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A Turkey In The Hay 🦃

Found a home for the 3rd of 4 light strips that I bought for my little seed starting area, all the lighting in the kitchen is behind me so I'm always working in my shadow, so it's a game changer at the espresso bar! ☕🐸 IMG_20250205_102236_01.jpg
 
Update: 2/6

72 hours since wetting and I don't have a good feeling about these seeds, only three out of five cracked and only one of those developed a tail, the other two just cracked and sat there

Regardless, I've transferred the 3 into my small 3 inch square pots, they're sitting at a steady 79°f

I'm ordering some other seeds today so if these fail I won't be too far behind 😕
 
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UPDATE:

These are the two that haven't cracked

the one that put out a tail is already above the soil which is a great sign

so I'm still holding out hope for those two that cracked but then just sat there for 18 hours or so

79°f in the new seed starter, so far it's working flawlesslyIMG_20250206_122434~2.jpgIMG_20250206_122357~2.jpgIMG_20250206_122741.jpg
 
UPDATE:

So the two Red Beard Platinum OG Kush seeds that didn't crack are waterlogged, black & likely dead. I'll give them thru the weekend before I toss them

There's still a possibility that the two that did crack but then stopped growing could come up out of the Pro-mix, so I'll give them a while longer

At this point I'm glad no one took me up on my offer for the rest of the Green Point seeds because I've just started three GPS Onyx Crush, at least they came right up like fresh seeds should

The way I see it I'm already a week behind cuz of the poor start of the Red Beard seeds, so rather than wait another week or possibly longer for a seed delivery, then another week to get them sprouted, I'll just start what I have here, and go from there 😕

This is the one RB Platinum OG Kush that did grow, todayIMG_20250207_010947.jpg
 
I have had very fast delivery from North Atlantic Seed Company.
They are in Maine.
They are having a sale now also.
 
steamroller said:
I have had very fast delivery from North Atlantic Seed Company.
They are in Maine.
They are having a sale now also.
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Thanks for sharing that, they even have the LA Affie by Swerve, which is some of the best cannabis I've ever grown, ran it for years starting back in 2015 when I started growing again, and it's cheaper than ordering off the CC website too

I'm going to go with what I have now, the GPS Onyx Crush seems like a great mix of genetics, and because they were my first grow in almost 4 years in a brand new grow room I'm going to give them a second try

In the meantime I'm going to order some LA Affy from that website you sent me, and that will be my next run, might pop a couple outdoors this spring too

Are you from Maine by chance? If you are you got half a foot of snow in your driveway, better get at it! 😂🤣😂

The reason I ask is I have always heard about the legendary Christmas Tree Bud from Maine, I know a couple of outdoor growers here, but I haven't asked them about it yet, would love to find some!Screenshot_20250207-080912.jpg
 
Beachwalker said:
Thanks for sharing that, they even have the LA Affie by Swerve, which is some of the best cannabis I've ever grown, ran it for years starting back in 2015 when I started growing again, and it's cheaper than ordering off the CC website too
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That's awesome~!
I have used NASC for Ethos seeds I can't get in Mass. at the grow stores. I get 2-3 day delivery everytime.
Wife and I like to go for rides in the good weather and Mass. was legal before NY so just where I have gone.
When I found NASC and saw they were in Maine it seemed like a no brainer to me.
Even with NY being legal I don't buy any of my seeds from here.

Beachwalker said:
Are you from Maine by chance? If you are you got half a foot of snow in your driveway, better get at it! 😂🤣😂

The reason I ask is I have always heard about the legendary Christmas Tree Bud from Maine, I know a couple of outdoor growers here, but I haven't asked them about it yet, would love to find some!
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I am not from Maine but have gone for most of my life [ now 60 years ].
My father, brother and sister have all lived in Maine.
Last couple years we just go up to Wells to visit my brother inlaw at the beach house he and my sister had.
Kind of a family get together for brother and I and memorial for sister all in one.
Kind of sucks going up in October though.
I love summer on the beach. I love the sun and probably why I work outside.
Living in upstate NY is rough enough, I don't think I would enjoy Maine the same if I had to winter it~!
I am in Saratoga NY where Horses, Health, and History are the mantra.
My heart belongs to Maine though.

