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MHBGuy - Grape Ox Grow Log - First Ever Newbie Summer Bud Contest

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DoubleDDsNuggs

what about a piece of cardboard painted white? the space blanket would eventually get torn when you moved it to get to your plants each time. they tear so easily! you could probably pick up a big box behind a furniture warehouse or appliance store.
 
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DoubleDDsNuggs

oh. I've also glued the space blanket to cardboard which worked well too.
 

MHBGuy

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Day 78 for these Grape Oxen and they are looking good.

Thanks for the thoughts on the something better than an old shower curtain, DDNuggs. It's actually gone as I suspect it might have contributed to the demise of one of my plants.

Can't be sure, just my best guess, but glad the Oxen escaped unscathed.

They are flowering nicely and starting to sugar up.
 

MHBGuy

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Lot of trichomes on this girl at 24 days
 

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Day 86 overall and day 32 of flowering for the Grapes Ox



Flowering time is supposed to be 60-65 days according to to Rare Dankness. Expected a bit more stretch. They weren't kidding when they said small.

Smell is very funky and rich almost like strong coffee brewing

Pollenated the smallest of the three with the male I saved and seeds sites are swelling already.

 
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DoubleDDsNuggs

so I've read a little about pollination and how to keep the plants breeding and the plants your keeping seed free. how are you doing it?
 

MHBGuy

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My method is basically me playing the role of pollinator with a q-tip or similar.

Once males are identified I separate them and just let them do their thing under a 13w CFL. Had 4 males to pick from and the environment stress tested them a bit.

This time I used a small strip of cotton about and inch long that I cut off of a small lint free pad, but a q-tip works just fine. I shaped the strip into a loop about the size of a belt for a bumble bee, clamped it into some forceps and used it to help collect pollen front the male flowers. I hold a small manila envelope under the bract and tap/rub the flowers with the cotton swab and the pollen dumps right in.

Then turn off all the fans in the grow room so as not to distribute further than intended. Select the branches or clusters you want to seed, dust your swab in the pollen filled envelope and gently run it over the flowers you want to seed.

With the longer forceps it was easy to imagine my little cotton loop was a bumble bee's underbelly brushing all over the flowers.

I only pollenated a few of the lower branches on one of the three Grape Ox, but would expect I made a couple hundred seeds.
 
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DoubleDDsNuggs

does pollen from the limbs that got pollinated make it over to ones that you don't want pollinated?
 

MHBGuy

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Not in my experience. I suspect the pistils are as sticky as everything else, so anything that touches in the flower area stays pretty close. It's possible a grain or two of pollen could drift off during the process as you are taking your pollinator in and out of the envelope and moving it around, but it is a pretty safe and controlled way to do it.
 

MHBGuy

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Buds closing on 2" wide with maybe 5 weeks of flower to go.

Some pollenated calyxes second shot.
 

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Yesterday was day 40 of flowering. Rare Dankness says 60-65 days, so these are at a minimum of 20 away but I am guessing they may run a bit longer, but almost certainly harvest before Labor Day!. Been checking trichomes a little bit just for the hell of it, but don't see any color so far and would be surprised if I did.
 

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DeoXy

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Nice little squat grape ox plants MHB.. been wanting to try some RD genetics.. looking good so far.. I like the simple approach you took with this grow.. good luck with the contest!.. will b watching:good:
 
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MHBGuy

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Thanks, DeoXy. Appreciate it.

They would be great plants for outdoor grows in backyards with 6ft privacy fences. Imagine they wouldn't top out much over 5 ft and flower period would perfect for an early to mid October finish. Bet they would turn all kinds of purple outside too.
 

DeoXy

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I bet.. sounds like a good fit.. I wish I could do an outdoor garden in my part of the midwest.. sucks living in the burbs w/ tight house spacing that's for sure lol.. maybe someday :ying:

Maybe I missed it but did you top any of the plants? or did you just lst or al natural? how did they respond? also have you ran any other genetics from RD b4? if so which ones and what was your opinion on them if I may ask.
 

MHBGuy

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Yeah I'm in the burbs too, but in CO so not quite same situation, but could still get weird.

I didn't top, but I did do a little LST. Tied the top over to the side of plant, so they ended up with two right angles in the main stem. Also pulled out some of the bigger side branches away from the plant to open it up just a little bit. They grew so tight naturally it was kind of crazy.

I was also running a RD 4 Corners Kush that came as a bag seed, so could have been the real deal or an accidental cross, but it was the star of my garden. Did something or a series of small things that killed it in 3rd week of flower. Took some cuts so hoping to get to try it again.

 

Bueno Time

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Nice plants MHB, I had posted my OXs up on RIU and you commented on them, I had seem this grow thread here on ICMAG already just didnt put 2 n 2 together until just now.

Looking forward to see yours Grape OXs finish up and see some finished bud shots. Im at day 7 12/12 today so I have quite a ways to go yet ~9 weeks.
 

MHBGuy

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Hey Bueno. I just spent 20 minutes barely skimming your albums. Holy crap, you have been busy. And a monster on documentation. Love the consistent photos and POVs.

And thank you, I appreciate you taking a look.

Since I am showing family photos here's a few pics of the other plant in the same garden. Seed from at least 99, prosily a few years earlier. It was in a little airtight container that became laughingly referred to as the emergency stash. A bag seed from some pretty good green hard-pressed south-of-the-border weed from the last millennium.

Only one seed in the bud and got lucky with a female.:dance013:

9 more weeks is in the shallow part of the ballpark on this girl.

(haha, as I was proof-reading I realized I created a new word: prosily, def. half-way between probably and possibly)
 

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So had some on and off gnat problems that it feels like I finally am gaining the upper hand against, but no sooner did that simmer down than these guys showed up



Western flower thrip larvae is the identification courtesy of the gang over at Colorado Growers Thread. Treatment spinosad, bought some Captain Jack's Deadbug Brew to round them up.
 
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