It's that time again!
Back again at the grow-spot-by-the-Bay for another round of outdoor photo's, plus the tent at home for autos... This place is at a friend/clients, dead flat sea level, less than a mile from a cold Bay in CA which as always has it's share of challenges! Summer days are often foggy in part or totally, night mild... Fall is when the best weather comes thankfully but early rain is a distinct possibility.
... So, all strains chosen are made with speed and mold resistance boxes checked!
This years line-up:
-- Lilly (Original Delicatessen)... a nearly pure Sativa 3-way African cross with blazing speed, 7-8 weeks bloom...
-- Skunk Special (Female)... hoping for some road-kill stank-
-- Purple Afghani Kush (Dinafem)... fingers crossed for the pineapple aroma pheno'
-- Orange Juice (Dinafem)... orange aromatics-- yummm....
-- Gorilla Breath (HSO)... heavy hitting new strain from them...
-- Aunt of Farouk (Healing Path Genetics)... very excited to be trying this much beloved landrace Paki'
*-- Crack LOG (Magic)... interesting F1 cross between Legend OG and White Crack auto; not intended this year, but the Skunks were looking dicey for germ', so I started this as back-up,.. sure as shit, the Skunks made it after all.. works every time! ... Now, as an F1 auto x photo cross, it's very unlikely to auto, but it can and HAS happened with other such crosses, so we shall see,....
Tent Auto's:
-- Night Queen (Dutch Passion).. hoping for that elusive strawberry pheno,...
-- Citrus Noir (Stone's Autoflower Portal)
-- Cherry Bomb (Bomb)
-- C99 (HPG).... later start on these, I tried some old GHz99 beans, but they failed, so I started this parent... a couple of these stalled out too, older seeds as well, but I think I have a winner now!
>> Soil: this year it's Empire Builder (Sanctuary Soil) for final pots of the photo's, seedlings started in Roots Organic original
Auto's are in King's Mix (Royal Gold), very happy with this soil, it did great last year! All auto's are in a milder blend using GBD/Mephisto's dry soil amendment mix, but will get supplemental additions as deemed needed,....
>>. nutrients/supplements: the usual mixed bag there again,.... I'm giving Megacrop2.0 another try, but mainly as a base veg' nute, I will very likely be switching at least in part to another bloom base or seriously supplementing it, but I'm not sure what just yet... possibly mainly organic? I will be using Sweet Candy and Megazyme from GLN as well,...
The salt substitute is for Cl, a micronute often overlooked and seldom included for whatever reason,...
...here's most of the spread-->
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>>> OK, pics of the gang, all in the tent for now, but the photo's are on light reduction and phasing to outside starting tomorrow... Meantime, the auto's started at 24/0 for a week or so, now will finish on about 19/5....
I think for the photo's, all will be topped at 5th node when ready,... AoF maybe not though, we'll see... they are reg's, and hoping for 1 female out of the 3 at least!
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..photo's clockwise top left: OJ, PAK, Lilly, GB
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--- AoF in styro' cups, Skunks Sp. below them....
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... CrackLOG's at top
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>>> auto's: tent is 4x2, pots are 9L, lights AutoCOB's
...little ones, C99... ones in the big pot are looking weird, and somehow got double planted!
.... clockwise right from there is NQ, CN, and CB,....
pending on how those C99's shape up, they may get yanked out and the styro' cup one slipped in....
They are showing an odd Mg defc., not sure why, but the last round in the GBD mix did this too...
.. hitting them with Optic Foliar Overgrow supplemented with micronutes, soil treated with Ca-Mg since I'm using a blend of RO and hard tap water,...
These 3 were started beginning of June,...
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