The work is worth it (for me) bro. I went out again last night, and I am BEAT lol. It's great exercise, and for me, digging in the woods in a heightened state of awareness at night is almost primal. I love it. I finally got a nice sized Spice out. I put out a large plant that I re-vegged. She was small in flower (inside), but was hyper sweet and turned BLACK. I also got out some of the spice that I have pictured, and some of the shit that I don't have pictured. I HATE getting the plants to the spot. I almost threw 6 big clones/small plants out the window yesterday. Had to ditch them in a bucket on the side of the (busy) road, and come back....I really did picture myself flinging them out the window.....
If I get the balls to go out with the cam in the daytime, I'll post pics here. I'm sure that come sept/oct, I'll end up doing it lol.
Here are 2 pics of my 1st cross (2-3 wks ahead of spice x ssh) Orange Diesel x Miss Mud. The OD mom is not the same cut that I have. She was a lil more indica leaning. I lost the cut, and pollinated her with SSH and Miss Mud. I had 5 Miss Mud seeds. ended up with 2 males and used them both for the crosses. The lineage is - G-13Bx F2 {gn03} x Mountain Jam (soulshine clone x that DjS blueberry stud)F2. My males seemed to be mountain jam (soulshine x blueberry) dom, but they were males, and what the hell do I know lol.
Group shot. Most Mud dom on the left, most OD dom on the right
Some fan stem trichs.
The 2 that are Mud leaning are almost identical. 1 is throwing a few bananas, but nothing major so far. I don't have to chop/isolate her, but would never use her for a mom/breeder. It's cool to grow these out, as they are mega-poly-hybrids, and the Spice x SSH next to them are very stable/uniform so far.
I kept the 'runt' Spice x SSH outside , as she didn't want to sex after over 3 wks, so I said fuk it, took 2 cuts, and just put her back in the sun. I don't think that there is anything 'runty' about it now, it just looks to be more haze dom than the rest. I took the cuts about a week ago, and 1st sign of roots/new growth, I will flower for sex. If it is male, I will Bx it to the spice, and maybe hit the 'black' spice just for fun. I have 2 cuts, so if it is female, I will keep 1 as a poss mother. I am thinking of keeping this 1 as the others all look similar, so I'm sure I could find em again out of my 200+ seeds. Depending on how these crosses play out, I may try to send seeds into seedbay . com as freebies.
EDIT - OD xMM are around 30 days since 1st flower. I found these 2 pics, 1 nice Orange D semi-macro, and a pic of an abused 'black' spice ~6wks. She was in that pot with 2 other plants for a month. They were on the (cold) shower floor fighting for flouros. I ended up with about 5 grams, but in the pic you can see the structure (single cola), and the leaf shape (heavy indica/afghanica). The plant is a lil nute burned, but the crust is from rubbing on the envirolight. The pic sucks, but you can see the top of the plant turning black. I will be putting a cut in in a week or so to run her right.
OD ~10wks 2 week cure
Black Spice ~ 6wks