uk clone only! (and british bred strains)

[bigwity]

Should have more Colombian Gold seeds than I knwo what to do with soon as well as Colombian x Mazar, Colombian x SLH and Colombian x Volunteer.

I let my Colombian stud bang the back out of a few of my choicest bitches, he shot pollen everywhere last couple of days, he gets the chop tonight, his work is done, his load is shot.

you got some thrip action goin on bro i hate the little fuks

 

[Elevator Man]

Here's the three Bilberrys at four weeks exactly - Bilberry was made from a sativa-leaning f3 Blueberry female X (Mystery Strain X Flo) male. There's a smallish Cocoa Kush in the back there too. All three have stopped stretching now, and I'm pleased to note that none are particularly extreme in that department - probably doubled in height at most, though they've been severely trained to keep them down.



The really good news is that all three have the signature Blueberry/orange liqueur smell present in the mother, in varyiing degrees of intensity - one being quite musky and subdued, whilst another is an amped-up, super-tangy specimen - exactly what I wanted.

So far the branching and flower structure has been perfect, with tougher stems, denser bud formation and increased resin production over the original. No sign of any hermies, and they all look healthy and strong. One leans slighty more toward the Mystery Strain in terms of leaf-shape and petiole color, but overall they're a good mix of the parental stock, and far more uniform than I was expecting. I reckon two will be nine weeks and one ten.

Looking good



Pheno #1: Pheno #2: Pheno #3:

 

[funkymonkey]

Good to hear the Bilberry has that special odour from mummy.

bigwity, sadly that's not thrip damage, it's mites, I'm sick of spraying against the lil bastards, everytime I think they're gone they come back!

 

[bigwity]

elevator man does it again. where can we get your strainsv elevator bilberry sounds mega

 

[funkymonkey]

If he's captured the special odour and taste qualities of that BB mum then Bilberry should be well worth a try. The Mystery Strain x Flo parent should have some interesting things to add too.

 

[Elevator Man]

elevator man does it again. where can we get your strainsv elevator bilberry sounds mega

Nowhere at the moment, but one day perhaps. This is a strain worth stabilising though, so it'll go on the list for further work. That aroma is incredible, but the original mother was way too fluffy to be useful, but hopefully the male I used should change all that.

Whichever pheno turns out to be the best will no doubt get tested by a few objective growers while I get on with producing a good male, which is tricky in a tight space...

 

[funkymonkey]

Aye, male selection is the hard bit, that's why I try to choose males from truebreeding IBLs if possible.

I too am trying to find a Blueberry line worth further work. I have some Blueberry x NLX plants in veg, will flower em soon, a couple look very BB dom in veg.

 

[bigwity]

Nowhere at the moment, but one day perhaps. This is a strain worth stabilising though, so it'll go on the list for further work. That aroma is incredible, but the original mother was way too fluffy to be useful, but hopefully the male I used should change all that.

Whichever pheno turns out to be the best will no doubt get tested by a few objective growers while I get on with producing a good male, which is tricky in a tight space...

man id be happy to grow any pheno of that cross airy buds are cool if they are the shit. top work elevator. its so drilling i just think ive got everything i want then you show up and make me want even more lol

 

[edgey]

bigwity, sadly that's not thrip damage, it's mites, I'm sick of spraying against the lil bastards, everytime I think they're gone they come back!

having the same trouble myself m8 , thought they'd gone but seen a few on the wifi i've got flowering . what you using to spray ? i'm trying plant vitality at the mo but open to suggestions if you know of anything better , especially if you can use it late in flower

edgey

 

[DocLeaf]

Mite spray (for veg. only) :

1 litre warm water (not boiling)
1 crushed chilli pepper (hot)
1 crushed clove of garlic (strong clove)
1g of tobacco (fresh rolling tobacco)
1 drop of washing up liquid (fairy)

leave it on the side over night or for a few days to infuse at 25c.
strain the liquid and spray on the undersides of the leaves.
apply every 5 to 7 days for 25 to 28 days.

