Lighting The House of Vorkosigan

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7 little heads poking out of Riot Cubes
Crooked head, she has straightened out since the picture was taken

This is Maleficent the Fang Baby
I nicknamed this one "Angel Wings"



I'll label the kids with names tomorrow so I'll be able to tell them all apart when they start sexing. So glad all 7 popped, now hoping for a few females to use Mike's pollen on and continue the Mumbling Dragon strain as the breeder no longer has the strain.

 

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Teaser shot - lower buds on a second from the bottom node, towards the inside of the plant.

She's coming down on Friday which will be day 77.

 

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Helga came down on Friday, day 77.

Super faded pre-trim
Post trim
Wet weights: Buds 280grams or 9.9oz
Sugar trim and larf 105grams or 3.7oz

 

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Bud porn and seed porn. Found 146 seeds so far, purposefully pollinated nodes 1,2, & partial on 3 from the soil. The two friends that helped me trim smoked the scissor hash and random calyxes in a bowl, they said it was an energetic UP high!

 

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Mumbling Dragons - they're in super soil so they have received 1/4c of un-pH'd water every other day. I will pick up some pH down and CalMag because the plants are going to need some help once I turn on the cobs. Also have some Silicon to add to the water (real reason for pH down).
There are six now. Maleficent the Fang Baby didn't make it, the tap root didn't find its way out of the riot cube so it was starving to death.

 

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More pics of the other kids

 

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Feeding life with the super soil mix is currently easy. I'm giving un-pH'd aired-out water from my tap that reads at 7.4 (GBD said between 6.4-7.5 is good). After my road trip next week I'll start giving a bit of Silica, CaMg, and Mammoth P along with dropping the pH to below 6.4 since I'm in coco and I should be running 5.7-6.0. I'm not starting it before I leave because I want my plant-sitter to have an easy time, I'll request daily pics so if things begin going south while I'm gone I can tell them how to correct issues.
I turned my cobs on at day 14 because the plants have plenty of roots to handle the increase in photons and transpiration. The plants have loved having higher temps and more light.
Pics taken on day 17.
Group photo
One of the twins, two had severely yellow first leaflets
This is the slowest developer and looks super indica with it's leaf shape.
This is the tallest one and it has lots of purple

 

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The other three...
Looks like I may have the rare white pheno, there is no purple with this one.
The other twin
This is the other super purple AND it's a mutant - trying to push four leaves out of current node
I love mutants in the garden!

 

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I haven't updated in awhile. Okay, started with 7 Mumbling Dragons, one failed to get its taproot out of the riot cube & was culled. After sexing I had 3 males & 3 females, I chose to keep the male that had a structure most similar to that of the females & was showing the recessive white phenotype. I have two females showing purple calyxes and one female that still looks to be the white phenotype. Each plant is in a 1gal fabric pot, coco substrate with GBD's super soil mix. I have been watering with Mammoth P, liquid silica (Liquid Sand, locally sourced in Oregon), calcium (Demeter's Destiny), a wetting agent (Hygea Hydration), and pH-ing down with Hades Down to pH 5.8-6.1. One of the friends that is staying with us decided to keep the mutant male reject (he's purple with the trifoliate trait, I haven't taken pictures of him for a long time).

Here are the kids when there were 6

The mutant, Monte
The fastest male, Mark
The chosen one, Malcolm
The fastest female, Morticia
Melissa
The slowpoke, Martha

 

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Earlier this week before I gave them a little treatment.

Then there were 4
Malcolm
Melissa
Morticia
Martha