Hey fellow OG’ers! Welcome, come on in have a toke and make yourselves at home. Thank you for stopping by to check out my very first Long overdue seed to harvest OverGrow log.
First, I want to acknowledge all those that came before me; the growers, stewards and pioneers of the plant, those that built this awesome space for all of us to share our experiences with Cannabis. Also, want to give a huge thank you to the many members on Overgrow that have helped track down genetics, contributed their own time work and effort. To those that have shared with me, I am both humbled and grateful.
This thread serves as a written and digital diary as well as a collaborative infographic, meaning your posts are welcome.
That being said, please try to keep comments on topic for the ones searching for information. Thank you in advance.
If you have something you’d like to discuss off topic, please feel free to direct message me anytime.
Super excited to finally get the grow fired back up after a year long hiatus stemming from a series of unfortunate and fortunate events.
Between equipment failures at critical points in the grow / harvest, losing whole crops to bud rot followed by pest infestations in the mother room while away on a trip, it seemed I couldn’t catch a break. At some point I decided to toss everything and completely nuke the space with ozone and bleach. After I gutted the room, I started designing something more automated with redundancies built in to key equipment. I was very lucky to secure 3 used, scyence dragon sl 600’s, an Agrotek grow controller, flood table and a fifty gallon barrel for the reservoir. I settled on a 2 gallon flora flex kit for coco and the turtle paced race to rebuild the room was on. After months of R&D, helpful pointers from peers, testing, several changes to plumbing, equipment and layout, this is the setup I decided to run with.
4x8 flood table and tray
50 gallon reservoir
Some things about me.
I have a Deeply Rooted Appreciation for finely worked genetics, Rare, Loud Tasty Terps and memorable Heady Highs.
Thinks about Cannabis constantly.
A newb to growing, started in 2019 and hooked for life.
Problably thinking about Cannabis. 
A bit of a hermit with time blindness.
Neuro spicy with a dash of OCD, maladjusted to the norms of society.
Now for the meat and potatoes.
This will be a mixed media run starting in soil and finishing in coco with mostly organic inputs.
Photons provided by LED’s with varible spectrum tuning capabilities.
Here’s the lineup and made possible by.
Apple fritter S1 - By @Ris
Banana Bayou Fem - Lovin In Her Eyes.
Banana Daddy R1 - Ethos Genetics.
Blueberry Diesel - by @anonymous4289 F2 Funky pheno - By @Rhai88, Gifted By @Gonzo
Cap junky S1 - By @LoveDaAutos
Dark Hallow - Irie Gentics.
Double Banana Berry Freak - Nachos & El Sapo, RIP.
Dragon Blood Hash Plant - Bodhi Seeds Overgrow Repro.
Durbin Nights Fem - Brothers Grim.
Kalidascope Eyes Fem - Lovin In Her Eyes.
Lemon Larry Lavender - Big Buddy Seeds.
Mother’s Milk F2 - @SubzeroIceKold
Nag Champa F2 - Terpfi3nd Genetics.
Sour D x LLL - Big Buddy Seeds.
My germination technique.
4 cups filtered water 80°
Smidge of Fulvic Acid,
Humic Acid,
Enzymes,
Pinch of mycos
Couple drops of rooting clone gel
Less is more here.
Mix well and serve over ice what you did there.
Cups go on a heat mat set to 81°f.
Lovin In Her Eyes - Banana Bayou was first to pop in under 24 hrs and all but 3 pbb have tails showing around 36hrs. After signs of life I moved them to little starter cups with domes, the following morning a handful are already on the move. The soil that was used to sprout is cheap store bought ammended with home made worm castings, rice hulls and some bennies. I have hope that combined it will be enough to carry them over until the transition to one gallon coco pots. Click to read MORE
Regular seeds are placed on a heat mat to help keep the environment on the warmer side, above 79°F below 84°F. Found that for me, personally, a higher ratio of females present when starting under these conditions. For any that may doubt this technique, you can say what you like, so far I’m happy with the results. This may change in time, could just be getting lucky given I tend to only a couple seeds from multiple packs.
