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GoodShit97 said:
I'm more interested in that Dantes Glue!!
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You gotta join his discord for those or are they gonna hit the website this week? I'm a huge fan of Gelato. Seriously considering running his Gelazzi next.
 
So I grew out some wedding cake autos from greenpoint. Good smoke for autos but one popped nanners and seeded one plant. I also have some Texas Toasted and Texas Chem from them in the ground and in pots in the greenhouse. One of those strains had several herms while in pre-flower which I threw out. I have a couple of females and hope they don’t herm in flower. Not stable genetics. Makes me nervous but one of the plants is super healthy and beautiful looking.

Has anyone had transgender they/them plants from Greenpoint? They have so many strains I’m sure some won’t be stable like what I got. What do they sell that is good and stable? Below are some pics of the wedding cakes.
 

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Garbage_bear said:
So I grew out some wedding cake autos from greenpoint. Good smoke for autos but one popped nanners and seeded one plant. I also have some Texas Toasted and Texas Chem from them in the ground and in pots in the greenhouse. One of those strains had several herms while in pre-flower which I threw out. I have a couple of females and hope they don’t herm in flower. Not stable genetics. Makes me nervous but one of the plants is super healthy and beautiful looking.

Has anyone had transgender they/them plants from Greenpoint? They have so many strains I’m sure some won’t be stable like what I got. What do they sell that is good and stable? Below are some pics of the wedding cakes.
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A full on tranny? No I have not had that happen with anything from GPS.
I have no experience with their autos though since I refuse to grow autos.

That being said, I got these from one Straight Jacket plant

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Hermie is such a broad term but personally the only hermie I will kill is one that throws as many balls as it does pistils at flip. It's gonna be trash weed at the end with billions of tiny white seeds.

Another hermie is one that throws a handful or less of nanners during ripening. Usually the pollen is either sterile or it's so late for the female she will not pollinate but you will find a few tiny yellow flowers in the dried weed.

Lastly is the hermie I never see until I'm breaking up buds and some seeds fall out. That's what Straight Jacket was for me. Roughly 2.5oz of pot with 15 seeds in it and most if not all are well developed, viable, and possibly feminized if the plant in fact selfed itself.
I consider this type of hermie a return on my seed investment since I will grow these seeds and see what comes from them
 
I grew their stuff for a year or so but stopped after having hermies in around 50% of the stuff I grew. I really don't have these issues with any other breeder, except occasionally Ethos. I gave up when some feminized things became full blown males......

But I took advantage of some sales and bought a bunch of stuff but stayed away from their Animal cookies hybrids......
 
GoodShit97 said:
Wasn't anything crazy though.
10 or so sacs per plant. Nothing to bitch about imo, especially when the bud was as good as it was and the seeds were as cheap as they were 🤷🏻
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I've got a local acquaintance that runs exclusively GPS. He claims to be one of their "testers." He continues to produce seed-free weed. Quality is mediocre most of the time but his recent Zeppoli harvest was fire. He's finally getting his grows tuned in and quality seems to improve with every harvest. I'm not gonna shy away from GPS. I hermed my first grow so I ain't afraid of a few ballsacks (no homo).

My dip-n-stix is coming along nicely and I'm honestly a little surprised she didn't herm or throw out some nanners. She's been a bit neglected. Can't wait for a smoke sesh. Smells like a creamy cheese.
 
GrumpAzz said:
I've got a local acquaintance that runs exclusively GPS. He claims to be one of their "testers." He continues to produce seed-free weed. Quality is mediocre most of the time but his recent Zeppoli harvest was fire. He's finally getting his grows tuned in and quality seems to improve with every harvest. I'm not gonna shy away from GPS. I hermed my first grow so I ain't afraid of a few ballsacks (no homo).

