Checking trichs on the plants coming up to harvest: Frogspawns are looking quite done, the fatter one especially but the lankier one is good enough for me. The FDM Janis wants another week or maybe more! It’s barely got any amber yet and mostly clears too.
Frogspawn:
Janis:
They look great; trichome density on Frogspawn is (kisses fingers like a chef) mwah perfect!
I really enjoy looking at how thoroughly you and other folks strip the indoor plants down. I deal with lots of leaves and larf come harvest time. Partly I think just because they explode outside and get crazy really fast, partly because I don’t know how much removal I can get away with. I struggle thinking “oh I shouldn’t trim that little nugget that’ll be nice” and wind up trashing the tiny ones later in impatience. With time I’ll find the line. In the meantime I like scrutinizing the other approaches.
They both look amazing. I think Janis is one of the only FDM cultivars I don’t have a pack of. Easily fixed problem 
Cheers beautiful grow loved your outdoor sativa’s but too tied up in my own shit to really watch closely.
The latest seedlings are all doing great, got 11/12 in two rounds. Fem photos in the first group are for my flower tent, and the auto fems are probably getting given out to my friends, I might keep one of each idk.
@dinopartychucks Black Light Bubba S1 and Hashtastrophe
@Tonygreen G-Unit
Atlas Froot By The Foot and Face Fat
Twenty20 Mendocino Trizzlers
BLB S1 = Black Light Fantasy x Bubba Kush reversal
Hashtastrophe = Bubbashine Hashplant x Midsicle
G-Unit = Sowahh (SD BX4) x Gorilla Bubble BX5 dometop reversal
Face Fat = GMO #8 x Fatso #84
Froot By The Foot = Cotton Candy x Mythic OG
Trizzlers = “Triangle Kush” x “Watermelon Zkittles”
For seed germination I’ve been scuffing them in a pill bottle with sandpaper then planting directly into Root Riots soaked in H202 and fulvic solution. I make the holes snipped open a little wider in an X shape and have a couple crumbs torn off the top with tweezers that I put back over the seed. I’m finding that the even moisture of the RRs with the mild resistance of the spongy medium seems to pull off shell helmets really reliably which has been a problem for me with peat or soil germination from unsprouted seeds. This is way easy and has been really reliable so far. I keep them in a rotisserie chicken container that gets sprayed inside daily with PureCrop1 to fight off any mold spores that might land, and do weak kelp/fulvic water for the first watering then very weak 20-20-20 with couple drops of soy protein hydrolysate and a few grains of Epsom. Seems to be bulletproof for me so far but time will tell!
Got a grow area reorganization incoming, should have lots of plant and space updates coming up today and tomorrow!
Stay tuned, I might toss in a seed giveaway with the updates just for fun…
Chopped the two Frogspawn this morning, which means I gotta rotate another Big Don into there soon, along with the mature Stardawg x JTR I just swapped for and is looking ready. I might just flip them and take cuts from the latter during stretch since flower is looking pretty empty, but I’m gonna stake and tie the existing plants out wider today and reassess.
Keep up the awesome work bro! I love it
Man, Arbico Organics is fast! I was looking around the other night for the best price on some more Hygrozyme or an alternative the other night, and went down my usual rabbit hole of “how do I efficiency-max DIY this for the cheapest possible cost”. Looked into getting pure cellulase, there’s a product from East Chem Lab in China called Cellulase 2000 that’s interesting and inexpensive but I can’t find an assay for CFUs or anything so that’s out for me. Sigma-Aldrich and other lab chemical companies make it but I realized that in the end they’re all just concentrating cellulase and other enzymes from the growth of Trichoderma reesei and similar beneficials, so I spent that $50 on bennies and yellow trap/indicator tape instead and I think it was the right choice. Check out this haul of little buggy dudes!
Another great idea for sticky traps is tanglefoot or tda. It’s bottled with a brush inside of the sticky compound used on the actual traps they sell, it’s 20$ a bottle CAN 
but you can get it for 12-15$ at times, and will make a million sticky traps of choice size, colour and shape. I’ve never seen the tape though, that’s awesome! Great for windows/doors or even wrapping pots so nothing climbs up 
Have u used those mykos before, been looking for a cheaper alternative to dynomyco (my go to for years now)
@TopShelfTrees1 this was by far the cheapest thing I have seen for a premade, double-sides product by the square foot, I’ll have to look into Tanglefoot for the future, I like buying compounds and using up cycled materials to DIY, sounds like I could paint that on some pieces of cereal or cracker box.
I tried to get a good assay of different species of beneficials, I have been using Mykos and Recharge since I started growing with good results, and I find compost teas very positive for my plants health. But I wanted to diversify what’s in my soil herd since I recycle and there’s always bins cooking or resting that I can keep the cultures going in.
I haven’t used these mycos before but here’s a side by side comparison of them. In my eyes Mikro-Myco replaces Mykos, complements Dynomyco for targeted usage (since Recharge is such a soup of things we don’t always want). And the Soil Moist E-Z Root is a cheaper version of Azos to replace that in the Azos/Mykos line. Hopefully those Axiom harpin proteins add to the plant’s SAR and boost root health and mass like they say. I’m very much a growing roots not buds kind of guy, I think mostly about my dirt more than my canopy, thus the username instead of SCROGLORD69. 
