A grow diary.

bunkerking said:

Beautiful work.

What kind of microbes are you running?

lactobacillii is what grows in milk right?

always like hearing about what others are doing microbe wise.

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Thanks man!

Lactobacillus is a bacteria that grows in milk, but it's also got awesome fermenting properties. It's the bacteria that catalyzes salt and cabbage into sauerkraut, soy into miso, and a whole lot more. It's present in some wine fermentation (buttery chardonnay), kimchi, and most everything else fermented and edible. It's apparently excellent in my watering mother, along with active kombucha, ewc, molasses, and (also likely lacto driven) FPJ.

To get that started, I just make sauerkraut. Cut up cabbage and put it in a mason jar with 3% salt by weight of the cabbage, then pack it down and wait a few weeks and there'll be a brine forming. That's full of lactobacillus, but also has salt in it. So then that goes into another container with molasses and water to let the bacteria flourish while diluting the salt. Then into the watering mother, which gets diluted by half before watering. I've been trying to figure out how to make the mother more self-sustaining.

I just found this awesome piece of research last night when researching the bacterial processes of kombucha. I'd been looking into it since last week, when I saw that my last batch was done.

In addition to the CO2 that gets suspended in the liquid and delivered right to the roots, it theoretically regulates soil pH, has phenolic acids that signal plant growth, and creates an environment where bad bacteria and pests are less likely to thrive.

I'll also do a compost tea watering once a month. Essentially I'm trying to make the ecosystem in my soil challenging for pests to live in by washing it with different bacterial solutions.

Nice. I guess that makes sense. You are running organic so... they don't have to deal with the salts, and can grow from a local species. Super rad.

Lately I've been having crazy success with down to earth root zone. It has a really really nice blend of endo and bacteria. Most microbe product sold don't include any bacteria, from my experience at least.

For me in coco dtw. It feels like they give you a buffer. Not so much ph wise but food wise. Might not put in the perfect ratios but they will help regulate, and prevent build up. Or maybe I've killed them all with salts and it's a placebo. Never know lol.

bunkerking said:

Nice. I guess that makes sense. You are running organic so... they don't have to deal with the salts, and can grow from a local species. Super rad.

Lately I've been having crazy success with down to earth root zone. It has a really really nice blend of endo and bacteria. Most microbe product online don't include any bacteria, from my experience at least.

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Nice! How has it made a difference?

Yeah, I'm the first to admit that I'm relatively new at growing cannabis, so I'm just trying to gather as much relevant theoretical knowledge that I can and see how it affects things. I've been so broke since that last post that I haven't even bought the calcium chloride yet.

I'm still not nearly dialed in enough environmentally. Just lucky that the grow room doesn't ever get below 55 degrees, even with a window fan blowing out overnight (on the nights after watering). I've been running temps in the mid to high 60's for the last couple months.

I like the logic behind using bigger chunks of coco, too. Gonna see if I can find some better stuff around.

Yah it's on another level. Can get like 11lbs of the stuff I got for around 18* bucks . It's not that much more expensive.

Glad someone else is running soil coco. Its amazing when done right.

And oh. The bacteria blend always seems to outperform just endo alone. I need more testing but. ... I keep coming back to reuse it. Always get fat roots, just hard to say for sure.

I keep coming back to reuse endo too.

So, I've fallen in love with dry herb vaping. More specifically, stuffing a titanium enail adapter like the one in the middle here full of bud, putting it into a bong, and torching the outside of the nail gently, so that the herb vaporizes but doesn't ignite. The terpene expression is super pure, the taste is texturally clean, and I can still breathe after taking a hit.

And it's economically awesome: it decarbs the bud without blasting the terpene profile! So I'll just take the vaped bud, freeze it, and do a qwiso extraction with the same method as before. Pretty optimistic about that end product in terms of quality and yield, but I'm excellent at disappointing myself.

Siberian Haze is just starting to cure in her jars, and all kinds of fun flavors are coming out! Aromatically, it's mostly driven by pine and lemon/lime zest notes. The palate generally matches, though there's more tangerine and clementine coming out there. Again, I messed up growing that girl in all kinds of ways, but still somehow still got rewarded with a majestic high. This soaring, creative, anxiety-obliterating, full-body pulsating shovel-to-the-face of relaxation is like riding on the back of a giant falcon and getting a full body massage at the same time. Highly recommended.

