From Perpetual grow to Flood and Drain

OldOneEye · Jan 28, 2025

I'm a long time grower, planted my first seeds in 1984. For the last 10 years I've been running a perpetual grow with 5 to 8 strains at a time. 3 plants went into flower 3 plants came out of flower pretty much every 7 to 10 days. With 21 plants in flower and at least that in veg, plus taking cuttings, I did not keep mother's plants but I've come to realize that genetics are not as "locked down" as they used to be and I think I have been experiencing genetic drift with each recessive generation. Keeping that in mind i will keep mother's. I have 8 strains to work with. I have 2 phenos of each strain to work with.
FatBastard both phenos in flower

CherryPie both phenos in flower

SunnyJack on of mine SunshineDayDream from Bodhi x JackpotExpress (JackpotRoyale x PineappleExpress)

From seed
HoneyOG
FruitCup
Pez
BlackTruffles

I grow in coco and have been watering by hand. In a perpetual grow that means a ton of nutrients mixing, though I treated like soil and watered only when dry, still a lot of work.
So the switch to flood and drain.
I have an 8 x 4 drain table
Using 2 gal. fabric pots I will be able to fit 32 plants on the table,
remaining in coco as a medium.
It will be around 70 days before I will empty my flower area. Last 10 plants went into flower yesterday.
This is what I'm looking like in flower now.
On the floor 7 plants day 1 and in front are 3 SkyWalker Kush's with about a week left

On the table 21 plants from day 1, 3 in front, to day 56, 3 to the rear.

In veg, I'm stressing because its basically empty and that is just to wierd for me.
The freshly rooted clones are the 2 each of OG and CheeriePie

Cuttings that i expect to root in the next few days
SunnyJack, OG and CheeriePie

And seedlings, all but BlackTruffles they just went in the moist paper towel to germinate.

This the SkyWalkerKush

Danks for looking.

##thosethatknowgrow

Creeperpark · Jan 29, 2025

Thanks for posting friend. This will be very interesting to watch. Keep us posted.

OldOneEye · Mar 15, 2025

Been a minute since I posted. First was the fires that shut down the site as I understand it. Then I had an icestorm that came thru and I lost power for 6 and a half days. Temps stayed in the mid 40s during the day and high 30s at night so I took a hit from that. But I think we are recovered now and are doing well. I did drop a few seeds just in case.

My mother's

They don't look like much right now because they just gave up 30 cuttings.

Still waiting for the flower table to clear, about 35 days or so I think.

Thanks for looking.

#thosethatknowgrow

OldOneEye · Saturday at 3:34 PM

Weekly update
Cuttings taken 9 days ago. All looking as i would expect them to, I took the dome off 5 days ago, temp of root zone is 72°.
10 cuttings of each CherryPie, SunnyJack and OG

Plants from seed
First 3 are Pez, the 2 taller ones are about 3 weeks older than the short 1 which was started after the cold and dark week.

Next are BlackTruffles, same time line.

And FruitCup, again same time line

Mothers are doing well. All are getting ready for next round of cuttings.
1st up is FatBastard, won't be around for long, this bastard ain't so fat.

And SunnyJack nice producer and one of mine own.

OG another nice producer

Lastly is CherryPie, still figuring this one out. So undecided if I am going to keep her but I like to make a few runs before I decide.

Flower is processing well. All but 3 of these are on day 53 of flower, 3 are on day 6, a GSC cross, the last 3 to run in my garden, and will come out in the next 10 days for flushing.