I haven’t smoked any in a couple months. I will pull a nug out of the grove bag this weekend and pop a new carbon filter on my moose labs mouthpiece for my bong and report back on your thread. Terps are premo man. Serious Bubblegum. Grove bags ROCK!!!
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You can sow more than one plant in a pot you know. 
Works fine, diversity is good, why grow one plant when you can have two smaller ones that give you the same amount in total, maybe more?
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That may well be what happens.
I started this way thinking I’d have to try my hand at selection. I guess it would actually be more informative to make some initial assessments, grow them out and learn from it. If I get rid of plants it’ll be tough to know whether or not my guesses are valid or not.
We’ll see, I’ve got at least a month to decide what I want to do.
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Got some beans cracked, tails starting. I think I’ll pot 'em all up tomorrow morning.
Probably not worth pics yet.
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Hey friend. Just wanted to drop in and make sure I’m subbed for your next grow.
Much love bud.
Great lineup you have chosen. Must have been tough picking!
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Soaked my starter pellets, which are coco, because I bought several boxes last year. I like the finely milled texture of them. They worked well then, I’m sure they will again. I used a dash of Age Old Kelp Extract and a tiny amount of Aloe with a splash of H2O2 as suggested. Unwrapped and placed these into my starter pots surrounded by damp starter mix (using Jiffy brand because it was on sale). Mix of my process last year as well incorporated suggestions made by @Dirt_Wizard in post #18. I’ll get some gypsum for Ca because I did notice a bit of deficiency there on one of my seedlings.
AKBB 907 Blue Genes
Looking a little funky, didn’t expect 2 tails on two of these! I’ll cull the runts as soon as it is feasible to do so, seems once they break ground and have cotyledons that’ll be easier. I’m going to abandon this uncracked bean upper right. Into the pots they go! Our conjoined twin seeds are in pots A and D, respectively. @LD50 we’re preparing for takeoff down here, rare shit happening
FDM Indiana Bubblegum
I set this up for a photo but didn’t take any. Rushing with excitement. All but one nice tails, one is a little slow.
Ace Panama x Malawi
I’ve been calling this Panawi, but I think @noknees has a better name with Panalawi. Henceforth, these will be called that instead. All 3 perfect, ready-to-rumble.
All going into my ghetto grow tent, a section of storage closet in my office. I’ve got two 4’ LED shoplights that were on sale at Walmart last year, I think the duo was about $20. Recreating my setup last spring but did a better job cutting the cardboard this time.
Light cycle I’m doing the same as last year, with a target transplant date of 5/7. 6am-8pm so 14 hours. Twilight hours are going to be 5:50am-8:15pm, with actual sun-up 6:10am-7:57pm on the 7th. Worked well last time, sticking to it unless there is a convincing reason to alter it.
I’ve got a heat mat and I’ll control the temp using my over-utilized space blanket reflector technology. :LOL: Let’s just say I don’t regret buying these in bulk. They’ve gotta be less than a dollar each, but haven’t bought a big package of them in sometime because they last pretty well indoors. This is the same blanket I used last season.
I’ll be adding a small fan once the dome comes off. There’s room for two trays because I’ll be starting the peppers, tomatoes, pumpkins, watermelons and more in the coming weeks. All the hardware is the same as used last season. I keep saying that because I feel like it helps justify to my wife the $100 hose I bought yesterday, telling her “it’ll last for years,” which isn’t untrue. Honestly, I don’t even need to justify anything, I just do. Whatever. But most of the shit is from last year. Here I go rambling.
Yesterday I planted two blueberry plants from Home Depot. Our little one LOVES blueberrys. I guess for the first year I need to keep them from fruiting, which will be challenging to resist. They went into what I’m guessing are about 20 gallon planters with a mix of my new “extra spicy” soil and conventional bagged potting soil leftover from last year. I had basically filled my car with it last March when there was a sale, there were a few unopened bags leftover. I used a similar technique I’ll use when I transplant the herbs - spicy soil on the outside edges, mild soil all around the transplant rootball, sprinkle of mycos inside the hole for the rootball. Roughly 50/50 spicy/mild by volume. I’ll add some asthetically pleasing rock so the other half is content with their appearance on the patio.
My meager grass lawn seems like it will work. Compost worked in, mixture of bermuda and something else, straw blankets, new sprinkler, everything looking good on that front. We’ll see how the next few weeks go.
I’m very excited for the season upcoming, not just about the weed plants. But definately excited about those in particular.
CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF
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Oooo, those clear plastic tops are nice. I’m going to have to do something like that in the future.
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Right On Man!!! 
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Mmmm I like my soil spicy. 
PS I once grew a watermelon here at 55N… it made it to about baseball size and I was so excited to eat it. Then my dog ate it.
