New Grower Seedstockers & Meph first garage grow!

[R Wayne]

All seeds popped last night and were reaching for the light this morning. Today is officially day 1.

All under their baggie humidity domes. I keep them on until they pop, then slowly prop the baggies up more each day to acclimate them to the tent humidity (sitting around 70%). Usually take 2-3 days to do this.

Grappa

CBD Critical

Northern lights

Rucu Cucu

Happy growing!!!

 

[R Wayne]

We got our first frost last night. Got a tiny heater running 20 min on then 5 min off inside the tent. Barely keeps the temp above 73f and it kills the humidity but it’s manageable. Sprayed a light mix of dr zymes on top of the soil the last two days. Then sprayed on a mix of CalSil+ and quijalla on top of that.

Grappa looking great

CBD critical looking a bit lanky

Northern lights looking small and funny. Hoping it’ll grow outta this as it’s our favorite medical strain and I don’t have many seeds left

Rucu Cucu looking great

One bonus pic of my super vicious pit bull as you can see in the pic


Thanks for stopping by, happy Saturday!

 

[R Wayne]

Progress. Damn fungus gnats are living it up right now. I finally ordered some nematodes and rove beetles from natures good guys. Thanks again @Rasterman. The northern lights is still looking a bit mutated and the Rucu Cucu is leaning a bit more than I like at this stage. But I won’t worry about it for now. Pics are from last night. Just watered in some CalSil+ with quillaja and Thrive probiotics.

Grappa

CBD Critical

Northern lights

Rucu Cucu

Happy growing!

 

[R Wayne]

The SF nematodes and rove beetles came in the mail yesterday. The earthboxes were ready for another watering before putting the covers on so the timing worked out. I mixed half of the 5 million nematodes in 1 gal of water and shared it between all of the pots/EBs. After watering I added the rove beetles, it is really cool watching them scatter once they hit the soil. Had a couple of them try to escape. I also minimized sticky traps so they wouldnt catch the rove beetles. @Rasterman do you use sticky traps with your rove beetles?

After that I shower capped them, used one red cover because I couldn't find any other black covers. Not using it for any specific reason. Most of them seem happy besides the Northern Lights. The only reason I havent yanked it and started over is because I dont have many NL seeds left. So I am hoping it'll grow out of it. Also some carrots and kale popped up outta the soil a day or two ago. Love seeing life come out of the soil.

Grappa

CBD Critical, biggest so far

Unhappy/mutated Northern Lights, she got a little abused when I put the cover on!

Rucu Cucu

Couple of rove beetles

Red Russian Kale sprouts

Bunch of carrot sprouts

Happy Growing!!!

 

[R Wayne]

Still growing and still have gnats flying around. I think I will be applying more nematodes in another week or two. There seem to be less gnats than before but they are not disappearing as quickly as I want. Nature works on its own time I suppose. Plants seem to be doing decent in spite of the gnats. Northern Lights still looks mutated and the CBD Critical is showing signs of lock out. In my experience it is too early for the yellowing to be a deficiency. They should have at least another week of food, especially in a regular earthbox. Gnats could have disturbed them or they are just more sensitive. I am going to leave them be for now. I filled the two EB Jrs rez today with 0.5L of water each with some added CalSil+ and a little yah-whey. I will need to top dress them in the next day or two. My whole family's been sick and doing anything physical is extra difficult so I am a bit behind schedule. I also sprayed all the girls with a light dose of Dr Zymes last Saturday. Wanted to start a weekly IPM to help avoid spider mites. The nice guy at my local grow store told me that they are pretty bad up here. I am debating about rotating with some essential oil sprays as well. Google suggests peppermint and rosemary. I will most likely rotate weekly with Dr Zymes, then rosemary, then Dr Zymes, then peppermint. Repeat. Any way, thanks for stopping by.

Grappa

CBD Critical

Nothern Lights

Rucu Cucu

Thinned the carrots yesterday

Will be removing two of the kale as well. I think two kale plants in a 3 gallon rain science pot is one too many, but I like experiments.

Happy Growing!

 

[R Wayne]

Sorry I haven’t updated this thread in a couple weeks. Lots going on here. The 3 plant in the ocean forest all struggled to a bit, but are slowly making a come back. They all look lankier than the stout ass Rucu Cucu. I have never seen a plant grow so intensely. All of the nodes were growing up the middle towards the light, looked like an upside down Christmas tree. Wish I took a pic before I started training. Looks a little crazy after training. Fungus gnats are still here but aren’t getting out of hand. Only been adding water to the Rez when needed with some added em1 or yah whey.

