No-till 2x4 - 1 Sprouted bag seed

This was a random cookies variety a delivery guy hooked me up with. It was one of the craziest tasting and strongest cookies I've ever had. Found 3 bag seeds and 1 of them sprouted! This will be the first time growing in a 2x4 no till, and the first time growing a photo! I'll be keeping the light schedule at 14/10 while I train this lady (mostly due to heat concerns). I plan to attempt mainlining, we'll see how much work I feel like putting in on an coin-flip bag seed! The Bed: 2'x4'x16" (filled to 12") no-till bed. This is soil that has seen 4 previous grows. It is a mix of mother earth coco/perlite, fox farms OF and HF, Nature's living soil - autoflower, a shitload of worm castings (like a crazy amount), and a kelp/alfalfa/bio-live dry hand mix. This was reammended this grow. The soil at 12" got a sprinkling of top cover (cannaseur from amazon) and then a layer of dry worm castings. I'll let the top cover grow until the little lady is ready for transplant, then I'll lay down some alfalfa on top of the top cover and plant her right on the left hand side of the bed between blumat 1 and 2. Watering: 4x Blumat maxi sticks, 10 drippers between them, and a 5 gallon bucket feeding the system. I will likely upgrade the size of the bucket at some point in this grow. Feeding: Only feeding will be a compost tea 3-4 times a month. Ideally weekly. Compost tea will be 1 handful worm castings, 1 scoop nature's living soil, alfalfa/kelp/biolive, 1 tbls Roots Trinity per gallon of water, bubbled for 48 hours until heavy bubble formation.

Week 2 begins and we'll start referring to the age of the smallest plant. We added 2 plants last week, a Royal Highness in the middle and an Ice Cream Cake on the right. They were dispensary plugs, they gave me rice root aphids. THIS IS THE LAST TIME I WILL GET FUCKING DISPENSARY PLUGS!!!!!! Anywho! I was able to repair the rice root aphids with 3 medium applications of Dr. Zhymes, predatory mites, and benificial nematodes. Also 1 lady bug I captured, who I let go after the infestation was under control.

We're letting the seed grow and topping the dispensary plug clones. Some light defolation here.

Starting the mainline training now with the dispensary plug clones, still just letting the bag seed grow.

Continuing to train and defoliate the ICC and RH plug clones. The bag seed is looking very good, went ahead and defoliated the lower branches in prep for topping.

Topped the bag seed on Day 31, both the ICC and RH plug clones are about ready for their second set of tops. The ICC only has 1 branch left after the aphids. One entire branch was lost to powdery mildew, RIP!

Week 7 - Left - The bag seed is starting to put on some nice growth on the two tops. I spread them apart a bit, need them to do a bit of stretching before I top a 2nd time. I'll likely not a do a full mainline on the bag seed, unlike the Royal Highness and ICC. Middle - Royal Highness - This one had the worst leaf damage (although not the worst overall damage) from the aphids, now that they're gone and the plant has start growing more quickly, the damage has become decayed plant flesh. I've been trimming it off where necessary. Two strong tops on each of these 4 branches and they're all trained to the hoop, just needs time to grow. Right - Ice Cream Cake - This is the plant which lost an entire branch from powdery mildew, also had a good amount of leaf damage from the aphids. Trimmed off any dead bits on leaves and continued to train her to the hoop. Hoping my gamble of treating this one branch like a plant with 2 branches and 4 tops will work. I'm unsure if I'll top the ends of this one, she's already seen a lot of abuse, I might just trim back some of the nodes with aphid damage and just keep the new growth with no additional topping. You know, that actually sounds like a great plan. I'll be happy to get anything from these fucking things considering they gave me aphids.

Week 8 - Aphids part 2 Aphids are back, I now know their apex is the Royal Highness in the middle. We're doing another round of medium strength Dr. Zhymes. Training is going great, the aphid plant is surpisingly the furthest along, I'll proably go ahead and flip once I have the 8 mains develolped a little bit more on the one branch of the ice cream cake. It's definitely moving slower as a plant, no surprise there. The bag seed is chugging along, I'm starting to train it into position, this will flip no matter what part of training it's in with the other plants. I will pull clones before I flip, just in case this is a female, but I'm definitely not getting my hopes up. I have 4 beautiful branches I've trained down in this picture. I'll be cutting those when they're further along as my clone stock. For now I'm training them down to get growth to my 4 mains so I can turn them into 8 main ASAP.

Week 9 I'm about 2 weeks from flipping this to flower, the Royal Highness in the middle is doing so well that I'll be timing the rest of the grow based on her. The unknown bagseed on the left is about in it's final form training wise, so any growth I get out of there at this point is gravy. The Ice Cream Cake on the right is doing surprisingly well, considering it's single branchedness, I'm starting to see it form the tops, I think in two weeks she'll be plenty far along to get a decent yield. Not stellar, but like 20-30 grams I bet.

We're getting there! Still struggling a bit with aphids in the middle plant, I keep thinking I'm good, stopping the treatment with Dr. Zhymes, then they're back a week later, I'm going to wait a couple days between treatments to ensure I get the larva this time and everything in the roots. I think another week and we'll flip the lights, really want to make sure we don't have any aphid problems going into that.

Veg Week 9 - Bed Week 11 - Day 68 Aphids seem taken care of for now, I'm moving onto prepping a light mix of Dr. Zhymes in a spray bottles and keeping it next to my tent. Every 3 days we'll give her a blast until flower. Looking good! Day 66 Things are looking fantastic! I did a root soak with the Dr. Zhymes for 3 days, when I saw basically every aphid in the entire planet booking it to the leaves to get out of the root zone, I blasted the leaves with a medium mix of Dr. Zhymes in a spray bottle. I'll do this until I don't see aphids, then another root soak in 3 days. I'm going to wipe them out this time. I should have flipped these this week, but the pre-flowers on the small plant are wildly feminine, so I'm going to give it a bit more time to veg, I'm going to be stretching the height max on this tent with the other two if I let these go much longer, though. Some of the big plants are getting uneven, I've been doing some super cropping to try to keep things even, but I may switch to a scrog if things go much longer.

Plant Week 10 - Bed Week 12 - AKA Flower Time This plant week bed week bullshit was a fucking mistake, I super regret it, and if I wasn't so lazy I would undo it. Day 72 Gave the plants an SST this week and saw some real explosive growth from the runty bag seed. I'm transitioning the lights this week, 1 hour less every day until we hit 12/12. Cross your fingers for a flower week update soon! My SST Recipe: 1 Gallon of water 2-4 tablespoons of Gnarly Barley by Clackamas Coot (This is a pre-sprouted, dried, seed mix you can get either whole or milled. I got milled) 1 teaspoon of freeze-dried coconut water powder 1 Compost tea bag Put the Gnarley Barley in the tea bag, put the tea bag in the water. I bubbled it, pretty sure that's optional since I only soaked for a few hours, but I also figured the additional agitation from the bubbles couldn't hurt. After a few hours the water was very milky, I squeezed out the bag, added the teaspoon of coconut powder and put in a pump sprayer. I gave these ladies a good foliar spray, the SST left a white powder on the leaves as it dried, I got incredibly concerned it was powdery mildew considering my aphid struggle, but it was just dried sprouted seed juice, wiped right off.

Plant Week 11: The light switch is still happening, they are currently at their 12/12 schedule and they've already started their flower stretch. I'm worried the stretch will take them too close to my light, but we'll see. Some minor defoliation on the very small lower buds.