We had snow and sleet most of yesterday, a little today and expecting 4-8 inches tomorrow.
I will likely get the tractor going to make sure end of driveway is clear but we are having 40-50mph gust now at 30ish so not in any real hurry.
Bad weather is the only time I take off, so I am really good at staying inside.
 
steamroller said:
That's awesome~!
I have used NASC for Ethos seeds I can't get in Mass. at the grow stores. I get 2-3 day delivery everytime.
Wife and I like to go for rides in the good weather and Mass. was legal before NY so just where I have gone.
When I found NASC and saw they were in Maine it seemed like a no brainer to me.
Even with NY being legal I don't buy any of my seeds from here.


I am not from Maine but have gone for most of my life [ now 60 years ].
My father, brother and sister have all lived in Maine.
Last couple years we just go up to Wells to visit my brother inlaw at the beach house he and my sister had.
Kind of a family get together for brother and I and memorial for sister all in one.
Kind of sucks going up in October though.
I love summer on the beach. I love the sun and probably why I work outside.
Living in upstate NY is rough enough, I don't think I would enjoy Maine the same if I had to winter it~!
I am in Saratoga NY where Horses, Health, and History are the mantra.
My heart belongs to Maine though.

We had snow and sleet most of yesterday, a little today and expecting 4-8 inches tomorrow.
I will likely get the tractor going to make sure end of driveway is clear but we are having 40-50mph gust now at 30ish so not in any real hurry.
Bad weather is the only time I take off, so I am really good at staying inside.
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Ongonquit and Flos Hot Dogs, riding the trolleys, great. Saw George Bush (and his double) go out in a fishing boat. Fished in the Sacco River and camped at Bar Harbor. LL Bean HQ 24x7 forever. When I lived in NH we would bomb up to Maine for steamers summer burns.
 
SiamSam said:
Ongonquit and Flos Hot Dogs, riding the trolleys, great. Saw George Bush (and his double) go out in a fishing boat. Fished in the Sacco River and camped at Bar Harbor. LL Bean HQ 24x7 forever. When I lived in NH we would bomb up to Maine for steamers summer burns.
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You forgot Nubble light~!
I have Perkins cove on a video stream from Barnacle Billys~!
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I check Maine out everyday and definitely have passed by Walkers Point many times while cruising through Kennebunk.
😎
 
steamroller said:
That's awesome~!
I have used NASC for Ethos seeds I can't get in Mass. at the grow stores. I get 2-3 day delivery everytime.
Wife and I like to go for rides in the good weather and Mass. was legal before NY so just where I have gone.
When I found NASC and saw they were in Maine it seemed like a no brainer to me.
Even with NY being legal I don't buy any of my seeds from here.


I am not from Maine but have gone for most of my life [ now 60 years ].
My father, brother and sister have all lived in Maine.
Last couple years we just go up to Wells to visit my brother inlaw at the beach house he and my sister had.
Kind of a family get together for brother and I and memorial for sister all in one.
Kind of sucks going up in October though.
I love summer on the beach. I love the sun and probably why I work outside.
Living in upstate NY is rough enough, I don't think I would enjoy Maine the same if I had to winter it~!
I am in Saratoga NY where Horses, Health, and History are the mantra.
My heart belongs to Maine though.

We had snow and sleet most of yesterday, a little today and expecting 4-8 inches tomorrow.
I will likely get the tractor going to make sure end of driveway is clear but we are having 40-50mph gust now at 30ish so not in any real hurry.
Bad weather is the only time I take off, so I am really good at staying inside.
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I know you mentioned you spent your summers on Wells beach but it never dawned on me to ask you if you were still here

I've been to Saratoga it's beautiful country, my late second wife and I vacation there several times, we also visited Niagara falls

Growing up in Boston I thought I knew what a New England winter was until I moved a few hundred miles north, winter does get real here, but I got plenty of firewood and I'm in the middle of a freaking forest so....

