Failing Forward: AKA Speed's Perpetual Grow and Pollen Chuck

[Speedlandracer 199]

I hope this is the right forum to start this in, if not then I won't be offended if it gets moved. 

I started getting into weed about 3 years ago, started growing about 15 months ago, and have developed an obsession for it. I have worked with and grown a variety of heirloom herbs, vegetables, and fruits and have always had an affinity for the "forgotten" stuff. Same goes for wine- 

Like yeah orange sweet potatoes are nice, but there are some incredible white and purple ones. Those enormous red tasteless crunchy tomatoes are essentially a crime against humanity when essentially every heirloom from green zebra to pineapple to white currant all taste orders of magnitude better. Peppers have a variety of flavors not unlike cannabis' terpene expression range.

So, as much as I enjoy smoking them I try to breed with minimal skunk 1, Chemdog, Blueberry, and NL and their offspring.

Right now I've got USC's Uzbekistan, Nepalma, Black Afghani, and Col'Jam going, and Triple Pakistan curing.  I've also got Silverfields late in flower, doing well despite the constant thrip battles and Sannie's Jack in veg.

Nepalma:

Uzbekistan: (lights have been upgraded since, don't judge for the small buds too harshly haha)

Triple Pakistan:

Black Afghani are getting flipped right now. 

I've also got some stuff from Real Seed Company going. For those of you that aren't familiar, they source and sell heirloom and ruderal genetics from around the world, it's essentially raw breeding material. Sinai is finishing up now, it was selected for survivability and adaptability to light changes, as well as resin. There are a bunch of Ukhrul making their way through veg now, with a huge genetic variance. Their Iranian is my next hunting project, then Rasoli.

I'll start documenting their individual phenos once they show they're not herm-prone or otherwise weak with the flip back to 18 hours of light. That was a huge selector for Sinai. Two of the phenos did well being taken from 12 to 18 hours of light after showing sex, and two emphatically did not. I made F2's from the strongest female and the three strongest males. As a general rule I tend to select F1's for survivability and effect over anything else.

Also, almost finished going into flower are Uzbeknepanama [(Uzbekistan x Nepalma) x (Nepalma x Uxbekistan). I'll do a manual open pollination (7 males and 6 females) and then hunt the next generation hard. In general, since I'm eventually going for IBL's, I'm going to start off crossing multiple mothers and fathers of the strains to cross and then hunting the children. I'm not a geneticist, but this way I figure I can add an extra layer of genetic diversity to the F3's.

I mean, mathematically (X*Y) is going to be less than [(X*Y) x (Y*X)] assuming the same values, right? And some recessive traits like webbed leaves only come out past the F2 generation. I feel like it's an extra roll of the dice to get a killer pheno. But I'm here to learn if anyone has insight along those lines!!

The main reason that I'm growing and breeding is so that I can have a steady supply of disability meds, so all of the breeding revolves around effects.

The lights that I'm using are mostly Kingbrite and HLG quantum boards, as well as some 3000k led bulbs from the store.

The soil-less mix is Perlite, peat, EWC, coco coir, dolomite lime, and organic 4-4-4 fertilizer.

I'm also using kelp extract (1-3-5) and Botanicare Pure Blend Pro Grow (3-2-4) all the way through flower. For P and K I add fireplace ash, banana skin powder, and fishbone meal (6-18-0) to the dirt a few weeks before flower, and then will periodically top dress with them.

I used BAC Bloom for some of these and really liked it, but I can't get it shipped to me at a sustainable price right now so I can't order more. Once that big jug can get to me for a reasonable price I'll be... BAC all over that. 

[Speedlandracer 199]

Wanted to add some of the resources that I've found helpful along the way, too. 

 

Ooh! Youtube embeds automatically here. Fancy!

 

 

 

DLI and VPD are the two principles that really helped me understand things.

[Speedlandracer 199]

I also forgot to include the humic/fulvic acid mix that I add to the soil, as well as the aspirin that I add with every watering. They get a spray in veg and flowering of micronized sulfur suspended in epsom salts because the PM around me is more aggressive than an American cop.

Humic/Fulvic resources here:

https://cannabistraininguniversity.com/growing-marijuana/benefits-of-fulvic-and-humic-acids-in-growing-cannabis/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6589925/ -> Also has excellent details on nutrient supplementation.

