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-3rd grow cycle of no-till living soil in 15 GAL pots-
Reamended soil w/ BAS craft blend, worm castings, biodynamic compost, gypsum, milled sprouted seeds (barley, alfalfa, corn), oyster shell powder and silica amendment.
Then mulched w/ previous harvest's branches, leaves and stems + cover crop.
Pots were allowed roughly three weeks undisturbed before re-amendment and planting back in.
The stem and root from the previous grow was not removed for sake of biomimicry.
A small pocket of starter potting soil was added to each of the pots, then seeds were planted directly into the starter soil and lightly watered w/ rootwise complete.
They were covered with a makeshift humidity dome and left undisturbed for minimum 48hrs.
All Humboldt CSI genetics in this tent.
Planted on 5/22/24 @ 12:20AM (optimum planting day - gardening moon phase)
Germination/Sprout on 5/24/24 @ 11:15PM
Days 1 - 7 (from sprout)
5/24/24 - 5/30/24
Lamp distance: 22" @ 25% power - PAR unknown
Feed schedule: Rootwise Mycrobe Complete watered in a few times this week - just watering the cover crop enough daily to keep wet
IPM: None
Days 8 - 14 (from sprout)
5/31/24 - 6/6/24
Lamp distance: 26" @ 50% power - PAR estimate 300-400
Feed schedule: Rootwise Mycrobe Complete watered in a few times this week with added saponins
IPM: None
Days 15 - 21 (from sprout)
6/7/24 - 6/13/24
Lamp distance: 26" @ 50% power - PAR estimate 300-400
Feed schedule: Rootwise Mycrobe Complete + Yucca + Soy Hydrolysate (Aminos) a couple times this week, otherwise just watered daily
IPM: Captain Jack's Deadbug applied to cover crop. EM5 solution was foliar sprayed once this week to plants
Note: Plants received no water for two days at start of the week. Loompa's Headband x Triangle Kush is looking sickly and getting beat up but gonna keep it going.
Days 22 - 28 (from sprout)
6/14/24 - 6/20/24
Lamp distance: 26" @ 75% power - PAR estimate 500-600
Feed schedule: Water only with the exception of a one-day feeding during the week
IPM: Captain Jack's Deadbug applied to cover crop. EM5 solution foliar sprayed
Note: Planning to veg one extra week to see if more vertical growth is possible on sweet 16 and to give sick loompa's headband an extended chance to flower
Days 29 - 35 (from sprout)
6/21/24 - 6/27/24
Lamp distance: 26" @ 75% power - PAR estimate 500-600
Feed schedule: Water only with the exception of feeding schedule
IPM: Captain Jack's Deadbug applied to cover crop. EM5 solution foliar sprayed
Notes:
Top dressed all plants w/ EM Bokashi + Montana Grow Silica + BAS Worm Castings + BAS Craft Blend
Last week of vegetation - the good shit is skyrocketing as expected, has excellent branching but needing some hst/supercropping to the top(s).
Blue nose pit started showing 11 leaflets.
Sweet 16 S1 developing lots of small branches and density.
Loompa's Headband x Triangle Kush is messed up but just gonna run it.
Days 36 - 42 (from sprout)
6/28/24 - 7/04/24
Lamp distance: 16" @ 100% power - PAR estimate 800-900?
Feed schedule: Water only + once a week feeding schedule
IPM: Captain Jack's Deadbug applied to cover crop
Notes: Heavy defoliation this week to plants + more leaf tucking and high stress training to help even the canopy. Took clones of all plants except Loompa's Headband x Triangle Kush.
Days 43 - 49 (from sprout)
7/05/24 - 7/11/24
Lamp distance: 12" @ 100% power - PAR estimate 1000
Feed schedule: Water only + once a week feeding schedule (rootwise bio-phos added to almost every watering this week at a rate of 1/8 tsp per gallon)
IPM: Captain Jack's Deadbug applied to cover crop + EM5 foliar spray @ 1oz per 1/2 gallon
Notes:
Temperatures and humidity in the lung room are increasing to a problem - first time growing in summer, air conditioner needed.
Supplemental lighting (36w LED 300w equivalent) added to Sweet 16 due to it being squat - PAR meter needed.
The Good Shit really stretching and wants to hog the light - using a lot more super cropping daily on her.
