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Stinkin Bishop Winter Grow Out Door in 11/13 hours Tropic
Pythium attack! Lost two seedlings.
Probable causes:
Wet soil
- Checked, my soil is wet.
High humidity - Checked, 90% during gemination and there were outside.
Nitrogen in the soil - Checked, my soil is fertilized with Earth Worm Casting that was fed by manure.
Spores source - Checked, outdoor grow with mold in the lawn and plant containers. Recycled soil also.
Documenting germination:
Good start:
Germination day 1
I popped all three seeds. I dilute one part of hydrogen peroxide (3% solution) with four-parts of very warm water. This speeds up germination and kills any fungus from seeds.
After, 12 hours seed cover cracked as usual. And after 24 hours, root tip show on each seed.
Germination day 2
I put seeds on flat cotton pads and align root to point in the same way.
Used flat cotton pad. Sandwich the seeds. Wet the patch. Then added two extra layer on top. And another two layers on the bottom so the pads are moist not soaked.
Put the cotton pad sandwich in a small plastic bag and prop it up vertically.
After 24 hours, roots are about 3 mm long. I transplanted to soil with bean part popped up.
Then the trouble spots:
Germination day 3
I put seeds in soil. Soil was recycled from pervious grow. I then added fresh earth worm casting. Not really necessary but I does get the seedling to grow faster.
Germination day 4
Bean and leaves survived okay.
Germination day 5
Two seedlings damped off and died from rotted roots.
Under the microscope, mold looks like Pythium. All sort of things could have been done to prevent it.
Fungi likes Trichoderma, Mycorrhiza could have increase the survival rate. Bacterial likes Bacillus subtilis could get the job done as well.
Next round, I should ferment my soil with Trichoderma and Mycorrhiza before placing seed.
I believe that my soil already has microbes. I I don’t added beneficial living stuff during seedling. However, it would make more sense to add very early. Mycorrhizae grows with roots development. Adding early mean it takes a lot less. And adding Trichoderma saves a lot of head ache.
Seedling does not need fertilizer.
I still like to use earth worm casting to improve soil condition. To improve against damping off, I should make my mix lighter.
And I should start seeds in a dry environment like in my lighted grow case.
Oh well, next time.
Germination day 6.
One plant barely survive to show leaves. And her tap root was partly damaged. The plant popped out of the soil. And I dipped the stem into Trichoderma and buried her back in.
With such a rough start and will be slow for the first week.
Stinkin Bishop
With the name Stinkin Bishop, I expect this strain to by a skunky cheese smell.
Lets see if she can stimulate sleep and appetite.
Stinkin Bishop had a difficult start and combatted Pythium water mold.
And after two weeks, she is only 6 cm tall but quite stout.
Next week, I plan to pinch her top. Normally, I would change pot already. However, I am keeping Stinking Bishop in 0.5 liter pot for a few days more. Next week, I’ll pinch her top and transplant her to half-gal pot.
Upsize the pot to half gallon on day 16. Added fresh Earth Worm Casting about 1/3rd of soil mix. And Stinkin Bishop show burnt tips in the next day. It is not true that Earth Worm Casting can not burn plants.
I am also reminded that this grow will finish in my hottest month. So, roots should be augmented with Mychorrhiza. It works wonder with heat stress by increasing root capacity.
Endo Mycorrhiza infects the root. Part of the strand is inside the root but most web out in dry soil. Once coupled with plant root, Mycorrhiza augment root by scraping up every bits of moisture and nutrients. And it keeps reproducing with each new root growth. So, the earlier Mycorrhiza is added, the lesser it is needed. Mycorrhiza is to be done during seedling/cloning stage.
And For Mycorrhiza to work, the sand must be in contact with new and growing roots. I dosed four sides of container with Mycorrhiza spore sand. And another sprinkle on bottom of new container. It should take at least two weeks before Mycorrhiza can fully infect the plant root system.
I guess that this contribute to “no tilling living soil” logic. After the soil is full of Mycorrhiza infected roots, a new plant can be put in old plant’s place after harvest. Key is not to pull out old root. Add only new top dressing. Less work in soil mixing. Let the tiny guys do the work for you.
Day 21, Stinkin Bishop is going through her pace and is 8 cm tall.
Stinking Bishop is picking up her growth rate. Perhaps it is because of Mycorrhiza. Or may be it’s just her time to grow.
By the end of week 4, she is 15 cm tall. And I transplanted her to 7-liters pot. Root developed really well with Mycorrhiza net all over. Next transplant, I’ll take picture of the root (if I remember).