Salicylic acid/aspirin here:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331702453_Signaling_compounds_elicit_expression_of_key_genes_in_cannabinoid_pathway_and_related_metabolites_in_cannabis

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S098194289880003X

I also forgot to mention that IPMs are neem, PFR-97, Safer's end-all soap, and hydrogen peroxide. Separately. Not all in the same mix. 

Some strains need foliar support all the way through flower for one reason or another, so I rinse all of buds post harvest in a 3-step process.

First, submerged and shaken in room temp water with baking soda and cleaning vinegar diluted into it to create suspended CO2 (could also use soda water). This creates friction between the plants and the water and will agitate off anything stuck to the buds like dust or lint. Or, in my case, sulfur spray.

Second, a few seconds in a 130 degree hot water bath. I've found this helps with drying by bursting the cell walls of the plant while not melting off the trichomes. It becomes much more even, and pulls any of the last contaminants off.

(I think it might also help with hashmaking, I've got a plant in the freezer that I'll test that on this week once it dries out some more.)

Third, a very cold water bath (with ice) to stop the cell damage from the heat and to make the buds tighten up again.

It's essentially the same concept as blanching broccoli, haha. It'll also bring out any anthocyanins in the buds.

[Speedlandracer 199]

Here's where things stand right now. The second Sinai is in the front left corner, Motherlode Kush is the double-cola plant in the center, USC's Black Afghani is next to it. There are a number of Uzbeknepanama and Uzbekistan  around them.

 

The less thrip-affected Silverfields. These buds are thick, and would completely flop over without the support. Love it!

Serious Seeds' AK-47

Kalashnikov Siberian Haze

And some hash that I made last week!

The initial yield, unpressed.

This is the 22 micron hash, pressed and kneaded with heat until it all melted. It's absolutely better than the unpressed hash, in this case.

The initial test dab. Go big or go home!

[Speedlandracer 199]

Yeesh. So shortly after that last post, life kicked me square in the nuts.

Different grow, different setup, but I've still got some pretty okay flowers.

G13 Haze

 

G13 Hashplant

I dusted USC's Col'Jam with pollen of the G13HP's brother, I have a feeling that's going to be savage. I also hit Col'Jam with Killer Queen (Airborne G13 x C99), which I think has a lot of potential. I also pollenated that G13 Hashplant with [(Uzbekistan x Nepalma) x (Nepalma x Uzbekistan)], Orient Express, Silverfields, and a few more.

Also, that Uzbekistan/Nepalma cross got hit with Black Afghani pollen, which should also be a knockout.

Sorry for disappearing, more to come!

[oldschoolsg 4,260]

Welcome aboard 

couldn’t agree more about veggie and Cannabis heirloom being so important and neglected  sounds like we think a lot alike and very interested in the same strains! 

[Speedlandracer 199]

Hell yeah! Looks like you've got some fire on your thread! Silverfields is a fantastic strain, I'm planning on dropping more in a couple months.

[Sunnyvale 4,045]

Very Nice bro! Love your choice of strains  a lot i did grew to haha lol. What is your opinion about ColJam?

silverfields is indeed fantastic.

 

I crosses it with a Jalisco Jaze and send those as freebees at SH

 

peace, sunnyvale

[Speedlandracer 199]

ColJam is a great smoke! I'm a big fan. But she flowered for 5 months, so I'm more excited to grow crosses with her so I don't have plants flowering for so long it feels like I have a roommate. 

[Sunnyvale 4,045]

Hahaha lol  yea it’s a long time. 

I love the effect of a sativa and the G13 traits. Would love to see the outcome of it - 

[Speedlandracer 199]

This is a plant that started as a seedling under Col'Jam, as she was finishing up in flower. The mother is almost definitely Col'Jam, which means that with these leaf expressions, the father was likely G13 Hashplant, Killer Queen, or Black Afghani. Definitely looking forward to sampling that one.

 

[Speedlandracer 199]

That same Col'Jam Bastard. Might have lucked out by keeping this one.

G13 Haze that I harvested a week or so ago. Mother of G13 Hazeplant (G13 Haze x '88G13 Hashplant), which will likely be dropped next month.

G13 Hashplant.

Got some Silverfields on the way! There will be chucking.

[Speedlandracer 199]

Looks like this Col'Jam bastard is going to be some outstanding meds. That's in a half gallon of old dirt in a cut out milk jug, so I'm excited to see what the clone of her that I took does with some actual TLC. I literally haven't even cut drainage holes in the container and just manage the ph with mindful feeding and dolomite lime and she's crushing it.

