Herm attacks
Quickly wanted to clarify the fulvic acid herm issue with Ghash and assorted hplant line bred crosses. I do not have any direct experience of this. My comment about this issue was sourced from growers at IC and Mr Nice forums. More than a few had noticed that dosing high levels of fulvic post bud site dev would cause nanners or outright balls shortly after application. This isn't talking about, as a lovable smartass noted, just compost. Its foliar and drench application of HIGH doses of fulvic through AACT. Their thinking was that the sudden increase of biological activity interferes with root respiration and plant hormones causing a stress reaction. Though all of this is anecdotal, I'd note that per the discussions, reruns of hermed clones without supplemental fulvic didn't produce intersex. So, maybe?
Now, thine own horror of the herm. Recent attempt at using an isolation chamber resulted in full out balls and pistils on Solo Stash & Pinball Wizard. A single, dim, orange led indicator on a power strip whose electrical tape covering slipped off for 2 dark cycles in a 8x8, was enough for intersex poppers within 4 days of corrected 11/13 dark cycle. So, 2/4 PInWizz ladies, 4/5 Solo ladies, and 3/5 male Solo are culled. Lesson learned? Never assume genetics passing stress tests in the past will allow for quick selection for an open pollination of that same line. It makes me wonder how this happens in such an odd percentage per pack. Was the 4th pack of Solo, The pinballs were 1 to 1 F2s from stable parents, and Ive not had previous problems with either. There was also 1/6 CSI urkle x OG that grew balls. To clarify, all intersex females developed single or multiple stamen under multiple bracts and both males shot pistils amongst bud sites on multiple colas. All were at 4 weeks. All other environ conditions were dialed in as they should be. Luckily none of the bastards popped before their ruination.
On a positive note, one of the male Solo survivors was squat & tight. I chopped the other. This one though had Maple-ish type leaves and grew very similar to 79 xmas male examples with tight node space. Stamen development was heavy with slight purpling on an otherwise bright lime green plant. Put this boy into the lone Solo female which already reeks of artificial whipping cream & lime, with a slight menthol/turpentine volatility. Also throwing it into an Obama x Foodog(coffee Bubba type leaner) and a keeper PHK s2 that buds like OG, smells exactly like Booberry cereal and goes full black under 70 degrees.
