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Ja nee, she hermied. Pollen and pistils. Off with its head.

Very nice and frosty.

Aweh good people. Grow we will.... 1-2. Swazi...ishhhh lady. She is a bagseed from last years grow, came up in my tunnel's walkway- showed some vigour, so gave her a chance. Swazi...ishhh, judging by the growth and structure, but she got some haze in her it seems. 3. A Purple Pineapple f1 girl, she's slightly sensitive, if you look at the primary leaf mottling. Did transplant her to a slightly hot mix, but she's pushing through and showing good growth after the topping. 4-5. Chocolate Gorilla getting good. She's carrying a lot of bud for such a petite lady. Luckily they are stinky pungent. 6-8. Purple Pineapple, she's going to be the Control, she is big and airy, good sativa stuff. Pushing sizable pom poms and sugarleaves are getting frosty allready. She's handling it like a queen a with the weather being on its head, 3 weeks of drizzle and wind, RH 65-90% most of the time. Got some rock dust, giving it a shot in a seperate batch of soil as the science looks good. Feeding SST's and AACT's, keeping the girls happy and strong. Got offered some semi decent indoor - Big Bhudda Cheese and a Blue Cheese, eishhh we were dissapointed. Puffing on Mr @Dank's BC, it has cured well - smooth with hints of cinnamon and vanilla. The time was worth the time.

Nicely pregnant.

Plants look very healthy. Good growth.

Hermaphroditism can be a recessive trait in the plants genes, you just dont always know how reactive it is. In some plants depending on past breeding etc(genetic makeup) it may be closer to the surface ie: you look at it funny and it herms. In other plants it might be buried deep or be non existant ie: you can punish that plant with temps, lst, hst and she handles it like a champ. Some herm straight off the bat, others wait untill deep into flower(most evil) cause they can drop secret hermie pollen if you mis 1x effing pollen sac. Boils down to genetic stability, the growers experience with the strain. That's why bagseed can be intersting, but also a crap shoot and sometimes a complete f@#k-up.

Eishhh...with the weeklong rainy weather and continous humid conditions, Decided to harvest the Lemoncello haze and the Purple Stilton. Thichs were solid milky with a couple of ambers, would have preferred to push for a week or two more but the starting signs of wpm and budrot were ominous. Wet yields were ok, Lemoncello 274gr and Stilton 246gr. The Stilton was showing early signs of revegging, funnily only the bottom 2 branches, so chopped just above them to let mother nature do her thing. Buds have a real funky stank to them, might cut some clones for summer if taste tests are positive. The previous Lemoncello was quite tasty hence this lady being upgraded to the 75lt tub and she didn't disappoint.

Took a mandatory 2 mnth break from March this year for work medicals, only to get hit with Covid. Medicals got postponed to July, all told 5mnths break. Was not very lekker.... Didn't stop growing though and the comeback was epic.

Aweh fellow greenies. Life is doing that curveball thing...as if covid wasn't enough. Ladies haven't been getting all the attention they deserve but they still looking good. Had almost a week of cold and rainy days, wpm and budrot here they come..... 1-2. This Purple Pineapple lady just exploded as can be seen from the internodal spacing. Maybe the Bio Ocean pellet topdress and mung beans had something to do with it or could be a combo of f1 vigour which is positive, but she can't hide her sativa genes. Only topped her once, wanted her to express as naturally as possible. Not a drop of wpm on her so far, which is a good sign as she is in pre flower. 3-4. Seedsman Lemoncello is filling out nicely. The mielie SST and molasses in between normal feeding is doing the thing for the flowering girls. She is smelling awesome and her nugs are dense and frosty. 5-6. The Purple Stilton lady is also doing well, she's putting on decent weight despite the crap weather. Defoliated all the leaves with signs of wpm, trichomes are mostly milky, just want a few ambers. Hoping I can get her to the harvest line because she is frosty as a snowcone and smells bloody awesome.

Calcium and Magnesium are both important for good plant growth. Eggshell is calcium carbonate and it can swing your ph upwards. It will benefit your plants long term as it's kind of slow release, because it has to breakdown first. If you're in a hurry...You could try the KNF (Korean natural farming) method by treating the ground eggshell with vinegar and diluting with water. (Check methods online) Otherwise buy some ''Calmag'' (most hydro shops stock it) its got the Ca and Mg. I have used all the above methods and still do, depending on the situation.

Healthy new growth is a good sign. Hopefully she gets over the ''stunt'' well enough to reward you for the efforts. Might just get a good yield out of her.