Stininkin Bishop sprouted a good number of side branches on her own. I am leaving her as she is and won’t train her.
On my home made grow case:
I bought an obsolete computer server from where I worked. The meanies in accounting charged me for 16 USD for it.
I then gutted it. Salvaged the wire, fans, and power chord. The rest are electronic trash. They are certain places that these should be thrown away. Otherwise, electronic components release nasties to the environment.
This was a large case designed for high power continuous running computer. There are compartments inside separated by steel panels. These panels were held together by rivets.
I took me more than two hours just to drill out steel rivets and clean up my mess.
I then glue hooks and hanging stuff to the ceiling with epoxy.
Light:
I used 36 W ceiling LED. This is 6500 K color. It is attached by magnets.
Accessories
Fan – I recycled the computer fan. And I salvage a telephone charging wire to rig the fan. The fan ran on 12 V. However, the power from USB outlet was 5.5. Fan still runs at slow speed. For seedling, this is enough. And it is very quiet. Stealth grow case.
Pump – bought automatic timer small pump from the internet. Power by 5.5 V USB.
Reservoir – stole a container from my wife’s pantry. She still couldn’t find it until this day. And drill a hole in the lid to accommodate the pump set up.
POWER and accessories.
Bought an extension cord with USB power outlets. These outlet power fan and pump.
Bought two wall timers. These powered LED lights.
I found this case to be useful during cloning. Continuous light keeps cutting from making flowers before they make root. On the other hand, it does limit the size of cutting that I can clone. For seedling, it has less risk than starting from out side.
Stinking Bishop shot up in her first week outdoor. This week, she stretches three inches every two days.
She stretches both stem and leaves. Distance between the top leaves increase and leaves are bigger. Stinking Bishop is standing at 40 cm tall.
Stretching could be Stinking Bishop reacting to less light out side. Sunlight hours is around 11. And the compost tea that I use tends to stretch vegging plants a bit.
Lower branches were developed in the light box. And they don’t quite catch up with the main cola. They form a skirt around the bottom part of Stinking Bishop plant.
I’ll leave the lower branches be at this stage. In a couple of months, I’ll trim these off. And then I think I’ll root the cutting to make clones in case I can live with the rotten cheese weed.
Let see how she would develop next week.
Stinking Bishop stretch is slowing some what. She gained 10 cm this week and is 53 cm tall. I stop feeding her with compost tea. And I fed her with IAA base rooting hormone. IAA is plant growth regulator. I promote rooting. IAA also promote thickening of cell wall. When I want to slow stretch and make stem stronger, I use auxin rooting hormone.
By the end of the week, Stinking Bishop stick out her roots. That is also consequence of feeding her with rooting hormone.
I normally keep plant in 7-liter fern pot for three weeks. In Sinking Bishop seed run, I am upsizing her a little early. I’ll move her to 25-liter basket early next week.
In term of % THC and Indica/Sativa ratio, Stinking Bishop looks the same as OSS White Critical.
The shape is a bit odd. Most likely due to the combination of Seaweed and compost tea that I used. Top is stretched with big widow style leaves. Lower branches seemed to be competing with each other for food. These do not stretch so much and leaves are small.
Best thing to do is to trim off the lower branches. I’ll leave the lower branches be at this stage. In a couple of months, I’ll trim these off. And then I think I’ll root the cutting to make clones in case I can live with the rotten cheese weed.
Next week, I’ll transfer her from 7-liters to 25-liters pot and top her.
Stinking Bishop stretch responded well to pinching and trans plant. She gained 20 cm and is about 70 cm tall. As soil is new with fresh Eath worm Casting, I did not feed her other than water.
Stinking Bishop top and mid is developing nicely. After pinching, there are two tops. Side branches near the top are getting biggiger.
There are some small branches at the base. I’ll trim these off. I think if I want to take clones, there will be plenty of candidates on the middle part of the plant.
Enjoy your holiday season. Weeds makes me contently smile in the middle of family gathering.
Merry Christmas dear friends.
Stinking Bishop is developing flower. I put her in the spot with brightest night lit. Other plants remains in veg. However, there is no holding back Stinking Bishop.
This week, I cleaned up sucker branches on the lower tier. And the side branches are developing well. Seemed to fully settled in her new 25-liters pot, Stinking Bishop shot up. She gained about a foot and stands at 90 cm tall.
I want to keep her in veg for another month but she is having her own way. I’ll see if she would continue to develop flower in night lit spot. Then, she would behave more like a “super-auto” than a photoperiod.
