Gaffle
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1 male and 5 hermies out of own stock. One plant retained female attributes, no balls and less developed. Took 4 clones from female, cut the rest. Watered EB with 1 ½ gal h2o 2oz em1.
New plan, lower light until adverse effects shown. Raise extension cord and power strip.
Above was notes I made when I got home from vacation and found 1 possible female with no pollen sacs, 4 hermies and 1 male, just before the trip I already cut a male. Holy moly I've had the boys as of lately.
Back in the summer I had 2 plants going. One was a Skunk Diesel (Genetics: NYC_Diesel x Skunk from GYO seedbank), the other was Afghani regular (Herbie's free seed, unknown lineage). Well, the Afghani was a boy. My other tent wasn't going yet so I made an executive decision to pollinate my SD female. The SD was in a 15gal pot, and boy did I get the seeds. She was large with terrible seedy colas and sub par smoke, but the plant wasn't the same as a feminized seed, couldn't wait to grow it out.
Now in April I went to a soil seminar at my local green house. The first speaker was Randy, co-owner of Malibu Compost. He had great notes, I intend of uploading, and a story all about making healthy soil. We don't care about plant health, we care about soil health. Happier soil equals happier plants, it also equals higher brix levels. The 2nd seminar was led by Eric Lancaster from Teraganix. Teraganix is a company based out of Texas that has the rights to produce EM1 in the USA. EM1 is a microbial soup that eats the minerals in your soil making a special nutrient dense substrate. My wheels were turning.
So, I finally have a seed stock, but I am out of plants. Persevere! I planted 16 seeds, 14 made it to maturity. I did have some other seeds going for a minute, from a local grower, and they all ended up male. In a panic due to timing being fubared, I planted 4 seedlings in two 5gal pots and 4 seedlings in the EB(EarthBox). From here we end up at the notes from the beginning, full circle! My girl in flower has been doing very well since early September. She was very hardy and her clones all took. I did not amend her soil properly so some fade is happening, I see purples, very excited.
Some early shots and today.
Recap, I'm sorry for the length, my flower girl is the same age as my 1 gal tent girls. Out of 16 seedlings, 4 remained in the veg tent. Each of these plants are the same age as my flower, all popped the same time. I rushed through 12/12 seedlings specifically for this precise moment. I needed stock, of which I first made seeds, and then I was lucky enough to get a stable female out of chaos, and to sweeten the deal her clones all took off. One looked like shyte but came back to health. Here is a pick of all the plants. Every large plant is the same age as the female in the EB.
Today my wife and I cut down 2 more males that popped up in veg tent. We transplanted the larger female into the non-mineralized EB. She was cloned and defoiled. The 2nd female was also cloned and defoiled, but she was put in the box with the flowering female. I then transplanted my old clones to the 1gal pots. My perpetual machine is going strong. Now I can take clones and pop seeds for nice intervals. I have a Amherst Sour Diesel that I may pop just for clones, dunno. Ok, howz about some explanations?
I am using Earth Boxes for my containers. Each EB is a Sub Irigated Planter. These boxes have a screen that sits above a reservoir that holds about 3 gals of H2O. There is the watering tube that goes straight down to the reservoir. We are not watering from the top, only from the bottom.
My growing medium is peat moss, about 1 cubic foot to be exact. We have 2 larger holes in the screen, these holes make up the water column of our EB. I make sure to press/punch down the peat at the water column hole. If this part of the box is not running right you will have a problem. If moisture is not pulled from your base it will be pulled from your newly transplanted root ball, happened to me (slightly) and I didn't like it.
Ok, box is now filled up with peat, I poured water at each column location several times and I continued to press the peat as the box filled up. This box is being run with no minerals. I spoke with Eric about brix levels using this system and he said brix should go up as I use my normal amending products (more in a few). So, he asked if I would do a side by side grow of mineralized substrate vs non-mineralized substrate. This box has my larger female, she will be solo. It's a fresh install so after I transplanted I added about a gallon of water at the base of my girl (very important for water column success). Next, I added 1 cup of Gro-Kashi to the top of peat. Now I lay some Malibu Bu’s Blend compost. Cover and done.
Next box already has had dolomite so I chose to keep it the mineralized version. Only difference was scratching in the dolomite into the top inch or two. I moved it all fast but I could have waited for the Gro-Kashi to sprout before adding the Bu Blend. Boom done. Because this box is already running all i had to do was plop in the plant. Water columns are working, which means running perpetual is a breeze. Pull out base of 1gal root ball and add it back to the soil bin, plop in scored root ball and done. My flowering female drank 1.5gals a week. Different sizes and amounts now so watering will be off. Excitement awaits!
At this rate I'll have a harvest every 2 months(ish). My flower area will be turned off for a week for drying. Once drying is done, curing is now happening, I'll pull out the 4 clones and flower them. Not bad for a space the size of Harry Potters 1st room.
