Banquos Basement

[Banquo]

Whaaaaaaat??? Yoooo!!! 5/6 females is spectacular for reg beans!!! And of course I do not mind you, or anybody, sharing pics here on this thread. In fact, thank you for taking the time to do so.

It’s looking like they’re gonna run the whole gambit of phenotypic variation. That’s basically what I had in mind when I made this mashup. I wanted a mystery auto that wasn’t a true mystery, since I know its full lineage and worked with the parents.

I just chopped the 2 Pentagram I had in solo cups. 1 of them is very very much OG leaning in plant structure, flowers, smell, and flavor. The other looked like her Tropical Wiz grandparent, smells like a straight up Cookies plant (for some unknown reason), and hits me like the Heisenberg x 3BOG mother did, which was a nice blend of cerebral and body relaxation. The second plant I described also got very colorful in her last week or so. Lots of pretty purples, pinks, and reds. Not sure if it was genetic or from being stressed, but she sure got pretty at the end.

Don’t be a stranger over here. Feel free to drop an update anytime you feel like showing them off. They look really nice and incredibly happy. Thank you for taking the time to share an update with me.

[Banquo]

My little Cheese Cookies auto all decorated up before chop. I wanted to do this last year, but didn’t have a plant that was picture worthy or able to hang ornaments from. She isn’t a huge plant, but dang if she isn’t pretty. It does seem like 48 hours in the 2x2 with total darkness and temps between 60-65 did in fact pull out a little more color. I really noticed the contrast between her leaves and flowers yesterday. Overall I’m stoked on this Cheese Cookies strain, and really look forward to popping the rest of the pack for a seed run.

[Banquo]

Oh wow. Almost 2 weeks of radio silence. Yikes. I guess the holidays will do that to you though. Time flies when you’re having fun, or some such nonsense. Hopefully everyone checking in here had a wonderful Christmas and a safe and happy New Year’s Eve. 2022 is here, and I’m starting the process of making sure my New Year’s resolution comes to fruition. Time to make more seeds.

I kinda got behind the ball with my perpetual harvest setup. Stuff got disorganized and crazy when I finished the seed run with the Auto3 tray from AutoPots. Having that Alien Moonrocks herm and then starting another plant in that container that was 3-4 weeks behind the other 2 plants in the tray was a nightmare I hope to never relive. Thankfully I caught it before any pollen formed or got loose, but dang if it didn’t bum me out just the same, never-mind the fact that AMR is in my top 3 strains. That’s over and done with now, the last plant from the tray is in her final hours of darkness before harvest. That Grape Slurri auto has the whole room stinking like grapes and gas. She’s so loud she almost woke me up last night. Really looking forward to sampling some in a few days.

Sooooo, here’s what’s on the horizon. I’ll go through the fems first, then run through the regs I started. There’s 12 seeds in total, all autos, and all in 1 gallon pots with ProMix HP and like 1/3rd of a bag of Happy Frog mixed in with the ProMix. I used Great White micorrhizae, like 3-4 of the little scooper thingies per 5 gallons of grow medium. I do also drop a few granules into the seed hole when I put the beans in after soaking. I’ll be feeding them Mega Crop 1 part, Bud Explosion, and Sweet Candy. They’ll get cal-mag pretty much every water since I use RO water and ProMix. They might get a compost or EWC tea right around when they move into preflower. Depends on how motivated I feel around then.

For fems I have 5 going. I did start 1 each of my recent creations, NewBerry Black and Puppiccino. Both are Twisted Tree strains crossed with some (Sweet Seeds) Black Cream Auto fem pollen. I used NewBerry Auto for NewBerry Black, obviously, and Twisted Puppy for Puppiccino. Didn’t end up with tons of seeds, so each plant will be special. Next up is Orange Sherbert Auto from Fast Buds. Received in a trade with my super awesome and amazing trading buddy out west that hooked me up with all the really sick Night Owl swag from the Halloween drop. Stuff I’ve read online says it can get kinda stretchy and big, so here’s hoping. I’m excited for some orangey bud in a few weeks. Last 2 fem gems come from Mephisto. Had to get one of those Purple Nuggets going, so I started one of the freebies that came with it too, which is 3 Bears OG x Mango Smile. It isn’t a new freebie cross, so there is some info and a few pics on Reddit and Grow Diaries. People seem to really like it, and say it grows well and easily. I’m excited for it since it’ll be my first experience with Mango Smile.

On to the exciting stuff. Regular autoflower seeds. Awwwwwwww yeeeeeaaaaaaaa. I finally, repeat FINALLY, started those 4 Spotted Limes F2 beans I’ve been talking about. They’re soaking in a solo cup right now. Their containers are filled and pre-soaked. It’s gonna happen. I’m gonna make Spotted Limes F3. And then I’m gonna make my first wiki. Wooooooo! Gosh you guys. I’m friggin excited. Like really really excited. I love making seeds almost as much as I love giving them away.