Have you heard of the Maine Christmas Tree bud? I've only seen pictures and breeders who have claimed to have it posting on cannabis boards, but I don't think it's a unicorn

I'm going to keep my eye open I'd love to run into some, it's supposed to taste like pine 🌲
 
SiamSam said:
Ongonquit and Flos Hot Dogs, riding the trolleys, great. Saw George Bush (and his double) go out in a fishing boat. Fished in the Sacco River and camped at Bar Harbor. LL Bean HQ 24x7 forever. When I lived in NH we would bomb up to Maine for steamers summer burns.
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The hotdogs are red here, I still don't understand that?
 
Beachwalker said:
Have you heard of the Maine Christmas Tree bud? I've only seen pictures and breeders who have claimed to have it posting on cannabis boards, but I don't think it's a unicorn

I'm going to keep my eye open I'd love to run into some, it's supposed to taste like pine 🌲
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I have not but would defer to @GoodShit97 or @Cool_Beans for things Maine also.
CB is there [ Sunday River ski area] and G$ still has family I believe and does the trip yearly at least.
We got a good group of Mainiacs here~!
 
The only Christmas bud I've heard of is '79 Xmas bud, not saying there isn't a Maine Christmas Tree bud.
Pretty sure xmas bud got its name for its heavy pine aroma and structure.
 
GoodShit97 said:
The only Christmas bud I've heard of is '79 Xmas bud, not saying there isn't a Maine Christmas Tree bud.
Pretty sure xmas bud got its name for its heavy pine aroma and structure.
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That's it, is it extinct like real skunk#1?
 
GoodShit97 said:
I wouldn't say it's gone, but I also wouldn't be surprised if you found what you were looking for with a strain called Blue Icing or some shit.
Nothing is what it is anymore. Names are just that, names. They mean nothing anymore imo.
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I think it was originally from Maine?🤔 I've met a few outdoor growers here, seems everybody grows outdoors here, I did last summer myself

I'll ask around maybe some old timer here I will know what I'm looking for, thanks for the input
 
Beachwalker said:
I think it was originally from Maine?🤔 I've met a few outdoor growers here, seems everybody grows outdoors here, I did last summer myself

I'll ask around maybe some old timer here I will know what I'm looking for, thanks for the input
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There are a lot of growers in Maine!

From what I'm reading 79 xmas bud is believed to be a Pakistani landrace 🤷🏻
 
Update: (good news for a change)

One of the two Red Beard Platinum OG Kush that cracked but didn't put out a tail is coming up thru the promix

So I have two of those, and two of the Green Point Onyx Crush have already cracked and are putting out nice white tails!

So I have four plants right now, so that's a run! 🌱🌱🌱🌱🙂
 
One Onyx crush is up so now we have the legal three, so it's a run! It's on like popcorn (big difference from the legal 12 plant-count we had back in Massachusetts)

Speaking of Onyx Crush this is a picture of one that's finishing up now

The owl 🦉 was there when I opened the curtains this morning, I've seen it every day except yesterday, flew off before I could get a picture

Both times that I've seen it fly off he's flown to 'Owlville' which is somewhere on the other side of the garage not too far into the woods

Quick story: Back in December of 21 hadn't even been here a month and was still learning to heat with wood, the fire had burned out while I was sleeping so around 3:00 in the morning I was out on the deck with the hatchet chopping some kindling, at the first strike of the axe 🪵🪓 I heard this loud, ungodly scream, sounded like it was coming from everywhere and for a few seconds I had no idea what it was 😧 but then the scream ended in the ever familia 'Who Who'🦉 so I knew it was an owl, and that seems to be where they live

