Yea, thats the stories I have heard about the cornish - if you don't process them young young, they stop being able to even walk because of their weight. Thats part the reason I haven't jumped on them yet. I do have an order placed for 6 turkeys though. Gonna do simple hoops outta the game / bison fence and run them till thanksgiving. Have one for family dinner at the misses, the rest to the freezer.
In grow news, I am going to be taking less photos, and prob less time on RIU in general. Its getting to be that time, where the suns out, and my ass is outside working. 1000's of projects to do on the farm, and not enough time to do em! The flower cycle is looking awesome. Had to refill co2 tank, and have it set to 1800 PPM now. Plants are drinking daily now, and the largest ones in the 10 gallon smart pots are hard to keep up with. Next round - 30s! these 10s aren't big enough, been making really heavy teas, top dressing with rabbit manure and compost, and still seeing some signs of wanting more on the heavier feeders.
So far, the wet dreams are as always, looking epic. Furthest into flower, and reeking like pez candy and berries and what I recognize as blue dream smell.
The Sour cherry pheno is a keeper I can tell already. Purple from the get go, and not the wonky caseyband leaning pheno thats a bitch to trim. Very frosty, and reeks of sourness. Like straight nose curling sour.
The purple cotton candy is looking good, although with the sour cherry next to it, its not a fair comparison anymore. I am betting the sour cherry will end up the keeper of the 2.
The dogs are stacked nicely, rocking them nicer this round, and even happier. Should be a good return from them.
The daze / jillanje finally stopped stretching I think. They easily tripled in size. Definitely see they will be longer flower times for sure, I'm betting a full 11 weeks. Should be worth the smoke though, as they both have very nice smells
Blue pits, super qrazy, and the grand master kush, and the orange og x sr71, and hells angels og, and gogi f3 x nepali, and a few more wet dreams x blueberry lotus went into flower last week, and are looking like they will fill the other 3k watts quite nicely. Have the garage at max capacity, light controller is full, and have another 1k setup running 120 on its own timer, so got 9k watts rocking out, co2 at 1800 ppm, temps are now perfectly dialed in, and its a damn fine cycle coming together. Have high hopes!
Next indoor run is vegging nicely. Looking like a 50 / 50 run. Half will be wet dreams again, and the other half will be from seed Malawi and Panama Red from Ace seeds. These will be a fun challenge. Not expecting to hit huge yields, but expecting something entirely different then anything I have grown before. The malawi are the most vigorous plants I have ever experience, or seen first hand. They have outpaced seedlings planted 10 days before them, and have my full attention. the panama red are also showing very high levels of vigor. Both these strains have the long long time of 12-16 weeks, but I imagine what will really happen is I will flower them indoors half of that, and then move them outside to finish. Regardless, I can't wait, and have firmly caught the sativa bug.
The male tent is also rocking out nicely. have the orange og x sr71 male knocking up quite a few lovely ladies. Hes at the stage where hes just about to start massive pollen dusting. Opening the tent right now is pretty magical though - He reeks above all the other ladies. Like straight orange peels. He doesn't have any frost, but has huge 13 finger leaves, decently tight nodes, vigor, and stank in bundles.
The next male going in with his hareem will be a lovely wet dreams x blueberry lotus. Will be f2ing, BXing to the wet dreams, and outcrossing to a large pool of ladies as well.
Got a nice arbor built and some clematis / wysteria planted, and got the framework for a security gate going in, and got the secondary goat pen built. I am going to start rotating them thru my berry patches, and eating down the pm magnet berries. Nearly have the tree burnt up, will be nice to finally have it outta the backyard looking obnoxious, and did one more pass with the tiller, and got some potatoes, strawberries, and onions planted. My black bamboo is shooting like mad as well, I am pretty impressed. Was only a little 1 gallon division last june with 3 little 12 inch canes, and there's gotta be 40 canes now, with more height daily. The timber bamboo hasn't started shooting yet, but I hear in this area it doesn't start till june. The timber is the most invasive / fastest spreading and should be interesting to see first hand lol. I have it in a 65 gallon smart pot lined on bottomwith hardware cloth, and am hoping as rhizosomes come thru the side the pot, I can cut them off and replant them. Hopefully I dont come to regret this lol.
HOLY FUCK! note to self, smoking jakes dreams and typing turns into a fuckin novel. Sorry for the rambling guys!
As always,
Stay free, stay high
papa