Curious to see what the F/M ratio will turn out to be? Stay tuned
72 Hours in and we have several helmets pushing through.
After a few helmet assists and a handful of seedlings stuck under large aggregate and turning to mush I went ahead and put a few more seeds down to soak. I’d prefer to have better soil to start them in, next time will be trying out a worm casting / perlite mix, after reading through some @JohnnyPotseed threads.
Seedlings that did not survive e poor starter mix.
Cap Junky S1.
NLC.
LLL.
When in doubt get more seeds dirty lol.
Reinforcements:
2 Banana Daddy R1.
1 Durbin nights.
2 Cap Junky S1.
This time around Durban Nghts comes out swinging, producing a tail in less then 8 hrs, by far the fastest germ time I have seen to date.
I’m really excited about this strain from Brothers Grim. While on a trip we stumble upon Good Day Farms Eagleville Dispo, while there found some concentrates by Elevate called Jasmine Thai, man was I in for a treat. Really pleasant, long lasting Terps and awesome cerebral high to boot, the type that you just keep reaching for. And so began the very short hunt to find the strain responsible. After some sleuthing I figured out that Brothers Grim was the breeder, woohoo! I had just scored several packs from them during a sale and much to my surprise I had the very pack I was hunting. 
Hoping to find something similar in Terps/effects. will be taking clones of everything. May try my hand at making some fem seeds, possibly crossing the Durban Nights to Bodhi’s Dragon Blood Hash Plant. After reading into descriptions of the DBHP I have a feeling they may pair well together.
Even though some seedlings were lost to poor starter medium, I am very pleased with the line up and looking forward to getting to see a nice variety of expressions, flowers, tastes and smells.
Okay quick update on the babies. 11/01/24 We are at day 14 from putting them in starter cups. I’m pleasantly surprised with how well the little ones are taking given the sub par starter mix. Everyone is looking happy and healthy, a few have some catching up to do other than that; I am happy they are happy.
Officially moving out of seedlings stage and into veg.
Today is the first watering since going in the cups and for me marks day one vegetative growth for the sake of keeping things simple since they weren’t all sown on the same day. To give them a boost I’ve added in a little mycos, enzymes, rooting gel, molasses and a smidge of recharge. Soultion is 350 ppm at a ph of 6.0
They will stay in these pots till next Sunday then into one gallon coco pots, followed by a worm casting tea feeding.
after another 2 weeks in one gal’s they’ll get up potted to their final 2 gal’s and flipped into flower a week after that.
This brings us up to date for this thread, I will do my best to update here every Sunday from now till harvest.
If you are following along after reading through thank you glad to have ya along for the experience.
If you have grown anything that’s in the lineup please feel free to share, pictures, and relevant information, things like:
Key Phenos to look out for, Plant morphology, terps, highs etc.
Sensitivity to Nutes,
Growth Patterns,
Light Sensitivities,
Resistance or Susceptibility to things like:
Powdery Mildew,
Bud rot, or Boytritus,
Root Rot, or Septoria,
Pest Resistance or Susceptibility.
Or if you were just really happy with a particular plant that grew flawlessly and checked all the boxes for you.
Until next time,
Stay lifted growchacho’s
. Genius use of the timer, can ask what wifi timer you went with and why that one? Currently looking for one to put on the humidifier. Originally was going to go with a sump pump, budget is why the build landed on the inline water heater pump there is a couple drawbacks to this pump the threads required an adapter, it does come with added risk of drips leaks etc but the head pressure runing 3/4" is ideal, in top of that it was rather inexpensive and reviewed as reliable compared to others in the scope i was looking for. The person that helped me along the way uses a 2hp pool pump 
reminds me of tim the tool man taylor (I need MOORE POOOOWAAAHH insert evil laugh)
