Day 35 Bloom
Unit:
The plants are done stretching and the flowers are coming on strong. We have a couple daughters looking better than their mom. PRMZ4 is shorter, but has larger buds with more trichs than PRMI.
I have removed fan leaves from the intermediate bud zone. The bottom leaves stay on until the plant decides they are done. This lets us foliar feed them in the bloom cycle without worry of bud rot.
Data:
The plants have slowed their eating as expected with the stretch coming to a close. As flowering begins to crescendo, we will start to PK boost.
Volcanic Slap #3 Mutant:
We have a super vigorous version of BRLC. It is stacking hard right now, but we will see about color, yield, and buzz in a few weeks.
As always, your comments and questions are welcome.
-al
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Mom Update
Our moms are 125 days old!
With just another month to go, they are all still alive and ready to be mom plants. Another round of worm poop and a steady diet of tea should ensure their survival.
As always, your comments and questions are welcome.
-al
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Day 42 Bloom
Unit:
Data:
Time to Stack:
We have started to PK boost with Kool Bloom. Liquid Karma, along with Aero Tea help to max terps.
As always, your comments and questions are welcome.
-al
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Day 49 Bloom
Unit:
Data:
We have continued to PK boost. The plants got one of their last tastes of regular nutes.
PRMZ4:
PRMZ4 has an extra level of sparkle that even outshines her mama!
BTFL Him/Her:
As some of you may know, I reversed a Black Truffle(pure Michigan x White Truffle) for another project. I have been very careful with fans and such. However, once I saw the speckled browning pistols, I knew it was time to turn a problem into an opportunity. Why not have any winners already impregnated with feminized Black Truffle pollen?
They are old enough that we can see structure and size, but just young enough to make mature seeds.
Pretty tasty lemonade!
As always, your questions and comments are welcome.
-al
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Looks great @als_weed 
Do you happen to have a medical background at all? Your grow reminds me of a clinical setting, with the clipboard and chair 
Nice work 
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Bloom Day 56
Unit:
Data:
The plants are coasting to the end and not eating much. They got their last PK boost as the pH has bounced around the mid fives.
PRMZ2:
A thick stalked “Bertha” version of Pure Michigan with bigger buds and more trichomes.
Side:
LVCZ3:
A bigger sparklier version of Black Rock Lava Cake. Now if it will just turn black!
PRMZ3:
An oddball that looks a lot like Deep Chunk. It even has a deep earth funk smell, tho the genes are far, far apart.
The project is winding down and I’m starting to play the game of “who is first smoke”?
As always, your comments and questions are welcome.
-al
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Day 63 Bloom
Unit:
Data:
PRMI:
PRMZ4:
Budz:
Many of these are ready to cut, but we are letting everyone go long to let the sprinkling of seeds fully develop.
The plants have stopped eating and tomorrow we will begin clearing the res. We start with draining off half and replacing with RO. I add terps and extra Aero Tea to help retain oils and aromas. Normally this is done twice in the final week, bringing the tds below 200. I prefer to have at least 3 days with lower numbers before chopping.
I’m pretty stoked at the prospect of timber time finally getting here since we started this project back in June. I will be extensively documenting each individual as they come down.
Lotta work, lotta fun! Can’t wait!
As always, your comments and questions are welcome.
-al
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Preliminary Results
Test Bags:
Seeds!:
First of all - Big shout out to the Green Rush Crew! Thanks for spending an evening pinching through not quite dry enough buds to find all the seeds!
We have plenty of seeds to investigate any winners along with BRLCxBTFL and BTFL S1 in the bag.
As for early smoke test results, we have 2 front runners: PRMZ2 and LVCZ3.
Aka:
Mitten Slap - A brain tickling creep that takes an hour to peak. Just keeps coming with enhanced visual and auditory effects. Numbs the nose and teeth.
Volcanic Slap - An ear ringing slap that gives you head awareness - the tilted altimeter feeling that makes you bounce and move.
Some big duds: The GDPZ and WAGZ crosses. None of the daughters came close to exceeding their mothers. I was looking for exotic terps and head whacking buzzes. Found pretty plants with meh smells and forgettable buzzes.
I’m not looking for any clear buzzes. I want folks to KNOW with physical effects and duration, that they have stumbled into something special.
Odds are always long to find the real deal winners. I have not declared any of these so, but we have at least 2 that warrant further investigation.
I’ll have a final report on this round of plants soon. I’m waiting on smoke reports and bud shots to compile the data.
As always, your comments and questions are welcome.
-al
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Straggler Roundup Update
Here’s a pic of Gran Dawgy Purps(back) with her daughter GDPZ1(foreground) at day 63. The mom is outshining the daughter with better structure and aroma.
It’s hard to beat that mom, she’s about 14 years old and has been bred at least a dozen times with no progeny coming close.
She has a nail salon funk that makes your eyes and your mouth water from the fumes. You can’t make wax from her because the oil she creates melts hash. Her sweet flavor with that cloying scent and buzz that makes you move and make lists, will haunt you.
I spent a decade looking up both parental lines to no avail. She’s at the critical age when plants flame out and I’m desperate to find a suitable daughter. We have 2 more straggler GDPZs to look at. Here’s hoping Black Truffle is a suitable suitor.
As always, your comments and questions are welcome.
-al
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-al’s Mail Bag
Occasionally I will repost questions asked in other forums or mail that seem relevant.
