Tales From The Krip!

Love every pic of AJ I've seen and never get tired of seeing them! Hoping Neikos turn out just like that and they're well on their way with the early frost!

KB, you're welcome to those beans, just replace them with a couple of similar quality and we're all good. Otherwise I will have to callDuggan and his security company! :rofl: I'm pretty sure your correct about the purple urkle, I think I knew that, just hadn't updated it on the list. I also had the legacy OG as in house but changed that one.
 
Mr. Krip said:
SEED SCARIFICATION ON THE BG41

I checked the new sprouts this morning and the Blackwater is above ground but hasn't really opened up, yet. And, I had to cut away more of the cube for the Cotton Candy Cane, but she's definitely rooted in the cube.

The Blue Gelato 41, as I mentioned last night, didn't appear to have changed, so I dug her out of the cube, and after close to two days soaking in water (she did sink!) and another couple days in the cube, I could probably pass the seed off as a fresh seed:

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I do have another four BG41 seeds from the 5-pack but, since I'm more anxious to start the IHG Dolato S1 and Forbidos, I figured I'd try to see if I can salvage this one through a technique called "Seed Scarification" and, if not, just wait for the new genetics.

Scarification involves weakening the outer shell/husk of a seed to make it easier for the seedling to emerge. I don't know that's the issue with this seed but figured it couldn't hurt to try a technique I had seen several years ago.

Basically, just make a small tube of rolled up sandpaper (grit on the inside!):

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Put the seed inside, close the ends with your fingers, and shake/roll the seed on the inside of the tube for 3-5 minutes. The sandpaper scrapes/removes the outer layer of the shell making it more permeable to water and easier for the seedling to emerge.

If the thickness of the shell was not the problem, I don't expect anything to happen after another couple of days soaking, but did put her back in a glass of water to see if I can get a taproot to show.

Happy Harvests!

K
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weenmeoff said:
Interested to see if the seed scarification works. Congrats on the IHG beans and the realization that those are the last seeds you'll buy for a while, you've made your first step...again! Ha! :rofl:

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Holy crap! You guys aren't going to believe this!....

I was hoping that scarification might work on that Blue Gelato 41 seed, but sure as hell didn't think it would be this quick! :eek:

It's only be about four hours since I did the scarification and that seed has already cracked and is showing a small taproot! :yahoo:

I'm sure the speed is largely due to the amount of soaking it had PRIOR to scarification, but this is just a great example (if I do say so myself - and I do! :ganjamon: ) of a technique that works!

Here's that same seed just FOUR hours later:

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In addition to saving the seed investment, it's at least partially restored some of my faith in Barney's Farm.

This is so impressive to me, I put these pic's together as a before & after:

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I just put her back in a fresh grow cube. :slide:

If your seeds sink but don't sprout a taproot, before you toss them, try this technique!
 
Awesome Krip! Wow that was quic, congrats! I'll keep it in mind, maybe even try on next seeds proactively but still drop right in soil (no soak for mine.)

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weenmeoff said:
Awesome Krip! Wow that was quic, congrats! I'll keep it in mind, maybe even try on next seeds proactively but still drop right in soil (no soak for mine.)

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Yeah, that was lightening quick! Although, I guess with all that soaking, she was was straining to get out and just needed a little help??? :hmmmm:

Dude, I commend you and the others for your abilities to start in the HB soil. :adore:

I did try that, but just have had such low success rates, I had to change things up and go back to what I was comfortable with.

If I had any uncooked soil, I'd dig out a small hole in the cooked stuff, fill it with the non-cooked, and let the seed start in that and grow into the HB soil.

But, I am the kind of guy that likes to explore and find out why a seed didn't sprout, especially one that sank and/or cracked after soaking, and I do believe the cooked soil is adding to my germination issues based on some taproots that just stopped developing and went brown, to seeds that disappeared entirely.
 
weenmeoff said:
Love every pic of AJ I've seen and never get tired of seeing them! Hoping Neikos turn out just like that and they're well on their way with the early frost!

KB, you're welcome to those beans, just replace them with a couple of similar quality and we're all good. Otherwise I will have to callDuggan and his security company! :rofl: I'm pretty sure your correct about the purple urkle, I think I knew that, just hadn't updated it on the list. I also had the legacy OG as in house but changed that one.
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Don't worry I have plenty of autos that will equal one of those beans lol
 
I've said this before somewhere but I truly believe the soil is weeding out the weak ones. In nature not every seed survives for whatever reason. I know it sucks to lose $25-$30 seeds but it's worth it if the ones that survive are keepers. I've had my fair share of seeds consumed only to put another of the same strain right back in the same pot and have happy healthy seeding come up. I have germinated in root riot cubes with about 95% success rate but it's been hit or miss with quality of the plants. When I think about what strains I've wanted to keep it seems the direct soil method always produces a winner.
 
