Indoor In the Rasters of My 4 by 4

Today's focus is on the Namkading mini-scrog. I got in and cleaned up the understory today. Everything that hasn't reached the second level was removed.

This is day 45. But she's only been in definite stretch for a week and I think she's going to keep stretching for at least a month. I'm not sure because I haven't run Namkading on this schedule before. In their natural habitat they spend their entire lives pretty close to 12/12.


Exposure was way off on this picture, but in case someone's here trying to learn what I dubbed a "mini-scrog," I wanted to make sure you get a good look at the understory.

In another place, I have some auto seed runs going. A guy gifted me some regular auto seeds - Northern Cheese Haze x Chem Candy and I planted six in this pot:


...to fertilize these ladies:


I have at least six seeds of each strain and will backcross to the mothers' siblings a few times and see what I get.

Today's star is Greenpoint Seeds' Old School Glue. I've been really looking forward to growing this strain. Imagine my consternation to think I saw male flowers popping out in the middle of her flowers.

Luckily this morning, I realized I was wrong and there's no herm. I guess I'm just really paranoid, as I've lost count of the number of herms I've seen this year with the landraces and landrace crosses I'm messing with.

Day 17 and she's growing like crazy! I put her in a little early because I had the space and it turns out that early is good for OSG.

Today's spotlight:

Caught that, huh? Today's honorable mention, then. My Mephisto Chemdogging Auto Fem. Just like the one @ArkVader13 is popping.

She's a little lanky (nothing like the pictures) but I haven't had to do much besides water her and bend her main. I think the CMH got her popping.

090323 so that's... Day 61.

She doesn't have a chem smell, just a delightful Wrigley's Spearmint gum flavor. (I'll take that.) Her buds are, quite frankly, ugly but they're starting to fatten up nicely now. But she's as frosty as hell, sticky to boot and looks like she'll give me over an ounce of pot in that little pot. I can't wait to smoke her but it's going to be awhile. According to Mephisto, two more weeks.

Rasterman said:

Today's star is Greenpoint Seeds' Old School Glue. I've been really looking forward to growing this strain. Imagine my consternation to think I saw male flowers popping out in the middle of her flowers.

Luckily this morning, I realized I was wrong and there's no herm. I guess I'm just really paranoid, as I've lost count of the number of herms I've seen this year with the landraces and landrace crosses I'm messing with.

Day 17 and she's growing like crazy! I put her in a little early because I had the space and it turns out that early is good for OSG.

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Notable mention: I chopped my Chick Magnet bagseed. It smells like actual garlic, a little disgusting. No, really a lot disgusting. Not a good smell in cannabis. It's like over-stouting beer. You home brewers know what I mean. But I'll give it time to dry and get smoked before I make any final pronouncements.

Killed the clone on account of the nanners. But I'm still looking forward to making a good smoke report. RIP


All cloudy, with a thin constellation of ambers, exactly how I like my Whopper.

I know she looks like shite. I had to colocate her to a much less favorable location a couple of weeks ago because she wanted to be Janie Bananaseeds. Hopefully the stress made her more potent though....

I just chopped my Scorpion Candy on day 67. Being able to look at trichomes with a microscope was difficult because I've been obsessively handling the buds so I could smell them. But she's past the range of harvest time according to Carver and she looks done in every respect.

I'm looking forward to some Christmas smoke but if I'm honest, it'll probably be all gone by then.

I measured today in the veg room, and this lady is tall enough to be put on flower (tops 18" above the floor and trained).


She was 22" in her 3 gallon pot. Now she towers over half the ladies in the tent. Sorry - I thought I took a picture of her in the 3 gallon. Anyway, she has much more space in this true, five gallon, five gallon container. (Yes, meant to say that twice.)

Before I go on my rant about pot size, I'll mention for future reference and vindication, that this pheno has a 33% chance of herming based on previous experience. I understand that, and against my better judgement, am continuing with the folly of a pheno hunt. I hold no person or persons responsible other than myself, and any rewards thereto are mine and mine alone. (Sorry, really stoned. Mix a little booze, some Purple Canyon and some Kym's Sweater RHO for reference.)

I'm going to rant about pot sizes, but will close up with something more interesting. So you can skip this part if you want to.

Well, shit! Nothing to rant about - I forgot I updated the pictures. And that a picture is worth a thousand words...



And here, though you can't see in the picture unless you're really looking for it, are both containers, a planter and a bucket, inconceivably occupying the exact same amount of three-dimensional space. At the same time. In the same dimension. Unbelievable.



I've been growing in living soil barely long enough to call myself a living soil farmer. In that time, I have learned that displacement is king. An increase in the amount of cubic area available to a plant's roots results in at least a linear increase in yield...given that other requirements are met (sufficient water, ferts, light, etc.).

So that begs, really begs, the question: Why, in the hell, would some dick sell me a planter purported to hold five gallons of soil, that doesn't hold five gallons of soil? And the related question is, what's so superior about the displacement-limited containers that offers a reasonable tradeoff for the loss of displacement? Am I trading the V8 on a 1969 Ford LTD with a 4 cylinder 1986 Ford Escort (specific, huh?) because of some mistaken assumption that my increase in efficiency is going to benefit me personally in some way?

You think I'm jesting, but why?

Sorry, I'm drifting.

Back to the log, with apologies...

This pheno is an (Afgaan 90 x Kumaoni) *herm* x Purple Canyon. Meet the Snow pheno.

This is her on the left in her new home...


Note the apparent difference in soil displacement between the two five gallon containers.

I finally got my VX1000 seeds! I've been looking forward to this for aboot six months now. First one in the dirt....