New Grower Wasting time

[Frenjamin Banklin]

Germ rates are high with direct purchase from Mephisto. Read the descriptions to know what your looking for. Just grabbed the Forum Stomper which is their GSC strain. Also grabbed some more Ripleys, strawberry nuggets and 24 carat. Looking forward to running a 100% indica. You get a lot for what you pay when you buy from Mephisto. Add to that they have top notch genetics and you can’t beat them.

I had a great experience buying from and starting my first Wicked Pissah seeds. I just went through a month at the end of summer where I fried every sprout not paying attention. Seeds are well packaged very healthy and you get a lot for the price. Strains look stable so I can’t wait to run more.

I’d run more Fastbuds if I knew I was buying direct. They initially got me thinking they were US based, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Genetics are solid.

There are a ton of great indie breeders and lots of great seeds sources. I’m just going to try and buy US to get them closer to home.

Megabuds Beast mode auto is the strain here so I’ll share my thoughts so far.

Initially I thought the site and descriptions were lacking when they first joined. And I said so on the sub forum. I bought two packs of seeds to give them a shot since they are sponsored breeder here. I bought a pack of the Fast Master photo period and a pack of the Beast Mode autos. I needed to figure out the exchange rate because they didn’t have a calculator on the site. I then needed to get a money order and mail it. To them in Great Britain I think. I got my seeds a bit later in nice stealth packaging. They sent an additional single colossal purps seed and two CBD seeds as freebies.

They have a section here and I see a few mods were gifted seeds I assume. I’d love to know what the breeders instructions are for how to treat the strain. Heavy feeder? Does it like LST? But I haven’t seen a huge presence by the breeder in the sub forum and I asked a fellow grower that was sponsored if they got notes from the breeder. These plants are the only autos they sell. If they turn out fantastic I will give them due credit for having good bit of kit. But they would have to be insane plants for me to buy again.

These plants are supposed to get huge and run in the sativa side so I know what I want to do with them. I guess we will see if I guess right.

 

[Frenjamin Banklin]

Beast mode auto Babies are all doing well no pictures of them yet as there progress normal at this point (10 days)

Thought I would increase the light wattage over my Ripleys last night and in 16 hours I bleached the leaves on the top flower. What a dumb ass move. Back down they go. They will be fine. No pictures because I saw it just before lights out. Pulled of the crispy leaves and walked away in shame.

I had other plans and needed to get the sloppy bitches in the bloom dream room down. I really want to get the next four under 12/12 before they get bigger and I had two ready to come down so that happened.

Here is the pile and stalks ready to be trimmed

Really wasn’t worried about looks as 90% of this run is going to extraction. Couple good tops saved for friends that like dried flower, and a little sample for my dry herb vape pen .

They will all be going into large lawn refuse bags like this one on the left. They will get hung in my main room from the ceiling and hopefully be ready in 5-7 days. That room is at 50% RH and high 70’s low 80’s.

So more crap about what a hack grower I am. I had/have a total of four of these in the 12/12 closet, it’s my first photo so it was all just experimenting. About two weeks after they are flipped I mix up a huge batch of molasses, and I had just bought this bag of Myco. I added my bennies, a huge scoop of the Mycos and a bunch of molasses’s to each bucket. I thought oh boy these are going to really take off. Well two days later the plants are drooping like the reservoir is dry so I figure WOW, I’m a genius grower these plants are going to kill it. So I opened the bucket but to my surprise the entire root ball looks like it’s covered in a heavy black slime.

I realized I MIGHT have overdone it. Like a true hack I was to lazy to change out the buckets so figured I’ll just pour a 1/4 cup of bleach directly into the reservoir. I figured this might clean it up then I can rebuild the bennies. But honestly I figured there was a pretty good shot I was about to lose all four plants. I have no clue how it worked out but the bleach cleaned it up enough so plants jumped back in 24 hours and I never needed to add more bennies.

I’ve learned that maybe I should not add that much molasses at once with the added bacteria and myochorzi. Maybe, but they did live

 

[Frenjamin Banklin]

As I was hanging the bags I remembered how wonderful they look with my flashlight so I decided to add some lights out shots with the phone flash. Really brings out the bling.

Here’s the Ripleys that got some light bleaching

Her little sister

And a lower group shot

The two six shooter that I think have 2 weeks left. Back plant

Front plant

Oh and this little who knows what. It was a GG4 in one gallon that I was reversing, months ago. Weather turned and I brought it indoors. It had very nice balls all over it when I brought it in. I stopped the CS spray and it is now flowering but I think the balls are gone. Gave up on the pollen project for now but not sure what this little SOB is doing. Frosting up nicely, funny little thing

And these girls waiting for lights on so I can get them into some temporary 5 gallons DWC buckets and under 12/12. Just a few more hours ladies and you can start to think about flowering. Blue Dream CBD clones.

And that’s all for a few hours.

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

we are our own worst critic the first 6 grows are only practice runs anyway some of us can only learn by making our own mistakes i know we supposed to learn by others mistakes but sometimes ya gotta see these things up close,and we cant do that by a computer or book
and are they really mistakes if we learn from them ? cant make an ommlete without getting the pan out nono something about eggs
i see good green plants,buds and plenty of sparkles no mistake about it
good luck n keep er lit

 

[Frenjamin Banklin]

My dumb add just realized I put this in the wrong thread.

I’m going to lock this one so I don’t do that and update the other.