Wonder Pie

I initially thought I was having problems germinating these babies, but they just seemed to get going a little slower on my initial batch… about a week behind exactly compared to other seeds I germinated at the same time. I threw another batch in the pool out of fear and a couple jumped out quickly so now I have TWO babies growing and well… I’ll just have to grow them both now. That gives me the chance to experiment a bit. 😎 Have to give a big thanks to Green House Seed Company for sponsoring this gig. I feel honored to have been selected in the pool of folks they have chosen for this. I don’t think they did this lightly. And amazingly generous too. Gonna use the food on some other hybrids I'm growing this summer because it appears you gave me that much by my math. Anywho… I have a very soft spot for Amsterdam. I made it one of the main destinations during my honeymoon… and that would be almost exactly this time of year as my 30th anniversary is May 19th, like tomorrow. My wife is from Scotland and we were married in 1990 (in Scotland) and we took a driving tour of Europe before Euro days … which meant changing currency a lot besides languages. Paris for a couple days; high school buddy in Switzerland; Germany; and then bicycle nirvana in Amsterdam. Kid in a candy store. There were only two shops I visited and I still have T-shirts for both these places. One is the Bulldog, and I’m surprised how many people recognize that shirt at my local Harborside dispensary even today. The other was the Hard Rock Cafe which I’d be surprised if it still existed. But that was back in May 1990, when even the republicans in charge here were not COMPLETELY insane, such as today's varietal. Hopefully, about a month after these babies are harvested, this stuff should be just about cured and useful for the many celebrations which will be necessary when we clean out the infestation in our government. Keep your fingers crossed. ======================================================= So the basic plan is to veg the girls indoors under KIND K3 LED lighting (my norm) for a few more weeks... around when we hit the summer solstice. Then they will be transplanted into their final containers, probably one at 10 gallons and one at 7 gallons - both fabric - and they will remain outdoors after that point to be harvested when mother nature says so. I used to move from seedling containers into quart containers but I have mainly eliminated this stage for both indoor and outdoor grows - for different reasons. I have also eliminated my use of a seedling tent/grow light environment for that first week as just not necessary. I've structured my new diaries too so that week 1 actually starts at the end of the first 7 days after sprouting, which I call the seedling stage but for which there is no equivalent on GrowDiaries. For indoor grows (predominantly autoflowers these days) , I now move directly from the seedling container to the final container - which I've learned needs to be no larger than 3 gallons. I've given my outdoor autoflowers mostly 5 gallon fabric pots this spring but I think that was unnecessary at this point. For outdoor grows, I now move from seedling container to a 2 gallon plastic pot instead of that quart container. That allows vegging without the roots getting contained significantly before I make the final move outdoors into a BIG container... and I've learned from past grows that 10 gallons is WAY adequate for anything I grow on my patio. Good luck to everyone playing. Let's have some quarantine fun.