Hi Koondense,
Does it only look like they're not flowering already like an auto that tall is supposed to? I imagined till now that even superautos start flowering smaller...
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The Search for Trip Weed
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Does it only look like they're not flowering already like an auto that tall is supposed to? I imagined till now that even superautos start flowering smaller...
Hi OO,
superautos should show sex in the forst month, then preflowers between days 40 and 60. Full flower mode should start at around 80-100 days when put outdoors.
Why I say "should"? Because some tend to take longer
Last season they got preflowers only after around 70days and kept stretching until day 120-130. But it may be also related to sun exposition, my spot gets 5hours of direct light and rest is shady.
This year they are quicker and doing as they "should"
superautos should show sex in the forst month, then preflowers between days 40 and 60. Full flower mode should start at around 80-100 days when put outdoors.
Why I say "should"? Because some tend to take longer
Last season they got preflowers only after around 70days and kept stretching until day 120-130. But it may be also related to sun exposition, my spot gets 5hours of direct light and rest is shady.
This year they are quicker and doing as they "should"
Paper Thorn - Thanks for the positive vibes.
Onefinity - I like your idea of using gas chromatography. I think it may have good business potential here in Southern Oregon due to medical marijuana and the proximity here to the growers. Dispensaries are just getting started in our state. PM me if you want to get certified and find a business partner. I'm not happy in my current job, and I love Cannabis!
Mr. GT - Glad you like the thread and are on "The Search". Looking forward to your posts.
Koondense - Nice plants. I'm looking forward to the next pictures and how they turn out. I'm at 42 degrees north, and auto-flowering of some sort are likely in my future as I want to grow outdoors.
Speaking of outdoor, I have been out of town and came back to see pleasant changes to my outdoor garden. Here are some pictures:
It was 105 degrees while I was gone, and there was an explosion of growth in my watermelons. My plants seemed to enjoy it also:
The female NepaleseJam had an open and airy structure:
The picture above is an old one, but the plant still had an airy openness to it last week. While it still is the runt of the group, it now has a bushiness to it that makes it look like it is going to be very productive. Here it is in the foreground:
Here is a picture of the garden from afar. I like this shot because it shows the pine and oak forest. This garden area is sunny because the soil is so bad. Only scrubby White Oaks grew here because the red clay and decomposed granite is only about a foot or two deep before becoming a decomposed granite hardpan layer. For perspective, the fence is about 10 feet tall. The plants are about 2 to 3 feet downhill from the fence. This picture was taken about 12 feet downhill from the bottom of the fence, and about 50 feet away. The smallest plant is about 6 foot tall, and the tallest is almost 8 feet tall. I'm starting to worry that a 12 foot tall greenhouse will not be tall enough to cover these. I will have to start bending these over somehow.
I've got to go and see how the indoor Oaxacan and Gypsy Nirvana x Neville's Haze x Mullumbimby Madness are doing.
ThaiBliss
Thanks for the compliment Yoss. It means a lot coming from someone with your skills.
I have to give Bushweed credit for those looking into the sun pictures. He does a lot of them, and I love them, as well as a whole bunch of other people.
I have some more to post today. My flowering cabinet has definitely filled out while I was gone. The Oaxacan had the edge in vigor and stretchiness in the vegetative stage, but the Gypsy Nirvana Thai x Neville's Haze x Mullumbimby Madness is showing its extreme vigor in early flowering:
Here are some close ups of the Oaxacan which is on the right side of the cabinet:
I was posting that I think the Copalita Oaxacan is pure old school Mexican Sativa, and I still think so. But, next to the tropical Cannabis dominant GN x NHz x MM, it looks downright Indica influenced. Even though I believe Neville's Haze has a touch of Indica, the tropical versus sub-tropical differences are striking.
Here is what I think tropical Cannabis looks like as expressed by GN x NHz x MM:
Even though this picture is out of focus and has a Copalita bud in it, for some reason I like it:
Happy Growing Everyone,
ThaiBliss
Thaibliss
Looks amazing brother in n out
I love the selections ,you have some great strains which i hope turn out to be what your looking for
The heavy thai in that hybrid should express some Thai madness .I look forward to your progress
Best wishes
1luvbigherb
Looks amazing brother in n out
I love the selections ,you have some great strains which i hope turn out to be what your looking for
The heavy thai in that hybrid should express some Thai madness .I look forward to your progress
Best wishes
1luvbigherb
hello
that could works, plus hybrid vigor can get it more potent too
i saw you have sage.. it would be great cross imo depends on..yes bangi is very clear
nice garden bro
Just starting my first grow, but once I get my feet off the ground, I definitely have to come back to your thread. My head is craving the same thing. Awesome garden 
Greetings:
Koondense - I keep thinking that I have to experiment with those auto-flowering strains, particularly the Thai related ones. I used to be appalled, as if people were bringing in genetically modified seeds into the gene pool, but I suspect one of my top 5 best homegrown (self grown) highs of all time was from a plant that was an auto flowering strain. I really wish I had that plant back.
