Trustfall said:

I wouldn’t either. Any breeder who has that many strains doesn’t give a shit.
Most ofthe etho strains I’ve grown best characteristics are it’s looks. Big pretty shiny buds that I never reach to smoke.
As beautiful as the manderine cookies are I just don’t want to smoke it. But it will do 3 lb.s a 4x4 tray so I keep it around because buyers only care about looks these days.

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sshz said:

Hey Dirtbag and anyone else interested........I did some research on Dragons Flame and contacted them, after going thru their website. They are looking for people to test some of their newest things, you can find info on the site. I sent Jeff a link to many of my grows, and I assume he's interested as I'm going to test something unreleased from them- 3 Times OG X Dragon Stash. They don't sell (or test") fem's, which means extra work for me- but I'm excited to get some of these beans. My plan is to grow them out, and save the females as mothers to use for clones to fill a room I have. I don't know how many they send, I'm assuming around 5. He had a running thread on RIU thru 2017, then stopped posting until recently. Some of their strains look really good, and if you contact them- Jeff can tell you what the heavy yielders are, or whatever detailed info you need. Prices seem very reasonable by todays standards. If they did fem's, I would have been all over these guys.

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Dirtbag said:

That's awesome, I'll contact him for sure. And I respect the fact that he doesnt do fems. I understand the allure of feminized seed, but I've always been more drawn to the natural and more consistently stable ways of breeding. I also really like that he takes his parent stock out so far. Dude really puts in the time generationally on these plants from what I've heard.

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sshz said:

Some comments tonight, at day 37 flowering...........

1. They have been slower growers so far but finally I'm seeing some bulk to them. Ethos claims they are "fast finishers", I'm hoping they continue to fill out late into flowering.
2. I have very little sense of smell, due to a chronic sinus infection going on over 3 years. It sucks believe me, but my point is these plants are cutting through the issue. As I've said, it's very, very sweet at this point. I'm not sure if this is a common component of Cookie strains, but my mouth waters when I'm in there. Actually, the house is probably a 6/10 on the smell scale and there's a long way to go.
3. Some variation height wise, probably caused by my topping and fimming a week before flowering. I think it was a mistake touching them, if you do this- just let them be to do their own thing.
4. I did a thorough search yesterday thru the room, looking for any male banana's and nothing was found. I'm thinking the strain is stable at this point. Mandarin Cookies is supposedly stable, which is one of the parents so that's a good sign.

I'm guessing it's not the yielder I was expecting,, but I've been surprised before.

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sshz said:

But he's based out of Oregon.

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sshz said:

So I found a bit of leaf damage on a plant in the middle right of the room so I'm up early to prepare for pulling some plants out of the room to get to her, and most likely I'll just clean her up and move her to another room for the last few weeks in isolation to finish her up. I'm thinking it's very early mite damage and didn't want to take any chances so I'll clean up the room some, water, re-arrange and do a thorough inspection. I'm figuring if it was summer time with much warmer conditions, the room would be far worse off. But with night cold and the room in the 50's-60' at night I think, it slowed mite activity to a crawl.
Lights go on at 11AM so I'll have about an hour or more of work to straighten everything out.....great start to my Sunday.

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