The AK420 seedlings are also doing very well, all of them seem happy and growing quickly. Interestingly, #5 seems to be “self topping”, as it stopped making nodes after the first one, check this out:
Thanks to the wonderful folks here at the forum, I have found a solution to my problems, if anyone is interested, here is the thread
Now for the update on the AK420 breeding project, as promised, time for the transplant of the 5 most healthy and nice ones, number #3 is discarded, #5 and #7 are still around but I didnt transplant them.
Testing a new soil mix for the final containers, the mix is:
20L coco
5L perlite
5L wormcompost
500 Grams inoculated biochar
Watered in with Rhizotonic, Enzyme (both from Canna), BioTechnology Elycitor (contains many Mycorrhizae and other useful elements and microorganisms) and Agrobacterias Auto bacteria (I’m quite sceptical of this product but its was cheap so )
All of @joheimgrohen Froyo S1 seeds germinated, sadly the soil on plant #2 with 75% wormhumus was too compacted, and the plant died, it did germinate however! Strangely enough the survivor #1 on wormhumus is looking the most healthy and vigorous of the bunch, make of that what you will .
Some testing of new seed propagation technique, I had these transparant 10x10x5cm cube containers for seed blocks, but as they are transparent, algae form on the outside, so I switched to the IKEA NOJIG ones. But that got me an idea, what if I use them as little humidity domes? I also made some new labels from corrugated plastic, I think they look very neat , check it out:
Time for a harvest update, when I just started this thread, @Organical asked what the yield would be for the plants in the smaller containers. The “reference” plant has now finished, and I harvested it. It spent a few weeks outside so that might skew the result a little bit, but nothing too major as the plant is limited by its container size.
Ref plant (Dutch Passion Banana Blaze Auto, its an Afghan pheno) before, and after (I forgot to take a nice pic because I am dumb…):
Very happy with it, gonna weigh the yield when its dry, but I can smoke quite a few days from that .
Also harvested my Orange Critical Punch auto in a very small container, I have kept on the pollinated branch to let the seeds fully develop (chucked with Joheim’s Froyo autofem pollen):
Starting with bad news on the AK420 selection, when I made the soil mix, I made it too wet.
So they are now looking a bit sad, despite not watering them since the transplant (container still quite heavy too), them seem to be recovering, but are a bit stunted, also I made an oopsie with plant #6, a fan fell on it.
Plant #8, strangely beautiful coloration on the leafs due to the transplant and overwatering.
Update on the coco + wormcompost (unsieved) mix test for seedlings
I have selected the 3 most healthy ones, one from each mix ratio, the one on 100%coco (both of them) is lagging behind a small amount, the one on 33% mix is the avarage, and the one on 75% is the most healthy (but its sister died to soil compaction, or not sieving).
This branch was pollinated with Froyo pollen I got from @joheimgrohen , the rest of the plant has since been harvested, if I squish the bud, I can feel some seeds, but they seem small still. Is that an issue of having pollinated the plant too late?
Okay thank you, I pollinated them a few weeks ago, it still had many white pistils so that should be ok. I’ll be patient and wait for the seeds to fully develop.
What I have done in the past, which may not be an option for you with such a small pollination, is remove a single calyx that has a harder center and see how developed the seed is, should give you a idea of how much longer they’ll need.
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Sorry they took a hit there, but they don’t look out for the count yet!