Photoperiod Subtropical perpetual outdoor guerilla grow with Connoisseur Genetics: crosses of Neville's Haze, Thai, SSSDHaze, Mullumbimby, Kariba

[Shiva's Mistress]

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

Day 380: re-veg + 145V + 101F

Super Silver Sour Thai Nevilles

This Sticky pheno girl came along nicely in the last week or two of terrible weather.
The calyxes did swell out a lot more, but still not close to her first round of flowering.
A few white pistils here and there, but largely she's done.

A few months ago she had a number of big tops.
But after the typhoons and the split stem, Sticky is mostly just one cola.
I cut this off about 1 m long.
In the photos I'm still holding the bottom of the stem, it's even longer.

Peace and Love,
~MJS

 

[Entombed]

Whoo! Harvest time! Those look way bigger when they have the wall or ground behind them. When most of the shots were against that open background I didn't realize how massive those colas had gotten.

Do you haul them off somewhere to dry? Looks like a hell of a trim job though! hahaha, very worth it I imagine.

 

[Shiva's Mistress]

Whoo! Harvest time! Those look way bigger when they have the wall or ground behind them. When most of the shots were against that open background I didn't realize how massive those colas had gotten.

Do you haul them off somewhere to dry? Looks like a hell of a trim job though! hahaha, very worth it I imagine.

Yeah, they are quite big I guess.
I got used to seeing them all the time, so didn't think much of it.
The SSSTN Sticky pheno cola is over 1 m long (1 yard), and the Grail NLD pheno colas are just a bit shorter.
They are drying where you see the pics, hanging on nails on the wall of a room on the third floor (below the balcony).
I left the two Grail colas just like that, but the lower buds on the SSSTN cola I cut down separately and put it in the laundry bag,
with the rest of that SSSTN cola also hanging on the wall.
I lost my rope to tie lines, but the walls seem to be fine.
I grabbed another laundry bag today, so in a week maybe I'll cut down the Grail buds and put them inside,
and seeing how the SSSTN goes I'll cut her down smaller too to become 'laundry'.
As for trim job, yeah, still lots of smaller leaves, but 98% of the fans are long gone, and many inner leaves already dropped.
I won't trim too hard, I let them dry like that and store like that, protects the flower in a way,
then I remove and throw the leafy stuff off before I smoke it.

 

[Shiva's Mistress]

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

Day 391: (re-veg) 145V + 112F

Sun is out, temps into the mid 20s C.
The last few days have been good weather for end of flowering to harvest.
Pity about the month or more before!

Time to cut down the last of the longer run.
The last branch of the Grail (NLD pheno) came down,
and the SSSTN (Fluffy pheno) came down two, a couple of main colas.
At Flowering Day 112, that's just hitting 16 weeks.
The upper end of their flowering times of 12-16 according to OJD.
It's also later than the first round, when I took them around 14 weeks or so.
Can't see a single white pistil on these girls now.
They're done!

I did a quick and rough wet trim, but not much to remove really.
Here is most of it hanging on the wall.
First photo no flash, second with flash.
One cola of the SSSTN was cut down into individual buds and into the laundry bag.

Grail on the left, SSSTN on the right.

Grail (NLD pheno) -- re-vegged

Doesn't look much different from the earlier colas cut down a couple of weeks ago.

SSSTN (Fluffy pheno) -- re-vegged

One interesting thing here, is that she looks identical to the 'Sticky' pheno.
In the end, it seems that the phenotype difference in these two plants wasn't genetic.
My guess is that because this Fluffy girl was original shaded out by Sticky,
and didn't start flowering until much later,
her shape and pheno expression the first time was probably due to the increasing light cycles at the time.
When Sticky and Fluffy flower out at almost exactly the same time,
then they are just the same phenotype after all.
This isn't just the shape and form, her aromas are almost identical, too.
Of course, I've cut her slightly later, so maybe there will be a little difference in the smoke in the end.

Anyway, pics!

