Mr Jay's Zero-Sum

[Mr Jay]

Gonna be some math here, although I know my flowers will prevail.

Canadian retailers carry some quality product. Sparkly, tight buds, High THC, measured by the batch. Convenient, and relatively inexpensive.
As good as it will ever be, it does not titillate all of the senses.
The is just no smell.
Flat
The stuff we grow has life to it. Every jar has its own personality.

I have been vegging a few brave souls outdoors, over the summer.
First to show their face was a volunteer, in the soil stalls.
It appeared in a transitional area, between the prepared potting soil and the finished compost. That spot is not irrigated so I was curious how a plant would do in the high organic/drainage poor mulch.
Slow at first, until it was tall enough for the morning sun to give it a boost.
This was when I was taller than it.


Got big enough that I couldn't take a photo with out something in the background. It was a largest I had ever grown.


Came out male. Stinky and spectacular. I have hit some zany crosses in the past- but they have linage! Some better than others, although they at least have a name to go by.
Just couldnt breed unknowns.


This twerp popped up in a carrot pail. Ate my food, became a dude. Not half, not a shade of that other male. I could barely see through that other one, this thing is a Stickman




Twerp first hinted at male whilst big daddy was about to seed the entire RedDeer basin.


That was enough for me.

 

[Mr Jay]

Outback is hot.
Outfront is worse


Had another wave of volunteers come up in the potting soil.
Dug them up for the indoor season.


All troopers. Not much shock to speak of.

Ended with 6 of those.
All volunteer. All unsexed

 

[Mr Jay]

Got some uggs too!!
Planted Mars 18th.
Yes, you read that correctly.
( long and boring stories are my specialty)

12·12 from seed.
Never seen mites on a plant so small. Was like I woke up an army of seamonkeys when I wet that soil.
Coty, first leaf, and then mites.
Their was some emotions.
There was some thrips and whitefly.
Heard of Raid, right?
This was more like Rage.
I guess that's why they call it doctor doom, you shouldn't be spraying it on plants that small.
April 18th

Stalled them at the blades, the growing tip was burnt off

yeah- so there is that.
And that is recovering!
The photo is at 4 weeks.
looking back, I figure I sprayed them at 2 weeks above ground.
They should have been showing sex in the photo, not looking like dorks.
Any normal kind of idiot would have let all go.
When you stare into the pits of hell like that, you may return, but you are not the same.
No one has has accused me of being an normal kind of idiot.
Those seeds meant a lot to me, and I was determined to make something of it.
I popped the whole pack, I popped both packs, and there's nothing I can do about that now.
These things are flowering, it is now May and there's nothing I can do about that now.
Why not double down?
I hit one of each with pollen, and I waited.
June rolled around and shut the show down.
Flowers were nearly finished when I put them outside.
I fed them, and I pampered them, and I dispersed them around the yard.
Two of them in 4gallon pails and four more in icecream buckets.
I did not plant much else, because I know these are all female.


They always look so fresh in the morning sun.


Gals in the big pails did really well





Literally, I saved them all 10 sprouts.
2 for seed, 2 given away as gifts, and six to flower again. I don't actually know who is who at the moment, but they may be even in number.

Coming up on 6 months with these things. Another 70 days wont kill me.
I think Ima gonna hit the runway on this pass. Things is getting sexy around here.

Still too hot for me to grow 'indoors'
In the past, I would start soaking seeds and vegging plants around now. This would get me a harvest by Christmas.
By letting these begin to flower outdoors, when I start my indoor season it will be weeks and weeks ahead of schedule, and I can jump right into a flowering cycle.
I save a bit of money, because I am not paying to veg, I am also getting a jump on my season.


That, and like I said, these seeds mean a lot to me.




Ha , Frimper, you thought you was never going to see those again.