 

[Speedlandracer 199]

Col'Jam x either G13 Hashplant or Killer Queen, getting cut in a couple days.

 

[Speedlandracer 199]

My Silverfields keeper. She's already been crossed with G13 Hazeplant (G13 Haze x G13 Hashplant) and will likely catch some pollen from Tin Foil Hat [(Rugbern OG x Magnum Opus) x Pink Kush] and Blowfish.

 

[2ndgeneration grower 595]

Describe your Silverfields in growth if you don’t mind.

[Speedlandracer 199]

On 8/30/2021 at 1:39 PM, 2ndgeneration grower said:

Describe your Silverfields in growth if you don’t mind.

In terms of what? It's pretty average in terms of vigor, stretch, and nute requirements.

[2ndgeneration grower 595]

That’s good enough for me.  Thanks.

[Speedlandracer 199]

Keep in mind that there are a wide variety of phenotypes that Silverfields expresses, so the stretch will be somewhat variable. All of the ones that I've run have responded well to topping, but some can need support in late flower. They like a good amount of silica through veg and will show purple hues if they're exposed to cold temperatures in flower.

I'm very much looking forward to the cross of it and G13 Hazeplant that's in the branches of Silverfields now.

[Speedlandracer 199]

My G13 Hashplant keeper, a couple weeks out from being chopped. She's been hit with pollen from Original Haze, very excited for those beans.

G13 Haze! Also my keeper cut of her.

One of their babies: G13 Hazeplant. Made from the G13 Haze above and a male from the Ghash line.

Bubba Hash, she's also been hit with pollen from both G13 Hazeplant and Original Haze:

And Afgaan 90, from the Real Seed Company/Kwikseeds. It's a weird line, lots of reports of herms and sterile males, but that's a beautiful cola. Watch the smoke be horrible... 

[webeblzr 2,207]

looks delicious to me!!

[Speedlandracer 199]

G13 Hazeplant. These are actually from the same plant, the one on the left is a cut of the one on the right. And that's had a multi-node clone cut off of it. The vigor on these things is marvelous.

 

I'm such a sucker for the pinstriped stems. 

The original plant is still obviously a month or so away from harvest, at least, but she's looking beautiful so far.

[Speedlandracer 199]

The seedling closet! Escaped (G13 x (G13 x Purple Indica) and Secret Chief (SFV x '88Ghash) are in individual pots, while Berry Nice Plants from @santero just went down in the red Solo cup. Forbidden Fruitcake is in the blue pot up front.

A bunch of different stuff in here. In addition to (Uzbekistan x Nepalma) F1 and F2's, there's Cocoa Puffs and Goldfish from Hazeman, Wedding Cake x ON Haze, Col'Jam x G13 Hashplant, Pipatxu x G13 Hazeplant, Guava Dawg x HP7, and Golden Tiger (Thai x Malawi) from Ace.

The smaller tent, with the dudes revegging and the ladies vegging. Motorbreath 15 x HP7, USC's Turkish, Goldfish, and the dudes.

The left side of flower. The enormous lady in the back is [(G8 x Panama) x (F13 x Oldtimer's Haze)] that I've dubbed Valencian Haze by its origin. In front of it are a couple rough looking Interstate Dragons that are on the rebound, as well as G13 Hazeplant, Ghash, and a bunch of Hazes.

The right side of flower. Blue Dream x ON Haze, Blowfish, Lemon Citron, Tin Foil Hat, G13 Hazeplant, G13 Haze, Ghash, Zhe Pinch, and more Hazes!

Some better shots of the G13 Hazeplant. She'll get topped on Saturday and put back in the tent for revegging.

Those are some pretty nice buds. I feel like a proud papa.

 

Edited October 25, 2021 by santero
it's berry nce plants x sanfune, mate ... but the berries will show either way ;)

[webeblzr 2,207]

Nice buddage!! I've not seen bud (live) in months now. Soo close, but not yet. You got a nice variety also.

[Speedlandracer 199]

Dropped a bunch of fun stuff lately! Berry Nice Plants x Sanfune is in the front cup, G-High is in the rear one, and [(Triangle Kush x Chocolate Diesel) x (Stardawg x Sour Diesel)] are just breaking the surface of the soil in the cup on the right. Huge thanks to @santero for making that happen!!

In other news, G13 Hazeplant.