I'll start with the apologies.
To all concerned:
Sorry I will have been so lazy tending my plants and updating this journal.
To the civilized world:
Sorry for using Imperial measures. Blame the British.
To Stitch:
First, let me make perfectly clear that I will NOT be showing the best of what Stitch genetics can produce. Instead, I'll try to show what great genetics will yield a novice grower under really quite poor (but common) growing conditions. Stitch's Autos, like most cannabis, probably respond best to being grown outside in deep soil with tropical sun and lots of headroom. I'll be doing none of that. I'm going to try to force them to live in a small tent (4'x2'x5' ghetto modified to 6') in small pots (5 gal./20L for 6 seeds) under 400w HPS/MH. But I will try to at least get some decent pictures for Stitch that hide the terrible things I might do to these girls.
Things I'll be doing wrong:
Air flow. Dead calm from ~9 PM-8 AM, due to close neighbors & fan noise (which is minimal with the new fan, but still...)
Humidity. Under 40% whenever the lights are on, 50-70% during lights out.
Ph. Not gonna sweat it. Tap water is ~5.7 and that's what they're going to get. Runoff with the soil mix should still be ~6.5 - I hope. [I did this with the last photo grow and nobody got crippled.]
Light. Hours, to a large extent, will be determined by factors other than what might be best for the plant. Including temps, hours I'm willing to run the fan, and probably switching to 12/12 very early in order to flower the photos that I'm re-vegging. Maybe even 11/13.
Temps. Hot. I expect the canopy will run in the 90's for a few hours every day during the long light regime. The current crop, with only 11 hours of light a day, hit 100 almost every day during Summer. It won't be that bad this grow, but it will also be... Cold. Expect PM temps in the mid 50's and low 60's.
Nutes. No nutes. No massive colas. No insane yields. Just heavily amended and layered soil. And occasional molasses.
Water. I will be over watering. I just do. It's the only way I know to express love for plants.
Soil. Actually, the soil mix itself isn't bad. Lots of cool shit in there. Maybe a bit N heavy for sensitive girls, and the plants can still find plenty of N while in flower. Which can affect the leaf/calyx ratio and make them prone to re-veg if I screw up the light schedule at all. The real problem is that I started all 6 of my Onyx testers in one 5gal. bucket. So they're going to be cramped, maybe horribly so. I've had pretty good results with 2 girls to a bucket, but more than that will be problematical. At least these are regular seeds, so I should get some males to kill.
How I got here.
Back in the Summer/Fall of 2012 I was lucky enough to be gifted some Chaze and Onyx testers by Stitch. I grew one of the Chazes here that Winter (See: https://www.autoflower.org/threads/sch-chaze-done-wrong.12735/ ), but then I was unable to grow until last Fall. After a quick photo run, I FINALLY have a chance to grow the Onyx. Not to grow it well, mind you, because the photos I'm re-vegging will need to go back to short light soon (probably within a month), but at least they're growing.
What's in the tent.
I put all 6 of my Onyx testers into a 5 gal. bucket filled 2/3 with a flowering soil mix and 1/3 with a vegetative soil mix (basically the same soil recipe as in the above Chaze thread, but with about 20% more everything) on 12/29/15. 2 came up on 1/4, and a third on 1/5, thus far.
In a bucket of soil used to grow a KC Brains KC-42, I dropped a half dozen seeds I made 5-6 years ago from a Short Stuff seeds mixed pack. The mother was a hearty citrusy plant I called Lemon Hercules and the dad was one of 3 males from the mix. @ of them came up (from the same hole) on 12/21 and 12/22/15. So they're going to grow in 'depleted' soil.
Another bucket (all are 5 gal.) has 2 World of Seeds Columbian Gold IBLs that I made from the most Sativa male and female that I got in 2012. They were harvested (rather early - they would have kept foxtailing for another month if I let them) on 1/3 and re-vegged on 1/4.
Finally, a bucket used to grow a Mandala Beyond the Brain x WoS Columbian Gold which was harvested on 12/21 and re-vegged starting 12/28. It's already showing new growth. There's also a volunteer (BTBxCG)xKC-42 growing in there. I first noticed it 12/24, but I'm guessing it came up in the shade ~12/10.
Why bother re-vegging these girls? I'm glad you asked. Back in '12 I grew 2 monster (for a small tent) WoS CGs. I tried to re-veg the lesser of the two (smaller, not as fragrant) just to see if I could, and I did. It was a low priority for me, spent a lot of time under just 23w CFLs, and went almost a full year from start to 2nd harvest; which was a rather pathetic 16g, IIRC, versus about 2.5 oz. for the first harvest. However, the stuff from the 2nd cut was fantastic. Much, much more fragrant. All mango and cantaloupe, as opposed to the first cutting's peat and mulch. And much more psychedelic high. Very close to it's namesake - just without the levitation. So ever since, I've been eager to try and replicate it.
TL;DR here's plants (if I can figure out how to add photos):
For abbreviations, Onyx seems short enough. I'll call the WoS Columbian Gold CG. The Mandala Beyond the Brain x WoS CG I'll call BTG and the BTG x KC Brains KC-42 volunteer will be BTG42. The Short Stuff seed mix I think I'll continue to call Lemon Hercules or LH, but its really just a hybrid of 2 unknown SS strains.
