Mephisto Genetics GGG4!

[daylighting]

Hi All! Finally cracking some Mephisto beans. I originally bought Triangle and Chemdogging back in April 2017 and put them in the fridge. Due to low ambient temps, I tried to germinate them under HPS, but they got TOO hot and I cooked all 5 of my Triangles and 3 of my Chemdogging (and three Dutch Passion Auto Colorado Cookies as well).

I still had 5 GGG4, so once I figured out it was a heat issue, I sowed them. 100% germination rate! They're vegging under my 400W HPS now in cut off soda cans/plastic cups and will get transplanted into 7 gallon square pots full of professional potting mix in about a week. I'm recycling mix from my last grow after picking out large roots and I mixed it all up with fresh German potting mix. Let's see how they perform!

 

[Delta9Heavy]

Nice dude. Ggg4 was its working name btw. If you care its actual name is 4 assed monkey

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[daylighting]

Nice dude. Ggg4 was its working name btw. If you care its actual name is 4 assed monkey

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Thanks, that's good info. Time to get a googlin'.

 

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Girls doing well now: turns out I still had a heat issue. I blow my exhaust through my carbon filter and the hose that pulls air from the tent through the fan and into the carbon filter was covered with a fabric filter and then two layers of PM2.5 fabric on top of the fabric filter. The three layers were thoroughly clogged with dust! I changed out the fabric and also put fabric filters on two lengths of hose for the passive intakes on the sides of the tent. Now my plants breathe cleaner air than I do! I have a very large GG4 pheno and then I have one with whorled phyllotaxy. Even with the initial heat issues, the girls look to have recovered well: two that had rather severe heat damage have recovered beautifully and are still vegging away.

I have four GGG4 / 4 Assed Monkeys going now, as well as a Dutch Passion Brooklyn Sunrise and two autoflowering Nirvana Bubblelicious. The Bubblelicious gave me one weird plant with freakish leaves, and one slightly sluggish plant. the BK Sunrise seems to be doing well (it's the youngest plant in the tent). Looking forward to a bountiful crop of varied flavors and effects!

I'm feeding carefully and will limit N in flower. Peter's Professional fertilizers at 1/8 strength through flowering, and I just started watering in worm castings (I put 5-10 tablespoons in a gallon jug and shake it up well, and then pour it on). I'll apply worm castings one more time and that should last the girls through to harvest. From past experience, I expect the worm castings to lead to explosive growth. I'll only use Peter's Professional's high P and high K formulas (1/16 strength each) up until two weeks before harvest. Let's see how this works out! For now I'll hold off on feeding anymore chemical fert as the girls look great and are growing great. I'll give them a feed once they start stretching during early flowering.

 

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Watered in the equivalent of five tablespoons of worm castings for each pot (in 7 gallon pots). I have two GGG4 (the ones that were initially heat damaged) and two Bubblelicious all in one pot. That will definitely affect yields some if they grow into each other, so I may have to cull a few plants in that pot. I am in two minds about it and don't want to pull any of them just yet, since they all appear to be doing pretty well.

As expected, nice growth after the worm castings application: the biggest plant shot up an inch and added a node overnight. Pretty impressive. I also poured water all over my little vegging plants and they looked VERY happy to have the dust off their leaves. I'll do that every day or every other day until I see pistils since the plants really seemed to appreciate it.

I'm done with castings until harvest now (I'll top dress and water some in after harvest to help with root breakdown, since I recycle my medium). I'll keep N low from this point on as I feel they have plenty to get them through to harvest. They're nice and green, but not too green, which is right where they should be, and no tip burn.

The perched water table in the pots is making them EXTREMELY heavy. I'm watering too much at a time, so I'm going to water slowly so it doesn't all go straight down to the bottom of the pots.

 

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Almost four weeks from seed now for the youngest GGG4s. No preflowers yet! I suspect the big 7 gallon pots are causing delayed flowering since the girls are putting out roots and spreading their legs. The increased size and yield is very welcome, but it's gonna get warm in April and May and I want to have them harvested before I have to run air conditioning all day to cool the room. That and I'm almost entirely out of smoke...

 

[FishWizard]

I look at it this way as well, The longer the tap takes to reach bottom is the longer timeframe to see pre flowering. I use Three Gal, Last grow I had pre flowers on a sour livers at 17 days. Patience Pays off

 

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First pistils today, and it's on the weird plant on the bottom right. It had weird growth in the middle (tons and tons of nodes packed on top of each other) and then topped itself and sprouted two branches. I'm watching the plant very closely for balls.

 

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Been top dressing with worm castings, and the growth has been phenomenal! Will keep giving them a little every week since it really does so much for plant health.

They all have preflowers now, aside from two GGG4 that got burnt by the HPS when my fan line was clogged up! Looks like they are delayed. I bet they'll show in under a week, since they're getting branchy...

It's getting too busy in there. I'll have to clean up a little at some point. Only fans that are touching buds and can't be tucked. Not just yet, though, since they need all the energy they can get during the stretch!

 

[7.62]

Looking very good!

Great job so far!