Lights are on, so I was just in to water a couple plants in my flower tent, and learned that I guess I snapped a limb off one of my seed mamas during a recent watering. Looks like the seeds are about done cooking anyway, so it’s no harm!
I’ll figure out whatever the secret sauce is to make cloning in soil a little more successful, but as of right now I’ve had poor results. I must have taken close to 50 clones total, and I’ve ended up with 6. Only 3 out of 7 plants had clones root. This ugly-ass cutting is just funny because the roots were the nicest but it’s shitty reveg growth.
This is what came out of that branch that had broken off. I was impatient and didn’t wait for it to dry, and now I totally understand why people say to wait til it’s bone dry before shucking the seeds. There are a couple shitty empty pale seeds that made it in there but they’ll get picked out when I’m going through all the seeds from the whole plant. I won’t be cutting my seed plants down til probably next weekend. I’m in no rush.
Haha man I think this generation is like F5, Fleur Du Mal seeds have had the work put into ‘em, so that’s a step closer to F175 haha.
I’m definitely looking forward to finding something I like and just working it forever. I’m so jealous of the older heads who have like a handful of strains that they’re in love with and line breed the hell out of them. Hopefully in the next year-ish while I’m growing out basically everything I have, I’ll find something that really does it for me, or I’ll find the parts to try to make something that does.
They showed today so I gave them a bleach/water dunk in the tub so I can do some transplanting later. I need to take some clones off of some plants later as well, and once they root I’ll be able to flower them.
I think my shop light overheated and melted a joint. After I soldered that and got it working again, it wouldn’t turn on after I hung it up in my tent again. I think it was a grounding issue that I’ve somehow fixed, and now it’s back in the tent. Very stoked to not have to get a new one, feeling like some brand of genius. Felt like a little bit of a dumbshit opening it and realizing that it’s just 2 strips of LED tape though. I feel like I could build one of those easy as hell.
Just keep at it on the cloning! My success rate is still only 60% ish, but it got a lot better when I started taking cleanliness more seriously and started using barely moist new Promix or rockwool and then just putting the tray and dome in another room near a window. Now most things have roots in 2-3 weeks. Just gotta keep the medium in the “slightly moist to slightly dry” range and pull the dome after the first week or so. Not a pro here, fyi, just another learning (intermediate) beginner.
In my fabric pots, these plants filled the whole tent, but now I have all this space! It appears as if I can fit 32 plants in there at once, which is just a silly amount of plants for my setup. Gonna be cool to be able to keep a nice variety of mothers on hand without it interfering with anything else I’m trying to do. I’ll need to figure out the right size and shape pots to flower in, but right now I’m just really pleased and excited about this setup. Let’s disregard the dirt and whatnot in the bottom of my tent, I’m kind of entertained by having an accidental ecosystem under my pots. It seems like at this point, most of the worms in my garden are running around in the bottom of my veg tent.
Haven’t gone in and taken the clones I wanted to take, but it’s so damn hot in my grow room that I was transplanting plants and sweating like I was defusing a bomb, so I transplanted everything and ran and took a shower. Tomorrow is the 10 day mark for the clones I took, so while I’m at it taking clones from a few plants, I should be breaking into those and putting the decent looking ones into the seedling tray to further root.
I had reused a bunch of my indoor soil to fill some pots outside, and all the cover crop started growing instead of the berries. Then this morning I spotted a groundhog in one of my raised beds, and realized he ate a bunch of it and squashed my dilll! I tried to grow elephant dill a year or two ago and the seeds just got mixed into my soil and were apparently still viable.
Before/before/after/after. Then pics of my Punta Roja male, displaying a little purple under the blurple.
Spotted a monarch in the yard! Didn’t think I was gonna end up seeing them anymore since I quit smoking cigarettes last fall. Something has been annihilating the milkweed so the seed production has been dogshit the past couple years, but it’s still been growing, and the monarchs keep comin’.
Man. I’ve been trying to lure wild life into my backyard since I moved into this house. Apparently our neighborhood used to get deer and all kinda stuff back in the day but as people started putting up privacy fences, it’s kind rerouted the wildlife around the neighborhood. I also caught a ground hog trying to climb into the raised beds. His upper body strength was trash though and couldn’t hoist himself up and in.
Oh man that sucks! People really don’t seem to get the impact they have on their surroundings when they build fences or clear cut a huge area.
I’m pretty suburban where I am, but there are just enough connected bits of woodsy bits that we manage to get deer in our yard to eat the crabapples sometimes. A mama deer left her foal right outside the back door a couple years ago! We have rabbits that live out there, and the squirrel population took a dip when we got a hawk in the neighborhood. Saw a fox once. The woodchuck lives under my neighbor’s shed and has a tunnel to the edge of my yard. When I had dogs, everything steered pretty clear though!
That’s cool. We get rabbits and turtles and lots of frogs mostly. I think I got the go ahead from the boss to build a water feature in our backyard to entice our amphibious friends to hang out more.
My wife is trying to make friends with some nearby crows.
Nevermind, the crabapple tree is no more. I didn’t realize that the whole trunk was hollow, but the whole tree was fucked up by woodpeckers so I had figured there was something pretty wrong with it. Also I’m realizing that I was wondering how old it was and there’s just no way to know!
