Diary Fall 2024

[Deleted user 6789345]

No question about it, they are loving the new feed. Continuing to feed at EC 1.5, inc a little calmag boost. Everything is growing so fast at the moment, it's getting very tight in there. Chatting to a friend about farming out some of the younger plants so I can get the remainder into flower.
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Autos budding up a storm. Still nothing from the Nanda Devi :/

Going to do some grafting this weekend and set up the bench area in the spare room.

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Update on what's currently in the room:

Strain​	Total seeds​	Sown​	germ​
MK x (MMWR #7)​	1​	02/09/24​	06/09/24​
CBD#1 x (MMWR #6)​	2​	02/09/24​	06/09/24​
Nanda Devi (reg, RSC)​	6​	04/09/24​	​
Purple Bud x Blueberry F1​	1​	04/09/24​	09/09/24​
CBD#1 x (DWJ Bx #5)​	2​	10/09/24​	13/9/24​
CBD#1 (fem, ACE)​	1​	10/09/24​	13/9/24​
Sour Diesel Auto (fem, MSNL)​	1​	10/09/24​	15/09/24​
Blue Digiberry F3 (reg, VG)​	2​	10/09/24​	14/9/24​
Blueberry #4 (P2, from MSNL)​	3​	10/09/24​	15/09/24​
North Thunderfuck Auto x AKA Auto​	4​	10/09/24​	14/09/24​
Erdpurt (reg, ACE)​	1​	10/09/24​	17/9/24​
MK x Syrian​	1​	10/09/24​	14/09/24​
Blue Cindy 99 (fem, MSNL)​	1​	12/09/24​	16/09/24​
CBD#1 (fem, ACE)​	1​	12/09/24​	16/09/24​
MAFF (RGS, fem)​	1​	16/09/24​	20/09/24​
Blueberry #4 (P2, from MSNL)​	3​	21/09/24​	28/09/24​
Blueberry #2 (P2, from MSNL)​	6​	24/09/24​	28/09/24​
MK x Syrian​	3​	24/09/24​	29/09/24​
Purple Bud x Blueberry F1​	5​	24/09/24​	29/09/24​
DWJ Bx #2​	8​	05/10/24​	09/10/24​
Rhino D (reg, VG)​	3​	06/10/24​	10/10/24​

(not all of the seeds germinated, and some have since been culled - the numbers here are seeds planted in each batch, not current numbers of survivors)

Beutiful plants Alice, you are surly more organized than me

 

[aliceklar]

First round of grafting done - now we need to wait a few days to see if they take. I've grafted the following on to one of the ACE CBD#1s:

Purple Bud x BB F1 #1(5)
MK x Sy #1 (declared fem)
CBD x DWJbx#5
Erdpurt (ACE, reg)
Bluedigiberry F3 #1 (VG, reg)
Bluedigiberry F3 #2 (VG, reg)
Blueberry #4.1 (P2 seed from a 2019 MSNL Blueberry reg)
Blue Cindy99 (MSNL, fem)

 

[exploziv]

Now you just remineded me I got same exact victorinox pocket multitool stashed somewhere in the house, unused for years.
Plants look great!

 

[aliceklar]

3 days since the grafts and its looking like at least half have taken. They tend to droop and wither pretty quickly if they dont take. If they are still green, and especially if they are showing any signs of growth, after 3 or 4 days, then its likely they will survive. The CBD x DWJbx, and the Erdpurt are looking fine in the pic below , the BB#4 looks pretty good too. The MK x Syrian and the Bluedigiberry.... not so hot
This plant is going to go to the bench, as a backup.

Considering I've done little apart from reducing the fans a bit and giving them daily spray mists with plain water, I'm happy with this. I think I used scions that were slighly too small for some, too - they are more successful with a reasonably sturdy bit of stem (tho even tiny grafts can work). Nice side-bonus is that I've taken a bunch of cuttings from the ACE CDB where I cut the stems to host the grafts.

In other news...

 

[aliceklar]

Moved the ACE CBD graft mom to the bench, along with the 2 younger MK x Syrian, the CBD x MMWR, and the DWJbx#2. Farmed out the smallest plants (Rhino D, BB#2, PBxBB) to a friend. Flipped the rest to 12/12. Autos are really budding up nicely already, but the rest should start exploding now. Christmas should be proper frosty.

 

[aliceklar]

It's been a while... 10 days since flipping to 12/12 & plants in the cupboard have now mostly declared sex. Its rammed in there and i'm struggling to keep on top of humidity, but once the boys are gone it'll make a bit of room. I'm pruning the males down to a few good branches until they are a few days away from shedding pollen, when I'll take them out to collect & freeze surplus. Glad I've got a couple of "blue" pollen donors. They're gonna hit everything

The MAFF is a beast. Intending to use this as a seed mother for geurilla grows next year. It's going to be hit with all the males going.
Really happy with the form on the Purple Bud x Blueberry, and also with the MK x Syrian and the CBD x DWJbx. I can see a little of the Johaar great granddaddy influence in the latter (very upright and narrow leaf crowns, with a little waviness), but its faint. Excited for this one.

Autos at 57 days since emergence and budding up beautifully. The Sour Diesel is lanky - may need to do some training if she stretches any more. The Thunderfaks are chunky with short internode distance and are already putting on resin. Sweet spicy stanky stem rubs.