Tommygh -Can't wait to see your posts here of your first grow. What strain is it?
Nepalese Outdoor update:
This has been a hot summer so far. Temperatures have been hovering around 100 degrees for the last 3 weeks, with a summertime high of 105 one day. I'm really happy with the low and wide fabric pots, and the low wire fence with the leaves containing the compost/soil mix. There must be a lot of root contact with the native red clay and decomposed granite soil because these plants have been able to go a week at a time without watering. Red clay takes a long time to dry out once it is saturated. The plants have only shown a very slight lack of water stress after a week without watering and only show it in the hottest part of the day. Watering is always necessary in this area as it is normal for only and inch or less of rain to fall over a 4 month period during the summer. It is not uncommon to go 6 months with minuscule amounts of rainfall. We usually make up for it in the winter, but not this year. We are in a very bad drought. A few years ago I grew in those old fruit boxes. The big plant I had would have never made it a week without some water.
I've also used a compost/soil mix with less manure and have used much lighter nitrogen fertilizer this year. I know I like the Bangi Haze strain better than the Nagano Gold strain I grew outdoors last time. I'm hoping I'm doing a better job of growing it to the Bangi Haze's potential by not over fertilizing.
I took cuttings from two plants this week, the bushy and small leaved NepaleseJam, and the skinny and long leaved Bangi Haze with the lanky structure and olive green/yellow green color. For the rest, I'm counting on seeds from the two plants I'm hoping are males that I have in reserve. One is a NepaleseJam, and the other is a Bangi Haze, both of which seem to be big fat leaved phenotypes which I imagine are from the Nepalese side. Remember, both of these strains are about 50% Nepalese, known for its euphoric high. The trippy part I believe is from the Congolese in the Bangi Haze. I have grown what I believe was the Jamaican Blue Mountain that is in the NepaleseJam, and that was euphoric, floaty, and mildly disorienting. If I feel like I'm floating around, I'm feeling like I'm tripping.
As I look back at the photographs I have taken and uploaded, a lot of them look similar, but please bear with me, as these are my babies.
Here is the bushy NepaleseJam female. This plant looks like it has the most green chlorophyll from lots of nitrogen, but I don't think the soil it is in has any more than the others, it is just naturally a dark green color and needs less nitrogen.
Bangi Haze is supposed to be a slightly earlier strain, but this NepaleseJam looks like it wants to be the first out of the gate. I'm hoping all these plants start flowering in earnest within two weeks time.
Koondense - I keep thinking that I have to experiment with those auto-flowering strains, particularly the Thai related ones. I used to be appalled, as if people were bringing in genetically modified seeds into the gene pool, but I suspect one of my top 5 best homegrown (self grown) highs of all time was from a plant that was an auto flowering strain. I really wish I had that plant back.
Tommygh -Can't wait to see your posts here of your first grow. What strain is it?
Nepalese Outdoor update:
This has been a hot summer so far. Temperatures have been hovering around 100 degrees for the last 3 weeks, with a summertime high of 105 one day. I'm really happy with the low and wide fabric pots, and the low wire fence with the leaves containing the compost/soil mix. There must be a lot of root contact with the native red clay and decomposed granite soil because these plants have been able to go a week at a time without watering. Red clay takes a long time to dry out once it is saturated. The plants have only shown a very slight lack of water stress after a week without watering and only show it in the hottest part of the day. Watering is always necessary in this area as it is normal for only and inch or less of rain to fall over a 4 month period during the summer. It is not uncommon to go 6 months with minuscule amounts of rainfall. We usually make up for it in the winter, but not this year. We are in a very bad drought. A few years ago I grew in those old fruit boxes. The big plant I had would have never made it a week without some water.
I've also used a compost/soil mix with less manure and have used much lighter nitrogen fertilizer this year. I know I like the Bangi Haze strain better than the Nagano Gold strain I grew outdoors last time. I'm hoping I'm doing a better job of growing it to the Bangi Haze's potential by not over fertilizing.
