Turtlehermit's 2nd Mexican Sativa bagseed

Hello friends of RIU

Please be welcome to my 2nd grow with this great bagseed plant. Give your input if you have any!
So if you look in my signature you can see my first grow with the bagseed, so click on that and you'll see where I got these two seedlings. I pollinated that plant with a great male because I wanted to get used to one strain as someone who would like to make learning easier and more accurate.

That thread was posted in Newbie Central. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to make a journal?

Okay aside from all that. Here is the bagseed whom I've taken to labeling, Desert Plum.
Lets hope I get a female out of this and she actually grows...to harvest a quality yield.



It rained and the wind blew.


In my first grow I had major problems and you can go and read all that by clicking the link to it in my signature. It involved ripped roots and the consequential move to immediate outside blooming and the dwarfing of the DesertPlum.

Anyway, I hope to get some subscribers to this grow and I hope to impress with it and maybe I can get a good quality personal harvest this growing season.

Question for all of you ground growers: Can I place just three gallons of soil into the ground and have the plant grow it through that? What is your method of taking care of nutrients in the ground.

what is the none weed plant in the background

and why are you growing bagseed

when real and known seeds can be found very locally and cheaply

thank you

Yes you can just place the soil on the ground and grow in that. However its recommend you dig up and turn over the soil underneath (roots will have an easier time of it) it also helps to then mix in any soil/ composts.

Im a touch paranoid and wont have the seeds posted. Therefore I have been growing the same strain (ish) of bag seed for years and years- Aussie Blue .

Being a gorilla grower I usually find a few seeds in my plants every harvest. Good old bees, wind and birds at work. So my strain continues to evolve.

I wanted to start off with non-purchased ,non-breeder seeds to get pepped into growing my stash. Eventually I'll grow a bang once I get the hang of this! Another benefit I think I'll learn from approaching the unknown is I'll be able to distinguish the sheer potency difference between breeder genetics and starting from a bagseed scratch and learn to identify the characteristics of sativa and indica in their most natural form.

Oh that thing is a banana plant. xD It is really just a random brush I thought was pretty and including in the background of the picture.

Lucky Luke said:

Yes you can just place the soil on the ground and grow in that. However its recommend you dig up and turn over the soil underneath (roots will have an easier time of it) it also helps to then mix in any soil/ composts.

Im a touch paranoid and wont have the seeds posted. Therefore I have been growing the same strain (ish) of bag seed for years and years- Aussie Blue .

Being a gorilla grower I usually find a few seeds in my plants every harvest. Good old bees, wind and birds at work. So my strain continues to evolve.

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Awesome so I will place it directly into the ground when it is big enough.
My bagseed is from bud gotten from my ol man he had a quarter pound sack of brick buds and I took seeds from it. I don't know if it is actually a Mexican sativa but it comes from a bricked bud so I think maybe it might come from Mexico.

It is unique to grow this bagseed because as a newb I want to learn as much as possible and I know when I screw up on a unknown bagseed strain I will likely see it in the harvest and in that we can differentiate from a more stable breeder strain that will harvest dank bud quite literally no matter your lackings during the growing.
a bud from the three gram harvest of my last DesertPlum plant and first grow with her

Turtlehermit said:

Awesome so I will place it directly into the ground when it is big enough.
My bagseed is from bud gotten from my ol man he had a quarter pound sack of brick buds and I took seeds from it. I don't know if it is actually a Mexican sativa but it comes from a bricked bud so I think maybe it might come from Mexico.

It is unique to grow this bagseed because as a newb I want to learn as much as possible and I know when I screw up on a unknown bagseed strain I will likely see it in the harvest and in that we can differentiate from a more stable breeder strain that will harvest dank bud quite literally no matter your lackings during the growing.
a bud from the three gram harvest of my last DesertPlum plant and first grow with her
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One of my favorite strains is from bag seed sativa dominant I'm sure. But no idea of strain want to pollinate it but have no pollen wish you could buy pollen

Michiganjesse said:

One of my favorite strains is from bag seed sativa dominant I'm sure. But no idea of strain want to pollinate it but have no pollen wish you could buy pollen

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What do you mean one of your favorite strains? Just strains out of your garden? My advice if you want to keep her for another run is for you to try to reveg it and when you toss more seeds into the soil for the next run conserve a male for pollen and pollinate her.