Mykos: a single species of Rhizo @ 300 propagules /gram (prop/g)
Dynomyco: two species of Glomus at a total 900 prop/g
Recharge: four species of Glomus at 25 prop/g (CFU colony forming unit and propagule are interchangeable terms) but then lots of Bacillus and Trichoderma as well, besides the kelp’s micros and natural PGRs and the humic acid.
Last but not least, Mikro-Myko with endo and ecto mycorrhizae, Trichoderma, and Rhizo
Very cool! Thanks for the detailed info. I appreciate it very much. Since I grow in coco I try and give them any advantage they can die there with the anaerobic materials. But tbh I’ve been dying to try Living Soil but it’s the damn investment of all the individual stuff that’s hindered me this long as I’ve been contemplating it for 1.5 years now. I’m positive I’ll love it and most likely completely switch if/when I ever get there. I do know a good mycho product is EXTREMELY beneficial especially in the first few weeks as I’ve seen the difference with my own eyes as I’m always doing side by sides and comparisons. I love your thread as it’s very informative on the aspects that intrigue me as well. I’m sure I’ll have tons of questions if/when that time ever comes 
I’ve got tons of faith though and things have been looking up this month considerably after 2/3 of the worst months of my entire existence no joke 
sooo onwards and upwards I suppose
Plastic folders from the dollar store. No paper to get moldy
I like to use old pieces of the juice cartons etc. but I like your idea @potpotpot my issue is finding light blue and yellow stuff. But maybe I’ll just get spray paint and a bunch of those folders! Very cool, thank you 
I got plastic binder section dividers that I got from the garbage great idea man! I bet I could use the white tarp material bags that BAS sends pumice and other things in, tarp material is real easy.
I’ve used that exact recipe before - delicious and potent!
Finally got around to taking a picture of my autos that I potted up into two recycled 10 gallon pots from fruit trees. I had a few types and some were a little busted on the bottom from moving around so I nested one kind inside the other, leaving about a half inch of space between, hopefully that acts as some good drainage space so they are happier on the saucer getting bottom fed, I put the fabric pots right down on it but something about plastic makes me want to keep the dirt up a little IDK. One of each kind in each pot, three plants in a pot. Might cut the bottoms out and stack them before the roots get down there but I haven’t decided yet. One will probably stay with me and the other to a friend if he wants it, he grew out an auto I gave him this summer and liked it.
Nice delivery today from our own Harvey Birdman of the North @Pigeonman with some surprise autofems! How timely given the last post here, those are gonna get wet sooner rather than later. This summer I was all about getting a ton of spring starts out to people in early summer for their yards and porches, this winter it’s pots of autofems with packets of Jacks and the suggestion of a 15w LED floodlight bulb or two hanging over them. Tis the season for gifting and also for porch plants, I’m in the middle of converting our drafty but sunny second floor sunporch into a nice tight winter solarium and greenhouse, it’s already so much better and I’m not even done yet!
mTo all my followers here, oddly good news: I accidentally pollinated one of my flowering plants! There was so much Vortex pollen flying around that some made it back around the basement to the intake as I should have expected, and my Fleur Du Mal- Janis (Blue Widow x Silver Pearl) is dripping with mature seeds coming out of the pods at around 80 days from flip. I was going to give her the chop tomorrow but I may wait a few days to see if seeds start dropping on their own first before I do.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have made my first cannabis hybrid by lazy chucking with pollen contamination. Glad it sounds like something I would have chosen to do anyways!
So this hybrid is my Vortex stud as the dad (Apollo 13 x Space Queen [Romulan x C99])
And the mom is Janis from @Baudelaire:
“Janis
$60.00
The Pearl meets the Widow and sings the blues. A tribute to legendary San Francisco blues singer Janis Joplin, this cross between Sensi Seed’s ’98 vintage Silver Pearl and a cross of original ’96 vintage DJ Short Blueberry x original Aloha White Widow brings fruity, frosty heavy buds with a balanced head.
93 in stock
Lineage: (Blueberry x White Widow) x Silver Pearl
Sativa/Indica mix: 60/40
Indoor maturation: 8-9 weeks”
What’s cool about this accidental cross is that Space Queen is a classic from Vic High of the BC Growers Association, and the Blue Widow is from B’s time with the NorCal Growers Association.
BCGA x NCGA old school mashup with some Sensi Silver Pearl and A13 added? Sign me TF up!
This cross contains genetics from:
-Sensi Jack Herer if we believe the Princess story
-Soul of Brothers Grimm (who I suspect is the true breeder of C99 and Apollo)
-DJ Short Blueberry
-Aloha White Widow
-Romulan from the old Romulan Collective
-Subcool and Baudelaire creating and working the crosses along the way
Goddamn old school mishmash I can’t wait to try.
I’m gonna have to poke into the buds from Frogspawn and Zip Tape that just came down, so there could be more Vortex hybrids to announce!
holy shit that sounds amazing! now that you chucked pollen, what’s the name of your seed company?
