I’ve read that he’s less of a breeder per se and more of an acquirer who then does seed increases etc and sometimes his stuff can be pretty shaky. sorry you had a bad experience with him @Dirt_Wizard !
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@api312 That sounds about right! I’ve learned a little more over the time since I got those and I understand the difference there in a way I didn’t when I was like ooh this guy has all the rare shit. That’s part of why I say I think there’s likely good stuff in there but it’s more work than I’m interested in. Now that I’ve grown a few good crops from other genetics I can see the consistency and quality of the folks that get recommended on here. I’m working with a plant limit of twelve, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility to have space for messing around but I’m not there yet on my personal supply. I’ve spent a lot on seeds in the last two years and most of it was from folks I don’t regret at all so I call it a win. I probably paid like $240 total for 7-8 packs of 15-17 seeds so like I could have bought one hype pack and lost the same when it got diseased or stunted or whatever.
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Are you only running seeds now? Plan on looking for keeper moms
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Just seeds, eventually moms but probably not forever ones. I shut down in the summer because I don’t really want to take care of weed plants in my basement when my outside vegetable and flower garden is going and there’s lots of outdoor rec. I might try automatic watering this summer and check them once a week and then maybe start keeping moms in the fall if I find them. But I have like 500+ seeds so I’m not really set on it.
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I hear that. I have clones and seeds. Space is always a consideration. I just hate letting stuff go. I’m a consistent over cloner who has trouble culling.
I moved to ebb and flow a couple years ago. I love it. Water on a timer makes me smile.
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i moved to the stakes for the same reason, also wanted to be able to pull plants out and clean in the middle of the run etc, liking it so far, feel like theres a learning curve in how/when to drop stakes to keep things in line, but it’s not rocket science so im sure ill hit it right at some point. regarding the soil, im fully flying by the seat of my pants too, i’m storing similarly in totes like you are, and basically soil testing when one gets full and planning to reammend according to those recommendations. did it recently and actually got crazy numbers back so i need to basically flush the shit out of that totes and start up from scratch more or less. im thinking that ultimately, one tote will get split into two, and get some aeration and compost added back as well as whatever amendments are needed according to the soil test. simple in theory but i feel like im winging it alot of the time.
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I’m definitely winging it! I have a little soil test kit I’m going to try out once it finishes cooking, but we have an Ag school at the University nearby that does real lab testing that’s totally reasonable for the real numbers.
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same here, the university does it for $15, just took em a while to get back to me.
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Day 46 in the flower tent:
Icy Grape
Cinderella 99 is turning out some plump grenades, very happy with this FDM selection, with a couple ties up it’s gonna finish off in 49-56 as a hefty one, I’m betting on this for best yield in weight and maybe quality.
The White Tiger twins
Finished resetting the tent just in time for the lights to click out on me, here’s a few from twilight before zipping up for the night, whole tent, IG, and C99:
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And from the veg tent cage match, here’s the battle for space before sexing:
Blackwater x Apollo 11/13 OP
My Cherry Unicorn top clone seems to be surviving, maybe cloning is easy? I’m making an aerocloner if this is how well a cup of fulvic water works.
OG Mixes:
Goodnight kids, tomorrow I’m getting out my 50mm Nikon lens aka the loupe and we’re going to see who’s getting the chop:
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Now that what I like to call donkey dicks! Nice work! Looks dankity dank in there 
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After sexing the veg tent, I’m left with a Platonic split, couldn’t have asked for better:
- @SCJedi Blackwater/Apollo 11/13 OP: out of four, two females
- @Baudelaire FDM OG Mix: out of three, two female
- @bodhi Cherry Unicorn is a lady! Which means I have a clone of it to run again if I like it.
The center and back left are Blackwaters, back right is the Cherry Unicorn, and the front two are OG mix.
Now to decide if I’m going to go for five in the 4x4 or give one to a friend to try their second grow ever. Four in the flower tent is about perfect, but choosing which one to go will be hard if I go that way.
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Check out these stems from the topped pieces- top one is Blackwater and the bottom is OG mix. This is grown out to eight or so nodes then chopped back above the fifth.
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Reading tonight about Nikolai Vavilov, the Soviet agronomist/biologist/geneticist who gathered the largest seedbank in the world in the course of his research, before opposing Lysenko and dying in a Siberian prison. These were his students and fellow scientists:
“The Leningrad seedbank was diligently preserved and protected through the 28-month long Siege of Leningrad. While the Soviets had ordered the evacuation of art from the Hermitage, they had not evacuated the 250,000 samples of seeds, roots, and fruits stored in what was then the world’s largest seedbank. A group of scientists at the Vavilov Institute boxed up a cross section of seeds, moved them to the basement, and took shifts protecting them. Those guarding the seedbank refused to eat its contents, even though by the end of the siege in the spring of 1944, nine of them had died of starvation.”
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Got some Day 48 trichome shots of the C99 and Icy Grape using my phone camera through the camera lens loupe. I’m using an old darkroom photographer’s trick where you turn a 50mm manual lens around and look through the front element, with the rear element about an inch from the thing you’re looking at. It makes a very high quality (multi-element) 8x loupe for a fraction of the price of even a good single element loupe. Set focus to infinity and aperture wide open if it’s old enough to not have open aperture viewing. This is shot with a fifty year old Nikon 50/1.8 from a Nikkormat I got at a thrift store for $10. These are 16x because I used the digital zoom at 2x.
C99
Icy Grape
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Whoa that’s a really cool trick
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@LegsMahoney It’s one of my favorites, learned it in a busy darkroom at school where there were never enough loupes for looking at negatives or contact sheets. Most loupes under $200 use a single optical element, maybe two, and are just not as sharp. Multi-element loupes like a Rodenstock or Zeiss are better than this but not by a whole lot! You used to be able to get clear acrylic collars that would lock onto on the lensmount to hold the proper distance and let you put it down (rear elements often stick out from the lens body).
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I only took one film photography course in college as an elective for the design program but I enjoyed it, I wish in hindsight I had taken more classes or at least paid better attention in that one, alas I spent most of my college career stoned, drunk, tripping or god knows what else, so I didn’t really take advantage of all the opportunities available, or retain much of what I learned as a whole 
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Day 52 updates, got some new trichome shots to check the C99 and Icy Grape, everything is plumping up and some of them are starting to look like they’ll be done in the next week or two. I think this whole tent will wrap up by day 70, it’ll have to with the veg tent filling up, even after topping and pruning for structure.
C99
Icy Grape
I haven’t started scoping the White Tigers too closely yet since they’re rated to go at least a week longer than the others, which is part of why they’re in the back.
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