Turtlehermit said:

What do you mean one of your favorite strains? Just strains out of your garden? My advice if you want to keep her for another run is for you to try to reveg it and when you toss more seeds into the soil for the next run conserve a male for pollen and pollinate her.

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Yes I have one clone I took from her prior to flower so I can pollinate her. I just don't have a solid male to use. Going to try and get some pollen from a friend before I put her into flower. I don't know the strain. My friends save me random bag seeds no idea what this came out of but the smoke is my favorite high I like very few sativa dominant they make me paranoid but indica makes me to couch lock to use for day time this smoke was perfect for me. Just the right mix uplifting yet no paranoia hard to find stains for me. But I'm fighting a tumor I need to eat alot of weed daily. My favorite strain yes it is its own strain I'm sure just not sure it's origin it came from cannabis from a dispensary near me.

Here is (plant 1) Desert Plum, after ten days.



Another shot of (Plant 1) Desert Plum, front of plant.




Out of sight and out of detail from this grow this entire time has been the only female other female who survived the transplant to outdoor from my original Desert Plum grow.
I didn't wanna include this one into my journal earlier on because she didn't want to grow after the transplant shock and so I didn't think she would make it; ontop of that, she is not the Desert Plum. She was flowering along side the original DP under the sun but she was not having fun, and stunted growth severely. I kept her alive and hoped she'd reveg, and bent her top down just a few weeks ago to promote branching. It worked! This plant, being the only mature beauty I have, has propped back up and well into a ginormous growth spurt. Glad I kept onto her!
She is a seed from berry scented mid I purchased a long ago.
I hope the other two Desert Storms make it to harvest but this bagseed is as TOUGH as a armadillo I know she will!
Temperature during the days outside is over a hundred degrees, enough to stress the little ones but this new bagseed who I'll call "Sandshrew" is growing on.


The powder you can see around her is Diatomaceous earth. Alot of bugs in this area. Rollypollys are especially heinous. I have this weird grasshopper like bug who crawls all over the leafs, mostly stem, and I'd like to get a photo of it up sometime soon so someone can identify it for me. The DE definitely isn't working on it, it stays around the plant and I can't catch it with my fingers :Y There are bite marks on more and more of the leaf popping up, and also webs around the stems of my plant. Pretty sure the webs might be spider mites?


I started hitting the plant with Bayer Neem oil a week back every other day because of said bug infestation mentioned above. That better fricken get rid of them! So far it doesn't seem to be making the grasshopper thingy go away.


Updown view! I always love updown views of the cannabis plants because it gives a awesome observable view of the leaf structure.
You see the black plastic on the ground? I staked that into the ground to keep local chickens away that were caught resting beds by my plant. Probably keeps the ground cooler too, but I wouldn't assume that.

Today is July 29th and both of my plants are doing well.

Unfortunately my seedling decided to hit puberty early and grew some balls.
Remember Desert Plum seedling? Here ^he is. In the unfolded disclosure of it's balls, (ladies, this photo is for ^you) I decided to plant it into the ground a few feet away from my big girl. I might want to pollinate one of her branches and get some seeds (F2 I believe?).

Anyway, he's a scraggly one, but spent a month in a quart container so lol, and still healthy after the ground transplant. I expect it to get bigger. Leafs are all recovering from a heavy storm so mind it's bad hair day.
Look at it's leafs, aren't they charming? Sativa slender <3


In this pic you can really get a closeup of those balls. Good gracious, just White as can be; almost blinding with those pearls!

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Alright now onto the big one.
-drum beats-

Are you ready?

Here she is.

The future depends on her. If only she can make the appropriate decision and harvest gold I will be a happy grandfather.



Look at that side view. LOOK AT IT!

Spectacular branching on this lstd plant.




KK that wraps up this update. Until next time, hopefully flowering. Hope you like me (Turtlehermit) and my Desert Plum.