ULTIMATE STONER SNACK?

I think I might have stumbled upon the ultimate stoner food and wanted to make sure everyone was aware of it.

It's quick & easy to make and it's truly a buzz enhancer with its smooth, creamy, texture that's not too sweet and has tiny soft "beads" that are like magic to explore in your mouth!

This "doper dream dessert" I speak of is Tapioca! :green_heart:

Get yourself a box of that "Instant Tapioca" (don't go for the pre-made crap!) and tell me if I'm wrong!

WARNING: Although the box says to serve warm or cold, do NOT try eating this warm! When eaten warm, it's a real buzz killer, but once chilled.....:drool:

:Namaste:

K
 
SAVE ON THE BG-41!

The Blue Gelato 41 that I did the scarification on a couple of days ago sprouted this morning! :yahoo:

I'm pretty proud of this "save" so hopefully she rewards me by being a "keeper"! ;)

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When I checked on the Cotton Candy Cane yesterday, her taproot was in a curl from her trying to break out of the cube but did not appear to have grown into the cube, so I took her out and put her directly in the HB soil and hopefully, she'll make it, too, but no sign of her today above soil. I imagine it may take her a few days to figure out which way is up based on the curly-q in her taproot!

Happy Harvests!

K
 
Congrats on the save. Sounds like a good strain for sure. It doesn't hurt to scratch up alot of seed. I use a matchbox with acouple pieces of sandpaper... But what you did sure seems alot easier...
I just lost a seed that couldn't break free and grew inside till she died. I tried to do alittle redneck surgery on her,,, but I lost the patient.

Man, I got a rash of shit going here......... All this spraying is slowing everything down to a crawl and I can see mine,,, the whole grow going to shit... Mites suck.. The ones I got especially. I hear that they,, the state of Oregon has them so bad all along the freeways.. Shits got me bummed as hell.. But it is getting close to cooler weather and I always got the next round.........

GL and Keepem Green
 
Norcaliwood said:
Congrats on the save. Sounds like a good strain for sure. It doesn't hurt to scratch up alot of seed. I use a matchbox with acouple pieces of sandpaper... But what you did sure seems alot easier...
I just lost a seed that couldn't break free and grew inside till she died. I tried to do alittle redneck surgery on her,,, but I lost the patient.

Man, I got a rash of shit going here......... All this spraying is slowing everything down to a crawl and I can see mine,,, the whole grow going to shit... Mites suck.. The ones I got especially. I hear that they,, the state of Oregon has them so bad all along the freeways.. Shits got me bummed as hell.. But it is getting close to cooler weather and I always got the next round.........

GL and Keepem Green
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Thanks, Brother, and yeah, I've been carefully watching the crap you've been dealing with and hoping I never have to deal with it! (where's the old "knock on wood" icon when you need it???)

You're definitely doing everything possible so if you can't win the battle, just take as many of those MF'ers down with you as possible!

It kinda reminds me of an old joke about a guy who goes to a restaurant after a bullfight and orders the "Rocky Mountain Oysters" which are a special on the menu. He finds them delicious and asks the waiter what they are and the waiter explains they're the bull's balls and that after the bullfights, they send them there and serve them there fresh.

The guy enjoys them so much, next time he's at the bullfights he goes to the same restaurant and orders the same dish. This time, they are much smaller and not anywhere near as tasty so he calls the waiter over to complain and the waiter explains, "Senor, sometimes the bull wins!" :rofl:

I hope the bull doesn't win on this one! :goodluck:
 
Mr. Krip said:
Put the seed inside, close the ends with your fingers, and shake/roll the seed on the inside of the tube for 3-5 minutes. The sandpaper scrapes/removes the outer layer of the shell making it more permeable to water and easier for the seedling to emerge.
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... Great tip Krip... LOL Green days, and better luck with Barney's... I have recently thrown away all Barney's gear, just got tired of them doing much the same as yours, or Damping out after like two good weeks of growth...
 
NO-PIC UPDATE

Been very busy and spending much more time in other journals than my own, so thought I'd get a quick update in and try to get some pics up ASAP.

As I was contemplating what to do with the struggling BAK, I decided to just give it a Rescue Drench since that's what you're supposed to do with the kit when having issues. The Rescue seemed to have a positive effect and it looked like the BAK was turning around, but as I was judging the time to flip to 12/12 vs. the time it would take for her to fully recover, I decided to just cull it and replaced it with the White Widow.

I was considering replacing it with one of the Dark Devil Auto's, which may have been a better choice since it could have gone into flower in about 30 days, regardless, and I could still flip the others to 12/12 whenever I wanted, but the WW was already in veg and had already been topped and figured it would be a better risk than trying to pop another seed, at this point.

