connormcleod47 ***UPDATE 01/17/26***
Started the germination process, all 4 should hopefully pop in the next 2 to 3 days, paper towel & a couple of plastic bowls with some bottled water!
Put a stem to the side of the plate so I don't lose track of which order they are in !
Strains are:
UBC Chemo Fast Flower - (UBC Chemo Clone x BBB Kush Auto)
Rockstar Kush Fast Flower - (Rockstar Kush Clone x BBB Kush Auto)
Faster Master Fast Flower - (Master Kush x Tuna Kush Auto)
SR-71 Purple Kush Fast Flower - (SR-71 Purple Kush 2011 x Bubba Kush Auto)
Have a fresh bag of unused LSO to start these with & more on the way, want to ensure I don't stunt my plants this time around! Will be starting them in 1 gal pots & transplanting into 5 gal pots somewhere in between Day 18 - Day 21
Shall continue running Cronks PUUR Organic line alongside their Monkey Juice & Armadillo Armor which are also organic, I also have some Great White Myco, Fish Head Farms Fish Sh!t, Blackstrap Molasses & a 5 seed cover crop that consists of Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Clover, Lentil & Fenugreek !
1st time running fast flowering strains, very impressed with everything Butterbean Birdseed thus far & I assume these will be no different! The UBC Chemo x Tuna Kush I finished near the end of September 2025 was absolutely PHENOMINAL! Will be cool to see how the UBC Chemo will differentiate from the cross while its on its own!
***UPDATE 01/21/26***
All 4 seeds have successfully germinated!
Cleaned all equipment & printed/laminated 2 sets of labels for each pot
Ran into a couple of issues today... The UBC Chemo & Faster Master were ready to go into pots this afternoon but my living soil was very dry, I sunk them a knuckle & a half into the dirt & PH'd some water to 6.0 so I could water them in, the water would just sit on top eventually finding crevices within the pots before leaking out the drainage holes on the bottom without saturating the medium! I ran 1L of water between the two of them & the soil did not absorb anything! Realized I had to remove the seeds & pre saturate the medium before I could plant them, I found the UBC Chemo but could not find the Faster Master within it's pot & ended up losing it in the process...
Dumped all four 1 Gal pots of soil into a 5 Gal bucket & added 3L of water at a PH of 5.9 in order to pre saturate the medium, this worked very well & I will repeat this process anytime I am working with a bag that has sat & dried out!
The UBC Chemo remained fully in tact & was successfully planted into it's 1 Gal pot, it is now in the tent, the Rockstar Kush & SR-71 Purple Kush have germinated successfully but their tap roots still need another day or so to grow before I will plant them, went ahead & threw another Faster Master into the seed dome to germinate as well & re-saturated the paper towel with some bottled water that had been PH'd to 6.0, noticed I have much faster germination rates when the water has been properly PH'd, I will continue on with this practice during all future grows!
Humidifier decided to short & caught fire today as well! Replaced it with the Levoit I usually have in my 4x4 for now :P
***UPDATE 01/22/26***
The replacement Faster Master successfully germinated in less than 24 hours & is now on track with the other two seeds, still waiting on tap roots to grow a bit before planting them, this is a prime example as to why we should PH water during the germination process, 18hr germination with water PH'd to 6.0 vs 5 days with seeds germinated with bottled water at a PH of 7.9
Will start week 1 veg once all 4 plants are above soil!
***UPDATE 01/24/26***
All 4 seeds are now in 1 Gal pots & the UBC Chemo is already above soil, hoping the SR-71 Purple Kush surfaces ok, not much progress on it's tap root over the past couple of days, decided to drop it in the dirt anyways a tad bit earlier than I normally do
Raised light to where each plant will be receiving roughly 260 uMOL of light when they surface
Temps have been pretty good & RH should rise shortly
***UPDATE 01/25/26***
Gave each plant roughly 250ml of water mixed with 1ml/L monkey Juice & 1ml/L Fish Sh!t at a PH of 6.0, water was a 50/50 mix of aerated RO & dechlorinated tap water
Still waiting on 3 plants to surface prior to starting week 1 veg
***UPDATE 01/25/26***
Fired up a clip fan & have that running on 7/10 power slightly above the starting canopy, this will help strengthen the seedlings during those early stages of growth, still waiting on the other 3 plants to surface at which point I will reposition the fan to have it directly on them, cut a horizontal slit in a plastic straw & wrapped that around the stalk of the UBC Chemo for some support, will do the same with the other 3 once they are above soil
