Indoor Medusas' Fruit Auto Trial Run!

[MrN]

Haven't heard from mr.ns to see how his are goin.

sorry brotha!!...been super busy!!!...here's alittle update on the MF though...5 dropped....5 popped!!!...:booya:...they will be transplanted and taken to the bushes later today......so far so good bro!!...hopin to get some beauties out of these babies.......i'll get some pics up soon......:smokebuds:

 

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No problem Bro,know ya been busy! Glad to hear it 5 outta 5 is GREAT! Can't wait to see what they do outside in big pots and room to grow!

 

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Decided to move ahead a little further and threw 30 more Medusas Fruit beans in the soak last nite. 27 have cracked and show tails today so into the jiffy pucks and humidity dome they went this pm. When this batch sprouts its to the top tier of the growcab in 6" pots for them until sexing and then its selection time for the best males and females for next phase of breeding for some f2 seeds. Maybe jumpin the gun a tad as i don't know what the original f1 cross females are going to produce-they look great early on but got a long way to go. Maybe moving to a new place in the fall months so i've sped up the process a little now as i may have some down time when and if i move. Worse case i have one helluva perpetual grow started lol. I think i've been readin too much of Mr. NS,WVR's and Stunted's grows and i got bean happy lol!

 

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Checked the girls tonight and found my last holdout showed the goods tonight and its a girl! That makes 8 females outta 9 sprouts on this last batch of 10 seeds! I've soaked and germed alot of seeds on this trial run and alot of the early seed batches had troubles due to temps,dampoff,and exposure to lighting to soon. I'd like to update this to the last 2 seed batches of 10 seeds each group A and B. My group A batch was a 10 seed soak of which 7 sprouted and ended with 2 females,4 males,and a hermie-pretty lousy. Group A experienced high temps in the cab with averages hitting the 90f's regularly-i'm not used to runnin the cab in the summer months and heat was a major issue until i fixed it by plumbing cold air from the ac unti into my passive intake on the cab. Fix was simple-i used a vacuum cleaner hose and the vacuum cleaner duck bill attachment to get the air in. Attached the duckbill to part of the ac blower grate so only some of the cool air went into my closet intake. Doing a little reading from jorge cervantes mj horticulture book i found a few ways he suggested to increase the female ratio. Low temps,high humidity,damp soil,and fewer hours of light increase the female ratio. Decided to give it a shot.My cab temps dropped to the low 70f's with help from the ac unit and my humidity shot up from 50% to 75%. I reset my light timer to 15 hours of light. I soaked 10 more seeds-Group B and 9 ended up sprouting from the jiffy pucks where they went to partycups with 50/50 mix of jiffy seedmix and ffof soil. As of today Group B produced 8 females and 1 male! Lucky or did these methods really work? I have 27 more seeds under dirt and will try this on the new batch of sprouts to see if it'll happen again. I do need a few males from this batch to start an f2 cross but we'll see what shakes out. Anyone else tried anything like that,results?

 

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Group photo at tonites watering/feeding of 1/2 tsp. growbig 1/2 tsp calmag to 6.5 ph water. The Medusas Fruit autos are 27-35 days old and have adjusted nicely to their 2 and 3 liter pots. Runoff came out at 6.4-6.5 and all the ladies appear healthy so far. Using up 2 1/2 gallons of water between the 10 plants every 3 days,soil is nice and dry between waterings. Had to hang a flystrip in the closet for the little tiny white flies that seem to find their way into the cab and love the T5's! they don't seem to bother much but are annoying as hell.The very first of the new Medusa beans are starting to sprout in the humidity dome and over the next few days i should have a clan of new babies.

 

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Mini update for tonites feeding.Medusas are 30-38 days old today and a few of the bunch has shot pistils and budsites out all over. I have one plant of the bunch at 30 days old with multiple budsites that has started throwin sugar on the topmost leaves already-tried a closeup but my camera sucks so you may not be able to see it very well. The pineapple express side of the cross is showing thru on almost half of the group,the other half seems to be short fat wide leaves which look nothing like the cobra father. They have developed quite a skunky aroma-no fruity smell yet but i'm hoping. Out of my 10 ladies all appear well except for 1 which is the biggest of the bunch with the most budsites and she's throwin a yellowing fit. My runoff ph is 6.4 on the money,calmag? maybe, i dunno but they all got a small dose of calmag along with growbig and bigbloom tonite.

 

[Rebel]

...Attached the duckbill to part of the ac blower grate so only some of the cool air went into my closet intake. Doing a little reading from jorge cervantes mj horticulture book i found a few ways he suggested to increase the female ratio. Low temps,high humidity,damp soil,and fewer hours of light increase the female ratio. Decided to give it a shot.My cab temps dropped to the low 70f's with help from the ac unit...

Sounds like that really made a difference man! Just keep notice in your next runs! If you get great ratios consistently it must be something you're doing or providing for them to encourage females OR it just may be the yin and yang of things. Sometimes I get bunch of males... Most of the time I don't but I get a group here and there that just for whatever reason most became male. But, if you get consistency... You can't really argue with that!!

All the girls are looking killer bro! They are gonna be some chunky bitches! :smoke:

 

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Thanks WVR! Going to be putting the next batch of sprouts in the cab soon and giving them the same conditions to see if the female ratio is high again.Would be great if it works!

 

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A little chaos and calamity in the ol'closet tonite! Was up in the attic yesterday where my closet exhaust exits and apparently nocked the exhaust pipe a little. Checked the ladies tonight and noticed my carbon filter hanging alot lower and a huge air gap around the pipe entering the ceiling. Decided now was a good time to change the filter out-just got me a new phresh filter. After installing that and getting the pipe back where it should be i resealed the airgap in the ceiling around the pipe with some caulk. Figured while i was in the mcguyver mood i'd install my new c.a.p. ozn-jr. in the attic.Quick trip to the store for a longer extension cord,a couple screws,and a flip of the switch and wallah-finished. Seein as the Medusas Fruit have begun producing very noticeable odor-which was vented into the attic but manages to creep down the stairwell leading up to my apartment i decided to get the ozn-jr to see if it helps. The faint odor seems to linger right at the top 2 steps to my apartment-must be a leak from the attic somewhere but damned if i can find it. Anyway,been runnin the ozn-jr for 2 hours now-it runs 10 minutes on and 10 minutes off and covers 1000 cubic feet,and no more smell leakin thru!:dance:No ozone smell in the apartment and it doesn't seem to be leakin thru to the stairway. Best money i've spent in a while. Tomorrow nite is feeding time for the Medusa clan,time to feed the hungry children!

 

[Rebel]

:clap: Good going McGuyver! :smokebuds: