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I’m my experience regarding what has had nearly 100% germ rates
Step 1: Soak seeds in Bottled water until seed cracks max. 3 days (it usually takes 1-2 days normally) 3 days is for the sluggish seeds
Step 2: Transfer open soaked seeds to moist paper towel kept inside of ziploc. Add generous amounts of Mykos around each cannabis seed.
Step 3: Approx. 2 days after transferring soaked seeds to napkin with Mykos the roots are 1 in long & ready to be planted into solo cups 3/4 of an inch down .
Step 4: Inoculate the planting hole of the solo cups with Mykos prior to planting seedlings & water everything in gently once finished & place under LED at 50% strength with clear plastic cups placed atop the solo cups serving as humidity domes .(For me it altogether eliminates seedlings sprouting with seed coats stuck on them)
All seeds germinated & emerged from the soil between 5/12 & 5/13 immediately upon emergence the cup “humidity dome” was removed
This week was a good one . Stellar initial growth this round after upgrading lights & using homemade super soil. My 3 day old plants looked like 9 day old plants of my last run to give an idea . I watered for the first time since planting on 5/17 .
I had to itch to test the runoff since it’d only take a sec right? All the ph’s came out almost 2 points lower than when they went in so I decided on a flush even though I’m using Dry amendments.
Honestly I didn’t have the problem of fluctuating ph’s before I added that Peat Moss to my supersoil in hindsight I wish I would have just ordered 1 more 11lb brick of CoCo Coir .
I had the idea that I may need to flush a day or two prior to watering when I noticed all my stems purple.
I get it could be genetics but ALL of them where purple . Here today it is 1 full day since I flushed & all of the stems are now Green with the exception of my Runtz seedling.
3/17 will make day 7 for Runtz & #1 of the GDP
3/18 will make day 7 for Zkittlez & the 3 remaining GDP.
I intended to transplant these ladies day 13 preferably into their forever homes of 3g fabric pots . Fingers crossed day 14 they’ll be ready to start some LST.
This week a few different things happened .
1. After I flushed to remedy all purple stems Runtz & Zkittlez developed deformed leaf sets. The runts leaf set didn’t form on 1 side of the vein. The Zkittlez formed leaf sets with a missing finger . Instead of the being 5 fingers on the 3rd set there were 4 fingers .
2. Day #10 plants looked really sad & droopy the leaves of my plants where pointing downward & the 1st set of serrated leaves began to yellow .
3. To rectify the “super soil” dropping the PH of the water I fed the girls I purchased some PH UP & experimented with a few cups of my soil & found if I put in water at 9.5PH the “Super Soil” balanced out at 6.5 . My tap water PH is about 7.5 with a 200ppm (yes , yes, I know , tell me about it) if I put regular tap water in my soil drops it to a 5.1 -5.3 which led to the purple stems in the 1st week. Granted I’m kinda working backwards to work with what I have in order to utilize my investments it’s a means to an end I suppose BUT I AM OPEN TO SENSIBLE THOUGHT OUT ADVICE THANKS.
4. Day #11 I transplanted all the girls into full strength super soil . If I hadn’t had to flush i could have held out another week tops in my solo cups . I could have gotten to atleast the 6th maybe 7th node before transplanting into full strength soil. Currently I’m at the 4th node & noticing slight canoeing of the leaves .
This is my first grow in this “supersoil” also my 1st time mixing my own amendments to make said “supersoil” so for the time being I’ll just keep an eye on it & hope the plant establishes quickly enough to be able to consume the quantities of nutrients in this soil THUS my generous generous use of Mykos .
Today makes 2 weeks for Runtz & #1 GDP the the remaining 4 are at day #13.
I’m still hoping by day 16 I can start LST’ing .
All but 1 or 2 of the girls have began growing secondary shoots along the nodes so I’m getting more an more excited .
I’m just envisioning the plants I want to have until it comes to fruition. I am by no means an expert I’m not even a reasonably decent grower . Out of the 3 runs I’ve done so far only one produced smokable poor quality buds . Each time spawning more research & a tweak to the setup .
THIS TIME I AM CALM COOL & COLLECTED as I’ve ever been & have my eyes set on a lofty yield of high quality buds I’m aiming to get a QP p/plant but honestly I want to push them to get a HP p/plant . Which sounds like I’m in Narnia NeverLand with such high expectations .. I’ll just shoot for the starts & if I land on the moon instead I’ll be happy with that as long as the end results in me being high .
Week 2 in the books 📚
What to say about this week? For starters LST was started this week. Initially I used garden ties but soon after replaced them with 6” garden staples .
2 of the 6 girls began throwing pistals resulting from the LST starting around day 15 YIKES 😬.
The Zkittlez & the Runtz both from (Expert Seeds ) began giving the 5x5 its first smells .
The LST so far has been a pleasure no ooosy daisies so far & the girls are showing what they are made of . The secondary shoots have great potential to form a nice round bush that I can train out into an even-as-possible canopy .