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I love my watermelons, they do grow easily here. They’re really hard to time harvest right (I find anyway), your dog may have been less dissappointed than you would have been. Sorry to hear that 
I’ve harvested at least half of mine when all the “signs” were there - soft flower-end, dryed out and curled up little tentacle at the vine end, and half of them weren’t ready. Two of them, absolutely exceptional. Made up for all the frustration. Trying again this year, hopefully have a better ratio of success. It’s depressing to chop a big, beautiful melon only to find it tastes like water or is overripe. I went both directions trying to nail it.
@mota they came from the local nursery, same place I got the trays. The tall vented ones were more expensive than the shallow ones, so I got one of each type. Happy with them. I use the shallow one for popping veggie seeds that’ll go straight from the coco pucks to outdoors.
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For me, I think the taller ones will be just the ticket. The fact that there’s less chance to tip over than Solo cups on a baking sheet is worth the price of admission. I’d go from those to 1 gals. that wouldn’t need to be protected from the birds, just as I will those now in Solos.
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I like these a lot, very thick and sturdy to last for years with nice dial vents, they’re stiff enough to mount a small computer fan onto and then you can even use an Inkbird or whatever to control humidity inside:
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Woah man, rare indeed! Did you happen to notice that those twin seeds were any larger before you popped them? I’ve never personally seen that before!
I’m really loving the details across the board. You’re bringing a lot of new life to our side of the space time continuum! Garden veggies and fruits, a nice new turf stand, and of course the twin 907 twins. I’ll be in the front row watching this season!!
What seed type are you going with for the lawn?
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@LD50 The twin seeds looked totally normal to me, not bigger or smaller, not any more or less ripe than the others. All the seeds I saw putting them into towels, across breeders, looked good. The Panalawi seeds were the smallest of the lot overall, I did notice that. To preserve the fun for the future, I just took the first seeds out of the vial, rather than hunt for the best looking beans like I did last season.
The lawn is a mix of Bermuda and Kentucky Bluegrass. I did a mix of types because our seasons kinda bridge the extremes between cold and heat, and it’s a east-facing plot with shade in the afternoons/evenings. We’ll see how it goes, but I gave it my best effort.
The gardening veggies/fruits is a lot of fun. I loved making my own salsa, tomato sauce, hot sauce last year. If there’s interest I’ll throw those processes up as well.
Last season, I kept an excruiciatingly detailed grow log as a text file. I really appreciate being able to go back with pictures later in the season once I found OG and started posting regularly. This time, I’m doing the detail I normally do for myself, adding pictures, and hopefully others will come on the ride with me. I learned a lot last year from reading other people’s grow logs, especially indoor ones where stuff got posted pretty much daily throughout the plants lives. Thanks for the compliment!
I’m learning too, so this isn’t a “reference” quality grow, but hopefully as I learn, the mistakes get captured, posted by me, corrected by the sages on here, and others can learn along with me. I fully expect to make mistakes here.
@Dirt_Wizard thanks for posting that link! Mine has different vent style but otherwise functionally equivilent. It is much more robust plastic than the simple one.
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Nice. Riverbanks are a perfect place to get soil. So perfect, in fact, the 4 cradles of civilization popped up along rivers (the Nile in Egypt, the Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia, the Indus in India and the Yellow (named after the color of its silt, not as a slur) in China.
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Not all rivers, all the two stroke PWC in my area I def wouldn’t want any from that shoreline, bunch of metals,oil, and fuel
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That sucks. A lot of the rivers here are also polluted. We had one case where a paper mill was dumping mercury into the river, while the game and fish authorities attributed the mercury levels to “natural fluctuations” or words to that effect.
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I’ve given it a go basically for that reason @Herrsquidward ! We’ll see how it goes. It’s the Rio Grande, so definitely not the cleanest water in the world but its supported agriculture in this region for at least a thousand years now. Of course nowadays we’re taxing that capability quite a bit.
I think I’m going to mail my “new” dirt in for a detailed soil test, so it’s got another week or so to cook before I collect it, and I’ll still have a week or two to make corrections. Any thoughts?
Thanks for all the participation and input as always.
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Sounds like a good game plan. Even in warmer climates, it’s often unwise to plant anything in its permanent home until May 1. Testing your soil will definitely give you an advantage.
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I can’t do it. Smoke some. Allergy season started early. I just can’t seem to get away with smoking anymore. I’m finally listening to my body I guess. Vapin and edibles are my preferred consumption every day. I smoke and it fucks up my sinuses for a week or longer. I smoked some a couple of months ago and it tasted just as smooth and sweet as it smells. The IB high is very balanced and unique in itself. 5-star cannabis in my book.
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