Indoor Puff Puff Pat's 2nd Grow - Mephisto SLxSB and Rocbud Inc Grape Rolex

[Puff Puff Pat]

Well, new username, new avatar, and time for a new grow! This time boys and girls, we're doing my last freebie from Mephisto, an SLxSB, as well as a Grape Rolex from Rocbud Inc. I'm still waiting for the Grape Rolex seeds to come in, but I only ordered them on Thursday, but I picked up new organic soil from Lowes a along with some perlite.

I've been really frustrated with a couple of aspects of my current grow, one of the biggest being the huge amount of soil compaction that I've had. I'm hoping by going to a 25% perlite to 75% soil will help that, and by actually filling up the damn pot to about 1/2" from the top, I'll be able to start training much earlier, as well as have greater root mass, and therefore larger plants and yield.

No pictures yet, but hopefully we'll have some green coming up by the end of the week.

Some pertients on the grow:

Soil: 75% Harvest Organics raised bed mix / 25% perlite

Tent: Amazon special 2x2x4

Light: Mars Hydro TS600

Air extraction: 4" with carbon filter

Air intake: passive

Genetics: Mephisto SLxSB and Rocbud Inc. Grap Rolex.

Hopefully I don't forget anyone in the tags, but all are welcome to join in on the highs and lows of my newest grow, let's see if I learned anything from my first grow.

@420Forever @DMHeights @Zamnesia Battle @ManWithWrench @Epicxr @Master_gRoshi @TxRebel @Machamillion @Mcdee @stan_mephisto @RocBudInc @MarshydroTina @FadedMalone @Sami @Shrederr @hairyman @Iriee Vibez @Garage_Grower

 

[Puff Puff Pat]

Merry Christmas Eve everyone. I checked on the Meph bean this morning and it had cracked and just started showing its tap root. I'm doing things a little differently this time, and foregoing the paper towel and going straight to soil.

We now have are first bean in the soil (well, I guess it's technically sixth seed, but first for this journal). I've got a humidity dome on, since I'm still struggling with maintaining proper humidity, plus I don't want it too humid for the girls heading to the finish line. I've put about 2oz of water around where I planted the seed and watered around the edge of the pot last night to give her something to reach for. Hopefully we'll start seeing some movement around the end of the week!

And would you look at that, the pots are actually full! Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks!

 

[Puff Puff Pat]

As some of you may know, today was chop day for the Mayor but as they say, when one door closes, another one opens. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present, Stevie, as in Stevie Nicks:

She's still a little thing, but I have high (pun intended) hopes for her. Now begins the stressful two weeks of waiting for her to harden up and become resistant to my ham handed gardening style!

I also have a Monday ETA for Grape Rolex, so one more seed drop coming this week!

 

[Puff Puff Pat]

All of a sudden, a week has past. Monday I got my seeds from @RocBudInc and with the 5 Grape Rolex, I got an additional GR plus 3 Legend Berry OG! Normally, I'd drop a seed the day they come in, but I've been so sick the last week, I didn't have the energy to do anything. Even poor Stevie was neglected a little bit. Surprisingly, Stevie seems to be doing great, she's starting to push out her second set of leaves, so seems to be tight on track for a week old.

I always hat these first few weeks, I'm always afraid I'm going to screw something up, and since they're at their most fragile right now, it doesn't take much to screw it up.

Anyway, here's Stevie at day 7:

 

[Puff Puff Pat]

Thanks @DMHeights I had good luck with the SLxSB just popping them in the dirt after a soak. Interestingly, this happened:

I went to drop the new seed, pulled off the dome, and saw that! She's a freaky deaky thing though, her root did almost a full circle before diving down into the soil. I covered up the exposed root, and we'll see what happens.

The new seed had already cracked and was showing her taproot, so I set up another 3g pot, and then there were three

It looks like Stevie is getting close (ish) to flower, she's got those hairs on the main stem (I can't remember what they're called for the life of me!), and with the Mayor and Bubbles the both went into flower about a week later.

In other news, my wife's starting to get into this, and has been watering the girls (I still handle feeding days and mix up a gallon of pH'd water for her to use), so that's been making things easier.

