The James Gang

[H.A.F.]

This is on a mini filter, not a coffee one. I still have flowers popping outside, more than I had bulbs, but I checked the prices on safron . It's anywhere between $10 and $30 per gram on amazon. you'd need a ffield of thtese and a herd of slave labor with tweezers to do production. But it's no work at all so for home consumption its fine. This is probably $5 worth LOL

I topped all the regs. I left 6-8 limbs on each but I stopped the top growth/apical dominance. As they grow out I'll get them to 4-6 limbs depending on how they look.

 

[H.A.F.]

The plan for the ten regs is to let them veg for a bit. They have room in those 5qt pots to go for a while so sexing them as is after veggine a bit should be no problem. The larger veg tent might be a flipping tent for sorting regs when needed.

I took the 3x3 apart, cleaned fans and exhaust and am getting a new AC Infinity light for it. It will be a mom/clone tent for the most part. It can hold smaller stuff in veg if I need to flip the other tent.

The three 1968 got 5qt, but the Chem91 and FB68 clones are still in 1g. They need bumped up shortly and the five should fill the mom tent nice.

The main thing on the regs is that I'd like to keep them in 5g for flower unless it's a sausage fest and I only have a few girls. Flipping 10 and expecting 5 girls means I need half a tent harvested for there to be room. The veg tents will work for sexing, but the room is not darkened like the flower room. I can keep it dark for a week or so but that room is like a workshop with the cement mixer and stuff. I can't not be in there for 8-10 weeks.

 

[H.A.F.]

I got beans wet! None of mine yet.

I dropped five Greenway fems, only the Sour Puss I grew before and I want another.

The Dante's Inferno S1 is from the contest afterparty... That is so I have an idea what it is before I dive into the mess of crosses he sent. I didn't see the Vietnamese Silver Leaf without digging but two older regs jumped out at me to be run. The Smunkwater x Pandemic from Family Tree seeds was pretty nasty on the first plant. But I got 2-3 duds on a more recent try. The same with the Lemon Hashplant cross. I have a few more from Sungrownmids that he hit with the 88g13hp he got from Bohdi. I there's a low pop-rate I'll dig around and find the VSL that I intended to drop initially.

If any fems don't pop I'll re-drop them.
If the regs don't do well I'll give some of mine a shot.

 

[H.A.F.]

Pics this evening, done messing with stuff for now. The 6 Uzbek have decent limbs and may be stretchers so they are in the dark and will get moved to the flower room tonight. The PTK and 3 Paki have no limbs. They just got topped and have no choice now. I think net may be just stripping all the fan leaves and making them grow more limb to get more leaf. They are just for smoke, and regs so I won't be fucking with them for long.

I chopped 3 of the Flashback yesterday, one this morning. The clones and the tall one went first. Clones are beautiful with an even orange all over. The seed plant had this old-school look that will show in the cure. real knobby flat-top buds. The tops were all powdered sugar but they weren't finishing. It has the single- or double-calyx foxtails all over. Lots of new sparkly trichs but it evens out and smells amazing. The one with the tall spears was less fox-tail-y but it was popping new-white all over. I need the room and all have the terps.

The Chem91 clone needs a new pot and will go into a flowering size pot to veg for a bit. I'll do some selective pruning to get it ready to flower so I may take clones. The FB68 mom needs a new pot and could get cloned or I could just let it get bigger. It's a beautiful tree, and with a little more veg it's a big dome-full of clones.

 

[H.A.F.]

From the bottom, veg is now a 3x3. This will stay the mom tent when I need to move stuff around. the three 1968 in the back are showing some different expressions. Middle three are the Paki, PTK front middle. The Chem91 and FB68 are the 1g's that need bigger pots. Both have clonable stuff if I decide to just start that process and flip the FB68, but the 91 won't be kept. It need a new pot and to get shaped. to keep the best limbs before flip. So far all the FB68 seeds seem to be top notch in terps so the smoke should be similar, but the clone I kept is the best looking, shorter, dark lime green, and finishes quicker and more evenly. I may end up keeping it long term, so since I hate cloning a progressive up-pot seems best. Eventually this is just three 1968 and the FB68. And room for clones thereof

The Paki got the closet. I would like to get three girls then they can switch with the Pink Floyd in the tent.

The shorty Purple Floyd got moved to the side for less direct light. Pink Floyd in the middle.

And the Chem91 and Blue Jack City ended up here

 

[H.A.F.]

It was already almost dark by 6pm.

Moving that back an hour is psychological warfare.

 

[Fiddler's Green]

Everything is looking fabulous vato. Super healthy.

 

[H.A.F.]

Everything is looking fabulous vato. Super healthy.

Just glad to be pulling down flower again. I think everything does better in the winter. The humidity drops a little more and flower loves that.

 

[H.A.F.]

Everything is looking fabulous vato. Super healthy.

I suck at taking compliments when it's not something I really did. My plants look great but the only way I can really fuck them up is to let them get rootbound. My soil is good - that's the ticket. I think it's going on 5 years building the same batch of soil. finding the re-amendment schedule using the craft blend that worked with my style helped since i don't do soil testing. The only "food" thing I give them is some Fish Hydro in veg. Everything else is ferments and sprout teas and such during the grow.

I think the downfall of some indoor bed-grows is that the soil gets compacted over time. Half the cover crop growth and the reason for leaving rootballs is to try and prevent that. I dump pots. I grind up dried root balls and put them through the worm bin. I add rice hulls of it feels a little too heavy, or some fresh peat. Bio char occasionally. i use bat guano and fish bone meal with the craft blend for flavor. I add bokashi right after a grow on top of the pots and work it into the rice hulls. It sets for a few days moist and covered with a plant saucer for a week or so until I dump and sift.

