5H Club © West Coast High Tea

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5H Club Cover Trim and Early Flowers
Back on Tuesday, flipped the lights from the 700 bars to the 1050 level & spectrum.
On Friday was going to go full bloom lighting, but temps too high and have to wait.

Not sure why this group is smaller than usual, but the heat has some blame.
The bloom group at flip were 25 days or more above soil and Romberry closer to a month.

The Romberry starting to bush out a bit, the odd split shot off two branches in a weird way.
The buckwheat has started a flower? Right now just nodes but should burst open soon?

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5H Club Ready Or Not - Black & Green Saga
The first group put in with the Romberry for sexing. Are a bit small but the day count is right and the next group is crowding the schedule and will be put in next week for sexing.


The Black Bead only at 4 inch and are 2 days behind the Green Bead set.

The top Green Bead went wonky at the top, but is at least a decent height at this point.
The lower is about the same as the Black Beads. Will see what happens next as they were originally a slower starter genetically. Next post the veg group and some are bigger than these already…

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5H Club Very Veg Varies
The second groups should be ready next Friday for same treatment.

These numbered by height today, the larger first.

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5H Club Friday Flip Off

None have shown yet, nor are they stretching much.
Companion crops seed to be out growing (cover descriptive word)

Getting very bushy in near the main stalk, the buckwheat is in bloom.

The Black Bead - #1 is still a bit short and hasn’t started any lower branching yet.
And #2 has got the ‘claw’ and suspect over water.

Green Bead #1 has gone mutant on a leaf and topped itself. Still robust but weird.
Gb2 also very short yet and no real branching. Environment isn’t ideal but these are stunted.

But buckwheat blooms…

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5H Club Second Verse Please Don’t Curse

The second set of seedlings from the remaining Green Bead pack are at day 25 above soil.
They (mostly) are a bit closer to what I’d like at this stage, they go in the main box 12/12 a few
days later than usual but timing it for easy scheduling.

Got my soils for the upcoming run. Roots Organic Original - vs - Roots Organic Green Lite
The Green Lite is much the same as Original with the Ocean amendments - kelp, crab meal, etc…
Have to wait until the clone run cycle to do a direct side by side, but will probably use it with
which ever plants sex out and ready to run.

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5H Club Full Moon Frustrations

Dropped a pair of the Original Stock beans used for the breeding run.
They are a year older… still quantity is limited… see if can get a female.
Hope the environment is a bit more friendly to these, but will get fresh soil
instead of the amended which may either have been too much or too little.

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5H Club Lunacy & Luck
Made the first round of cuts. Only one of the first group was kept.
The best looking Black Bead - The other was small and not showing good growth.
Of the two Green Bead - one small and other with a top issue and mutant growth.

The secondary seedlings are all Green Bead so no reason to save the early ones that
weren’t looking great.
The Romberry is a male or is looking that way… a day or two will confirm. The second
set is just entering 12/12 and being short isn’t bad if they will give a bit of growth to the under side.

With the Parent Stock pair also dropped: A purple strain bean of uncheckable origin, and a pair of
medical compassion beans. The P is Roots Original - O Roots Original - G Roots GreenLite.
The white zip cups were the chocolope planted 45 days ago that never broke soil and will get
the medical volunteers (no change to previous soil with more cover crop added).

Failure to lock down a female in August means harvest delayed another month also.
Almost certain to get a female from the 5 remaining in group2, not what I’d like a full run
of, but will take what grows…

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5H Club No Knowing Yet

It’s been a week since they went in with full strength lights in a 12/12 cycle.
They’ve grown a bit and are just starting to bush out on the under branches.

The Black Bead is a week ahead of the rest, but still in a veg state. But it more like what expect to see.

This one is a bit bushier underneath than the others.

All of them show even internodal spacing between branches. With the five all of the same
seed batch, there is a not much variation in them at this stage…

The new seedlings came up this week, 4 of the 6 so far are above soil.
The Parent Stock and Medical both sprang tails right away, the purple didn’t show me
anything (no crack, tail, etc) but got put direct into soil with a special Tahoe bean that
didn’t get a soak but straight to dirt. The pair share a cup, and possibly a tub for sexing.
Should be easy to tell them apart if it really is a purple…

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Just a quick update…

This is the progress I look for at the 7 day above soil point. The firs set of leaves have reached the edges
of the cup AND they are just above the lip of the cup. More and more of my seedlings are taking a bit
longer.

