Outdoor @40North featuring Spanish Sativa and Church F1 outcross (Isis)

Hi all, this is my 4th outdoor organic grow and i thought i would share with the virtual world, since i keep my secret garden very secret in my community.

I got a single seed to sprout from a pack of 5 coming from Greenhouse Seed Company. At least it is feminized, so i can clone her. She is an Arjan's Haze 1.

The other seeds are a cross from Greenhouse Seed Company's The Church and intersex bagseed. I call it Isis, since it is Inter-Sex. The 5 pack I got from Greenhouse Seed Company only germinated one seed last year also, so NO more seeds from them!

I also have some random seeds from a friend in Spain.

So, I should get some variety this year which is always rewarding.

I started with 30 seedlings and selected the best 11. I just killed 3 males. So now I have 3 Spanish, 1 Haze and 4 Isis. 6 have shown female preflowers and 2 are slow to show, so I get to go sniffing their stinky little crotches later this week to determine their sex.

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Here you can see the preflowers. Getting stinky already.

My special Fresh Fish Tea to mask the odor and provide a June Booster of minerals and vitamins and such.

You can find photos on the Organic board. Stinky stuff!!!

Nice!

Here is the Haze, coming along nicely, but behind the others since i germinated later to be sure i got at least one seed from the 5 pack to sprout. She is a little cutie already though.

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She seems to be riding this stormy weather without problems.

you can see the damage on the leaf from the cold, wet and wind....but they will all survive. the price of an early start. but the extra vegging time pays off. massive roots and stems means stickier buds!

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here is my spanish girl, looking very Sativa and Sexy.

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the mixed patch, with ISIS and spanish mix. ISIS are very uniform so far for an F1 accident.

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Looking good man! AH1 is some really good smoke! Best of the best to ya!

Plants look great. When do you determine the sex of your plants? I've read about microsexing before flowering, and I've read people who say it's better to just begin flowering and determine then. Just wondering, I've grown from clone in the past but this is my first time from seed. Trying to figure out the best way to sex them

Plants look great. When do you determine the sex of your plants? I've read about microsexing before flowering, and I've read people who say it's better to just begin flowering and determine then. Just wondering, I've grown from clone in the past but this is my first time from seed. Trying to figure out the best way to sex them

usually between 4-7 weeks after germinating, you will see the pistils or stamens forming at the 4th node or so. visible to the naked eye, especially if you get male flowers as in my photo.

check out this problem i am getting with my ISIS....weird!

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any thoughts?

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Finally a sunny day to see the Haze and Spanish Girl.

:hello::

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Quick update on the girls.

Time to pinch back the tallest and allow the shorties to catch up.

Also, begin training the remaining plants to fill the space where the males used to be. Don't wanna waste that precious sunlight!!

Still some weird leaf edge curls, but going away slowley. The 2 plants with symptoms get the worst wind and are from the F1 accident(Isis). Curious to see what they end up doing.

Here is the Haze coming along with a little more sunshine!

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Here are the other girls. Looking healthy now.

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Girls are filling in with the lovely sunshine on them!

Check out these preflowers on my Haze plant.
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They are looking allot like males on my plant that germinated from a Feminised Seed that i ordered from Greenhouse Seed Co.

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The girls are filling in!

I gotta say that my Arjan Haze 1 is looking like a male, check this shit out.

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My only feminized seed to sprout is a MALE!

I got my 30x scope and BT killer! This evening I will visit the 'patch' and verify that the Haze is a Hermie or not, and spray the crop with killing bacteria!!!

Well this weeks trip to the grow patch revealed that my Feminized Seed from the GHS was either a hermie or a male. Only one in the pack to sprout too!

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Good news is that it is already in full flower, so i can keep the clones i made in pots far away and perhaps use them for breeding a few seeds. Maybe take it to an ISIS and see how the Church's genes mingle with the Haze.