Days 50 - 56 (from sprout)
7/12/24 - 7/18/24
Lamp distance: 12" @ 100% power - PAR estimate 1000
Feed schedule: Water only + once a week feeding schedule (rootwise bio-phos added to almost every watering this week at a rate of 1/8 tsp per gallon)
IPM: None
Notes:
Temperatures and humidity in the lung room still increasing - air conditioner still needed
Ignored the garden and watering for two days, was gone overnights for a weekend and employed no one to water or check environmental conditions
Stem rubs - The Good Shit has a funky stank coming; Sweet 16 S1 is pine/mint/slight funk; and Blue Nose Pit is giving off nothing but strong menthol
Days 57 - 63 (from sprout)
7/19/24 - 7/25/24
Using a cosine corrector and light meter app now to help measure PAR. The Good Shit @ 1,200 PAR - Blue Nose Pit @ 800 PAR - Loompa's @ 750 PAR - Sweet 16 @ 400 PAR :(
Once a week feeding schedule (rootwise bio-phos added every watering this week @ a rate of 1/8 tsp per gallon)
IPM: None (but fungus gnats are multiplying in the mulch and will soon require extermination)
Notes:
Air conditioner installed in lung room - now easily able lower humidity and keep lights-on temp at roughly 77 degrees.
Last large defoliation performed this week and beginning next week another top dress will be added to The Good Shit.
Blue Nose Pit resin currently feeling more greasy/oily not much tackiness. Sweet 16 S1 resin is semi-tacky only slightly greasy/oily.
Days 64 - 70 (from sprout)
7/26/24 - 8/01/24
Measuring PAR w/ cosine corrector + light meter app. The Good Shit @ 1,400 PAR - Blue Nose Pit @ 700 PAR - Loompa's @ 680 PAR - Sweet 16 @ 350 PAR :(
Watering everyday, variable amounts between 1/4 gallon to 3/4 gallon per pot. Bio-phos inoculated everyday into soil @ 1/8 tsp per gallon. Feeding schedule broken into two parts per week.
IPM: EM5 @ 6oz per gallon and applied foliar to cover crop and mulch
Notes:
Dehumidifier installed in lung room - allowing tent to stay @ 60% RH w/ lights on and 50% RH w/ lights off
Air conditioner also allowing tent to stay @ 77 - 73 degrees w/ lights on - and 65 degrees w/ lights off
Now currently out of homemade fermented plant extract.
Final top dressing added to The Good Shit, considering it's size and stretch - consisted of worm castings, craft blend, em bokashi, gypsum and silica amendment
Days 71 - 77 (from sprout)
8/02/24 - 8/08/24
Measuring PAR w/ cosine corrector + light meter app. The Good Shit @ ? PAR - Blue Nose Pit @ 800+ PAR - Loompa's @ 730+ PAR - Sweet 16 @ 450+ PAR
Not watering everyday, variable amounts between 1/4 gallon to 3/4 gallon per pot. Bio-phos inoculated every other day into soil @ 1/8 tsp per gallon. Feeding schedule broken into two parts per week.
IPM: None, visual inspection
Notes:
Tent @ 55% RH w/ lights on and 50% RH w/ lights off
Tent @ 77 - 73 degrees w/ lights on - and 65 degrees w/ lights off
In an attempt to increase PAR on Sweet 16 and Blue Nose Pit I've lowered the lamp below the top canopy of Good Shit, thereby burning some leaves and probably some tops.
Good Shit is at least 1.5 to 2 weeks behind the others and after this week I will stop the torture and raise the light again above the canopy
Also, another supplemental light added to Blue Nose Pit - increasing PAR from 500 to 600+ to lower budsites
Days 78 - 84 (from sprout)
8/09/24 - 8/15/24
Watering everyday, variable amounts between 1/4 gallon to 3/4 gallon per pot. Feeding schedule broken into multiple parts per week
IPM: sucrose octanoate 25ml per 32oz of water sprayed to cover crop/mulch layer - four applications this week
Days 85 - 91 (from sprout)
8/16/24 - 8/22/24
Watering on Loompa's Headband x TK halted now, she's starting to fade. Sweet 16 S1 & Blue Nose Pit getting 1/3 - 1/2 gallon per day. The Good Shit requiring more than a gallon per day.
Feeding schedule broken into two parts per week - after this week The Good Shit will be the only plant receiving feed schedule.
