Mephisto Genetics 100% MG grow: Sour Crinkles, GWKs, Grapey Walters and Creme de la Chems

[Theterpinator]

Good thing I have an 8x8 and only popped two Grapey Walters. Its going to be interesting to see how much space these 10 Mephs take up in the tent. I know one day when my skills are better I could probably grow 4 plants in an 8x8 and fill it up. But I dont really want to do that.

how old is that GW in the picture roughly?

Hey great plant bro.

Sorry for spamming your thread with my plants earlier too!

Peace

 

[lunarman]

Hey great plant bro.

Sorry for spamming your thread with my plants earlier too!

Peace

Thank you. And please post all the pictures you want in this thread. Makes things interesting. And I like to see other peoples grows all day long.

 

[Theterpinator]

Thank you. And please post all the pictures you want in this thread. Makes things interesting. And I like to see other peoples grows all day long.

Okay man, good to know. I have not done a journal this run. I just like to show the community what I have going. Glad you don't mine[emoji106]

Peace

 

[lunarman]

I am fine tuning my bottom feeding dunking. I don't like unknowns and how much to water is one of those things. And when you dunk your pots you cant' really measure how much you're watering because its invisible as it sucks water up from the bucket thru the holes in the bottom of the pots. You can control things though like how deep you dunk it and how long you hold it.

Anyway, @slowandeasy got me in to bottom dunking seedlings in the solo cups to promote tap root depth. And I'm taking that to the next level and doing it with plants that are 25 days old and in their final 1g pots to try and promote a fast transition to flowering.

Being pretty much an undiagnosed OCD person that doesnt take any meds for the condition I'm free to be as OCD as I want to be. So bring it on.

I use a Control Wizard Accurate pH8 Soil pH & Moisture Meter (thanks to @Waira for the rec - its a solid meter) as a way to understand how moist the pot is. I don't use it for testing PH any more. Its definitely much better than the $5 moisture meters. Its cool to see the readings change as the probe is pushed down to different depths in the pot. Once I have a pot that I think is as moist as I want it to be then I put the meter to the side. Then its time to weigh the pot. I picked up a nice postal scale for weighing my pots. It has a nice robust big platter I can put pots on and a there is a separate cord attached digital readout that I can easily read. Then I take all my pots and weigh them and then dunk them until they weigh what I want. That takes the guessing out of the equation. I don't like to rely on the knuckle test or just picking up the pots. Another nice thing about this is if I know I need to be more aggressive with the watering as @slowandeasy suggested, I don't have to guess how that would work with how long and deep to dunk. I can just say I want to have the pots weigh another 100 grams and dial that in. Talk about accuracy. I love how accurate this is and how certain it is. Once I'm in full flower I will not be doing this thats for sure. Once in full flower I'll just be watering to run off N times per day. At some point the plants will be different sizes and weights so this won't work then, but I don't care any more by that stage of the grow.

 

[slowandeasy]

I am fine tuning my bottom feeding dunking. I don't like unknowns and how much to water is one of those things. And when you dunk your pots you cant' really measure how much you're watering because its invisible as it sucks water up from the bucket thru the holes in the bottom of the pots. You can control things though like how deep you dunk it and how long you hold it.

Anyway, @slowandeasy got me in to bottom dunking seedlings in the solo cups to promote tap root depth. And I'm taking that to the next level and doing it with plants that are 25 days old and in their final 1g pots to try and promote a fast transition to flowering.

Being pretty much an undiagnosed OCD person that doesnt take any meds for the condition I'm free to be as OCD as I want to be. So bring it on.

