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Germinating week. Very happy with the vigor in these seeds, having popped 7 within the first 24 hours and 3 the following having popped overnight. This is a good sign for some strong plants. I have set them inside of a 6" square planter to build up their root base. Probably until week 3 of Vegetation they will likely stay in these homes.
I wet a papertowel and wrung it of any excess water, added ten seeds, folded securely, and added to a ziploc bag. Before closing, I expanded the bag with a breath of air and trapped it inside the bag, so it balloons up a bit. Then it was placed on top of my wifi router to act as a heating pad of sorts. Does the trick each and every time.
What I would like this grow diary to do is help me log the various phenotypes that I find along the way, and perhaps the selection of a mother + father to continue the line.
Update, 1/9/2023: There have been a few workplace accidents, and OSHA would be ashamed. -3 seeds, down to 7.
Well well well, here we are week 1 of life, 7 days above soil as a sproutling. Where has the time gone? So far we are seeing true leaves forming here above the initial set and each sproutling has grown quite tall - probably because of the distance of my lamp. It can't be avoided unfortunately.
However to combat suicides and work place accidents, we have installed a few straw supports to help give the sproutlings a break from the oscillating fan. This will help them to avoid falling over or snapping in half. I'll be happy to have the height above the soil line for airflow + this is a medium sized plant - off to a nice start.
Bonus pic: Member Berry. Can you guess which one?
Total of 7 MECHAGODZILLAS and 1 Member berry.
Right now they are essentially fed kelp, root stim and a weak fish fertilizer. Since this is recycled peat/coco/vermiculite/perlite mix, it is already colonized and now I just need to feed them.
Beginning of week 3 to capture the 2nd week of life stages and growth. They appear to be moving along at a nice pace. RH generally around 60-65% in the tent when zipped up, 50%-60% when unzipped. After showing they were ready, I have added small amount of fertilizer, such as HI-YIELD 8-10-8 and dolomite lime.
By using recycled substrate, I start with fully colonized friendly mycorrhizae to which I add kelp to the feed water to keep the mycorrhizae active and healthy.
They have all crossed into the firm vegetative stage. Some are really exploding and it's great. I made estimations with those fertilizers, currently these things are inside small containers, however they would probably have ratios as to what is listed above. I need to start moving these ladies into 1G grow bags to continue developing large root systems. I bet once I pop these out it's going to be a white fuzz ball, they have been very receptive. (man, great genetics so far kudos to terp fi3nd). Rather than get taller they have become bulkier.
This week they seem to have really picked up speed. Unfortunately they got over-nitro'd and are a wee bit on the darker side. Still growing like champs however. I give big water feeds that drain a bit which seems to help with some of the over-feeding. It'll simmer down I think in a week or two I bet. I failed to update the picture.
This week I have encountered a new issue. The plants are showing a little bit of over-nitro feeding. They seem to be doing ok, and it will probably take two weeks to wash out excess. I am feeding every other day until they drain a bit, which helps a lot. Also adding a surfactant allows for it to really wash out excess fertilizer.
Also this week (today in fact as of an hour ago) I realized there were tiny insects crawling all over one of my plants. I mean these bastards are miniscule. Hard to see with the naked eye. Transluscent to white'ish, I would say. Dozens of them. I have since sprayed the shit out of every plant, their topsoil and their bags of neem oil. Generous overspray onto and around the plant stands, too. I will re-treat at the end of the week and then once again next week at this time. Make sure there are no traces and no distant cousins still trying to move in. What a hectic find. I couldn't locate with ease any other plants having been affected, however you can't be too safe, so they all got blasted.
edit: I want to thank everyone who responded to my question. I read every single one of your comments twice. I have dealt with bugs outside, never inside. So i'm glad to know, during the veg stage, spinosad and other incesticides are OK. Neem Oil has thinned their numbers drastically but a few critters remain. Spinosad dust to be here tomorrow. Bottom fed them today instead of top fed and will do this a while. I put a fan over the top of the 3 plants affected by the critters (stand mates) to dry out the topsoil and spinosad dust'em tomorrow. Hopefully this time next week I do not have a problem. One is an automatic, and it's going to hit the stretch real soon - i want to get that one cleaned up and bugless before it packs on the flower. It feels like I caught them right as they were moving themselves and their relatives in for a luau as the plants still do not have obvious leaf damage.
Dealing with tiny insects indoors. I went with the most easily available option to me (Triple Action Neem Oil by Southern Ag) and it works really well in my vegetable garden. If this doesn't seem to work, what are some other options I should use? Vegetative stage.