Stinking Bishop is still in veg. Pistils have not developed any more. Stinking Bishop is still in pre-flowering stage. And she stretched to about a meter tall.
Stinking Bishop is surely a faster strain. Declared flowering time is 8-9 weeks so she is not quite in the “fast/quick version” category. But she put up pistil easily enough. I am growing a Fast version Skitlez strain with similar flowering ease pattern.
Trying to keep her in veg by putting her in the best lit night spot. The sky is clear and we have passed winter solstice. Feeding her with earth worm casting tea, fish tea. I am avoiding giving compost tea and sea weed to Stinking until flowering.
Stinking Bishop is good and ready to flower but I am not. My schedule says that I would have too many plant finishing at a single week. Then it may cause trouble during drying the harvest. It will be better if I let her veg for a week more. (yawn).
I will need to take extra care by third week of flower. She may put out too many branch sites. It could get too dense and caused mold issue or act as bug nests. Plus too many branches will give over all poor bud quality.
Fed her with fish tea and manure tea this week.
Note on guano and manure, it is better and causes less burn by making tea. I just take a table spoon of guano and putting a 6-litters jug with water. And then I let the mixture sit over night before feeding to plant. For cow manure, its three tablespoons for each 6-liters jug.
Stinking Bishop finished her transition and started to produce flower. Pistils are stiff forming. I think she will take eight more weeks for her flowering period.
Fed 1/6th dose of potassium nutes at the very end of the week.
Side branches that I stuck in containers survived. In their weaken state, spider mites had their feast and formed web. Leaves are yellow and damaged. Since I am spraying spinetoram for my other grows, I am spraying this on Stinking Bishop as well. Hope that spinetoram handles spider mites okay.
The mother plant is strong and there were small sign of pest damage. Her resistance is strong but she got the anti-bug spray as well.
Stinking Bishop did not stretch so much during her flowering. She is doing fine out door but would be great in a tent set up.
Starting to feed her. Let’s be more aggressive from the start. I am feeding her half dose of potassium nutes. Let see if this burns her. Also gave her amino sea weed and mollasses.
There is no sign of pest damage. With bugs infesting my other plants, her resistance is strong. Still, I gave her insecticide spray as preventive measure.
The cuttings did not take root and died. No Stinking Bishop clone. Just as well, I am going into the hottest month and am cutting the number of plants down anyway.
Stinking Bishop flowers develop well. After three weeks, flowers are sizeable. The plant looks stern and seemed to be serious about her business.
I fed her more heavily and earlier than my other grow. Let’s see how she‘ll handle the fertilizers.
There is not dead road killed smell yet. And I dread the day that she would start to announce her odor.
Stinking Bishop shrugged off the warm rain storm.
After heavy rain, I sprayed her once with Trichoderma anti-mold microbes.
Flowers develop steadily but not fast. I think she will need full nine weeks of flowering time. That will put her in the middle of the hot season.
Nice part about Sitinking Bishop is that she is not so big and does not stretch much. Smell is not so strong as I feared.
Still feeding her with 1/3rd strength bloom formula.
Could not smell Stinking Bishop. Couldn’t smell anything else around the house for that matter. An orange Jasmine tree bloomed a week after the rain. The thick perfume suffocate all around. It will be like this for a few days. My neighbors like the smell only because they are further away from the tree.
After 5 weeks of flowering, Stinking Bishop flowers only start stacked up. I’ll give her one more week of feeding with half strength bloom phosphorous/potassium fertilizer. Weather permit, I should harvest her after 9 weeks.
The weather is getting hot and sticky. Risk of mold increased. Last week I sprayed Stinking Bishop with Trichoderma harzianum, anti-mold fungus. This week, I sprayed her with Bacillus subtilis – anti-mold bacteria. Doesn’t seem to be any need of insect control.
Stuck my nose next to Stinking Bishop bloom. Smell is sweet. Let’s see what she will be like after drying.
Stacking phase, this few weeks is the time to cram in as much P and K fertilizer as practical to help Stinking Bishop gain weight. Stinking Bishop is cruising along without issue.
I opt for more dilute feeding twice a week than one heavy session. To keep myself from over fussing, I alternate fertilizer feeding with supplementary feeding every other day. Supplementary feeding are calcium, molasses, and sea weed.
Stinking Bishop only started to stack after 6 weeks. Flowers smell nice and sweet and isn’t stinky to me.
The weather is getting hotter. So, I added humic acid once this week. Humic acid help with heat stress.
Guess of the week, dwarf bees made a colony in a flower tree. Not quite yet a hive. The queen is still deciding. I am happy that my bugs control scheme is not really bothering the bee. I should be careful to use things that effect only spider mites and not insects.
