Getting my mojo back!

Getting back into growing after family life and a teenage step-daughter took priority for a few years but Im back at it ! Can’t stay away !

Environment: 3x3 tent, with a 315 cmh and one 6 inch fan cooling with filter, exhaust is out top left of the tent, a passive 6 inch intake which is coming in the bottom right of the tent, a few clip on fans inside for circulation, I put 10 beans in my solo cups of Roots Organic this morning. T5 in there to pop seeds, but I will also be trying an LED run later on this year in this same environment.

Medium: Roots Organic through veg, for flower, the plan was to use some super soil I mixed up in November. I will get to making a better mix more coots style/no-till for my next run, but I need some better smoke ASAP.

Strain: Fermented Fruit which is Marionberry Kush x Royal Spill, by South Bay Genetics.

Experience: Grew up popping seeds in my closet with CFLs then graduating to a 2x4, then a 4x4, then a 4K sealed room in my old house, all with HPS. This is my first CMH run. Also will be trying LED later this year, I pre ordered the Crecer Lighting Panthrx II mini. Ships out around March 15th! So excited, sorry for rambling on and on...

Wish me luck my brothers and sisters, and much love to all !

Good luck mate can’t keep a grower down to long lol

Got some lil ones poking up through the dirt this morning, 10/10 popped and are starting to shed the seed casing, great germination rate from South Bay Genetics!
I can’t wait to start seeing some phenotype variation and sexing them in the next month
Back on track to relief!

Got one saying hi and unfolding slightly ahead of the others

All 10/10 are unfolding today at lights on, looking good so far, I also put them under a 315 CMH this morning but hung pretty high of course, at the top of my 5’8” tall tent with the seedlings in solo cups on the floor so maybe 3 and 1/2 to 4 feet from them but much stronger than my t5, usually I wait longer to put under HID but I used to use MH/HPS and not CMH so I think frying them was much easier then than it is now with CMH plus all the spectrum benefits

Leaves getting much wider, stems getting much thicker and all of them are much taller this morning

I lowered my light about a foot to prevent any further stretching

I was scared with their first day under CMH to shock them but now I see they transitioned from the t5 to CMH just fine I will keep the light 24” above the canopy

Temp is 75 and 50% RH this morning after lights been on an hour or so

Day 3 of being above ground
Looking good a few of them have purple tipped leaves at new growth and a couple look more green also a few seem to have the slightest glisten of trick production in the past this has been a huge indicator of early frost queens no matter then lineage

Marionberry kush being 50% of the genetics gives me hope for either raspberry kush or space queen traits for flavor and exotic terpenes plus the royal spill lineage with XXX OG and Royal kush in it sounds incredibly potent as well!

So excited to see these girls mature and show sex and phenotype traits I’m jumping out of my skin lol it’s been 4 years since I last grew so I couldn’t be more OCD checking new growth, checking temp and humidity, constant worrying about if everything is perfect but I think I’m doing ok besides not having my 315 CMH light low enough when I put them under it from a single bulb T5 and then letting them stretch a little bit when they first broke ground.

This morning I woke the girls up with some tunes a few minutes before lights on
Phish - Mikes Song Walnut Creek ‘97 !


All my best buds were grown listening to the Dead and Phish that’s how I raise my daughters haha

So they greeted me like this upon opening the tent

Loving my 315 CMH so far, man they are growing a lot faster day to day than my old t5 style veg set up might cut down a little off my veg time at this rate and give me a week or so earlier crop.. let’s see!

This morning I see second true sets of leaves emerging, and it is clear to me that their are at least two phenos already:

the wider leaf one, like indica dominant hybrids I’ve grown in the past, probably takes a little after the xxx og/royal kush in the Royal Spill father

and a skinnier leaf one that looks more of a funny shape leaf like sativa hybrid maybe takes a little after the Space Queen/C99 genes in the Marionberry kush mother

one plant has purple undersides of leaves and purple new growth and looks to stand out above the rest I check them out a few times daily mentally noting all traits and differences with these girls

Makes me want to grab some more South Bay Genetics beans! I also have their Crenshaw Kush I probably will pop those on my next run, everyone have an awesome day!

