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Germinated both by putting each between two cotton swabs sprayed 3x each half, put in baggie, in dark with ambient temp of 85F. After ~2 days, had ~1" tap roots - put in soil ~1" deep, covered, watered, and domed as well as started light at 10% power. On day 2 (today), I upped the light to 20%. The hulls are on the sprouts in this picture but I removed them later in the day. So far so good.
N.B. I did start these same two strains directly in soil as I normally do and didn't have success (which is unusual!). Asking on the Mephisto discord, there was a lot of recommendation on using the paper towel method so I did that (more like the way HomeGrowTV does it on YT...) and that worked just fine.
Soil essentially a homemade BAS 3.0. I had done 3 prior runs in this earthbox and this time, emptied it, made new soil and mixed then with the old and regenerated the soil using the BAS soil regeneration amendment as directed.
EDIT: I forgot to add, I had a small amount of coco coir around the spot where I planted the seeds in an effort to keep the soil not as 'hot' as some purport 3.0 to be. I've not seen that but since I had those 2 seeds originally not pop, that's why I did that in hopes to just get the seeds to pop and sprout.
Watered with RO water.
Picture is from day 26. I've converted to completely letting the earth box do the watering - I've refilled the reservoir once so far. Both plants were topped. The Creme de la Chem is a little smaller than the Blood Orange Haze, but both are looking healthy and doing well.
This is all organic soil I made based on the BAS 3.0 recipe. I've applied a 1/2 cup each into the top inch or so of the earthbox soil: BAS craft blend and BAS bokashi. This was mixed into the soil and then watered. This was the last top watering about a week before I am writing this.
Still using a heater tho I'd like to get that off reasonably soon. Humidifier runs constantly but the temp of the heater i think dries things out a little. Regardless, no complaints here. I intend to do some light training.
Ok this is day 42.
I've filled the reservoir at least a few more times now - at this point, every 3 days it is dry. And to be clear, just water from my tap (which is a well and VERY hard and a natural pH of just under 7 - i've used this water for almost all my grows just fine 😜 )
4 days ago I top watered with Build-A-Bloom, Yah-Whey, Bio-Phos, and Bio-Elixir. And filled the reservoir. The next day, the plants were exploding! This is the stretch and early flower with LOTS of bud sites. I've done some trimming and defoliation but not much.
The Blood Orange Haze is showing clear sativa traits with thinner, more serrated, leaves. The Creme de la Chem is clearly more indica leaning. It was smaller at first but at this point, they are equal canopy size. The BoH is probably a little bigger overall though.
I have increased the light to 9 which measures to a DLI of 45 (using photone app + diffuser sold by BAS). Everything is going great right now.
UPDATE DAY 44: the girls are at a point where they are drinking the reservoir dry every 24ish hours now. And the growth is EXPLODING. I'll get some more pics up soon but lots of bud sites with nice internodal spacing. but i wanted to share they're drinking down the 2.5G reservoir daily now.
Day 51
Things continue to explode. I don't love the light green color on the top - makes me think a N deficiency maybe? I had issues last run with that big time, but i reamended this soil and things def started a bit better. We'll see for next run...
I have done a lot of small defoliation - again, a little timid with autos still in this regard but def did a bit including culling some big branches that will never reach the canopy.
They drink the reservoir (~2.5G) w/in 24 hours. I gave a feeding yesterday of the nutrients mentioned above - watered in 1G from the top and then filled the reservoir this morning.
The smell is....divine. THIS is the smell i've wanted from my plants - it is a citrusy sweet skunk smell. I'm thinking this is the Blood Orange Haze doing this but it is a little hard to tell for sure (and i've not grown either of these before). But i just love this aroma and it gives me a reason to go to the tent to check on my girls.
Everything on track, buds forming. Probably a mid to late April harvest is the plan but we'll see. They'll be done when they're done.
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