Indoor Zaaboot has gone to pot 2022 auto spree

[Zaaboot]

Rollox said McDonald the Mimosa looks like a no show - that will teach me
Really not sure why - the same method I always use, one of those things I suppose. So then I now have to dig around to see what is up next - I get the feeling it maybe something from Barneys Farm...Update in a couple of days after I have decided and it has come up.
Recently I have been reading about a chap who germs his seeds in a very different way to me - so I am going to try that and see if it works for me as I have had a few no shows since returning to growing and growing only autos now.
A bed of worm castings in a non heated prop - soak the castings until all are damp - lay the seeds on the castings, cover - place on a heat mat - he does 50 at a time and they seem to all pop up. Will try it and document it when the worm castings show up.

In the meantime here is my current Grow
Top left ---> clockwise
Jack Herer Auto, planted 11/12/21 (SeedsMan)
Sweet Bourbon Auto Kush, planted 11/01/22 (Super Sativa Seed Club)
Sweet Bourbon Auto Kush, planted 11/01/22 (Super Sativa Seed Club)
Creme De La Chem x Forum Stomper, planted 11/02/22 (Mephisto Genetics)

In fact sod it, I always have between 2 to 4 running, so I will just keep this journal rolling. I shall work out a way to update how the above plants got to where they have and take it from there

Cheers all
Z

 

[Zaaboot]

Hello again you lovelies - I hope everyone is well!

First of all, I would very much like to say thank you to the beauties we have on here - so very helpful and generous!

Just a quick catch up to get up to speed properly, as they are growing fast now so the changes are apparent daily.

The Jack Herer is bulking out. The plant has had the shitiest of lives, poor little lass. I germed 3 seeds, 2 Northern Lights Auto from Seedsman and 1 Jack Herer, they all come up (amazingly) the two NL were growing like crazy, very healthy etc... the JH sort of stopped growing about a week in to flower, buy this time the NL had just kept on growing and were eating up the whole tent - I thought I would just kill off the JH to make space for the two NL which would take up the whole tent space and looked great - During this time I stopped watering the JH completely for about a week-->10 days, the NL still showed no sign of flowering and had just gotten to large for the space 1l x 1w x 2h. Read a little about the NL from seedsman and they tend to do this so I cut them down and threw them both on the compost, planted the two Sweet Bourbon Auto Kush, and 10 days later the Mephisto seed. So that brings us to today.
The NL has been living in a drought but has come back to life, she looks really crap and her buds are small - amazingly they are very dense and smell absolutely grand, very piney and fresh - I hope it keeps that through last few weeks and drying/curing.

And here she is:

Oh I nearly forgot, I had to pop to Portugal for a week, so made a McGuyver style wick system until the Blumat classic arrived to feed her - she really has had the crapiest of times. This said, check out my McGuyver A-team wick system :smoking:

Anyway, this is why she is like she is.

Next up we have the SBAK's - they had a random start to life, the day after their taps showed and I popped them in to rootit cube, my partner reminded I had to go and visit my parents that weekend - they were far to small and frail to stay at home alone. So I packed them up in their prop - drove 200 miles to the south coast arrived at the AirBnB and plugged them back in. In the meantime the nutrient solution I had made was forgotten at home, so the following morning I had to find a hydro shop, grab some PH down and some Canna Start to keep them alive. Stayed down there for a week, drove 200 miles home and plugged them back in again - they are very well travelled ladies...bit bastard glitzy if you ask me for a rooted plant to see the world like that.

Generally both the SBAK have bee doing ok, they were incredibly slow to start but have really come in to their own over the past week or so - you can see their growth over their life below: 1 has been topped, the other not - the topped plant is the healthier of the two, the other is growing very well but has CalMag issues which is frustrating as they are running from the same res, upped the CalMAg which helped but not enough, the garden has to look better...note to self, become a better grower...

SBAK's - this was during their early life excursion to the south coast

And when they got home

Anyway my jubblies, I have run out of photo space so will be back later with the second half of the update.

Ta ta for now
Z

 

[Zaaboot]

Hello all, I am incredibly blessed to have been provided some of the @Sawney_bean wizardry and Today shall mark they day their skulls got wet!

Based on having no space ‘‘twas a wonder I decided to go for gold, so this is what happens now….
The tent running outside will finish off what’s in there, as with the Wilma set up it can only take four plants.
The four I have just got into water will go in this little bastard I found in the garage roof.

So, inside the mini tent there is a heated prop which is unplugged, this will keep some distance from the heat mat to the actual seeds and from testing looks like it sits at circa 22 day and night with a little vent open.
I also found a little starter LED light so hung that in there, and hey presto we have a place to get going.

I also dig up an unused Rhino pro carbon filter and mini extractor fan which I will put in place once the seeds pop (fingers crossed)

I have a question for you fine people:
What is the best way of running small pots to control height and auto watered if possible - I have a tendency to scamper away to different coordinates for a few days at a time meaning it must water itself.
I am thinking a low living soil bed taking up the full floor space to it provides cubic capacity if soil for the roots which can be fed with plain water on a blumat. Does that sound acceptable - i have only ever grown in coco in all my days so soil is scary and living soil with things moving around is even scarier, I spent my life keeping bugs out with this it’s the opposite.
Alternatively, if timed well, I could get a four in four out going which would be preferred and for the time away use a few blumat classics as a wick to keep the babies going.
All thoughts and inputs welcome

Thanks all and take care
Z

 

[Zaaboot]

