Hey OG growmies! As a quick reminder, I’m a licensed medical grower for myself and two other patients in Missouri. I can legally cultivate 18 seedlings/clones, 18 in veg, and 18 in flower at a time. I grow in an 8x4 tent and flower in a 5x5. I don’t have room for 54 plants at once, but it’s nice to not battle the plant count limits. I use fabric pots and Octopots using ProMix with added perlite (and sometimes add some lime and EWC) under LEDs. My “big” light is a Fluence SPYDRx Plus, and I have a handful of SpiderFarmer SF2000s, plus T5s for seedlings and clones. I feed Jack’s (20-20-20 in veg, 10-30-20 in early flower, 5/12/26 in late flower) with some CalMag and silica.
My grow last year hit a big snag late summer with a broad mite infestation. They’re evil!!! I had to toss all my plants and sanitize everything. This coincided with a trip out of town and other life things so my garden sat fallow until the very end of the year. On 12/26/21 I planted six autoflower seeds just to get jars filled - two of those didn’t germ so they were replaced on 12/31. Three of those six have been chopped and are hanging whole to dry (Creme de la Chem, Forum Stomper, Double Grape - all from Mephisto), while the remaining three (Mephisto’s Samsquanch and Walter White, plus Demonic Genetics’ Strawberry Cheesecake) may need another week or three.
My next round are regular plants grown from seed. I don’t think I mentioned that I’m not taking in clones anymore as I believe they were the source of my broad mites. Plus, I have a shitload of seeds and need to use them! There are so many strains I want to grow that I couldn’t decide on a single variety for my next crop. Instead I planted four pairs: Tangie F2 (via @Sebring ), Bodhi’s Smart Move, Baked Beanz’s Port Wine Cheese @SamwellBB , and NL 5/1 x Super Skunk from AK Bean Brains. I used Farmer Freeman to test their gender and ended up with one Tangie, two Port Wine Cheese, and a single NL x Skunk female. Those were started at the end of January. Once I chop the remaining autos, these will go under the big light, get topped, and have clones taken.
Meanwhile, I started another crop the first week of March - again with four pairs: Bodhi Spirit Train F2, Aficionado White Cherry Truffle from the private run here, Karma x Rez Sour Diesel cross from the private run here, and Bruce Banner F2 from Boundless Genetics @HeadyMcDank. I’ve had to replace both Bruce Banners and one Sour Diesel for the same reason: helmet head caused the stalk to rot where the shell made contact. Fortunately the replacements are happy with no issues.
This year I hope to hunt through some Blueberry strains, grow the Romulan and the William’s Wonder I picked up from AK Bean Brains, a bunch of Bodhi, a bunch of JOTI, and perhaps some other gems. I’m not afraid to throw more autos into the mix if I end up with poor germ rates or whatever.
Anyway, I hadn’t posted in my previous thread for months so here’s to new beginnings!
9 days later:
Then another 9 days later:
The remaining three: Samsquanch in the foreground, Strawberry Cheesecake on the left, Walter White on the right
Different angle (L to R: Samsquanch, Strawberry Cheesecake in the back, Walter White). I’ve grown Walter White before (Mephisto’s autoflower take on Krome’s The White - a really, really nice sativa) and it got pretty big (5.3oz dried harvest in 73 days). This round it was always lagging behind the other plants and much shorter - but WOW has it come into its own at the end! It’s now taller than all the others and really spreading out. The other two will come down fairly soon, but the Walter White is loving life right now since it has room to stretch out. I’ll give it however long it needs…
