EARLY QUEEN: hangin with the queens

[minarvi]

hey minarvi, nothing but love here! so don't nobody trip! besides, even if they turn out not to b eQ's, it'll b a good laugh for all! and i take my laughs wherever i can..

Yeah, I like a good laugh too, life’s too short to be taken seriously, haha.

Anyway, until proven otherwise I’ve decided to assume that I did not make a mistake in labelling my plants and that the pics I’ve posted previously are in fact Early Queens and not White Widows. In fact I’m sorry I brought it up but, as we all know, shit happens.

The pic below was taken yesterday, 9 days after the pic in post #30. The 2 larger plants were pruned again since that pic was taken and the clone in the front left has almost caught up in height. I don’t intend to prune the plants again and await commencement of flowers with my supply of potash at the ready to give them a boost. It’s a pity I’m unable to grow them to maximum height as my eventual yield will be less than they are capable of but there’s nothing I can do about that.

I haven’t mentioned what I feed my plants so here goes. In my experience pot is the easiest of plants to grow and will thrive with the minimum of assistance but there is many a grower who manages to kill them with kindness. My garden beds have been improved over time with plenty of compost and an annual heavy mulching and I can get good results with minimal feeding. When I plant them out each plant is given a generous handful of both blood and bone and dolomite followed by an occasional feed of fish emulsion. As soon as the onset of flowers is detected they get weekly hits of soluble potash until around a fortnight off harvest and the only other thing I do for them is water regularly and stand back and wait.

Fingers crossed hoping these girls get the chance to be grown to maximum maturity.

 

[itsbenfun]

48 hours

JJ- ive been tempted to post pics but im holdin' out for all of them to be confirmed male or female. Im confident it will be within 48 hours. What do you use for your coco? I had an Aeroflo 60 site for 3 years and loved it, but they dont last much longer than that. I used Advanced Nutrients when i had it, worked GREAT but so many things to buy and expensive. It was a pain in the A!# changing out the 30 gallon resivoir every week, for thats the regimne with their productsSell more product i suspect.

minarvi- they are lookin good! You could still pull a heck of yeild out of those girls. Something about the shape of an un-topped, natural shaped plant though i agree. I pretty much use the exact same things when i do outdoor although ive learned to prep my holes far in advance, seems critters love the smell of the blood and bone meals lol. Ive been watching some videoes on youtube of this guy in Alaska who uses 'compost tea' and everything he grows is GIGANTIC! Veggies, flowers...Just amazing!!! Seems extremely easy to make and prepare, check it out, im going to give it a go this summer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL2mnf_rfjI&feature=related

Peace

 

[jondojoando]

damn my poxy proxy

aarrgghh!! believe it or not, i'v already answered ur questions once this morning.. it was nice,, all the colors of the rainbow.. poxy crsnhn proxY u keip krshnin on me.

*advanced.. - yeah, what the *#@*^! is up with advancedNutrients!?!
i'v got some of their ads in a couple a books n there's like a whole shop of products they try n sell ya.. what, like over !60?! and all with real stylised graphics..! i mean c'mon. who they tryin to pull? i been workin 'hydro' style nutes since '96 and even i feel confused and overwhelmed just loooking at their ad. complete opposite of KISS. .. oh, and the colors- do u find a toy at the bottom?

*i' v been canna reliant for some years now.. and here's a confession- i more or less stopped using EC and pHmeters a couple years back. don't need em. i know what' i'm gonna get! essentially the only time i use my pHpen is to make up a bucket of rhizotonic tonic.. while this is in no way meant as advise, it does speak volumes of the dependability and user friendly nature of their products.. plus keepin with the KISS campaign, for coco its just the one formula- no grow n bloom.