Today is day 21 & day 20 for this bunch . They are only using Gaia Green dry amendments for feedings but I decided to take some advice given to another grower & supplement my girls with some compost tea . NO I DONT THINK THEY NEED ANYTHING ADDITIONALLY IM REALLY HAPPY SO FAR WITH MY NUTES bbbbuuuuuttttttt in the short chance that my ladies may take a liking to an occasional tea & reward my pampering with large , long , frosty, stacked cola’s . . Thennnn I’m supplementing , I consider this all “4-play” for my ladies Ik a giver 🤷♀️😭
My only concerns are racing against this clock to get as much size & solid structure before flowering sets in I’ve really got my heart set on a certain outcome & I’m one for a good challenge.
Finally , atleast as much as I can remember, I increased the dimmer knob on the light from 65% to about 78%. I won’t increase the watts any higher until bloom sets in fully & at that point I’ll be turning it to 100% raising it a maybe 6 inches & watching patiently for my girls to start praying 🙏 to it .
Week 3 in the books !
Leaf mutation/possible deficiency? Anybody know what’s going with my Runtz Auto? After the flush week 1 to remedy PH issues (purple stems) the leaf mutation started even #of fingers per set grew + the discoloration ,growth slowed noticeably . Some sets only grew 1 side of vein
@JLimp I’m not so sure that’s it the LST purpose it to expose lower growing sites making the canopy get more of an even distribution contrary to the normal vertical growth pattern, also the purple stems occurred in the first 10 days prior to the flush . I flushed because I did a Ph’d watering & got some run off coming out 2 points lower than I put it in .
Selectively defoliated 1 or 2 large fan leaves on each plant that were blocking direct light to the nodes growing . I REALLY need those secondary branches to elongate so I can begin training them down & out towards the other rim of the 5 gallon pot .
Each plant is getting a little over a half of a gallon every 3 days currently
I’ll set my goal to have my canopy structured & fabric pot filled out rim to rim by the time I need to amend & top dress for the flowering feeding in 2.5 wks .
I feel if I can fill my pot with healthy veg before the onset of flowering I can definitely get 4 ounces per plant .
Still racing against the clock here
6/4 lost control of temps tent went to 89F after AC went out. Raised light , decreased dimmer , & increased the exhaust fan to 100% after seeing leaves begin to canoe & wilt .
**Noticed just the slightest nutrient burn on a few (not all) of the girls so I definitely won’t be upping the ppm yet & since there still a solid 2 weeks worth of dry amended food in this soil so just water will do fine for the next watering .
The girls this last feeding from the compost tea are drinking slower it seems. Though this feeding did include almost 1 gallon more of water & the lowering of the light intensity as well as loss of control of Air Conditioning they are STILL noticeably wetter than normal . I think at this rate from the last watering on 6/2 they won’t be dry again until 6/8 at which date I’ll decrease the amount of water I’ll be giving them substantially.
This week made a few oopsies . I gave un-ph’d water to one of the plants “moving to fast” . Started defoliation during this week to attempt to redirect plant energy into establishing a full canopy since flowering has initiated.
Whilst defoliating I broke a branch that had to be taped to save it.
Humidity went out of whack when I stored 4 prepped 5 gal pots for transplant in the tent sooo I’ve got to buy a dehumidifier bc at one point all my plants fell out in a fit .
STILL haven’t filled these pots out, & I’m kinda sure/unsure it’s time to re-amend the soil for flowering. I’m conflicting on waiting until beginning/middle of week 7 so I can flush week 11 & 12 .
I think that covers it pretty well Week 5 in the 📚 📕 📖.
During the middle of this week I decided to stop the outward training of the branches & the allow vertical growth for beginning bud site formation . I don’t want to miss the beginning flower stretch kinda need it 😂.
Decided to break the apical dominance of the main stem by LST’ing down . I noticed it was leagues ahead of the rest of the plant because it hung over the side of the pot so since I need to start slowing it’s vertical growth I figure now Is also time to get the rest of the canopy to catch up leaving me to space things accordingly later when/if necessary .
Also decided to go ahead and do my 1st & last additional feeding since these girls where planted all I’ve had to do this grow was water when dry & train her to the best of my abilities.
Week 6 on the GreenSceene in the books 📚 thanks for stopping by .
Let’s see , humidity is an issue . It’s higher than I’d like it to be . I added drip pans & two different miniature forms of dehumidifiers one electronic and the other passive .
I need recommendations on affordable dehumidifiers before I run into mold issues .
After breaking the apical dominance there was one or two issues but it gave me all the more admiration for the genetics to take a beating and still remain unbothered & WHOLE .
A main top was bound too tightly & broke in half trying to pull itself back up . It remained broken and unnoticed for atleast 3 days before I saw the damage and taped it .
She is now almost fully scarred over & healed .
Vertical growth was decent this week I wouldn’t describe it as fast or explosive.
Still watering to activate the dry amendments I can tell they haven’t began taking it up quite yet.
Holy shit do they stink when not premixed into the soil before planting !
Just monitoring & trying to get as much dense continuous resin packed bud stacked up in there .
Soo this week has been “fine” .
Humidity is under control finally , the humidifiers seemingly have gotten the environment in check . I noticed “it works more efficiently” if I leave a small amount of water in the reservoir as opposed to how long it takes humidity to drop after watering with the reservoir bone dry after emptying .
