Just under 2 weeks to go now. I'm starting to feed with just 10mls p/gal of Flora-Nectar and 1/2tsp of Cha-Chingg. The Northern Lights are the very white buds in the front and that's A/Dream in the back.
The other thing I'm really pleased with is my breeding. Instead of just leaving the whole plant with a male like I've done in the past I decided to try just pollenting a single bud.
My male plant was an American Dream and the females are Northern Lights, Juicy Fruit and another A/Dream. So now with my seeds I shall have
Juicy Dreams and Northern Dreams as my new strains. Whatchathink??
The Juicy Fruit I'm growing in one of those 64 oz cups from 7/11 - that's the cup in the very front to the right with the yellow label sticking out (yellow for juicy fruit.. get it?).
To pollenate, I just covered over all the buds with a black trash bag then just left one bud from each plant stick out and then pollenated that with a paintbrush dabbed in the pollen. Then I misted down everywhere over the top of the trash bag to stop any loose pollen from flying around, then removed the bag and threw it away.
I pollenated on 27th March 08 and by about 3 days later the stigmas on the calyxes started to turn brown.
By the 4th April you could see definite seeds forming. So that's in about the space of a week. The male plant I had grown in a tiny pot and manually put him in 12's (taking in and out the cab) for 2 weeks prior to turning the females over to 12's.
Any questions, thoughts, advice?
Thanks