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Beachwalker said:
One Onyx crush is up so now we have the legal three, so it's a run! It's on like popcorn (big difference from the legal 12 plant-count we had back in Massachusetts)

Speaking of Onyx Crush this is a picture of one that's finishing up now

The owl 🦉 was there when I opened the curtains this morning, I've seen it every day except yesterday, flew off before I could get a picture

Both times that I've seen it fly off he's flown to 'Owlville' which is somewhere on the other side of the garage not too far into the woods

Quick story: Back in December of 21 hadn't even been here a month and was still learning to heat with wood, the fire had burned out while I was sleeping so around 3:00 in the morning I was out on the deck with the hatchet chopping some kindling, at the first strike of the axe 🪵🪓 I heard this loud, ungodly scream, sounded like it was coming from everywhere and for a few seconds I had no idea what it was 😧 but then the scream ended in the ever familia 'Who Who'🦉 so I knew it was an owl, and that seems to be where they live

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Yeah they get pretty loud, up here you can hear them form different hill sides.
I'll try can record some when I remember.

That bud is nice...!
 
doublej said:
Yeah they get pretty loud, up here you can hear them form different hill sides.
I'll try can record some when I remember.

That bud is nice...!
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It was sooo loud, dead still in the middle of the night and that thing just let go with a sound I've never heard before, I didn't know if something was going to be rushing at me or what LOL

I hear them out there hooting occasionally, but I've never heard a screech like that before or since, I think I startled it as much as it startled me
 
Update:

All the Green Point Onyx Crush are up! One is wearing the membrane but I zoomed in & it doesn't look too bad, I'll give it 24hrs. before I operate

Only two for five germination from the Red Beard seeds😕, at least I can say I gave him a try

-4°f already and we haven't even bottomed out yet, I think it'll be 10 or 12 below tonight 🥶 but I have a nice warm fire going and a cat sleeping in front of it, so we should be all right ☕🐸
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We made it to a sunny 24f today~! :cool:
I love the sun~! ;bow
 
steamroller said:
We made it to a sunny 24f today~! :cool:
I love the sun~! ;bow
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About the same here today, they're saying 1° tonight so it'll probably be three or four degrees below but we're getting there, it's staying light longer now and I'm starting to think about the vegetable gardens so we're getting there
 
Looks like this mornings surgery went well, shitty picture but there's clearly a set of leaves already coming out

I'd rather pry off a shell then cut a membrane, but it's done, looks good tooScreenshot_20250212-181455.jpg
 
Now that I'm thinking about harvesting soon I realized I have no drying room in this house

I only have two closets and neither one can be used for drying

I thought about buying a very small tent just for drying but I really don't have room for that either

my best option is to use a hanging baskets in the grow room

I'll have to keep a close eye on when they're dried and get them right into jars

I was thinking of trying the Grove bags

Do I use the Grove bags with the Boveda packs or not?
 
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Beachwalker said:
Update: (good news for a change)

One of the two Red Beard Platinum OG Kush that cracked but didn't put out a tail is coming up thru the promix

So I have two of those, and two of the Green Point Onyx Crush have already cracked and are putting out nice white tails!

So I have four plants right now, so that's a run! 🌱🌱🌱🌱🙂
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Watch those green point seeds at 2 -3 weeks into flower for tell tale little flowers. He's been putting out some iffy seeds I had 2 of his grow balls this last grow. It made this harvest go from 6-4 plants, just saying we've been having some bad luck with his seeds.
 
Pipecarver said:
Watch those green point seeds at 2 -3 weeks into flower for tell tale little flowers. He's been putting out some iffy seeds I had 2 of his grow balls this last grow. It made this harvest go from 6-4 plants, just saying we've been having some bad luck with his seeds.
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Yeah I've been reading that GPS thread, too bad because when I quit growing a few years ago he was putting out some fire with that cowboy series, that's a shame

I noticed last night that I have one that's putting out some odd leaves in the top buds, but nothing that I'm concerned about at this point
 
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