Seed Stockers Fanboy Grows thunder banana and Apollo black Cherry

[Pigskin Fanboy]

Howdy y’all

Week 6 Day #42 for both
@Seedstockers-Mark


The Thunder Banana in DWC started suffering with leaf yellowing through the last week. Since there’s way too many things to track with the H&G Hydro nutrient line and getting these results, this early I decided to go back to my tried and true FF lol

I made the decision to change out the reservoir and went back to FF trio nutrient line and it’s made a world of difference the last few days.

This morning

A few minutes ago

New reservoir Specs:
Rainwater Base -FF Trio w/Hydroguard and Calmag
PH 6.0
EC 2.4
PPM1170
Water Temp 66.2f
Starting to look much better and greener now. Hopefully it will be alright.

The Apollo Black Cherry seems to be loving it in the greenhouse.

I have been following the FF nutrient schedule mostly. I added in tree trunk last week and have been adding the liquid feed to the reservoir tube of the GroBucket system.
Last feed specs:
Rainwater base with FF Trio week 6
5ml tree trunk
PH 6.6
EC 2.0
PPM 980
Added 32oz of above to reservoir through the Tube.

I may start feeding the soil and just adding rainwater to the reservoirs on these but haven’t yet. Not really sure on which way works best ? Since I’m mixing a batch up and adding a quart to the existing reservoir water, its not really an accurate way to track the EC/PH going in.
This was the first plant I used DynoMyco on so that could be a factor in why it’s doing so well. I guess if “it ain’t broke don’t fix it” lol

We have had severe thunderstorms every day with flash flooding rain and the humidity has been crazy high but none of the plants in the greenhouse appear to be suffering from it. I have more rainwater captured than I can use at the moment
Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend !! Catch y’all next week

 

[Seedstockers-Mark]

Nice progress so far mate

I'll keep dropping by to see how your doing. So far I like what I'm seeing

Kind regards

 

[Jpkindbud]

Nice! I am also growing Apollo black cherry. These are at day 67 in 5 gal SIP buckets. You are gonna love the aroma! Sweet candy goodness! I am treating one with GLB amendments and the other gets just Megacrop newest one part version. Mine are big! I only have about 2’ til they are in lights.

not trying to steal thread, just saw you were grobucket sip with Apollo black cherry and thought you’d appreciate an example of what she’ll look like.

 

[Pigskin Fanboy]

Howdy y’all
@Seedstockers-Mark
Week 8 Day #56
Been awhile since I have been able to update but had an amazing beach vacation with the family, so let’s get right to it !
Thunder Banana (DWC) -
This plant hasn’t grown a massive amount but it really seems healthy. My limited experience with the DWC process has been really easy and “low maintenance” so far.
There’s a very minor amount of tip burn, most likely due to a heavy feeding before heading to the beach, I backed it down some and changed the reservoir out yesterday with the FF trio. Added Hydroguard & Tree Trunk.
Specs:
PH 6.2
EC 1.3
PPM 620
Water Temp 66.4f
Air Temp 78.4f
RH 51%

Apollo Black Cherry
Unlike my other greenhouse grows this one hasn’t stretched much. I know I missed the target transplant day so that may be a big factor. It still has a strange-to-me plant structure or “shape” but it’s really healthy and has this peppery smell that I like a lot !
All said I’m enjoying growing both of these and learning a-lot in the process.
I call that a win-win situation.

Lastly a view from the penthouse
It rained a lot but was very nice to get away and just relax !!

Catch y’all next week !!

 

[Pigskin Fanboy]

Howdy y’all !!
@Seedstockers-Mark
Got some good , some bad and some ugly to report with this update unfortunately
The Bad - The DWC Thunder Banana is no longer with us
Starting around 7/25 I was noticing the leaves dropping and turning. Changed out the reservoir but it made no difference, by 7/27 it was pretty much dead.
Still not 100% sure what went wrong but I suspect root rot got me. It all happened so quick but I noticed the roots darker and thinking back they just never started getting large like my previous DWC grows. I’ll start another in a GroBucket soil system and see what I can do with that, probably drop a seed to soak before bed tonight. I apologize for such a crappy grow result and know it was entirely my inexperience that caused this. I strayed from my normal dwc regimen with this one and should have known better.
Here’s the Ugly part

Now for the good
The Apollo Black Cherry is still coming along nicely in the greenhouse. We have had some serious storms and rain, almost nonstop but the extra humidity hasn’t seemed to cause any issues .
She was fed heavy today with FF trio, Calmag, Tree Trunk and Molasses.
specs:
Specs:
EC 2.5
PH 6.4
PPM 1270
Filled the reservoir to runoff

Thanks for hanging out with me on this journey of learning !!

