Mitch's Auto Adventure......

[mitch_connor]

I'm sure it does work, and it's relatively inexpensive for the amount of plants you can use it on.

Previously we used 'plant magic granules' which when trialled noticeably improved health and rootmass, but it's unavailable here so the black pearl seemed like the next best choice.

As you read above our recipe is very simple but it seems to be effective. And we will continue with it inside and out.

I guess the only other secret is that we've had fantastic weather so far, and the drip systems have really helped us manage more plants more effectively.

I'm sure also if we priced all the components up in comparison to liquid nutrients we will have made a mega saving.

Cheers!

 

[j189rfc]

I still havent read through everything sorry, but was wondering if you had ever experimented with LED, just to see how they would react? It could be a nice selling feature to say "Tested under LED HPS and Full Sun" just ideas

 

[Ollie]

There are several threads with Mephisto genetics grown beautiful under LED.

The user Tang is especially during a superb job !

 

[j189rfc]

There are several threads with Mephisto genetics grown beautiful under LED.

The user Tang is especially during a superb job !

Wodnerful! Thank you. Checking it out now.

 

[Med Grower]

Great job Mitch
the Fantasmo Express has a slight smell? I thought that because of the name
where I live now have to cultivate only "ghost"
continuation of good work
I tried to send a private message but do not know where it is, that doom hehehehe
hugs

 

[DJbigbud]

Grower GBD has some amazing auto grows under LED also, not on this site, but if you google you can probably find them.

 

[ddt]

24 Carats few days before harvest.

 

[DJbigbud]

Hey Mitch, Whats going on on your side of the globe? Update on current projects would be awesome!

 

[mitch_connor]

It's towards the top of the list to get a few snaps tomorrow

 

[NeDank]

Update?

 

[yahooman]

hey mitch,where can i buy crinkle x flav grape.....im looking for an outy strain with crinkle in it......i really want some of those seeds bad bro!
ive grown the crinkle and it was excellent!
also,would u recommend an auto or 2 that does well outdoors,one that is currently available?

So a little bit of an indoor/outdoor update!

Indoor:
Right now we are testing out a couple of cuts we've acquired, and also growing out some crosses from years in the past and last year.

Here's a cross we made last year: codename - Sour Grapes!

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It was a feminised cross of canadian crinkle (amazing outdoor plant, finishes very early, mould resistant, very potent and produces rock hard spherical buds, very frosty it just lacked a little flavour in our opinion) x flav grape - a fruity sativa dom hybrid that can purple up nicely, FULL of FLAVOUR!
Half of the 6 light room got filled with the Fem f1's we made and there's some awesome looking plants. It's end of week 4, it's looking like 8-9 weeks but we will see.

I pollinated 3 of the best phenotypes with our auto alien og pollen. It's going to be exciting in 2015!

Also in that room we have Skywalker OG's, and an old cross brought here - 'Northern Cheese Haze' - Exodus Cheese Cut x Nl5/haze , it's a beast that grows very tall, sativa dom, and it takes around 11 weeks but the high is sublime and the quality is so nice.

We have a cutting of Amnesia (cup winning cut) to test soon too.

The Northern cheese haze was pollinated with our OG ghost train haze auto to make 'cheesetrain haze autos' - Eventually!

The Skywalker og was pollinated with our auto triangle kush pollen.

We've grown hundreds of varieties in our time over here and we narrowed it down to about 5 strains to work with long term, and so I had to pollinate them for the next collection of auto projects.

Very high hopes as they use our already vastly improved autos as a basis,

Some food for thought anyway

Onto outdoor:

We had to relocate our greenhouses, so cleared an area:
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It took a few days labour with the pick-axes and some raking to expand and level the area.

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We got all the posts in, and two roofs on, we had to accommodate the breeding rejects from indoors and some new plants. A little makeshift right now, but we time to get the greenhouses looking good, I just wanted to give them some shelter.
This section of the greenhouse is 2.4m x 4.8m area, and will be expanded to 7.2m x 4.8 with some smaller add-ons.

