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Bit of a late start to this diary with not alot of pics so far. Seedlings have just been repotted into their final home, showing a few yellowing leaves as they have only been fed water
I'm using a 139l pot with a clay pebble layer for drainage at the bottom then filled with "soil for life" by indoor organics, it's a living soil so no need to feed the plants anything but water.
I then added 1kg of tiger worms and sprinkled some cover crop seeds and have added a layer of mulch.
Cover crop is coming through but looks like mainly one type. I may have put too much mulch down and smothered some of the seeds.
As for the ladies, they are looking a much nicer dark green and are coming along nicely. I don't have time to grow these that big so will only do one more week of veg. I've just used some plant bends as well
What a difference a week makes. I've been using the plant bends to train them all and have topped each plant twice. Canopy has pretty much filled the huge fabric pot without doing any stretching. I'm very surprised how little they have grown towards the light. In my previous grows plants have been over twice the height before spreading out as much as these. Pretty happy about that. Little bonsai weed trees
Just finished the first week of flowering. Plants have really started to stretch. Gonna wait till the stretch stops before doing any defoliating, probably another week. Looking good so far
Lots of growth. I have lolipopped them and put them through the netting for support. Flowers are just starting to show.
Making compost tea with homemade worm castings, mollases, kelp meal, and DEM fat flowers and brilliant black soil humates. Other than this tea and some myco inocculant, these plants have been grown with just rain water
Plants have shot up this week, well most of them anyway. One of the blue sunset sherbert is a good 20-30cm shorter than the rest of them. As there in the same pot I can't raise it.
They all seem to have responded well to the aerated compost tea last week. Not a bit of discoloration anywhere. I have a removed a few fan leaves that were overhanging bud sites but have kept the defoliation to a minimum.
Both biscotti mintz are a bit taller but not by too much. Hopefully theyre finished stretching now
Hermaphrodites
Fucking sucks, both the biscotti have gone hermaphrodite. The blue sunset sherbert look fine so hopefully I was early enough to catch it. Very disappointed. Wanted to try it. And it's sad throwing away an otherwise perfectly healthy set of plants. Aaaarrrrggghjhhj
So sad to see it half empty. Had to kill both the biscotti as they had pollen sacks hidden down low. Now I'm left with my two blue sunset sherbert. One is very small and never got to the same size as the others.
Some nice sized buds on the bigger plant. Both the remaining ladies are looking good. I'm still pretty devastated about the loss of the two biscotti. A half empty tent isn't as nice as a full one..
Buds are starting to fill out now, and some hairs are turning brown. Really impressed with the "soil for life" soil mix by indoor organics. Not a discoloured leaf in sight. Such a pity I had male flowers on my two biscotti, I'm still finding it hard seeing a half empty tent. But the sunset sherbert are looking great, even if one is a bit small
Not much to report. All doing fine. Have removed a few fan leaves and tied a few branches to stop them bending under the weight. The taller plant has a few monsters growing
Just water this.week
Had to put some more string in places and raise the netting to stop them falling over. Buds are swelling and stinking. They advise 8.5-9 weeks for this strain, I'm gonna do the full 9 weeks. There are still some white hairs so I think they'll be fine to do another week. Can't wait to try it.
Two different phenotypes and sized plants. Got 58g from the small plant and 112g from the larger. As I lost my other two that wasn't bad considering the tent was only half full. Smoke report in a few weeks
@junglistbandelero, lets hope your worms are less fussy than mine. Mine bed in coco coir and refuse to eat it, as well as cane mulch and grass clippings (green or brown). Last time i used worms (10+ years ago), by the time harvest came i had no worms left if the pot. Now I'll just use castings and leave the worms in the farm. Currently making a casting mix for a future grow :)
@Mr_Death_himself, from my understanding the worms have plenty of food with the amendments within the soil, they also can eat the cocofibre and the mulch layer on the surface. I also believe worm population will echo the resources available over time. I have a couple of worm farms and I can tell you they definitely don't eat half their body weight each day despite what the internet says. I really don't think I'm heading for root rot as I'm not piling food scraps on the mulch just trimmed leaves, which dry out fairly quickly under the light
@junglistbandelero, cool, i get it with the ground cover. Just be prepared, your 1kg of worms eat 500g of food a day. They'll also breed as well. That's alot of food that needs to breakdown properly or it'll cause root rot amongst other things
The blue sunset looks like a good producer, is there much of a aroma?
Pity about the biscotti but I find almost one hemi out of every pack of runtz muffin. And that’s after about 4 packs of 5 seeds. Problem is a lot of these American genetics just seem extra sensitive/hemi prone even in perfect conditions
@junglistbandelero, no the market moves forward so quickly I don’t think there is the time to work these new fashionable lines especially once released. The older genetics I think were worked more, new stuff seems to have crazy variation in phenotypes and much more hemi prone.
On the flip side even with the runtz muffin I ran being hemi prone and massive variation of phenos I still found a couple of phenos which was the best I have ever grown over the last 20 odd years. So it’s not all bad at all just need to keep a eye out for those hems lol
@Esoteric_growing, do you think they still work on them after they start to sell seeds. Just wondering if in time they will breed out the Hermes? Or you think they just look to the next strain.
@junglistbandelero, bro most companies aren’t even testing the strains. They let us do that task lol. Barneys do test and grow their own it’s just every release is almost a race because it’s not long until the next must have hype strain is here and whoever releases it first gets the money.
Ich hatte das selbe mit meiner biscotti, die Kreuzung scheint nicht sehr stabil zu sein..
ich habe bei mir im unteren Bereich der Pflanze ein paar Pollen gefunden, habe sie aber einfach entfernt und sie sind nicht nachgewachsen 👍🏻 Sie sind auch eher intersexuell und nicht hermaphroditen 🤔 bei mir waren beide Geschlechter getrennt voneinander
Viel Glück mit der sherbert😁
@Scampi, thanks for your comment, I have always had good luck with Barney's farm, but I won't be growing the biscotti again. I did think of removing the pollen sacks but there were alot of them at the lower part of the plant. Sorry to hear you had a similar experience.
Great diary! I was looking to see if anyone else's experience was similar with this strain. I only popped one seed, but I ended up with the "grassy" pheno. Great producer, but not the best flavor or quality.
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