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Repuk's First Outdoor Run: ACE's Honduras, Ethiopian and Lebanese
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gents!Completed the 50Gal/200L per day Auto-Top RO System Post with pictures.
Lovely slightly rainy day today... the one and only in all Summer.
Ethiopian stout repotted to 190L/50Gal, she's in early flowering mode, stretching and throwing hairs like mad, her overall color turned lime green, was shouting at me craving for food.
Just 110L of additional soil + bat guano mixed in the smartpot bottom and perimeter.
Ouf... good workout repotting these trees alone!
. Rootball was super healthy.
Ethiopian Tall is a male, I'm 70% sure.
Honduras stout... not mature yet, hoping it's a female as her male brother showed his sex already.
Just 110L of additional soil + bat guano mixed in the smartpot bottom and perimeter.
Ouf... good workout repotting these trees alone!
. Rootball was super healthy.Ethiopian Tall is a male, I'm 70% sure.
Honduras stout... not mature yet, hoping it's a female as her male brother showed his sex already.
Couldn't stand the grasshoppers anymore, so hired a "thug" to deal with 'em at least in the garden where the Zamaldelica and baby Panama Haze are:
2 months old baby rooster (Andaluza/Utrerana Perdiz breed)..., apart from wasps and Corizus hyoscyami (those freaking bugs similar to ladybugs) which doesn't like to eat, he's a bug eating machine, even ants... with a special fixation for grasshoppers, guess for him should be like having a lobster
I think next year (I plan to breed Andalusian and Chilean breed hens/roosters) I'll be routinely bringing the chickens to the gardens in summer.
Gonna spray neem/potash too... I noticed the honduras male has potassic soap residue on his remaining leaves, which bugs avoid, so the goal: try leaving all foliage with potassic soap and neem residues, so that larvae and ninfas don't like to chew on them and go elsewhere.
to deal with 'em at least in the garden where the Zamaldelica and baby Panama Haze are:2 months old baby rooster (Andaluza/Utrerana Perdiz breed)..., apart from wasps and Corizus hyoscyami (those freaking bugs similar to ladybugs) which doesn't like to eat, he's a bug eating machine, even ants... with a special fixation for grasshoppers, guess for him should be like having a lobster
I think next year (I plan to breed Andalusian and Chilean breed hens/roosters) I'll be routinely bringing the chickens to the gardens in summer.
Gonna spray neem/potash too... I noticed the honduras male has potassic soap residue on his remaining leaves, which bugs avoid, so the goal: try leaving all foliage with potassic soap and neem residues, so that larvae and ninfas don't like to chew on them and go elsewhere.
Sexing Update
Sexing Update
Ethiopian Tall is a male:
Ethiopian Stout a Female short of 4m tall, (was already repotted):
Honduras Stout (though it's 4m tall already) I have split feelings about a potential girl (please!), or a later flowering pheno which is not mature yet:
Lebanese
Really tiny, delicate flowers, sugar leaves reminds me of Greek Basil:
Horizontal Cola
Close Up
Her aroma is getting deeper. Main overtone is mango, sometimes I smell like a faint rotten meat, but scent gets deeper, more ripe fruit like.
Sexing Update
Ethiopian Tall is a male:
Ethiopian Stout a Female short of 4m tall, (was already repotted):
Honduras Stout (though it's 4m tall already) I have split feelings about a potential girl (please!), or a later flowering pheno which is not mature yet:
Lebanese
Really tiny, delicate flowers, sugar leaves reminds me of Greek Basil:
Horizontal Cola
Close Up
Her aroma is getting deeper. Main overtone is mango, sometimes I smell like a faint rotten meat, but scent gets deeper, more ripe fruit like.
gr8fulguitr
Active member
That is a beautiful picture of a young lady. You must be very happy.
I hope you have a wonderful day.
gr8fulguitr! 
Just pruned the Ethiopian male, leaving a handful lower branches. Boy, that was a woody stem! While I cut the Honduras relatively easy with my knife, had to sweat a good deal to do the same with the Ethiopian!
Big indoor tent will be empty by this weekend (chopping Panama and Malawi), thinking on sending there the Ethiopian and Honduras males to mature and collect some pollen.
How much does it take for male flowers to mature and release pollen? I want to hit a couple lower Lebanese branches, but in a controlled manner...