But there's no method. Just whatever I think it might need now. So that I think is compliment worthy, but the weed growing in the pots has nothing to do with me until I pop my own seeds.

 

[H.A.F.]

The Lemon G13 popped 9 for 9. The Skunkwater ones are an 0-fer. Only 4 days so they'll sit there. I had to flip an upside-down Sour Puss, 3 other fems are up and going, 2 still nothing. So instead of re-dropping the missing fems I popped 6 each of the v1 and v2 FB68 x Dirty Taxi. I saw plenty of nubs when I put them in soil. Other than the F2's these were the breeding goal, the rest was just chucking.

I got the Chem91 clone into a flowering pot. After a few weeks veg and some shaping she'll flip. Since bean buying is still a thing for me the Chem91 S1's and all the freebies that come with them might be it. After I get the Uzbek sexed I'll flip the 3 Paki and thte PTK. The 1968 in the back row are 3 different plants, so that's good. The stretchy one and the middle short one look great, the right one is always droopy. But healthy.

This is the future mom & SOG Flashback 68. I think the 5-pot of clones is gonna do fine since it's short flowering. 3 in a 7g might be bestThe little one at the base will be the new tiny mom and the rest cut big to flower out. I prunes all the lower larfy limbs that would have made skinny clones.

 

[1oldfart]

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.

thanks for the tips, one a month rotation, to keep my numbers low

 

[1oldfart]

I got beans wet! None of mine yet.

I dropped five Greenway fems, only the Sour Puss I grew before and I want another.

The Dante's Inferno S1 is from the contest afterparty... That is so I have an idea what it is before I dive into the mess of crosses he sent. I didn't see the Vietnamese Silver Leaf without digging but two older regs jumped out at me to be run. The Smunkwater x Pandemic from Family Tree seeds was pretty nasty on the first plant. But I got 2-3 duds on a more recent try. The same with the Lemon Hashplant cross. I have a few more from Sungrownmids that he hit with the 88g13hp he got from Bohdi. I there's a low pop-rate I'll dig around and find the VSL that I intended to drop initially.

If any fems don't pop I'll re-drop them.
If the regs don't do well I'll give some of mine a shot.

SOUNDS LIKE a plan that will work!

 

[H.A.F.]

Random package in the mail. It's good to know a breeder LOL.

 

[H.A.F.]

I finally thought to ask Andy about the three 1968 plants I saved. Simply whether they were good smoke or not. He said they were actually a bitch to trim and OK smoke, they just bred well. So me growing them out for smoke isn't really a thing now until I get around to having to take clones.

4 moms being kept for pollen catching, and only one because it's supreme smoke. After the chuck it's the one mom or none.

Too many seeds for that shit.

 

[1oldfart]

Random package in the mail. It's good to know a breeder LOL.
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in a few months i should be able to afford a haul ,like that!slowly getin doc bills beat back!

 

[H.A.F.]

in a few months i should be able to afford a haul ,like that!slowly getin doc bills beat back!

Afford nothing. He just sent them for me to try. The two green labels are regs he just made.

 

[1oldfart]

Afford nothing. He just sent them for me to try. The two green labels are regs he just made.

Cool!

 

[H.A.F.]

Cool!

It's a 2-way thing though. I initially asked a lot of questions after seeing his first interview podcast and finding out he had a website. I loved the Flashback so much I wanted more info. Bought more beans and got more freebies. I've been blown away by the smoke, and even told him I hated that "Flamethrower" plant I grew that was real 'sativa' but smelled and tasted delicious, like orange peel and baby aspirin. But it made me nervous and paranoid and homie don't play that.

Anyway, he grew out another batch of seeds and sent me an assortment of testers. He knew I loved the FB68 so he sent me a sack of about 1000 beans that had a bad reversal or didn't get stored right. They were of the mom for the FB68 that he lost but thought he had her backed up in seed. He had no germination and I got 3 plants to grow out of those 1000. I had no beans to give back so I bought him the best model of the Chameleon AshCatcher pipe they had.

It's been back and forth with the e-mails and now I have a box of my seeds (made mostly with his plants) to give back. I think I bought the last Flashback68 packs he had before I snagged the last ones from Dagga. I bragged on the smoke for long enough - and they were available for anyone to get - so I got them. I know of one other dude on Youtube chat that took my advice and also loves the plant.

Anyway, the interwebz changes how people interact but the old concept of not wanting to owe people still makes everyone happy.

 

[H.A.F.]

The Dubstep, 91 and BJC hit 70 days Monday. The dog is going at least 11 weeks, probably 12. The BJC is half brown an looking like 11. The Dub's done tho. I'm snagging her tomorrow after some dark hours to get the sap settled.

The three Pink Floyd from Mr Nice and the Toke-a-cola in the middle (top left 4) are the tall girls. They are also branchier. The Toke is shorter so it can have a stand over the fan when they all move to the closet.

I lost three definite dudes on the Uzbek, and have two likely girls and one that's showed nothing yet. These are the prime movers right now, and once I have pistils and get the girls potted I can shuffle. Then I have 4 more regs to flip. But they are moving slow so I have time. They're 6-tops for now but the lowers will likely go away or get lolipopped so it's just tops.

 

[H.A.F.]

The Dante's Inferno had a wierd curled coty that covered the top. I had to break it off to see if seed leaves will pop or if it already killed them. Probably not messing with it.

The others all popped, the BC OG Domina just this morning, and it's the S2 - no hybrid vigor?

I have the 4 regs and the Chem91 S1 to flip