Hope this helps

 

[edgey]

Mite spray (for veg. only) :

1 litre warm water (not boiling)
1 crushed chilli pepper (hot)
1 crushed clove of garlic (strong clove)
1g of tobacco (fresh rolling tobacco)
1 drop of washing up liquid (fairy)

leave it on the side over night or for a few days to infuse at 25c.
strain the liquid and spray on the undersides of the leaves.
apply every 5 to 7 days for 25 to 28 days.

Hope this helps

thanks DL anything for flower ??

edgey

 

[funkymonkey]

Do not use Fairy liquid, it is bad for plants, you need to use a natural soap as a tension breaker, Ecover washing up liquid is the cheapest probably, if you have a health food store nearby, Aloe Vera Juice or Yucca Extract would be nice natural choices.

Tobacco, garlic and chilli sprays are only marginally effective, doc may say they are, but his plants show lots of pest damage. Such a spray isn't to kill mites, merely to make the places that have been sprayed very inhospitable for them so they bugger off elsewhere .Neem Oil will work better than that recipe, but again, it's more for mking the mites bugger off elsewhere than killing them. These types of treatments often don't work indoors because there isn't anywhere attractive for the mites to move to like there is outdoors where they can just migrate to next door's garden. The really big reason why Neem and Tobacco/Garlic/Chilli sprays are bad indoors apart from marginal effectiveness is the smell, they smell really bad, I cannot stand the smell of Neeem, it's horrid, I've got a bottle of Neem sat here that I don't used because of the stink.

In flower, SB Plant Invigorator works very well, it breaks down fast so can be used upto 2 days before harvest, it doesn't kill eggs so you have to spray every 3 days for 2 weeks to eradicate an outbreak. It's the cheapest mite spray out there too, about 6.50 a bottle.

I've been using Spider Mite Control which does kill eggs, it works very well and it's easy to keep my vegging plants clean of mites, the reason I'm having a problem is I don't run a flower cycle where I fill mt room with plants, flower em out then replace em in one go, reun a perpetual system with plants going in and out of flower all the time, this is why I've had such difficulties with the mites. Until I can have no plants in flower and really clean out my spaces and blast all plants to get em clean, I'm not going to be able to 100% eradicate the mites, only control their numbers and impact. Realistically, I dunno when this will happen, I'm trying to plan for this scenario in the near future so I can finally get rid of every last mite.

Jaykush the organic soil guru has come up with a new organic natural mite spray he says kills eggs and works very very well - he uses lavender flowers that he steeps in water. I'll find the link to the thread on it if you like, dried Lavender flowers are easy to buy as pot pourri and smell good unlike other things you can spray.

 

[Aardwolf]

having the same trouble myself m8 , thought they'd gone but seen a few on the wifi i've got flowering . what you using to spray ? i'm trying plant vitality at the mo but open to suggestions if you know of anything better , especially if you can use it late in flower

edgey

HOOVER..

 

[funkymonkey]

Hehe, a hoover will remove webbing and mites in that webbing, but you really need to do something before it gets that far!

This pic from a Dutch garden is enough to make any grower shiver!

 

[CarlBruv]

nice to see your keeping it small carlbruv as always

my mrs let me grow more than a cupboard full, lol!

i like to grow as big as poss, init buh!

 

[funkymonkey]

Nice one Carl, someone gotta grow it and if we leave it to the Asians all we get is unsmokeable 45-day unflushed overfed sprayed garbage. In the 90s it was soapbar that was the smoker's dread, this decade it's the Asian bud! lol

 

[lovelightpower]

Nice one Carl, someone gotta grow it and if we leave it to the Asians all we get is unsmokeable 45-day unflushed overfed sprayed garbage. In the 90s it was soapbar that was the smoker's dread, this decade it's the Asian bud! lol

at least that asian bud is giving people the kick up the arse needed to grow their own! lol.

only good thing about it...

 

[CarlBruv]

that asian bud is almost enough to put you off weed. almost..

once you grow your own there's no going back,
i just end up being a critic if i smoke commercial dross!

 

[funkymonkey]

I honestly dunno how they get their weed to turn out like that, god knows I've fucked up a ton of plants over the years but never have I had bud that turned out like that and wouldn't burn.

 

[Kushaholic90]

wen u say asian u mean vietnamese rite?