Live Stoner Chat The '25 Outdoor Auto-Photo Competition!

[WildBill]

It was a scientific study of alternate triggers for flowering in a dozen species of photoperiod plants, not specifically cannabis. Drought was one of several triggers in the study. I just hypothesized that it might answer my question about how cannabis grown in tropical zones is triggered where there is little variation in length of daylight.

Tropical zones do have their dry and wet seasons!

If I was going to do fairly long dry backs, I would make sure I took care of three things.

Some sort of surfactant....Yucca and the sort. I like SX70 I get from BAS. It's in liquid form. I walways use it when hand watering with a sprayer.

Make sure I up my microbial input. Dry downs are hard on roots and microbes.

Make Seed Sprout Tea (SST) for the growth hormones and root stimulant

Just guessing, MAYBE the SST could possibly negate the stressor you're trying to utilize. If their theory is true, the plant must produce the hormone that triggers flowering or a hormone that stimulates the flowering hormone to be produced.

 

[Mara Cachafa]

Tropical zones do have their dry and wet seasons!

Yes, the best Colombian Gold was from the lee Western side of the Sierra Nevadas where it's dry spiny forest habitat with 20" to 40"rainfall per year. The seasonal rain is supposedly caused by the annual variation in the trade winds from NE to SE. The hills are brown most of the year, but when it rains the next day the hills turn green. They veg during rainy season and flower during dry season.

 

[WildBill]

Yes, the best Colombian Gold was from the lee Western side of the Sierra Nevadas where it's dry spiny forest habitat with 20" to 40"rainfall per year. The seasonal rain is supposedly caused by the annual variation in the trade winds from NE to SE. The hills are brown most of the year, but when it rains the next day the hills turn green. They veg during rainy season and flower during dry season.

Hopefully they will start flowering very soon or you're gonna have big problems.


Taking another look at those girls, I'd seriously think about up potting. It's definitely going to be really lopsidedly with these girls hit the stretch !

 

[Mara Cachafa]

Hopefully they will start flowering very soon or you're gonna have big problems.


Taking another look at those girls, I'd seriously think about up potting. It's definitely going to be really lopsidedly with these girls hit the stretch

My first outdoor grow here and my biggest plants, so it's a learning experience. I didn't find 15 gallon pots, so they're stuck in 7 gallons of coco. Thanks for the expert advice.

 

[Waira]

The Blue Dog seeds came from Jeano @Waira

- I meant the Permanent Marker auto.... As usual, Cup winners/pop culture stuff get fast tracked into other formats, and Seed Junky is a damn hot breeder... So it comes down to who made the auto version and if they got a real deal cut or, like with so much of the Cookie family genetics, it's so off point after several steps of separation from the "original" that it's just a name anymore...
What's her stank like?

It was a scientific study of alternate triggers for flowering in a dozen species of photoperiod plants, not specifically cannabis. Drought was one of several triggers in the study. I just hypothesized that it might answer my question about how cannabis grown in tropical zones is triggered where there is little variation in length of daylight.

Ah, I see... I'm sure that's true for many annuals, maybe even cannabis... grasses especially come to mind! I know that dry-out's toward the end of blooming can help boost terp's and such (a stressor influence), and I try to do this myself best I can... Plus, at harvest a drier plant can dry out a bit faster and better with the reduced water content.
I guess the x-factor here is just how much influence some dry spells may exert on bloom triggering... I'd wager there's a study on that some
place
There are some very knowledgeable equatorial NLD grower/preservationists on the other forum I'm at, so I'll ask about this... they are something of an extreme case for sure. Most of these growers run such Sativa's at 10/14 give-or-take to help push blooming along.
The morphology of their buds and leaves are adaptations to their environment, and it seems a fair conclusion that their looooong life/bloom cycles are reflected in this as well. But the drought thing could be pretty variable, so much depends on the "local specifics" of where that landrace/heirloom has been grown (and adapted to) for so many generations....

e of the F1 auto crosses I put out this year went into flower like a true auto. I had one last year, Mac Stomper f2 x Twisted cookies. I picked up some Mac Stomper f2's off of strainly and they weren't even close to the original, so I scrapped that project. Weak terps and not worth smoking, not even sure it was Mac Stomper to be honest. If its not from the original breeder I'm not growing them, learned my lesson. I actually had some real nice F4's of this going during the fire and lost it.