No blush at day 7… one of the crosses of this strain showed a blush on the underside of the leaves on
day 7. So far the ones having the blush have been female. Would be nice to breed in an early sexing
trait, but more testing. Just not seeing it on the newest from the original strain.

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5H Club Dirty Girls & Dead Dudes

This was the Thurs morning shot, got the tubs prepped and cover crop started. Still waiting at this time.
But they started showing sex for the early group, and seedling approaching a week with good root mass.
Not cannabis root mass, but the cat grass (oats) every single cup had fuzzy roots out the bottom. They
were circled and held the soil into a solid ball for transplant.

The Black Bead turned out male and Green3 was also going nuts. Their tubs got reused for
the seedling batch to get the Tahoe and Purple into the game and out of the split level cup…

Green 1 - 2 - 4 all were confirmed female Number 5 still nothing yet but extra to hang around.
The buckwheat look like it prefers a shady location to flower, in Number 2 it’s blooming right
under one of the fan leaves… it’s gone now…

Went with 2 baskets and a fabric for this round. The combo fits a tray and still has room for
other tubs. Crowded AF in here at moment, about 2 weeks until seedlings go into the same
cycle for sexing so box will be veg for that long. The baskets should be ready for the veg
area and training while that’s going on, and almost ready for flower about the time they show.

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5H Club More Bits & Pieces
As a habitual manglefolder, have spent many happy induced hours
thinking about training and keeping an even canopy…
Browsing a 99 center found what they called a locker shelf…

It’s got folding legs with METAL locking corners, can drop it directly over a plant and
start tie downs. Coming just under the level used in previous runs it will allow a nice
6 to 8 inch upward space where the main colas should grow…
Might notice at bottom that I bought two of them as you never know when they will
again be available. One question though… With the dimensions used it wouldn’t fit
in anything but the tall locker room style so not sure what market niche they fit…

[ReikoX]

Nice find!

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5H Club Veg VaVaVoom

Moved the trimmed trio and a few of the seedlings under the veg light for the week.
The spectrum is the same as the main box, the current is the same, but the strips are
a foot lower in the veg area. This puts the grow zone lower and they like it…

The seedlings are still working on week 2 of their initial growth. Another week and they go
into the box to sex. About the time they have sexed out the three main should be ready.



The are next round contenders depending on sex. Two original stock and a purple mystery.
Have a couple more seedlings but unless they show something special won’t be needed.

Number 5 took it 's time to sex and was a couple days later than the other trio.
Will veg it for a while and if all goes as planned will attempt to graft the other three
plants of the same strain onto a single mom. Still a work in progress…

The veg area doesn’t have proper exhaust filtration and will work on that for the
next week or so. Have all the parts just need to put it together… it’s brilliant…

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5H Club Early Week Counting Down

The sexed plants are at day 10 of veg. No.4 (red) was throwing pistils and got topped but
still just LST to keep it flat for right now. No.1 (green) was putting on a good stretch and was
topped at both upper and lower nodes. No.2 (fabric) got tied down the other day and waiting
for the ends to stretch up before topped.

The Purp and O_pair at day 17-19 of veg moving toward flip day on Friday.
No.5 happy so far and staying compact. Since No.4 was first to show, it’s a bit further along
and pistils on unchecked growth expected.

The O_pair hanging out in veg area and the topping of No.1

This pair has been in the main box, but up a tub level in height (two would be better)
They are the same age (day 17ish) as the O_pair and Purp but barely clear the rim of
the tub (about an inch) but have really broad leaves. While the other will flip on Friday,
this pair will move to veg area and perhaps raised to the happy zone.

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5H Club Over 21 Center Stage

The O pair have reached day 21 along with the NPurple, all are about 6 inches
more or less what am looking for at this stage.

Trimmed back the under growth a bit and they are now flipped until we know what they are.
The 09 pair are also at day 21 and barely 2 inches tall. BUT down underneath they have a
compact 5 or 6 nodes in height. They will get another week but watching close just in case
they show naturally in the veg room.