Definite males:
Blueberry P2 4.1 (reg)
M.Kush x MMWR (reg)
Blue Digiberry F3 #2 (reg)

Females:
MAFF (fem)
Purple Bud x Blueberry (reg)
Blueberry P2 4.3 (reg)
CBD x Dance World/Johaar bx#5 (reg)
M.Kush x Syrian (reg)
ACE CBD (fem)
Blue Cindy99 (fem)
Sour Diesel auto (fem)
Thunderfak auto x 4 (reg)

Undeclared:
Blueberry P4 4.2
Blue Digiberry F3 #1
Erdpurt

Grafts have done better than expected. 7/8 made it, although one is hanging on by a thread. Also have two more M.Kush x Syrian, a CBD x MMWR, and 4 tiny Dance World x Johaar Bx #2 as well as the CBD mother plant. This is my "bench" space under 2 x 20W LED floodlights on 18/6 for holding in veg until I'm ready to flower them. None of the CBD clones took.

 

[aliceklar]

Everything thats in the cupboard under 12/12 has declared now. 3 definite boys (BB#4/1, Blue Digiberry #2, M.Kush x MMWR), and the rest all female (so the other two Blueberry #4, Blue Digiberry #1, and Erdpurt all girls). Have taken the MMWR out of the space as he looks close to shedding pollen. A few of the flowers have a nice red stripe on them. Pretty.

Still unknown on the bench are the 4 Dance World/Johaar bx#2, the CBD x MMWR, and a couple of M.Kush x Syrians. Hopefully there are some more males amongst them (esp the DWJbx) to make seed in a second round, but if not I'll have some pollen banked.

 

[aliceklar]

Happy with progress here. Autos on 63 days since emergence, and the cupboard has been on 12/12 for 16 days. Bluedigiberry & ACE CDB were slowest to start flowering, but both now going for it.

Started collecting pollen from BB#4.1, pollenated a single lower bud of the Thunderfak auto, Sour D auto, and PBxBB. More pollenations to come, as the M.Kush x MMWR and the Bluedigiberry males will not be far behind. As ever, plan is to pollenate lower buds on each plant with every decent male going, carefully logging everything.. If I like the smoke, the offspring might get grown out.

Happy to get both a male and female Bluedigiberry. These are noticably yellower in leaf color than other plants in this grow, and unsure whether they are hungry or overfed... Still, I am less fussed about the colour of the leaves so long as the smoke is good, and I've loved all VG's stuff so far.

 

[aliceklar]

Taken out the last of the boys. Pushed the "pollen chicken" game as far as I dared with the Bluedigiberry F3 male, which has now been snipped and is sitting in a jam jar of water in a back room to collect some pollen from. One early flower had just started to open this morning (tho not 100% sure if it had shed any yet), so any rogue seeds are likely to be Bluedigiberry crosses. I can live with that!

Also just been gifted a little freeze-dried packet of pollen from a friend I gave some seeds to last year - they grew out some Nitro Lemon Haze x Buddah and only got males, but that is going to go on the MAFF for sure.

 

[aliceklar]

Seeded a full cola of the MAFF with Blueberry, another with M.Kush x MMWR. Will be several hundred seeds for guerilla grows.

Thunderfak auto nearly there at 68 days since emergence. Taken them out of the cupboard and on plain water for the last while till harvest. Dense and frosty buds. Was worried about mold as have been struggling to keep humidity below 60 and I've had mold problems with the MMWR line before - they tend to have large buds where the whiteness of the trics can camoflage developing white mold. As ever Ive tried to pack too many plants in, but the autos will be done soon and therell be a bit more breathing space. Fingers crossed nearly there.

Life has been full on lately but will post more pics soon. The Purple-Bud x Blueberry and the Mistress Kush x Syrian are both such beautiful plants.

 

[aliceklar]

Is there such a thing as too many plants?

Thunderfak at the front. Nearly done...

 

[mr.brunch]

Is there such a thing as too many plants?
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Thunderfak at the front. Nearly done...

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Never too many plants, just not enough room

 

[aliceklar]

Never too many plants, just not enough room

Exactly. I so want to be able to select from multiple phenos, test multiple different pollen donors and grow out sufficient of the offspring to be able to find good stuff and evaluate at scale. And I guess I could do this to an extent if I did an entire grow of a single strain making good use of grafting. But I want variety, too, and have no interest in producing 20 jars of essentially the same stuff. Its a dilemma.

Meanwhile, I fuck around a lot, and keep detailed notes. Sometimes I find out.

 

[aliceklar]

Both auto pots now out of the cupboard, and on ph'd water with a little seaweed extract, no other feed.

Bluedigiberry starting to bud up. New growth still a little yellow initially. Sparse, elongated buds so far, but resinous - surprisingly on the stems, too. Strong smell of halitosis and burnt rubber.

Erdpurt also slow to start flowering, but going for it finally.

The ACE CBD x (DW x Johaar Bx #5) is going to be productive. Stretched loads, lots of long colas, starting to bulk up now. Distinctive Dance World spicy gingery stank on the stem rub. Excited for this one.

Purple Bud x Blueberry is so beautiful. Big puffy buds with a slight lime greeny tinge to the pistils. Pistils are very long and fat.

Dropped the feed strength for the more mature flowering plants down from 1.5 or 1.6 EC to 1.3 or 1.2. Changed ratio of A & B to reduce B (calcium nitrate). Was using equal amounts of A to B, now using 2:1 ratio. Tailing off with the calmag. Bluedigiberry and Erdpurt still on 1.5 EC.

Swapping out a new carbon filter this weekend. The old one lasted me a couple of seasons, and this grow is going to get stinky. I can already smell them on the landing outside my room - not downstairs or outside yet, but I want to keep on top of the odor.

 

[aliceklar]