-Minarvi that soil lookes like heaven.. can't wait to see em with swollen buds! only thing i can think of is makin sure to toughen up the stems perhaps. weigh em down with water from a hose, maybe? 2ice a week for 2 weeks. don't know. what's your usual program?

well i'm spent. 5-6 edits in a race against my proxy.. jjond

 

[jondojoando]

recap.

hahahahahhaha... so checkout my previous post.. does that not look like the work of a schizophrenic mindset!?!? should i b worried!!? sorry, pics r gonna have to wait.. the new camera i got yeterday is waaay tooo advanced 4 mee.. sink or swim, sink or swim.

nah, the real reason it looks that way was cause i was aggitated.. havin spent an eternity composing the original,and makin it pretty, only to get kicked off by my proxy..

*but i thought it worth posting , the two girls just passin day 45.. in the last 2-3, both are plumping up markedly so.
- so this be the start of their final push.. and they r reminding me of pregnancy.. , blink at the wrong time, and its holy shit!?
- in terms of the difference between the 2 in this, the seedplant run, its hard to decide.. in some ways, they're so different, but 5 seconds after that observation, ur feelin that leash- not lettin em drift far, and their back.. tied like twins..
- #4(pictured in this post) seems to b fairly susceptible to mites.. in fact, if not for her (the cut), i probably wouldn't have really spotted the 2spotted hate.. pests.. now who's idea was that?!
- she's of that lighter complexion, kinda like the sort that seem to have almost a greyish hue.. #2's the slick rick. he B clubbin. where #4's pistils are are a gorgeous curl, both blonde, he's got his all aggressive, gelled and spiked. yeah i know it's female,, just sounds funnier this way.. he also lookes like he's got his sharp duds on.. a slick ocean blue - green glossy suit . with the size of her fans just past or at that point where it goes from vigour over to self harm.. like his suits a size and a half too BIG-- just because it's the fashion..
- i can't quite pin it down, and maybe y'all can help me, but the eQ's have a very distictive leaf shape showin thru.. i'v never worked with that particular leaf format, but it's definately pushin on up to b seen amongst her genes...
- and the smell.. another foreign type to me.. but i smoke too many cigarettes to really b of any use here, so i digresss...
- another point others have mentioned that i wil concur with, she takes to being cloned like a duck to water.

eQ#4,day45,seedplant

-so from all the pics i've seen here and on some of the older eQ threads -barletta??- i think it was.. over the seas.. and the sands of time; the seeds i plant are definately time travellin sisters of the ones in your garden and from years gone by...................... .

 

[itsbenfun]

My computer can anger and frustrate me beyond ^^^ that lol. You made it through it...I wouldnt have

 

[minarvi]

-Minarvi that soil lookes like heaven.. can't wait to see em with swollen buds! only thing i can think of is makin sure to toughen up the stems perhaps. weigh em down with water from a hose, maybe? 2ice a week for 2 weeks. don't know. what's your usual program?

I give my EQ’s the same treatment as every other plant in my garden. I put them in as close to their ideal spot as possible, water them and occasionally hit them with an organic nudge as described above. Stems toughen up just fine under Old Sol’s lamp and the rest is pretty simple. My idea of a successful grow of anything is that it has to be simple. Keeping with the KISS campaign indeed.

I’ve had three serious gardens over the past 30 years where I’ve developed a mostly no-dig system and my passion is mulch. Each year I spread around 7-8 meters of wood chip and leaf litter over all my beds and and the soil has become something special over the past 10 years or so. But you can’t see a lot of it as any bare patch is quickly covered with a shovel of mulch and watered in. Under the mulch an army or three of earthworms have moved in and no doubt they think they're in heaven, eating and shitting their way through the smorgasbord they find themselves in. Then it’s just a matter of planting whatever is due to go in next, add water and that's often all it gets. Unless of course the plant produces something that you can eat, smoke or put in a vase. Those get just a little bit extra.

Meanwhile, a couple of EQ boys that I’ve grown on in pots are about a week off bursting so things are happening.

BTW, Comrade J, what were you smoking yesterday when you posted #63? I want some ha-ha.

 

[jondojoando]

one with the lot, thanks.