Top of the cola

Random side nug

SSSTN x (Grail x ThaiFrican) -- seed stock

Meanwhile, these little seed stock girls are still rocking along very well!
After the first SSSDH leaning pheno that was cut, the rest are definitely slower.
There's one, a bit ratty tatty looking, that is getting close to finish, but she has a lot of white pistils still.
And the Pearl pheno is still just stretching out and out as they do, with white pistils still popping.
But there's a few that are big and puffy, lots of white pistils shooting out, fuller buds, and looking in good health with nice green to them still.
Because the bigger girls are all cut down now, all these little ladies are not getting shaded out any more either.

Here's two pics of one of them, probably my fave as the one that looks to be the longest flowering girl.

As I mentioned earlier, this girl, and all these seed stock plants, have nice trichome development, and the calyxes seem to be of normal size.
I'm comparing that to the particularly smaller calyxes that the re-vegged plants have this round.
So really not sure what the problem was with the re-vegged plants.

I should do testers of the SSSTN Sticky and Grail pheno that were just harvested this week.
Just a quick test, of course, for scientific purposes, naturally.

Peace and Love,
~MJS

 

[Shiva's Mistress]

Half of the SSSTN Fluffy pheno is jarred.
Presently at a drop site until I can move it to proper storage in a few days.
The other half is dried but still in the 'laundry' if you know what I mean.
The rest of the Grail project NLD pheno is also in the 'laundry'.

I still have literally branches and branches of the Grail x ThaiFrican hanging on the walls.
A big cob? Maybe. I know where to source some bamboo now.

Day something something of flowering, who knows? who really cares?

Meanwhile, the 'little' ones (now more like the short but chonky ones):

First, the pretty delicate Lady Pearl.
She's looking done, to be honest, but ... will get her later this week, I hope.

Next, this girl, looks a bit rough, but the flower development is on point.

There is another girl who is like a slimmer version of the above.
But she looks even more battered, so no pics of her -- she's a bit shy, shall we say?

Then we have a couple of ladies who are lovely and green, though with a bit of bug damage.
One who is a bit chunkier and solid looking:

Her shape looks a lot like their mom, but she's a bit thicker.
Is going to be some seriously delicious and potent herb, I just know it!
That top bud has a nice wobble on it when you shake it (I know you all do this with your top colas!)

And the last, more open and airy, and also with longer to go in her flowering cycle.
This is the lady I showed in the last update pics.

A last bud of their aunty in the background, haha!
Her size is the proverbial American football, and she's still filling out a lot.

Let's just say that I am extremely excited to see how this bud shapes up and smokes.
Their faster sister, that I called the SSSDH pheno, is dried and jarred.
She has some serious diesel terps on her, good thick sati-dom hybrid flower.
And these ladies her are definitely more on the sativa side.
Apart from Lady Pearl and the big puffy slow girl, the others have a nice sati-dom hybrid look to them.
The Pearl and puffy really let the Thai genetics shine out.

And, if I may, these may end up being better quality flower than the big girls who had to endure all that terrible fall weather, multiple typhoons, etc.
Temps are getting lower, of course, but we know from last year that they should be okay.
Apart from the slow puffy girl, who will be airy enough to resist later humidity and cold,
the rest may be finished between now and late Dec / early Jan.

May the sun shine with touches of rain to keep them happy but low humidity.

Signing off,
~~MJS

 

[Shiva's Mistress]

Summer-Fall-Winter Grow -- Maria's Haze Heaven Hacienda!

Day something something...

Here are the last three youngsters.
Weather has been pretty terrible, very cold for here, temps 12C-15C, usually reserved for Jan/Feb.
A bit of rain, but it hasn't been too wet, at least, so humidity is reasonable (by local standards), 70%-80%.

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This little girl came down today.
Her outer leaves are a bit tattered, but there's frost inside!
Just a few white pistils left, and the bracts have swelled nicely.

Has some nice fresh tropical fruit aromas.
Slightly citrus, but a real mix of flavors.
Nice level of stickiness!
Can almost see some purple coming out there perhaps on the bract tips.

Cut her, and she's hanging on the wall with her earlier sisters.

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The Thicc Girl pheno, probably showing more of the SSSDH from mom SSSTN.

Her main cola

Chunky side nug facing south

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And we cannot forget the Thai pheno, showing a really strong sativa flowering structure, not to mention strong crystal build up

Some beautiful crazy flower branching in there!
If you can see beyond those little single leaflet leaves, look inside...

and if we open her up a little...