Seedsman Lemoncello Haze

It's up to you in the end, as you have the plant in front of you and can judge best. I'd try the epsom and see how she responds. If all looks good by next feed, go in at half strength with the nutes and take it from there. AACT wise, I mix 25lt batches for the forest. 2 cups EWC, 2 cups garden compost, 50ml molasses, 25ml Seagrow/Fishmix. Brew for 12-18hrs. Optional - Seaweed extract/Kelpak, humic/fulvic acid, SST. You can apply the AACT straight or diluted 50% and any leftovers should keep in the fridge for about a week in a sealed container.

Aweh fellow horticulturists. Been a bit busy cause spring is around the corner. 1-2. Chocolate Gorilla This lady is getting the chop today. Pushed her an extra week to ripen up some more, now we paying some tax with a dash of rot. But her buds are rock solid. 3-4. Seedsman Lemoncello haze She built a good strong structure to carry her treasures, now she just has to put on some weight in all the right places. 5-6. Purple Stilton Went the same route with her as the Lemoncello. Only topped once and upsized the pots. Starting to get a bit of frost. 7. Purple Pineapple She is doing well, stem terps are strong and funky, but it's still early days. 8-9. Swazi Gold Bagseed from a previous grow, she might not be 100% pure, but she grew well and hasn't skipped a beat at all. Putting on some good weight now, but she has a few seeds. 10. Purple Pineapple Trying to reveg this lady, need a few clones as her buds were sweet, funky and smooth. And the jar is almost empty. Trying out Biobizz Grow, Bloom and Fishmix this season as well as SST's. The mung bean and mielie tea's have gone down well so far and fit in well with the smoothie feeds.

The flush with clean ph'd water hopefully got rid of the problem. Would have been best if you could test the ph of the runoff to confirm. The leaf colour indicates @Fridgedoor might be onto something regarding the Mg, whether it's a lockout due to N tox we don't know. So at some point the plant will need to get the correct ph feed with the correct nute mix. You sticking with biobizz? You could try half strength nute mix and see how she responds. If the leaves aren't dead, leave them on the plant. They won't recover fully but the fresh new growth will show if she is on the mend. Be carefull with heat, temp swings and RH - she doesn't need any more stress. I'd also recommend some AACT if possible, always helps with stress.

That last bit is good..... Do like my sativas.

Living soil with organic nutes, shouldn't be seeing those symtoms - if you stick to the dosages. I tried ph'ing my feeds in soil once.....my girls didnt like it, never again. With a smaller amount of medium the plant might get rootbound quicker, but I doubt it'll affect it that badly. Transplanting(carefully) is an option to consider.

Those leaves are very dark green, think there might be some Nitrogen tox as well. Leaf tip curling may point to a rootzone issue. 1. What medium is the plant in. 2. What nutes were used. Need some opinions from the indoor guys.

To properly stabalize a strain you need to repeat the process up to f5 depending on the plants genetics and what it was interbred with previously. Hopefully you don't discover any unwanted recessive traits like hermaphroditism or a genetic weakness to powdry mildew. Unwanted males are destroyed immediately, minimizing the risk of foreign cross pollination. Females that dont make the breeding cut, can be flowered out if they look good enough.

Isolating a strain from what's effectively ''bagseed'' is a long term story with no guarantee of success. If the strain has been interbred with itself over a period of time your chances may improve. You will need space and time and lots of patience. Planting as many beans as you can manage properly, isolating good females and males depending on what your criteria is for the strain. Interbreeding them, then planting the resulting f1 beans and sifting through the offspring looking for keepers. It can take years on a small scale level to stabilize a strain.

I've run into a couple of duds - multiple plants, same strain, same breeder - all different in growth and terpene profiles - one hermied in flower for no reason. Will never buy from them again. Schoolfees. If the genetics are weak or the breeder messed up somewhere, the grower can try his best and still end up with shite. But I must also add, some growers have greener fingers than others....and some should rather stay away from plants.

Thanks Google ''scale insects''. Suspect they are the ''armoured scale'' variety. Can be tough buggers to get rid of.

Good stuff, it looks lekker. AACT has many beneficial uses for your plants. Just use your nose.... if it smells fresh ,musty, mushroomy or earthy you're good. Any off, sour, rotten, putrid smells proceed with caution or dump it to be safe.

One of the ladies in my stable. Beans were gifted by a local indoor grower. Pineapple Express pollinated by a Purple Haze male. Pheno hunted a bit through the selection and this lady and her fruity boyfriend caught the eye. Smoke report is good-(my new favorite). Very smooth and tasty smoke with a funky 'chemberry' tang. Clear, strong and energetic with typical sativa cerebral effect.

She looks gooood!!! @Dank Proverbial Kid in a candy store....