Alright, things are coming along, I don't post much during veg, obviously more boring than bloom. Room looks great, will post the specs and pics of it next post, just wanna update on the plants right now.
Sugar Dog(Sugar x
Chemdog 91)
3/8 females. Started 11 seeds. 2 runts and 1 semi-runt culled at beginning of veg.
Females:
Plants were all over in terms of veg growth. Very vigorous
Sugar Dog #10 was female and went into the bloom room a week ago because she was growing 2x as fast as some phenos. Very leggy, this might be the Sugar pheno, breeder told me it grows like wildfire, and I know chem is known to be slow vegging and smaller.
Sugar Dog #4 & #9 are female also, least vigorous of all the phenos, still good growers. Will be flipping these in 3 days, making them 10 days behind #10.
I'm hoping they will mature at the same time. I'm expecting they will. I've never staggered plants before like this but I've run lots of seed packs and every single time I've put all the females into bloom it's because the fastest pheno was getting big and I didn't want it to over grow. Well this always has caused at least 1 or 2 phenos that were the slow growers to not perform or yield as well just because they simply needed an extra week of veg time. Then you whine that it's poor yielder when all it really needed was more veg time. On top of that, the slower grower/smaller yielders seem to always mature faster than the pheno that was vegging like a maniac. So hopefully it pans out like this and they all get to grow equally and mature at the same time. That means I will harvest everything on the same date, but nearly each plant will have been in the bloom room for a slightly different amount of days(70, 65, 60, 56, and 50 days to be exact).
Eclipse(Apollo 13 x Apollo 11)
3/8 females. Started 10 seeds. 2 runts culled.
Eclipse #2: Taller very bushy pheno, topped once and put into bloom 2 days ago.
Eclipse # 3: Middle of the road pheno, Not the shortest or tallest, topped once, will bloom in 3 days.
Eclipse #5: Very short, very slow growing and bushy. Not topping this plant because I don't think it will double in size even being untopped. Super slow grower will bloom in 2 weeks, expecting this one to be a very short maturing plant so only going to allow it 50 days to mature.
Can some experienced Chem growers help me out here... Here's 2 different male phenos of Sugar Dog. Does one of these look more Chem than the other. Might be passing these back to the breeder, jw and I'm very unfamiliar with Chem hybrids. I notice in the second pic the leaves of that plant curled up on the outside, looking like heat stress. But these plants haven't seen higher temps than 78F and none of the others did this so I doubt it's heat stress. Is that the leaf crinkle everyone talks about on Chem plants?
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Gettin' crazy with it! Here's some homemade "super soil." Letting this sit and cook for 2 months, then going to take a nylon, fill it with the a cup or two of compost, and let it sit in the controller bucket of my bloom tank for about 3 days before each reservoir change. I think with the amount of air I'm running in dwc(1.3lpm/g of water) I can pull it off without having gunk or rot issues. Last run I was very disappointed with the
current culture line in the flavor dept. It's a great line if your into production, you will not run into problems with root rot probably. But if your a connoisseur the flavor is really not acceptable imo. Trying to get more depth to my flavors like organically grown bud has, let's see if this helps. Btw I am running a beneficial fungi/bacteria line called +life. The company only selects strains of fungi/bacteria that are highly resistant to fertilizers to put in +life. Don't think this will be a problem as the highest Ec my plants ever see is 0.8, but still pretty cool.
Check out the spores growing in the pic of my super soil. The mix is Clackamas Cootz' mix that is listed on buildasoil mixed into a 1:1:1 ratio of coco coir, perlite, and pure worm castings. I cut it in half, don't need very high nutrient amounts in my super aerated dwc. I'm hoping this will feed the fungi/bacteria that I'm adding and will give me more organic flavors. Still using
botanicare pure blend pro bloom as my main nute line, just supplementing for flavor. And yes the lid is on the bucket to let it cook, just took it off to snap a quick pic. Smells good, like a forest after a hard rain.
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