And it could be said, at this point, I got the beans over the franks

 

[Mr Jay]

 

[Frimpong]

Got some uggs too!!
Planted Mars 18th.
Yes, you read that correctly.
( long and boring stories are my specialty)
View attachment 210338
12·12 from seed.
Never seen mites on a plant so small. Was like I woke up an army of seamonkeys when I wet that soil.
Coty, first leaf, and then mites.
Their was some emotions.
There was some thrips and whitefly.
Heard of Raid, right?
This was more like Rage.
I guess that's why they call it doctor doom, you shouldn't be spraying it on plants that small.
April 18th
View attachment 210339
Stalled them at the blades, the growing tip was burnt off

yeah- so there is that.
And that is recovering!
The photo is at 4 weeks.
looking back, I figure I sprayed them at 2 weeks above ground.
They should have been showing sex in the photo, not looking like dorks.
Any normal kind of idiot would have let all go.
When you stare into the pits of hell like that, you may return, but you are not the same.
No one has has accused me of being an normal kind of idiot.
Those seeds meant a lot to me, and I was determined to make something of it.
I popped the whole pack, I popped both packs, and there's nothing I can do about that now.
These things are flowering, it is now May and there's nothing I can do about that now.
Why not double down?
I hit one of each with pollen, and I waited.
June rolled around and shut the show down.
Flowers were nearly finished when I put them outside.
I fed them, and I pampered them, and I dispersed them around the yard.
Two of them in 4gallon pails and four more in icecream buckets.
I did not plant much else, because I know these are all female.
View attachment 210340

They always look so fresh in the morning sun.
View attachment 210341

Gals in the big pails did really well
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Literally, I saved them all 10 sprouts.
2 for seed, 2 given away as gifts, and six to flower again. I don't actually know who is who at the moment, but they may be even in number.

Coming up on 6 months with these things. Another 70 days wont kill me.
I think Ima gonna hit the runway on this pass. Things is getting sexy around here. View attachment 210343

Still too hot for me to grow 'indoors'
In the past, I would start soaking seeds and vegging plants around now. This would get me a harvest by Christmas.
By letting these begin to flower outdoors, when I start my indoor season it will be weeks and weeks ahead of schedule, and I can jump right into a flowering cycle.
I save a bit of money, because I am not paying to veg, I am also getting a jump on my season.


That, and like I said, these seeds mean a lot to me.
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Ha , Frimper, you thought you was never going to see those again.

And it could be said, at this point, I got the beans over the franks
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Stoked bro !

 

[Mr Jay]

Northern Leopard (green morph)

SpurgeHawk Moth Larva


Of that much I'm certain. From there it gets hazy.
-Cannaloupe Hazy

Twas my intention to bring those Freak seeds right up along with their Aunties.
Soaked three, got two. They did well






Here they are ,more recently.




Not showing much yet. Although, if I inspect the tops closely enough one looks to have a top knot.
I think that's a dude, it is the males that grow acorns, inward like that.

This growing tip fans out, I think it is female

I twisted one of the pails around in order to knock off some cobwebs. That is when things got confusing.
In my excitement, I may have pulled beans off of the wrong mother.
I thought these were children of Freak, but the label reads different.



I am inclined to trust what I wrote on the label. Which would mean that these are actually @OldG stock- all Canadian Gals.

This is almost as bad as unlabeled.
I don't usually hang on to unknowns.
The pollen was fosho the same, and considering either female parentage, it's win-win.

 

[Amarok]

Nice to see this again.
(quite the rush when the dam finally burst, eh? )

 

[Chefdave]

Northern Leopard (green morph)
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SpurgeHawk Moth Larva
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Of that much I'm certain. From there it gets hazy.
-Cannaloupe Hazy

Twas my intention to bring those Freak seeds right up along with their Aunties.
Soaked three, got two. They did wellView attachment 210388


View attachment 210389

View attachment 210390

Here they are ,more recently.
View attachment 210392

View attachment 210393

Not showing much yet. Although, if I inspect the tops closely enough one looks to have a top knot.View attachment 210395
I think that's a dude, it is the males that grow acorns, inward like that.

This growing tip fans out, I think it is femaleView attachment 210394

I twisted one of the pails around in order to knock off some cobwebs. That is when things got confusing.
In my excitement, I may have pulled beans off of the wrong mother.
I thought these were children of Freak, but the label reads different.

View attachment 210399

I am inclined to trust what I wrote on the label. Which would mean that these are actually @OldG stock- all Canadian Gals.

This is almost as bad as unlabeled.
I don't usually hang on to unknowns.
The pollen was fosho the same, and considering either female parentage, it's win-win.

Really nice photography of wildlife.!!

 

[Mr Jay]

Nice to see this again.

