Guerrilla Warfare: TGA's Jack The Ripper & Querkle, DNA's Cataract Kush

Separated the Querkle's and the Jack The Ripper females into two different plots, and pollinated each with pollen that was collected in a zip lock bag.

The male pollen from both Jack The Ripper and Querkle males was collected in the bags, and zipped up.

I then went to a cleaning area I setup nearby, where I changed clothes, washed myself and the bags with a 20 gallon reservoir of clean water I had stored on site, and then went out to each plot with a bag of pollen for each strain.

I pollinated nearly all the bud site on all 3 plants, save for the main cola and top buds on the Querkle's.

I took the bag of pollen for each strain, and tapped the sides of the bag, releasing just enough puffs of pollen to pollinate the branches I wanted.

I let that sit for a few minutes, removed the bags, and continued pollinating branches.

It rained about 15 hours after pollination, which is sort of ideal, as the water will kill any stray pollen that wasn't able to fertilize any female pistils.

It'll be great to have two different phenos of Querkle to work with in the future (fingers crossed).

The Jack The Ripper female had kicked off some more pistils since last time, so I'm hopeful I'll get a couple dozen seeds at least.

those are some beautiful girls!!!

MediGrow530 said:

those are some beautiful girls!!!

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Thanks for taking a look!

Just jumped on this thread of yours! Again, great looking plants. I wish I could get some of those seeds you produce!

Really nice flowering starting to happen on the Querkle's. Tighter bunches of pistil clusters are forming all over both the plants, although at this point, Querkle B, the shorter/bushier Querkle is flowering a bit more prolifically.

I'm hoping this is the more Urkle dominant pheno. Also hoping that Querkle A (the taller Querkle) to be the more SpaceQueen dominant pheno. It would be great to have seed examples of both phenotypes.

No telling what the male Querkle was, either Urkle or SpaceQueen dominant, although if I were to make an educated guess, I'd say it was more Spacequeen. The male Querkle was a large plant, both in height and overall branching. It was a beauty of a plant, for a male at least.

No real visible signs that pollination took effect, which is a little concerning. I did see visible pollen puff out of the pollen sacks when I pollinated, so I know something was available for the female pistils.

We did receive a pretty heavy rainstorm less than 24 hours after I pollinated, so hopefully that didn't have any detrimental effect on the pollination process.

It shouldn't have, but I guess I'll have to wait and see what happens, because there's no conclusive evidence that it worked yet.

The Jack The Ripper is really look healthy and beautiful, although it's still flowering very meagerly. I did completely pollinate her with an amazing Jack The Ripper male, so any pistils that were formed at that time should have taken a nice shower of male pollen.

Here are some pictures. Really love the budding on Querkle B, the shorter/bushier Querkle:

I think my pollination was sporadically successful. I'll see for sure in another week or so.

The Querkle is starting to thicken up more and more each time I come out to the plot.

It's really building some nice resin crystals on all the bud sites, even the leaves are glistening with THC. Really great, fruity-smell so far.

The Querkle is in it's FOURTH WEEK of flowering, yet already having many hairs turn orange/brown....although I'd say the majority of pistil clusters are still white/cream colored.

The Jack The Ripper has it's share of pistils, however sparse. As I've said many times before, I believe all the Sativa in the Jack The Ripper mandates stricter 11 hours light and 13 hours dark periods to preflower them, and at least 12/12 throughout flowering. Lesson learned about my favorite strain of all time.

I did pollinate as many pistils as were available at the time, so hopefully I'll squeeze out some June seeds. I actually took the mutant branch that had been growing at the very base of the main stem, and replanted it in another 5-gallon bucket. That transplant seems to have survived, albeit with some dead lower leaves.

So that would be a helluva coop for me to get a clone off the Jack The Ripper. It had a small root at the end that broke off at the main stems base, so it already had a great avenue for success. It wasn't like some clone you'd cut off a female, with no prior roots.

Either way, both the large female and this little transplant will likely go all summer, and finish flowering in the fall normally.

And those are gonna be some big ass plants, even in 5-gallon buckets. As I've said before, I grew 8+ foot G13/Hazes last year in 5-gallon buckets, and they only had 2 months of normally veg before August flowering.

Really pumped for the Jack's future!

Here are the pics:

Plants look great!

