Nagel420 - Third Times A Charm!

Well, I’ve had some issues with the paper towel method on these seeds it seems. 14/15 last time, and I’ve had only 2/10 throw tails despite 8/10 “splitting” after the soak (16 hrs).

And I know there’s more than one way to skin a cat, so after seeing @JohnnyPotseed 's method, I decided to try it myself.

So far one of the Purple Malawi that had just cracked then stalled, seems to be putting forth a little effort in growing a tail. The other few might just be duds, they were soaked, then put in moist paper towels. Gonna put some fresh seeds in to soak this weekend, we’ll see on round 2.

Next up is these three ladies. The first I goofed and fed twice in a row, she’s got a little nute burn. The 2nd and 3rd I’m debating pulling soon. Mostly cloudy trichs, almost all brown hairs, but very little amber yet.

And finally… My purple girls. Oh how I hope they taste as delicious as they look. Black Cream in the 1st pic, Blackberry in the 2nd. They should still have at least a month to go, and they are just getting fatter and fatter. Hard to believe they are merely 52 days young!

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I just dropped another batch of seeds first of the week, and they’re all in cups already! Lost one bean out of the bunch…

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Hey @JohnnyPotseed How come more people don’t use your method? Seriously, we’ve been doing it the hardway.

The blue cookies 1 sprouted and is growing, 1 after soak / paper towels, is here. Same for the Purple Malawi thats a single seed, was soaked / towels. The BC Pinewarp, Strawberry Gum, Lucky Charms, Tropical Poison, Spirit Train and UF Skunk were all dropped straight in the tray about 36 hours or so ago, no pre-soak…

Only the strawberry gum hasn’t poked thru, the spirit train is 1 of 2. You can clearly see the results above.

Tip for Newbies AND Old Hands… When an old-timer shows you a tip or trick, pay attention! There’s a reason they’ve been doing it “this way for XX years”. I’ve sprouted my share of seeds in the last twenty plus years, but even this old dog learned a new trick :slight_smile:

So, Grease has the Pink Ladies… I have the Purple Ladies… :smiley: I swear they are even more purple in person, this phone and the LEDs dont make a good combo. That back right black cream is just gorgeous looking, and the back left Blackberry has light purple hues.

Black Cream nug:

Blackberry Nug:

According to the breeder estimates they should have another month to go :slight_smile:

And then these arrived today

Which means that my Devil’s Cream project is a GO! i dropped 4 Black Cream and 2 Dark Devil in my JPS-2000 Seed Starting Tray and can’t wait for them to throw some tails! The NL and Lemon autos were freebies, and I look forward to popping them soon enough… Oh and I definitely wanna chuck some pollen :smiley: So there’s gonna have to be some sex changes around here! LOL

Parting shot: Not a bad trunk for an auto :smiley:

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nice journal read it all and look forward to more lol. wanna give me the low down on mr johnnys method of germing ? i see his results and might try myself !

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Looking good there cuz
Grow On!

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Sure, @JohnnyPotseed did a writeup on his method here:

Germinating some seeds - How I do it - Overgrow.com

Super simple… But it works like a charm!

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Well, here we are at the 1 month anniversary of my grow journal. In the past month I moved into my new / old grow space, moved my outside plants to get more sun, and even pulled one outside. The inside autos are very close, I keep saying just one more day or two. LOL. They just wanna defy me I guess by getting fatter. Thats ok by me :slight_smile:

So. Today’s update… @JohnnyPotseed seed starting method works a little too well. LOL It almost makes it as addicting to plant them now as it is to harvest em :smiley: Never again will I do the soak / paper towel in a bag method!

Looks like my most purple Black Cream wants to start developing some foxtails… Never had that in the past, kinda neat looking…

The purple ladies have about a month to go.

And then we have this abomination. Decided to stretch and be very airy, where the others are all nice short and dense. She’s been abused for being too tall for sure. Can’t wait till she’s done. Its one of the unknowns from PSB.

Compared the one above to this, its double the height, and half the weight I am guessing… Germed same time. Gotta love grab bag scam seed companies… Live and learn I guess! At least they WERE feminized! So its not a total loss… Just no clue what I have LOL

Almost there. I keep wanting to pull the first 4, but amber is SO slow to develop… Maybe another few days…

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lol I never thought of it as ‘working a little too well’! It’s just fine, to me… :smile: :sunglasses: :+1:

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Lovely garden you have going!

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And a few shots of the ladies outside… done so damn well chasing the slugs outta the veggie garden they found the weed… so I spread some D.E. and coffee grounds to keep em moving.

Group shot. Those 25g fabric pots ain’t light!!

The outside autos are slowly coming along

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Yep, them damn caterpillars can decimate a plant in no time at all!! Especially the leaf miners that’re the same color. lol and big as your finger or thumb!

