[mayan]

Alas! This place is all about sharing both the good and the bad and lessons learnt. Done in by hubris, I thought I could grow the Panama Haze from seed in a 5 x 7' room with three other plants. Mebbe I could but I went away for about six days to find that the Pan Haze totally OVERGREW its place and was basically untenable - SO, i drew a sharp intake of breath and chopped her. It was hard - she was at about 33 days of flowering and was showing no signs of slowing down her voracious stretch. I did take three clones. She was about a week into showing wheat stalk haze flowers so I have NO idea as to whether the clones will take or not. I coulda taken her further but it would have served as disadvantage to the plants she was sharing the space with and I would have been fighting, trussing, tucking, tieing, bending for the next four months and life is too short...so, adieu, Pan Haze - I wish you could have made it to 2016 but sometimes we have to have addition by subtraction. Chop! Chop! She is in my sights now, however, and one way or the other we are gonna meet again, I do not admit defeat...in the meantime, I learn my lesson (again)...grow the deep sats from clone unless one wants to try to control a tiger by the tail.

At any rate...Happy New Year!!! May 100,000 Aces bloom in 2016!!!!!

It sucks you had to take down such a beast mayan - I'm glad it's not just me who puts growing errors down to hubris, just when I think I am some sort of growing don, I make a series of horrible errors and lose everything
The clones should take, there's a thing called "monstercropping" which is taking from a flowering plant - I'm not sure what the benefits( if any) are, but it seems to work, the leaves may be an odd shape for a while. growweedeasy has a good section on it.
You mention the sativa from cutting thing - this might be my problem, I tend to go from seed with an epic veg (I seem to go about 14 weeks from germination) with many, many training and then hope for the best - on the plus side, I get lovely big plants, on the negative side, control is an issue
More Ace weed all round in 2016.

[dubi]

Dont worry mayan

These things happen ... as you said Panama Haze stretching is voracious hehehehe

I'm sure the clones will root correctly (this kind of genetics are super easy to clone and reveg, even when the clones are taken in flowering), and you will have the chance to make a successful Panama Haze grow

Thanks for all your good wishes friend. Wish you and yours also have a great 2016!

[mayan]

Hey, dubi...Thanks!! The Pan Haze clones are looking great -so far. And Panama Haze's temporary stumble has given Haze x Kali China her opportunity to break into the big time. She's a clone and was waiting in the wings, biding her time, for one of the flowering plants to finish or falter...so, she went in yesterday. She's starting out about 5 inches - let's see where that leaves us in a few weeks of flower.

In the meantime, I also put up two New Years seeds...Malawi x Kali China (sounds amazing) and Purple Haze x Malawi - both females. The Purple Haze/Mal will be cloned before 12/12, however...so they may both be long-term projects. With a Golden Tiger already in 12/12 for about 20 days I am looking forward with excitement to the next five or six months. Big time!

[mayan]

Hey all...
Here's a quick pic of Haze x Kali China...grown from a clone (the top of the mom's meristem) she's a vociferous stretcher. Straight up...14th Floor...She was put under 12/12 on 1/1/16...beginning to form some nice bud sites. To be continued...

[jay sus]

this should be interesting. got few seeds in a fridge, waiting.

[mayan]

Hey all...been a while. A brief report from the front-lines. Been a while but it's a battle in the flower room...a battle worth waging to be sure. Unforuntately, I am not in a position to post pictures but here's the story - I'm trying to grow four plants in my humble 5' x7' slice o' paradise, including a Golden Tiger and a Haze x Kali China (or vice verse, don't remember). The Golden Tiger is about 7x12, so it's already a struggle (without much head room) - She's at 85 days, grew too close to the articifial sun (1K HPS) but she's magnificent. It took a LONG stretch (pun intended) but she's finally packing it on. She's gone from having me scratch my head about why I was growing her -maybe at day 60- to being very impressed with her flowering. I have to say that if she comes in for a gentle landing in three or four weeks, there's gonna be a shitload - and I mean a SHITLOAD of GT. Wild!!

The GT would would be entirely manageable but for the Haze x KC (taken from clone - not more than 3-5" when stuck under 12/12 just never stopped growing upward, so I had to goose-neck her while flowering. She's very VERY formidable in stature and production. Since the clone was the meristem, I guess, she looks like a Gigantic cola. Up - thankfully not so much out. Unfortunately, she's also way too close to the 1K light but it is what it is. Waddaya gonna do? Grit teeth and push on! Perhaps because of stress or perhaps because of genetics, she's also beginning to push out nanners. There's so much beef on the hoof that it's hard to spot 'em all. It's a female seed and I have no idea as to whether the nanners are fertile. The thing is, she's at about 65 days of 12/12 so there's more than a month left. OTOH, she's too big to fail - taller than me- and a veritable cascade of bud. I just sampled a few buds taken several days ago and she's already packing a wallop. If she does come down prematurely, she will still be savored for an amazing experience.

I've had my own uncharacteristic health issues (cellulitis in leg) so I've been ordered to stay off my leg. These two plants are literally too big to move without fear of damage - to me or them - until harvest. I figure the GT is beginning to reach the end of her string in the next 20-30 days and I'd like to let Haze x KC run a bit more, if possible. I have a Caribe coming down tomorrow (so she'll be out of pollination danger) and the fourth plant (Hawaiian Spice from Chimera) is probably getting harvested in the next two weeks.

Over and out!

[gorilla ganja]

mayan, sorry to hear about your leg.
When you can hobble in there, can we get a pic of the
Haze x KC. sounds like a beast.
Best of luck with your overgrown problems, hopefully you can tame them till finish.

Peace GG

Ordered some Haze x KaliChina.Should be interesting to grow. If she's gone be a tree.....well she can go under birch and grow with trees
But...I was on my way to search Punto Rojo, when you interrupted with all this interesting stuff

[mayan]

scai....gotta love diversions and tangents! Kurt Vonnegut (American author) once said that bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God. This plant is a freaking monster both in terms of size and production. Still going back and forth about nanner situation but I have trimmed a couple of lower sites already. Don't know how much longer I can keep her going unfortunately. Would ABSOLUTELY try her again.

Gorilla Ganja -> I hear you! I enjoy a stroll on the wild side with deep Sats...kinda fun to face their many challenges and adventures. And oh so worthwhile if you survive.