@MIMedGrower, bravo. You and this breeder are magic to watch. Absolute fucking magic.
But magic isn't the right word at all, is it? What your thread is showing is the blossoming (pun very much intended) of a long, slow, careful process. Daily, deliberate, and demanding work. Over time, the accumulation of close and repeated observation coalesces into a level of precision rarely achieved. And you're disciplined. And dedicated.
And you found a BREEDER as devoted as you are. It's just so fucking beautiful.
I've never seen such complete and masterful control of stem and leaf structure to bud ratio. i mean i've just never seen it done so well. it's simply extraordinary.
and your breeder... oh man...this folks is a whole new level. this breeder has clearly been working for a very long time to achieve a genome that is so MASTERFULLY AND CAREFULLY SELECTED OVER SO LONG A TIME SPAN. and SO STABLE i mean these are SEEDS. you get more consistent results than people working with rock star mothers. i'm floored. simply floored.
your thread couldn't have come at a better time. it's bringing EVERYTHING back to me at the exact moment that i'm returning to growing beautiful indoor weed--after decades of working in other aspects of weed world. you say it in one of your posts--these methods were worked out and perfected by a few pioneers. we just need to follow the instructions. plus, you've been given such stable strains that you've been able to really dial in to exactly what they need. you can see that when you use somebody else's genome.
in about a week or so, I will begin germination. my first ever indoor grow from seed--except for a disastrous forray this summer. I panicked that a pack of seeds of a BX of the beloved strain I started out with in New York in 1990 (HP 13) was getting too old, and i hastily and clumsily decided to grow them out. Botched it. Badly. didn't have the right set up at all. didn't have the commitment to care for them. they sat in three gallon pots for months before i flipped them. six of them hermied, another 2 were male, and three were female--i accidentally killed one of the females, and the other two females got infested with some kind of insect larvae because i wasn't adhering to clean room protocols, so i put them down. high crimes and misdemeanors (just noticed the pun!). it was sad.
thank you for bringing all that information flooding back to me. thank you for reminding me not to second guess what works. and you've prepared me for one of the most important things: to let myself be scared by how completely dry i need to let the soil get.
i hope you'll allow me to be in some conversation with you over certain aspects i never thought of--like controlling veg phase by using T5s. genius.
i've collected some promising genetics. we'll see what i've got.
