Beautiful mushrooms there. Nice job. I did a few flushes of treasure coast last year in a shoebox grow. Plenty for me and my mate to last. Especially since covid stopped our get togethers. Last one we did 2g dry in lemon tek. That was a fun time walking around a forest. You shouldn't lose too much potency from drying them out. Obviously at their most potent fresh but dried will still kick your arse:hippy:
 
Beautiful mushrooms there. Nice job. I did a few flushes of treasure coast last year in a shoebox grow. Plenty for me and my mate to last. Especially since covid stopped our get togethers. Last one we did 2g dry in lemon tek. That was a fun time walking around a forest. You shouldn't lose too much potency from drying them out. Obviously at their most potent fresh but dried will still kick your arse:hippy:
Thanks.
I think my first dry dose of this B+ is going to be no more than 1 gr as a tester.
That was way too intense.
 
And so it begins.
Started a new grow, my old pots had 9 grows on them and was just time to retire them mostly due to my mismanagement.
I let cover crop just go way wild and had roots the size of carrots, it seemed as though the soil was slightly out of balance even though my last grow did fine it just wasn't quite up to snuff for how a really balanced LOS grow should be.
So, I wanted everything new and fresh.
Pots and soil.
I assume because of covid fabric pots seem a bit scarce, Geopots are out of stock everywhere.
BuildASoil was about my only choice for quality pots, sadly Grassroots does not make a 25 gal, sadder still that a 30 gal won't fit my space so was forced to go down to 20 gallon.
So I got two 20 gal and two 7 gal.
Got 9 bags of BuildASoil V3 LOS and 1 bag Buildasoil Light soil for planting seedlings, along with a 30# bale of barley straw and a 50# bag of rice hulls and a 5# bag of Buildabloom and a bag of Colorado Worm Company castings for the microbes and mites and was hoping for Rove Beetles but didn't get lucky.

Got everything all cleaned up and layered in my soil about 1 to 2" layers and moistened each layer to field capacity moisture using fresh dechlorinated water with Yucca Extract mixed in to fully hydrate soil top to bottom.
Once I got all 3 pots full to within about 2" of the top firmly packed and hydrated, I divided my worm castings to give each pot a good 1 to 2" layer on top.
Then spread just a wee bit of cover crop seeds in the two large pots spread a thin layer of rice hulls and chopped up some barley straw to add a thick mulch layer.
Sprayed everything down, turned on the lights 24/0.
Transferred my worms from old pots into new pots.

Tossed two seeds in some aloe vera water with a little mycorrhazae powder and set on top of my HTPC to get it around 80 degrees.
1 Cream & Cheese CBD and 1 Super Critical Bud CBD.
The Super Critical Bud popped within 12 hours, soon as I saw it pop and could just see the tap root sticking out I planted it into a Solo Cup filled to the brim with Buildasoil Light soil.
Watered in using the same warm aloe vera mycorrhazae water it was born in.

Waited on Cream & Cheese CBD to crack another 12 hours and no sign, so I popped another Cream & Cheese into the water and put the first one into a moist paper towel and into plastic bag and onto the warm area.
Next day naturally both seeds crack.
Thats why the 3rd pot, had just barely enough room to squeeze in a 7 gallon fabric pot so why not, wasn't going to waste a seed.
All 3 seeds planted in solo cups, this was on January 24th late at night so really was 25th the seeds were planted. Actually the Super Critical bud was already planted and was about to pop above ground when the other two were planted.

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Seeds born
 
Day 8.
Roots starting to peak out from the knife slits in bottom of cup.
So today is time to start wearing their big plant britches.
Dug holes size of cup, dusted hole with mycorrhazae and Optiveg which is chitin and amino acids that help with root growth and fungal inoculation.
Misted the hole and transplanted.

Keeping temp at 78 and humidity at 65-70% for a good VPD.

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Day 13.
Jamming right along.
Plants perpetually praying which i like to see.
Watering lightly every other day with super oxygenated water with a touch of Yucca Extract to feed microbes.

Always keep Living Organic Soil moist, never let it dry out, needs to be treated almost like coco.
If I don't water that day I still mist the straw heavily to get a tiny bit of moisture to soil surface to keep the bugs, worms and microbes happy.

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They look just right Nunya! Nice close nodes and healthy as a horse! Good luck with the new setup! Thanks for the sweet tutorial too. I've been guilty of letting my soil dry out too much. Good point not to let it go too dry and kill our microbes.
Thanks StoneOtter.
In a couple more days they should explode on out and start spreading.
Got the center plant finally bent over but just barely, was very strong and stout and lifting the heavy wrench.

Had to do a little creative leaf tucking and pulling to get light to the lower branches.
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Today I gave the girls their first real Watering with a capital W since they sprouted.
Every watering up to now was just enough to keep the soil barely moist and I water a few inches from the plant to make the seedling reach for it.

I made a nice Alfalfa Sprouted Seed Tea with 1/2 oz sprouted seeds and 2 1/2 gallons of fresh dechlorinated water with 10ml of Ferticell Algae to supercharge it, then a little Yucca Extract and super oxygenated.

Pics are before I watered, about a gallon+ each 20 gal pot and little under 1/2 gal on the 7 gal.
Hopefully this will kick em into gear with a little Triacontanol.
Temp staying around 78 and humidity at 68 for a perfect VPD.
Lights at 20/4

They soaked up the gallon + without a drop coming out the bottom so just right.
We'll see if it does anything the next 48 hours.
The worms are going love the ground up Alfalfa seed to chew on and make some killer Unicorn Poopage.

I have left light at 98 watts and right one at 142 watts because of the 7 gallon being about 7" or so closer to the light and middle plant right in the middle of both lights then all 3 plants are bathed in between 420-475 PPFD.


Had a nice little valentines dinner.
Fresh dry pack divers scallops with a piece of Tilapia.
Seared the scallops in butter and ghee coated with Himalayan pink salt.
Tilapia coated in Zaatar, lime and seseme seeds.
Made Fettuccine with a garlic and ghee with just a touch of white cheddar and poblano sauce.
Added a pinch of Aleppo pepper and Parmesan cheese on top.
With home made Nigella seed rolls.

And a nice 16 year old Spanish Tempranillo wine decanted into my wife's grandmothers 100 year old German crystal decanter.
Finished with a well cured Honey Peach CBD joint.
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