Hello all - with my total inability to get seeds started I just wanted to say - 18hrs after starting two taps have started showing on the Slaughtered Lamb
You never know there maybe more
Top genetics do help those special people like me get the show on the road

Cheers
Z

 

[Zaaboot]

So then, so then, so then - It bloody worked. Thanks for your help Sawney
They were put in the prop 48 hours ago (pretty much bang on...) and as of now - we have 6 of the 8 have tap root either showing, or showing off.
4 Slaughtered Lamb
2 Nugz 2

Chuffed

Just warming up the soil in the mini pots to get them in to a medium - I do expect to grab a new tent in a couple of days for the Lambs as what they are in is too short - a lovely pain in the ass to have, I get to buy toys - not sure what yet, but will expect to grab 150mm Phresh EC, LED from Kroptek, and to save setting up another Wilma (which has been my method of choice for over 15yrs) will go for Ecothrive Soil which I have still boxed in the garage from a previous "good idea" , tent size will be 1x1x1.8 I expect, the BudBox I have now is shit, the worst tent I have ever used, weak, flimsy and about as light proof as an LED bulb.Hopefully I can find the Secret Jardin DR100, which is my favorite.

If all 4 Nugz2 come up, I will keep them in the tent they are in - and as a stoner with an inability to have my own ideas, I shall ungraciously copy @hope2grow and of course @Sawney_bean with size pot and soil choice.

So essentially what has happened (or just about to) is, added a tent for germination with the aim of a better success rate, a tent will be procured for the Lambs will run 3 or 4 and let them stretch in 18ltr or maybe larger pots. From 1 to 3 in the blink of an eye, it is a grand old job that I decided to take a Sabbatical from work a while back so I have plenty of time on my hands for now.

Clearly this is not the right thing to do, I see everybody selecting their go forwards plant during the early days of progression and binning the rest - but sod, I got some seeds to sprout so I am going to bloody grow em'

Anyway, not sure if I mentioned....but I am as chuffed as a womble strolling around the common

oooo, just been playing with my microscope will update that in a tad

Take care all
Z

 

[Zaaboot]

I can get enough of this stupid little gadget - my ability to take normal pictures is outstandingly horrific, so my attempts with a microscope are I would suggest anywhere in the region of 17.6 and 22.24% worse.

This is the Jack Herer - generally clear and cloudy, with the odd amber - still time for this lass

Going back to play - ta ta for now

Z

 

[Zaaboot]

So after a little more playing I did actually get some gardening done today.
This is what I walked in to this morning - looks much better, the full tent footprint is being used - so there was surely only one thing I can do.....

.....that one thing being pull out the bondage kit and get a crackin'.

The Mephisto has been doing well for a few days and oddly her side branching had poked up past the main central stem and there was a fair bit that was sitting in the shade.
She went first, she looks a bit starkas now - nowt wrong with that....I hope

You can see, that she has been pulled around so that when she does pick up again she will not be shadowed by the ever growing SBAK1.

SBAK2

This lady has been topped once, as a result she is sort of growing everywhere in a controlled manner - she also took a beating today.

SBAK 1 is a real pain as it sits in the far corner and is the largest, trying to reach the beck leaves is like a T-rex trying to wipe it's arse - and we all know T-rex's died out first because they had shitty bottoms.
After much distress, I did what I could then didn't do anymore..

And all of them - and some shrubbery to throw on to the compost

Cheerio

Z

 

[Zaaboot]

They just wanted to say hello

Top two are Nugz2 the bottom four are Slaughtered Lamb. I do t want to speak too soon, but by golly it seems to be working!

As a couple didn’t come up, I popped in to water this afternoon a couple of Predators (Sawney’s) and a couple of Cali Doctor from Medical Marijuana Genetics as I am spect to run out of CBD heavy smokes soon, the bags need to be refilled.

The life of this little tent has been decided - it will be used to germinate and dry so I added a mini filter and fan.

All the new gear has been ordered and should be here soon….quicker quicker!!!

With what I have ordered it essentially gives a full 1.2 tent for soil (my first time ever) and initially it will be split between living soil and garden center soil - they will all be fed water only via the blumat. And the original tent stays as is with a Wilma set up in coco and hydroton. I do manage to smoke my way through very well, but with a whole new tent I feel the Bubblebags and Dab press are going to be bloody busy.

What on earth has the world come too eh’ I only wanted some persie smoke lol

Take care all
Z

 

[Zaaboot]

So then so then so then, hello everybody, I trust you are all well!
New toys arrived so I will have to get my high vis jacket and get to work

No excuses, time to make a new home for the lambs so they can get slaughtered
Z

 

[Zaaboot]

These are the words of my lovely lady - you have taken over another whole room with your hobby - my answer is…. It was an amusing exchange - I suppose I should have mentioned it over the past couple of days, ultimately it is me behaving like a child who has some new sweets, what else is a man to do whilst on a sabbatical, sit around or grow?

Anyhow - that was a bit of effort - had to take apart a bed and move some furniture out.

Both tents are in place now. To be honest, after one or two runs I will have too much smokeable so will take it down again, or I may continue with my battle against lethargy and take it down when I decide to return to work….who knows, I certainly do not!

The small tent is as big as it is, no idea really found it upstairs is in the garage so must have been sitting there since the olden days still in its box - as mentioned it will solely be for germinating/starting and drying. The large tent is a DR120 from Secret Jardin, I bloody love these but couldn’t find the DR100 for my garage room so went for the budbox and that sucks donkey balls, bloody rubbish it is.

Need to do the electrics etc.. then it will be lights on in the next day or so once the babies are ready

Anyway - ta ta for now you lovelies
Z