Welcome back everybody! I’ve got some good news.
I’m so excited because Sensi Seeds asked me to test their new strains. The project is called Sensi Seeds Research, and they basically breeded some of their best strains with other ones, both new and old, and planned to release some of them in the future. They still don’t have a name, and they come just with a number and their lineage description. Our mission is to test them, and then find a suitable and interesting name for each.
So, there are many autos, some high CBD feminized strains, and 4 high THC ones. In the end I asked to send me these 4, which are:
Sensi #11: Blueberry x Afghani x Silver Haze
Sensi #32: Silver Haze x Fire OG (OMGGGGGGG)
Sensi #140: Chocolope x Hindu Kush
Sensi #741: Sour Diesel x Afghani
Sooooo, I planned a 4 plants grow in 9L Air Pots. I’ll mainline them in Nebula style in order to get 8 big colas each, and I think we’re gonna laugh here because some of them are more sativa than others, so just think about their stretch when flowering starts. As you may know the Silver Haze is favorite strain, so my hype for the Silver Haze x Fire OG is endless!!!
SETTING
It will be a soil grow. I’ll start with 1L Air Pots, then transplant to 3L ones, and finally to the 9L ones. Biobizz Light Mix for the germination and Canna Bio Terra Plus for the rest of the grow. For the germination I added a layer of Xtreme Gardening Mykos 1cm under the seeds, and but will use Mykos in every transplant too.
I’ll be using Biomagno nutrients line, starting from 1/4 of strength from day 14 to day 28 (from sprout), increasing to 1/3 after day 28, and possibly 1/2 on very hungry plants. But I’ll go very soft because I don’t strains. Less is better, so I’ll always be able to add more if needed.
I’ll try to water with osmotic water or rainwater only in order to avoid killing mycorrhizae and other organisms. I still have to figure out if I’ll use a pH meter and correct pH each time. I’d like to try without.
I’ll grow in both veg and flower with my 600W Cree CXB3590 COB panel.
I’ll use the same tent I’ve always used: Mammoth Pro 100, 1x1x2m (3.3x3.3x6.6ft).
LET’S GO!!!!!
Day 1 (April 10, 2019): Planted the seed directly into the soil.
Day 6 (April 15, 2019): Sprout day! It’s been a little cold inside the grow box.
Day 7 (April 16, 2019): Switched on the COB panel. Double-sun power!!
I doubt i will ever have the patience to veg out plants for that many weeks! That bring said tour plants look like master Pieces 😁 Good Luck with tour grow
@BlackOpsGrow, 11 weeks is not really that long. If you are doing a perpetual grow ( and have the room) you can veg for the same length of time as flower in another area. When the flower room opens up, move them to the room and then start more. It's definitely a process.
The nice part is you always have plants in flower. Double the fun.
Hi buddy, can I throw a couple of questions?
I see whan you planted the seeds, you didn't mix the Mykos with the soil, but just put a layer, what's the benefit from that instead of mixing it?
After 20 days, was the 1L airpot already filled with roots?
Thanks
and keep on growing!
:)
@TOTEM, Sorry if I add that it's written on the bags to do so!!!! XD A part from jokes, you're right, the fungi need to "attach" to the roots the sooner the better, no need to spread 'em at the bottom of the pot. While growing and colonizing the mychorizzae will explore the whole pot looking for food anyway, and they protect themselves better from bad fungi/nematodes too when they're in greater number per cm2. I end up here, I sound too wiki! :D
Hey @HighestGrade!
Well, I think it's more important to create as much contact as possible between roots and mycorrhizae, and that's why I create a layer of them just under the transplanted plant, instead of mixing it with the soil. Doing like this, mycorrhizae should allow roots to create a better "base" to start their stretch from.
After 20 days, no, the airpot was not completely filled, but since her final pot will be the 9L ones, and I'll not keep her in veg forever, I needed to follow a transplant schedule that allowed her to live for some weeks in the 3L pot too. Just a matter of simplicity, and not optimization for sure!
Stay safe =)
@TOTEM, yes as soon as this run is finished i‘ll switch to the 6l ! Maybe i‘ll put just one in a 12l AirPot and see what happens in a scrog still not sure about that 😅
Hey man nice grow and mainline do you get a bigger yield by doing this? and what is your opinion about the tap water for myzzhroriza? What do you think when you gonna finish? and how do i like and follow this grow??? Good luck Peace!
Hey @TheCode, thanks for the compliment! Yeah, mainlining surely gives you better yields: you get 8-16-32 colas of the same size, where every one is being hit by light the same way of others’. Tap water for mycorrhizae is perfectly fine, but you MUST make chlorine evaporate before giving that to your plants. In practice, fill up a container with tap water and wait about 24-48h before using it. I’m about to flower this plant in about a week, so let’s say she will take between 8 and 11 weeks to end. In reality I don’t know because they’re experimental strains with not 100% defined flowering times. If you wanna follow the grow, just press the big green Follow button at the top of the page! Yo!!!!
Good luck bro, I will follow along for sure on this one. I've been looking over some of your diaries to learn more about your scrog technique. Hopefully I can do that with my Gelatos this time. Good luck and grow well 👌!
You are a hell of a pruner bro! These babies bend to your knees on command! LOL. I'm a newby, the newest of the newbies really and I'm very curious about the hard defoliation...I read opposed opinions about the pruning stress not being compensated by the increase in light and nutriments they get this way. You did it already? (stupid question maybe...) What's the difference (in % of crop) between NO defoliation and HARD defoliation?! Ever got any "casualties" cause of this stressy intervent? Or any crop loss or had to keep veg longer to give em time to recover? Beautiful must say...I'm drooling!!! 😋
@DaGroa, Haha, loved this comment! Well, I think we all should work to optimize the spaces we have. Letting them grow naturally with one big cola in the middle, and many smaller (4-5 times less) colas around will yield LESS than enlarging them as much as we can in order to create an even flat canopy. This is the biggest difference I noticed between pruning and not pruning. Sometimes it happens that after some hard stress like mainlining some nodes start growing not symmetric anymore (one branch grows 1 cm before the corresponding one on the other side), but that's not so bad in the end. So... I think training your plants will always yield more! I always suggest you to understand the basics of lollipopping, which means removing any lower branch which is not reached by light. I think you can find many informations on growweedeasy.com, especially in the tutorial section!
