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If you are looking for trolls, facebook is your friend. No trolls on this forum hey. As far as the politics around the developing industry...We dont care about that here. You'll notice that in all the years of this forum, this politics sub forum has only 3 threads...including this one.

Lekker man. Hope they are going to get some additional evening light, otherwise they are going to start flowering.

Ok so here's the retake on my fem run for the year. A bit of a switch in genetics. I'm doing a reversal on a chocolate gelato female. Blunicorn, slurricane, chocolate gelato females. All reveg clones that are just about done revegging. Going to let these girls get to a nice size, as they are only 4 that are going to move into flowering in a month or so.

Can't help you with commercial preparations. The leaves are pretty brittle when dried though, and turn to dust easy. Perhaps re moistening helps make the leaves a bit more leathery and workable again.

I have found with my Virginia that the lower bigger leaves have a higher sugar and lower nicotine content when I harvest them yellow. Very much cigarette tobacco. The smaller top leaves are usually still quite a bit greener, and cure to that cigar taste without any roasting, just a dry and bag cure.

Leaves are harvested bottom up as they become chlorotic. As in when they go yellow. I dry my leaves in the garage, hanging. After they are dry, they need a curing process just like our favorite flower.

Yeah, get them in the ground. Full sun. Very little to no nutrients. Water often, daily or every second day depending. Basically keep soil moist. If you want seeds then let the flowers grow until the seed stalks dry out. But if it's for the leaf, then you need to pluck off the developing flower stalks on the sides and top. Removing flowers will give you massive leaves. Leaving the flowers to develop the leaves are way smaller.

Day 44

Yeah, this opens a whole new can of worms. If I can theoretically fill my garden with cbd plants, just how do saps tell the difference without opening themselves up to civil claims.

As far as I understand it, CBD is now schedule 0...not scheduled.

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So my first runs pollination with the Chocolate Gelato male is done, my 2nd male for the season is the GTH #1. Females for this round are: Slurricane, Blunicorn, GTH #1, OKC, Chocolate Gelato. Watching the GTH mom develop in @SkunkPharm space, this run has me super excited for some of the Rare Dankness influence coming. These clones are being transplanted next week and will go into 12/12 a week thereafter.

I've left plants in 36+ hours of dark because of the very same reason. They'll be fine. The critical part of flower is not interrupting a dark phase. Ie. The dark phase must not be less than 12 hours.

Yeah, Tent R2000-R2500 240w QB R6000 Fan R1100 Do you really need a filter?

Sadly I wouldn't even be done with the testing phase(starting in November) of my new crosses by then. Even my choco NL f5 run is only half way. Only the female has been selected. I'm yet to select my male, and that's only happening in January or February. For an indoor growoff next year around March, I could definately provide seeds.

Gonna need even closer close ups of the nodes. I use my loupe and put it in front of my phone camera and get in real close until it comes in focus.

Here's a thorough scientific look at it. A commercial farmer isnt the right place to ask questions about gravity or spacial bodies... While this paper doesnt address planting by the moon directly, it goes and delves deeper into the actual observed interactions Lunisolar tidal force and the growth of plant roots, and some other of its effects on plant movements It's a long paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3394636/ First clip Abstract Background Correlative evidence has often suggested that the lunisolar tidal force, to which the Sun contributes 30 % and the Moon 60 % of the combined gravitational acceleration, regulates a number of features of plant growth upon Earth. The time scales of the effects studied have ranged from the lunar day, with a period of approx. 24·8 h, to longer, monthly or seasonal variations. Scope We review evidence for a lunar involvement with plant growth. In particular, we describe experimental observations which indicate a putative lunar-based relationship with the rate of elongation of roots of Arabidopsis thaliana maintained in constant light. The evidence suggests that there may be continuous modulation of root elongation growth by the lunisolar tidal force. In order to provide further supportive evidence for a more general hypothesis of a lunisolar regulation of growth, we highlight similarly suggestive evidence from the time courses of (a) bean leaf movements obtained from kymographic observations; (b) dilatation cycles of tree stems obtained from dendrograms; and (c) the diurnal changes of wood–water relationships in a living tree obtained by reflectometry. Conclusions At present, the evidence for a lunar or a lunisolar influence on root growth or, indeed, on any other plant system, is correlative, and therefore circumstantial. Although it is not possible to alter the lunisolar gravitational force experienced by living organisms on Earth, it is possible to predict how this putative lunisolar influence will vary at times in the near future. This may offer ways of testing predictions about possible Moon–plant relationships. As for a hypothesis about how the three-body system of Earth–Sun–Moon could interact with biological systems to produce a specific growth response, this remains a challenge for the future. Plant growth responses are mainly brought about by differential movement of water across protoplasmic membranes in conjunction with water movement in the super-symplasm. It may be in this realm of water movements, or even in the physical forms which water adopts within cells, that the lunisolar tidal force has an impact upon living growth systems.

It has to do with even more than just the moon imo. New and full moon phases are such that Earth, Moon, and Sun align. The solar and lunar tides are affected to a point where we visibly see a difference. I would say that's not far off from the circadian rythem we are governed by Ito the phenomenon. But yeah, its bigger than I think we might ever understand, and to prove this we would need a control universe without a moon and sun to provide a factual scientific answer

You too. May it be the greenest one yet.

All part of the learning curve. I dont think it ever stops. Autos are actually a good place to learn from your plants, as you have a few extra visually confirmable traits to select from. Working with the same lines you really get to know what a parent can add or take away from the progeny after a while. Once you get to the next generation you get more choice as previously recessive traits start showing up as dominant. How much stress testing do you do on your plants? I for example run 24/7 veg to root out autos from my populations. Youd most certainly need to run and test different veg cycles, as I'm sure you'll find plants on a scale... ie they might veg in 20/4, but flower trigger at 14 hours etc.

Went out to the farm again today. All the chocos are kicking into reveg mode. These are going to be monstrous. They are starting the season with stems thicker than my thumb. There is this one pheno though that is going to carry the F5 generation.

Interesting read. I dont work with autos. It's actually one of the traits I select against. To me, this plant can reveg, so it's not an auto. Its photoperiod. Just because it's a recessive auto, does not give it a place as an auto. We cant start using our recessive traits as marketing points. They are recessive as in do not express, so the consumer will never come across them in his/her plants. Work the next generation and get that auto trait to dominate then you can call it an auto. Only once a plant flowers in 24/7 is it an auto imo.

Day 28 for these girls already. GTH #1 Slurricane Blunicorn

Day 28