First Greenhouse 2019

~6/8/19~ PHENOTYPES Beginning Week 8 I'm starting to see a serious increase in growth and overall health in the plants, I'm also starting to see some major differences in Phenotypes. A few are even showing sex but it is too early to judge that, maybe by week 10 I can sort through the keepers, breeders, and mulchers. DreamBand The biggest difference in phenotypes is with my DreamBand it appears to have at least 3 distinct Phenotypes, the First is the Sativa Phenotype, since this plant has Sour Diesel and Haze lineage I'm not surprised it is showing, but unfortunately I am challenged on height so as much as I want a Sativa in my garden I don't think this will be the year, beautiful plant and a strong grower though. The Second Phenotype is a short indica dominate with tons of purple on all of the stems, petioles, and new growth, the stem rub smells like berries, very fruity and sweet compared to a slightly cheesy smell from the Sativa dominate one. Finally is a 3rd Phenotype that has two plants, they are middle ground, very hybrid with not dominate indica or sativa, strong growers and the first plants to show sex, at least one female so far. Chernobyl OG These are all fairly uniform with only one stand out visibly on growth is one that has showed more of a purple flush on the petioles and stem base. My favorite of the bunch though is the best grower, not by much but slightly faster, that's not why its my favorite though, most of these don't have a heavy Terpene smell when rubbed, but this one in particular has a fantastic lemony kush smell, not dissimilar from Fire OG. The rest are all Hermi Seeded so the variance isn't big at all. That said they still deserve their own mention Wedding Cake This has to be the most well rounded strong grower in the garden, the stocks are thick already, much thicker than anything else, nice tall structure but good branching, it's shaping up to be a beast of a plant. The aroma from this is fairly potent with sweet OG notes and a slight vanilla sweetness that reminds me of a bakery and why it got its name. Orange Daiquiri Orange Daiquiri is the quintessential short stubby indica, it internodes are fucking stacked and once topped the side branches came right up to the surface, but where this shines is the smell. For anyone that has followed this diary from the beginning you will remember that I was unsure of the origins of this plant because of how I found the seeds, after doing a stem rub there is 0% that these are not Orange Daiquiri, they smell 100% like oranges, just a classic tangie smell profile. Sundae Driver This one is the youngest plant but it has basically caught up in overall mass even though it is a full node behind, it did have some leaf damage early on but now appears to be fully recovered. The terps on this one are the strongest of them all, it is funky, dank, fruit, OG, and above all else it is pungent. I am stoked for this strain again, it smelled so damn good I the garden last grow I'm just hopping for some good Powdery Mildew free results this run. Girl Scout Cookies IT'S ALIVE!!! After sever weeks of pure hatred for this worthless strain I have gotten it to wake up and it might produce some viable buds, it will be small but I want to keep the cookies genetics in my personal seed collection even if it is "Abby-Normal" I still love the little monster so maybe there is some real hope after all. I honestly don't know what got it going but I have been giving it the same nutrients and mychorrizea as everything else so maybe it is just a greedy plant. ~The White Film~ So the images from this week require a quick explanation, for anyone that hasn't used Calcium Carbonate as foliar before it leaves behind a white residue once dry. I am specifically using the CalCarb from Xtreme Gardening which uses a form of calcium carbonate that rapidly breaks down into calcium and CO2, I don't think you can go wrong and it provides a nice pH barrier to help reduce powdery mildew. ~The Mycorrhizae Propagation Experiment~ After a few weeks of disappointing results on growing any Mycorrhizae in my propagator I set to doing some research and realized that without roots I was missing a specific hormone that triggers the Mycorrhizae to grow, Strigolactones to be specific. Without roots this does happen, it also seems like nobody has had much luck at mass propagating in a liquid solution, so basically I don't have a good way to grow them currently. In the future I may be able to work with a Coco medium and some plants that are compatible with both Rhizophagus Intraradices and Glomus Mosseae. Which brings me to my next revelation, if I would have done my research before starting I would have also known that Cannabis has only ever been shown to work with two strain of Mycorrhizae, TWO that's it, so virtually all products on the market have over 6 different species yet they don't do anything so your paying for less of the good stuff and more useless stuff. Not to say that it is all useless, I am a huge believer in a diverse soil ecosystem but I am really trying to maximize the best stuff, so upon finding this out I realized my Great White is a great soil builder to start with but subsequent feedings should really be left to Xtreme Gardening Mykos which is a source of Rhizophagus Intraradices with 3.6x the amount of beneficial Mycohrrizae. The only good results I did gain is that over 72 hours of aeration with two doses of Dry Malt extract at 0.1% (or 0.1 degrees plato) I had maxed out my microbial load and available oxygen. I prefer to keep a 6ppm concentration of oxygen to promote only aerobic bacteria, any less and you begin to get anaerobic bacteria, they are easy to notice because of the heavy sulphur aroma, these aren't normallyyour friends and you don't want them in your feed if you can avoid it.