I hate this sort of thing about Strainly, it's impossible to be sure of authenticity unless you have some "inside info" or know the seller. One of the out of country private breeders I get seeds from (via a friend in AK), has put out repro's of some top rated breeders and excellent crosses of them for a fraction of the OG breeders price... Some peep's got hooked up on those offerings!
I love his work because he does selections himself, grows many-of, and is a GH grower in the sub-tropics so mold resistance is a big factor in what he bothers to work with. Scores and scores of top grade crosses rejected because they have weak resistance and all learned the hard way -- but you don't know until ya grow!

 

[420Forever]

(via a friend in AK)

right.....i wonder who that could be ppp

 

[Waira]

...not Trail, this guy isn't on AFN...

 

[420Forever]

...not Trail, this guy isn't on AFN...

well , gawd knowz i've been wrong before ppp

 

[Green Hornet]

- I meant the Permanent Marker auto.... As usual, Cup winners/pop culture stuff get fast tracked into other formats, and Seed Junky is a damn hot breeder... So it comes down to who made the auto version and if they got a real deal cut or, like with so much of the Cookie family genetics, it's so off point after several steps of separation from the "original" that it's just a name anymore...
What's her stank like?

Ah, I see... I'm sure that's true for many annuals, maybe even cannabis... grasses especially come to mind! I know that dry-out's toward the end of blooming can help boost terp's and such (a stressor influence), and I try to do this myself best I can... Plus, at harvest a drier plant can dry out a bit faster and better with the reduced water content.
I guess the x-factor here is just how much influence some dry spells may exert on bloom triggering... I'd wager there's a study on that some
place
There are some very knowledgeable equatorial NLD grower/preservationists on the other forum I'm at, so I'll ask about this... they are something of an extreme case for sure. Most of these growers run such Sativa's at 10/14 give-or-take to help push blooming along.
The morphology of their buds and leaves are adaptations to their environment, and it seems a fair conclusion that their looooong life/bloom cycles are reflected in this as well. But the drought thing could be pretty variable, so much depends on the "local specifics" of where that landrace/heirloom has been grown (and adapted to) for so many generations....


I hate this sort of thing about Strainly, it's impossible to be sure of authenticity unless you have some "inside info" or know the seller. One of the out of country private breeders I get seeds from (via a friend in AK), has put out repro's of some top rated breeders and excellent crosses of them for a fraction of the OG breeders price... Some peep's got hooked up on those offerings!
I love his work because he does selections himself, grows many-of, and is a GH grower in the sub-tropics so mold resistance is a big factor in what he bothers to work with. Scores and scores of top grade crosses rejected because they have weak resistance and all learned the hard way -- but you don't know until ya grow!

You ever take a wiff of a Permanent marker then take another because it smelled interesting? Well the permanent marker smell that I experienced while my wife was cutting them up after hanging for ten days, was more comparable to buying a grocery sack full of them (permanent markers) and have all of them explode in the car while in there.
Now after being jarred for a couple days they smell like super berry? I am speaking of said Blue Dog auto's from Jeano's Genetics
Interesting enough a few weeks before harvest my grow room smelled like a diesel fuel spill freaked me out but cool as eff

 

[Waira]

You ever take a wiff of a Permanent marker then take another because it smelled interesting? Well the permanent marker smell that I experienced while my wife was cutting them up after hanging for ten days, was more comparable to buying a grocery sack full of them (permanent markers) and have all of them explode in the car while in there.
Now after being jarred for a couple days they smell like super berry? I am speaking of said Blue Dog auto's from Jeano's Genetics
Interesting enough a few weeks before harvest my grow room smelled like a diesel fuel spill freaked me out but cool as eff

Aroma can be quite dynamic! I find several good sniff really helps resolve aromas....2, 3, 4 slow whiffs to let the molecules build up, plus air exposure, plus mixing can see nuances stand out more, or even show significant changes.
Others can be oddly elusive; Skunk smell is one of those in some cases... I'll pick it up when moving a plant, but a stem or sugar leaf rub shows nothing of the sort...but then the terpene profiles on them can be different from the buds/calyxes...

Yeah PM's namesake aroma is for real in the proper pheno's, got a mild smell of that in the bud sample I got. Sounds like your auto is really on point! Which breeder made this one GH?
My Blue Dawg is showing berry, some sweet, some chemmy funk,...on point I believe
She'll be done by the weekend so we'll see what shakes out by then!