Been reading a lot about overall terps make more a difference than thc content, this is a winner for sure!
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Funny part is it doesn’t smell at all hardly, just a little pine mixed with stanky.
Marty
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I would like to bullshit everyone, but quite frankly I don’t know if it is the genetics, the first time using the Autopots, or the new to me Organics alive nutes or the new Build a Soil #3 or the Colorado worm farms vermicompost I also added in to the BAS #3. In short I changed everything. I’m still organic, just not my recipe of organic…well kinda and sorta not. Amended BAS stuff.
But whatever it turns out to be it worked. They are just happy as a lark. And me too. lol. That wasn’t all I changed, I also changed the humidity and the temp in Veg. Most every place will tell you mid to high 70’s for veg. that never made sense to me as full blown grow season in MO is high 80’s to high 90’s.
So I also upped the temp to 87 in my tent and the corresponding humidity to keep it at not what is on the VPD chart but at 0.8 to 1.0 VPD.
I’m tickled. And I have pretty big hands.
Hope everyone is having a stellar weekend.
Marty
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Looks like your new recipe for success is working. 
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Very nice!
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Just outrageous how they are growing. Autopots and OA nutes through the top once a week. Just plain water in the Autopot system and BAS #3 soil.
Leaves are over a foot wide now.
Marty
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These are growing so fast you can tell the difference day to day, this is almost like hydro speed in soil.
Today.
To compare just look up one post.
Have a wonderful day everyone. Doc appoint. Smoke one for me lol.
Marty
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Just a text update, today and keeping with everything and I mean everything is first time…I am cloning using the air layer technique. the clear plastic bulbs you put around the limbs of fruit trees. Only on my pot trees lol. Filled them full of sphagnum peat moss and vermicompost 50/50 blend, took a razor knife and cut little notches into the stem top and bottom for about an inch and painted them with rooting hormone and snapped them around the stems. Should have clones in about 2-2.5 weeks, and by then it will be time to flower.
Marty
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Well here’s a full pic of all three of the girls, putting it up so I have more of a picture record, and the date attached. Lot easier than trying to make a photo catalog in a folder in my computer. Just sprayed them with their weekly Spray (foliar feed).
One of the males. This one will be the pollinator.
And the newest addition to the family…two Fast Buds autos, Banana Purple Punch. (supposed to be a autoflower show 1st. placer)
Just up yesterday morning in my last open AutoPot. 2 days old.
Hope everyone is having a great Friday. Weekend is here !!
Marty
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Well looking at the post above these two autoflowers are now 10 days old. they are in an autopot, and guys don’t make the mistake I just did, I have the autopot on because they don’t give you valves to turn each one on and off individually. So I watered from the top yesterday and it overfilled the valve portion and I had a small flood not bad, just one corner of the tent and it had already shut off. I am going to put valves on each autopot so I can move them out, let them dry out a bit from time to time in order to top dress and then water it in.
So anyway here are the two autos at 10 days. I planted two, both came up so I just left them both in. Autos don’t get near as big anyway so I figured why not.
And on yet another new to me trial, the air cloning using the tree grafting bulbs and Sphagnum moss worked perfect, now no babying clones with low light and all the other crap that goes with it, just take off the bulb and plant. I put the grafting bulbs on exactly 7 days ago. Got lots of nice roots. Take off the plastic bulb pop em’ in a pot and put them right back under full light, no fussing around.
Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend, gonna be beautiful here today, 65 and sunny.
Marty
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Ive thought about doing this… Letting the plants get large… use the clone balls, and then chop the large plat down to like 3-4 medium size plants that will be ready for flower alot sooner… This confirmes… Imma try it
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I think I’m gonna try using a Rockwool cube and plastic wrap. try to use what you got thing and see if it works.
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Hap they have them on Amazon dirt cheap, and you can re-use them. I still have 5 to take off and chop the limb, wanted to do one by itself and see it it does ok rooting. It did just fine, it did wilt a little but I put it right back in the main tent with light full on blazing, watered it a couple of times and it perked right up. I am sure it is rooted in the new pot by now, the top is starting to straighten up. These were the very bottom limbs on my plants, I did two on each plant a total of six.
I didn’t cut any leaves off either, but watching it I think that chopping off the two biggest leaves would have helped it recover a little better. They make them in clear, black and see through green. I had the clear, got them from Temu a year ago.
Here she is in the tent repotted. Gotta get the other 5 done, had yard work and trimmer repair I had to do the last couple of days so had to put off working in the garden.
The air layer clone.
The two auto’s are rocking right along. It looks like one of them has a genetic flaw, striped leaves, same seed pack, same strain, same breeder, everything done at the same time.
Hope everyone had a stellar weekend.
Marty
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Well the Fast Buds auto is chugging along. I am only leaving the lights on 18/6 another week then going to flower the three Blackberry Moonshines.
Cut off and planted the other 5 air graft clones and cut off all the big leaves and the big ones on the one I planted a week ago.
These air clones went another week on the plant, and the roots were actually growing out of the cracks between the two halves. I think it is actually better if you take them earlier like the first one I posted. Here are a couple of the root balls on these I just planted two days ago. They just don’t slow down at all unlike regular clones and you can keep them in the full light because they never go into a low light situation.
Hope everyone is doing well
Marty
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So very cool. Ive thought about buying those air rooters. Super awesome. Thanks for sharing!
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Best of luck getting the reservoir and air pump set up
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Well a little farther along. I have spoiled myself with the all organic soil, I just keep forgetting to PH the damn feed water. I went from super lush growth, to yellowish kinds sickly looking leaves in a hurry. I was just feeding them straight water with no nutes and using the #3 BAS soil. That worked fine until they ran out of poop. The autopots are only 3.9 gal. So the organic soil runs out of nutrients quick.
Well anyway cut off all the huge monster leaves and added nutrients to the reservoir and just plain forgot to PH the damn thing. Of course my plants continue to get yellower, and I said to myself out loud what the hell. Then it hit me stuck my PH meter in the water and it was 0.8 PH. DUH. I didn’t kill them but I sure gave it my best try lol.
Anyway that is straightened out, drained the autopots and cleaned out the reservoir and filled fresh with PH’t nute solution.
Here are the six clones been in the cow pots for just at a week now. They are doing great and the seedling light is on high as it will go. Love this air cloning, it takes all the puny slow growth out of the clone making. Did the same thing with these too. Plumb forgot to PH the water. Tomorrow gonna suck it all out clean the coco mat and refill with PH’ed water with new nutes.
Love these cow poop pots too, the roots grow right through them and you just plant the pot and these don’t restrict the roots. A little pricy but they do a great job.
Hope everyone had a great weekend !!
Marty
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Looking lovely
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Wow, beautiful ladies. Nice job growmie.
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6 days later in the seedling box…and man oh man do I have a problem. A storm took a lot of the facia and soffit off my house, been trying to get bids to get it repaired for a good 5 weeks now. Out of at least 15 different companies called only 2 estimators have showed up so far. And only one actual bid. I have to get these ladies into the ground outside or I am going to loose all my clones, the tent is on 12/12. Go up about 4 posts for comparison.
Have a fantastic weekend everyone !! Yeah it’s Saturday !!
Marty
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