Amazing!!! you are doing an excellent job man. i really enjoy your journal. keep it up man!!!!! cbb

Looking great! What part of the world are you in? sorry if i did not catch this i was really looking more at your progress than your words lol but they are well on there way looks great!

On both Querkle females, it appears my pollination efforts were successful.

Upon closer inspection with a 30x microscope and some lab equipment, I was able to dissect a few possible seed pods, and find evidence that indeed seed development was under way. The seeds were smaller than a millimeter, but visible.

We'll see in the next week or so (as the seed pods develop and become more obvious) just how successful and robust the pollination was.

The Jack The Ripper doesn't appear to have any visible seed pods developing, although I did pollinate her completely. It'll probably be more obvious in the upcoming weeks as to how successful that pollination was...still too early to tell.

The taller Querkle experienced what appears to be lack of water, as all the leaves were drooping severely. There was no signs of disease or insect infestation, and the soil was pulling away from the sides of the buckets, so the drooping could be water related.

She was given a nice dose of water, and should bounce back by the next time I go out there.

Ive been on rollitup for a little while now and just been lookin, researching, and watching peoples grow without any input at all. But I just bought a 5 pack tga querkle and 12 bc godbud
so i was looking up reviews on querkle when I stumbled upon your grow, ITs fucking sweet man!
haha
Im also looking hopefully pollinate some querkle with god bud with the best phenos I am blessed with. I have alot of other seedbanks seeds going right now but ill get to that later. this is your grow, don't wanna steal the spotlight...not that I can
lol

I also grew last year not knowing at all what I was doing with some good bagseeds from really awesome mids. didn't know mids exsisted that were that great, but i grew them and they turned out awesome, i got pics but i dont know how to upload yet. just tell me if u wanna see em, if u dont want them on your thread thats okay too...there all outdoor weed too

GOOD LUCK WITH THE GROW

Well the Querkle has been flowering for the last 5 weeks, and some really great things are happening. Both females have a sugary-coating on all the buds; even the leaves are coated in trichomes.

They're gonna make some exxxxxcellent bubble hash.

One of the Querkles (the shorter, bushier one) is a little further along in flowering than the other (the taller one).

The Jack The Ripper has grown vegetatively a bit, and the few pistils that were available to be pollinated appear to be slowly growing me a few seeds. We'll see in a few more weeks, but if I can get even 10 seeds from this little lady in this summer harvest, I'll be a happy guy. Ideally, I'd like to replant them by at least late-June, and have some more Jack The Ripper to harvest this fall.

I did transplant one of the mutant off-shoots (that was growing at the base of the Jack The Ripper mother) into another 5-gallon bucket, and it looks like it's survived the transplant.

So I'm pretty happy to have a Jack clone that's survived. I might try cloning a few more Jack branches in the upcoming few weeks...kind of a back-up plan in case I don't end up with any seeds on this run.

Man just found your thread and shit is already looking beautiful. Subbed + rep. Keep up the work.. Sorry im joining in soo late.

Penyajo said:

Man just found your thread and shit is already looking beautiful. Subbed + rep. Keep up the work.. Sorry im joining in soo late.

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Hey no worries.....thanks for taking a look!

Things should be a lot more interesting in a few more weeks....especially with harvest coming up.

really nice plants you got going there. how did they start flowering so early?

stoup1187 said:

really nice plants you got going there. how did they start flowering so early?

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When I put these plants outdoors (February 26th), the daylight to darkness ratio was 11 hours of sunlight, 13 hours of dark.

I had the plants growing indoors under 24-hour light to start off with, so when I put them outdoors in the 11 hours light/13 hours dark, that triggered the plant to start flowering. The plant thinks its fall, and it initiates flowering in a last-ditch effort to replicate itself.

Normally during the summer, plants get 15-16 hours of sunlight, and grow vegetatively. Then as the days get shorter towards August/September, the plant realizes death is near, and it needs to produce flowers that produce seeds..in order for future generations to occur.

The only problem with Spring grows is that the duration of light is not great, and the angle of the sun during the Spring isn't as direct as it is during the Summer....so basically that means the plants don't get as big, but they still flower like they would during the Fall.

okay thanks. so do you have to worry about them re-vegetating?

Nice Dr.,they couldn't look healthier,good job.....btw i posted some guerilla harvest pics in my sig journal if u wanna check em