Thirvnrob's Multi Strain Seed Drawer Clean Out

Baby Power Plants are coming along. "The one" is working her butt off! She's in it to win it!
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But wait, there's more! More you say Rob? I came to the conclusion that most of the seeds I have are duds. I’ll keep trying to pop them till I'm out of seeds. But I got bored so I went shopping at @Royal Queen Seeds & they really did me right! I bought 6 Skunk XL, 3 Green Crack Punch, & 3 Tangie. They gave me 5 free OG Kush and some cool freebies.
They all spoke to me, but Skunk XL seduced me with some great memories I have of some Skunk I smoked years ago. I planted 3, 2 popped & the other is making me wait. It looks like I planted one way off center, but look closer. The off center one is a rogue Critical Mass, up on which I had given. Y'all like that sentence structuring, huh? She showed up the day before the Skunk did. I've included pics of the excavation & re-homing of the Critical mass...
I got my pics mixed up, but you can see a before & after helping them lose their shells & membranes.
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Thirvnrob said:
I'll start this update with the Sour Diesel clone. She never really stood a fighting chance to be honest. I wanted to see if I could root a couple in soil. Unfortunately for the one that survived, I'm the gardener.:bongrip: I'll do better next time, but I'm buying a cloner first.
She's at 52 days post flip. The breeder says 63-70 days to flower. That's spot on too. They consistently finish around 65-67 days but never early. It's always sudden. Her trichs are almost all milky, very few clear & zero amber. I have her spread out to get light to the leaves that are still green. Can't hurt... PPFD is 775 - 790.
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She looks like she's fading nicely!🥰👊

There's a lot of nugs there💚 Almost trim time!🎅
 
@StoneOtter cast the deciding vote about whether to mainline Pure Kush #2 & it’s on! First things first - gotta build a 10 gallon SIP. I start with the corners & pack them tightly for wicking. I thought I took more pictures, but I layered in one layer of still cooking soil at the very bottom, a couple inches deep, then a layer of finished soil & then EWC. Then another layer of soil till I get the right height for building the soil around a pot. Then I add Myco & drop her in place.
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I leave the original root ball a little bit above the soil so the roots can breathe & cover it all with mulch, then water. I’m bubbling water with a pinch of dolomite lime. 3 gallons of RO water plus one gallon of de chlorinated water brings the PPM to 58 but it fluctuates. I’m working on my watering game. But anyway, here we go! DLI is just under 40.
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When I was building the pot for the Pure Kush, I found several sprouts, most of which were past the point of viability. I did try to save a couple of them. They could be Girl Scout cookies or Critical Mass. We’ll see what happens. If it looks like they could be sickly & susceptible to any crud, I’ll show them the compost tumbler. Their DLI is 12.
 
I waited till today to introduce the 13th addition to my garden. Her name is Blue Dream, a Sativa dominant hybrid & will produce mature flowers ready for harvest 56 - 63 days after germinating. I have gone completely mad.
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One of the orphaned seedlings appears to be ready to join the party. Her cotyledons were yellow last night, but a nice vibrant green this morning. I’ll call her thing one.
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Thing two is on the fence. My gut tells me she won’t make it, but I’ll let her try or die. 50/50!
 
Finding a total of 7 seedlings that tried to grow after I gave up on them has been eye opening. I just tossed the soil from those failed attempts at germinating back into the tote & that’s where they germinated. Where the soil isn’t soaked. All of the seeds I have are probably viable, I’m just over watering. I’ve stopped nurturing them though infancy like I did before I started using SIPs. I love them, but they’ve made me lazy. Lesson learned…
 
That mainline can really pay off! Smoke once and check twice when cutting side branching! Last one I did went sideways and before I knew it the wrong branch went snip!

Nice SIP building!
 
StoneOtter said:
That mainline can really pay off! Smoke once and check twice when cutting side branching! Last one I did went sideways and before I knew it the wrong branch went snip!

Nice SIP building!
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I'm reading your journal now & haven't gotten to the sideways part yet (if it's in the RQS journal). I cut off a nice branch one time while defoliating under the influence. I've been much more deliberate with scissors since then!

About the SIP - If you were manually filling the res, how often would you fill it?

And thank you!
 
Thirvnrob said:
About the SIP - If you were manually filling the res, how often would you fill it?
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Good question! Hehe. Two ways, one was in the 4 x 4 with auto watering. That was as it sounds . Set it and forget it. The 3 x 3 got hand watered every day. With my soil I have to not water from the top at all and they do well. Or if I do any top watering I have to keep at it and toss the plastic mulch cover for bark chips so o2 get to root zone.
 
StoneOtter said:
Good question! Hehe. Two ways, one was in the 4 x 4 with auto watering. That was as it sounds . Set it and forget it. The 3 x 3 got hand watered every day. With my soil I have to not water from the top at all and they do well. Or if I do any top watering I have to keep at it and toss the plastic mulch cover for bark chips so o2 get to root zone.
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So you topped off the res every day?
 
Yes.
I had good luck that way in my soil if never top watered. Very good luck! Once I top watered I had to change my system and remove the solid mulch cover because the roots populated so well, wicking like crazy, and they were starving for oxygen and dying from being too wet. I suggest if top watering a SIP to use a natural mulch so it can breath.
Everyone has a different experience with this depending on the soil and type of SIP they use from what I can see.
 
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