My dip-n-stix is coming along nicely and I'm honestly a little surprised she didn't herm or throw out some nanners. She's been a bit neglected. Can't wait for a smoke sesh. Smells like a creamy cheese.
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This is pretty much my experience with dozens of GPS strains over 6 years of growing them. I can't even say for certain the 15 seeds I pulled from Straight Jacket are from hermie and not residual pollen from the previous grow which I pollinated the crop.
This grow again, nothing is showing hermie.
The weird thing is all the talk about the Animal Cookies either herming or not being very good while for me they've done nothing but perform at a high level and produce dank weed.
It makes me think there's other factors in growing that's causing hermies to show while other factors may suppress hermie traits. I always thought it was 100% genetics so what hermies for one will do it to another but that's obviously not the case here.
 
Bandit420 said:
A full on tranny? No I have not had that happen with anything from GPS.
I have no experience with their autos though since I refuse to grow autos.

That being said, I got these from one Straight Jacket plant

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Hermie is such a broad term but personally the only hermie I will kill is one that throws as many balls as it does pistils at flip. It's gonna be trash weed at the end with billions of tiny white seeds.

Another hermie is one that throws a handful or less of nanners during ripening. Usually the pollen is either sterile or it's so late for the female she will not pollinate but you will find a few tiny yellow flowers in the dried weed.

Lastly is the hermie I never see until I'm breaking up buds and some seeds fall out. That's what Straight Jacket was for me. Roughly 2.5oz of pot with 15 seeds in it and most if not all are well developed, viable, and possibly feminized if the plant in fact selfed itself.
I consider this type of hermie a return on my seed investment since I will grow these seeds and see what comes from them
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@Bandit420, I'd share some of the autos I grew this winter with you if you're in mid Michigan. You might change your mind about growing them ... especially outside.

- I'll start with the disclaimer -
It's a small sample size so having dealt with some herms in the past with other genetics, I'm not claiming that GPS seeds don't ever herm. Only that I have had good luck so far. I also think you'd be very pleasantly surprised in the quality of the GPS autos I grew this past winter.

Here it goes ... I grew 3 autoflower plants from Greenpoint Seeds this past winter. I grew them along side 9 photoperiod plants. The GPS were a test run for me because my greenhouse has 12 of their autoflower plants in it currently. I also plan to run 12 more which I will start inside in a couple of weeks and then rotate them outside as the first 12 mature.

My findings:
1) The Oreoz auto and the 2 Chem 4 autos I grew this winter have been complete fire! They are just as strong as my Gorilla Roadkill skunk and my Fire OG The Chem 4 has been the best chemdog I have had in over a decade.

2) I have not found a single seed or male flower yet ... 15 plants total. (3 harvested and dried and 12 currently in flower). I also nailed the environment from start to finish on my winter run so no real stress on any of the plants.

For those who are still thinking autos are inferior, that's changing these days. It might be time to reconsider growing them especially if you're growing outdoors in a northern climate. I ran 2 autoflower crops last year in a Michigan summer. My first 12 were started indoors the first week of April. Those were harvested in late June early July. The second round was started the first week of June. The second run finished well before fall weather issues set in (early Sept). I'll be doing the same thing this summer. I'm actually excited about the GPS genetics.

All from their autoflower section:
1st run-
Oreoz
Apple Fritter
Blue Dream

2nd run-
Chem 4
Wedding Cake
and maybe Gelato

Edit: Picture from my greenhouse security camera

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MiGrampa said:
@Bandit420, I'd share some of the autos I grew this winter with you if you're in mid Michigan. You might change your mind about growing them ... especially outside.

- I'll start with the disclaimer -
It's a small sample size so having dealt with some herms in the past with other genetics, I'm not claiming that GPS seeds don't ever herm. Only that I have had good luck so far. I also think you'd be very pleasantly surprised in the quality of the GPS autos I grew this past winter.

Here it goes ... I grew 3 autoflower plants from Greenpoint Seeds this past winter. I grew them along side 9 photoperiod plants. The GPS were a test run for me because my greenhouse has 12 of their autoflower plants in it currently. I also plan to run 12 more which I will start inside in a couple of weeks and then rotate them outside as the first 12 mature.