The younger plants, info as follows:

'24 carat' fems - 14 of.
20 were started indoor under 400/600w hps in 2.5 litre square pots.
6 were selected as candidates to reverse to make more feminised stock, the 14 here will be for sensi only.
Today was day 15 and all but one had sexed, female of course.

Transplanted into 18 litre poly growbags, I used a sprinkle of grotek 'black pearl' soil supercharger sprinkled into the area that comes into contact with the roots when transplanting.

No nutrients yet, just fed our well water.

The soil is our recycled mix, it's last years indoor soil put outside into a tarp. The first load into the tarp is over 6 months old, the newest is around two months old. There's some expanded clay pellets in there. Also being outside some earthworms found their way into the pile. It is nice and rich with a great texture.

I'll see how little I can get away with feeding them.
I would prefer to top dress the soil with some guano and worm castings, as we plan to have a dripper system in there and liquid organic nutrients can clog the pipes pretty quickly.

The same as above will happen with another strain early next week.

The weather is pretty changeable right now, april showers. But, as long as there are more sunny days than rain, then i'll be happy.
Hoping to get the plant cam in there soon.

Peace, Mitch

P.S last two photos sorry for the quality, it's from our instagram rather than digicam

 

[mitch_connor]

Hey guys, sorry on the late update, it's been quite bananas so far, indoor/outdoor, different projects at different stages, stock reproduction, playing with rosin.. You name it!

And the schedule hasn't allowed for much progress pics.

But.. We have f3 seeds in flowers, waiting to be de-seeded now of sour stomper, grape crinkle, bear og auto project, sky walker og auto project.

I've also got a males going at the moment to make pollen to start some 2.0 projects ,
For example our sodk we are going to pair with a lovely ecsd cut, our auto triangle kush to a triangle cut, we have a chem4d to be utilised too, along with the yeti og and gg#4

Indoors we've been running a room full of our auto blues x livers, and the sour livers hybrid.
We've also made and now de-seeded a few limited edition auto x auto crosses from our catalogue. Heisenberg special for example is Walter white x 24 carat.

And after the outdoor seed runs we had just about time to bang some cuttings and vegging plants in them, for some flowers to test out, a super lemon haze we've been meaning to run for some time.

I'll get a few photos posted soon to go along with the update!
Otherwise if anyone's bored feel free to check out our stuff on insta and Facebook.
Cheers Mitch!

 

[Green81]

Hey Mitch, is the chem 4d your using from the UK?, I think that might be herbalizer keeper from some rezdog seed stock, very very potent if it is! Have fun trying to dry and cure her.... So resinous.

 

[paulo73]

Hello Mitch, nice to know that´s Bananas Time.
I hope you don´t mind me sharing a few of your Autos, a good few i must admit, grown in a lovely mountainside in Iberia by a common friend.
Sorry but labeling the shots was not possible.










I got plenty more if you want them...

 

[DJbigbud]

Good to see Im not the only one with fairly significant small leaf cupping on my mephist outdoor autos. Looking very nice 73

 

[mitch_connor]

Paulo, sorry I haven't been at you in awhile!
Share away of course!

Green - yes it's from the UK, I'll get the specifics soon. I was holding out for a stardawg, but we'll make a small amount of seeds, all that's needed and then evaluate after an indoor run. Heard a lot of good about the c4d, just want to see it first hand

 

[Big-Narstie]

Hey Mitch, is the chem 4d your using from the UK?, I think that might be herbalizer keeper from some rezdog seed stock, very very potent if it is! Have fun trying to dry and cure her.... So resinous.

There's two c4d cuts floating about the uk.. Wide leaf c4d and narrow lead c4d if I'm not mistaken

 

[Green81]

There's two c4d cuts floating about the uk.. Wide leaf c4d and narrow lead c4d if I'm not mistaken

Thanks Big,

The cut I have is how herby describe it best, very Chemmy, with an ozone fragrance at the end, the stardawg alluminati cut has pronounced chem structure but is not as strong by quite some way. I haven seen much of the other chem 4d but have heard of it.


G81

 

[mitch_connor]

The c4d, It's just kicking into flower outdoors now (was planted out late) but it has very broad leaves at the moment,
Cheers

 

[nabzter]

Such and interesting and inspiring thread. I take my hat off to you.