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Avinash.miles

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Whats up with the modern microbe. I have seen them around. They look like just another flashy packaged microbe product. Anything special about it?

they are a "local" company to me, so I like supporting them.... according to antonio (basically a one man modern microbes show, knowledgeable and helpful guy) modern microbes are sourced from a biotech firm in india who use all organic & non gmo propagation materials for the microbes.... he gets smallish shipments from his supplier, tests them for viability and then mixes and sells that batch to stores and on to the public.
seems to me more likely to get actual living micro-critters that way than from a big ass company (like down to earth) that packages huge quantities then puts them out on the market, some pallets/packages sit on shelves or in warehouses for months before being purchased.
that timing might make no difference (i'm not sure), i just like the idea of getting them "fresh", and supporting local small biz, like i said before :D

thanks for that link ganoderma, certainly is a fast growing method & i might try that out sometime... currently my cloner is full (of Glue, panama red ogkb2.0, flo, gluebreath, khalisi x sour bubble, lime cookies bubba, trapper creek, and "grand junction haze") my tendency is to get plants into soil as quick as possible, get those roots all innoculated with greasy goodness as early as i can. hence popping seeds directly peat pellets innoculated with VAM & MM and topped with lightweight vermiculite.
 
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^^ upskirt (ikinda) on the silver grapefruit MCD, showing all sorts of colors from top to bottom
the "ground pounder purps" (a purple afghan) is showing the color mostly in the bottoms, whereas the sg mcd is purple head to toe
 

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Nice miles!!! I have been thinking about starting some veggies for this summer in my veg tent! Get ahead of the game this year. If I can find some room!! Anyways looks like a good round coming up!! Cheers
 

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start week 7

start week 7

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^^ glue

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^ Silver Grapefruit Minion City Diesel

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^^ Ground Pounder Purps

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^ baby tomatoes
 

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yes but what kind of baby tomatoes? We are starting ours this week. Running only 10 different cultivars this year i think.

MCD looks tight. :) Nice work
 

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RMJ - the silver grapefruit MCD is all citrusy and diesely with hints of sweet fruit

3rdeye - in the pic i think it's red cherry tomato plants, so many varieties: golden grape, black cherry, red cherry, black krim, cherokee, porter, homestead, brandywine (potato leaf type), rutgers, roma, gerties gold, jubilee, and more.
and the list of peppers is just as long... they are all coming up right now: ghosts, savinas, habs (peach & chocolate), mixed colored bells, wax yellow, zesty (heatless) habanero, ash county pimento, douglahs, banana yellow, and more.... (kung pow, cayenne)
also some cold weather greens like kale, chard and broccoli already up and getting transplanted this week.
 
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Avinash.miles

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baby peppers!
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^no true leaves yet, only pointy lil pepper cotys


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^ Khalisi x sour bubble
what this girl might lack slightly in stank she makes up for in structure imo.... probably will breed with her and keep her around one or two more runs. I'll give one KSB a chance outside this season, perhaps - then be done with this cut. she's had a good run and i have to make room.

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^ Ground Pounder Purps, biggest buds in the room

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^ shit pic of gluebreath, washed out from flash....

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^ terrible sideways pic of gluebreath... you get the idea

cut back the lights this week, both how many watts and how many hours - giving them some cold nights/cool days before the chop, which is approaching imminently.

veg has all been up-potted to either 7 gallon soil bags or 4 gallon pots (still a few in 1 gallons) and has been topped and cleaned up from taking clones; tons of seedlings reaching for their 3rd or 4th nodes...
and just as all this is getting rolling it's time for me to packup my menagerie of grow gear and move on down the road once again - hopefully for the last time for a long time.
 
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the move is over, i'm in new digs that will be a place to a permanent place to put down roots. glad to be out of tents and into real rooms again.

the game-plan for now is to bloom what i have that is large all in 25 (one plant) - 65 (4 plant) gallon pots (plastic and fabric mixed, just what i had left over mostly) in a (roughly) 12 x 12 space with 4 x 1000w HPS mounted horizontally in a square shape and one 860w CMH mounted vertically in the center of the square.

everything is in my recycled home-made soil, going on 4 years now with it steadily re-amending.

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^ strains in the mix: glue, glue breath, 2.0, khalisi x sour bubble, panama red, ogkb2.0, twista x bubblegum, flo, midnite express (CBD), catpiss x moontang, dakini kush (centennial seeds), maybe a couple others
don't mind the cups on the floor

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all that's getting flipped asap, next day or 2....

and what's NEXT? since i never got to use the super silver shiny room i built out in the last barn.... THIS is what's next:
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4 kiddie pools under 4 lights with room for a vertical in the center OR i may just hang more horizontal lights over them, plus one 75 gallon pot under another light, looking around 6 lites total next run, perhaps some 600w mixed in.
best part of the next room is that im filling these kiddie pools with soil and plants NOW, and plan on vegging them for 8 to 10 weeks before flipping them. probably will hang trellis nets. in this "Next" room I'm mixing new soil, using a couple different recipes and doing some comparison, but ultimately plan on mixing it all together, but will have the option of doing no-till in the kiddie pools without any mixing for some time.

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so while the 1k w HPS and that 860w CMH are doing work in the bloom room... these kiddie pools and one large pot will be vegging under a mix of 600w HPS and 315w CMH.

aside from all that... cloner is full, breeding tent is close to harvest and needs to be re-filled soon.
AND during the move i have misplaced an important garden notebook that contained alot of my notes on the seeds and their code labels... so that's complicated things a little bit.
 