She's going to be weeks to months at this rate.
While that means deeper into winter, the temps are already hitting winter lows.
And neither of these two ladies seems bothered by that.
It will be the cold + wet that may provide the challenge.

First season at this location, their mom went into middle of February.
I think both these girls will be finished before then, well, Thicc Girl pheno at least.
And the two Grail project girls went into March.
So please don't worry too much about me doing winter harvests here!

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Meanwhile, the Pearl pheno and the other rough but sticky girl still need a couple more days drying.
They're still presently hanging on the wall.
I jarred up the Sticky pheno of the SSSTN (Aunty!), and she looks great and smells even better.
The last Grail project girl is still in the laundry (bag) because I haven't go myself another jar yet!

Peace and Love,
~MJS

 

[Shiva's Mistress]

Summer-Fall-Winter Grow -- Maria's Haze Heaven Hacienda!

Day something something...

The last two girls at opposite edges of the big bin.
Mother was SSSTN 'Sticky' pheno, and father was the ThaiFrican.

Super Silver Sour Thai Nevil = (Swiss Thai Nevil 1 clone) x (SSSDH OJD's cut reversed)
ThaiFrican = ((Hempy's Thai x NevHz 21) x NevHz 36 rev) x (NevHz 23 x Kariba).

Both parents from @ojd / Connoisseur Genetics -- how do they look, OJD?

Makes these girls about 40% Nevil (three phenos), 12.5% Thai (Swiss and Hempy's), 12.5% Kariba (Zimbabwean), plus the SSH and the Sour Diesel as well in the SSSDH.
Lots of genes in there, so no surprise these two girls and all their earlier sisters look so different, even though they are all amazing!
From chunky Diesel looking fast ones, to a fast pearl, to slow Thai phenos, and everything in between.

@donald Mallard kindly pointed out the spider mite issue.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to prepare any treatment for that.

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The Thicc Girl pheno (more SSSDH from mom SSSTN?)

She's getting really chonky now.
Branching structure like mom SSSTN.
But flowers are thicker and heavier.

Should be a January harvest for her, probably late Jan, though may run to Feb.

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The Thai pheno (more Thai from both parents?)

She's just a big fluffy happy flower mass!
Her circumference is bigger than my two hands can wrap around (without squeezing).

More like February harvest for this girl.
Winter solstice is like around 10.5/13.5, but by end of Feb it's still around 11.5/12.5.
Last run that increasing light may have affected the flowering of their aunt, the SSSTN 'Fluffy' pheno.
But she finished off in March.
So I think we'll be okay with this young girl.
She still has a lot of flowering to do!

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No need to water these days.
Very little rain, but the low temps and big bins keep the medium about perfect.
Humidity has been very low for around here, maybe 55%-65% -- great!
Temps fairly low, though, high/lows around 19C/12C,
Sunshine has appeared here and there, but not a lot.

Still, everything is lined up for a nice harvest of these two.
Looking like a fat oz each, but who knows what the Thai pheno will do?!

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Meanwhile, I bagged the other two average phenos and the pearl pheno.
They'd been drying for a while on the wall on the 3rd floor here.
I cut down the average phenos, but left the pearl pheno whole, so she doesn't get mixed up.
About 1 oz for all three together, at a guess.
Not much, but okay given their growing situation and season.


Peace and Love,
~MJS

 

[Shiva's Mistress]

The Stash -- SSSTN 'Sticky pheno' & Grail Project ((NvHz18 x MM) x (NvHz21 x MML)) 'Long pheno'

Partially buried in the jungle, four tightly packed jars, two from each plant.

Dried for about a month or more now, doing some test smokes soon.
Still have another three or four tightly packed jars of the SSSTN 'Fluffly pheno' and rest of the Grail.

 

[sickzone]

Mullumbimby Madness

Geez that brings back great memories.
Scored some of that around 25 years ago.
Used to wear a Mullumbimby University t-shirt for a decade.

 

[Shiva's Mistress]

Geez that brings back great memories.
Scored some of that around 25 years ago.
Used to wear a Mullumbimby University t-shirt for a decade.

Hehe, shout out to NSW!