YardG
In Bloom
This is a project I've had a on the backburner for a few years that I decided I really ought to get to this year, rather than continuing to make excuses and push it off another year. I purchased these seeds from Reeferman Seeds (RMS) back in 05 or 06. It was a big investment for me at the time ($200 for a 12 pack, to date still the most I've ever spent for a single pack of seeds, and yes I really wish I had bought two packs) but I had a burning desire to have them - despite that Reef warned me that Petrolia Headstash was meant to be a breeding tool and that I shouldn't expect to get connoisseur level smoke off of them.
Jump forward in time a good 15 years (during which the beans sat in a mason jar in various fridges in cheap rental apartments, always too precious to be touched) and I reckoned it was time, so I came up with a scheme for these seeds... yes an outdoor field grow would likely be the best plan of action... but for pure get'er'done reproduction purposes I decided to grow them in a tent.
Anyway, started these sometime around the middle of April I think? 12 dropped, 9 made it through to emerge from the soil. Grew really poorly for a long time... I think they were super sensitive to low root zone temps perhaps? Sucks but an unheated outbuilding is all I had to work with. Funny but while they were looking like shit for the longest time other plants in the same tent were perfectly happy. Thankfully we got beyond the crappy cold weather and they perked up. I got a mix of the tall pheno plants and the short pheno plants (for those not in the know, despite Petrolia Headstash's reputation as a "pre-Soviet Afghani" there are at the very least 2 commonly found phenos: the short broader leafed Afghani leaners and a tall narrow leaf one as well).
Switched to flower lighting on June 7th and they immediately responded (several had alternating nodes already so not too surprising). I was worried for a day or two because I started seeing a few plants throw pistils, but I hadn't spotted a single male. I started to look at other starts outdoors for a male to use if I somehow ended up with 9 females. Thankfully I spotted a male among the tall pheno Petrolia plants this morning so I can at least rest assured they won't all be female. Ideally I'd like to have at least one tall and one short pheno male, but obviously you get what you get (the more the merrier).
Really hard to tell the difference in the crappy photo I took this morning (hard to get in there during lights on time), but there's an immense size difference between the tall and short pheno plants (nevermind the runt that finally grew out, a bit).
Besides this pack I also have a Nierika pack of Petrolia Headstash and a pack of Petrolia Headstash (both phenos) x Pink Kush from Green Rebel Farms. Given the low # I'm starting from my plan was to repro the 06 seeds, then repro the Nierika seeds, and then start working them together. Depending on how this reproduction run goes I may work on getting more packs from the Nierika release. I'll work on better photos moving forward, decided to do lights on overnight so as avoid the daytime heat which complicates grabbing photos (hoping beyond hope that we don't lose power overnight at all this summer, it would be unusual but you never know).
Jump forward in time a good 15 years (during which the beans sat in a mason jar in various fridges in cheap rental apartments, always too precious to be touched) and I reckoned it was time, so I came up with a scheme for these seeds... yes an outdoor field grow would likely be the best plan of action... but for pure get'er'done reproduction purposes I decided to grow them in a tent.
Anyway, started these sometime around the middle of April I think? 12 dropped, 9 made it through to emerge from the soil. Grew really poorly for a long time... I think they were super sensitive to low root zone temps perhaps? Sucks but an unheated outbuilding is all I had to work with. Funny but while they were looking like shit for the longest time other plants in the same tent were perfectly happy. Thankfully we got beyond the crappy cold weather and they perked up. I got a mix of the tall pheno plants and the short pheno plants (for those not in the know, despite Petrolia Headstash's reputation as a "pre-Soviet Afghani" there are at the very least 2 commonly found phenos: the short broader leafed Afghani leaners and a tall narrow leaf one as well).
Switched to flower lighting on June 7th and they immediately responded (several had alternating nodes already so not too surprising). I was worried for a day or two because I started seeing a few plants throw pistils, but I hadn't spotted a single male. I started to look at other starts outdoors for a male to use if I somehow ended up with 9 females. Thankfully I spotted a male among the tall pheno Petrolia plants this morning so I can at least rest assured they won't all be female. Ideally I'd like to have at least one tall and one short pheno male, but obviously you get what you get (the more the merrier).
Really hard to tell the difference in the crappy photo I took this morning (hard to get in there during lights on time), but there's an immense size difference between the tall and short pheno plants (nevermind the runt that finally grew out, a bit).
Besides this pack I also have a Nierika pack of Petrolia Headstash and a pack of Petrolia Headstash (both phenos) x Pink Kush from Green Rebel Farms. Given the low # I'm starting from my plan was to repro the 06 seeds, then repro the Nierika seeds, and then start working them together. Depending on how this reproduction run goes I may work on getting more packs from the Nierika release. I'll work on better photos moving forward, decided to do lights on overnight so as avoid the daytime heat which complicates grabbing photos (hoping beyond hope that we don't lose power overnight at all this summer, it would be unusual but you never know).
