Berten-Ernie's new room design and garden

Humple said:

You might want to order fewer strains and instead increase the quantity of seeds per strain. Ordering just one of each leaves you with no fallback for grows gone south, and no phenotypical variance from which to choose the best keeper.

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Well i slimmed down my Bonza order to compose of just the cbd strains. And that order has been placed. Now i just have to manage a way to use crypto to pay for the attitude order. If i slim that one down to just a handfull of the top choices, i dont want to experience burn-out after a month of smoking the same strains. I do acknowledge some seeds will not sprout, or just not be worth keeping. So maybe a few less strains for this order and when it gets closer to cropping out, ill place another. Or just keep some clones around from this order. Who knows.

Progress. The breeder cards say these seeds are 2016 promo stock
1. Jumping Black Dash
2. Grand Heft Auto
3. Choc-Matic

And success #2. We have orders placed with both Bonza and Attitude. The race is on to see which seedbank is faster/more discreet.

Bonza:
1 X Girl Scout Cookies by CBD Crew
1 X The Cure by Bonza Rocknrollups Collection
2 X Blooz Brudder by Bonza Rocknrollups Collection

Attitude:
1 X Fruity Chronic Juice by Delicious seeds
1 X Royal Purple Kush CBD by Emerald Triangle
1 X Pineapple Chunk by Barneys Farm
3 X Big Bud XXL by Ministry of Cannabis
3 X Gorrila by Dinafem

And i got all these freebies from Attitude:
1 X OG13 by G13 Labs
1 X Peyote Critical by Barneys Farm
1 X AK Automatic by BlimBurn
1 X Northern Hog by T H Seeds
1 X Purple Trainwreck by Humboldt Seed Org
1 X Red Diesel by Barneys Farm
1 X California Orange by Expert Seeds
1 X Purple Haze by G13 Laba
1 X White Siberian by Dinafem

berten-ernie420 said:

And success #2. We have orders placed with both Bonza and Attitude. The race is on to see which seedbank is faster/more discreet.

Bonza:
1 X Girl Scout Cookies by CBD Crew
1 X The Cure by Bonza Rocknrollups Collection
2 X Blooz Brudder by Bonza Rocknrollups Collection

Attitude:
1 X Fruity Chronic Juice by Delicious seeds
1 X Royal Purple Kush CBD by Emerald Triangle
1 X Pineapple Chunk by Barneys Farm
3 X Big Bud XXL by Ministry of Cannabis
3 X Gorrila by Dinafem

And i got all these freebies from Attitude:
1 X OG13 by G13 Labs
1 X Peyote Critical by Barneys Farm
1 X AK Automatic by BlimBurn
1 X Northern Hog by T H Seeds
1 X Purple Trainwreck by Humboldt Seed Org
1 X Red Diesel by Barneys Farm
1 X California Orange by Expert Seeds
1 X Purple Haze by G13 Laba
1 X White Siberian by Dinafem

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Not the quickest,,,which is providing high quality seeds with great genetics !

So heres the latest pics. These were taken on Friday.
1) Choc-Matic
2) Grand Heft Auto
3) Jumping Black Dash
These ladies have been sprouted for about 2 weeks.

Seed orders should be here by this friday. Cant freakin wait. I need to start them asap. Im already way behind schedule.

Look at that growth. These girls are cruisin. Seed orders scheduled for delivery today.

Alright Alright Alright...the seeds that im hoping to sprout...
1.) Blimburn Seeds AK Auto
2.) TH Seeds Northern Hog Auto
3.) Dinafem Seeds Gorilla
4.) Ministry of Cannabis Big Bud XXL
5.) Delicious Seeds Fruity Chronic Juice
6.) Barneys Farm Pineapple Chunk
7.) Emerald Triangles Royal Purple Kush CBD
8.) Dinafem Seeds Peyote Critical

Bonza order hasn't arrived yet but its scheduled for tomorrow. So im gna start these 8 today and when Bonza order arrives im going to start the CBD Girl Scout Cookies by CBD Crew. I was going to let them sit 24Hrs in water before putting them into root cubes in my diy "rapid-rooter". But i just decided to put them into the root cubes in the rooter and wait. Temps stay a moderate 80°-85°F and the humidity with the lid closed stays at 75-85%. The "rapid-rooter" is simply a small storage tote with a root cube tray inside, and a heating pad under the tray set to 15 mins on, 15 mins off over a 24hr period. I poured about a half gallon of water inside to keep humidity up with the help of the heating pad. So as the heating pad heats up, the water gets warm, raising the humidity, keeping the root cubes nice and moist. Hopefully these babies crack within 3-5 days. Realisticly theyll probably take about 7-10 days as i didnt soak them. But we shall see. And these autos i got going right now are just booming. Need to start supplementing some calmag and i have some azos im going to introduce with the next watering as well.