The next ones up for the chop are probably:

Barney's Farm G13 Haze
Pyramid Super Hash (revegged and repotted from 2 gal to 5 gal buckets, which has worked so well that it'll be SOP for favorite future strains)
710 Lemon Pineapple
G13 Labs Sweet Amnesia (NL5xHaze)
Delicious Critical Super Silver Haze

That's one of the lower buds of Pyramid's Super Hash (Mr. Nice HP x G13). It's a very quick maturing, hardy indica. The high when vaped (straight off the plant) is a wonderful, comforting one- relaxing and clear headed. It's super tasty, with notes of orange liqueur, lemon sherbet, cardamom, and roasting lamb. I'll plan on revegging this after the chop for a few months before putting it outside to grow out over the summer. I'm going to want a lot of this.



Here's that Delicious Critical Super Silver Haze! She's been a pleasure to grow, and if she keeps throwing out trichomes I might not even have to trim this bitch. Very likely to get a reveg and another run unless the high is shit.

Mo. Ther. Fuck.

I just cut the top bud off of G13 labs' C99 and vaped it. It looked nice, but nothing crazy. I'm super happy with it.

Huge ripe peach flavors with a good chunk of earth underneath and a touch of citrus on top. Had a literal cascading effect on the symptoms of depression, and now I've been sitting here smiling for... damn. 30 minutes apparently.

I was so apathetic with the way she grew that I never repotted her out of the half gallon pots. Just kept running her because the space was there, used her as a test for a number of PM treatments/teas/amendments, even to block the other plants from any light that got between the door and the curtain the nights I needed to leave the door open a crack to deal with humidity.

I was going to chop early and throw her away. Now I'm thinking of revegging, up-potting, and dealing with the PM preemptively.

Yeah no I decided that was ill-advised and that I have enough sativas.

Like this Barney's Farm G13 Haze. The buds that I've sampled have been amazing. It's been very hardy, low-maintenance, and the high is a dreamy hazey bliss. This would be incredible sex weed. She's got a while to go, but is already pretty thick.



Here's the main cola of the Super Hash.




Double Black coming along nicely!





Here's the veg section, with some clones rooting in willow water, a chervil plant rescued from a cloudy windowsill, and some happy seedlings.

There's a bunch of fun stuff going on there.

Regs:
USC Seeds' Nepalma, Uzbekistan
NAW's Green Manalishi F2 Honey Hashplant

Fems:
Kalashnikov Katyusha, Moscow Blueberry, Lavanda Cream- to be flowered for the first time and revegged later, and Siberian Haze -I hope, there was a bit of a mixup when germing. It's either that or a CBD rich indica, so if I can't tell the difference I should just quit, like, everything.
HSO Blue Dream, Three Blue Kings, and Gorilla Breath
Europa Seeds Heavy Grapefruit
Dutch Passion Frisian Duck on the right
Delicious Seeds Sugar Black Rose (critical x Black Domina)
710 Hash 13 (their G13 hashplant)

what sativa issues are you having?

Flowers look amazing, nice work. :)

bunkerking said:

what sativa issues are you having?

Flowers look amazing, nice work. :)

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Thanks man! They're still pretty skinny since my light is essentially at max capacity, but that's a problem fixed with more lights.

I was having PM issues in there and battled thrips with some of them in veg. Humidity is still a struggle, but that's just sorta gonna be a factor until I get a dehumidifier. I'm really excited to see what happens to the G13 Haze and the Critical Super Silver Haze after revegging. "Oh no, my sativas have shorter internodes and less apical dominance! What am I gonna do?"

Kanzeon said:

Thanks man! They're still pretty skinny since my light is essentially at max capacity, but that's a problem fixed with more lights.

I was having PM issues in there and battled thrips with some of them in veg. Humidity is still a struggle, but that's just sorta gonna be a factor until I get a dehumidifier. I'm really excited to see what happens to the G13 Haze and the Critical Super Silver Haze after revegging. "Oh no, my sativas have shorter internodes and less apical dominance! What am I gonna do?"