With the Spotted Limes F2 beans, there are 3 other reg autos I’m gonna check out. 2 of them are Pink Panama CBG by Sunnyland, which were available through Sebring back in early or mid 2021. I wasn’t able to score all of his gear, but I did manage to grab a pack of these. So I might be doing a cross with this and Spotted Limes. Awwwww heck. Who am I trying to fool. Of course I’m gonna cross them, and I’m gonna name it Panamian Limes. So there.

The last reg auto is something I’m gonna keep a mystery until I see what’s up. It’s a cross made by a breeder friend of mine, but it’s still an untested F1, so it might go totally sideways. But, if it goes good, it’ll be REALLY good, and I’ll probably be popping more of them to hunt through and make F2s. I’m hoping it’s a female, but I’ll still take a look at a male if it happens that way.

I think that’s about it for now. Here’s a pic of some purple bud that I’m smoking on currently. It’s that little Christmas tree I shared a couple pics of, now that it’s had some jar time. Cheers.

Cheese Cookies reg auto by Twisted Tree

[Nagel420]

Those cheese cookies look yummy man!

Nice update as well…

[VAkish]

Here are a few closeups of the Pentagrams

[Banquo]

Holy friggin smokes!!! Those look AMAZING!!! I really can’t thank you enough for stopping by and sharing some pics every so often. I got so excited when I saw the notification preview and it said something about Pentagram close up pics. And boy oh boy was it worth the wait to hop on and look. Gorgeous shots. Can’t wait to see how they finish out for you. They obviously love the conditions in your tent. Are any of them smelly yet, and if so, can you pinpoint anything? I’m sure each of them smells different, with all the genetics mashed up in those seeds. But I’d think they all have hints of OG in them, somewhere, with all the different OG autos in their lineage?

Again, thank you so so much for stopping by. This seriously made my day, if not my whole week.

[Banquo]

NewBerry Black fem auto

She’s up and running, ready to do her thing. My first fem auto creation, with pollen donated by the legendary Nagel420 (too early for @'ing) from his reversed Black Cream Auto. I’m so excited for this plant, probably equal to or even surpassing the excitement I felt when I ran Dr. Grinspoon last year.

Nothing much else to talk about. The unnamed reg auto has also popped up, and the Orange Sherbert and Meph freebie aren’t far behind. I’m starting to worry (already ) about my other creation and the Purple Nuggets seeds. I think I see bumps where I planted them, but I’m not sure. Hopefully I see some action later today so I don’t have to dig out my seed mining tools.

All 4 Spotted Limes F2 seeds cracked and had little tails after about 36 hours soaking, and the 2 Pink Panama CBG did as well. So all 6 of the “breeders” are settling in to their containers now too. I’m so stoked for this little project. I can’t wait to be able to share these seeds with some people.

[SirFur]

We are a legion of lonely stoners with no IRL friends b/c we are hunted and shamed for enjoying a plant. Sounds like a great end of world novel ready to be written.

I am SAHP and I only speak to little people and my wife who thinks I am crazy and just nods “Yes dear”

Hi

[lophophora.ca]

Welcome to OG! You might consider introducing yourself here:

Introduce Yourself @OG

I think it may be good idea to start this Introduction topic for current and new members, so we can get to know each other … I’ll point out new members to this thread. If you are new member just click “Reply” and composer window will appear. Please if you had account on OG1.0 be sure to participate in old school members guestbook. Let me start and introduce myself a bit: I’m from Czech republic (you might have already visited Prague, it is pretty favou…

Don’t worry @SirFur, you’ll never be alone again.

[Banquo]

I feel privileged to have someone make their first post on my thread. Welcome to the OG community. But, like the big growmie @lophophora.ca said, you might want to head over to the introductions thread. This is simply a grow diary gone awry, and the vast majority of this amazing community won’t know you’re here.

Welcome to OverGrow, and thank you for checking out my little corner of weirdness

[Nagel420]

It is indeed exciting to see the progeny So glad it worked for you and ya got some babies as a result…
Happy times!

[VAkish]

Hey bud! This is the first time I’ve ran any autos inside. Had a couple outside about 5-6 years ago. I definitely made a bunch of mistakes with these. They did not like very much light and I didn’t feed them enough early on. I’ve been playing around with my soil recipe and I was just trying to figure some things out with these plants. I’m sure I could have done much better. That being said, the plants definitely did well and are really frosty. Two smell like og with a hint of sweet orange. Two smell like og with a hint of lime. The short one has a different smell that I don’t know how to describe. I’ve grown hundreds of plants and 40+ different strains. Never had one like it, that I can remember. I’m not an auto guy but I would definitely grow these again. Kinda excited to see how they smoke. Great job on the cross and thanks for letting me try them out! I just took a few pics to show the difference in structure.

