The Garden 2023-2 - HSC and Homebrew

00110001001001111O : Total Days - 17 An unreleased Humboldt Seed Company strain, some feminized seeds from crossed Inhouse Genetic plants, and a Cult Classice Unicorn Sherbert that hermed out, unfortunately. Same basic methods before streamlininng the process over a few years. This is what the current methods have evovled from. By this point fertilization was worked out, but I had done a lot of different things before I settled on a consistent process.

00110001001001111O : Total Days - 28 Progression through week 4. Spread out under a scrog by the end. Needed to better control the humidity, but the growth was still okay.

00110001001001111O : Total days - 35 Plants are filling out well. All are relatively healthy and happy. Not long from flip to flower. Have a comparison picture of 31 days vs 35 days and a look at some adjustments to the grow room compared to a few weeks ago..

00110001001001111O : Total Days - 40 This week was 5 days of vegetative phase and 2 days of flower phase. Plants are a bit too large for their area of responsibility, but otherwise healthy and happy..

00110001001001111O : Total days - 46 Plants are overgrown, but otherwise still happy and healthy. The drip system used here is garbage. Never use those types of mini sprinklers. You'll spend endless time adjusting based on any minor thing that causes pressure changes in the line. Use pressure-compensating emitters. The videos shows these functioning, but it was an endless nightmare of constant adjustment. Adjusting at the emitter sounds like a good idea, but it is the devil.

00110001001001111O : Total days - 54 Total flower nights - 14 You can see them filling in the area too quickly. If this were 28 days into flower, it'd be great. I could have put these into flower 7-10 days sooner (growth is exponential, not linear). This canopy is headed toward over-crowding and a lot of excess effort for no reason. Competition for light will also exacerbate stretch. One of the selfed Garlic Storms is showing a leaf mutation. This is why I kill the plants with fucked up leaves, lol. Seems to be correlated with bad outcomes in my experience.

00110001001001111O : Total Days - 62 Total Flower nights - 22 Overcrowding is playing out. HST is done by end of this week. Plants are healthy and likely predisposed to be taller plants, but overcrowding did not help. Better canopy management would have helped.

00110001001001111O : Total Days 70 Total Flower 30 Vege growth is mostly done by this point. Got a dense over-crowded canopy, lol. Just shows you can do things poorly and these plants will still produce well. Even now I'm working on better timing to reduce waste and still get a ~18" deep canopy of worthy nugs, give or take.

00110001001001111O : Total days 77 Total flower nights 37 See some funky growth on the selfed plants. This is a big reason i avoid selfing plants, nowadays. Just produces weak, shitty plants on average. If overcrowding wasn't apparent before, it sure is now, lol. Lots of extra effort caused by that in the coming weeks and harvest.

00110001001001111O : Total Days 84 Total Flower nights 44 Can see some garden wire employed. Precursor motivation to using a 2nd trellis net. Also, another ramification of over-crowding - a constant theme. Everything is developing well, though... except that pollen sac factory - unicorn sherbert, Bwaha.

00110001001001111O : Total days 91 Total flower nights 51 Nice frosty buds forming on extra floppy plants because I didn't have a well-managed canopy. Only need 2-3 primary branches per square foot. something I adhered to early in my growing experience but for some reason got lazy about for a few years in the middle.

00110001001001111O : Total Days 98 Total flower nights 58 Little frosty nugs on the selfed Garlic Storm, but otherwise most of the plants are performing well despite my mistakes.

00110001001001111O Well, I bred these, so of couse they are a 10/10. Nah, but the BBGS plants always turn out well. They are great to fill in any grow that needs a few extra plants.

00110001001001111O Selfed plants suck... enough said. Decent smoke, but weak production and high rate of mutations. Don't self plants. It's a bad idea. Just adding to word count at this point.

00110001001001111O A little stretchy structure, but these yielded well and tasted funky - I liked it. Almost a play-doh / crayon type smell and flavor, but not in a bad way. Really enjoyed smoking these buds.