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Both of those strains should be well bred compact growroom plants regardless of sativa leaning flowers.

Oh yeah, I definitely budgeted for more stretch on that run than they put out. The reveg will be a lot more dialed in.

The Uzbek seeds are advertised as x3-x4, even though they're straight up indica genetically. The fuckin' Nepalma, a cross of 2 sativas, is only x2-x3 for some reason. Stretch is interesting.

Kanzeon said:

Thanks man! They're still pretty skinny since my light is essentially at max capacity, but that's a problem fixed with more lights.

I was having PM issues in there and battled thrips with some of them in veg. Humidity is still a struggle, but that's just sorta gonna be a factor until I get a dehumidifier. I'm really excited to see what happens to the G13 Haze and the Critical Super Silver Haze after revegging. "Oh no, my sativas have shorter internodes and less apical dominance! What am I gonna do?"

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true. limited to only 4 plants here. you lucky dog.

I should get my med card but meh...effort.

Glad to see you are enjoying c99

MIMedGrower said:

Both of those strains should be well bred compact growroom plants regardless of sativa leaning flowers.

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true. look at cindy 99. Just gotta wait for the right combo - then clone.

Today brought good news and bad news.

The good news is that Purple Afghan Kush is a pretty nice smoke. Not the most thunky or euphoric, but it has that nice mentally calming indica effect, with noticeable pulses of relaxation.

The bad news is she hermed on me. I knew I was cutting it close by letting the temps get a bit below 60 at night, but I suppose the burned hand teaches best.

Also, I don't know if y'all followed me on the fresh herb vaping technique I came up with, but it's highly fucking recommended.

Step one: Cut a fresh, ready bud, stem and all.

Step two: Cut off anything without trichomes, keeping the stem.

Step three: pack it, not gently, into the thing on the left here, with the stem side on the bottom and the sugar leaves between the bud and the sides of the vaporizing vessel. Put that into a bong/bubbler/whatever.



Seriously. Pack it. The residual moisture helps.

Step 4: Blowtorch around the outside of the nail without igniting the bud inside. When it starts steaming, pull hard and keep inhaling for as long as you see vapors. Pack it down and repeat for subsequent hits.

The vacuum created pulls the steam out of the plants, and with it an incredibly pure essence of the plant's aroma. The hits are super smooth and devastating, absolutely on par with all but the best dabs. And the best part? The decarbed bud can go into edibles or a (low quality) concentrate.

Reorganized the flower room this morning, dropped the light a couple inches, and added another fan. Signs of PM are rapidly decreasing after alternating between a baking soda foliar (2.5g/L) and a 9:1 water:milk foliar.



In the front, getting her fade on, is 710 genetics' Lemon Pineapple. It was a freebie, but I'm definitely considering revegging and breeding her so far.



This fuckin' G13 Haze is an absolute killer. The top buds are still throwing out white pistils and getting fatter, but the high from the bottom buds I've sampled is *kisses fingers.* The aroma is amazing, too. Like straight Centennial/Mosaic/Cascade hops. This one is absolutely getting a reveg.



Yeah yeah, she's got a few cat hairs that have somehow blown onto her that I didn't notice until after the picture was taken.

G13 Labs' Sweet Amnesia (NL5xHaze) getting chonky.



Speaking of sampling the bottom buds of G13 Haze, this is what they looked like before getting vaporized. Yes, my bubbler has been fixed multiple times.



That Purple Afghan Kush that hermed seems to have pollinated the Double Black and made some seeds. I'll likely run them in a bit.

Nice looking garden man!

Just got a pack of USC seeds (link->) Triple Pakistan in the mail today! Pine Tar Kush x Tom Hill X18 x Wild Pakistan (Aunt Of Farouk)

Some of the other seeds that I got from Sannie had an unexpectedly low germ rate, so I emailed him hoping I could get a few replacements for the ones that didn't pop. Instead he just sent me a free pack! Threw them down today and I'm excited to see what they bring!