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* The start of a new cycle with new genetics from Barney's Farm and Dinafem.
In this run I will be planting 10 seeds of each strain (Pineapple Chunk and Critical 2.0.) The goal in this run is to find the two best and most desired pheno's of each strain, as the first step to finding our single most desired pheno's of each strain. The process of eliminating our less desired pheno's to getting to our single most desired pheno of each strain, will take 2 grow cycles due to space limitations, so we better start now!
This week, we simply just plant each seed directly into our pre-loaded coco substrate, water each cavity with a small shot-glass worth of water at a pH of 6.0, and wait for the seeds to pop out of the medium!
23/07/2021 (Day 1):
- All 20 cavities are placed inside a sealed dome and placed on op of a heat pad and insulator to maintain a temperature of 23-26 degrees celsius inside the dome.
- Seeds were planted and placed under lights at 17:00.
- Each seedling cavity was watered with a shot-glass of water, which has been mixed with a Silicon Plus Liquid feed at 1ml/5 liters of water.
26/07/2021 (Day 2-3):
- Two Critical 2.0 seeds have popped out the medium on the morning of Monday 26 July, just two and a half days after potting them. (Image 6)
27/07/2021 (Day 3-4):
- 5 more Critical 2.0 seeds have sprouted overnight, just over 3 days from being potted. (Image 5)
- Pineapple Chunk is well behind at this point, with 0 having sprouted as of yet.
- Another Critical 2.0 has popped during the course of the day.
28/07/2021 (Day 4-5):
- 9th Critical seed has popped.
29/07/2021 (Day 5-6):
- The 10th and last Critical seed has popped overnight. (Image 7)
- Still no Pineapple Chunks popping out....hmm...
30/07/2021 (Day 7-8):
- 10-0 to the Dinafem genetics (Image 12.)
- Still no Pineapple Chunks. At this point, I can only speculate as to whether the seeds are a little older and in need of a longer germination time before sprouting. Who knows... Monitoring very closely throughout each day for the next few days.(Image 11)
- Environment has remained ever-steady throughout, with temps ranging between 23-26 degrees celsius, and RH remaining in the 70's.
01/08/2021 (Day 9-10):
- At this point, i think it's fair to assume that our Barney's Farm genetics have been compromised prior to purchase. A couple ideas always spring to mind: damaged or old seeds. If they were old seeds, germination would generally need to be helped along by a soaking to help soften the shells of the seeds in order for them to split open. Damaged seeds on he other hand can present a host of problems, largely leading to unsuccessful germinations and/or stunted growth etc...
- Another point to think about is that NOT ONE OF THE 10 PINEAPPLE CHUNK SEEDS GERMINATED vs 10/10 SUCCESSFUL DINAFEM SEED GERMINATIONS!! (Both right next to each other in the exact same medium and environment.) This forces me o assume the former of the two options (damaged or old seeds,) as at least 1 seed should have germinated by now if they were old. AT LEAST ONE!!
- All i can say is that the environment of the dome has been extremely consistent...(as mentioned above.)
- From here, we will let the 10 Critical 2.0 seeds grow out their pots till they get transplanted and head into veg in about 2-3 weeks time, and then perhaps a new, different batch of seeds is in order while we still have the chance during this window before veg. Quite sad....
11/08/2021:
- And we're back...
- ....All 10 Pineapple Chunk seeds turned out to be duds. Let's just say that we had to reboot the entire Pineapple Chunk run with new seeds (Image 13)... They're only 19 days behind. No biggy, right? At least we still have a week and a bit before they head into veg.
So after our seedling germination, all 19 plants (10x Critical 2.0 and 9x Pineapple Chunk) have remained in their germination home while I have gone about building a new, sealed flower room, and while we waited for our Amherst Sour Diesel's to finish flowering in our previous flower space. The building has, without surprise, gone overtime as construction always does, and so all 19 of our new plants subsequently got a month of pre-veg in them, in the dome and under a 20W fluorescent tube. - (Not ideal, but we had to keep them safe while all the madness around us was going on and until we were finally able to get them into their new veg home.)
I am ecstatic to say that we have finally entered the concluding stages of the building, and it is time to prep the new girls for transplant and their awaiting 7-8 weeks of veg!
Let's get back into the swing of things as we were, firstly with a recap of the previous month:
- We planted all 20 seeds on the 23/07/2021. 10x Critical 2.0 from Dinafem, and 10x Pineapple Chunk from Barney's Farm. All 10 Crits germinated, while all the Pineapple Chunk's went missing (yes, went missing...,) and consequently led to me trying to replace all 10 seeds. Unfortunately, we were only able to replace 9 seeds, hence the reason we are on 19 seeds in total. The 9 new Pineapple Chunk seeds were started 2 weeks after the original run started with all 20 seeds, hence the reason they are smaller than the Critical 2.'s at this point.
- It is for the above reason why we started the new PC seeds in jiffy pellets, for safer and easier transplanting when we got to the stage that we currently find ourselves in. Because they all have root system 2 weeks less developed than the Critical 2.0's, we can't risk damaging an underdeveloped root system, and so placed them in the jiffy's for safe and easier transplanting.
- At this stage, we have all 19 plants labelled, as we begin the real pheno-hunting process and need to keep maticulous records of every individual plant. 1-10 for the Critical 2.0's, and 1-9 for the Pineapple Chunk's.
(Image 1-3): 15/08/2021 - 25 days after planting Critical 2.0 seeds / 6 days after germinating new Pineapple Chunk seeds.
(Image 4-7): 30/08/2021 - (Today, 15 days later) 40 days after planting Critical 2.0 seeds / 21 days after planting new Pineapple Chunk seeds.
(Image 8): 30/08/2021 - (Today, 15 days later) This one shows one of the Critical 2.0 seeds which decided to "top itself." At first, I suspected it was a dud, but waited and now see that it's simply a genetic mutation.
Let's go!
Due to construction and revamping of our space, we had to leave all seedlings in their germination dome for approximately a month before getting them into veg. In order to not run into any space issues within the small dome, these young plants were kept under a low-wattage fluorescent tube to avoid any growth which may have been "too vigorous."
VEG WEEK 1:
03/09/2021: (Image 1)
Each plant was potted into, and fed with the following nutrients during transplant:
1. 5l FF F1 medium
2. GHF: Biogrow - 15g worked into medium
3. Wormcastings (workd into medium and astop dress)
4. Organics Matter Mycoroot Supreme -placed at the bottom of the planting hole.
5. Watered each plant with a Silicon Plus feed solution .
07/09/2021: (Image 2)
- All plants are now in 5l pos with Freedom Farms F1 medium, and are in their new veg home under a 3500K 320W Quantum Board.
- The 3 weakest seedlings of the total 19 seeds (1x Crit and 2x PC) were placed on the left side of the tent, and in different pots, as they are obviously struggling and may not even make it into our final flower room.
VEG WEEK 2 (15/09/2021):
- All plants continue to get watered daily or every other day, depending on the rate at which they're drinking their water.
- Throughout the course of the week, we inspect each plant thoroughly for any issues alluding to pest or pathogen problems.
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