Celt’s 2020 Grows

Hey hows it going friends. I've been reading and following alone for the last few weeks here. I recently tried my luck with colloidal silver on an auto. Just doing some test runs now. Really like the info you have to offer. I'm also not too far away from you.
As for you competition you have going there I would select 4 and 11 maybe 13.
Cheers!
 
The Celt said:
For those that have made their guesses before I flip them (about 2 wks from now), live in Canada and guess at least 2 plants right (assuming there are 2), I will send you 10 Blue Dream seed and some Pineapple Chunk seed if she produces.
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Hmmm? Well you know I'm no expert here but I'm thinking that they are all sativa dominant :thumb: :lot-o-toke:.

Did I win yet?
 
Evening all,

The pots and watering system were finished today and the 18 BD girls potted up to their new homes, 11.5gal fabric pots.

As @MrGreene requested, here are a couple videos of the irrigation system in action and a second of the girls in their new pots with the water running.

So here is an explanation of the irrigation setup that allows me to be away for weeks if need be.

Where I live, the water table is above the basement floor about 8 months of the year, so we have a sump pit with a float operated pump to pump excess water out and keep it from flooding the basement. In this pit, I also have a pond pump on a timer.

In the first video, I was measuring the flow through my halo ring so I could judge how long to leave the pump run. It worked out to about 1/2 gallon (2 litres) every 5 minutes.

In the second video, you will see a braided vinyl hose (1/2”) running up either side of the centre row of plants. This is tee’d into the line from the pump and acts as a manifold to even the flow between plants. Into the vinyl hose, threaded irrigation fittings are installed with a tee to split it between 2 plants, and repeated until all halo rings are connected to the hose.

Each halo ring is suspended about 1.5 inches from the edge of the pot and has 8 holes watering the edge of the pot.

This works well for me as I use organic super soils and I know my plants well enough to predict their water needs. Big pots also help for this kind of setup.

I am not a nute user, but I suspect you could set up a similar system for nutrients if you had to be away and not had someone able to tend them for you.

Plan for these girls is to let them adjust and grow for 10 days and then into flower, but that depends on how they do for that 10 days, may extend it, may shorten it.
 
Id like to guess on sativa dominant but how exactly are they numbered lol

Edit: i was looking at the sippy cups trying to figure out numbers....4 & 5....cmon biiiig money!
 
The Celt said:
Evening all,

The pots and watering system were finished today and the 18 BD girls potted up to their new homes, 11.5gal fabric pots.

As @MrGreene requested, here are a couple videos of the irrigation system in action and a second of the girls in their new pots with the water running.

So here is an explanation of the irrigation setup that allows me to be away for weeks if need be.

Where I live, the water table is above the basement floor about 8 months of the year, so we have a sump pit with a float operated pump to pump excess water out and keep it from flooding the basement. In this pit, I also have a pond pump on a timer.

In the first video, I was measuring the flow through my halo ring so I could judge how long to leave the pump run. It worked out to about 1/2 gallon (2 litres) every 5 minutes.

In the second video, you will see a braided vinyl hose (1/2”) running up either side of the centre row of plants. This is tee’d into the line from the pump and acts as a manifold to even the flow between plants. Into the vinyl hose, threaded irrigation fittings are installed with a tee to split it between 2 plants, and repeated until all halo rings are connected to the hose.

Each halo ring is suspended about 1.5 inches from the edge of the pot and has 8 holes watering the edge of the pot.

This works well for me as I use organic super soils and I know my plants well enough to predict their water needs. Big pots also help for this kind of setup.

I am not a nute user, but I suspect you could set up a similar system for nutrients if you had to be away and not had someone able to tend them for you.

Plan for these girls is to let them adjust and grow for 10 days and then into flower, but that depends on how they do for that 10 days, may extend it, may shorten it.
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This is awesome
 
780grow said:
Id like to guess on sativa dominant but how exactly are they numbered lol

Edit: i was looking at the sippy cups trying to figure out numbers....4 & 5....cmon biiiig money!
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Hey @780grow,

Use the first picture in post #49 on page 3. They were numbered starting in the top left corner, back row 1 to 6, second row 7 to 9 and front row 10 to 18. That picture is before they were cut and the red solo cups are the cuttings.
 
The Celt said:
Hey @780grow,

Use the first picture in post #49 on page 3. They were numbered starting in the top left corner, back row 1 to 6, second row 7 to 9 and front row 10 to 18. That picture is before they were cut and the red solo cups are the cuttings.
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Yep got it! Sticking with 4&5 :snowboating:
 
Love the setup, looking forward to watching this one pan out!
Also obviously 12 and 18 are winners.
 
Hiya Celt from SA
I have just cross pollinated 2 branches on 2 different plants
Both female Cali Orange
One I used pollen from a Stitched Up Kush auto
The other, pollen from a White Widow
I was going to use Coloidial Silver but now I want to investigate this option.
Thanks
 
Ok, time for a quick update and some canna porn

First up, Momma PC in the seed tent
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The tall limbs and a couple bent over the canopy are the treated limbs.

Next up, I closeup of female ‘nuts’

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Hard to get a good picture with 434w of LED (actual watts) just a few inches above the camera.

Lastly, a couple pics of bud showing browning pistils, sign of impregnation as it’s too early for them to be browning due to ripening.

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You will also notice the bud looks “different” than seedless bud. The calyx look bigger and looser than normal smokable bud.

Thats about it for the seed tent. As for the big tent, had a user error this week with the watering system and flooded the poor girls. Whoops. Anyway, as a couple of them reacted poorly to the over watering and things weren’t drying up like I would have liked, the pots all got raised about 4“ (100mm) on plastic creates. This gave airflow under the pots as well. As such, and because one of them still doesn’t look great, I am waiting to see what they look like Saturday. If I am pleased with recovery, I will throw them into flower.
 
After reading your process and some information on the colloidal silver process, I realised that I am completely back to front and misunderstood the process.
The objective is to produce female pollen to pollinate another female.
Duh
I will have to start again
Will have to try in a month or so again
I put pollen onto 2 of my plants but the pollen comes from a standard male. I was then going to apply the colloidal silver, thinking that the seeds produced would be female
Now I see that I need to get a female to produce pollen and use that pollen on another female.

Does that sound about right?
 
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