Homer's Legal 4-Plant Max Perpetual Minimalist Garden In Ontario

[Pennywise]

Sounds on point Smokey.

 

[Homer Simpson]

When you find what works for you just stick with it.

Sound advice. I will try what you say and experiment as I go. With so few plants when they don't go it makes a big gap so I need to get my percentages up. I just lost a month and a half with one plant allotment losing those two cuttings. I have taken two in the past and thrown one out when both survive. Zero for two this time. Haven't had that in memory. Oh yes, the demon strain. I think I lost two of them or maybe it was even three out of three.

My method is similar to Penny's no dome and no food untill roots I use straight vermiculite in a clone tray with inserts.

I am really surprised so many people don't use the dome. Thanks for the two cents oldsmokey.

Sounds on point Smokey.

I will try another batch of cuttings on Monday.

 

[Pennywise]

I always take more cuttings than I can use. Safety in numbers.

 

[Homer Simpson]

I always take more cuttings than I can use. Safety in numbers.

Yes, I am going to take more because I don't want to lose this pheno till I get some bud from it and know what I have. If it is as good a sedative as my NL I may try and make some S1's from it.

I have been really enjoying my GG and BB as daytime micro – ish day timers. Not only do I find Sativas hybrids stimulating and keep me active I don't completely lose my memory the way I do with Indicas so it's easier to accomplish things in the day. So I am looking forward to my Super Lemon Haze next that is almost all Sativa.

 

[Pennywise]

Sativas were all we had when I started smoking. I have a soft spot for them.

 

[Homer Simpson]

Sativas were all we had when I started smoking. I have a soft spot for them.

I don't have the best memory but it seems to me that back in school days we either had awful Mexican hardpacked or Northern lights supposedly but who knows what it really was. Until I joined this site I wasn't even sure the difference between Sativas and Indicas but I just don't remember any weed being so stimulating as my GG and BB. I don't know what I used to smoke really but I get the feeling if it wasn't Mexican low-quality hardpacked it was Indica.

 

[Pennywise]

Very possible, the Mexican we got was a cool happy kinda high where you sit around laughing at stupid shit.

 

[Homer Simpson]

Very possible, the Mexican we got was a cool happy kinda high where you sit around laughing at stupid shit.

That sounds like fun stuff so I think we had a different version of Mexican. Our stuff was full of seeds stems leaves and not a lot of buds, hurt your throat and only got you half high. It was the stuff we begrudgingly smoked when we couldn't get the real stuff but desperate times call for desperate measures, LOL.

 

[Pennywise]

Oh I smoked bad weed back then too. Lol

 

[cr8grow]

I write down my MC dosages for my plants on my bar-top where I mix my nutes so I have a record of my current three plants and my previous four plants. Longest ago was my P 98 and owing to smudging I can only guesstimate that it is somewhere around six or maybe 6 1/2 g per gallon MC. My 20:1 from Dr. Seeds was 6 g per gallon and it looks like I added some Bud Explosion on top of that. And Gorilla Glue I topped out at 6.5 g per gallon and for a while I was adding 4 mL of Calmag on top of that. But Bruce Banner I only gave 5.5 g per gallon MC and the strain I can never remember the name of which is about six weeks into flower currently I only have at about 4.5 g per gallon.

I was getting good yields but until I dropped my maximum MC down to 5.5 g per gallon I was getting yellowing on all my plants partway into flower but now with lower dosages of MC I am getting really nice healthy plants all the way to harvest. The Amnesia plant labelled as, I Forget, in my notes seems pretty happy at 4 1/2 so unless I start seeing bad leaves I think that will be my maximum for that plant.

My Chemdawg that I just moved into the Bloom Room only got 3 1/2 g per gallon all the way through veg and was nice and healthy but the cutting from that which has been rooted for about a month now in a 10-gallon pot started to show signs of nute deficiency and it was at 3 g. So from that, I assume once I bump it up to 3 1/2 it will be okay.

So it looks like the maximum amount of MC is somewhere between 4 1/2 and 5 1/2 g per gallon in my garden. So it looks like I have my MC dialled in finally; better late than never. I can't express how frustrating it was to me watching my plants yellow during flower and I really love seeing them green and happy even if I don't get any more yield. I feel I owe my girls the best life I can give them.

