Hookahhead
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Hey there, thanks for stopping in! I am starting this thread to document a few plants that I have going right now, just to help me remember things down the road. Feel free to follow along if you'd like.
As a disclaimer, although there are wild monkeys where I live, I am not using monkey feces in or on my plants. I can tell you that I have seen many monkeys that have and transmit human pathogens. I have personally caught Giardia from working with sick monkeys. Do not use primate shit in your garden!
The thread title comes from the name some locals give to imported Jamaican brickweed. This is the cheapest, most abundant, and lowest quality herb you can buy on the street here. It's most likely what you'll encounter as a tourist, and it reminds me of the Mexican brick weed I would buy in the US way back when. Full of stem and seed, could be moldy, dried out, and just generally mistreated.
Unfortunately, I didn't bring a seed stash with me. I spent a few months squirreling away the few precious seeds I could find in better quality herb. However, I kept thinking about the huge volume of seeds available in the "monkey shit". Finally a good deal came around, and I bought an oz just to turn into cookies, but what I was really after were some seeds. It was full of seeds, I think I pulled something like 300-400 seeds out of it. I sorted through and discarded any that looked immature or crushed.
This was my first time growing in a humid, equatorial environment. I also had to adapt my soil mix to what I had available here. So the bricked beans seemed like a logical choice to work some kinks out. I'm still working out those kinks haha, but I am adapting. I have posted pictures of some of the plants that have come out of the seeds here on ICmag. It turned out to be a fun grab bag of who knows what genetics.
One plant in particular I had taken a a few extra clones from. I may have even taken more clones from the first clones. Needless to say, I grew her out a few times. I called her the "Pink pistil" for obvious reasons. I even gave a few to a friend of mine that wanted to try growing for the first time. I'm happy to say he finished up with some nice herb, I posted a few of his pictures here on ICmag. This was the first time she had been grown indoors, and somewhat surprisingly his plants had completely white pistils.
The only mutant to pop up, I documented here on ICmag. Honestly, it's kind of embarrassing to bring that thread up again. I thought the plant started growing with 2 pistils instead of true leaves. I even thought I saw female pre flowers, but when I flowered it... it was 100% male. It was trifoliate, and grew some impressive male flowers in my opinion. When I saw it I was a bit shocked, and panicked and chopped it down immediately. Within a day or 2 I had killed off any of his clones. I did have the forethought to spread some of the pollen on lower branches of a near by lady, which was a "pink pistil" clone. It turns out that was unnecessary, because the plant was full of seeds from top to bottom. He must have sprayed his whole wad on her, because I've collected over 500 seeds and still have almost a full jar left to smoke. Yet I've pulled maybe 1 or 2 seeds at most from the other plants that were growing nearby, most of them finished seedless.
I left for 2 weeks over the Christmas holiday, so anything that was still indoor needed to go out. The week after I got back, the field I had been guerilla growing in burned to a crisp. It's a common occurrence that time of year, and I was expecting it... I had just been hoping for a few extra weeks. Luckily, I had cleared all the dry grass and weeds from around the plants, so they made it through with just some singed fan leaves. However, they now stood bare naked in the middle of a field, so they were all harvested quickly while the ground was still smoldering. I had planned on taking cuttings from the plants I wanted to keep when I got back, but Mother Nature stepped in. I had also passed along the rest of those seeds over my break.
I stopped growing for a few months because I flower outside. We were in the dry season, which means absolutely no rain for 4-5 months. It is too hard to find a secure spot to grow a thirsty, lush, green plant when everything around you is brown, dead and dry. Finally in April, a friend of mine had agreed to let me grow a few plants on his property. So I popped some beans immediately, I chose to go with the cross just to see what came out.
I soaked 5 seeds. 4/5 germinated, I vegged them under my normal setup for about a month. 3/4 showed preflowers as female, the male was culled. 99% of the growth was normal, with the odd leaf here and there that showed mutations like the father. Then I got news about an opportunity to move into a bigger house, in a more private location... with my own yard! So the plants never got moved to my friends, they just kept growing and growing while I waited to move. They were 21 inches (53 cm) tall when I had to move them to the new house 1 by 1 on the back of my motorcycle haha. They were a little bit beaten up by the wind, but no major breakage or loss. They quickly got stuffed into a new, larger cabinet I had prepared for them.
They were in 1 gallon pots and getting pretty big by this point. I wanted to up pot them, but couldn't source coco coir from any of the normal places. Finally after 2 weeks I found some, but the plants had already out grown the new cabinet by this point. Some of the leaves got burned and crispy from being right against the LEDs. I mixed up soil that night, transplanted, and moved the plants outside. I didn't have time to let the soil sit, and I had never transplanted plants that were that tall. I didn't want them to start flowering yet, so I put a LED spot light on them at night. I gave them 2 weeks to settle into their pots, they took 3-4 days to recover from the transplant shock.