For for Stinking Bishop, this week was the last feeding week. I fed P and K fertilizer to her with 1/4th strength twice. And I started to give her dilute yogurt. Smell is sweet and delicious. Not stinking at all.
Stinking Bishop leaves are turning yellow. It seemed that she will be ready in one or two weeks. This is right on schedule and I can harvest her before the coming heat and rain.
Flowers bud is mid-size. Stinking Bishop has classic skunk form. The notable quality is the sweet smell mix with a bit of cheese.
I sprayed Trichoderma to reduce the chance of mold rot in the coming weeks as well as during the drying phase.
Also trying something new. I added “mannan oligosaccharide”, MOS, to my anti-mold microbe spray. MOS is supposed to raise resistance and bud size for mango and lime. Let’s see if it won’t kill my ganja.
There is not a lot of info on the use of mannan oligosaccharide to make buds fatter. All I can find is that it is extracted from yeast. And it is a food source for microbes. Then why is it not used in the soil but recommended to be sprayed?
Thunder storm struck on Monday. Side cola peeled off. Cut off that one and hung to dry. By Saturday, it was mostly dry and shrunken. Nuggets do not look as nice as when they were on the plants.
The rest of the plants went on and I harvested main portions on Saturday. No sign of mold seen after one heavy rain. Nothing was done to treat the plant before harvest. Not bad for mold resistance.
Thank you for following and for your comments.
My impression is that this is a nice smelling plant. She was easy to grow. Productivity was not that much. Let’s wait and see her taste and effect. Stinking Bishop will be compared against tall bench marks from Original Sensible Seeds’ 60/40 Indica plants.
White Critical is chunky narcotic. And Fast Bruce Banner effect is just wild.
I did not get the phenotype with reference to Stinking Bishop Cheese. The aroma that I got was earthly sweet with mint and pine. This is supposed to be “wake the dead” smelly cheese. It woke me alright but only a small part. Stinking Bishop made me horny.
The effect was mixed. Right from the start, it was a quick Sativa head hit. I would not call it a balanced effect. Sativa hit first but not too energy tic. Then legs went numb as the stone started to solidify. After that, it was hours of happy waves. Sleeping came easy. After 45 minutes, Stinking Bishop was fully Indica. So, it’s sex and then snore. I don’t think my wife would appreciate this kind of performance.
Buds were dense but not that big. More or less a classic Indica land race than modern monsters. Making up of the lack of size is the dense juicy trichomes. It was difficult for me to smoke Stinking Bishop as a joint. After hard drying, buds were sticky wet. Bongs, extract would be better.
Smoke was a spicy and linger on throat. Perhaps proper curing would help.
No issues on the cough. These days, I lean more and more toward edible.
For quality of effect alone, this is top notch Indica . However, you have been warned of the libido boost. Grow was easy. Harvest weight was more than I expected as nugs were dense.
Overall I would give Stinking Bishop a 9. The rating came after smoking dried nugs and enjoying the effect. Stinking Bishop was easy to grow with adaptability to various grow techniques.
So far, my experience with OSS strains so far had been all positive. The key word to this breeder is “sensible”. OSS strains that I got are easy to grow and result in good weeds. Lacking is the marketing hypes that would draw more interest.
Growing Stinking Bishop was easy. Despite the dense and wet nugs, there was no mold and no bugs. Resistance to diseases and pests was excellent. This is the part that I like the best.
High tolerance to over feeding and over watering is another plus. And she tolerates humidity well.
In my primary season, I was not able to test resistance to 40 C heat. I am in the tropic and can never test resistance to cold.
Flowering was easily controlled. A bit of night light, Stinking Bishop stay in veg. And away from light she started to flower.
Stinking Bishop responded well to topping. Stems were brittle and can not handle nug weight in the tropical outdoor rain. However, weed are not expected to do that. Growers must stake weeds well before the rain. My lesson was not to use cheap Chinese made bonsai wire to prop up plants.
Yield was 125 grams. I was not impressed by the nugget size. However, I changed my mind to see how much these nugs weight. The were packed with sticky gummy juice. Stinking Bishop ws surprisingly productive. For this grow, she was in a shaded spot. Perhaps a more sunny spot with longer veg time would get me an even better yield.
@Smartie, our computers and phones are spying on us. What ever we talk about they tell the sponsors to send us advertisements.
And we don’t even have to look up on the topic.