This morning I looked under some of the solo cups, and several roots were poking out of the bottom, so I wanted to transplanted them before they were root bound, I hate having root bound issues bringing stress I could’ve avoided

1 gallon nursery pots of Roots Organic,
All looking pretty happy and very stinky already, if you rub the underside of leaves or something

Temps average 75-78 humidity range from 35% to 50% which is lower RH some days than I’d like but most of the time very close to where I want it to be

the two smaller plants upon closer inspection look like a little shock from N, as they are clawing a tiny bit, I hope they snap out of it, I would think it is because of starting the seeds direct in Roots Organic which I have done in the past, with mixed results but more seemed to be fine with it than not... but if not and those two have to go then it's okay I am picking my favorites anyway to keep for flower, and will cull any males as well, so I started 10 seeds but really may only need 4- 5 but I'd rather be over a bit and have to move a girl elsewhere than not have enough of my canopy filled out to flip to 12/12

Here is the other 8, i culled other two this morning they were half the size or less, not drinking as much, just stunted overall, & in shock, so I pulled them.. makes it 8/10 but they are rather uniform some taller and shorter but I like what I’m seeing here very much so far

Again great job South Bay Genetics I can’t wait to pop the Crenshaw kush and possibly grab some other beans too ! Plus I got another pack of these sitting in the vault too

This morning looking great biggest plant is about as tall as my index finger ~3” and is spitting out it’s third set of true leaves

Looking good this morning !
3rd set of true leaves on their way

Topped the tallest plant earlier today for the first time as well, as the others catch up in the next few days they will be ready to start their training !

Haircuts resume today so now I have 4/8 topped all in the center of the lights footprint, the outer plants will get their topping in a few days as they catch up

I also watered this morning, getting 12 oz in 1 gallon pots of distilled h20 every other day, with next to no run off as I’m doing soil without bottles then subs super soil for flower

Topping finished today, all 8 looking pretty good just got one straggler in the corner there out of 8 but who knows she may catch up or give the rest a run for their money, we will see...

Happy campers this morning, some are already evening out their tops from the topping on Friday/Saturday

Temperature and RH are 73 degrees and 41% at lights on usually gets up to 78-79 midday with RH varying from 50% when I just watered to 35% when I need to water usually

Will water today and commence training later this week as the new tops spit out more nodes and they’ll get topped one more time at least, maybe two if necessary but if space and time allow for it I’m shooting for multiple even tops possibly 4-6 main colas per plant.

I usually flower in 7-10 gallon pots but in my scaled down 3x3 I’ll flower in 5s this run and see how it all plays out. Was hoping to flip before March but let’s see what we can get done here with subs super soil and a single 315 CMH in a 3x3 it always killed it in a 1000w setup in a 4x4, so I know I’m in store for a pleasant surprise, I’m just taking a yield loss by going from 16 sq ft to 9 but with CMH mixed spectrum and less heat maybe it won’t be that different but quality is the main concern here, not weight.

I’d say this strain likes topping as I did it pretty early before fourth set of true leaves were fully open counting the single blade serrated set and under two weeks from seed

Really liking the growth I’m seeing I think both from good genetics and the CMH I haven’t used one ever before this run, used t5 fixtures for veg mostly in past and a 400 watt MH back in 2011 or so

A buddy of mine told me if I’m setting up a new grow I had to give CMH a run and man I’m glad I listened ! I can’t wait for flower... ok enough cmh rambling

the lil ones looking happy and are responding to training well, stems getting thick for only being 3-4” tall but height is very limited this is only a 5’8” ceiling, I will flower sooner than in the past, even at maybe ~ 14” due to my low ceiling but the plants will hint to me when they are ready I know about what I’m looking for before I flip a nice full canopy and healthy girls with any possible males removed

Cleaned up a little bit of lower nodes and first serrated blades the lower area was much too crowded for my liking

upon closer inspection I have a bit of a cal/mag issue from using only distilled and if I did use tap a few times maybe twice in their life only, as mine isn’t the best quality

so I top-dressed a lil mix I made of Alfalfa/kelp/crab/langbeinite hope it helps was trying to be well rounded from NPK to micros and Ca/Mg

if not I will not use bottled cal mag as I haven’t in years and would rather use teas/top dressing to fix any issues

otherwise looking pretty good happy and pretty healthy besides my water issues