Onyxs, followed by SS LH (haven't figured out spacing yet)
CGs left, BTG & BTG42 right
To all concerned:
Sorry I will have been so lazy tending my plants and updating this journal.
To the civilized world:
Sorry for using Imperial measures. Blame the British.
To Stitch:
First, let me make perfectly clear that I will NOT be showing the best of what Stitch genetics can produce. Instead, I'll try to show what great genetics will yield a novice grower under really quite poor (but common) growing conditions. Stitch's Autos, like most cannabis, probably respond best to being grown outside in deep soil with tropical sun and lots of headroom. I'll be doing none of that. I'm going to try to force them to live in a small tent (4'x2'x5' ghetto modified to 6') in small pots (5 gal./20L for 6 seeds) under 400w HPS/MH. But I will try to at least get some decent pictures for Stitch that hide the terrible things I might do to these girls.
Things I'll be doing wrong:
Air flow. Dead calm from ~9 PM-8 AM, due to close neighbors & fan noise (which is minimal with the new fan, but still...)
Humidity. Under 40% whenever the lights are on, 50-70% during lights out.
Ph. Not gonna sweat it. Tap water is ~5.7 and that's what they're going to get. Runoff with the soil mix should still be ~6.5 - I hope. [I did this with the last photo grow and nobody got crippled.]
Light. Hours, to a large extent, will be determined by factors other than what might be best for the plant. Including temps, hours I'm willing to run the fan, and probably switching to 12/12 very early in order to flower the photos that I'm re-vegging. Maybe even 11/13.
Temps. Hot. I expect the canopy will run in the 90's for a few hours every day during the long light regime. The current crop, with only 11 hours of light a day, hit 100 almost every day during Summer. It won't be that bad this grow, but it will also be... Cold. Expect PM temps in the mid 50's and low 60's.
Nutes. No nutes. No massive colas. No insane yields. Just heavily amended and layered soil. And occasional molasses.
Water. I will be over watering. I just do. It's the only way I know to express love for plants.
Soil. Actually, the soil mix itself isn't bad. Lots of cool shit in there. Maybe a bit N heavy for sensitive girls, and the plants can still find plenty of N while in flower. Which can affect the leaf/calyx ratio and make them prone to re-veg if I screw up the light schedule at all. The real problem is that I started all 6 of my Onyx testers in one 5gal. bucket. So they're going to be cramped, maybe horribly so. I've had pretty good results with 2 girls to a bucket, but more than that will be problematical. At least these are regular seeds, so I should get some males to kill.
How I got here.
Back in the Summer/Fall of 2012 I was lucky enough to be gifted some Chaze and Onyx testers by Stitch. I grew one of the Chazes here that Winter (See: https://www.autoflower.org/threads/sch-chaze-done-wrong.12735/ ), but then I was unable to grow until last Fall. After a quick photo run, I FINALLY have a chance to grow the Onyx. Not to grow it well, mind you, because the photos I'm re-vegging will need to go back to short light soon (probably within a month), but at least they're growing.
What's in the tent.
I put all 6 of my Onyx testers into a 5 gal. bucket filled 2/3 with a flowering soil mix and 1/3 with a vegetative soil mix (basically the same soil recipe as in the above Chaze thread, but with about 20% more everything) on 12/29/15. 2 came up on 1/4, and a third on 1/5, thus far.
In a bucket of soil used to grow a KC Brains KC-42, I dropped a half dozen seeds I made 5-6 years ago from a Short Stuff seeds mixed pack. The mother was a hearty citrusy plant I called Lemon Hercules and the dad was one of 3 males from the mix. @ of them came up (from the same hole) on 12/21 and 12/22/15. So they're going to grow in 'depleted' soil.
Another bucket (all are 5 gal.) has 2 World of Seeds Columbian Gold IBLs that I made from the most Sativa male and female that I got in 2012. They were harvested (rather early - they would have kept foxtailing for another month if I let them) on 1/3 and re-vegged on 1/4.
Finally, a bucket used to grow a Mandala Beyond the Brain x WoS Columbian Gold which was harvested on 12/21 and re-vegged starting 12/28. It's already showing new growth. There's also a volunteer (BTBxCG)xKC-42 growing in there. I first noticed it 12/24, but I'm guessing it came up in the shade ~12/10.
Why bother re-vegging these girls? I'm glad you asked. Back in '12 I grew 2 monster (for a small tent) WoS CGs. I tried to re-veg the lesser of the two (smaller, not as fragrant) just to see if I could, and I did. It was a low priority for me, spent a lot of time under just 23w CFLs, and went almost a full year from start to 2nd harvest; which was a rather pathetic 16g, IIRC, versus about 2.5 oz. for the first harvest. However, the stuff from the 2nd cut was fantastic. Much, much more fragrant. All mango and cantaloupe, as opposed to the first cutting's peat and mulch. And much more psychedelic high. Very close to it's namesake - just without the levitation. So ever since, I've been eager to try and replicate it.
TL;DR here's plants (if I can figure out how to add photos):
For abbreviations, Onyx seems short enough. I'll call the WoS Columbian Gold CG. The Mandala Beyond the Brain x WoS CG I'll call BTG and the BTG x KC Brains KC-42 volunteer will be BTG42. The Short Stuff seed mix I think I'll continue to call Lemon Hercules or LH, but its really just a hybrid of 2 unknown SS strains.
Onyxs, followed by SS LH (haven't figured out spacing yet)
CGs left, BTG & BTG42 right
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