Mephisto Genetics Nebula Grow Journal - an 8x4 full of Mephistos

[NugNoob]

You know us Double-N's gotta stick together. Seriously, looking great dude! Love seeing the AutoCobs catching on around here. What a cool grow you've got going with a killer setup.

 

[NebulaNuggets]

You us Double-N's gotta stick together. Serious, looking great dude! Love seeing the AutoCobs catching on around here. What a cool grow you've got going with a killer setup.

Right on NN !!!

Every day I check my plants since I put up the autocobs the grin on my face gets bigger :smoking:

I have read and researched how to grow this plant for years now. Hands on experience is where I fall short. I figured I would put myself on the fast track to learning organics with this first real attempt at an indoor grow. By trying a bunch of different methods. Through trial and error, recording and journaling and talking with the fine people here on afn, I am already learning a ton. Which is my only real goal here right now. The icing on the cake is the harvest that results from my efforts. I am in this for the long haul and not afraid to make a few mistakes along the way.

It's a little like weed college. Except the course is free here. AFN deserves some donations. @Rebel @912GreenSkell or any other mod, do you guys accept donations? If you do you should make it a little more known to the users. First time I thought about it and I wasn't sure where to go about sending a few greenbacks your way down the road

 

[G.Leave]

there was a paypal donation available around 6 months ago, but i seem to remember it was shut down for some reason. I have reported this post and we'll see what admin says about it. Thanks for the generous gesture bud!

 

[Rebel]

Right on NN !!!

Every day I check my plants since I put up the autocobs the grin on my face gets bigger :smoking:

I have read and researched how to grow this plant for years now. Hands on experience is where I fall short. I figured I would put myself on the fast track to learning organics with this first real attempt at an indoor grow. By trying a bunch of different methods. Through trial and error, recording and journaling and talking with the fine people here on afn, I am already learning a ton. Which is my only real goal here right now. The icing on the cake is the harvest that results from my efforts. I am in this for the long haul and not afraid to make a few mistakes along the way.

It's a little like weed college. Except the course is free here. AFN deserves some donations. @Rebel @912GreenSkell or any other mod, do you guys accept donations? If you do you should make it a little more known to the users. First time I thought about it and I wasn't sure where to go about sending a few greenbacks your way down the road

Nothing beats hands on experience... I've always excelled the fastest at things by doing... There's only so much you can read until you have to try yourself. Props to you for DOING! See what happens!!! :smoking:

we used to have a paypal set up and that is on hiatus at the moment. We're in a stand by pattern until something changes. That's most generous of you man! You reward us TRULY by being such a great and important part of this community!!

there was a paypal donation available around 6 months ago, but i seem to remember it was shut down for some reason. I have reported this post and we'll see what admin says about it. Thanks for the generous gesture bud!

 

[NebulaNuggets]

@912GreenSkell hey I thought there had to be a way to donate to AFN. In this day and age it's fairly uncommon for a public forum to not openly "advertise" how members can donate to the cause. It seems everywhere I go people are openly willing to ask for your money in return for nothing. It's not very often that I receive something for nothing. I thought for in the future I would like to know how to donate.

@Rebel if you can't make a donation you can still order a mug If I wasn't so busy finding ways to stay broke I would have one by now. PM ya soon for one or two. I somewhat collect mugs and now the collection feels incomplete

 

[Evil-Mobo]

Thanks for the input Mobo :smoking: Are you still using the Agsil?

Interesting that you note the agsil 16h giving issues. I think it is actually not an organic fert but synthetic. How it has become accepted as an organic source of si is beyond me. I have researched the agsil 16H before I decided to water some in and opted to not use it. May use it as a surfactant for foliar but undecided right now.

My thinking is that black lava sand, alfalfa meal , kelp meal, azomite and others in my soil all contain si. Over time they will become available, some taking longer than others to break down.

I have read about good results from veg to flower with the agsil so it seems to be beneficial. But Organic? it seems the most effective form of liquid silica is not organic. Potassium Silicate contains si in the non organic form of monosilicic acid. Diatomaceous Earth in food grade may be the way to go in the future for me. An Organic form of amorphous silica. Liquid though?

