Jackberry

Do I see some color starting to show?? I read one journal here on RIU where it didn't show until the very end, week 6 or so. This Saturday is 6 weeks.

Day 43 since 12/12. I'm watering 3 gallons plain water every other day. She is still green, but lost that deep, nearly black green color she had before. I'm guessing at least 2 probably 3 weeks. I'm 6 weeks in on a "7-8 week strain", so I'm thinking that means 9 weeks, lol.

Man, I'm going thumbnails from now on. I view from my phone and am not on LTE most of the time. Screw loading those damn pictures every time.

I take pics with a regular camera...Old site I had no problems with pic but the new site doesn't seem to like them as much...So I went into the settings and made the pics smaller size...It has helped me a lot.

Looks like you've definitely got some color starting to show through! It's looking really good!!

Thanks guys. I don't think I'm gonna see a lot of color with this pheno though. I have the other girls from earlier in this grow in a greenhouse and they are still flowering somewhat, lol. One is a little colored, but another is much more colored. It happens to be the pheno I'm flowering as soon as I harvest. Here's a pic.

Wow, that's got a lot of color on it! Hope it'll smoke as good as it looks! If it does looks like it might be a keeper !
Did you clone any of them?

Yes, I've got clones and one is next in the flower box.

Day 46 since the flip. Pulled out of closet and watered two gallons plain water today, as she didn't want the 3rd that she'd drank the past two waterings. I already had close to a half gallon of runoff at two gallons, even though she was light and dry.

Anyway, she has a lot of red and withering hairs with super swelled calyxes, but also a lot of new flower growth. The buds are hands down the densest mfers I've ever grown and look to be swelling day by day. I'm amazed at how far down the stem the bud density just continues to be good. I mean, other than a single bulb in the middle of the foliage, it's basically just 368 overhead watts. Don't get me wrong, they are much denser the first 5-6 inches, but even the smaller buds at the bottom aren't really popcorn or airy.

I sampled one of the smaller lower buds this morning, that I snipped yesterday and dried on the dish box. I was amazed at how even after that quick dry, she still had that faint dank taste and she did the trick buzz wise. I can't wait to smoke the mature version, dried and jar cured proper.

Looks amazing, man! Subbed for the end of this pretty ride. Best of luck!

Yesterday was day 56 (8 weeks in case you aren't a math wiz) of 12/12. Sannie says 7-8 weeks and 9.5 weeks is the longest I've read anybody going in a Jackberry grow.

The trichs are mostly cloudy and it even shows in the close up pics, but I haven't detected any amber whatsoever. All that is nil to me though, as I traditionally take a plant when she looks ready, with no new pistil growth visible.

This plant looks two weeks away at best to me, as she is kicking out new pistils daily. It's a trip to see so many swelled, ripe calyxes and withered red hairs, along with brand new growth this far apart.

I've included some bud porn, which includes a pic of a lower bud I pollinated with her brother. Can you pick which one? I also include a pic of the male Jackberry I have been keeping in my garage window, collecting pollen every day or two, which is the male I used to pollinate.

I decided to also include a pic of the 3 sisters who outgrew my flowering chamber. They are outside in my ghetto, lean-to greenhouse, still flowering away, along with 4 clones, one from each of the sisters. I've pollinated a bud or two from each of the 3 sisters too, with the same indica-heavy male and can't wait to unlock that treasure trove of genetic potential!

I let the clones maintain their natural structure, with no topping at all. I'm gonna throw all four in the flowering chamber as soon as this grow is done!

I lied. I forgot to add the pic of the seeded bud. Here it is along with some close ups from the flowers in the ghetto greenhouse. I think some were successfully pollinated.

Today is 9 weeks since the flip. Mostly cloudy trichs, with ambers starting to show here and there on the calyxes. I've got 90% red/brown pistils, but new growth on top. Plant has definitely lost the dark green color and is in decline. I flushed hard with 7 gallons today and the salt really built up around bottom of pot. This could be the last water she sees......then again, she looks like she needs 2 more weeks to me.

Smidge34 said:

Today is 9 weeks since the flip. Mostly cloudy trichs, with ambers starting to show here and there on the calyxes. I've got 90% red/brown pistils, but new growth on top. Plant has definitely lost the dark green color and is in decline. I flushed hard with 7 gallons today and the salt really built up around bottom of pot. This could be the last water she sees......then again, she looks like she needs 2 more weeks to me.

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Sexy Smidge!! Diggin the colors man.. good job!

looks real good smidge!! lots of frost, good job man!!

Harvested a sample from day 65. These nugs and fat ass stem weighed 60 grams wet. I figure I'll take another at 70 and go from there. If you look at the top, she's still throwing pistils like a mofo, so I'm gonna harvest in installments, 15% at a time, until she's ripe AF and get my preference for this pheno nailed.

Looks good Smidge...I never knew plants can't grow new pistols so late....How do those new pistils affect the smoke ?

Man I've harvested sativas outdoors in late November that wouldn't stop throwing pistils. Some had been red since late September, but she continued to flower. It didn't affect the taste a bit. I do know that I prefer the taste and smell of fully ripe pot, but thought I'd try this piecemeal harvest and see if there is a point before fully ripe that I like better. It doesn't hurt that I'm out of last fall's outdoor harvest and am sick of smoking brick.

A word about my experience with trichome checking and harvest. You go and read any of a million articles on harvesting and trichomes, you'll get the standard spill that I won't repeat here. I'll just say that in all my years growing weed and checking fucking trichomes, regardless of strain, I have clear heads, I have cloudy heads, I have amber heads, I have deformed heads, I have newly formed heads with no stalks, I have fully formed heads sitting on super long stalks, etc, etc., all at the same fucking time. Shit ain't never been cut and dried for me on harvesting by trichomes, but I can damn sure tell you when the plants says it's done.

i just posted these for ghost also.

Bringing things up to date, I harvested last Sunday at day 70. I got tired of watching her turn mostly amber in front of me, while still trying to throw new pistils. I also had the next crop ready to go into flower, planning on a 9 week at most flower.

I wound up with 196 grams dried, counting the bud taken at day 65. I used an extra 23 watt bulb on the interior of the canopy the last two weeks, but also shut two bulbs off the last five days after harvesting one main cola. So I'm just gonna use 368 watts as my base number for calculations, since it was used for the majority of the flower. On that basis, that's better than a half gram per watt average, so I'm pleased.

I have a clone of each of the original four girls in the chamber now, untopped and in their natural single-cola growth, with a few side branches, hoping that will give me enough room to see the them all grown together. I have pollinated 2 branches on each one, one from each of the two male phenos.

excellent job smidge well done !

Looking forward to a smoke report.....Sannie's gear has really caught my eye...I have some Sugar Punch on the way as I type this.