5H Club - Drink Lemonade - The Plants Get Sweet Tea
Under the dark of the New Moon, in the Middle of Summer, the next round gets under way.
Am starting this time with genetics (YouTube) for Romberry and Chocolope two each.
Next week to ten days is 100+ prediction so not outside or in a window.
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Got any pic to show us ?
No pictures at this time (already ranted over seedling shots)…
But the Chocolope were first to sink and show tails less than 8 hours
in the paper towel bag. Both chocolopes in cups and moving along.
From what I read… Chocolope is an easy strain to grow for beginners
and needs little in nutes or maintenance. Shall we see?
Unprepared for stages after the cup germination and tubs for sexing.
Will be recycling the soil from the last group and adding amendments
or whatnot and cover that later. Want a couple of weeks to get the
cover crop established while they sex out.
Teas For The THC Man
The Roots Organic folks (Aurora Innovations) have a new TERP TEA
grow and bloom 1 part organic nutrient system. Based on past runs…
At 1 or 2 gallons of water a week - and application rate of 1tsp to 1tbs a gallon
a 3 pound bag will last (bowl instead of doing the math) a long time…
The local shop has fresh brewed teas every weekend but at $5 a gallon
the $15 bag of mix is a better buy. The directions say to bubble it for
24 hours, or can just shake and pour, top dress, or use as a suppliment
to regular routine.
Last run I used the Mammoth P microbes through the flower stage and
not sure how I can measure an increase in terps for a strain I’ve not run
prior. The Tahoe was stinky when I put it in the box and continued until
harvest with the funk. Will Terp Tea bring out the same responses?
2 lumps please…
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Yes i wanted to test those finally here ine of the stores have it but now im still stuck still jave some other stuff when run out hopefully will get some to try, oh and my air pump died so need a new one looool now im doing my teas by hand
Can’t wait to see your future grow! Grabbing a tub of popcorn 
and having a seat 
right here!
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Yes jext germ for me wilk be romberry cuz i want to do more beans out of those
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Cups & Spears
The Romberry was first to pop up overnight. The cover crop is having a good time.
The other bean hasn’t cracked yet and still in the towel phase. It doesn’t look good.
The Chocolopes are down there somewhere. Not even the cover crop has activated.
Thought the tail size when put in soil that they would come up first…
Temps really high so not sure how to light these. Don’t want them to stretch too much,
but don’t want to put under CFL without good circulation (fan died a while ago in veg).
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5H Club Week Waiting On The Weak
Still waiting on the Chocolopes to break soil - their cover crops are only
now starting to crest the top of the cup. Continue to anticipate…
Went into my own breeding project again for testing distribution packs…
GREEN BEAD
This is an outside genetics crossed with in house strain from Summer 17.
This was a slow and shorter mother with nice structure. Didn’t go back and
research my notes on it, but is one more off the list to grow out. (edit was slow/short)
These all sank in 8 hours - towel had sprouts in 24 - fresh and ready to go…
Starting the recycle part of soil on hand. Cleaned the bokashi bucket for next round.
The bokashi “bran” is fermented coffee grounds (brown sugar & lab) left to dry after
a month or more. The bucket is trim fan leaves and the bokashi bran in anerobic
isolation layered and left to do it’s job. The leachate out the bottom can be used
in teas directly or soaked into charcoal pellets and added when filling containers.
So 24 hours later it was spreading fuzzy feelings. The soil was moistened with
ferments, OHN, a bit of Mammoth P and BTI/molassas. Having seen crawlies in
the ginger bed when put to rest the non-sprouts (5 memorial 1 romberry) it all
got the BTI treatment and next day didn’t find them but did see this fuzz.
Score Card:
1 above soil
2 below soil
4 jiffy pucked
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5H Club What’s Bugging Me Now
Well… the BTI didn’t stop the wigglers I could see… but didn’t look close enough.
Out comes the scope and… MITES
Have a feeling these are “Good Guys”
Never looked at my soil that closely before but they fit the description
Long legs up front, hyper active, clear bodies < I’M WATCHING YOU!
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if they’re roaming the soil every time it moves it’s h. miles… I have them as well… them being clear is good… if they were brown then they have been eating the larvae of bad bugs like fg and whiteflies from the soil
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Is your soil a bag one or homemade recipie, i was told from a person on a hydro store, companies were having problems with pest and decided to “contaminate” adding predatory mites, last bags i buyed have them, roots organic emerald mountain , and foxfarm strawberry fields, i had to other bags of sensi auper soil and blackgold, i added some from the other bags to those , and in this run nothing nada of pests 
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The soil was stuff that sat around in a sealed tub while the last run
completed, left over from the bag back in January or so…
If these were in it back then they sure didn’t do anything for gnats.
