Apes in Space living soil

Germinated 6 seeds, all cracked after soaking for 12 hours in water, 5/6 sprouted after a couple of days in soil. Video shows the humidifier I am using in the room.

Transplanted into 5 gal fiber pots and Earthboxes. Using bar LED.

Grew out to 6th node, topped at 3rd and tied them down, before and after photo.

Letting them bush out some more, cleaned up some of the lower stuff and tucking leaves for more exposure. Not sure if I want to top the four mains on each, think I'll let them go for another week or two and flip.

Top dressed, flip next weekend

Flipped to 12/12 day 42 since sprout. Nice and healthy bushes, nice fast growing cultivar.

Day 7 of flower, will be thinning this out in the next few days.

Start of week 8. Adding blackstrap with the weekly tea. The plant in the right box is flowering nicely, plant in left box is the slowest. Day 14 flower 12/28/23 Had some issues with unseasonable Christmas warmth and fog, around 65%. Ran the dehumidifier and exhaust down to 45%, temp went up, vpd over 2. Room is staying right around 50% and 76F.

Day 21, doing some thinning. The little runt pheno in the front looks like it was barely touched from the top. I'm going to have to wait a couple days for the weekend so I can get the rest.

The largest plant in the right container budded first, buds grew much faster, now has some yellowing, looks hungry. Going to top dress with worm castings and guano this week. Added rock phosphate to soil

Cold snap past few days and my furnace is struggling to keep up, day temps around 75 F night 65 Video is overexposed, shows size difference between a 5 gal fiber pot and 10 gal SIP. 2/3 of the fiber pots did not stretch well, can see the one that did stretch in the back hiding.

Swelling and getting plump Getting very stinky , wife upset her coworker could smell it on her jacket. I'm using a new AC Infinity refillable carbon filter, I don't think it's large enough for the room. Going to get another big Phresh filter, that seemed to work better.

Start of week 7 all is well

Week 8 of flower. Trichs still mostly cloudy, seeing a couple of amber colors here and there on the bracts.

Start of week 9 More amber trichomes showing up on bracts, I'd estimate 5-10%. Will likely wait until day 70 of flower, if not longer, to harvest.

Trichomes look done, put a fork in it. The smaller plants, pheno 3 and 4, may need a little longer, but I am chopping on day 72 of flower, 112 days since they sprouted. I will be back in a couple of weeks after they dry for weights on each plant

The wet bud weight listed above is the dry weight, no option for dry. Weights in grams 1 128 2 54 3 43 4 58 5 155 10 gallon SIPs vs 5 gallon fiber pots more than doubled yield. About a half ounce short of a pound. Found a few nanners on pheno 5's lower growth, lightly seeded on 5. Don't mind free seeds, it's like a refund for what I paid! Pheno 1 turned out to be the densest bud with the most trichome coverage, have a couple cuttings in the cloner now. The drying period left all plants in excellent condition for the cure. Mini hygrometers in jars show 60 to 62% rH. All buds I sampled had a very smooth smoke that tasted like the bud smells, strong fuel and pine flavors. Can't wait to see how the taste develops after it cures. Great buds, sticky and stinky, would grow this again.