent and use the same extraction fan to vent both tents. For a light inside the tent I was looking at the TSL 2000, which is the bigger and longer brother of the TS 1000 I've also been using for the same time as the original tent.



Regards,

Bob

Happy New Year everybody!!!


The ladies have gone through a flowering metamorphosis these last few days.


Pistils are appearing on every node and it's looking that they aren't gonna stop anytime soon...


After pollination I added something extra to the water which I used to spray down the plants. Just like the Boom Boom Spray the dosing is very strict, but when you get it right, some extra hormones go straight to where they are needed and results in this kind of spectacle...
If you look carefully you'll notice some seeds forming within the clusters of fresh pistils.


The main stem from Skywalker OG x UK Cheese #4, This one is fattening up. Could this be because it stayed lower and therefor got less light? Anyway, I'm not unhappy about it as my last jar of the Junk Dealers Wedding is almost gone and I need something to take it's place.


The two Cheese XXL's from Dinafem are truely exploding with flowers.


As are both Double Grape x 3BOG ladies. Which are the two closest to the white pole. The one left from them and in front of the picture are the (Double Grape x Toof Decay) x Sooty Bride, which was a cross I made earlier this last year inside the greenhouse.


This is only the lower part of the plant. I accedentally cropped to much. Still wanted to share it as this plant is just full with flowers. From top to bottom, which this is...The rest of the plant you can see stretching behind this piece...


This is Skywalker OG x UK Cheese #1 again. What a magnificent plant this is!! I believe the onion smell is coming from this one...


Oh, and the values from inside the tent...Again, the temperature is the only thing that could be better...but then again the plants are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing, so...It's all guuuuud...


To end today's post, another timelapse. Make sure to check out the last 3-5 seconds as this is where flower production really kicks into high gear...
Speed = 30fps, duration = 96 hours. Please enjoy









Regards,

Bob

Hey growers 'n blowers



Today was a "working" day. I've put myself into isolating the lungroom a bit better. For this to work I had to clear everything out of the room, then put up some plaster board and finish off with some holefiller and silicone to close some gaps. All this took me a couple of hours and that was including installing my new....


Yup, a small tent laid on it's side. It fit perfectly... I just need a light to put in there. Maybe one of my friends can help me out? That would be super
Anyway, I'm not one to halter when things get hard, so I've already ordered myself Plan B, a 3M LED Cobstrip, which I'll be sticking onto a piece of extruded aluminum for passive heatsink purposes. That light will have to do for cloning and keeping my mums and dads alive unless I find a suitor

Some of you might also noticed a new light fixture inside the main tent. Yup, this is my newest asset...Another UV light, this time a UV-B light, while the one in the back is the UV-A light I have mounted since last grow.


I'll let you guys know what my experiences with this one will be. The UV-A LED Cob, I'm already a big fan of!!

Ok, enough showing off new toys
Time to show some of the girls...Sawney's Skywalker OG x UK Cheese #1. Nice and lush and full with pistils!!


Cheese XXL #1, beautiful plant I must admit


Cheese XXL #2 in the front and the two Double Grape x 3 Bears OG in the back. Full on flowering!!!


I have absolutely no clue which plant this is, but it's one of the bigguns as I've had to supercrop her main cola. This did allow for several sidenodes to shoot up and get their time in the spotlights.

(Double Grape x Toof Decay) x Sooty Bride, she's pushing for a supercroppin' moohahaha!!


Skywalker OG x UK Cheese #2


Skywalker OG x UK Cheese #4's supercropped main cola. This one is looking mighty frosty, must have got something to do with the amount and quality of light that is reaching her.


I was telling about the usage of UV lights. Well ever since last grow, I've been using this and when plants have the genetics to protect themselves against sunburn (producing loads and loads of trichomes) a multitude of trichomes is produces. Nooice!!


Some examples of fan leaves which are even producing pistils...


Nom nom!! ♥ ♥ ♥


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And to end today's post and keep my mate @Emerald Archer happy, another time lapse
Speed = 30fps, duration = 80 hours. Enjoy






Regards,

Bob