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24 hour soak in glass of water and sunk. Placed in jiffy pellets in a heated humidity dome. After another 34 hours, lowered the water a bit in the dome to let the tops of pellets start to get a little dryer and opened the air vent. Should get the roots to start seeking water faster now. Plan to plant pellets in soil with light on once I see one start to break free and show its first leaves.
EDIT: Sadly my new method to try to introduce heat and germination rate sucked. Out of the 8 seeds, 5 cracked and a tap root emerged, but none survives after replanting. My thought is these peat pellets actually wicked the water away from the seed and into the soil, and not having a water source like the proagator caused them to quickly dry and die.
In anger I started 10 random reg seeds I had kicking around, to practice germinaton. Got 100% with regular papertowel method and replant in soil. May give these away to a friend, really wanted auto fem seeds. Went and bought local auto fem seeds, started 3 of each, and 1 of each if them I'm going to use to make seeds from them with colloidal silver.
Probably S1 them rather than regular breeding to keep the ruderalis gene more intact and keep that autoflower trait.
My 10 reg seed babies are coming along great. Going to be given away to a good home at week 3 start. Sitting 36 inches away from light source and doing well.
My main 4 seeds (2 of each strain) are a day or 2 behind the reg seeds. Soil line sitting 30 inches away away from center of light. Also responding well.
No nutrients yet. About 1 tbsp water a day, and a light mist of water on each.
Have started 1/8 strength foods for then as of day 12. Only taking pictures of 2/6 plants right now as they are tiny. Focusing pics on best one of each strain for now.
Have been giving minimal water as I usually overwater my plants. Upped it a bit to make sure the big pots arnt drying out too quickly. But at 2tbsp for the solo cups, probably double that for the big pots.
Reg seeds for my friend are taking off. Dunno if males, or the small containers; but they are growing fast.
Soon time for the babies to be given away and focus on these autos.
Have started doing LST. They got slowed vertically and started to work on roots and stem instead and thicken up. Had removed the LST until vertical growth returned 2 days later.
Got rid of my 10 baby reg seeds. Kept one for fun. Going to learn how to groom and keep a plant in a solo cup. So far I have learned to chop leaves of a certain size down to 70% size to stop them from working on them leaves more. If they grow huge leaves and stay in a solo cup it cant sustain itself. Once it becomes rootbound it will learn by itself but until then...
3 on the left are Jungle Fever, 3 on the right are Black Lemon Haze. The 2 smaller colored containers are planned to be turned half male with colloidal silver and mated with itself for more seeds for future use.
Have returned 2 to LST and are responding very well. One whole strain (3/6 plants) seems to be lacking behind the others.
Jungle Fever are showing deep ridges in their leaves and they are quite malformed, even places not touched by LST. The end slightly point down but not in a nitrogen toxicity way, just because of the way the leaves are bent and ridges formed.
Have left LST alone on them and have raised lights a smidge in case the light was too intense for this strain. Symptoms look most like a pH issue. But only minor nutrients just starting, never overwatered, cant need a flush or be pH problems in my mind. Not much stretch so thinking it could be light.
*Day 25 - As per research and grow answers, backed light off from 30 inch to 36 for now. Have given the plants a real good soak this time with 6.0pH water. Have also moved the humidifier away which was on affected side of tent. See what happens. Thanks guys.
*Day 26 - Have made a bunch of homemade U-bent rods to staple big fan leaves back enough to let light in to new growth. This worked surprisingly nice. Very efficient. Very time consuming. All seem to be growing nice. Waiting on results from changes from yesterday.
*Day 27 - More LST. Got a PPM meter for christmas. No more nitrogen burn. Yay.
I have a whole strain (3 plants) exhibiting a general lack of vertical growth; but also deep veins and ridges causing eveb more malformed leaves. Same setup as my other 3 plants of another strain that are thriving.
Looks like pH issue? Maybe this strain needs lower?
Dec 29 - I have trimmed off a few of the very few fan leaves near the bottom and laying on the ground. And a node 3 leaf covering a lot of the new growth tips on each. I dont like them getting too large during the start of the grow.
Broke a few pieces growth tips accidentally, dont need them all anyways but continuing with LST. Working all branches away from middle currently. Not worried about which is highest yet. Going to go for a nice even height once its started a bit more.
Still got 2 plants in makeshift pots to turn into seeds, and 1 solo cup practice run in the back.