IPM: Visual
Days 92 - 98 (from sprout)
8/23/24 - 8/29/24
Loompa's Headband x TK fading hard this week - checking trichome color through a 15x loupe, needs more time
The Good Shit drinking a gallon of water a day but slowly backed off near end of week - my guess would be a 14-week flowering period for this genotype before harvest quality
I'm pretty much watering daily a 1/4 gallon to Blue Nose Pit or less to keep mulch layer from drying out
Sweet 16 S1 takes the win for most trichome coverage out of the garden, has the most up-front aroma out of the geno hunt
PAR is all over the place on this one and totally messed up, after this week I'll raise the light and focus on the appropriate PAR for canopy of The Good Shit
Pest Management slipping too, fungus gnats are repopulating and it seems the ecosystem has encountered a serious imbalance of beneficials and predators that normally kept soil/mulch in-check
Plan on short-term remedying this with a top-dress of remaining compost + em bokashi and a moderate drench of EM5 following with repeated treatments of enzymes (tweetmint)
Long term solution may need a predator/beneficials kit and/or higher quality vermicompost after knocking them back with enzymes
Days 99 - 105 (from sprout)
8/30/24 - 9/5/24
Raised light above canopy of The Good Shit - PAR on main tops is 800-700+ while remaining lowers are seeing closer to 450-500
Loompa's Headband x TK fading to a close this week - trichome check starting to show amber on the bracts
Sweet 16 S1 now starting senescence and a little fading on some fan leaves
The Good Shit showed signs of some overwatering, so a newly made FPE was added to feed schedule to assist the microbiology
Light schedule lowered to 10 hrs this week
IPM: Applied enzymes (tweetmint) at a rate of 0.5 fl oz to 1/2 gallon and sprayed on cover crops + mulch throughout the week. Significant decrease in pest population, now needs a high quality compost top dressing for long term correction
Days 106 - 112 (from sprout)
9/6/24 - 9/12/24
Chopped Loompa's Headband x Triangle Kush at day 109 - trichome check looked good enough and most of the leaves were drying out. Cut down according to biodynamic moon calendar for flowers.
Blue Nose Pit senescence finally noticeable this week - anthocyanin being it's main display, buds turning more purple
The Good Shit has a noticeable fade starting this week now
IPM: Applied enzymes (tweetmint) at a rate of 0.5 fl oz to 1/2 gallon and sprayed on cover crops + mulch
This one was sick out the gate and purely turned out to be an experiment so I can't really even comment on the genetics.
I've never experienced an unhealthy plant such as this so I had to see the outcome of trying to keep it alive through flower.
Regardless of this run I will definitely try this strain again and definitely not keep a sick plant around until harvest.
Soil in my pot could have pathogens or transferred a virus - too many variables to say for certain.
I will be marking the pot and observing in the next run if a different set of genetics display similar plant sickness.
Almost made it into week 12 of flower somehow before trichomes starting to amber and senescence more complete.
Will hang whole plant at roughly 68 degrees and 55% humidity for 14-16 days, ideally.
Days 113 - 119 (from sprout)
9/13/24 - 9/19/24
Chopped down Blue Nose Pit & Sweet 16 S1 at day 119 before lights on. Trichome check seemed ripe and harvest aligned with biodynamic moon calendar.
The Good Shit holding a slow fade and more noticeable trichome development - I still hold to the prediction that harvest will be sometime in week 14
IPM: Applied enzymes (tweetmint) at a rate of 0.5 fl oz to 1/2 gallon and sprayed on cover crops + mulch
Days 120 - 126 (from sprout)
9/20/24 - 9/26/24
The Good Shit - week 13 of flower and trichome heads are looking far more swollen
For IPM I sprayed existing mulch layer with tweetmint, followed up with topping all pots off with build a soil 3.0 and forest collected IMO's - fungus gnats almost completely eliminated overnight
Pots were cover cropped with build a soil seed blend + grape tomatoes, oregano + thyme, snap peas and napoli carrots
Fingers crossed harvest is on the agenda for this lady next week
Morphology on this S1 observably hybrid; short maximum height, main cola w/ side branching - also more narrow leaf structure and bud development looking more airy and sativa.
Trichome density desirable - looks frosted. Found trichomes to be mostly oily / greasy in feel, slightly tacky.
Aromatics on this aren't that noticeable until handling the plant - smells sweet, candied sugary, a little back-end funk.
There is a clone in the nursery, but unlikely to keep this cultivar due to lack of aroma and yield - unless the smoke report dictates otherwise.
After a month of curing the nose has leaned strictly into candy, sweetness, light floral/fruit.
