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I wanted to start these auto seeds directly in soil like I had the Sp Queen 1 to avoid any stunting or hold ups, but in doing so I shockingly somehow lost my 1st Ogreberry king band seed in an 18 GAL pot lol. I accidently nudged the markers I used to indicate where the seed had been sewed. I searched for it for about an hr, gave up, stewed in my bewildered dismay—came back a little later for another 20 mins and had all but given up when I somehow found it and transported all 3 seeds to a wet paper towel.
Now that all 3 have popped there's much less chance for the seed to rot or fall too deep in the soil and fail, so they are going directly into their final pots.
In the future, when growing auto's (if I ever grow autos again) I will avoid this by using this paper towl method or by using starting pucks that can be placed directly into the soil.
The next morning I checked if they had shucked their seed casing yet and all 3 were still stuck so I released them from their prisons and planted them again. I think this is the 3rd time I've planted these seeds—lets hope they take off in their 7gal, 7 gal, and 18 gal homes.
Feb 20th
Woke to a stagnant ogreberry, popping another. The seed is simply failing to start— I should have done this 3 days ago when I noticed the stunted tail.
The second ogreberry seed has the same stunted tail issue and translucent cotyledon that the 1st seed had. Im starting my 3rd and final seed in the pack Feb 22nd—hopefully she takes today as the ogreberry is a slower grower thn the whiskey zulus.
Feb 23rd: the final Ogreberry has failed in the same way as the 1st two seeds. The whole pack died due to some weird genetic issue that stunted the tap roots and made the top cotyledon discolored. 0/3 seeds is not how I wanted this pack to go—I was really looking forward to Ogreberry, what an absolute shame.
I emailed them explaining the problem with the pack and they responded very quickly (good) saying they are happy the seeds popped (lol) and that I may have killed the seeds by "dampening off" which I was completely unfamiliar with and had to look up.
I guess they meant "damping off"
If that were the problem the whiskey zulu freebies and RQS special queen 1 (with far inferior genetics) would have perished as well. I've used the same propagation method and soil with all of these plants. Additionally, I've inoculated my soil with microbe complete by Rootwise which takes care of any fungal or microbial issues.
Feb 23rd— Twenty20 sent me an email proposing that my soil was too wet (wrong) to germinate their Ogreberry seeds then offered me a link to get replacement seeds for about 7 bucks on their website (good).
Apparently the "entire team" thought my soil was "extremely oversaturated" wow psh ok
So I responded saying I will purchase the replacement seeds and run ogreberry again in bone dry soil—hopefully there's a genetic component to their ogreberry notwithstanding the mild moisture level that whiskey zulu and special queen 1 thrived in.
I really do want to try the cultivar.
Hopefully next pack actually has a seed worth sewing.
Now I will have to run a girl crush this round in my 18gal which is a photoperiod so she'll get nice and large with a 8-10 week veg— I'll surely have to lst, top and fim her to control her growth.
The past 3 weeks have been a blur. I talked to twenty20 mendacino and they sent me a link to purchase replacement seeds for the ogreberry pack and the 1st one popped (with a crooked neck but I am NOT complaining) I am looking forward to that flavor profile. I've stopped uploading here daily because the format is clunky on the device I prefer uploading from a youtube channel to detail my growth as an organic farmer. My channel is Stankmeister, or @majorterpage.
This girl crush is loving her 18 gal pot and holy hell is she a beautiful plant. Take a look at those curved servations on that fat leaf. They said it's often the most beautiful plant in he garden and I can see why. Ill need to take clones to plant outside in the next few weeks because she's so vigorous.
The Whiskey Zulu is a fantastic plant to learn how to train. I simply couldn't ask for a better genetic to learn from. I think they said something about it being moderately trainable—I simply dont know know it could be easier than this genetic. I am seriously considering getting more WZ in the future and breeding (but I'd prefer it to be a photoperiod.) The plant started to smell like myrcene day 24 and now smells great. I smoked a few leaves I bottem pruned and it has some intersting flavors and surprising had medicinal value even though it was early veg leaves—maybe that's normal... I've never grown an auto before—and afterall this is only my second season so maybe that's not that wild but I know it has only produced 1 of the 3 types of trichomes at this stage because I would see the others if they were there so it is very impressive that the effects are present at such an early stage.
I've dealt with a gnatt and cricket problem for a few days and they're all but gone at this point.
The special queen 1 stunted but 3 days ago started to grow again out of nowhere. I must have seriously stressed it out. Maybe in 5 months it will produce something lol
2 weeks later and Girl crush is throwing out 12's... I will have to top her soon. I took her 1st two liters to prop clones but they failed repeatedly. She isnt a big stretcher and I'm not limited by vertical space at all so I'm not worried [even though my auto's are at the very least 30 and 45 days away from full maturity respectivly.]
The ogreberry is somehow even easier to train than the whiskey zulu at this stage. The canopy is much more even and we'll just have to see if that remains true.
This ogreberry smells fucking wild. The other two plants smell good and unique but the Ogreberry smells like fruit loops, lemon and the strongest note I smell every single time I test it, I can only describe as the "new" smell a baby gives off. I dont know if that's from the sweet cream of baby formula or what because I don't have a much experience with babies, but this is a very baby-like smell. It's shockingly absurd that this plant smells like an infant. This "new" quality reminds me of northern lights.
So a whole lot has happened in the last 2 weeks. My main goal has been setting up for season 3 outdoors in my new garden where I will test my theory.
I went a little hard on the plant ferment I made and have been feeding because the Whiskey Zulu and the Girl Crush because have a few spots on some leaves so I guess they might've briefly locked up a little. No problem with the Ogreberry though.
The Whiskey Zulu smells like purp—like GDP, the Ogreberry smells like fruitloops with some funk and a little like Northern Lights. The Girl crush smells like a sweet diesel og—and I've just switched her over to 12/12 not long ago.
For season 3:
I've ordered seeds from DDA who owns Boneyard Seeds Norcal on Dagga.garden please check him out before it's 2 late. Please checkout his fantastic selection of cultivars.
He goes by Mr. Toad on youtube if you have any questions. The man is a fantastic breeder and educator. [With my order of Roberts Creek Congo × Space Cheese seeds he sent 10 free The Ghost of Toadally Haze and 7 of a cbd/cbg strain for breeding called Holy Ogre. In the package was also brown rice ocb papers, a soil inoculent, boveda packs, terploc curing bag, stickers, and arugula seeds.]
I met DDA through a future cannabis project live, he was in he comments spreading killer knowledge and I asked him a few questions about my ideas and he educated me for a long ass time simply because he's all about it. That's a breeder whose genetics I want in my garden, (and then he sent me all the freebies without even knowing me.) The man will have my buisness for as long as he's selling seeds because he values education and fosting the next generation of growers. He gave me some tips about rooting clones and now I've rooted my 1st clone for this next season. I think the temperature wasnt consistent enough before...
I've started 3 Roberts Creek Congo × Space Cheese and they all popped within 14 hours with a 100% success rate. DDA — look him up.
Stankmeister
