Been to the city for eye surgery and got back a couple days ago. I’m still adjusting to having a new artificial lens in my eye. My vision is much better overall, but still weird. I’m revising my plan to become the Six Million Dollar bionic Weasel. On second thought the original body parts seemed to work best.
I can do things like kill mosquitoes now though.
A couple weeks ago I was just helpless food for those bastards.
Thanks kindly to those of you who’ve put up with this epic tangent as this alleged grow journal all but flatlined for the last year. Now that I can see a bit better, maybe things will pick up slightly around here. Or maybe not. Or I may shut it down, ha ha- I haven’t decided yet. Sometimes this forum feels like a bit of a ghost town. Cannabis tumbleweeds blowing in the wind gently whistling through endless rows of legal journals, no humour to be found except over at PotChimp’s...all the newbies growing perfect buds with no stupid questions to answer... Tead lost in the mists of dab-land...
Other times I think it’s mostly in my head.
Here’s a thing I glimpsed on one of the new P Chunks this winter. Now that I can see more clearly, I can clearly see more of it. It’s on the one I call PC2- on both the original seedling and its clone.
I know it looks like TMV is supposed to look, but I’ve seen a few internet TMV scares now with no real scary outcomes. Since it hasn’t spread to other plants I’m not going to worry about it too much quite yet.
My girlfriend took care of the plants while I was gone. Alas this didn’t go as perfectly as it has in the past, and the variegated Chocolate Mint dried out and died. A shame since I was sooooo close to planting the air-layered branch. Then she would have had two of them to kill and probably one would have survived. The air layering had a lot of roots and I could have planted it before I left but decided to leave it till I got back.
I had plans for that plant... Oh well, shit happens, no use fretting about it now.
Barring some weird miracle - it’s goodbye variegated Chocolate Mint. It was fun while it lasted.
Not only is the variegated one gone, but somehow I’ve mysteriously ended up in a situation where the CM4 (reverted non-mutant version of the variegated CM3 plant, which I’m about to post pics of below, has no surviving clones left). No idea how that happened since I’m sure I had a clone or two around. I’d ask, but don’t want my gf to feel worse about things than she already does ha ha
. So hopefully the last few sickly looking cuttings taken from the corpse of CM3 will root - though I don’t expect them to be variegated.
The two latest little Purple Envy seedlings also dried out and croaked. I’m trying to sprout the one remaining PE seed now.
On the bright side, everything else survived ok. The veg plants are obviously stuffed to the gills and beyond with nitrogen from the bunny turds I fed them and I sure hope they don’t get any greener. But they’ve also grown like crazy - which allowed me to fully restock flowering. Veg looks empty now especially with that big variegated plant gone. Time to reassess the current strains list a little.
I got some Z7 in the mail today, which I’m hoping might solve the root rot issues I’ve been getting in cloning. I know Skybound said not to bother spending my money on these store bought cures, but wtf- it was reasonably cheap and it seems to work for everyone else, if Internet reviews can be trusted. If it works I can DIY it later. I started a batch of cuttings in perlite and also dragged out the aero cloner for a batch in there too. This time I put the cloner pump on an intermittent timer. Maybe lower water temps along with the Z7 will be the magic fix. I’m really right out of tricks after this.