[VAkish]

[Banquo]

@VAkish

The short one has a different smell that I don’t know how to describe

By any chance, does the smell you can’t describe remind you of table salt? Like just straight up Mortons salt? Because I swore up and down that the Heisenberg x 3BOG I pollinated to make Pentagram smelled just like salt. It didn’t stay to cure, but the living plant sure smelled that way. It was crazy

[Banquo]

I’m kicking myself right in the rear end for letting my rig get to where it’s currently at. Not starting any seeds for so long has me sitting here bored, which means I’ve started thinking again, which means I’m probably about to do something dumb. Thank goodness I’m totally out of ProMix and have no small containers left to fill.

All 6 seeds from the first round have popped and are now standing tall, domes removed. RH is a little low in there, struggling to get over 30%, but they’ll make it. The Purple Nuggets and Orange Sherbert are struggling a little bit, possibly because I had to manually remove the seed hull from both. They’re still moving along, although a little slower than the others.

In the second group, the project group, both Pink Panama CBG are sprouting and should be up by days end, and I for sure see a bump, possibly two, in the Spotted Limes F2 containers. I wish I’d had more of these for this project, especially since it seems to be taking off in popularity recently. But I’ll make due with what I’ve got and make as many seeds as possible and then get them out to as many people as possible. If I can net at least 1,000 SL F3 seeds from this project I’ll consider it a smashing success. The PPCBG x SL F2 seeds will all be bonus beans, and included as a freebie with the SL F3s I ship out.

What’s on the horizon? I’ve been thinking so much about this Spotted Limes F3 project, I haven’t really thought about what comes next. I’ve thought about a few things, but there’s two that keep circling back to the front of the line. First is my “Strawberry Dreams” auto project. I want an auto with really juicy Strawberry terps that also knocks me out cold. Hence the name Strawberry Dreams. The other project I keep thinking about is a seed run with Cheese Cookies from Twisted Tree. I loved growing that little purple plant, and have really enjoyed the smoke so far. It isn’t overpowering in either direction, but that’s something I prefer for an all day smoke. So I’d like to move it forward and find that really Cheesy smelling terp profile and work with that.

Those two ideas are currently holding the most real-estate in my mind. But I’ve got dozens of reg auto hybrids to work through, and I’m not against starting one random seed amongst a bunch of seeds from the same strain. “Winner” plants are likely to pop up from anywhere, IMO. Home growing and breeding has gotten to the point of dang near anyone, myself included, being able to whack a couple plants together and end up with some fire. Granted, there might not be as much stability and uniformity across all those seeds, but if they aren’t for sale and come with an “UNTESTED” disclaimer, what’s the harm in that?

That’s the world I’m living in

[VAkish]

I just watered them and really tried to pinpoint the smells. Two of them are starting to smell of over ripe watermelon that has been warming up in the sun. The little one is ripe watermelon with a hint of cucumber. They all definitely smell really good

[Banquo]

It’s gotta be the Tropical Wiz in their lineage kicking out all these super awesome fruit smells. I guess I need to dive in to the seeds I have left and see what turns up.

[Banquo]

First attempt at making QWISO.

Got bored last night so I decided to do something with all the kief I’ve got sitting in jars. I think it looks like it’s going to turn out really nicely, and I’m happy it didn’t end up looking like mud or tar. My only concern is that it won’t setup and get hard enough to handle, because I used 91% isopropyl alcohol. Even that seems like a longshot though, since the thinnest spots on the plate are already dry and not tacky or “wet” feeling at all. It’ll turn out, I’m just being pessimistic.

As long as this run turns out good, I think this is what I’m gonna do with most of my trim. I don’t think I’ll use whole plant material, but I’ll definitely shake it in the trim bin and save up all that kief til I have enough. I should have weighed the kief before I started, to keep track of returns, but I was short on time and skipped that part. I’m guessing between 7-10 grams of kief, give or take a couple grams. Everything I’ve read says kief gives awesome returns in this process, so here’s hoping!

[VAkish]

Here is the weekly photo update on the Pentagrams. Everything is looking and smelling good. A couple of them are starting to fade into a really pretty purple color

[Banquo]

Woooooow! These are some beautiful plants, and really good quality pictures to boot! I can’t thank you enough for stopping by and showing off these gorgeous girls. It truly makes my whole day when I hop on here in the morning and see that you’ve shared another update. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU.

As to the fade colors. I experienced the same with the 2 I recently ran, but didn’t want to call it a trait since it was a high stress grow for both plants. Seeing that bottom picture you just shared though, that changes things. Mine looked very very similar in leaf color, a very dark purple that got almost black at the very end, but not so dark that the beautiful dark red color in there can’t be noticed. I’m very happy with these results, and I will be looking to further that trait if I decide to make F2s.

I’m so inconsistent with my signing in and keeping track of stuff, so please forgive me for asking where these ladies are at in terms of day count? I’m thinking right around day 60, maybe only 55? Again, I apologize for being horrible at keeping track of stuff. But that is something I’ve noticed with Pentagram and it’s parent strain Space Wiz, they’re fast. Fast to reveal, fast to move into flower, and fast to finish. So I wouldn’t be surprised to see you chop before day 75, if not before 70. I think mine only went 62 and 64 days, but again, I’m terrible at keeping track of this stuff, even in my own rig