The ginger was planted after harvest and have been knockin the gnats
with BTI in the herbs and aloe. They are gone finally with no cannabis
to keep happy with water routines. But they may have a part in that too…
Not worried as the organic atmosphere should harbor some critters but
they need to stay contained and unseen or they get the nuke… much the
same policy with the spiders who should eat the gnats but are lazy…
Now I have seen the BRIGHT RED one outside on a cactus but was too
fast to capture or follow where it went.
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5H Club Garden Safe Products
Have been doing more recycling of soils, and the Levi fabric used to
line the basket of JJ seems to have become an input without knowing.
Whatever was active in the soil had a good time. Back to barrier cloth
from here on out…
Tubs prepared with the recycled mix. Some cups and some jiffy puck.
Starting the new run under the dark of the New Moon hasn’t shown
much progress. So for the Full Blood Moon Eclipse will go into my
breeder stash and run the house cross which hasn’t been tested.
Black Bead - Fast & Tall pheno
Red Line is seeds collected during drying prior to full sorting, these were the
ones just hanging out of their skins waiting to drop going into the drying bags.
Dropped the whole 5 pack - quality control test in progress…
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5H Club Full Moon Full On Race
Decided to use up the rest of the Green Bead (6) and see what we get.
Not messing around with weaklings. Have a couple of the first Greens
do odd things… One wanted to go tap root upward and was rescued to
a cup. Another had a half inch stem in a U and leaves grew underground.
It was fixed but probably won’t make it.
One Black Bead is above soil in upper jiffy, The rescued upside downer
is in the cup of the tub on the right. Now it LOOKS like a Chocolope is
in the Upper Right cup, but that’s a buckwheat shoot and if I continue
to put them in the cups as cover crop they might be too large.
Speaking of Cover Crops - got a couple packages of Cat Grass (oats)
and found an odd seed inside. Not sure what it is, might grow it out and
see, but purity of heirloom seeds shouldn’t have invaders.
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5H Club Day After Day
Now at Half a Dozen starts… two early Green - two early Black - two late Green
The Romberry is starting it’s 3rd set of true leaves (all in an inch height) and is 2 weeks today
above soil. Was worried about stretch early on but seems fine.
The upside down (upper center cup) has put out real leaves and might recover, but
the other is moving along on it’s second set.
Had one Black up, then another yesterday (3 more set)
Of the remaining Green, two of them shot up overnight. they are a tiny size so
might be a different pheno than the two already started.
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Love your methods and style. 
Look into ecofelt, it’s made of recycled water bottles so it won’t break down. You can find it by the yard at most fabric stores.
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5H Club Progress And Regress
Well the last of the Green Bead decided it would go full force, all six broke soil within
a day (one still a bit stunty). The germination rate is a bit off but didn’t do ANYTHING
special and perhaps would have gotten better results with the various tricks to sprout.
Moved them into trays under the veg area. Two trays fit nicely under here, but can only
get one tray into the main box. They are just an inch too long and interfere with the doors.
Might try trimming off the lips at each end but that would affect tray stability when moved.
The empty cups are open for cup group, still a few tubs short but 10 is more than expected.
A single Romberry about a week ahead of everything else.
Of the Green & Black Bead stocks… Each had a Tap Root Up (black survived green didn’t)
They also each had one that had leaves under the surface but never broke soil.
The single puck had a hint of green visible so will be allowed to express itself.
One of the cups has a runty slowpoke.
Hopefully the prolonged heat stretch is over and will return to decent overnight temps.
The pucks got put into tubs early as each showed an inch long tap root and want that
to find soil ASAP. The cups need the cover crop to kick in and hold together the root ball.
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5H Club Up Tub Update
Transplanted 5 of the 6 cups into tubs. One still very small an slow.
Romberry is almost ready to be sexed (20 days) but will give it a few more days.
The two Black Bead were up tubbed early for jiffy pucks, one has a good cover crop, not the other.
Of the two early Green Bead - one can hang with the Black & Romberry for sexing, one is weak and
doesn’t support itself. Might let it run or scrap it for the little one still in the cup to use. Same strain so
isn’t a problem. Have A LOT of the GREEN to sort out
Cover crops are hit and miss but will catch up as watering cycle kicks in.
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Enjoying your grow diaries our grow styles are very much in-line with each other! Do have worm bins as well?
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5H Club Two Finger Findings
@Tinytuttle No worm bins, not even a few in my containers. Have thought of it but
not ready to move up to that step for a small space.
Romberry was getting it’s first measurement mug shots, and is right on point where they
are usually put into forced flower mode to sex. Noticed something a couple days ago so
decided to document it…
One of the nodes decided to split off into two finger leaves, on the underside where split off into two
the stems are smooth strong. Will monitor how it grows out, but is above the spot where manifold begins.
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