My findings:
1) The Oreoz auto and the 2 Chem 4 autos I grew this winter have been complete fire! They are just as strong as my Gorilla Roadkill skunk and my Fire OG The Chem 4 has been the best chemdog I have had in over a decade.

2) I have not found a single seed or male flower yet ... 15 plants total. (3 harvested and dried and 12 currently in flower). I also nailed the environment from start to finish on my winter run so no real stress on any of the plants.

For those who are still thinking autos are inferior, that's changing these days. It might be time to reconsider growing them especially if you're growing outdoors in a northern climate. I ran 2 autoflower crops last year in a Michigan summer. My first 12 were started indoors the first week of April. Those were harvested in late June early July. The second round was started the first week of June. The second run finished well before fall weather issues set in (early Sept). I'll be doing the same thing this summer. I'm actually excited about the GPS genetics.

All from their autoflower section:
1st run-
Oreoz
Apple Fritter
Blue Dream

2nd run-
Chem 4
Wedding Cake
and maybe Gelato

Edit: Picture from my greenhouse security camera

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my last few RA snoops have all been the autos!! :) haven't seen a good enough deal yet or tried hard enough yet but wanted them for outside just like you did, i have a small polytunnel i wanted to put two or three in.. i have some other auto seeds from growers choice seeds a while back so i might start those.

i wish this rumor of GPS having herms would get bigger, might make the prices come back down.. or at least scare off the dummies paying $50 a pack!!! :ROFLMAO:
 
Stoneyluv said:
my last few RA snoops have all been the autos!! :) haven't seen a good enough deal yet or tried hard enough yet but wanted them for outside just like you did, i have a small polytunnel i wanted to put two or three in.. i have some other auto seeds from growers choice seeds a while back so i might start those.

i wish this rumor of GPS having herms would get bigger, might make the prices come back down.. or at least scare off the dummies paying $50 a pack!!! :ROFLMAO:
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I worked their reverse auction over the winter months to get what I have for my summer run. None over $25.00 a pack ... but it took some patience.
 
MiGrampa said:
I worked their reverse auction over the winter months to get what I have for my summer run. None over $25.00 a pack ... but it took some patience.
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my most i ever paid was $37.50 and that was recently to get platinum frosting. my lowest score was $8.70 for a pack of texas butter!! but that was before they redid the logins so ya know pics or it didn't happen. 😆
 
Stoneyluv said:
my most i ever paid was $37.50 and that was recently to get platinum frosting. my lowest score was $8.70 for a pack of texas butter!! but that was before they redid the logins so ya know pics or it didn't happen. 😆
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I did notice that prices took a jump right after Christmas. By the new year, the only strain I had not yet gotten was Wedding Cake. Prices had about doubled and many people would cash out at around $35 per pack on the reverse auctions. It took me probably until March before I finally got the Wedding Cake because I wasn't going to pay more. The autos I grew from them this winter were out of this world in taste and more than strong enough for a long time daily smoker.
 
MiGrampa said:
I did notice that prices took a jump right after Christmas. By the new year, the only strain I had not yet gotten was Wedding Cake. Prices had about doubled and many people would cash out at around $35 per pack on the reverse auctions. It took me probably until March before I finally got the Wedding Cake because I wasn't going to pay more. The autos I grew from them this winter were out of this world in taste and more than strong enough for a long time daily smoker.
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my neighbor has been growing autos exclusively for years now. he brings dank all the time.. i squish and run BHO from his stuff and it has the same potency as anything else. he gets all his gear from growers choice hence why i have some from them!!! i know i have cotton candy and two others, i gotta look.
 
Stoneyluv said:
my neighbor has been growing autos exclusively for years now. he brings dank all the time.. i squish and run BHO from his stuff and it has the same potency as anything else. he gets all his gear from growers choice hence why i have some from them!!! i know i have cotton candy and two others, i gotta look.
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I still grow photoperiod plants, but only inside where I can control the environment from start to finish. Outside in mid September, you begin to hit the dew point every night and that's when many growers begin to struggle with wpm and bud rot. In places with longer summers, its easier to finish a photoperiod plant.
 