To be honest. I've tried everything
Cannacure.. lots of other pest. But once they start laying eggs and you got a high RH environment. So it just takes 1 fruit fly, spider mite to lay up to 50-200eggs.
So, I've found getting fruit fly traps and anything long and sticky. You can cut up place up and down nodes.
Hang the fruit fly traps near your lights as they tend to fly up to the light and extractor fan pulls them up close to that when they wee.
Anything crawling. You need to lace your plants nodes and all areas around the pots. Set traps so they have to walk on to the trap. So push soil up around the edges so they gotta talk awalk over them.
There's a ton of stuff you can do
But seriously letting your top soil dry out. You can do a few simple water feeds from the bottom. And then scoup up any dry soil, as it'll have larva in it. And once it gets wet again the larva trigger again if only freshly laid.
So, fruit fly traps. You'll get packs of 40 you'll see them on my diary Gnats and dealing with them I go into depth. But, in general the stickies will catch most of them.
Good luck.
The past week has been seeing 3 plants move to the new tent + be re-potted into 3gal bags. I was recommended to keep them at a vegetative phase for an additional 2 weeks, so I am doing so. They are all stretching and growing nodes. Pre-flowers are developing on some and not others. Ran into an issue with the new grow bags- either the substrate that went in was not properly ph'd, or they are overwatered. Either way, there is a bit of strain the plants have gone through the past week with bugs on #6 and #7 & now these root zone issues. I fed surfactants, calmag, kelp & myco boost products as part of the feed water to help right the ship. I am letting them dry out from here because they are in much larger pot sizes. Some plants have yet to make the transition into larger bags. I plan to get to that this weekend and by next update all MG's should be in 3gal bags.
For the bugs I dusted the plants that were affected with a spinosad incesticide+ neem oil as needed. From here on out it's a matter of simply finishing this grow, cleaning up the tent well enough, and retiring this substrate. Their numbers are so small that I saw only one today. So I will continue bottom feeding and having spinosad on the surface (and an absolute death crawl should they try to go up the base of the plant).
Well this week was a doozy. There was most definitel a pH problem as part of the re-homing process. A flush with some nutrition at 6.2 and the girls are looking good now...Some are beginning to preflower. I have set it into 12/12 for 3 days now. I'm getting tired and anxious so I am moving forward. Males are going to get kicked out, anyway. And I will have to take a clone from the females and deal with those monstrosities for a while... Gotta get some action going...
Thumbs up, bums up.
So it's been a heck of a two months in flowering. Down to two females, one which has chopped and is hanging right now, followed by this slower but steady growing one. I also veg'ed this one a little extra, so it is mid-way through flower and approaching the end tunnel, I suspect. This one in the tent hermied, found several banana packs and everyone in the tent got hit to some degree. So I have accumulated extra seeds should I dare use them. Overall I have had an enjoyable time with this one. I underfed her during flowering, painfully it seemed, but I righted the ship with some liquid nutrition and she's back to pounding some buds up. I expect this final one will have golf-ball nuggies. That's one thing about this bud, is that it is super-duper dense. It buds might look smaller but it's a hefty girl on the inside. This week, just going to slap in two photos. and call it a day.
She's getting some frosty bits, however her sister plant [who is hanging up] is ice white in frost and had some accented gorgeous purple came through. The tale of two phenos, haha. Both had very similar smell profiles and I would call it an earthy-sour-musk like scent. There's definitely some sour and i'm see-sawing between "earthy" or "musky". We'll see what they cure up to eventually.
I got a roasted garlic pheno on both of these plants. This is very much like a GMO Cookies in my opinion. Tight bud formation for the most part. I have a clone, will cycle through again.
MechaGodzilla started as 10 sproutlings that eventually widdled down to 2 females after OSHA incidents and sexing conflicts. Both of my plants also hermied. I harvested the first plant last week, and there are significant number of seeds in my opinion. I would say to anyone to check the lower bud areas every few days to be sure no bananas are popping out. I found them on the lowest of the lower branches - perhaps I could have trimmed up those areas and I would not have a problem. I did clone one of them which is thriving right now in the veggie tent.
Helps knowing what the critter is man.. there’s some common ones for canna. If you can get a pic it might help. Aphids hide under leaves usually and are white or off white or green. Thrips are tiny ass yellow things almost impossible to see. I could go on but try and get a pic maybe ?
@Ezzjaybruh, 0 damage to the plants yet, that I can tell. I've ever checked under leaves to see if any critters were hiding. So far nope. I see a small resurgence after a short bit after blasting, so they are hiding somewhere on the plant / bag.
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