I use a Control Wizard Accurate pH8 Soil pH & Moisture Meter (thanks to @Waira for the rec - its a solid meter) as a way to understand how moist the pot is. I don't use it for testing PH any more. Its definitely much better than the $5 moisture meters. Its cool to see the readings change as the probe is pushed down to different depths in the pot. Once I have a pot that I think is as moist as I want it to be then I put the meter to the side. Then its time to weigh the pot. I picked up a nice postal scale for weighing my pots. It has a nice robust big platter I can put pots on and a there is a separate cord attached digital readout that I can easily read. Then I take all my pots and weigh them and then dunk them until they weigh what I want. That takes the guessing out of the equation. I don't like to rely on the knuckle test or just picking up the pots. Another nice thing about this is if I know I need to be more aggressive with the watering as @slowandeasy suggested, I don't have to guess how that would work with how long and deep to dunk. I can just say I want to have the pots weigh another 100 grams and dial that in. Talk about accuracy. I love how accurate this is and how certain it is. Once I'm in full flower I will not be doing this thats for sure. Once in full flower I'll just be watering to run off N times per day. At some point the plants will be different sizes and weights so this won't work then, but I don't care any more by that stage of the grow.


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Nice work! I could not weigh all of my plants, that would take forever! Glad you found something you like for watering! I know you are not used to smaller pots, but you will notice that you will be able to water to runoff sooner than flowering! Those roots and plants are at the brink of explosive growth. This happens overnight, like my Sativa testers. I stepped up the watering the past 2 days, and literally you can see a big change in 24hrs. Good luck

 

[FishWizard]

LOL. Thanks @STILLSMOKIN

I see you liked my post about how to get traffic for your journal. And it worked because here you are!

how do you get traffic to your journal?

 

[PotDaddy]

Posting often is always a good way. People will gravitate to active threads.
i'm subbed for this one.Looking good so far Keep up the good work.

 

[firsttimegrower12]

how do you get traffic to your journal?

Post naked pics of girls....jk...DO NOT do that! Haha. Update often, participate throughout the forum, and put a link to your grow journal in your signature.

*Edit*
I have a link to my journal in my signature on another forum. Im gonna look and see if you can do it on AFN....I may have been wrong about that.

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[MassMom]

This is Day 24 (day 21 for the GWKs)

Spent days 17 to today trying to LST these early while flexible. All I did was bend the main stem close to horizontal with pipe cleaners. I like doing that instead of topping because you don't have to guess if something will be OK to top or not to get a level canopy and you won't slow anything down like topping can do. Its interesting how when you bend the main stem early the growth of the plant will take on that new structure you put in place as it continues to grow. Next time I'm going to position the plant more to one side of the pot and do the LST bending to the opposite side so things are more balanced.

After transplanting from the solo cups to the final 1g containers I top watered. But I'm all about trying to get these to kick in to flower fast and decisively and from what I understand you want to get the roots down to the bottom to trigger that. So as of 2 days ago I started to dunk the pots in a 5 gallon bucket down about 3 inches and hold it for a few seconds and then lift it out. I am hoping to see some roots come out the bottom of the pots soon. And by day 30 hopefully we get in to flowering. But since I don't know how much plants are sucking in like I would know if I was measuring it out and top watering I am weighing the pots. When they weight xxxx grams I know they are where I want them and don't need to be watered. Over time they will decrease weight and when they reach yyyy grams its time for a dunking. I am also trying to do short dunks and more frequent dunks. Once in full flower I'll switch back to top watering.

So its been a week and the plants definitely grew some. And the LST has given them as structure that will be good for a level canopy going forward.

Doing a previous week and current week comparison photo stitch.

From left to right, GWK, GWK, GWK, CDLC, CDLC

The CDLC have really curly leaves. GWK are more open thats for sure.

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From left to right, CDLC, Grapey Walter, Grapey Walter, Sour Crinkle, Sour Crinkle

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They look lovely hon!!....that bottom watering is the bomb....

 

[MassMom]

I felt something was off the last couple of days. Probably because I'm trying to figure out how to dunk them and didn't want to over do it. Thanks for checking and making that observation Slow. I got more aggressive starting last night and I can see a difference already.



Thanks man. Took me a while to get the setup like that. My first couple of grows were pretty chaotic in the tent.



Have at her! Take all the members you want, except please don't take @MassMom :smoking:

Oh no one could take me away Lunar!