Rucu Cucu

CBD Critical

Northern lights accidentally supercropped

Grappa seemed to struggle the most, my fault, I filled the Rez too early.

Carrots and Kale, both in the roots organic mix looking happy

Happy Growing!!!

 

[R Wayne]

The northern lights grew funny from the jump and never grew out of it. So I cut it down a few days ago to give the other plants more resources. Very bummed about this loss, NL is our favorite medicinal strain and I’m running low on seeds. Thinking about reversing and selfing to get more seeds.

The rest of the tent is doing great. The CBD and grappa got past the early soil and fungus gnat issues and are growing like weeds now. The Rucu Cucu is one of the bushiest plants I have grown. Not much vertical growth but she is still putting out tons on nodes and growing like an upside down Christmas tree. She needed a trimming and I had to sacrifice quite a few lower inner nodes. I’m pretty sure she won’t miss them. I’ve started using mosquito bit tea again, nematodes aren’t helping. I think the infestation got too bad. I added more sticky traps and will water in some tea once a week for the next 3 weeks. I can still see plenty of rove beetles when I check under the covers, I know they will help too. I’ve only been filling the rez’s when needed. Been switching between em1 and yah whey but also adding some CalSil or agsil16 and I just added some buildabloom yesterday when I filled the rez’s. Will likely top dress in the next 10 days. I can see the feeder roots starting to pop through the last top dress. To the pics

CBD critical not so XXL. She is way frosty and smells like sweet fruity goodness.

Grappa. Love seeing the trichs grow in the stems this early.

Rucu Cucu before haircut

After haircut

Happy growing!!!

 

[R Wayne]

I’m at my favorite part of the grow, around day 60 when you can see the frost developing. You get some really nice smells when you open the tent. Buds are forming. All 3 of my plants are at different stages. Some still need training and trimming and some don’t. I love stepping into my tent. I just go in there to inappropriately look at them and smell them. Love it.

Another note. Lots of sticky traps, weekly mosquito bit tea, and rove beetles can knock down a pretty bad fungus gnat problem. I used nematodes too late in the infestation and stopped applying mosquito bit tea. The population got out of hand real quick. Fungus gnats are stuck on some CBD buds, bastards. It’s my fault though and I’ll wash them, not that big of deal. I applied my 3rd tea today and changed the sticky traps. There is still a few but they have been significantly diminished. Sticky traps and mosquito bit tea has always worked for fungus gnats. Always.

Grappa, this plant is getting frosty and has an intense chemical sweetness to it. Excited.

CBD critical. Forming some nice buds and has a delicious fruity orange sweet punch to it. Stinkiest and ahead of the pack

Rucu Cucu. She’s still growing straight up and putting out so many nodes. I snip a good 5 nodes a day and she still has too many. Going to need to do another trim soon. She needs more training. Been slacking. But this plant, holy shit, she smells like straight candy. Nothing but sweet stinky candy. Sweetest plant I’ve ever smelled. Hoping she stays this way.

Happy growing!

 

[R Wayne]

I have been really bad about updating this thread. Wanted to post some pics I took of the CBD critical harvest. She got stunted early but the buds she produced were solid and fat, sticky and stinky. She was wet trimmed and brown bagged. Most of it will be infused into coconut oil and made into a topical for family and treats for doggy. I’m also interested in the effects so I saved a good chunk for smoke. She was one of the stinkiest and stickiest I’ve grown so far. Cheers to seed stockers. More harvests coming soon.

 

[R Wayne]

These pics are from yesterday which was day 76

The grappa is super frosty and smells great. I can definitely smell the grape with a nice astringent blast that hits on the backside. This girl got a top dress too late and hasn’t liked my extras (Buildabloom, potassium silicate) I’ve occasionally added to the rez. But the pics don’t do her justice, she’s frosty as hell. I’m just waiting for the buds to fill in a bit more.

The Rucu Cucu is chugging along. Not much to report on her other than there’s an excess of nitrogen. The leaves are still GREEN and the tips are clawing down. Ive never seen a plant reach for the light like this plant. Since a week 1. Looking like some nice golf balls forming and she’s quite frosty too.

Happy growing.