The Garden 2026-1 -- MSNL Animal Mints

00110001001001111O It's growing season, again... Preliminary work: -Cleaning pots, reservoir, drain table, irrigation tubing, hoses, et al... -Combining a compressed 3.8 cu ft bale of Pro-Mix HP with 4 cuft of vermiculite and seperating into 2 batches for each grow cycle. This will equate to rouglhy 11 cu ft. -Setting up a 4x4 - lights, drain table, circulation fan, heating mat for seedlings, et al... -Set up humidifier After that's all done, we'll get some seeds wet in a couple days. Germination week is usually boring and useless, so I'm going to include the preparation. The real work will be 30 days from now when I setup the 10x10 tent. x6 Mountaintop Mint x5 Animal Mints x5 Kush Mints The eight strongest plants will remain. ------------------------------------------------------------------ "The Garden 2026-1" will have 3 diaries to start. Depending on outcomes there will be some fem-breeding diaries involving these three strains to follow. "The Garden 2026-2" will start up in December with diaries for HSC Vanilla cream pie, MSNL Blue Cookies, and MSNL Pineapple Express. This too should result in a fem-breeding diary depending on outcomes. Would really like to find 2+ strong mint/pine flavors to breed. With fewer strains I can take more cuttings of different plants and hedge my bets for which ones turn out the best. Because of time-constraints of 2 cycles before the heat and humidity comes in, I don't get that luxury to wait and see. So, I'll just breed extra plants and weed out any weak parents later on in the process. ------------------------------------------------------------------ This year's wrinkles, goals, or reversions etc... -I now have a 0-12-26 and a 5-12-26 "Part A" fertilizer. This will allow me to keep Ca levels consistent throughout the grow while reducing nitrogen levels in flower. The fertilizer formula is in the pictures above. -I'm dropping the triple superphosphate, because it seems like a lot of extra effort and no discernable return. I've used it the last couple years, and a while back I used it for another year or 2, so at this point I feel confident it's not doing much. -Overall, very little will change in regard to fertilization levels compared to past years. -I might try to go with 12 colas per plant instead of 8 colas. Still flip-flopping on that. Sixty-four colas is not enough for the size of the area. In order to keep symmetrical growth, that means jumping to 12 colas per plant. Yield was fine in 2025-2, but probably left a little on the table. -Light footprint is slightly slimmed down to 34-35sq ft as it was in 2025-2. Flower tent is down to 1102 watts. The freed up 226w DIY light will be for the breeding cycles. Think I've got everything in harmony at this point. -Some minor adjustments to setup that nobody cares about, but will allow for easier access or otherwise greater convenience for me.