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I'm glad your move is over. Are you still liking those CMH lights? My basement grow room gets too hot in the summer and I am thinking CMH or maybe LED for the summer grows.
 

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CMH is great and a no-brainer for veg, getting them to really kill it in bloom and produce compared to standard lighting (HPS & MH) takes a little more tinkering... getting things "dialed in". i constantly find myself wishing i had 2 or 3 more CMH 315w's and they remain at the top of my wish list. (soon....)
i always compare the 315w's to an 8 bulb 4 foot t5 in veg, both cover the same footprint roughly (in veg) and the 315w CMH draws fewer amps than the t5s and when purchased new they both are around 250$ (averages a lil lower for t5s and a lil higher for cmh, but prices are comparable, unlike the price difference with LED's).
 

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about to harvest a small crop for seeds; one using a las vegas bubba kush male on khalisi x sour bubble, flo, glue, and miles bubba kush ; and another one using a gorilla glue #4 x blue ox male on flo, khalisi x sour bubble, glue, ogkb2.0.... or something like that; maybe a couple others in the mix.

fixing to refill the breeding area with some DJ short f2'smales and females (making f3's) and flo, lemon ox, purple kush x white widow, twista glue, dosidos cookies ; and more... working on using one light to bloom 2 or 3 pollinations simultaneously without too much cross pollinations.... plastic curtains or something.
got this LED free from a pal, using it for all the breeding right now, should be comparable or better than the 315w CMH i was previously using.
 
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So how many males did you pick from. For some reason I keep ending up with a 3:1 or 4:1 ratio of females to males when I'm trying to pick a male to make seeds.
 

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for this round that is finishing up i used two males picked from about 20 males. this next upcomming seed batch is more like 4 males from about 50 total males, killing alot.

in the case of the dj short blue berry f2's i've used 2 males and 2 females iirc to make the f3 generation.

also have these "keeper" males, the sour bubble that was saved from my old spot after the raid, and a "flo scout" - getting a round of clones off those 2 then will use the fathers as pollen studs.
 

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the move is over, i'm in new digs that will be a place to a permanent place to put down roots. glad to be out of tents and into real rooms again.

the game-plan for now is to bloom what i have that is large all in 25 (one plant) - 65 (4 plant) gallon pots (plastic and fabric mixed, just what i had left over mostly) in a (roughly) 12 x 12 space with 4 x 1000w HPS mounted horizontally in a square shape and one 860w CMH mounted vertically in the center of the square.

everything is in my recycled home-made soil, going on 4 years now with it steadily re-amending.

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^ strains in the mix: glue, glue breath, 2.0, khalisi x sour bubble, panama red, ogkb2.0, twista x bubblegum, flo, midnite express (CBD), catpiss x moontang, dakini kush (centennial seeds), maybe a couple others
don't mind the cups on the floor

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^^
all that's getting flipped asap, next day or 2....

and what's NEXT? since i never got to use the super silver shiny room i built out in the last barn.... THIS is what's next:
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4 kiddie pools under 4 lights with room for a vertical in the center OR i may just hang more horizontal lights over them, plus one 75 gallon pot under another light, looking around 6 lites total next run, perhaps some 600w mixed in.
best part of the next room is that im filling these kiddie pools with soil and plants NOW, and plan on vegging them for 8 to 10 weeks before flipping them. probably will hang trellis nets. in this "Next" room I'm mixing new soil, using a couple different recipes and doing some comparison, but ultimately plan on mixing it all together, but will have the option of doing no-till in the kiddie pools without any mixing for some time.

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so while the 1k w HPS and that 860w CMH are doing work in the bloom room... these kiddie pools and one large pot will be vegging under a mix of 600w HPS and 315w CMH.

aside from all that... cloner is full, breeding tent is close to harvest and needs to be re-filled soon.
AND during the move i have misplaced an important garden notebook that contained alot of my notes on the seeds and their code labels... so that's complicated things a little bit.

I wanna try an old hot tub with a cooler hooked up inlace of the heater! I think you have too many pools! Hahahaha!

Sick!
 

Avinash.miles

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harvesting seed runs:

las vegas bubba kush male:
ogkb2.0 x lvbk
(khalisi x sour Bubble) x lvbk
flo x lvbk
special "ogk haze" pheno x lvbk

gorilla glue x blue ox (GOX) male:
flo x GOX
super critical x GOX
ogkb2.0 x GOX
ground pounder purps (purple afghan) x GOX

next males up will be:
dj Short Bluberry f2
Gorilla Glue #4 x Moontang
Jabbas stash (bubba kush x snowlotus) not sure if i'll use this one or not....
elmers glue fire cookies
 

who dat is

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harvesting seed runs:

las vegas bubba kush male:
ogkb2.0 x lvbk
(khalisi x sour Bubble) x lvbk
flo x lvbk
special "ogk haze" pheno x lvbk

gorilla glue x blue ox (GOX) male:
flo x GOX
super critical x GOX
ogkb2.0 x GOX
ground pounder purps (purple afghan) x GOX

next males up will be:
dj Short Bluberry f2
Gorilla Glue #4 x Moontang
Jabbas stash (bubba kush x snowlotus) not sure if i'll use this one or not....
elmers glue fire cookies

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