Frankster's perpetual grow. (there will be more post).

[Frankster]

Well here's the small ones, just started budding. around day 38 or so, so almost exactly half way.

Doing some major training today, bent the main cola's down again, and this time weighted them to keep the down, and trying to expose the under parts.

 

[Frankster]

Bucket buds. Had some on the top that seemed to ripen before the rest, so I took some of the tips, will let the under parts mature a few more days.

 

[Frankster]

Lot's of training. The flowering plants auto's have a part time gig as contortionist, haven't busted any major stems so far, and I've opened up the bottom immensely, on all the plants. Should be interesting how they turn out, certain to be more bushy this time.

Here's the little girls today, day 39 for the bigger ones. day 15 and below for the non flowering. The big whorled phyllotaxy white widow is going into the flowering room, where she belongs shortly, hopefully, I can hit here with some of the GG#4 pollens, and see what she put's out, or perhaps some of the frankenstien, both are coming in right about now.

 

[Frankster]

Long alas, can't believe my eyes.
GG#4 photoperiod feminized pollens.

 

[Frankster]

Plant training. Filled with different weights of change and hung from plants to keep them in place. Usually after I bend a tip over, it just try's to grow right straight back up again.

 

[Frankster]

Lot's of training going on right now, day 40 for the plants with flowers. The next biggest ones are approaching 3 weeks, some of them, I think.
Most are around 2 weeks growth.

 

[MHippie]

Plant training. Filled with different weights of change and hung from plants to keep them in place. Usually after I bend a tip over, it just try's to grow right straight back up again.

You know the smaller type tomato cages? They fit the diameter of 5 gallon grow bags perfectly. Cut the top ring off of one and put it in your bag.
Wrap a piece of plant wire around the handle and then around and around and around again until its tight to the soil. Tie it off. Do the same for the other side. The use the ring as a tie down. They wont come back up. And you wont need to roll change.

If you blow that pic up and follow the rim of the bag you'll see the tomato cage ring :) 7 main colas, 10 large bud sites, all at the same height. Adjustments are really easy this way too.

 

[Frankster]

Here's some new closeup's of the Frankenstein Auto, new batch, and looks improved. At least IMO, going to try and smoke some, but noticed how hard this nug was.

 

[MHippie]

Here's some new closeup's of the Frankenstein Auto, new batch, and looks improved. At least IMO, going to try and smoke some, but noticed how hard this nug was.

It looks really good. You have photos too right?

 

[Frankster]

Yes, I've been taking the photo's and back-crossing them with the frankenstein to get this much bigger plant, when I plant seedlings, I'm still getting a few photoperiods, I've also got a bunch of photo's I'm crossing over right now, because they seem to be the best source of genetics IMO. Pretty much anything that I can get my hands on that's good, is a great candidate. Seems like the sativas have a much more difficult time, and produce lower quality products.

I did some Girl Scout Cookies, but it went all herm on me in 2 days, so I cut it, and put it in quarantine. I don't think it's herm, but probably just "stressed" and might have reacted with some of the STS I was using on her neighbor, anyhow, sativas are doing weird things, so I think I'll stick with mostly indica's, and maybe just touch a branch or two for some testers with some of the more "exotic" strains.

Here are the two plants out of six that didn't "spontaneously" flower last time. But I believe them to both be females, I had no males this time around, because I feminized this pollen. I'll verify if there females in the coming days. Also, even my photo closet, I keep them segregated, and the late stage to the dark corner, it's not total light in that closet, it's always cracked a bit, but I don't get any hermaphrodite, until now. I want all these plants I'm creating to have some light tolerance, because nothing I hate more than hermaphrodites. Induced, or not, it's a sign of inferior, weak, or immature genetics, IMO.

 

[Frankster]

Here's the offender I cut, it's a shame. Supposed to be some bomb shit, but it's not suitable, too much sativa. The pollens are all girls, so I'll probably use some of them to make feminized seed, but on a few branches only as testers. No potential beyond that. Might have been fine under strict photo-period regime, but that's not what I'm after.

 

[Frankster]

the more I look at that up close on pics, it looks straight up male, hmm. Anyone else got an opinion?

 

[Frankster]

As for the frankensteins up there, that's what I feminize, then back cross that onto one of it's sisters that "self flowers" that way I always get a few photoperiods, I don't want to dilute the genes out entirely, I want them there, just in low numbers. Going the other way is st00p1d because you dilute the gene pool with too much ruderalis, if i keep backcrossing the photo's, and seed them, they will give back better seeds every generation.

See where I'm going with this? I think the problem most breeders make is that there trying to make a perfect ruderalis, when it doesn't exist. If you pop a dozen seeds everytime, you can cherry pick the self flowering ones, and if there happening at predicable ratio's that's not a problem for most outside gowers, you simply get a few plants that will go to the end of the season, and they have the "entire" photoperiod genes.

If someone wants 99.9% "all autoflowers" it's only one step away anyhow, but not something that I would want to grow, myself, I don't think. I've been down that road. These plants perform at a higher level.

 

[Frankster]

alright, finally got my UV lights up and running, now I'm going to make some resin.


Got some backup units, and some high output backup power supplies also. Damn things have been a terrible mess getting the power requirements met, especially with this small footprint I want. I want them movable, and hang anywhere.

 

[Moshmen]

Plant training. Filled with different weights of change and hung from plants to keep them in place. Usually after I bend a tip over, it just try's to grow right straight back up again.

I use pipe cleaners and nuts and washers the pipe cleaner allows me to move them along the stem easily

 

[Frankster]

Here we go, pics from today. I put the lights on these plants around 10-15 min, twice about an hour apart, so enough for today. I'm hitting the ones in the flowering room harder though.

These are looking good, cheers to mimed for some of his techniques, I've been using for training them.

 

[Frankster]

alright more starts.

 

[Frankster]

Lot's and lot's of training and bending today. Lot's of reshuffling, repositioning.

took out the boxes and put everything on the ground, hopefully that will address the stress problem, as they might have been reaching the upper limits to the light. Will know tomorrow how to proceed.

 

[Frankster]

in the forground, and the last plant in the upper left, both GDP been giving me the hardest time. I think they've been water intolerant, as the genetics came from So. Cali, so maybe they've been growing in a drier climate, and I've been keeping the roots too wet. They are kinda a lanky strain, but I think it's been a gradual problem. Hopefully I can get it back on track and learn from it, I can do some repeats if necessary, as I really want this strain in the collection.

All the rest seems to be doing fine, just the Grand daddy purple giving me problems. I've got a bunch of other stuff finishing up in the flowering room, so some of that needs to be gone over in the coming days, and reorganized, cleaned up. I've also got that new light build I need to put together. So much to do.

 

[Frankster]

Cleaned out the back room today, because it's so tight in there, it doesn't get done as often, I pull them out, clean and then put them back in.

Frankenstein is finishing up, I trimmed this one earlier and letting some of the rest harden before it's cut. There's a few other ripe ones, but this is the biggest. 2 Liter bottle for reference.