Grow Mediums Kindsoil Official Test Team Grow Battle

[Anthropolis]

Update, week 15, [HASHTAG]#KindSoil[/HASHTAG] test for [HASHTAG]#autoflower[/HASHTAG].net
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Hi friends, just a quick check in. Things are rough at the moment, many days without power and the ladies are not happy with it. The Tombstones are looking rough in the leaves but the flowers are looking excellent, so it's a mixed feeling now.

The darkness freaked them out into a major bloom spurt when they should've been winding down. Thus they're full blown deficiencies all through and through. Doing the best I can considering conditions. Actually even though they're not picturesque beauties, the bud looks phenomenal! Temps are low and humidity is sky high, so I'm watching for mold, wouldn't be surprised if I lose a little.

I did almost lose the cola of the big Blackberry Stone beauty, but I caught it just as mold was starting. I quickly cut off, decarbed, and cooked the cola into coconut oil. Stomachs can handle a little bit of mold just fine, it's just the smoking/vaping you never want to do.

Anyway, it ain't the greatest but we be managin mon!

 

[Dudeski]

Great work especially under the current conditions!

 

[Eyes on Fire]

week 15? good god bro, what a pain in ye ole arse man damn. damn fine job as usual man. and i agree too dude, them conditions were roughly horrid bro to say the least and you prevailed above and beyond what I expected you to have pulled off. fantastic loveliness man.

 

[Anthropolis]

Update Week 16, KindSoil test for [HASHTAG]#autoflower[/HASHTAG].net!
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We are almost done! The last few KindSoil lady Tombstones are winding down fast now. Most leaves are used up, and they're trying to do a few last minute emergency foxtails. But most pistils are turned, and most trichs are done. Going to trim off the zapped foliage and then have some good hard looks at them, chances are I'm cutting them in the next few days. I'm quite happy with how they turned out actually, the pictures make em look a little sad but the bud nugs are really wonderful looking in person.
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Big solo Tombstone in KindSoil, oooooey she smells dank.

The trio Tombstones in KindSoil, they did pretty good too.

Other notes, I've been looking hard trying to identify some phenotype variances, but so far seem pretty uniform. Four plants isn't a good sample anyway, but the buds all look quite alike. There may be one more branchy and one less branchy phenos, but buds appear the same. I might be able to see more differences at harvest or jarring.

All for now friends, peace and love!

 

[briman]

Great recovery Anthro! Mad props to you and sniper for Mother Nature dealing you both a blow without having power! Ladies look real good! Cnat wait for some bud porn! Well done man!

 

[Anthropolis]

Final Update! Week 17 total but the final plants below were reboots thus a few weeks younger. [HASHTAG]#KindSoil[/HASHTAG] test for [HASHTAG]#autoflower[/HASHTAG].net
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Woohoo we made it! Things were up and down for awhile there, and in the final leg of it, nature dealt us many days of rain, no power, and mucho humidity! So I was really worried about mold with these last ones. (remember my tent is semi-outdoor so I'm at her mercy.)

Thus I had to change from my usual harvest and trim methods, typically I trim on the plant live, then cut and hang whole to dry until jar ready. My anti mold / hardship method is just cut nugs / branches from the plant, trim those to the nugs, and dry out the nugs spread out wide with a fan. This dries quicker and more evenly, giving mold less chance to get a foothold, but some smoothness gets sacrificed. That can usually be remedied with a longer cure.

Good thing I did this because I found a couple small spots of mold in the big girl's dense cola. I cut the mold out, only lost maybe a gram, but I quarantined the nugs around it to dry in a separate paper bag outside the tent. Just checked on all of it and no mold has set in to the remaining nugs! I figured it must be from when the power was out for days, the plants were dark and all dripping from condensation. Bad bad.
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KindSoil Tombstone trio pot, harvested several days ago and into the jars tonight. They did pretty good, all things considered. Again I couldn't pin down any phenotypes, they all look about the same dried.

They were definitely ready, I probably could've cut sooner but I wasn't in a hurry.
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Here's the yield going to jar! It's more small nugs and buds, just a couple big nugs. If I were to guess I'd say it's just north of a half oz.

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KindSoil big solo Tombstone! This beast... wow, really impressed! Both the solo pot KindSoil stones did really well in terms of mass, density, and scent profile. It's evidence that single plant to pot, like autofems, is the better way to do KindSoil, rather than several to a pot.

Definitely cutting time! I'm going to miss this plant actually. I said early on that this plant was on track to possibly be my best yield yet, and I think that's coming true! Maybe it doesn't look like it from the pic, but that entire thing is solid nug.

I started at the top cola and cut it open to trim out into nugs. Glad I did because things were wayyy to dense and damp up inside the cola:

That's not molding yet there, it's just some dead mushy leaves about ready to start mold. I did find a couple spots but no major losses. Super dense. I'm not used to that lol. It's gotta be a combo of the new Mars light and the KindSoil.
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Here's the yield, still a few days from jars, but the nugs are huge and solid! I think it could get close to 3/4 oz.

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Plus a few grams in the quarantine bag because they were near mold, looks safe so far.

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So there we have it friends!
When the last plant is in the jar, I'll take a jar glamor shot. There's lots to taste test and that'll be awhile.

Going to go through my logs, review and get my thoughts together and then I'll do a full review up in the Showcase. But overall my feelings are pretty good for the product and I think I'm buying more sometime!

 

[Waira]

Anthro buddy, finally done and with some Goods to show for the fight it was! Buds look delish mate,... great job on keeping things on the rails- ... Mold!

I'm fighting that shite too brudda, the weather is not my friend currently,... wish me luck man, only one girl in, one coming down tomorrow, maybe two, but the rest are needing more time, and it's a week of scatted BS weather upcoming,.. perfect mold conditions....

 

[Waira]

~~~{{{ UPDATE }}}~~~

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First harvest in! and a few more very close, including the Skywalker x WW tomorrow... The faster, better bud-built FG is nearly dry, and looking/smelling excellent... I'll have a separate post on this later,... The other FG and Sky' have responded pretty well to the P blasting, KST okay, but the Blue Velvet not so much, sadly,.. that one is crazy frosty though at least! Bad news is, weather is turning for the worse, and I'm fighting mold on some now- ... not bad, as I can spot it right away, but with botrytis, it starts inside out, so by the time there's signs, there's damage done already,... worse, since the spores are already lodged in there, outside treatments are all but useless, the bud has already grown around them,...all you can do is treat it like gangrene-- cut it out until cleared! Losses not bad so far,... but it's forcing my hand on harvest times...

>>> Flavor Grape [HASHTAG]#2[/HASHTAG]; odd pheno, still so unlike her sister, still OGK-type aroma

>>> Blue Velvet -- stoopid frost on her, amazing, huge trichomes!

>>> Kalishnapple x Sw. Tooth- getting some light purple color here and there, and building frost nicely,... bud: leaf is better, but not what it should be-? This strain I have no reference for,...

 

[Waira]

>>> Skywalker x White Widow- a stand-out! Dense, resin caked nuggetry,...

>>> Acapulco Golds: coming along nicely now; odd thing, one is clearly making better bud that the others, and I think it's the youngest of the lot,... it's silly how much plant is stuffed into those two 5gal pots! I'm feeding them with some grow nutes too, just to stave-off the worst of the fan tapping,... biggest gal is still the most mature, but still weeks out,...

 

[Waira]