BTW, Comrade J, what were you smoking yesterday when you posted #63? I want some ha-ha.

haha.. yeah, i do the LOT. don't know the etiquette on the forum regarding the matter... actually been thinkin of starting a thread , sorta like a mns narcotics anonymous.. i think it could be helpful,, i go thru phases- but basically i generally do the lot, with the substance of choice for that phase crossin over from beneficial to self harm.. mate, it's like that 50cent track- ".. i stay high all the time, yeah i'm high all the time.."

yeah i got issues..

the one constant i always keep in stock and never harms me is LSD...
and, well, pots just pot, so that don't even make the list..

(edit) just in case, i thought it important to add this, cause you never know.. - i consider myself a person of intergrity. i stay true to myself no matter what inebriant may come to play.. i never blame the drugs for my behaviour. the way i see it, this world is bursting at the seams with cruelty, and i don't intend to add to that.. i'm just tryin my best to maintain till my last breath saves me. fair enough? cheers......

so this girl has got to be the least smelly plant i'v worked with!! love it. i can take her out of the room and have her next to me, just to hang with her, y'know? NO WAY i could do that with my ak.. that thing's like a smell grenade!!

*so as u can see from the last 3 pics, the calyxs are all set up... now we wait for the SWELL! sweet.

 

[Harry]

the one constant i always keep in stock and never harms me is LSD...
and, well, pots just pot, so that don't even make the list..
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Pot's the only drug that doesn't sour my soul, although Acid and mushies are a whole other thang. I suspect they, and to a lesser extent pot, and I'd put meditation and extreme sports in there too, all have the potential to open up the doors of perception. Sometimes when I walk in the forest at night I see and sense a whole other world going on at the periphery of my vision. Stuff like little camp fires, voices and laughter, kinda Middle Earthish, but when I look it's all gone and silent. Live every day like it's your last and may all your daze be happy

 

[itsbenfun]

Kings n' Queens

Im thinkin' along the lines 'a picture speaks a thousand words' so im going to try and keep this to a commentary.

This week i turned up the dimmable ballast up a notch to 75% or 750 watts

The odd plants all the way on the right and the back right corner are NOT EQ, 'Power Kush' and a seed of my own 'Benz'.

After all it ended up 9 females/6 males out of 15 plants/out of 18 seeds(EQ)
'Kings'

'Queens'

The '3 stooges'

 

[itsbenfun]

Clones n' Flowers

After an experiment of my intended methods...

...and knowing all sexes, i went for it.

The aftermath and future flower sites

What to do with all these boys and girls

Im undecieded but it will all work out, ive got a clone of each so im not too worried

12/12 i will switch to in 48-72 hours... Here we GO!!!

 

[minarvi]

Excellent stuff Comrade Fun, I’ll watch and learn as I’ve never gone down the indoor route, you have been a very busy boy.

You’ll probably beat me to the finish line in a real tortoise and the hare race, so to speak.

 

[jondojoando]

-cheers Harry.. yeah, lsd takes me there. i know i'm in a rough patch when i don't feel like trippin..
-hey minarvi.. i never had em outdoor- so i been lovin ur contributions. cheers for that!
- so, fun- your armies r on the march, eh? well, my brother, i'll see u on the battlefield! may our victory b sweet!!

***loose ends edit*2/12/2011* i hear u on that , Harry.. without gettin too specific, some places , many known for high levels of 'witchcraft' have that effect.. like the events have left an imprint on the land.. kinda like a ghost image on a photo.. wonder what my ghosts r doing???

 

[itsbenfun]

'Hey thanks man'-Chong

minarvi, 'hey thanks man'
^^^I sounded like 'chong' when i said that in my head lol!
Its gonna be pretty close for me and you as far as harvest is concerned. Too bad the 3 of us couldnt sit down after harvest and have a good old fashioned smoke out...

JJ, It had seemed i was just twiddling my thumbs for a while but they exploded the past 10 days or so. The timing ended up perfect for it seems you will be harvesting 10-14 days. With that new cam and those ripening 'Queens' they may as well crown you champ of the febuary Photo of the month contest right now! I wait with with absolutely no patience for the harvest time pics...