@Shooey, Apparently it's a cheese 🧀 I didn't look it up, it passed as an add or sponsored article later the same day commenting here. Effing weird no? 😲🙄
@Smartie, yes mate thats a classic. Who comes up with these names?? I gather the guys name is bishop maybe? If they are talking about the religious bishop, then thats just plain suss 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Stinkin bishop sure is leggy med. Would you top him or just let him grow as is?? About IAA,,, it’s plant growth regulator (pgr)? Is it safe to use mate? We read a lot about pgr bud in AUS, mostly used in mass production here. Haven’t heard of IAA though. It sure is interesting. Cheers mate 👍🌱
HI @Shooey, moving plant in and out is already qualified as bruising I think. And leaving them to whip about in the rain is definitely bruising.
If you would like to bruise by crushing the stem, Key is to select the right branch. Large hollow branches can get plant into trouble after bruising. Choose denser branches. Actually, try it out on one or two branches before doing it on an entire plant.
A balance of Cytokinin and Auxin keeps plant healthy. Once in a while, we can nudge plant in the direction that we want since we feed plant with unnatural amount of fertilizer. Even natural PGR's are not to be used regularly for the entire grow.
My idea of sequence, (which I don't always follow) is to:
Week 4 Increase number of plant cells with seaweed (cytokinin)
Week 5 Make plant cells bigger with compost tea (gib).
Week 6 Make plant cells stronger with rotting promoter (auxin/IAA).
Week 7 PGR break, store up micro nutrient for flowering
Either repeat or put into flower.
Repeat in beg or
@Med_in_Tropic, hey mate. Since you started talking about auxins, i have found more and more info. Its really interesting on how to stimulate a plants naturally occuring auxins via pruning and bruising, helping to better distribute auxins in the lower growths. Its great info med. Cheers
@Shooey, it took me years understand. And I stunted many plants with these. 😀😀😀😀
As all things, they are to be use moderately.
Strange how there are so many thing to learn about growing a weed that can do very well on its own in the bush.
😀😀😀 @sativaman, she is just waiting for her space. I'll be a couple of weeks before I harvest two plants in final bloom. Then let's see how dank she is 😬😬😬
My garden is actually smelly right now with Bruce Banner and Zamaldelica in full bloom. Out door, smells goes away fairly quick. But to fellow ganja gardeners, the smell would be very familiar. 😍
Great diary med. Something i love most about GD is seeing peoples ingenuity at work. A lot of home made inventions that help the grows. The seedling box is a beauty mate. For a fraction of the cost. Surely your work could give you the box?? Its a bit stingy because they would have written this off no?? Bishop is lovely and branchy mate. Well done
@Shooey, it was the accounting manager at work annoying me on purpose. No worries though. The fans and wire alone were worth more than the cost. I think I pissed her off even more when I don't give a damn. :D :D :D
@Med_in_Tropic, I would never imagined you would be located in Thailand! Getting seeds must be pretty ridiculous....
Thanks for sharing I like TGA too but did not know about GNW. I recommend you Ethos and Karma. Cheers!
@sativaman, I like strains from the old TGA Subcool. These day same strain names are from Home Grown Natural Wonders. Dark Horse geneticss the s another good one.
Finding people who would take my money and send fresh seeds is an issue.
Thanks @GYOweed, my prime flowering time is from Nov to Feb. And it had passed. 😅
I do have nice buds from last couple of months but I haven't put these up in diaries. My 8th round of FF7 plant was plump and big. Got 6 ounces out of that one.
And I think Indica flowers are more photogenic than Sativa.
My season is passing. This week we already have two raining days. Day temp is the same as a fever. I am deciding to weather to pull or spray anti-mold microbe. 😰
From now, I am popping new seeds for pheno sorting. Then I clone g through the heat and rain until late summer. I normally put up diary on my first and likely worst grow. 😬
Unlucky med. I noticed the branches get all saggy when it rains a lot,
Always a risk of breaking when loaded up with buds.
It looks pretty close to ready anyway so maybe not all bad?
I remember seeing picture of Afghani fed water to his goat by a mouthful. Must be pretty arid. South America varies between Peru arid high land to Colombia hippo heaven.
@ReinDeer, not only she nests next to my front door, my phone was about one meter away from her when i took the pic. City birds adapted to living with human.
😀😀😀 @Shooey, no at all. I guess I had really stinking plant going especially with bugs eating on the leaves.
Terpene is a reaction to bugs attacks. May be a little bug is good toward the end ?
Thanks @sativaman, this is my flowering corner. Part of the pic is my young plants nursery. I like to grow medicinal plants and a bit of flowers. Cannabis oil s both 😀😀😀
Med_in_Tropic
