Indoor JaxsoNL5’s UBG - Mephisto vs Twenty20 Mendocino

[JaxsoNL5]

I have Adam and T20 strong out the gate, but Stan’s Meph gaining ground at the Rooter cube

Stan said Respect My Authoritayyyyy…and Genetiques! Too close to call on the bean pop, so Meph @stan_mephisto you get a point and Twenty20 @Twenty20 Adam you get a point, everybody gets a point!

20 hour pre-soak (in a dark cabinet), then into moist paper towels (in open Ziplocs) on a heat mat (79 F). After 14 hours (34 total) they’re both hot out the gate! Giving them another 6-8 hours and into Rapid Rooter cubes.

100% germination so far from Twenty20 with Whiskey Zulu, X-Factor OG, and Trizzlers. These Triks BOGOs have been released for a hot minute, so NASC likely had these for a while…main point Twenty20 gear has been reliable AF!

I got this Skywalker x CDLC freebie twice. I used my older stock (5 pack) which has been stored for a year, so these are well over that age. This is 2/2 successful germ with Mephisto gear (other was Strawberry Nuggets x Livers, another freebie LOL).

I’m foreseeing a lot of future Meph vs Twenty20 growdowns in my tent…if Meph’s Ravenberry gets released in the US soon maybe an Ogre vs Raven next? The possibilities are endless! Many danks for stopping by growmies

Score:
Mephisto - 1
Twenty20 - 1

 

[JaxsoNL5]

To say neck and neck is an understatement. Both beans were placed in Rapid Rooter cubes and in the dark overnight.

During their first light cycle (18/6) under a 5000K “daylight” household bulb in a clamp lamp they started peeking out.

They came out fully overnight so not sure which really came up first, so point to each. Also neither had their helmets so +1 bonus point each for not requiring surgery out the gate!


Score:
Mephisto - 3
Twenty20 - 3

 

[JaxsoNL5]

About 3 days in the Rooter cube total, just shy of 2 days old from sprouting (popping it’s cotyl’s out the cube hole). It’s time to go into their final homes (1 gal fabric pots)!

Medium is Fox Farms Cultivation Nation. Mixed 1 tsp of Dynomyco and prepped the medium with a mix of Bloom City Silica Boost and Humic Acid, Gen Hydro BioRoot and CALiMAGic, and AN Bud Candy for the microbes.

At transplant I used about 1/2 tsp Dynomyco into the planting hole. Up first was Twenty20’s Triks

Next was Mephisto’s Skywalker x CDLC (Sky Crème)

Cleaning my humidifier so they’re staying domed for now

+1 to Meph’s Sky Crème for the root structure in the cube, taproot straight out the bottom with good little side roots.


Score:
Mephisto - 4
Twenty20 - 3

 

[JaxsoNL5]

Day 7 from sprout, late update.

Gave them their first Bud Buster Pro foliar spray at lights out, first feeding of MaxiGro using less than Gen Hydro’s light feeding dose…also had full dose of CALiMAGic and BioRoot in distilled water (pH 5.8-6.0).

Removed the domes around day three and have been gradually increasing the Bloomspect SL600 to 100% (20” above). I started short periods (1-2 min per 18/6 cycle) of UV-A/B exposure with the AgroMax PureUV T5H0.

Hoping for an explosive week of growth!

 

[JaxsoNL5]

Day 14
Easy going, just fed a mix of BloomCity Silica Boost, Gen Hydro CALiMAGic and BioRoot (pH 5.8) this week. After the 1 liter MaxiGro (0.5 grams/Liter) feed on Day 7 they only needed a liter of the mix between them to keep the soil moist until today.

Pics were before lights out and they got another application of BudBusterPro foliar spray at lights out. At the next lights on I have a mixture of BloomCity Silica Boost and Humic Acid, CALiMAGic, BioRoot, and some AN BudCandy waiting

+1 to Triks for first to branch, she’s tossing out arms quick!

Score:
Mephisto - 4
Twenty20 - 4

Thanks for stopping by growmies

 

[JaxsoNL5]

Day 21
Past week upped their single weekly MaxiGrow to Gen Hydro’s “Light Feed” schedule (0.72 grams/L) with 0.5 mL/L CALiMAGic. I’ve never used a schedule like a jackass so lezgo! All other feeds are full strength Silica Boost + CALiMAGic + BioRoot, mixing up 1 L batches at a time.

At day 21 (03/24/23) they got a higher dose of BudBusterPro foliar spray at lights out. Today I sprayed with RO water at lights out, i’m seeing good results following up with a water spritz the day after application.