Here is the canopy of my Amnesia plant well into flower getting 4.5 g MC nice and happy.

Here are its very bottom leaves. Granted they are pretty high up because I have really trimmed this sucker.

I got a really nice canopy with this plant even though I didn't do any training other than topping three times so I got eight main branches and then a little super cropping because it got too tall for my basement. Here's a pic of the branches that resulted from my topping three times coming from the trunk. I think in the future I will do a longer single trunk before I branch it out for more stability.

Here is the lowest leaf on my Chemdawg that I flipped a few days ago. I still have it at 3 1/2 g per gallon with nice healthy leaves. Very minor amount of tip burn but at just 3 1/2 g per gallon, I think that's inevitable.

Here is the Chemdawg under a blurple in the budroom. A really nice healthy sturdy plant.

Here is the cutting I took from the Chemdawg mother that is now in the flower room. This is the plant that I was giving just 3 g MC per gallon to that started to show signs of nute deficiency that I will bump up to 3.5 g per gallon MC.

It doesn't really show up too well under the blurple lights but here is one of the bad leaves on this plant.

More posts following shortly. Working on them now.

Homer...last pic looks like a calmag issue

 

[Homer Simpson]

Homer...last pic looks like a calmag issue

That could very well be cr8grow but I find if I get my MC dosage correct all is well so I think I just need to up it from 3 g/gal to 3.5 g/gal.

 

[Homer Simpson]

I keep forgetting about this plant along with its name but it is doing pretty good for one day short of seven weeks since flip.

Here it is compared to just a few weeks ago.

She is budding up nicely and has a pleasant lemony scent.

Here is the same branch over a few weeks in the bud room.

 

[Homer Simpson]

I started four cuttings today; two I am using Penny’s method and two I am using the method I recently read in an article.

With one of each method, I am using the double-dip using both gel and powder rooting hormone, and the other for each method I am using no hormone.

Hopefully, I get one that survives.

 

[Homer Simpson]

This is pretty much what I expected. Here are my plants only about an hour after putting them under the veg lights. The ones that have been in the dome for humidity are looking happy and healthy and the ones being left out look sad and thirsty like they are on track to be dead in a few days.

I'm not saying it won't work without a dome because so many people seem to be successful without one so I am pretty curious how things work out but this is pretty much what I expected at this point. Maybe they will come to life, who knows?

 

[Homer Simpson]

Hmmmm. Here are the two cuttings, I don't have in the dome for humidity, after three hours. Maybe they will pick up but this doesn't look very encouraging to me. I added 4 mL of water to each pod and it doesn't seem to have done anything. Maybe this is normal and they bounce back I don't know but this is how they usually look when they die on me in a few days.

 

[Pennywise]

Those don’t look good at all.

 

[Pennywise]

Maybe there not getting air exchange through the glass or plastic.

 

[Homer Simpson]

Maybe there not getting air exchange through the glass or plastic.

I don’t get it because I was shocked when you guys told me you didn’t use domes because this is exactly what I figured I would get without one because for me it’s a struggle to get them out of the dome even after weeks without them wilting like this.

I don’t doubt your word that you can do it without a dome and I will try to do it without a dome again but I only bought three of these seeds so I really don’t want to lose this phenotype so to be safe I put all of them in the dome for now.

I really can’t see it being the containers because the cuttings that are in the dome that are perfectly healthy are in the same containers. Maybe once they perk up a bit in the dome I will try taking one out and put it on a plate but I can’t really see it acting any differently.

Anyways, Penny, thanks for the input. One way or another eventually I will figure out a reliable way to root cuttings.

 

[Homer Simpson]

The two girls I had outside the dome initially which went as limp as al dente spaghetti within a few hours, which I placed in the dome last night and are the center two, are looking a lot livelier this morning.

I found a second site that recommends the same system I read about a few days ago so it looks like it is rather widespread which hopefully means it works. This is the last day I am supposed to keep things completely sealed up under the dome. Tomorrow I am supposed to crack the dome open which will allow the soil pod to dry out which is what is supposed to stimulate root growth. Once the soil pod dries out then I am supposed to seal it up again for a few days while putting a little bit of water just on the bottom of the pod to draw the roots down. Might be totally bogus but we shall see.

 

[Pennywise]

They look a lot better today.