I see that the top dress food still isn’t reaching the girls yet there’s more progressive lower leaf yellowing . I thought it’s take no more than a week for the waterings to render the amendments effective.
Seeing this I’ll surely give the girls their pre flowering feed much sooner . I’m planning for 4 weeks so that by week 6(WISHFUL THINKING) the food will be accessible to the girls .
Vertical growth this week has been decent , I was worrying quietly on the inside that I’d end up with nuggets on the lateral branches I’ve worked so hard to grow & constantly train.
I want to see 12 in long dense solid resinous continuous colas on these girls .
Anyways I think that’s it, another week on the GreeneScene in the books 📚.
So I’ve got a fungus gnats problem. Humidity is under control finally. One of the girls is being flushed currently I ran 15g through her 5g pot .
Two other girls are close to where I want them to before I flush I’m waiting for the buds to become dense still.
3 of the girls are finally fattening up the additional liquid amendments I’ve started feeding have certainly helped . I’m still racing against time in one way or the other but I have gained a wealth of experience & have formulated new methods to try in order to get the best results from my style of growing .
The liquid amendments I’m feeding are indeed organic still so no worries 😉 there .
I’m waiting for my yellow sticky traps & rounding out this grow in these next few weeks .
Depending on how long this first girl takes to flush I’ll begin by harvesting 2 plant in a week or 2.
I’m kind of tapped out on this whole posting thing I really was tempted to wait until harvest to do an update . But this is a good journal for me just the same as it is for anywho who stops by so for that reason I’m going to try to stay with it until the end .
Another week on the GreeneScene in the books 📚 rounded out .
The other 3 GDP went through a flush today. Zkittlez was flushed. The very first GDP flushed in the 24th got flushed a 2nd time alongside the other 3 GDP. I’m still eyeballing to see when Runtz will be “ ready “.
Finally got my dry box slapped together, DIY TIL I DIE BABY. Still it came out well for a first try.
Heat ran out of control & I learned the HARD way why we don’t let our girls hang out above 85 for extended periods of time. I kinda had some severe foxtailing going on.
Just biding my time until harvest , fingers crossed I don’t mess this last leg of the race up I’d be distraught .
UPDATE : Lastly I found an area of BUD ROT on Runtz not knowing that’s what I had found the dust got flung in the air twice sooooo there’s spores in my tent & possibly on all my plants now .
Trouble is I’ve flushed 5/10 plants & watered 5 others in the tent so humidity is super high.
I’ve added in an additional dehumidifier because it is riding at 70%-80% . Within 3 mins of adding additional dehumidifier & opening tent doors as we as pointing circulatory fans at plants instead of the grow lights overall humidity dropped from 73% to 53% & still declining .
Hopefully this is enough to keep the other 9 plants healthy & im going to have to harvest Runtz without Flushing .
RUNTZ CHOP COMING IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS
Another week on the GreeneScene in the books 📚
Didn’t grow like I expected, she became stunted early , flowered early , never stretched & at the end started having forming bud rot which was my fault for not being as considerate as I should have been to what the environment was like for this specific plant . Didn’t get to flush her, didn’t get to check trichomes bc she wasn’t a very resinous plant. Buds didn’t thicken as I would have preferred to wait for since I had to pull her .
I figured she’d be my smallest yielding months ago this is just the end of the disappointment thankfully .
Still there’s much to learn about how not to get these results again so there’s that to look forward to in becoming an extraordinary grower.
I had trouble with my humidifier set up so she only took 5 days to hand dry . Fortunately I purchased a programmable humidifier so moving forward it’s all gravy. After everything was cut from branches & weighed she ended up yielding 20gs of some airy foxtaily bud.
I knew this would be a disappointment so we’ll just wait to see what the smoke is like , what the smell is like , & what the taste is like .
Girls have all been flushed twice . No it isn’t necessary to flush more than once some say it’s not necessary to flush once . Decide what you want your final product to be like & grow for it .
There was still a lot of nutrients left in my pots even after running 15-20 g thru them all . Coco Coir still isn’t running clear so undoubtedly there are M O R E nutrients in that pot but the other GDPs are starting to change colors only one are is Purple all the way through however that one has been purple since week 2 or 3 flower it showed color earliest.
I’m fairly sure flushing is the worst part of growing ever . Only because it’s sooooo close to harvest time & yet she isn’t ready until she’s ready ORRRR something horrible goes wrong & you pull her to save what you can of the harvest . Either way these few weeks have sucked worse than the 2& 1/2 months growing .
Didn’t grow like I had hoped , but I’ve never grown this strain before so there was a lot to take into account & learn . Her size was a disappointing her structure was disappointing but her smell, color, & the fact that she was a resin factory still keeps me excited about this lady.
I stressed this lady out early accidentally , she bounced back as best as I permitted room for . She bared with me all the way until the end throughout this entire learning cycle . I’m deeply appreciative for the ease of grow & level of bounce back she had . It was the most impressive grow but it didn’t require rocket science to grow this either
GreeneScene