Ran out of photo space, guess I get me own first spot.
New plan, lower light until adverse effects shown. Raise extension cord and power strip.
Above was notes I made when I got home from vacation and found 1 possible female with no pollen sacs, 4 hermies and 1 male, just before the trip I already cut a male. Holy moly I've had the boys as of lately.
Back in the summer I had 2 plants going. One was a Skunk Diesel (Genetics: NYC_Diesel x Skunk from GYO seedbank), the other was Afghani regular (Herbie's free seed, unknown lineage). Well, the Afghani was a boy. My other tent wasn't going yet so I made an executive decision to pollinate my SD female. The SD was in a 15gal pot, and boy did I get the seeds. She was large with terrible seedy colas and sub par smoke, but the plant wasn't the same as a feminized seed, couldn't wait to grow it out.
Now in April I went to a soil seminar at my local green house. The first speaker was Randy, co-owner of Malibu Compost. He had great notes, I intend of uploading, and a story all about making healthy soil. We don't care about plant health, we care about soil health. Happier soil equals happier plants, it also equals higher brix levels. The 2nd seminar was led by Eric Lancaster from Teraganix. Teraganix is a company based out of Texas that has the rights to produce EM1 in the USA. EM1 is a microbial soup that eats the minerals in your soil making a special nutrient dense substrate. My wheels were turning.
So, I finally have a seed stock, but I am out of plants. Persevere! I planted 16 seeds, 14 made it to maturity. I did have some other seeds going for a minute, from a local grower, and they all ended up male. In a panic due to timing being fubared, I planted 4 seedlings in two 5gal pots and 4 seedlings in the EB(EarthBox). From here we end up at the notes from the beginning, full circle! My girl in flower has been doing very well since early September. She was very hardy and her clones all took. I did not amend her soil properly so some fade is happening, I see purples, very excited.
Some early shots and today.
Recap, I'm sorry for the length, my flower girl is the same age as my 1 gal tent girls. Out of 16 seedlings, 4 remained in the veg tent. Each of these plants are the same age as my flower, all popped the same time. I rushed through 12/12 seedlings specifically for this precise moment. I needed stock, of which I first made seeds, and then I was lucky enough to get a stable female out of chaos, and to sweeten the deal her clones all took off. One looked like shyte but came back to health. Here is a pick of all the plants. Every large plant is the same age as the female in the EB.
Today my wife and I cut down 2 more males that popped up in veg tent. We transplanted the larger female into the non-mineralized EB. She was cloned and defoiled. The 2nd female was also cloned and defoiled, but she was put in the box with the flowering female. I then transplanted my old clones to the 1gal pots. My perpetual machine is going strong. Now I can take clones and pop seeds for nice intervals. I have a Amherst Sour Diesel that I may pop just for clones, dunno. Ok, howz about some explanations?
I am using Earth Boxes for my containers. Each EB is a Sub Irigated Planter. These boxes have a screen that sits above a reservoir that holds about 3 gals of H2O. There is the watering tube that goes straight down to the reservoir. We are not watering from the top, only from the bottom.
My growing medium is peat moss, about 1 cubic foot to be exact. We have 2 larger holes in the screen, these holes make up the water column of our EB. I make sure to press/punch down the peat at the water column hole. If this part of the box is not running right you will have a problem. If moisture is not pulled from your base it will be pulled from your newly transplanted root ball, happened to me (slightly) and I didn't like it.
Ok, box is now filled up with peat, I poured water at each column location several times and I continued to press the peat as the box filled up. This box is being run with no minerals. I spoke with Eric about brix levels using this system and he said brix should go up as I use my normal amending products (more in a few). So, he asked if I would do a side by side grow of mineralized substrate vs non-mineralized substrate. This box has my larger female, she will be solo. It's a fresh install so after I transplanted I added about a gallon of water at the base of my girl (very important for water column success). Next, I added 1 cup of Gro-Kashi to the top of peat. Now I lay some Malibu Bu’s Blend compost. Cover and done.
Next box already has had dolomite so I chose to keep it the mineralized version. Only difference was scratching in the dolomite into the top inch or two. I moved it all fast but I could have waited for the Gro-Kashi to sprout before adding the Bu Blend. Boom done. Because this box is already running all i had to do was plop in the plant. Water columns are working, which means running perpetual is a breeze. Pull out base of 1gal root ball and add it back to the soil bin, plop in scored root ball and done. My flowering female drank 1.5gals a week. Different sizes and amounts now so watering will be off. Excitement awaits!
At this rate I'll have a harvest every 2 months(ish). My flower area will be turned off for a week for drying. Once drying is done, curing is now happening, I'll pull out the 4 clones and flower them. Not bad for a space the size of Harry Potters 1st room.
Ran out of photo space, guess I get me own first spot.