I just don't like the idea of watering in nutes/ferts for specific reasons at certain stages of growth. As far as a readily available form of silica in the liquid form? Not sure this vibes with what I want to accomplish. More research needs to be done before I come to the conclusion that agsil 16h is safe for my grow.

How does potassium silicate work with organics? Does it vibe well with the microbes and benes? Is it killing my soil life?

I use the powder form from build a soil. If you do not watch the dose the plants can get burnt I usually start St half the recommended doses or a quarter if it's a known sensitive strain. Have not had any issue with thus far. This batch of soil is new for me so I'm in the fly with what was available. But all the girls seem happy and healthy so I am not complaining.

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[NebulaNuggets]

Been slacking on updates. My usual crazy inexplicable life has been turned up a notch this week. Gas line in my house broke a week ago. Been without hot water and gas stove all week. So my landlord put me up in a hotel for the last five days. Which is a two mile walk to my house. So I have spent a good deal of time walking to and from the hotel and house to deal with contractors and check on the grow. After tearing out a wall in my house and running a new gas line I am finally able to get back in gear. I will smoke to that!

Caught a little case of the "how close can the new cobs go?" while temps here in AZ climb. A couple plants have some stress from the intensity and heat I believe. Some odd shaped leaves formed and the plants are a little short so far. I raised the lights yesterday and the room looks pleased today. Some better fan circulation is probably in order since I am trying to save $ on elec and run the AC less. May have to crank it back up to control temps, we shall see.

Skylar [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG] turning into a proper bush now, 22 days I think? soaking up some cob light. She may have lightened up a tad since the autocobs went up, hard to tell looking at plants under an unfamiliar light at first. A foliar feed is in order this weekend so that should help.


Cool side view of her


3BOG showing the start of what's to come.


This is the Skylar my cat slept on, and also got a little malformed leaves. Super shorty but is starting to grow fast the last day or two. Branches popping outta nowhere. Skylar has been more than forgiving as far as ease of growing of all the strains so far. If I like the end results I may hoard up on some of these beans


Green. My favorite color

 

[NebulaNuggets]

Here's the scoop on the Bu's soil. Pictures of both plants were planted, sprouted, and grown under all of the same conditions. T5 lighting and plain bubbled water for germ with a few drops of Ful-Power. Bu's Soil got a little Recharge, that's it. The cover crop with each pot was also started at the same time.

Sour Stomper with Cilantro :smoking: This is in a mix of my orig. soil mix at extra strength (about 1/3 extra amendments and added seabird guano) with no extra cook for added amendments


3BOG in Bu's with clover and who know's what the other herb was suppose to be. Can't remember what I planted but it never really came up LOL Clover looks pathetic!


Close up. The SS in first pic and 3BOG sprouted the same day. Also, I had planted another seed in the Bu's and the sprout came up and died a day later. It opened but was incredibly small and thin.


I will chalk it up to a bad bag of Bu's soil for now. I have the tea and it looks like good stuff. Debating on if I should use it

 

[Hippy_BiotabsF70]

Looking really good in here as always brother

The babies will take a short while to adjust to the cobs as they're so young. But they will be good

Are you still using reflectors or did I miss you removing them?

 

[NebulaNuggets]

Looking really good in here as always brother

The babies will take a short while to adjust to the cobs as they're so young. But they will be good

Are you still using reflectors or did I miss you removing them?

What's going on hippy! Still have the reflectors on. Right now all seems fine with them on. I raised to 30" above the plants and trying to find that sweet spot. As the plants grow up towards the light I may creep it closer to 18"-24".

The cobs are doing well even at 30" above the plants. A little extra heat in the tent could be the culprit of stress. Unless the plants stretch like crazy I will keep the reflectors on.

I would like to get my hands on a PAR meter so I can see the differences with and without reflectors. Of course you will have a more focused light spread with the reflectors. Even so, two cobs with reflectors are covering well in a 2x2 area.

I am tempted to cull a few plants and make space for 1 plant per cob. I have a couple runts I am having a hard time culling. I do have space for them outside under the "sun" cob LOL