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I haven’t been on the forum in a while because I took a little break from growing. Now that I’m back at it and involved in an interesting grow, I thought I’d start a grow log here. I’ve already started the grow but it’s only been a couple of weeks so it should still be fun. This is a tester run (I’m just one of about 40, I think) for Capulator’s MAC, Version 2. Since the original MAC is cut-only I think it’s awesome to be part of testing out a seed version from the master himself. Technically, these are: Miracle #4 x Alien Cookies #7 F2 from JAWS. The Miracle plant came from the very last 6 seeds known to be in existence after they were kindly gifted back to Cap with the intention of creating V2. According to Capulator, 4 of the 6 beans popped but 3 were males. The one female is known as #4. Now you know the progeny.
This is a 100% organic soil grow, without the use of any bottled nutrients. The soil is Build A Soil’s V2 kit that I built about 6 months ago with rice hulls as 1/2 the aeration and volcanite for the other 1/2. These plants will only get water, AACT and other biological inputs - NO bottled or salt-based nutrients. Seddlings start under T5 3500k bulbs and I generally keep them there until they hit the 5th or 6th node. After that, they get topped and will be moved to my 4x4 veg tent where they’ll be vegged (18/6) under a 320W 3500k LED fixture I built with HLG/Samsung boards. For flower they’ll move to my 5x5 flower tent where they’ll receive 640W of 3500k from another HLG/Samsung fixture I built a while back.
I received 12 regular seeds for the run and I germinated them with the towel paper method. I had 8 seeds pop at 48 hours and they went into 1/2 filled solo cups with 3/4” tails. The seedling soil was a mixture of my regular soil thinned out 1:4 with screened peat moss. 2 other seeds cracked but didn’t produce much in the way of tails; so I left them in paper towels for another day and then put them in soil anyway. 1 of those seeds emerged and the other one failed. The remaining two seeds didn’t pop and after 5 days I manually cracked them. Even so, after another 5 days they still hadn’t produced any tap root at all. So, they were discarded. In the end, I have 9 plants to work with. My plan is to keep ONE male and, of course, I’ll be evaluating all the females - and keeping cuts of at least one female.
Cap asked that all the testers separate the big seeds from the small ones to see if we found any correlation between size and results, traits, etc. I took it a step further and measured (length and width) EACH seed with calipers and weighed each one. I numbered each seed and I’m tracking each one throughout the grow. They’re numbered 1-12, starting with the largest (#1) and ending with the smallest one. I won’t bother posting all the measurements but I wanted to explain what the numbering was about and what it signifies.
Hope some people enjoy following along. It’s nice to be back among friends here on AFN!
Here are some pix of the seedlings from the other day. You can see that one of them is a runt - that’s the one seed that cracked late and was growing slowly.. I’ve named it “Runty.” Lol!
original seedlings
Here’s one getting transplanted to a 6” pot. The hole has Myco, GrowKashi, insect frass and a nitrogen metabolizing microbe in it.
Here’s the latest pictures - happy and growing after transplant with ZERO slowdown.
This is a 100% organic soil grow, without the use of any bottled nutrients. The soil is Build A Soil’s V2 kit that I built about 6 months ago with rice hulls as 1/2 the aeration and volcanite for the other 1/2. These plants will only get water, AACT and other biological inputs - NO bottled or salt-based nutrients. Seddlings start under T5 3500k bulbs and I generally keep them there until they hit the 5th or 6th node. After that, they get topped and will be moved to my 4x4 veg tent where they’ll be vegged (18/6) under a 320W 3500k LED fixture I built with HLG/Samsung boards. For flower they’ll move to my 5x5 flower tent where they’ll receive 640W of 3500k from another HLG/Samsung fixture I built a while back.
I received 12 regular seeds for the run and I germinated them with the towel paper method. I had 8 seeds pop at 48 hours and they went into 1/2 filled solo cups with 3/4” tails. The seedling soil was a mixture of my regular soil thinned out 1:4 with screened peat moss. 2 other seeds cracked but didn’t produce much in the way of tails; so I left them in paper towels for another day and then put them in soil anyway. 1 of those seeds emerged and the other one failed. The remaining two seeds didn’t pop and after 5 days I manually cracked them. Even so, after another 5 days they still hadn’t produced any tap root at all. So, they were discarded. In the end, I have 9 plants to work with. My plan is to keep ONE male and, of course, I’ll be evaluating all the females - and keeping cuts of at least one female.
Cap asked that all the testers separate the big seeds from the small ones to see if we found any correlation between size and results, traits, etc. I took it a step further and measured (length and width) EACH seed with calipers and weighed each one. I numbered each seed and I’m tracking each one throughout the grow. They’re numbered 1-12, starting with the largest (#1) and ending with the smallest one. I won’t bother posting all the measurements but I wanted to explain what the numbering was about and what it signifies.
Hope some people enjoy following along. It’s nice to be back among friends here on AFN!
Here are some pix of the seedlings from the other day. You can see that one of them is a runt - that’s the one seed that cracked late and was growing slowly.. I’ve named it “Runty.” Lol!
original seedlings
Here’s one getting transplanted to a 6” pot. The hole has Myco, GrowKashi, insect frass and a nitrogen metabolizing microbe in it.
Here’s the latest pictures - happy and growing after transplant with ZERO slowdown.
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