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[Waira]

My bats must be migrators, because they disappeared over winter and are now back.
Just the other evening, at dusk, not far from the garden, I saw many of them flying around, presumably eating the flying bugs.
They are definitely insect eaters, not fruit bats.
I don't know exactly which species though, because there are many types of insect eating bats around here, apparently.

Hi Maria
Wow, those are hefty bug eaters! ...pics don't show their size well, I'm guessing about 18" in wingspan?

The best way to deal with the long cycles and stretch is to start them after midsummer.
Remember my 2023-24 grow with that Super Silver Sour Nevil Haze?
Started them mid October that year!!

Now that I know most of these NLDs flower here around mid to late August,
and they need about 4-6 weeks to reach maturity to show sex,
I figure I can start them between midsummer and July some time,
and they'll get about 4-8 weeks veg, then hit flower.
Give me 1.0 - 1.5 m tall plants, give or take.
Anyway, that's the theory, let's see what actually happens this year.

Last year, because most were re-veg, they had literally months of veg before flower. Crazy me.

Yeah, it's a tough call on timing and such given what you were dealing with last year, and new seeds always have that x-factor pheno' thing... Witness that lil' speed queen!
Best you can do is try to time bloom for the lowest light hours. Nutrition, stressors, etc. will have their share of sway but you know these genetics well enough to make this a solid plan

As for those MadMad crosses, wow!
Mine aren't directly from him, but from another grower who had a range of his and Tom Hill, and Todd McCormick (?) haze, etc.
He did, among other things, a MadMac original haze x Tom Hill's Positronics Thai-leaning haze.
That's what I just acquired and will be dropping very soon.
Though Mac has some crazy crosses available, so many to choose from.
I'd love to try his .. everything really, haha! .. but he did some crosses with Sannies' Jack, Killing Fields, and Shackzilla.
Plus those crosses to Dutch Passion sativa dominant autos
Put them on the shopping list, along with almost anything from Ace and Prempavee over there in Thailand.

Meanwhile, I'll still be running some more of OJD's Connoisseur Genetics hazes,
like the Thai Madness which is Swiss Thai Nevil clone pheno 2 x (Nev haze pheno 21 x Mullumbimby Madness clone reversed).
Neville's Haze, Mullumbimby Madness and Thai are doing it for me these days.

Mac really is a madman, he made an insane amount of cross work! What's on his site is but a chapter's worth of the book he cranked out...
I'm stoked you found a hook-up for some

Meanwhile, I'll still be running some more of OJD's Connoisseur Genetics hazes,
like the Thai Madness which is Swiss Thai Nevil clone pheno 2 x (Nev haze pheno 21 x Mullumbimby Madness clone reversed).
Neville's Haze, Mullumbimby Madness and Thai are doing it for me these days.

Hmmm, he is a recent member at the other place I'm at, but isn't active much ...appears to be holding some gold though!

Despite the heat and lack of rain, she looks very happy.
Still quite pale, but hasn't lost any more color,
and from her growing tops she is bringing in a darker shade of green.

I checked my on the fly mulch from last week.
Lifting it up, I do see that the soil surface still has a touch of moisture.
Otherwise normally the top layer would be quite dry at this point.

Ooooofff, hot season! Mulch was smart, I use rice hulls these days and it helps a lot...
My eye says she's asking for more N, if you can slip some in...
...leaf finger count drop is a good sign too!

 

[Waira]

Caught 5 of these bad boys !! 75-95-110-120-130 lbs each

-- oh man, bet that made you sore fighting and reeling that poundage in! Nicely done matey, Yellowfins are so beautiful and amazing high speed cruisers... Glad that Mako's or other nasties didn't savage your catch!
Good on the starts, I dig the selections... Who's DP are those?

The extremely fast version pheno of the Cream Cheeze F1Fv. This one apparently had a double dose of the Rudi in it lol. She's getting close to the end and it smells amazing first fresh outdoor harvest for the 25 season!

Holy crap, no lie- ... more proof that this Thing isn't ever going fit into the ol' Punnet's Square! I feel there's a real hair-trigger built into the "system", easily missed/mis-evaluated...
I couldn't help myself, I dropped a MoB/OGK x C99a (F1) so we'll see how she behaves. The previous one seemed to auto' but beause of the timing going OD's I can't be sure...

Update pics are looking very promising Jean, now, how to tame the beasts is what's got me curious...

....PSM is a beauty, but Grey's structure, node stacking, early flowers, all look exceptional too!

Helter Skelter is looking ready to transition. I have run this cultivar outdoors the last 3 years now and it's always seems to flower early thanks to the ruderallis in its lineage.

New stuff shaping up like champs... HS is one of your most intriguing crosses, I see no Guyana stuff anywhere else in fact... odd!

But this forced my hand...see just off the right of my thumb.... caterpillar........on the first bud I checked....

I'd been seeing brown dying leaf for a while and suspected the caterpillar that gets inside the bud and kills it from the inside out...so I probably have a few.


