Grow Room Micro Auto Adventures with Mr. Sparkle

[Mr.Sparkle]

Weekly update:

Bogan going along fine, The two dark devils the lower halves are fully seeded with the odd seed up top because i didn't isolate the halves when pollinating, the plants are more or less done, but the seed are not, i was gonna wait another week anyways before i even started to look.

Also have two new clones another C99 thay way or may not stay around and a Lemon Kush.

Ill be starting some seeds probably today but i first have to decide what to run next, i'll report back with what i'm thinking.

Also i increased the nutrient concentration after i did some calculations so we will see how it turns out.

Ashla well i kinda went on a hacking spree more than i needed too, things were getting out of hand, lots of people say don't remove your fan leafs as they are the solar cells of the plant, but when working in a small environment with as many plants as i do, you have too in order to slow down their growth or they will all end up in the roof and being burnt by the lights, so its a catch 22 if i had plenty of space and could raise the lights consistently higher if needed i wouldn't touch the fan leaves but i'm not in that situation.

So what else, i moved over the C99 clones, and am doing a half experiment, two of the clones were left normal, whereas the other two i topped a half a week before throwing them into flower, i want to see if forcing the growth to go into the side shoots will help with the initial stretch, and hopefully have a couple bigger side shoots as with this specific plant, its a stretchy sativa dominant plant that just like to reach and drop little nuglets at the nodes with quite a bit of space before the next one till it hits the main bud.
The fourth one from the left was the biggest and was topped aswell but i would've liked to put the plant in earlier, so she might need to get topped or lst later, i fully expect having to with her.

Also the Critical Jack got topped pretty much just after being thrown to flower, just to play around as well.

Also Chopped down the last of the Sensi Seeds - Orange Bud, it will not be continuing on as their is other plants and genetics that interest me more.

 

[Mr.Sparkle]

So threw 5 more seeds into water today, they will get transferred to paper towel once they drop. They aren't autos but some Regular Photo-period seeds of a fruity sativa dominate plant crossing i did 5-7 years back, it will be interesting to see what comes out.

I kinda want to progress back to bigger pots and fewer plants, but i still have a good 75+ seeds to burn through of the stuff i want to run, and that's not counting all the seeds ill have from this run, so its gonna be 7-12 months before i get to change, so i might just start doing harsh cuts only allowing the stuff that has characteristics i like to actually finish out, as once i find some keepers out of whats left ill be doing a seed run with them, and playing around with some yield experiments just to see what i can fine tune.

 

[nicecoolbud]

I have to say that you've gotten me really interested in micro growing because it really simplifies breeding and crossing. Gardening on a small scale, this is the perfect way to a produce a smaller number of seeds per session. And your plants are stellar, a true work of art. Fascinating thread.

Edited: grammer

 

[Mr.Sparkle]

Weekly Update:

Bogan is doing fine, i increased the nutrient concentration a reservoir fill ago which was about week and half or more. The plants look a bit more vigorous but i think they can be a bit better but im gonna wait another couple reservoir fills before i change anything just incase we get slow nutrient build up.

The seeds are gonna need another week to two to be really good, also half trimmed back the reversed darkdevil to just parts holding some self pollinated seeds, actually got 3 possibly viable seeds out of the parts that i missed that i didn't notice seeds in ill have to wait a good 3 weeks or more before trying them though as they wont be viable yet, but yeah i chopped it back because i didn't need the plant to produce pollen anymore as it's already done its job, plus i have about 0.2ml of pure dry pollen, which is more than enough to do many plants in the future if needed and if it's still viable when i use it.

Definitely need to cut back the mother plants though, maybe today.

Ashla also doing fine, i changed the nutrients a couple reservoir changes ago just to play around, but the initial reservoir fill i did was by accident twice the strength i wanted it to be, and the reason why the blueberry's at the back are dark green with a bit of tip burn.

So here's what happen mixed up the new nutrients to what i thought was around 600ppm as thats what had been doing well, but i had to use about twice as much dry product to get there even though the NPK ratio of the new stuff is higher, which made me scratch my head and wonder but i decided to run with it.
Couple days later when i was still scratching my head i dived into it a bit deeper as something didn't seem right logics wise, to get to the point i didn't even think that my ppm meter which i know is just a conductivity meter, was reading different results because the nutrients weren't the same and that the different compounds could be more or less conductive than what i was using before. That was a "Palm to forehead moment" so i hunted down the specific NPK concentrations and how that calculates out to Actual PPM concentrations molecular weight wise. Which i did a couple tests of using a measured weight of the nutrients vs a standard volume of water, and how that correlates to the actual PPM vs what my meter was reading.

Well turns out the new stuff was being run almost twice as strong as i wanted, and that even my old nutrient concentration was possibly 65% of where it could be, which was another "Palm to forehead moment", just goes to show you even if you have been growing for awhile you can still make mistakes when trying out new things, but it taught me something in the process.