Dec 31 - Have noticed the plants are now mature and growing asymmetrical branches. Gonna plan out what tips are going where to try and fill out my grow tent. Lots of growth. Finished taking off a few more big fan leaves covering tips. Tons of pistils appearing. Entering a stretch I believe. Flowering has started. Gonna start spraying my 2 seeders with silver soon
Have started a 4 day wateting cycle.
Day 1 6.0 pH water 30ppm , 1L/plant
Day 2 Nothing
Day 3 6.2 pH 1L nutrient water 800ppm/plant
Day 4 Nothing
Have taken off growth tips at nodes that I dont expect to become main branches. Will continue to hold down and turn main cola until lower branches all become equal height and stretch out from each other a bit more
Flowering has started more with the lemon strain. Have just set up a standing oscillating fan to add more air flow. Not in pictures.
Jan 5 - Few after getting 7 or 8 branches I am pinching off the main a little harder and bending it over and allowing the others to catch-up more. Removing any low flowers or growth tips still. Basically done all that though.
Day 38 (Jan6) - I think I have basically stopped ripping any leaves or flowers off. Have the basic setup I want for each plant. Now to just let it stretch and keep it held down. The tops I have held down hard, and starting to even out the height of them all.
Day 41 (Jan 9) - I have accidentally topped the main of my biggest Black Lemon. Was only a small flower. Honestly I doubt it will take more than a day to bounce back. It will stop it from stretching the main too much more and allow the outer branches to catch up. Plus it's very well established now. Prioritizing an even canopy now over stretching branches.
Day 43 (Jan 11) - Have decided to top my Jungle Fever 2. I didn't plan to, but I haven't been able to control or modify this plants main cola. It has been standing high above everything and constantly pinched off. Plant is very mature and not much flowering has started so I'm sure it will be fine. :)
Day 50 (Jan18) - Smell increasing daily. One plant that is further along flowering is showing signs of needing flowering nutrients. Have switched nutrient blend over to help with flower production.
All plants coming nicely. Black Lemon 1 is so resin filled and refused to stretch and it's branches all stick together. Had to defoil a lot and get rid of a lot of fan leaves giving it room to grow. Exposing all the bud sights I can and keeping them an even height. Any low flowers or branches that I don't think will race to the top is getting chopped. Black Lemon 2 is doing great. Jungle Fever 1 spread out nicely and it now my favorite. Jungle Fever 2 has recovered from the needed topping, started to stretch more now.
Have been watering every 3rd day with 1.5L of 800ppm 6.3pH nutrient water. Lowered lights to 30 inch manufacturer spec and watching for any light burn.
Focused on making sure every bud I plan to keep I expose to light. If so don't think it will get near top of canopy exposure by a week, it's chopped. Trying to avoid popcorn buds.
Chopped any fan leaves bigger than my palm, chopped any tiny 3 point leaves on minor branches as these never grow much and end up just molding. Keep lowering highest branches and raising lowest to get an even canopy.
Lots of stink, no worries with the grow.
Starting entering week 10 strong. Finished report for last week, preparing and looking at strain flowering period.
10 weeks from germ to finish with Jungle Fever,
11 weeks for Black Lemon according to seed package. (Says 8-9 weeks by company website). I'm estimating by the end of week 12 they will be done. Jungle Fever maybe 13 weeks.
Unless they do a lot of growth, I plan to keep pumping nutrients out till 1 week out as they don't have a lot of leaves to store it in to worry about flushing out.
Black Lemon 1 is creating no resin. Gonna be garbage.
Straight water to drink. Black Lemon is maturing quickly other than a couple low buds. Jungle Fever looking more amber too. Could be harvest any day now.
3 plants were Black Lemon...
1. produced no resin and did not have any psychoactive effects. Was thrown out
2. Was to be used for making fem pollen on half with collidal silver, but due to a flaw in my process it never worked. Had to scrap any that came in contact with silver. Rest of plant is fine as silver is an immobile nutrient, and also didn't even have enough silver to do the job. Haha Kept for a few extra buds.
3. Was a very good turnout and grew well.
3 plants were Jungle Fever....
1. Was to be use for female pollen which didn't work, other half I kept.
2. Grew nicely but had a very woody cola and couldn't use LST well. It ended up breaking and topping but still turned out good.
3. This one had no stretch to it at all but filled out really nicely.
Expecting a decent harvest from this.
Last photos before harvest. .. Day 79 Feb 16
Plants harvested - Day 82 - Feb 19
Awaiting dried weights and photos of drying/trimming/furing
After doing this grow and another grow in between that didn't go great either, then switching strains back to canuk seeds, I've decided this is not the brand of seeds I wanna grow
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