You never posted your bloom tea recipe. Please? -b
Here’s What You Need:
Disclaimer First: This is what I use. Your mileage may vary. You can harm your plants if made, used, or dosed incorrectly.
als Bloom Boom Tea
Into a 5 gallon bucket of reverse osmosis water, with a large vigorous airstone add:
1 tspn Great White
1 tspn Epsom Salts
4 tblspn Papa’s Perfect Poop
4 tspn Molasses
1 Alfalfa cube (approx 2 cubic inches)
Let brew 24 - 48 hours. Stir vigorously and mix half and half with RO water to feed. Never use on wilted plants.
Alternate feedings with plain RO all the way till clear time. You need no changing recipe schedule to produce awesome organic buds with reduced root volumes.
Here’s a retired mom in bloom:
She will get wheeled around the room as we reset for the next bloom wave.
This tea has few salts outside the Epsom, which is required. It creates a balanced living PK boost that is replenished every feeding.
The only adjustment that may be required is to add worm castings if you see any Nitrogen defs.
This is also the formula I use to feed plants in the Transition Chamber where the process requires heavy PK.
New She-Male Tasting Silver:
Transformed She/He:
And any tea updates? -b
I have found a cheap grocery store organic molasses that performs better. For 2 bucks you get more nutes and foamier topped teas.
Thank you for your interest.
-al
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Straggler Roundup Update
We have 3 Individuals PRMZ1, GDPZ1, and GDPZ3 in unit 3.
PRMZ1:
She’s a little short, but triched out and pungent.
GDPZ1:
She’s taller and robust with some of her mom’s reek. But a looser looking bud.
GDPZ3:
Extra trichs with the folded leaf trait I normally don’t care for. Not much smell either.
Of course, the smoke test is what matters, and I’ll be back soon with the results.
As always, your questions and comments are welcome.
-al
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We have our own subforum!
This thread has been moved to the new als_weed forum. If you like this thread, check out the other projects I have been working on!
Thank you for your attention. And as always, your comments and questions are welcome!
-al
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And Then There Were Four
These 4 potential moms are all that’s left. Today they are 215 days old and still in their first uppot 2 quart planters. They have survived on only als dirt plant delight tea and supplemental worm castings.
I have aggressively pruned our ladies in waiting. The clippings went to the cloner to make our confirmation clones that will be grown out by my testers in 3 different media and nute regimens. I will run them as well and keep the thread updated with the results.
Our girls will sip tea for another 4 months while their fate is determined with an uppot to a gallon container soon.
Roller Girl:
A couple folks asked how Roller Girl, our mascot WTFL dirt girl is doing. With about 3 weeks of bloom left, she’s purpin and terpin with a stank! Her diet will continue to be als Boom Bloom tea every other day until clear cycle.
We have a new als_weed forum on Overgrow.com! Come join us there in the sponsored section to see all the cool projects.
The als_weed/GRF network now includes:
als_weed forum on Overgrow.com
Green Rush Farms forum on ICMag.com
Nonsponsored threads on THCFarmer.com
As always, your comments and questions are welcome.
-al
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15th = Calibration Day!
As a regular product tester, I have learned that establishing rituals is an excellent way to make sure certain things get done.
Just like always putting your keys on the hook, for me, the 15th of every month is calibration day.
This is something that many do only after they are performing an autopsy and trying to figure out what the hell happened. It can sneak up on you and before you know it, you don’t know anything.
The reason we have instruments is to gather knowledge, and if they are faulty, they can tell you to do the exact wrong thing.
You don’t need expensive equipment, just take care of what you have. My first Hanna Nutridip was over $1,200. I use the $29 variety now.
Calibration Math: 15 minutes a month on the 15th = Situational Awareness and happy plants.
Aa always, your comments are questions are welcome.
-al
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Confirmation Grow Update
Here we are starting a confirmation run. We are confirming whether PRMZ2, LVCZ3, GDPZ1, and GDPZ4 are worth further research. PRMZ2 and LVC3 are also being grown out by test growers in dirt and coco.
GDPZ1 has a nice combination of Slapz and GDP attributes. However the bud is a little fluffy for my taste, since loose nugs tend to crumble and degrade fast in storage. The nutes are a little stouter in this run and the plant is a little larger. If it improves I will pass it off for further testing.
This is what happened last time I tried to plant GDPZ4! Took this long to get back to it, but here’s hoping!
As always, your comments and questions are welcome.
-al
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I have made an official schedule for the timing and amount of Aero Tea that we will use going forwards:
Day 0 – 2 cups with initial setup
Day 14 – 2 cups
Day 21 – 2 cups with res change
Day 35 – 1 cup with res change
Day 49 – 1 cup
Another Aero Tea rule we have at Bloom Haus is that every Wednesday the tea is thrown out and made fresh.
If you are wondering what the heck is Aero Tea? - Scroll up, get the recipe, check out the Q&A, and watch your plants thrive!
As always, your questions and comments are welcome.
-al
Note: I continue to use this thread as a repository for all my recipes and techs.
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In a Pinch for Cheap Pest Control?
If you like to use peppermint oil for bugs and mold in foliar sprays, you can find this product for $1.25 at Dollar Tree:
Add the 2 ml to a gallon of RO water and you have a dose of Plant Therapy with even more desiccation power, while using food safe ingredients.
I use al’s Super Feed N Kill Foliar Spray every 3 days as both a preventative and growth accelerant (We don’t spray buds, just the undercarriage on older plants). I have substituted this in the formulation without issues. If you want to try out my spray, the recipe can be found in the”4 Crosses of Slapz” thread on this board. Your plants will visibly love it!
As always, your comments and questions are welcome.
-al
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