just curious, my Reggie bag seed first grow is flowering, but I see no signs of icey goodness… so trichomes are found more abundantly on exotic strains of mj?
You should get at least some, but absolutely, how many, how easily seen and how thick the trichomes appear is very dependent on its genetics. Like begets like. You can’t expect a mutt dog to birth an award winning doberman, lol.
It is still very early, wait until many more of the pistils or “hairs” have begun to brown.
~MacG
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The strain has a lot to do with how much you get but they have boosters to help pack on the trichomes but you look like you are a bit late for them this grow . The dry trio from fox farms Open Sesame , Beastie Bloomz and Cha Ching are for more bud sites bigger buds and more trichs
They all do as stoner has said just get a good 60x telescope to be able to veiw the color change of the trichomes from white to pink to amber, when about 50% of the trichomes have went amber it is ready for harvest, but you can’t see these changes with the nake eye.
Will
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I’d suggest you save the money on boosters and such, as MacGyver said above you can’t force any plant to be what it’s not, best to invest that money in high-quality seeds
- good luck!
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good analogy MacGyver… yeah Oldstoner I heard their are some additives…im.just on budget and gonna order either terminator or chaching to aid with with trichomes production…
is that your “arsenal” of nutes Oldstoner? . I use Fox Farm Trio… have yet to try their dry nutes yet
that’s for sure paranorman, I still have some ilgm WW A, that I want to grow as soon and my Reggie mj plant is harvested… I would like to dedicate all my lighting to the white windows atleast 20/4, not 12/12
if you use ‘‘mutt dog’’ as just a recip of the a fertilized egg of doberman you can achieve a award winner… we did this with beefmaster cattle using a charla hefer as recip. just saying and plants are different
Also, boosters are kind of a money marketing thing. I’m not saying they don’t work, but most of them are just extra potassium, although some have some other ingredients, that sometimes might not even be all that natural, and some are natural and both do influence hormones and such to stimulate essential oil production, i.e, trichomes on cannabis.
As you can imagine, native inhabitants that grow or grew some of the best land-race strains likely did not have boosters, and my dad would tell you, he has never had anything like the Thai Stick he had back in the day in Vietnam.
Although he hasn’t tried much of my personally grown stuff, lol. I’m going to have to grow some Thai dominant strains and see if I can convince him otherwise, lol. But war, the adrenaline and other factors, including his vibrant youth, might be non reproduce-able factors, lol.
~MacG
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But that means the sperm or the egg didn’t come from the mutt dog, and this is a very different thing. You can’t breed a mutt dog with a doberman and get a pure bred award winning doberman.
~MacG
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Yes that is part of the all the stuff I wasted money on and like the guy’s said you can get sucked into the vortex of being new and wanting to try all the stuff you see all the people that you want to grow like on here using but with decent soil ph correct water and a minimal amout of nutrients the genetics of ILGM get great results .I bought all this crap and actually use very little of it after I have been on here learning for a few months .
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yeah I’ve heard people refer to the terp. enhancer as snake oil, and others that swear by it… I found one additive for under 20 bucks shipped…it might be worth a try, as long as it doesn’t diminish my yields…
lol tell your dad that you have a blend of white widdow and Thai stick… call it Thai widdow or white Thai… lol
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holy shit Oldstoner… that’s impressive… but at least now you know from experience not all those additives actually make a difference? it’s just a marketing a gimmick perhaps?
exactly @MacGyverStoner i was just throwing that out there. lol
yeah, the pedigree definitley has to be there…
I was just so full of envy over some of the buds on here if they used it then I wanted to try it also . Now with the amount of nutrients that I use some will probably go bad before I get to use it . I only grow up to 3 plants max due to room .
As far as reggie is concerned, don’t forget it comes from mexico, most of the time, and that is where the original Acapulco Gold and Chronic came from, so it really depends.
The problem is it almost never comes seedless, which does even reduce the potency somewhat of the best genetics, it is handled horribly which knocks off a bunch of trichomes, again greatly reducing potency, and who knows how long it had been stored in poor conditions, which again can reduce potency. Not to mention if the donkey or mule it was smuggled on the back of, sweated/perspired all kinds into it, or maybe worse, or even what other kinds of trauma it suffered on its journey, lol.
And again, about being pure bred, the other problem, and the reason they often come seeded, is the cheaper stuff is grown by poor dirt farmers, and they never pull the males, so even if you are a better dirt farmer that does pull males, your neighbor down the way didn’t and their stuff ends up pollinating your crop.
And this happens so often, this is one of the reasons most reggie is far from its ancestor Acapulco gold, because who knows what kind of random genetics have been mixed in. And actually, I know for a fact that many different strains have been smuggled in Mexico and grown locally and most of the poor dirt farmers don’t even have the slightest clue of what genetics they are growing anymore.
I actually knew a guy that went back and forth across the border, and had family in mexico that grew their own in a similar fashion. He told me he was always trying to get seeds from the California growers to take back to them, but even then, because of so much uncontrolled “wild” breeding, those strains tend to become mutts relatively quickly as well.
~MacG
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damn MacGyver, Ill never look at Reggie weed the same way ever again… it was an eye-opener…
so. I’m pretty sure it’s safe to say, the Reggie I’m. going is. gonna be way more potent that the Reggie plant it came from… im. babying her feeding her right…
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No some work probably all do but so many do the same thing that it was a waste to get extras . My knowledge is severely limited when it comes to the science behind the growing of mj, some of the guys on here understand what to give the plants from a more natural source and they know what to use for certain times . I think some of the problem with a lot of the lines out there is your plant may only need and use 2 or 3 of the 10 things in it to actually be healthy .Anything not used builds up and can cause problems. Now I am not positive about all that so dont take me as gospel but all in all yes most of the money spent on expensive nutrients is probably wasted .
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@Edward7983 A little more potent, way more would be stretching it, lol.
BTW, I added a bunch to the above [quote=“MacGyverStoner, post:17, topic:8690”]
As far as reggie is concerned
[/quote]in an edit, might want to check it out again, lots more good info there. lol.
~MacG
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