Feels good.
Once we get consistent lows during sundown , I can fire back up.
I almost wish Jack would get it over with. Those plants aren't getting more than 3 hours a day of direct sunlight.
DLI is low
It's kind of an awkward transition, as I know I could be beefing them bigger inside, even at this moment.
This dilly dally will work for a week or two, yet, week three and four I need to start blasting them -start making hay.
Shut her down by the end of May,

 

[OldG]

Godsherb is a beauty. When I start back up I might have to soak a few

 

[Mr Jay]

Confirmed male !
Thinking that gets me a pair

[KingSherb ×Godbud F3]
×
[Zamald x ( JTRxRespect )]

 

[Mr Jay]

Sept 5



Sept 10


Sept 15
Stay Puft × BBSC
OGKB × " "

 

[Mr Jay]

Best part, this is all gravy.
These plants don't owe me anything.
Testers
They have proven all there is to proof.
If someone is growing out my beans, "how does it smoke?" is the last thing I want to know.
Observations have metrics, and metrics have measurements and measurements have units,,
I want to know:
Germination rate, gender distribution, vigor, size, shape, intersex, consistency, outliers.
Testing implies adversity; what tests did it pass?
I have seen these plants live and die, and they live again.

Everything I have thrown at them, they come up smelling like roses.
I'm not sure there's much you can do to a plant, that I have not already done.

This Janes reunion is going much better than the other one.

 

[Mr Jay]

This Janes reunion is going much better than the other one

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Seed donor

I think that's what you would call a four inch pot, beside a gallon jug.
12's from sprout, she got born, reproduced, and died, - right in that pot.
I was trying to pull a fourth run, last season. The warm summer weather came on early this spring and I just couldn't fit another Luminaire into the heat budget.
So, as I mentioned, all this Freak gear has been vaging outside since late May. They were all the same size as the plant in the first photo,,, and alive, mind you.
I took that crusty photo today, when I was cleaning out the grow room. I had forgotten how small they started/finished.

New shoes, and not much attention, they hit reveg in stride.
No trimming, just dorky, cobwebbed budsticks dispersed amongst the outback.
Brought one in today.
Single blades below the original canopy.

And boom from there.
I can still kinda make out 'old girl' from 'new girl'


Less sun and soil than that bagazz feral male, healthy none the less.






Lil bit of the thrip I'd say.

Absolutely, I have benefited from outdoor applications of biological pest controls. Season is short, waves of hatching in short periods of time. Aphids, thrips mostly. Nasurtium was just starting to come in thick , when the thrips rusted out the whole place . That prompted my first applications. Also, I was greasing up bunny ears with spinosad @ the time , so it was a no brainer. Actually lost a few clumps of flowers , the majority rallied, and now we are enjoying a late season flower show. Saw some borers in chard leaf, didn't see any on canna. I can certainly tell that the plants I am bringing in this fall have less pest the previous years

Anywho, flowers coming in.
Is good


Fellow pollinators


That's the good stuff.
They going to be telling their grandkids about that time they stopped in J's Garden

 

[Mr Jay]

OGKB× BBSC




Seed Momma
Removed top, reveg from below

 

[Mr Jay]

Stay Puft × BBSC





Dense foliage on this girl


This particular individual seems to have initiated slightly before the others, it makes her a candidate for chucking.


Candy striped and flea bit, still she may be a ribbon winner.

 

[Mr Jay]

Another StayPuft × BBSC

Got to say , looking over these things, my sugar cane is staying puffed.



Topped and reveged


Perhaps this one was catching the spray a little better, perhaps it's just a little tougher, as there is very little evidence of pest pressure on this one



Bit of leg here, tallest of the bunch.

 

[Mr Jay]

Plus one
Minus one

That pink Z×(JTR×R) has taken a shade of blue
Makes them both males; No F2's possible.
That, and I am still kicking myself for sowing the wrong seeds.
If I had gotten it right, I could be dusting a true BX, pollinated with her own offspring.
As it stands, I only have one pedigreed male, [{Zamald}× JTR R] and only the BBSC females.
Could make for an interesting cross,. I can't say if these BBSC are spindley; they are in small pots, they have been reveged, and they vegged as shade plants.
I do know that the ZedJTRR line carries some beef.
This is a female, out of the same seed pack.



No business being that chunky, and finishes on the quick.

It wasn't a cross I intended, but a beautiful opportunity has presented itself. Twice
I don't know if I'm trying to talk myself into it, or out of it.

Hella boy, though

Original lad down low, big papa up top.

 

[Frosty78]

Loving the reveg. Big fan of reveg myself. Love your work mate

 

[Mr Jay]

Right proper good to see you, mate !