 

[Puff Puff Pat]

Well we're at day 28, and it looks like Stevie has decided to start flowering, we got ourself a girl

Looks like I'll need to start adding some flower nutes next feeding.

And a shot of the three of them:

Funny, this whole grow has been pretty much on cruise control. I haven't been nearly as stressed as I was during grow #1. I suppose that's not too surprising, given I've got one grow under my belt, and the fact that I've got a supply of great bud now!

 

[Puff Puff Pat]

So my wife has pretty much taken over this grow except for feeding. Since today was feed day, I went down to check on them and found this:

GR #1 is up and looks perfectly normal!

GR#2 on the other hand, is all kinds of messed up. But she's still growing (kinda) and green, so hell with ot, let's see what happens:

The big shocker for me is Stevie. Holy crap, she's shot up like mad in the last couple of days. She looks a little deficient in something so I've upped the nutes and started adding Bloom nutes to the mix. Still looking super good:

Completely off topic, but I've been looking for a better that gets better gas mileage than my Excursion, and after a month of looking, I stumbled on this for $1800:

An 06 Volvo S60 T5, high miles (196000), but in really good condition inside and out. It'll need tires and maybe 200 bucks in repairs to pass inspection in June. I'm loving the turbo 5 cylinder, and since it's a Volvo, the cops don't look twice at it.

 

[Puff Puff Pat]

Wow, I've been horrible at keeping this updated. Not sure what day they're on, too stoned to add it up ! I think Stevie is around day 48, GR 1 is 22 days and GR2 is a week less.

Stevie has blown the hell up, already waaay bigger then Bubbles or The Mayor. I'm loving the Mephisto genetics I'm thinking I'll get a nice haul from her. I've tied her main stem down a few times to keep her in check.

I think GR 2 got a little stunted from underwatering, but she's bouncing back now:

The biggest surprise is #1. I've been waffling back and forth the whole grow about just pulling her, but she's starting to show some vertical growth, so I'll keep her going. I won't see much from her I'm guessing, but it's only a little bit of water and nutes, so might as well.

I'm going to really try and get in at least weekly updates.

 

[Puff Puff Pat]

Time for another update! Man, this whole leaving them the hell alone method is killing it.

Stevie's rocking along and starring to frost up. I figure I'm looking at another month at least. Which is a bummer, since I'm down to my last two nugs, maybe 2 weeks left. I'm definitely impressed with the Meph genetics growth wise:

Both the GRs are finally starting to move, the funky #1 is almost as big as #2. So big strides there.

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I'm sure I'm going to get a good haul on these three girls.

 

[Puff Puff Pat]

Once again, been a little (Lot) lax on updates. You're right about the nitrogen toxicity @Iriee Vibez I cut her off feed for a while and did straight water last week, and it looks like I yo-yo'd her the other direction, as there's a bit of yellowing on some of the leaves. I've cut the growth nutes by 2/3 and am keeping the flowering nutes at full strength, we'll see how that goes. I think she's finally done with the stretch, thank God, since both GR's are going into flower, space is getting super tight in my 2x2! Not a bad problem to have.

I think the top buds have at least a couple more weeks, but there's also a fair amount of larfy stuff inside, and around the perimeter. Depending on how things develop I may end up doing a staggered harvest, but it's still a little too early to tell. She's probably twice as big, if not more, as both plants combined from my last grow.

Here's some pics of her:

You can see the yellowing, but overall it's not too bad. She's frosting up quite nicely, and I'm thinking I'll get a good harvest from her. Since I'm out of everything from the last grow, I could use a good return to make sure I don't hit another dry spell!

As I said, both the GR's are starting to move into flower. #1, the freaky little thing, that i thought would amount to nothing is getting big, and has some big ass leaves going on:

And GR #2 is right behind her, with a little more typical plant structure:

I probably should have done a little defoliation, or tucking to Stevie, but on the other hand, leaving her to her own devices, other then daily watering and food every couple of days has been very effective in promoting nice growth that I didn't have in my last grow.

It's going to suck, not having any smoke tor the next few weeks, but I'm gonna leave them alone this time and not jump the gun like I did last time!