As for the rest took off the elastic bands on the plants that had them as they were starting to get to tight and they didn't need them anymore, also have noticed a couple of observations between the topped and untopped C99 clones and other plants and how that relates to me but i'll wait longer till i comment on that, and also whether or not this new nutrient grows as well as the old stuff, but i still need to run it for another 6 weeks or so then i want to go back to the old stuff and run with it for a couple months with some more C99 Clones for comparison.

Which brings up an idea of a new build where i will retire one pc case and have a similar sized box but made differently so i'll be able to run the odd side by side experiment when i want to. But i have to plan it out first, and whether or not i really need to, or just want too "which we all know that answer"

 

[Mr.Sparkle]

So only 2 of the old FJM seeds popped, and one happens to be a trifoliate, i've had tri's before and they tend to actually be slower in growth and yield than the regular plants, so we will see how this one turns out, could end up being a male also.

 

[nugpuppy]

So awesome I just learned so much thanks. ..nugpup

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Hey mate. Nice trifoliate. Of all the seeds I started along the years I only got one, it was a Satori (Mandala seeds) that ended up being very different than her sisters and brothers. It was small and spindly but it had such a great aroma, like a sweet peach, was wonderful. It remained small and weak all along the grow and only yielded a few grams but, man, was it flavorful, I enjoyed every toke out of it.

Very curious to see how this one goes, hopefully it will be a good surprise.
Keep it up, mate.

Oh, and by the way, let me give you a for this great journal you are sharing with us!

 

[Mr.Sparkle]

Thanks nugpud and Jdoe

Jdoe its interesting you said you had one from some satori, because the FJM has some Manada [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG] genetics in it, thus the M part of the name of FJM which was how i kept track of things at the time, but the plant that this came from apart from the male that was crossed in was the runt of the litter of that batch of seeds, it didn't yield much but it was crossed out because it had this awesome Fruity candy like smell that i haven't come across since, saying that though memory can be deceiving at time.

But yeah i think i've had about a half dozen trifoliates in the last couple years in a few different genetics, even had one quadrifoliate but it was a crap plant.

 

[Mr.Sparkle]

Weekly update:

Bogan: looking a little bare but is good, ill probably start some more seeds today, but heres the run down i took out the two old mother plants and replaced them with new clones, the two FMJ's are just starting, the Think Differents are starting to flower, and the pollinated Dark Devils are almost there.

More detail about the Dark Devils, the reversed one i was using for pollen i chopped and also got about 40 seeds from it, the tall one in the center still has another 7-14days before i'm done with it as i pollinated it about a week later than the short one in the corner, which im gonna leave another week to finish whats left off it, i've already plucked about 75 seeds from it.

In the end should have a bit over 200+ seeds which will be nice.

Ashla: My soil sensor kinda crapped out when i was moving things around due to a little to wet tray, as a solder joint failed, but im not sure if it was before or after i moved stuff, think it was starting to flake out before but then me moving things caused it break, no issues came up other than running a little too wet for a couple days, now coincedently some cheap stainless steel rods i got from eBay specifically for new sensor probes arrived Wednesday so ill probably be remaking the senor today along side some more flexible wire.

Other than that, the Blueberrys only have a week or two left, they are a little nitrogen saturated at the moment due to the one issue i mention a week or two back but im fine with it, the C99 clones are coming along, and the other 3 randoms are doing alright "Purple Kush which isn't purple yet and i dont think will be, the Critical Kush which is wanting to be a bush, and a critical jack at the same stage of the C99's

Harvest, also chopped down the two C99 seedling today, tiny bit of tip burn, again from that issue i mentioned a couple weeks back, but they are alright, also noticed a tiny bit of bud mold on the surface of one of the lower buds where it would of been buried in the corner and had little to no airflow, But the rest is fine So they will be tasty once dried. Oh also kept the bottom portion of the one plant that i pollinated as it still has a couple weeks left before its couple seeds are done which will only be about 10-20 seeds, just wanted to see what the cross could yield.

As for some new seeds to start what's your vote:

No autos in this list but ill be running some of these new Dark Devils seeds in a couple weeks but I'm thinking either some

AK48 - Nirvana Seeds
Left over Bahia Blackhead - KC Brains
or something else ? As i do have some other KC Brain genetics to try, Leda Uno, KC33 , and some Swiss xT which i don't know why i got as it's a indica dominant stoned type plant, and i like my upbeat clearer sativas.

Also have a few of my own crosses, which were composed of some Mandala Seeds, Karma Genetics, Mr Nice, and i think with some Nirvana PPP mixed in there somewhere possibly.

 

[Mr.Sparkle]

Another small weekend update

Picked some more seeds off the one Dark Devil this morning, now we have just over 125+ off that one plant with still more to come, i also chopped off some of the mid buds that never got pollinated or had very few seeds which i already plucked, Once dried should be a tasty smoke, not that i need more but no sense letting it go to waste.

Heres some pics

Some non seeded Dark Devil Nugs, smelling tasty

Current seeds off the one smaller Dark Devil