MadScientist's 1st Annual 16oz Cup - Competition Thread 🏁

I have just put 1 Purple Afghan Kush into a rockwool cube in my cup and it is in the nursery to sprout.
1 month late so there will be no veg period.



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This week’s update, been in 12/12 since Halloween, no female hairs showing yet. Definitely increased rate of growth in the golden glow of my light show. Team has trimmed down to 11 plants, only those showing side growth were included in this cut. Here come the pics:

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here’s my lil (hopefully) girls, lookin a lil pathetic … i’ve been neglectful this week but thankfully the thrips are still gone… and i saw my thermo was 68* on the floor so i checked some leaf temps… 72-76* around the main canopy but 63-65* on these lil girls :frowning: :frowning: going to get an electric heater

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Everything is going well. I am chasing nitrogen a bit but they are healthy.

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Here is my update for the week. They are doing well, still watering every two or three days. Flowering and stretching almost like I switched my light schedule. :wink:
I’m getting close to time to pollinate them if I want more seeds. I’ve got both La Diva and Crystal Candy reversed pollen. :thinking:

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Here’s my entry. One of the plants is not gonna make it, the other 3 are good but not as big as some of yours… Hope they catch up during flow… We’ll see!

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OK mine popped up during the day while I was at work.

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72 beans were put in cubes the day before I entered the competition, I probably could have chosen a strain that would get heaps larger straight 12/12 (which is how I normally grow either from seed or clone) but the PAK last time I grew it flower from seed grew a beautiful 18 gram bud and thats why I chose her just for the (potential) structure.

The lone cup for the challenge is just sitting on the flood inlet so let’s see how that goes.

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Early update, my plants look nice, they don’t have much stature but nice little branches coming and well, two of them started to flower, so here it is.

Oh, and there’s three of them now, one has been disqualified already. Purple Afghan Kush by Dinafem. Probably just not apt for this type of setup with perlite in cups. I have heard great things of DinaFem but i have had no luck with their genetics, i dunno…

HppHrvst

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Removed three males from the team this week, a pity as they were tall bushy and vigorous.i was going to replace them from plants germinated specifically for the contest but they didn’t go 12/12 on Halloween night. I felt that made them ineligible. So here’s who is left.


The two tallest, Cinderella mix from FDM.
Standing at 17 1/2 and 15 1/2 inches tall the 15 inch plant has better side growth
The next two, a pair of Jacks.

Standing at 15 1/2 and 14 inches tall, again the shorter one has better side growth.
The Psycho are next, 13 and 11 inches tall, once again the shorter one has better side growth.

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Very good let’s continue,
Psycho 13 and 11 inches tall


Next pair a Durban mix from FDM and an AK-48
14 and 13 inches tall

This time the Durban had better side growth, it is the taller of the two
All of these plants are throwing hairs they are all mostly healthy. None are doing bud porn this week.
This concludes my update.

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the two bigger girls and the 2 smaller girls… i added a space heater to my room today because the temps at ground level were 60-65 degrees :frowning: and i saw a thrips running around on the bigger of the blueberries but after searching all the plants and not finding another i think maybe it was a straggler living in the cup… so i sprayed everything down thoroughly today and will spray again before lights out

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I am still using ferments and top dressing and think i will continue. The nitrogen issue is corrected and i think i timed my phosphorous right but time will tell.

Edit: One was male so it was disposed of in a humane manner. (It went in my smoothie) :grin:

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Well, not the biggest or the healthiest. They sort of got away from me with my no-till bed issues. They got a heavy nitrogen feed. Should have waited another week or so before switching to fermented fruit juices. The tall girl is the one I didn’t pollinate, so I’ll call her my entry

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Here’s my update, i wish they stack up pretty good. Coming out not bat at all… For a guy who’s never done hydro…



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Here it comes, this week’s update:



All eight plants

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