Mitch's Auto Adventure......

[meltybubble]

Great to hear Spannabis went down well, getting some strains tested must have been fun. The results look good, your sour b sounds nice, it must be nice knowing for sure the %'s.
Awesome pic's as usual, take care m8!
peace.

 

[#1cheesebuds]

dammm I so wish I had a bag full of the kind of autos you grow. but I don't want to order beans from the internet.
wow wow. cuz then I could have good ass herbs all year round.

nice hard work on those beautiful ladies.

 

[mitch_connor]

Sorry guys, I missed these!
Having a mad one at the moment

Doing lots of work outdoors right now, Also have a full room of new autos indoors!
I'll get some photos up here soon.

If there are any instagram users, feel free to check out what we are doing.
instagram.com/mephisto_genetics#

Take it easy everyone, Mitch

 

[vostok]

Just love reading your posts Mitch, consider writing a book to show all and sundry ...its no easy matter developing these strains ...lol

 

[agito]

Hi mitch this is your BM at 4 weeks, well impressed shame i have to put on 12/12 due to needing veg space

 

[mitch_connor]

Sorry guys it's been a mad-house recently, so many plates to spin!

Here are a few images from a run of F2 non-auto to auto projects.

The varieties are:

Auto Alien Og project - cut from cali connection stock
walter white - auto 'the white' kromes cut
Triangle kush auto - Triangle kush cut
Og ghost train haze auto - Our selection from RD beans
Sour orange diesel kush auto - Triangle kush cut x sour orange diesel (lady sativa genetics)
Toof decay - Sweet pink grapefruit auto


It began with 220+ plants, 4x600w room

By day 20 we had 27 with the auto trait (females) and a little less males.
Here was day 19 and transplanted.

Here was an alien og auto @day 27

And here are a few random shots from 6 days ago @d37:

Walter white

Triangle

Plants were pollinated 2 days ago at day 41 for f3 seeds,

After non auto plants were removed, males, then selecting the best females, only 10 plants saw any pollen.

 

[paulo73]

Spot on as usual.
Thanks for sharing.

 

[vostok]

I'm growing "Walter White" now but it ain't no Auto ....lol

http://www.southernstarseeds.net/index.php?route=product/product&path=18&product_id=64

 

[mitch_connor]

I'm growing "Walter White" now but it ain't no Auto ....lol

http://www.southernstarseeds.net/index.php?route=product/product&path=18&product_id=64

Must be a common love of breaking bad

 

[agito]

Yeah Mr Connor !
Yeah science!

 

[mitch_connor]

Yeah Mr Connor !
Yeah science!

Magnets bitch!

 

[mitch_connor]

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!

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:

It took a few days labour with the pick-axes and some raking to expand and level the area.

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]

Photos from a few days ago,

Greenhouse from an elevated aspect:

The back material is now on, and is fully sealed. It won't win any beauty awards, but using last years materials, it's only cost us 50 euros and labour to get it built.

Small beer and joint break as a reward:

Some of the rejects:

Walter white- looking to be one of the fastest finishers

Alien og auto - Showing some random genetic purpling

og ghost train haze auto - haze dominant. Could be awhile to go yet

cheers!

 

[dstark]

Great thread Mitch thanks a lot for sharing with us your wonderful project, happy to see you guys doing great and didnt give up when it was hard in the beginning! You now sure have a fanat that will be buying your seeds. Also will follow on insta

Keep us posted buddy

 

[mitch_connor]

Great thread Mitch thanks a lot for sharing with us your wonderful project, happy to see you guys doing great and didnt give up when it was hard in the beginning! You now sure have a fanat that will be buying your seeds. Also will follow on insta

Keep us posted buddy

It's still hard but we're getting through, thanks for the support!

so, here's a little update: greenhouse is 95% finished, structure, door, material, all keeping their integrity. won't win any beauty awards but it's doing the job!

Here are some 24 carat,
They were transplanted and put in the greenhouse at 14 days from sprout, here they are another 13 days down the road @d27

A little closer:

Plain water so far, I just did a small topdressing with some worm castings today.

Yesterday we potted up our photoperiods for outdoor, and moved them into the greenhouse.

All our own fem crosses including:
The White S1
Widow Cheese (Suicide cheese x white widow)
Skywalker og x white widow
Afghan Faceoff s1
The blues x Afghan Faceoff

Then a few random seeds we had laying around.
Caramello - delicious seeds
Lilly - delicatessen seeds
Upstream F1 - delicatessen seeds

All these will go into raised beds in a different location, a few weeks from now.

Then in June cuttings will go outside:
Bear Og
Exodus Cheese
Northern Cheese Haze
Skywalker OG
Crinkle x flav grape
Amnesia (karmas cut)

Cheers!

 

[aridbud]

Excellent work. Great toil in the soil!! KUDOS!

 

[mitch_connor]

Excellent work. Great toil in the soil!! KUDOS!

Thanks!
The greenhouse is a little over a 3rd full right now, I'll be starting batches of autos every week or 2 until the end of July.
There's the possibility of building another greenhouse too and also running some uncovered in beds

A busy season ahead! All the best

 

[dstark]

This thread could get so much more attention in the outdoors section!

 

[mitch_connor]

I'm not quite sure where this thread fits in, it's a mixture of everything we are doing.
Although for the next few months the focus will mainly be on outdoor work!

Saludos, mitch

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

Why are yours and everyone's prices so high on auto flowers now? I used to be able to buy 10 seeds for 25£ now you and everyone else are selling 3 seeds for 40£. What a ripoff. Also, the company you keep on that other site is a bunch of pussy whiner hippies.