I understand that my germination is a little slow. I just germinate in a small peat cups filled with a mixture of peat moss and earthworm castings, sitting in a window sill indoors. Once I know the plants are strong enough to stand up themselves outdoors, I'll move the pots outdoor.
I keep the bottom of the peat cup wet and wait until I see evidence of root development at the bottom of the cup, and transplant at that point. I've had much better success germinating in a small pot and transplanting vs in final container.
I received 10 seeds of Mephisto's Wedding, for next summer. I already had a full garden this summer, but I planted one in a 1-gallon pot so I can make a first generation of seeds with pollen collected from my Sunshine Pine male, to backcross with MW next summer for better seeds. The small pot was selected to hopefully shorten the seed to harvest time, as I started this girl late in the growing season (expected harvest in October).
@iamSossy, ahhh just as I expected. Thank you for this information. Mephisto gave me 5 freebies of tooth decay x Walter White. All 5 stunted . I have 5 mango smiles left . Not sure if I’ll even bother with them. I really don’t get the allure of autos. You can find plenty of high quality photoperiod genetics that have much higher yields and very similar harvest times.
@SeaDweller, because theyre falling off, lol. on reddit seems like a ton of people had issues with their Meph Wedding getting stunted, and the mods there are very happy to jump on and promote any post that features a half-decent wedding plant (i.e. one that isnt a runt).
one of my phenos was a straight up mutant - only spit out the ruderalis 3-fingered leaves, the very top of each cola was bald of pistils, and the general bud structure was whispy, unbalanced and Grinspoon-esque - definitely not top-tier genetics by any mean.
Mephisto has always seemed so quick to judge other breeders for pollen chucking a hype cut into an auto - but it seems like theyve actually resorted to doing that themselves.... sad.