Please forgive my wack ass microscope
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What you shooting for? Couch or creative. Creative probably pull now, for couch let go for another week or two unless she starts going fast. Theres not much clear, but I’m terrible at this myself.
Surprised that one didn’t reveg, that’s nuts if it’s supposed to be fems/regs.
I pulled it, if it’s too early well I have four more. I was surprised too, I’ve heard of autos failing to autoflower but I’ve never heard of the other way around. Fortunately thought it smells amazing and it’s sticky as fuck.
Autos are wacky as shit, even the regular seeds are getting crossbred to fuck and half the time you don’t know if you’re getting seeds which are unproven. So much backyard work.
You’ll pick up some age on the dry, imo you’re totally in the harvest window here. No worries.
Cannabis genetics is a travesty to be sure
How so?
Compare to any other major crop, and the variation and stability we have in cannabis strains is quite fucking amazing.
Compare to say strains of banana or some cerial. Monocrops, no variation, sickly, etc.
I started getting into cannabis around 2007 or so and back then there were no autoflowering strains. Lowryder was just coming out. Now 15+ years later pretty much most strains have an autoflowering version and making one is not too challenging. The autoflowering gene has been so well isolated that it’s trivial for a proper seedbank to cultivate whatever af strains they think of.
Although there’s so much competition nowadays that people are guarding their genetics far more than before. Regular seeds used to be available for all strains. Now it’s feminised available for all strains and regular only for older and cheaper strains. Can’t make genetically stable seeds if you have to try to propagate from an already feminised seed.
So yeah I don’t know how it’s “a travesty” honestly.
Try to find a landrace. Or something with lineage you can actually trace. Everything (exaggeration, you can still find landraces and some classic strains but they are few and far between) now is hybridized to shit, there’s ruderalis in everything (not even on purpose, but there is), and there are a LOT of shitty “breeders” chucking pollen to make a quick buck.
Try to find someone who’s honest about their genetics (again, obviously some people are but most people aren’t).
And honestly I’m on board with your last point. I don’t even think we disagree with each other, it’s definitely not as bad as bananas, we’re just looking at it from different perspectives.
How are you defining stability? If you get more than one pheno in a pack, it’s unstable IMO. And there are VERY few breeders that you only get one pheno in a pack.
Genotype stability.
“Everything’s been hybridised to shit and everything has ruderalis in it”
Well you’re clearly exaggerating. But yes, pretty much all strains are hybrids. And why wouldn’t they be? Getting growth properties from indica is almost a must since who the hell has the space to grow an actual sativa, like a three meter tall tree with airy specks for buds.
This is what “bud” looked like in the 70’s, and that probably explains why it used to more commonly known as “weed” than “bud”.
So yeah, the variety and quality of the strains we have is nothing short of amazing.
I literally said I was exaggerating so yes I’m glad you picked up on that. I still don’t know what you mean by stability, you’re not explaining that very effectively. And plenty of guys have room for a 12 foot plant that isn’t even that big.
Calling cannabis stable is kinda hilarious to be honest. I don’t think there’s another plant out there that Herms as easily as cannabis. Even landraces can herm, and those are the most stable breeds you can get.
The variety is also detrimental as well, it’s why it’s such a finicky plant.
Monocrops have their own issues, like a single disease being able to wipe out the species.
I’m calling the genetics stable, be they what they are.
Compared to other plants, does cannabis herm easily? Well I’ve not grown anything else as much, so hard to say, but my plants very rarely herm. Meny plants are completely self-pollinating, so there’s not really an issue to why it would be inherently bad.
Herming is more common nowadays when all seeds are feminised, meaning they were produced by a female plant which was pollinated by another female plant that was made to herm.
Despite being made in that manner, most of my femmed seeds never produce any pollen sacs.
“Finicky plant”?
Have you ever grown anything else? Compared to a whole bunch of houseplants or even commercial crops, cannabis is remarkably resilient to all sorts, temperature and humidity fluctuations, fluctuations in the availability of nutrients, etc.
You’re confusing stability with resilience, the plant is resilient not stable. Monocrops are stable, that’s why they can be wiped out by a single disease, there is no resilience to adapt and continue breeding and stay alive.
A stable plant wouldn’t start revegging because it got some more sunlight, that’s the inherent characteristic of cannabis because of its resilience.
Have you ever grown anything else? Compared to a whole bunch of houseplants or even commercial crops, cannabis is remarkably resilient to all sorts, temperature and humidity fluctuations, fluctuations in the availability of nutrients, etc
Except for exposing it to those conditions are the exact things that make it unstable and herm…. Just because it can survive to repopulate doesn’t mean it’s the desired characteristics of what the consumer wants. In fact, if that could be bred out , people would fucking live and prefer that.
But hey, insult and attack me instead of having a conversation, fucking lol.
What’s the whole lady look like growmie?
Honestly not like super great, but I’d call it successful at least.
If anything it’s a great trial run for October, will know somewhat stretch and bud structure expectations.
Boy howdy and let me tell you, these buds are dense as fuck. Even the shitty larfy stuff from the bottom of the plant is dense. The main cola alone is probably more weed than a whole plant from my indoor cycles (I suck at indoor growing). I guess that’s what that sweet, sweet 1400W/m² from the sun does.