Peace

 

[jondojoando]

hell no, photography noob more like... i just get lucky once in a while...
- hey minarvi, was wondering what u use for pest control? got a few girls in pots in the back, making use of the sun's free energy- and while they're not exactly flea bitten, they are getting marked..
- yeah, even after these years, i'm still constantly surprised at how they'll sorta chill for a spell, then bang! growth spurt. - especially when they all do it in concert, though i guess that's when it's most noticable..
cheers guys... .. jj

*so the calyxs are starting to swell..
(edit) IBfun - ha! would b good if they had a subsection for the photo thing- best pics posted in thread.. maybe then, if only to score beans, without fears of the postman tax, like with my freakin acid!? arrggh!

 

[minarvi]

- hey minarvi, was wondering what u use for pest control? got a few girls in pots in the back, making use of the sun's free energy- and while they're not exactly flea bitten, they are getting marked..

I’ve never had a pest problem I’ve had to worry about. There’s often a grass hopper or such to be found if you look hard enough but as long as I grow strong healthy plants they tend get the best of bugs and diseases. The birds help and a family of blue tongue lizards keep the garden floor clean, I haven’t seen a snail for years. But growing your way is a whole different ball game to mine. Is the plant being chewed or is it suffering a bit of shock from finding itself in the big wide world all of a sudden? Why don’t you take a pic and give us all a look?

 

[jondojoando]

-sorry it took me so long, minarvi.. took awhile to sink in that that's a great idea... so now i got homework, huh? ok... out to photograph bug bites!! not sure bout the lenses, but... no macro. ..

- yeah i'm a fine example of a HID refugee...
- think i'v budded 1 plant to the finish outdoors.., even with that one, was neglected, and no attention paid. i was expecting to rip it at the 1st sound of trouble, in the form of choppers, and smell/security issues..
cheers guys.. .. jj

 

[CannabisPatient]

Great thread

I just read through this entire thread. I have to say that it is a great one. Thank you to all of the contributors. I am looking for outdoor plants that will finish successfully outdoor around lat 43. I think that EQ could be a winner for sure. I look forward to seeing how they all turn out. Are there plans for F2s or other crosses? What is the genetic make up of Benz?

Thanks guys and happy growing -CP

 

[itsbenfun]

F2's

Hey CP,

I can only speak for myself but I deffinately plan on making F2's. I dont have a strategy 'nailed down' so to speak, but i plan on keeping cuttings of all so i can 'trace' my steps if anything turns out better than the rest. Its hard to say when i havent flowered them out yet but i may just let them all have a go at eachother, or select the best few males and females for progeny testing, or try and match phenotype for mating, or a bit of each, not sure.

I threw those other seeds in just for a comparasion to EQ but 'Benz' is a cross i made of skunkmans (skunk#1xsouth african) x sensi hasplant. It has been inbred by mixing best male pollen x best female. We will see how it turns out this time. Noticed quite a bit of degredation last round, hopefully i fixed it. None the less it will be quite a contrast to EQ as you can see it leans to the sativa side of things.

I have 'Pink Floyd' id like to cross with EQ and another that pops in my head is 'la nina' and skunkmans original haze x skunk#1, we will see what the future holds...

Peace

(edit) JJ, minarvi- dont you guys have some lad's??? Care to share?

 

[minarvi]

I’ve kept a male each of EQ and WW and will make a cross or two but won’t get to serious. If I manage to grow my girls right to the finish, with no fence jumpers or blue uniforms stuffing things up, I won’t have to grow again for a couple of years and when I do I’m likely to buy something more off Mr Nice & Co.

Meanwhile the girls are getting a bit carried away and still they show no definite signs of flowering.



Here’s a little teaser of my White Widow (? haha) that started flowering first. I guess this is an appropriate candidate to be touched up with an EQ male.

 

[itsbenfun]

KA-BOOM!!!

^^^They really took off!!! I bet it will be with in a week you see them start to flower(the stretch is on) and yeah that WW would be a good cantidate for the EQ male, add resin production for sure!