Indoor DIY DWC - Baby Buckets!

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babies are bubblin, drinkin water. did a lite top feed with a tiny drip of GH #1


day ten sour stomper:

day twenty notorious glue:

group shot:

 

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Adding another baby to the mix, regphoto, so got some potential grandbabies in the future. Pretty interesting strain: Luxors Durban from Purple Caper. Its father is Luxor THCV, a Durban Poison/other african sativas combo bred for extra high levels of THCV. The mothers are more standard Durban Poison. I loooooooove all the Durban Poison taste and buzz and grease so spent some time researching (and bugging people) before landing on this specific cultivar.

I'm not the only person who loves Durban Poison, it's a strong piece of modern popular hybrids and where Girl Scout Cookies get their flavor from. GSC is "just" a great kush cut with a turbo durban poison cut, as I understand it.

Anyway, cracked open the pack and picked the prettiest tortoise-iest seed:

dropped in paper towel and scoring this as day zero:

I know a lot of people score day zero as first sprout, but I like to start when the seed touches moisture. Bonus shots of a freebie clone that's been outside for 40 days, basically run herself. Fabric pot, small bag of fox farm, let it get banged on by rain and sun:

 

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Luxor's Durban showin signs of life:

Dropped my third baby bubbler in. Seed in rockwool hole and then covered with a little piece of rockwool cut from a corner. Trick I learned while reading about pot on the internet too much

It was super easy this time, I had the bubbler all the way set up and plugged in and bubblin the night I germinated.


The sour stomper stretched so much she fell over and turned around but seems to be survivin:

Notorious Glue turned almost neon then settled in and has been growin leaves. Super curious about the root system but dont wanna crack the lid to check until I'm ready to transfer:

Blimp Shot:

Timeline (Clone is outside and not pictured):

 

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Got a little baby plant 6 days after she touched water. Microscope shot into rockwool last night:

Today:

Blimp Shot:

Timeline:

Gonna chop the blueberry tonight but give the cookies a few more days she's still drinkin pretty good.

Any issue with letting buds cure with sugar leaves on? I cut my finger wicked bad last week trying to make apple chips so would prefer to delay if at all possible. Y'all stay frosty and thanks for reading

 

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ended up chopping both plants down.

not super happy with the blueberry, airy buds. decent smell. trimmed the best ounce, jarred, put the rest in a 1lb grove bag for dry ice hash. this plant was more of a "kush" bud structure wise but didnt really fill out. newbie grower, weak light (i prioritized the other plant), and decapitating didn't help the white label genetics. in flower i accidentally took the whole top of the plant off while trying to train with string. main cola probs like four nodes down.

anyway, very very very happy with the cookiesXwhite widow. she displays more traditional "haze" (sativa, narrow leaf, etc) bud structure so they arent huge but feel great. meticulously trimmed my butt off and filled a QP grove bag with primo bud. royale with cheeeeeeese!!!!! also almost filled a 1lb grove bag with trim and larf and all that for the hash run.

i had a horrible first grow in soil and the other DWC plant wasn't great, so super thankful that this one rocked. needed the confidence booster!

the babies are doin well, and to be honest theyve been a bit neglected. way way way too dry in this tent (40s rh) but they all seem to be jammin. with the harvest out of the way i hope to dial in over the next week and then drop light to 12/12 and start flower. got two photo (from reg not feminized) seeds going alongside the sour stomper auto. wanna push that durban early especially. note the timeline is from germination/wet seed not from sprout.

 

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Popped two brand new seeds, humidity dialed in, dug into a bottle of mezcal...life is good. Neighbor gave some "chocolate mint" from their garden, totally blown away. way milder and 'deeper' i wanna say compared to like a sharp regular mint. super killer in cocktail testing!

tent is rockin, timeline:

super artsy album cover shot:

 

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Whassup AFN fam hope everyone's doin ok today. Got some fun tent activity to share.

Graduated from quart to halfgal deli containers for my two photoperiod plants. The transplants were sucessful but the larger plant had kinda reached the max on root size - tangled up the airstone and wanted to hold her hostage! I think moving forward I might cut the line short to the plant and use a quick-connect, so the stone can always "live with" the plant. All a learning experience.

Speaking of learning experiences and quick connects, dont cheap out on connectors/T's for your 1/4" line. I've got a couple floraflex T's from the grow shop and they work awesome. The cheap pack of a million T's/connectors from Amazon are trash. Just a tiiiiiiiny bit too large to comfortably remove a line. The headache is not worth the few dollars.

Here's the Durban transferring:

Full Tent:

Timeline:

 

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Baby Buckets Experiment: Ended. Results: Bad!


In my worry of letting them go dry I kept the water too high and developed some weakness/rot at stem bases. These containers also let too much light in. Sour Stomper DEAD Luxors Durban DEAD:

The Notorious Glue, now in flower, got big and was havin trouble standin on its own. Transplanted into 5gal bucket.....not sure I laid the roots properly and all that. Hopin she makes it, been a vigorous plant:

Two Skunk testers from FrostBros still alive and doin ok but i was worried about the baby buckets....so decided to transplant both to a single 5gal bucket:

Pray for these baby nerds! The homemade DWC buckets let way too much light :-( Not enough space for water and air. Tough to keep them individually watered. Good learning experience, will not be trying again the same way. Will be building a tote/tub or flood table in the next few weeks

Sad about losing some plants, but overall happy with how things are goin. We still got a chance with these babies. Got some serious fire to run next, both photo fems, 'Night Moves' by Exotic Genetix and 'Something Good' from twenty20. 'White Cookies' by Captain Red Beard from my last run ended up pretty fantastic after curing, and theres a lot of it, so hard to be bummed!

Y'all stay frosty!

 

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Plants are kickin butt! Probably harvest Sour Stomper in three weeks and Methane in four-five, my best guess anyway.

Check out these roots:

Training the Methane hydra:

Sour Stomper bud shot:

Been a really fun run in this bucket so far. Really happy with both cultivars. I hope the root stuff doesn't cause an issue, the way they're wrapped up with eachother.