And speaking of the veg room…

All the first run are at 2 weeks veg, have all been topped and training started.
The Mom staying compact but will get it’s grafts this coming week when clones are
taken from the others before they go to flower lighting cycle.

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5H Club Out OUT Damn Spots…

A new wrinkle in the green group. Have been lax on the IPM for the
non-cannabis collection. The Sage hasn’t ever done much or looked
happy but attributed that to SIPs style in a coffee cup experiment.

Grabbed a leaf and threw it under the scope and sure enough little
two-spot nasties. Chop Chop Fizz Fizz it got cut and H2O2 drench.

Next up - the Pea cover crop in the ginger bed. Only put 2 in each
container and was trying to train them to climb the ginger stalk, but
they kept wanting to run along the ground. When I looked at it’s leaf
found a couple live ones but also a half dozen sucked dry shells…

Now the ginger bed itself has soil mites which I’ve been watching
and torturing for a month or more… When they moved in (noticed)
all the flying critters disappeared. (gnat free at last, good or bad)
While these might turn out to be predator mites (hopefully) they are
lazy ones that don’t seem to want to climb plants to lake care of
business.

And lastly…
Have been pushing for the last year (or more) the benefits of a
companion planting of CILANTRO that the package says is
“reputed to reduce aphids, spider mites, and carrot rust fly”.
Ok as far as that goes, but they were on the cilantro itself
and not looking too happy about it.

What to do - What to try - What will work

The cover crops got chopped and dropped as a mulch layer,
then a soil drench over it of the usual SNS-209 OHN LAB
cocktail a bit stronger on the SNS than normal. Followed up
but foliar application of lower strength with surfacant to all
the cannabis since nothing in flower now anyway.
When that drys in a day or so will dust with the D_Earth.

Now my SNS is the last of the bottle from last year but should
still be effective but will get a new one in the next supply run.
Or might try something different if an organic solution available.

[ReikoX]

You may find this article useful, using cilantro as a pesticide.

ClackamasCoots's Effective Spider Mite and Pest Spray without Neem

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That was useful, much the same ideas expressed elsewhere but with a recipe to follow.
In the last run, the cilantro was doing great, and every time I cut it down it would fill the
box with an overpowering scent. A few times I’ve suggested a cilantro smoothie when
an outbreak was driving them to extreme measures. Not many replied back if they tried
it with results. By time they ask forums it’s usually too late to save anyway…

Now… if the weather will cooperate and stop driving the temps up to 90s daily…
Bring on the rain…

I’ve got a blendTech *** Fuck yeah it will blend…

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AL - OH (much like Homer’s Doh!)
Reading that article and a few others…

Aloe Vera is a nutrient accumulator and works well when foliar sprayed onto plant leaves just before sunlight. Nutrient accumulators are great sources for the full panorama of elements that your plants need. It contains a plethora of amino acids (Isoleucine, Lysine, Glutamine, to name a few) along with enzymes (Amylase, Catalase, Cellulase) as well as micro nutrients (Vitamins A, C, E, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12) along with choline, calcium, magnesium, zinc and more. But that’s not all! Aloe vera also has lignins and polysaccharides including Galactose and Xylose.

Aloe Vera has two very important compounds for overall health growth, saponins and salycilic acid. Saponins are typically promoted as wetting agents or surfactant, but their role is far more complex than that. Their roles relate to triggering plants in different systems, most specifically the system acquired resistance (SAR) and hormone acquired resistance (HAR).

Was supposed to take out the pups and repot this Spring but the gardening group didn’t want to
sponsor an aloe give away party… Was over looking resources already at hand.
Only take a stalk when cloning for the most part, will get in there and do up a FPJ
as I’ve wanted to in the past but put off too often…

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5H Club Mid Week Peek

The short ones are day 26 from seed, have been in the flower box for most of day cycle
but are still getting the extra light in veg area from it’s cycle. They have been up a level and
have both gotten a bit more height.

Almost getting to the point where they can come down to tray level and not sit on a prop.
No sex yet but liking what’s happening.

The second is also filling out and coming along nicely.

Purple has caught up in the running and don’t think this pheno is early coloration…

Veg are coming along, still need to take clones. As soon as others show sex these will get flipped.
Only hope I don’t go overboard on the IPM this weekend and really tick them off…