Stoneyluv said:
my neighbor has been growing autos exclusively for years now. he brings dank all the time.. i squish and run BHO from his stuff and it has the same potency as anything else. he gets all his gear from growers choice hence why i have some from them!!! i know i have cotton candy and two others, i gotta look.
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My neighbor grew out the American Haze from Growers Choice and it was danky dank!!
 
MiGrampa said:
I still grow photoperiod plants, but only inside where I can control the environment from start to finish. Outside in mid September, you begin to hit the dew point every night and that's when many growers begin to struggle with wpm and bud rot. In places with longer summers, its easier to finish a photoperiod plant.
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decided not to try those older seeds, wasn't impressed with the bud when i grew it so i grabbed a pack of these... hope to start them very soon!

do you suggest starting them in the final pot? or can i start smaller and transplant in a week or so?

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Stoneyluv said:
decided not to try those older seeds, wasn't impressed with the bud when i grew it so i grabbed a pack of these... hope to start them very soon!

do you suggest starting them in the final pot? or can i start smaller and transplant in a week or so?

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I would start in final pot. 3 Gallon minimum.
I ran autos 2 years ago out in my greenhouse and started them in solos and transplanted at 1-2 weeks knowing that most say go to final pot right away.
Thought if I paid attention and did not waste time I could do as I wished.
The plants grew well by all accounts but when done I looked at the roots and most were still the size of the solo cup or barely any bigger.
I wondered why some seemed to almost tip over in the pot...
 
Stoneyluv said:
decided not to try those older seeds, wasn't impressed with the bud when i grew it so i grabbed a pack of these... hope to start them very soon!

do you suggest starting them in the final pot? or can i start smaller and transplant in a week or so?

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I started mine in one gallon pots and then transplanted them to 5 gallons when I moved them outside.

I know that this goes against the conventional recommendation of starting them in their final pot to prevent transplant shock, but it is very "do-able" to transplant especially if you have some experience transplanting. My first time growing autos, I started them in their final pot (5 gallon size) and it took almost a month for them to need water. I thought that sitting in that large wet pot for a month did more harm than good. Since then figured I would take my chances so I could water/fertilize more often. I have had no problems what-so-ever with this approach ....

Edit: Here's a picture. Apple Fritter are the 4 plants in the back on the left hand side.

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No veg growing is like growing autos but without the auto. 🙃

Back when I was ordering seeds from the UK the orders always came with freebie autos so I'd grow them out but it was just never good pot IMO. Probably why those seeds were always free.
Of course genetics have come a long ways since 15 years ago so there's been the casual glance when they're on RA but never make it to the cart. Been waiting for somebody else to grow them which I kinda think says something in that I trust GPS with pretty much everything and will rely on them to be my #1 seed bank but I still don't trust the autos even if they are GPS.

Usually I grew them outdoors in 3 gallon fabric bags and once indoors in a French made bare root vertical NFT system just to see if weed could grow off a wall. It worked and they played nice doing that kooky experiment.
I never really saw them or treated them as special needs kids. I treated them like growing basil or something with good soil, spot in the sun, and watered as needed.
Looking at my old files I can only find one pic of an auto...

"Roadrunner" outdoors circa 2009

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MiGrampa said:
I started mine in one gallon pots and then transplanted them to 5 gallons when I moved them outside.

I know that this goes against the conventional recommendation of starting them in their final pot to prevent transplant shock, but it is very "do-able" to transplant especially if you have some experience transplanting. My first time growing autos, I started them in their final pot (5 gallon size) and it took almost a month for them to need water. I thought that sitting in that large wet pot for a month did more harm than good. Since then figured I would take my chances so I could water/fertilize more often. I have had no problems what-so-ever with this approach ....

Edit: Here's a picture. Apple Fritter are the 4 plants in the back on the left hand side.

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This is the style of greenhouse I’m looking for. Do you mind me asking where you got it?
 
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