Temps and RH (lights on/off) have been 80/70 F and 65-70% / 60-65%. Have added in far and deep red pucks from RapidLED that go on before/after lights on and off. Still giving UV in spurts, up to combined 2+ hrs total per cycle. Adding in one 6500K T5HO vertically now that they’re grown, will be acclimating the other one over the week to get better lighting before I swap in the HLG rSpec 100 in a couple weeks.

Only leaf tucking at lights on and adjusting when I can as @stan_mephisto directed, i’ve never had this much hands off and it’s so fun seeing them grow naturally! Sky Crème is keeping short squat secondary branches like Stan said, i’m imagining one thick main cola on her with chunky satellite buds. Those four fan blades have thick fingahs!

For direct comparison i’ve let Triks go too with only leaf tucking. Her branching is stellar with shoots catching up to the main, and already some tertiary branching started…spreading herself out really evenly around the pot without help.

Special update coming….meow.

 

[JaxsoNL5]

We have our first female, day 21 for Triks. Another cultivar from @Twenty20 Adam that falls in line with the deets on their beautifully re-designed webpage

Difficult to see, don’t look too hard you perv.

+1 for Triks and she pulls ahead by a nose at the first turn, both ladies have plenty of steam heading into the stretch!

Score:
Mephisto - 4
Twenty20 - 5

 

[JaxsoNL5]

Almost 48 hours exactly behind her tent mate Sky Crème shows her stuff

Still a long way to the finish line

 

[JaxsoNL5]

Day 28 and we had a couple WNBA prospects for this small tent, so this is where these girls diverge. At nearly 18” tall (only 48” total in the tent and lose half to light distance and container/riser height) and the stretch is just underway I made the call to supercrop Triks. For Skywalker x CDLC it’s light bending of the main only from Stan’s guidance on page 1, retucking leaves and branches as needed. I did remove a struggling branch from both that were well under their canopies.

The ladies got a foliar spray of BBP at lights out after these pics, and then a feed of mixed Bloom City Silica Boost and Humic Acid, GH CALiMAGic and BioRoot, and AN Bud Candy (pH 5.9, 475 ppm) at next lights on. I’m doing smaller volume multiple fertigations each light cycle. They’re getting 700 mL to 1 L each each cycle. Going to be adding AN Bud Candy into most feeds now per the bottle instructions for coco.

Triks before snapping the main

The main is laid down to the right in this pic, using a ratchet loop to support her up overnight. Made a complete 90 degree angle at her midpoint. She popped right back up no f@cks given during lighting, already needs to be tied down and knuckling nicely at the crop point.

Skywalker x CDLC (Sky Crème) before bending

Bent the Sky Crème main to the left, filling in remaining space.

With Triks bent to fill space in the back right, and Sky Crème bent to the left i’m hoping to fill out the available canopy space over the next couple weeks. Thanks for stopping by growmies!

 

[JaxsoNL5]

Day 35
Should be roughly the end of week 1 flower, been 2 weeks since first sign of sex for Triks and Sky Crème was two days later. Both ladies got their final foliar spray of Bud Buster Pro, and started transitioning over to GH MaxiBloom with a 75:25 amount of MaxiGro/MaxiBloom…next will be 50:50 amounts, 25:75 after that, and then only MaxiBloom until I cut base nutes around day 63. I’m using Gen Hydro’s Feed Chart using between light-to-medium amounts of MaxiGrow (now MaxiBloom, feeding every 4-6 days with supplemental mixes fed between.

Swapped in one AgroMax 3000K “Bloom” T5HO replacing one of the 6500K bulbs, and replaced the Bloomspect SL600 (85W max, likely 80W now) with the HLG rSpec 100. Started lowering humidity slowly, low 60% during lights on and 58-60% during lights out (temp doesn’t drop too much).

I cleaned Triks up. Any branches below or barely above the supercrop horizontal got removed. Ugly/dying fan leaves removed, most had underdeveloped branches that were also removed. Forgot to snap a pic after, here she is before.

Skywalker x CDLC (Sky Crème, SC) main bent at a 45ish deg angle. She’s got big fan leaves that keep getting tucked together. I did remove the small ugly fan leaves and some dying leaves but otherwise she has been left alone. Would you clean up her lowers @stan_mephisto or let everything grow out?

Adding the rSpec with driver removed bought a couple more inches, the panel is pretty much maxed out height so fingers crossed the bulk of stretch is over. I’ll clean up that ugly ducting this week, first time i’ll be running the carbon filter outside the tent during flower.

Thanks for stopping by growmies