The White Widow is MUCH further behind than the other three in the tent, but I'd rather take a healthy plant into flower than continue to battle the BAK. I did put the WW in the same pot and, since it just got the Rescue Drench a few days ago, I just dusted with Roots and watered in with plain H2O (no Transplant).

It actually solved another problem for me, since the veg cab is starting to get full again so getting the WW into the tent freed up some more space there.

I have a rooted clone of the BAK and everything in the Tent except the newly placed WW, but have plenty of WW seeds and still time to take a cut before flip.

After this round flowers, I should be able to eliminate one of the two Tut pheno's (though, they look pretty similar!) and I'm going to try to get two Blackwater and two Blue Gelato 41 in for the next round while I work on preparing some of the In-House Genetics seeds (which still aren't here yet!) for the following round.

I still want to get a BAK in, at some point soon, so I'll have to figure that one out!

Happy Harvests!

K
 
CURRENT PICS & MORE UPDATES

Here's the pic's & what's currently going on...

In the veg cabinet, we have the newly sprouted Blue Gelato 41 that was "saved" with the scarification. She has an early twisted leaf but nothing I'm concerned about:

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And, we have a newly sprouted Blackwater that's doing great:

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The Tut #2 clone is also healthy, but she was still putting out two sprouts per node so got another UBT topping and now has four nodes. This takes up too much space in the cabinet, so I'm gonna end up having to clone her again when she starts putting out some staggered nodes (or, just take another from the one in the tent!).:

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The exact same thing happened with the Fruit Punch but she's even more spread out and sparse, which is exactly what happened to her mom. This strain grows pretty slow and stays very short & squat:

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I also have that rooted BAK clone which did have the staggered nodes and is exactly the way to start a Bonsai Mom, so I have her in a small 2" container since I'm gonna need to keep her small for quite some time, if I want to keep her at all:

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In the flower tent, which is still on 20/4 veg schedule, we have the new White Widow that replaced the "sick" BAK:

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That WW, as I mentioned, is WAY behind the others and is going to have to get switched to 12/12 the same day as this Monster, which is Tut #1:

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Tut #1 is already taking up more than 1/4 of the tent space, so any space that isn't filled by the WW (or anything else, for that matter!) will get taken up by that girl. And, Tut #2 is not far behind, but she's the one that got the toppings instead of the LST that Tut#1 received so is much more bushy and less spread out. The stalks on both Tuts are about the thickness of my thumb right now and they're gowing as healthy as can be in the HB soil, so if the smoke is anywhere near that touted 29% THC level, it'll be a "keeper" strain:

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Finally, the Fruit Punch which really is healthy but always seems to look droopy. She has very thick foliage with tightly stacked nodes making lollipopping her a real PITA so I'm sure she's not gonna be much fun to trim, either:

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The left side of the tent has the two Tuts, leaving the Fruit Punch and White Widow on the right. The tent is setup with two Mars Reflector 144's, one covering the left and the other covering the right side. So, with the two shorter plants on the right, even though I'll have to switch to 12/12 at the same time, one of the advantages of the two lights is that, at least I'll be able to have the lights on each side an appropriate distance from the canopies of the plants they're covering.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I will be sacrificing some potential harvest due to running multiple strains, and probably even more now, with that new WW.

Hopefully, this week, the IHG orders will be here (although, I have not received any shipping confirmations!) and I'll start one of the Dolato S1's and one of the Forbido's.

Happy Harvests!

K
 
IHG ORDERS IN - WTF IS PKM?

I received both IHG orders in one package and I'll post some pics later today and gonna start a Dolato & Forbidos.

They threw in 25 Larry OG x PKM reg's as freebies.

I know what the Larry OG is (OG Kush x SFV OG) but I can't, for the life of me, figure out what PKM even stands for?

Purkple Kush (something)? Pakistani Kush (something)?

Anyone have any ideas? :hmmmm:
 
If you plan on popping reg seeds try using the volcano method when selecting seeds. Not sure if your familiar with it, I hadn't heard of it before some crazy farmer here told me about it :passitleft:.
 
Killerbudz said:
If you plan on popping reg seeds try using the volcano method when selecting seeds. Not sure if your familiar with it, I hadn't heard of it before some crazy farmer here told me about it :passitleft:.
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Yes, I am familiar but will be popping the two FEM strains. I'm going to do some breeding in a few months (about 4-6) and then I'll start popping the REG's. ;)
 
Purple kush... Marijuana??? :laugh::hmmmm::rofl:
Sry just had to say that.
If you don't know.. (You are a walking encyclopaedia of knowledge Mr. K.)
Hope you will find out.
GL in the... You know what...
 
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