Flavor only vaguely translated to taste on this genotype. Potency feels on the lower end - current tolerance is quite elevated, so this cultivar isn't very effective.
Effects are very head or "sativa" like. Little to no drowsiness, mostly just a mood and head shift. Repeatedly high dosing lead to zoning out or daydreaming in my experience.
I would grow this again, strictly for the focus of a potential stronger flavor in one of the genotypes
Made it almost to week 13 of flower - trichomes showing only a small bit of amber but mostly just clouded up - leaves senescing but indicated maybe could've ripened longer
Will hang whole plant at roughly 68 degrees and 55% humidity for 14-16 days
Classic looking kush structure - main cola, side branching - WIDE fan leaves, had to keep some for the collection.
Trichome density looking good/alright - sandy-like resin, beach sand consistency, purely tacky after melting.
Aromatics not too noticeable, only during handling the plant - smells similar to sage and oregano, slight menthol or mint leaning
Two clones made it alive in the nursery - smoke report will tell if they're keepers
Nose in the jar now smells like light floral and darjeeling tea or a black tea of sorts - aromatics on it are slight.
Taste does not translate in whole flower - but after smoking scissor hash and dry sift hash the flavor is more like blueberries and sweet flowers - the flavor is quite faint but is desirable.
Resin heads get knocked off very easily and have the consistency of beach sand. Probably is a good hash washer, but I have little experience regarding that.
Potency is mild, feels on the lower end of THC. My current tolerance is quite high so the efficacy of this cultivar feels low - even the hash has lower potency effects.
Effects are more body or "indica" in feeling, but mild. Makes me a little drowsy and relaxed.
I would grow this cultivar again with the hopes of hunting out a more potent variety of "indica" effect. This plant showed hermaphrodite traits and self-pollenated itself, and other plants in the tent.
Almost made it to week 13 of flower - leaves were senescing fairly quickly during this week, trichome check showed only some amber occuring
Will hang whole plant at roughly 68 degrees and 55% humidity for 14-16 days
Days 127 - 132 (from sprout)
9/27/24 - 10/02/24
Week 14 of flowering on The Good Shit (Dogshit x Chem '91)
She's getting cut end of this week - leaves are fading completely and trichome check looks great
Strain seems to love living/biologically active soil with amazing yield and structure - almost tripled in stretch.
Maybe low nutrition needs, hardly saw purple or stressed stemming during late flower.
Aroma is fairly moderate, but handling the plant releases quite a heavy fragrance.
Trichomes are bulbous and are slightly greasy but mostly immediately stick and tacky.
Stem rub smells bizarre, and makes me think of the dogshit angle. Fragrance from the colas smells complex - heavy floral perfume, pine and mixture of sweet ripe fruits.
Nose in the jar is now bright flower with sharp funk - not sure how to pin the funk, sorta cheese. Taste does not really translate to flavor on this cultivar.
Potency is mid-high - definitely on the higher end. My tolerance is quite high and this plant can cut through it.
Effects are almost purely in the head or "sativa" like. Big mood/mind shift - bit of a creeper for full saturation. Great potent daytime smoke that lasts - minimal drowsiness or tiredness.
Planning to grow another 4 genotypes of this cultivar out of a sincere love for it. Great genetics, great smoke.
Chopped on day 133 - trichomes look swollen and ready - leaves faded out.
Cut this according to the biodynamic moon gardening calendar and the dates did seem to align with the plant aromatics being more noticeable.
Very excited to do the smoke report on this one - focusing on 60% humidity @ 60 degrees for 21 days to retain terpenes and quality.
@Wehsweh, Hey thanks for the compliment. Put up a smoke report now after a month-long curing.
And the smoke on this plant was leaning towards flavor, very greasy trichomes. Sativa-like high, daytime mood shifter for me - no drowsiness.
Hey Mate, your babys looking great as always🙏🏽 would you reccomend the strain so far & by the way, whats your favourit strain you smoked so far? Always on the look for some exotic genetics 😎
Keep up the good work & Check out mine, maybe i can learn some from you👌🏽🍀
Don‘t forget to like & follow if you don‘t mind Brother 😘❤️
@Organic_G, Thank you - I checked out your garden and saw that you like autoflowers. Can recommend Night Owl Seeds for autoflower genetics. My favorite strain so far has been Garlic Cookies.
And ditto, I am new to growing and learning all the time. Any information or advice is always welcomed
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