Sure also there are other grows around, and don't want to spoil nobody harvest...
Burro Johnson
Member
@ repuk
it takes a very small amount of pollen to make quite a large amount of seeds
im sure if you watch your plants very carefully when your male flowers turn from balls to umbrellas you will catch them in time from pollinating too much
a gentle shake of one of these opened umbrellas into a small container will be all you have to do to collect pollen and even store it for later use in the freezer. In which it will stay good for up to 4 years
happy seedmaking friend hope you have a great day
it takes a very small amount of pollen to make quite a large amount of seeds
im sure if you watch your plants very carefully when your male flowers turn from balls to umbrellas you will catch them in time from pollinating too much
a gentle shake of one of these opened umbrellas into a small container will be all you have to do to collect pollen and even store it for later use in the freezer. In which it will stay good for up to 4 years
happy seedmaking friend hope you have a great day
Lebanese Update
Lebanese Update
I've noticed a notable decay on her fan leaves today, more yellowish, is this expected as she enters the late flowering stage and it is just how she flowers, or should I feed?
She should be finishing by end of Sept, 4 weeks to go theoretically?
Top:
Skirt:
Bear in mind this was taken under midday really hard light, will try to get pics under shadow or not direct light. But this was apparent to me even under the twilight yesterday.
Lebanese Update
I've noticed a notable decay on her fan leaves today, more yellowish, is this expected as she enters the late flowering stage and it is just how she flowers, or should I feed?
She should be finishing by end of Sept, 4 weeks to go theoretically?
Top:
Skirt:
Bear in mind this was taken under midday really hard light, will try to get pics under shadow or not direct light. But this was apparent to me even under the twilight yesterday.
Panama Haze, booting
Panama Haze, booting
She's "booting", and well stablished:
7 Days Ago:
Today:
About 45cm/18", the tie is at its original place. Curled leaf finger on the right due to an spider that decided building a home there... welcomed!.
White speckles on lower leaves: diatomaceous earth remnants.
Panama Haze, booting
She's "booting", and well stablished:
7 Days Ago:
Today:
About 45cm/18", the tie is at its original place. Curled leaf finger on the right due to an spider that decided building a home there... welcomed!.
White speckles on lower leaves: diatomaceous earth remnants.
TychoMonolyth
Boreal Curing
Look at the stretch! Awesome.
Yesss! She duplicated size in latest 24h.
Two rhyzotonic waterings in between, wet/dry cycles... watering around... I know her root system is well established, she's "booting" into a growth explosion.
I wonder should I stake her or leave a little on her own so that builds up some wind resistance? Or this is like tomatoes,vines, etc the less effort the plant dedicates to harden stalks to support fruits, the more it focuses into production?
Two rhyzotonic waterings in between, wet/dry cycles... watering around... I know her root system is well established, she's "booting" into a growth explosion.
I wonder should I stake her or leave a little on her own so that builds up some wind resistance? Or this is like tomatoes,vines, etc the less effort the plant dedicates to harden stalks to support fruits, the more it focuses into production?
TychoMonolyth
Boreal Curing
I can't help but run my hand in them. Once or twice. No shaking. More like a sexy caress like when you give your woman a rub when you walk by. Keep 'em happy dude. Lol
Honduras Repotted! Phew, didn't hit a good sized Scolopendromorpha that inhabited the pot by milimeters (while taking out the smart pot like a sock)!
Don't like their bite at all, experienced once as a kid (won't tell ya where) was enough.
But of course I respected it, it's an ally...
Bottom layer with bat guano mixed in, upper layers mixed with around 400 grams leonardite.
Top has been powdered a couple fistfuls diatomaceous earth. May be placebo but I'd say all of them greened up when I added it for the grashoppers!
Front Left: Lebanese; Right Ethiopian; Bottom Left: Honduras:
Don't like their bite at all, experienced once as a kid (won't tell ya where
) was enough.But of course I respected it, it's an ally...
Bottom layer with bat guano mixed in, upper layers mixed with around 400 grams leonardite.
Top has been powdered a couple fistfuls diatomaceous earth. May be placebo but I'd say all of them greened up when I added it for the grashoppers!
Front Left: Lebanese; Right Ethiopian; Bottom Left: Honduras:
KiefRichards
Active member
This is epic
