OB-GYN-Kenobi This is a bag seed from a jar of Lemon Tart Pucker, grown by 710 Labs and bred by Cannarado. It's known for being a very uplifting lemon-flavored sativa; I find its lemon terps more enjoyable than any other lemon-y strain.
710 Labs is exclusively an indoor grow operation, so I'm hoping this is from a slightly stressed plant that threw a couple nanners, as that would guarantee female seeds.
A half-ounce produced 3 seeds; I honestly didn't think they were viable since they were the smallest I've seen with tiger strips. Nonetheless, I soaked one seed in a glass of water until it sank (about 12 hours), then folded it in moist paper towel several layers thick, sealed it all inside a ziplock bag, and stashed it in a warm, dark place. Some 48 hours later, I opened the package to reveal the happy taproot pictured here. This germination method has now worked for me 7-out-of-7 times.
Germinated seed was placed directly in Fox Farms Bush Doctor Coco Loco in a red solo cup. If it looks healthy once it grows out a few nodes, the plan is to transplant to a 7 gallon fabric pot of Coco Loco amended with Nature's Living Soil. Maybe a few other amendments to get a good living soil going on, too.
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Paper Towel
Germination Method
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Week 1. Vegetation
21d ago
1/14
2.54 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
27 °C
Day Air Temp
6.6
pH
72 %
Air Humidity
29 °C
Substrate Temp
22 °C
Night Air Temp
0.47 liters
Pot Size
60.96 cm
Lamp Distance
700 PPM
CO₂ Level
OB-GYN-Kenobi She broke through the surface already free of her seed coat, standing tall within the day and growing quickly throughout the week. This is only my second grow, but it already seems much faster this time around.
Tent stats:
- Lights: started the week around 220 PPFD, ramped to 300 by end of week.
- Temps: seedling heat mat kept in the mid-80s (30 C).
- Humidity: VPD has been set to 0.6 kPa.
Growth is already looking surprisingly broad-leafed for a "sativa", maybe she's falling back on her cookies genetics...
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Week 2. Vegetation
20d ago
1/11
2.54 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
27 °C
Day Air Temp
6.6
pH
72 %
Air Humidity
29 °C
Substrate Temp
22 °C
Night Air Temp
0.49 liters
Pot Size
60.96 cm
Lamp Distance
700 PPM
CO₂ Level
Nutrients 5
Earthworm Castings
75 mll
Original Concentrate
50 mll
BIG 6 Micronutrients
0.16 mll
OB-GYN-Kenobi Time to cook up our living soil.
In my first grow, I used Nature's Living Soil as a shortcut to Subcool's original Super Soil water-only grow. I really liked how that turned out, so we'll be using it again. It strongly smells like a barnyard for the first few days until the soil really comes together, but as they say: stink in, stink out.
Living Soil recipe:
- Starting with a base of Fox Farms Coco Loco - 7 gallons minus room for amendments.
- Add dry amendment: 2 lbs (1/2 gal) really nice worm castings (Colorado Worm Company).
- Add dry amendment: 1 tsp Big 6 Micronutrients (Build a Soil).
- In a 7 gallon fabric pot: add 1.5 lbs of Nature's Living Soil, and enough of above Coco mix to fill to 1/3 mark. Mix thoroughly.
- Fill remaining 2/3 of pot with Coco mix, leaving a solo cup-sized hole for transplant.
- Top off soil with some Clover Cover Crop (Build a Soil).
I intend to keep this plant in veg for a while while mainlining her, so I'm hoping 7 gallons has the endurance needed for a water-only grow (though I'll probably do some top-dresses in flower, too). Micronutrients are there just to avoid any weird, hard-to-diagnose deficiencies later in life; companion cover crop to hopefully provide some nitrogen-fixing and mulch.
After watering and letting the soil cook a couple days, the actual transplant was really painless. She slipped right out of the solo cup in a single rootball and plopped right into the solo cup-shaped hole. I saturated the transplant area both before and after with some rooting microbes (Rootwise). No transplant shock whatsoever, she went right back to growing.
Since transplanting went well, I increased the light and decreased humidity: ended the week at 430 PPFD and a VPD of 0.8 kPa.
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Technique
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Week 3. Vegetation
7h ago
1/14
5.08 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
28 °C
Day Air Temp
6.5
pH
No Smell
Smell
70 %
Air Humidity
27 °C
Substrate Temp
22 °C
Night Air Temp
26.5 liters
Pot Size
0.95 liters
Watering Volume
60.96 cm
Lamp Distance
700 PPM
CO₂ Level
Nutrients 5
Earthworm Castings
75 mll
Original Concentrate
50 mll
BIG 6 Micronutrients
0.16 mll
OB-GYN-Kenobi This is the week we build out the main line of our Main-line.
Just after she started to show her 6th node, I topped just above the 3rd node. I then removed all foliage on the second and first node. I'm trying to follow Nebula Haze's variant of mainlining here, though I know there's lots of variants - for example, leaving a couple nodes to form a "quadline." Gotta start somewhere.
I was worried the sheer amount of defoliation would set her back, but she seems happy, she was already bigger the next day.
I've been watering every day since this is a coco base, but it's been difficult to wet it all without overwatering everything. Probably could've avoided that if I stepped up pots rather than going straight from a solo cup to a 7-gallon pot.
Oh, the cover crop seedlings are popping up nicely, too. It'll be fun to have something else in the pot besides bare dirt.