Room stats (LIGHTS 18/6)
Temperature lights on: 76°-82°F
Humidity lights on: 50%-60%
Temperature lights off: 68-72°F
Humidity lights off: 80%-86%

Things hopefully start moving faster here on out. Cant wait to see what this room can really do.

We have sprouts!! Most of the seeds popped up, a few have just cracked and the tap is starting to dig but the shell hasnt broke the surface yet. All but 2 have shown signs of fertility. So for the Blimburn Seeds AK Auto that hasnt shown any sign of life, i have a Blooze Brudder getting ready to germ in its place, and in the Fruity Chronic Juices spot, the Purple Trainwreck getting ready as well. Every other one i attempted should sprout within the next day. I did notice the Royal Purple Kush CBD seed was semi deformed and had a tough time popping off the shell after she broke the surface, and after further investigation, i saw larvae inside the shell, so i immediately tried to pop the shell off by hand and in doing so, pulled the cotyledon leaves completely off. Luckily tho, the firsst set of true leaves had already began forming so i may get lucky with her. Only time will tell. As far as the autos go, they are booming. I keep bending 2 of the tops down to try and get a scrog going. Theyre too short for a net as of right now but hopefully within a couple weeks will be ready. Will post new pics tonight after lights kick back on. The third auto, the Chocmatic is just a tiny little plant still. Not sure whats going on with her. But she is literaly only 4 inches tall whereas the other 2 are almost 8.

From seed left to right:
Pineapple chunk
Peyote critical
Fruity chronic juice

About 2 weeks old.

Same story:
Gorilla
Girls scout cookies cbd
Big bud xxl

About 2 weeks old

Autos kinda lookin dreary. Jus fed them for the first time. Thought my soil was a little stronger than it was.

Left to right:
Chocmatic
Grand heft auto
Jumping black dash

And my purple strains
Left to right:
Royal purple kush cbd
Blooze brudder
Purple trainwreck

Also, in the offset pot in between the brudder and trainwreck is the northern hog auto in a 2 gal smartpot. I dont think shes gna make it. Looking awefully wilty. Time will tell.

The latest upgrade. Threw some valves onto the watering setup. So i can control each pot individually as far as watering/feeding. This setup makes keeping these plants fully hydrated an absolute breeze. So little work goes into watering now. Only thing i need now is a fish tank filter to keep the water from getting stagnant. I did have an air pump continuously pushing air into thr res, but i noticed that the airline got kinda slimey after about a week. Maybe i need more airflow, so maybe a bigger air stone, or more than one airpump. Not sure. But i know a fish tank filter couldnt hurt anything as well as an airstone. Any suggestions to keep slime from building up??

Did your ak auto ever sprout?

Serverchris said:

Did your ak auto ever sprout?

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Unfortunately it did not. It wouldve been in the small offset pot in ny latest pic to post. That pot only has dirt and my temp/Rh guage on it. It was the only one of 14 attempts that didnt pop up. It also was the only one to go right into dirt and not into a root plug. Maybe that had something to do with it. Maybe i killed it. Maybe it was just a dud seed. But i got 13 fairly decently healthy plants to sprout from seed so im pretty happy with that germ rate.

Newest. The soil for the fruity chronic juice (the tiny little thing in the first pic) is presumably too weak or the ph is off. Cuz she isnt growing for shit. But all the others are just a cruising.

Well i need to start building the scrog to throw ontop these ladies. I put my little scrog ontop 2, but i want one to go ontop all them per side. So 2 nets for all 12 plants. Theyre not very tall still. Think thats cuz of the 4000k cobs. The lights are about 2 ft above the canopy, and still theyre not stretching. Temp variance is a mere 8-10 degrees night/day. Maybe more of a swing will help them shoot up. All i know, they need to get some height to them real soon. I have topped most of them; aside from the autoflowers, the runt in the corner, and the purple trainwreck thats just a tad too short/not enough nodes yet.

1 net is built and in place. Autos are looking a bit light in color. Gna feed em heavy when lights kick on later today.

Latest n greatest. These autos are filling in pretty decent. And boy are they getting greasy!

berten-ernie420 said:

Latest n greatest. These autos are filling in pretty decent. And boy are they getting greasy!

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Thanks for the love fellas. Im thinking these girls should veg for another month n half or so, coming up on their first feed. Theyve just been leaching off the soil up to this point. Gna hit em pretty light on their first feed and see how they respond. Ive been dropping the temps down to around 64°-66°F lights off, and with them on, its about 80°-84°F. So im giving them a bigger swing hoping they will stretch up a bit more. Lights are dialed down to minimum power and are at about 26inches away from the canopy. So im not sure what more i can do to trigger a taller stretchier plant. The ones under the 8 cob array seem perfect. Thats all 3000k and 2700k. These 4 cob arrays have a mix of 4000k and 2700k. Im thinking the 4000k is keeping them squattier. But idk, didnt have a height issue when it was just one rail in the veg closet last run. I have to tweak this and find the sweet spot with all 4 rails going.