I took cuttings from two plants this week, the bushy and small leaved NepaleseJam, and the skinny and long leaved Bangi Haze with the lanky structure and olive green/yellow green color. For the rest, I'm counting on seeds from the two plants I'm hoping are males that I have in reserve. One is a NepaleseJam, and the other is a Bangi Haze, both of which seem to be big fat leaved phenotypes which I imagine are from the Nepalese side. Remember, both of these strains are about 50% Nepalese, known for its euphoric high. The trippy part I believe is from the Congolese in the Bangi Haze. I have grown what I believe was the Jamaican Blue Mountain that is in the NepaleseJam, and that was euphoric, floaty, and mildly disorienting. If I feel like I'm floating around, I'm feeling like I'm tripping.
As I look back at the photographs I have taken and uploaded, a lot of them look similar, but please bear with me, as these are my babies.
Here is the bushy NepaleseJam female. This plant looks like it has the most green chlorophyll from lots of nitrogen, but I don't think the soil it is in has any more than the others, it is just naturally a dark green color and needs less nitrogen.
Bangi Haze is supposed to be a slightly earlier strain, but this NepaleseJam looks like it wants to be the first out of the gate. I'm hoping all these plants start flowering in earnest within two weeks time.
Here is the Bangi Haze I like the looks of. This is the first picture that seems to catch a bit of the olive green/yellow green color and the lanky structure. This plant has the fewest pre-flowering pistils, and looks to be the latest flowering one out of the bunch. It is still a little early to judge. I hope it surprises me.
Here is yet another shot of the entire garden:
I hope everyone is having a great season, and good luck in the search for trippy weed.
ThaiBliss
Here is yet another shot of the entire garden:
I hope everyone is having a great season, and good luck in the search for trippy weed.
ThaiBliss
Hi Thai (that sounds like our state drink haha),
Just transplanted my seedling into their 5 gal pots, and plan to give them their first nutes next watering. I'm growing White Widow. My one plant is doing well, and the other is still growing new leaves, but it remains to be seen what will happen with her (PlantB album).
Thanks for posting your pics. They look like something out of a fantasy movie or video game. Never seen anything so lovely. I'll post some new pics next week. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Just transplanted my seedling into their 5 gal pots, and plan to give them their first nutes next watering. I'm growing White Widow. My one plant is doing well, and the other is still growing new leaves, but it remains to be seen what will happen with her (PlantB album).
Thanks for posting your pics. They look like something out of a fantasy movie or video game. Never seen anything so lovely. I'll post some new pics next week. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Thanks for the good vibes. Best not to encourage me too much though.
While going to do a morning visit of my plants, I noticed some smoke on the horizon. We had some fairly dry lightning yesterday, and sure enough, our worst fears have materialized. Fires has started in this extreme drought. We were 1 mile away from homes on standby to evacuate last year. It looks like it might be deja vu all over again.
Good excuse to take more pictures of my favorite Bangi Haze and what might be the last of the clear blue skies this summer:
I keep coming up with nicknames for my plants. I think this picture shows it's green/white properties. Super Silver Congolese White:
With its dagger leaves:
Cheers,
ThaiBliss
While going to do a morning visit of my plants, I noticed some smoke on the horizon. We had some fairly dry lightning yesterday, and sure enough, our worst fears have materialized. Fires has started in this extreme drought. We were 1 mile away from homes on standby to evacuate last year. It looks like it might be deja vu all over again.
Good excuse to take more pictures of my favorite Bangi Haze and what might be the last of the clear blue skies this summer:
I keep coming up with nicknames for my plants. I think this picture shows it's green/white properties. Super Silver Congolese White:
With its dagger leaves:
Cheers,
ThaiBliss
Thanks for the well wishes guys. There were only a dozen or so down strikes in our valley, and a few fires. Looks like the firefighters are on top of it. This is a normal danger in our area every summer, even after a wet winter. So far this year, nothing imminently dangerous for my homestead.
One of my best years ever, for quality, was a year with massive fires burning. Daylight looked like the sun was a high pressure sodium bulb, with it's yellow color. Helicopters and planes everywhere, but visibility was so low, it was like a freebie year as far as aerial surveillance of growers. There was no rush to harvest and the fall rains were late.
Almost always a bright side.
ThaiBliss
One of my best years ever, for quality, was a year with massive fires burning. Daylight looked like the sun was a high pressure sodium bulb, with it's yellow color. Helicopters and planes everywhere, but visibility was so low, it was like a freebie year as far as aerial surveillance of growers. There was no rush to harvest and the fall rains were late.
Almost always a bright side.
ThaiBliss
TB, what latitude are you at?