 

[Pigskin Fanboy]

Howdy y’all
@Seedstockers-Mark

Got to apologize for the lack of updates, I’ve been very sick and trying to get caught up everywhere today.
Apollo Black Cherry
Week 13 Day #97
This one’s ready to come down but got one more doctor visit Thursday before I can harvest to make sure I’ll not be back in the hospital.
This one has been fun to grow even though it’s been small. One day last week I walked out to check on things in the greenhouse and it had just sorta laid over in the GroBucket. I did t have any stakes or anything handy but I did have a couple large landscape nails so it got propped back up with a couple nails. I suspect the roots never fully established themselves and will be able to verify that when I harvest this weekend.
It has some deep purple colors and an incredible grape smell. Very sticky to the touch.
Here’s some random date stamped photos I was able to grab. Haven’t had full use of one arm for awhile so pictures have been a quick snap and very little notes taken.
The closeups were just a few minutes ago.

Thunder banana round 2

I wanted to give Thunder banana another go in soil so I’ll start that process here.
In between hospital visits I was able to drop one more seed to soak on 8/8/22 and got it in the soil/peat pod , solo cup on 8/10. Put it in the greenhouse for the higher temps and humidity and then moved it inside under the Marshydro.
I’ll be transplanting it into a 5gal GroBucket tonight with DynoMyco and FF Happy Frog , I usually try to get them out of the solo cup a little earlier but I think this one will be perfect. I’ll post the rootball action tomorrow
8/12/22 was day #1

On 8/24/22 Day # 11 I made a journal entry.
While feeding the other plants , I saved some for this one.
FF Trio Mixture was
PH 6.4
EC 1.2
PPM 600
Mixed 50/50 rainwater to dilute,
Watered from bottom 1” in reservoir took it all fast.

Today Day #18

Thanks for hanging with me and again apologies for the lack of updates

 

[Pigskin Fanboy]

Was able to get the Thunder Banana transplanted into a GroBucket system the other day. Ended up using great white for the Transplant and sprinkling recharge every 4” or so while filling the bucket.

Rootball wasn’t too compact or tight so hoping she will take off in the larger space now

Had a mixture of old and new soil, so thought I’d add a little extra insurance.

Starting to spread out a little the last couple days and maybe a couple inches of height. Turned the light down to 40% and will be monitoring for stretch.
Appears to be wicking up nicely to stabilize the moisture in the new soil.

I need to get some new labels soon

I’ll probably add my straw bedding this evening, get my drying tent cleaned out and stabilized, harvest the ABC, start cleaning out the main tent and start setting up for the next adventure.
Have a great weekend.

 

[DCLXVI]

Good luck on the restart! Hope you heal up.

 

[Pigskin Fanboy]

Howdy everyone


@Seedstockers-Mark
Feeling much better and seem like I’m slowly getting back to normal with the illness I’ve been fighting thanks for all the well wishes and support.


Thunder banana (First try) day #104 if my math is right.
As suspected the rootball never established and that was why I had such little growth and lack of stability. Not sure if it could have been fixed by the time it was noticed but will try and go back through the results and see what changes can be made. As always recommendations as to why you would do in these situations are welcomed. I did notice that the bucket was extremely heavy (like full of water) but there was nothing coming out of the overflow hole and the water level indicator was at 0 leaves.
When I dumped the bucket out in my compost pile, the soil was completely saturated and stunk. I’ve been using the old grow soil to build up an area next to the back of my house that dropped 8-10” through the years due to water runoff. Hopefully in the next year I’ll have a wonderful place to grow outside.

Got it harvested and hung in the drying tent today.
Cleaned all the GroBuckets and sterilized them.
The Thunder banana round 2 seems to be coming along nicely at this point. Will update on that later in the week.
Here’s photos of T-Banana round 1 harvest and rootball.

 

[paulg]

Hope you’re health is improving and the grow is going well. Are you pleased with the GroBuckets?