As a disclaimer, although there are wild monkeys where I live, I am not using monkey feces in or on my plants. I can tell you that I have seen many monkeys that have and transmit human pathogens. I have personally caught Giardia from working with sick monkeys. Do not use primate shit in your garden!
The thread title comes from the name some locals give to imported Jamaican brickweed. This is the cheapest, most abundant, and lowest quality herb you can buy on the street here. It's most likely what you'll encounter as a tourist, and it reminds me of the Mexican brick weed I would buy in the US way back when. Full of stem and seed, could be moldy, dried out, and just generally mistreated.
Unfortunately, I didn't bring a seed stash with me. I spent a few months squirreling away the few precious seeds I could find in better quality herb. However, I kept thinking about the huge volume of seeds available in the "monkey shit". Finally a good deal came around, and I bought an oz just to turn into cookies, but what I was really after were some seeds. It was full of seeds, I think I pulled something like 300-400 seeds out of it. I sorted through and discarded any that looked immature or crushed.
This was my first time growing in a humid, equatorial environment. I also had to adapt my soil mix to what I had available here. So the bricked beans seemed like a logical choice to work some kinks out. I'm still working out those kinks haha, but I am adapting. I have posted pictures of some of the plants that have come out of the seeds here on ICmag. It turned out to be a fun grab bag of who knows what genetics.
One plant in particular I had taken a a few extra clones from. I may have even taken more clones from the first clones. Needless to say, I grew her out a few times. I called her the "Pink pistil" for obvious reasons. I even gave a few to a friend of mine that wanted to try growing for the first time. I'm happy to say he finished up with some nice herb, I posted a few of his pictures here on ICmag. This was the first time she had been grown indoors, and somewhat surprisingly his plants had completely white pistils.
The only mutant to pop up, I documented here on ICmag. Honestly, it's kind of embarrassing to bring that thread up again. I thought the plant started growing with 2 pistils instead of true leaves. I even thought I saw female pre flowers, but when I flowered it... it was 100% male. It was trifoliate, and grew some impressive male flowers in my opinion. When I saw it I was a bit shocked, and panicked and chopped it down immediately. Within a day or 2 I had killed off any of his clones. I did have the forethought to spread some of the pollen on lower branches of a near by lady, which was a "pink pistil" clone. It turns out that was unnecessary, because the plant was full of seeds from top to bottom. He must have sprayed his whole wad on her, because I've collected over 500 seeds and still have almost a full jar left to smoke. Yet I've pulled maybe 1 or 2 seeds at most from the other plants that were growing nearby, most of them finished seedless.
I left for 2 weeks over the Christmas holiday, so anything that was still indoor needed to go out. The week after I got back, the field I had been guerilla growing in burned to a crisp. It's a common occurrence that time of year, and I was expecting it... I had just been hoping for a few extra weeks. Luckily, I had cleared all the dry grass and weeds from around the plants, so they made it through with just some singed fan leaves. However, they now stood bare naked in the middle of a field, so they were all harvested quickly while the ground was still smoldering. I had planned on taking cuttings from the plants I wanted to keep when I got back, but Mother Nature stepped in. I had also passed along the rest of those seeds over my break.
I stopped growing for a few months because I flower outside. We were in the dry season, which means absolutely no rain for 4-5 months. It is too hard to find a secure spot to grow a thirsty, lush, green plant when everything around you is brown, dead and dry. Finally in April, a friend of mine had agreed to let me grow a few plants on his property. So I popped some beans immediately, I chose to go with the cross just to see what came out.
I soaked 5 seeds. 4/5 germinated, I vegged them under my normal setup for about a month. 3/4 showed preflowers as female, the male was culled. 99% of the growth was normal, with the odd leaf here and there that showed mutations like the father. Then I got news about an opportunity to move into a bigger house, in a more private location... with my own yard! So the plants never got moved to my friends, they just kept growing and growing while I waited to move. They were 21 inches (53 cm) tall when I had to move them to the new house 1 by 1 on the back of my motorcycle haha. They were a little bit beaten up by the wind, but no major breakage or loss. They quickly got stuffed into a new, larger cabinet I had prepared for them.
They were in 1 gallon pots and getting pretty big by this point. I wanted to up pot them, but couldn't source coco coir from any of the normal places. Finally after 2 weeks I found some, but the plants had already out grown the new cabinet by this point. Some of the leaves got burned and crispy from being right against the LEDs. I mixed up soil that night, transplanted, and moved the plants outside. I didn't have time to let the soil sit, and I had never transplanted plants that were that tall. I didn't want them to start flowering yet, so I put a LED spot light on them at night. I gave them 2 weeks to settle into their pots, they took 3-4 days to recover from the transplant shock.