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I dub thee…

Ya know you like growing things when you put together a 2x2 tent for the exclusive purpose of producing seeds. LOL

Light (MarsHydro 600) will be here tonight.

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What seeds do you have planned to christen “The Love Shack”?

I have 5 Black Cream fem autos going already, one will be a candidate for eliteXelite reversal…

Plus I plan on crossing that pollen with Dark Devil from sweet seeds. Got two of those little ladies sprouting now. Also have a Northern Lights Auto from sweet seeds (was a freebie), and a Jack Herer X Blueberry auto from @Rabeats2093 that I plan to share some pollen on. Finally, @corey sent me some regular autos, so I’d love to find a male for some true male auto pollen.

So much, sounds like an orgy at the love shack! LOL. But I will keep the black creams w/ their male in the 2x2. The other autos that I toss some pollen on will be in one of the other tents.

Eventually, this will become “The Man Cave” lol, or “The Love Shack” depending on whats going on here LOL

Oh I am having just way too much fun with this!

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If you look for a male stud you will find one

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A little bit of trich porn / figuring out the grid thingy…

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Time for a little update I think!

These three little ladies are my golden children at the moment. Grandaddy Purple and Purple Haze from ILGM, and a White Widow from Seedsman. Short and stocky, dark green, I just love how they are doing… (There’s also a small Blue Cookies in the front there that came from the server raffle)

This is the results of using @JohnnyPotseed 's seed sprouting method, about a week later… Progressing nicely! There’s 2 each of:

UFS #18, Tropicana Poison F2, Lucky Charms, Spirit Train F2, BC Pinewarp from the server raffle, and a pair of Jack Herer Blueberry autos from @Rabeats2093. There’s also 4 Black Cream autos in there and 2 Dark Devil autos that might be duds (done with my old seed starting method of soak and moist towels in a baggie). Gonna pop two more in the JPS2000 seed starter tray.

The little clone station is slowly being dialed in. I had to break down and use some new airstones, my older ones were clogging overnight, resulting in a few dry cuttings. Thank god this is just the dial in stage. Still, have some roots on the Alaskan Purple cuttings I have in there :slight_smile:

A little frosting on my Blackberry Auto…

I swear I am gonna pull this one, one of these days. I keep saying “today is the day” and she keeps proving me wrong…

Parting shot? I just love how chunky the stem is on this unknown auto (photo above)

Well, thats all for today folks!

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Awaiting an update fella !!

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@Rabeats2093 You been spying on me? I literally took this pic maybe 20 mins ago for an update this afternoon… :smiley:

How many of you have had VARIEGATED leaves?!? I did a search and saw a few posts, but its not really common. This is on one of the Blueberry Jack Herer Autos that @Rabeats2093 sent me. I popped two seeds, the other is green and healthy like usual… I’ve read it goes away after the first few sets of leaves, but I was waiting to see the first true leaves colors before I posted… I definitely am interested in playing with the variegated gene and will pollenate with the as-of-yet to be reversed black cream… Purple variegated would be cool to see!

More pics to follow, out and about at the moment…

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Ok, the weekly update (a bit late) but lates better than never!

Finally chopped unknown autos 1, 2, 3, & 4. Number 4 was the abomination (and the tall lanky one on the right hanging). Buds aren’t really dense, and more like tons of bowl packs, the other three were nice and dense. Anxiously waiting to jar them and get a weight from the 4 plants… #4 also has minimal trichomes, and what few it has were going amber. Certainly not a candidate for future, curious how it smokes, and if I knew what it was I wouldn’t want to grow it. Its wierd, but since they are unknown, I aint worrying anyway.

Potted up some sprouts from the server raffle, there’s a pair of BC Pinewarp, Lucky Charms and Uncle Fester Skunks, Lucky Charms and a pair of Spirit Train F2’s. Rounding out the pic is a black cream auto and the variegated blueberry jack herer from @Rabeats2093 . Got a few more black creams to be potted up tomorrow, and I definitely wanna pollinate the variegated BBJH with some black cream. Purple variegated would be cool, and hey, its for fun, why the heck not?

Planted up a few of the Alaskan Purple clones, and they are coloring back up now that they are developing roots…

And still got a couple weeks to go on the purple ladies, aka the black cream autos and the blackberry autos from seedsman… Slowly but surely. These have certainly been subject to some nute abuse as I figured out FF nutes with my soil mix, as well as my soil mix needed more perlite anyway, but they are fat, dense, sticky and stinky, and I can’t wait to taste em. I think the next black creams will have much better color foliage as I dial in the nutes better… I can see how the leaves just wanna go purple…

Thats it for this week…

Same pot- time / same pot channel next week!

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