It is the one outdoor problem that still gives me grief.......most effective caterpillar killers need to be systematic....and I gag at sticking a systemic killer into something I'm gonna consume.

Bloody hell-- literally,... searing heat and vermins, double drag Aunty -
...yeah some of the 'pillars are seemingly made for cannabis, they way they can tolerate and apparently dodge the resins and such! ...budworm is my local fucker, worms their way deep into the buds, can't even dose them with Bt at that point...
Keep fighting the good fight, luv, and stay safe n' cool best ya can...

Well we've seen the big Indies vying for attention in the gh. My 3rd entry will come from the garden. My breeding mantra, FHR, fast hardy resistant. And of course must have good osteo meds.
Portal Sativa is right on here. My first adventure in breeding.
Just harvested this from the window @D70, from seed.

No rush on the call my man! ....PS's speed is gold IMO, a lot of auto's/breeding seems to be drifting away from this and that isn't all "gold" at all IMO...

 

[Mossy]

@Waira ..past your bedtime...?....you need the snuggle puppy...?....

 

[Mara Cachafa]

The LemonZ girls have been outside for 52 days. I was reading about different things that can trigger flowering besides shorter days, and one of them is drought. Maybe that's how the Colombian Gold was triggered, because where it came from in the dry western foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta the only seasons were rain and no rain, and the variation in day length is only a half hour. Anyway, I decided to stop pampering the girlz feeding them every 8 hours, and let them get good and thirsty between waterings. Here they are in the morning light, a bit thirsty, at 18 hours since the last fertigation. I just filled the 20-gallon reservoir at lower right, it's normally covered.
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[Shiva's Mistress]

Hi Maria
Wow, those are hefty bug eaters! ...pics don't show their size well, I'm guessing about 18" in wingspan?

Yeah, they're about 18" wingspan.
I see this when they whizz past my head about 3' away,
when I disturb them in their bat cave.
Hanging upside down, they're about 12" tall/long.

Yeah, it's a tough call on timing and such given what you were dealing with last year, and new seeds always have that x-factor pheno' thing... Witness that lil' speed queen!
Best you can do is try to time bloom for the lowest light hours. Nutrition, stressors, etc. will have their share of sway but you know these genetics well enough to make this a solid plan

I've got an idea about these genetics now, for sure.
But, not necessarily the absolute lowest hours,
because the weather after Dec is pretty crappy, still.
My ideal is flowering -- start to finish -- Sept-Oct-Nov-Dec,
as most of these need a full 16 weeks.

Mac really is a madman, he made an insane amount of cross work! What's on his site is but a chapter's worth of the book he cranked out...
I'm stoked you found a hook-up for some

Must have been a lot of work timing all the males to females.
Oh, I guess, unless he just saves pollen. (Never seems to work well for me!)
The MadMac OHaze x Tom Hill Positronics Haze this season.
Maybe something else next season, like a well worked modern sativa dominant strain x pure haze or landrace sativa.

Hmmm, he is a recent member at the other place I'm at, but isn't active much ...appears to be holding some gold though!

Yes, he has gold, for sure.
A lot of them are from Nevil Schoenmaker's last projects,
selected Nev's Haze crossed with Mullumbimby (which is prob originally Thai), some Thais, some Africans.
Then OJD crosses these back into some modern hybrid gold,
like Original Diesel, Super Silver Sour Diesel Haze, Super Silver Haze, you get the idea.

Ooooofff, hot season! Mulch was smart, I use rice hulls these days and it helps a lot...
My eye says she's asking for more N, if you can slip some in...
...leaf finger count drop is a good sign too!

For sure.
I gave her a big top up -- like about 15 liters in a 60 liter pot -- of all sorts of organic goodies a week ago.
It's already in there, just will take a week or two until she shows.
She's already looking a bit better than a week ago.

Those leaflets .... I highly suspect she is going to now shoot out these super long spears,
with just 3 leaflets and finally single leaflets, like three or four feet long.
And build up her flowers on those towers.
I've seen another grower who had a cousin of my ThaiFrican (grandfather on both sides),
and they were absolute spears!!

 

[Shiva's Mistress]

The LemonZ girls have been outside for 52 days. I was reading about different things that can trigger flowering besides shorter days, and one of them is drought. Maybe that's how the Colombian Gold was triggered, because where it came from in the dry western foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta the only seasons were rain and no rain, and the variation in day length is only a half hour. Anyway, I decided to stop pampering the girlz feeding them every 8 hours, and let them get good and thirsty between waterings. Here they are in the morning light, a bit thirsty, at 18 hours since the last fertigation. I just filled the 20-gallon reservoir at lower right, it's normally covered.
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Drought, or, at least, lower water levels, will help.
As will smaller pots, restricting the roots.

It's a tough call, though.
Balancing between just enough and hurting them from lack of water.
A little drooping is okay.
But too dry, and those leaves will drop right off, not what you want.

Good idea, to cut the 'pampering', and let them have nice wet and dry cycles.

You got this!

PS: by the way, they look fantastic. You're going to have to buy some big jars this coming fall.... ;-)