Mega Saturday night seed-drop/transplant update!
Let's start with the seed side.
@BooWho2 and I both decided it was time to drop seeds for our summer grows. It's not a comparison or the same varieties or anything like that. But since we'll both be growing outside we figured why not start together.
So last night I scarified three seeds and dropped them in bowls of distilled water (didn't do the H2O2 soak because I've run out). By this morning, two had split open, and by this afternoon, so had the third. So let's get down to it!
First summer grow variety is
Chiquita Banana fem from
@Weed Seeds Express! It's a 40% Indica / 60% Sativa cross of OG Kush x Banana unknown, and WSE describes it thusly:
Chiquita Banana has the reputation of being one of the most powerful marijuana strains in the world. She certainly has spunk, which of course with a THC content of up to 29% should come as no surprise.
It split within 12 hours of the water drop:
This afternoon's split (18 hours after water drop) was the #1 choice in the voting last year:
Jack Herer fem, also from
WSE. It's a 45% Indica / 55% Sativa cross of Haze x Shiva Skunk x Northern Lights #5, and here is the description:
Feminized Jack Herer seeds offer the best elements of Sativa and Indica, in terms of cultivation and in its effect. Furthermore, Jack Herer won nine Cannabis Cup medals over the years, which speaks for itself. The effects are creative, energetic, euphoric, focused, happy, and social.
Sounds good to me! Herer it is:
And the last of the Summer Grow is my final Sour G seed. It's a reg, so I'm hoping for another female like my first one from January 2018. I only had two seeds from the former member here who bred it, and it's a cross of Sour Diesel and Gorilla Bomb (which is GG x THC Bomb). I had a mother plant for a while but it succumbed to some sort of root issue and that was that.
Here it was after 12 hours in water:
I always cut open the bottom of my peat pucks, and I cut the cover off completely before I plant them. You don't have to, but I really recommend the extra 10 seconds of insurance:
And here is my about-a-pencil-point-depth (from the exposed wood part) however-it-lands seed dropping process:
Then I cover it well with more damp peat.
Here the three of them sit in the
Shoebox of Light®:
Okay, let's move on to the transplants (yes, plural!).
I took a look at the Red Dragon roots (day 64) and it was time to upcan! Here it was this morning:
And here are the roots:
I used a razor blade and scored them down the side and across the bottom every few inches around.
I also remembered that I wanted to add the
@DYNOMYCO mycorrhizae!
But I wanted to be able to sprinkle it on the roots of the plant before I dropped it in the hole (after I wet the roots with a spray bottle to make it stick), so I used a rock and did a mortar/pestle thing with it:
That's better! The soil had already been amended with Dynomyco last weekend when I prepped the pot, but I took some of the powder and sprinkled it in the hole as well.
Here is it after transplant and watering at 4.5g MC equivalent:
So what was the other transplant I hear you not asking because you either forgot or don't really care and have already liked this post and moved on?
The Candida! It needed watering almost every day and looked kinda sad, so I looked at the roots and it was in definite need of more room. Here it was this afternoon on day 62:
And the jam-packed roots:
I scored these as well, but didn't add any mycorrhizae because I'm fine with slow growing roots on this one. I only moved it to a 2 gallon
GeoPot, as it still needs to fit into the box when it's seed-making time.
And here it is in its new slightly larger home:
In other news, I top-dressed the Tin Can Kush 1 with ½ cup of GeoFlora Veg, most of it over the old rootball, and I watered it in with 4.5g/gallon equivalent nutes. I hope this helps!
That was my busy Saturday, and it's a good thing I got it all done today. Tomorrow is going to be too hot to want to do much in the sun!
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
. I guess I should mind my own business?
gang!
Now I use a mini-altoids tin (they are not a sponsor) lined with pritty gritty sandpaper. It clicks shut!
