Rad gives sage advice.. I've been messing with germination techniques and I'm with Rad water is good I've been putting my seeds in water and in a dome with a little heat under a mat... water at room temps till tap root then into worm castings with a little aeration to get them going then transplant when they are hardened off.
I like to go into say 2 gal containers ... then right before switch from VEG into 7gal final pots... doesn't always happen that way but that's "my" preferred method.
Not all seeds will germinate.. its not a guarantee, although at $8-10 a seed ....it'd be nice, right?
Ok so I thinned the herd a little ... chop chop.. Al Capone was down and dried/trimmed and into the can.... been hitting on it.
Smoke report incoming:
Al Capone - (El Diablo x WiFi 2) x Wonkstar (La Confidential x MK Ultra) x (Chem4 Alien OG)
I vape so get the flavor that is pretty close to what it should be...First hit... it's expansive... hit too hard it's cough time for real, so there's that.
Taste: is SUPER smooth hints of pepper and some spicey overtones, with a chem aftertaste that numbs my tongue ....
Bag appeal: I trimmed it all down to nickel sized nugz, so they are mainly all the same size a few cola tops are exception. Buds are bright green and very dense... when I break it up it's almost like hash/keif. Very very dense, which probably goes to length in flower.
Bud smell : smells like chemdawg .. very chemical piney smell with a strong pepper mix.
Meds: Here's where this little lady excels... The high is off the charts ... get a nice giggly head warming high that lasts like an hour and then the body buzz kicks in.. take some more hits and the body buzzzzz stays and back to real kick ass head buzz to go with the body buzz. Good to go...great great strong meds and the smoothest taste ... expansive so be careful. The meds are long lasting ... not for the casual enthusiast. This strain is a hybrid with more Indica so no initial stress... just happy happy high-lites to my every day.
So here's what we've got going now... mini update:
I forgot to label or label stuck to something.. so Mystery Girl (The Future or Al Capone) not sure which.
Chemdawg the Tall... she's ready for chop:
Chemdawg close up - The Borg (Spider Mites) showed up on this plant for some reason. I got it tco'd early with my IPM but this is the 2nd time in 4 rotations they showed up... it's only a mater of time till total tear down and clean. I'm planing on that beginning of summer I'll take a few months off - because too hot/humid/stress.
Al Capone going into senescence, not stressing the yellow too much! The last one I just chopped did this same deal... thought I did something wrong:
Another Al Capone ... she's almost done.. loosing all the fan leaves, when they fall off she's finished!
Same Al Capone.. these 2 ladies are not as photogenic as the first 1, all good. Not smoking pics right?
New Lady in Da House... The Future.. I've got a whole set of these coming up.
the Future - Mother: Gorilla Glue #4
x father: Starfighter F2, 50/50 Hybrid @ 56-63 day flower cycle.
This one is the short Pheno... wow the fan leaves look good ... she's about 3 weeks into flower
Here's her sister, she's a brute ... still stretching flowers about a week maybe.. she took a while to show flowers but she grew taller the whole time.
I've got these 2 under a new timber Grow light Vero29 V7... was going to build my own but the price for fully assembled was great so I had them do it. Would have cost me more to build it myself for sure. These are the test girls .. so far VERY impressed. I bought 2 of those lamps and am just using the one lamp for now. As I chop n drop I will move the 2nd one into rotation.
The Future the Beast - big pheno, 1 week in flower.
I'm giving me a high five ... this one is special and clones were taken! Finally planned ahead, I'm going to outsmart myself ...
Ok now to the Super Cropped Chemdawg purp - this one I'm not sure what to say... already has PM ....
My treatment for PM/mold (good I found it while plant is alive) is Horsetail Fern tea... Horsetail Fern is a strange little plant.... has a lot of medicinal properties and has been a known medicinal plant almost as long as Cannabis.
It's a plant that is HIGH in silica which is very important for plant health AND just happens to be a anti fungal agent.. it's poisonous to horses and probably cattle as well. I did a foiler spray with my normal IPM just added about a cup of the tea I had brewing.
Horsetail Fern tea: 1 cup of Horsetail in 1gal water.. aerate for 24 hrs .. 1 cup of that tea filtered lightly into sprayer with 1 gal water... spray on plants like drenching.
SuperCropped Chemdawg - these buds are easy 20" diameter fat and 30" tall.. a freak:
Here's a pic of the PM... I had to stake out the 3 main colas to separate them for better air flow. The PM is held in check by the plants immune system, as soon as I chop this plant it will turn to mold .. enter Horsetail Fern tea. I'm hoping this will fix my issue. I can also spray with H2o2 to kill the PM... The horsetail tea should TCO the whole issue.