I spent some much need time working in the workshop last night. First thing I did was setup the Blumat soil moisture meters. I’ll be trying to correlate the Blumat meters with the Ecowit meters. The former is a tensiometer while the latter is a conductive meter. I will take a reading tomorrow to see how evenly the beds are watered. Next, I pulled out all of the Blumat carrots from the beds and cleaned them very thoroughly. Two of the carrots were empty, that may have been what caused the flood in the left bed. After cleaning them, I set them up and left them soaking in water. They are ready to be installed and callibrated.
Then, I watered the beds to bring the moisture up to about 30% on the Ecowit meters. I kind of missed my mark as the right bed was at 35% while the other two were at 30%. I pulled the drippers and installed some Blusoak drip tape in the beds instead. The drippers tend to get clogged about half way through the cycle. I started to refill my reservoir, only a couple more gallons and it is full.
Finally, I moved the CMxGAB by Afterthought Autos back into the flower room under the middle light. These are doing alright for day 53 from germination. I ran into some issues using organics in the small containers, but fed them some Jacks 321 and they seem to be coming around now. They have been successfully pollinated with the Divyder pollen and there should be plenty of seeds to move this project forward. While moving them, I got a delightful blueberry smell from them. When trimming up some of my mother plants, I noticed one of my males had a single open pollen sack. Hopefully it doesn’t contaminate the CMxGAB, but it should be easy to tell as any progeny wont be autoflowers.
Next I moved on to my veg room. I trimmed my mother plants, and culled the male that was throwing flowers. I then mixed up some Jacks 321 and gave the mothers and the Dominion Diesel plants a good feeding. The Dominion Diesel are at day 62F. I will likely let them go a bit longer. Checking one of the plants, it still had quite a few immature seeds. Finally, I swept everything off the floors and straightened up my mess.
I moved some Dominion Diesel clones in solo cups into the QT tent to make some F2s. It’s amazing how many seeds one can make with just a small plant in a solo cup. By the time the male is dropping pollen, the CMxGAB should be about done. That should avoid some pollen contamination from happening.
Finally I bucked the buds off the drying Divyder plants. The plan is to let these get extra crispy and harvest the seeds this weekend. I’m looking forward to having some Divyder F2s to grow and share. Divyder was the first auto I ever made.
This weekend, I plan to finish installing and calibrate the Blumat carrots. I want to do this step early in the morning, so if I get a run-away sensor I wont dump the entire 10 gallon reservoir on the floor again. Once the Blumats are installed and calibrated, I plan to add the amendments for the next round and cover the soil with some barley straw. I also plan to shuck some seeds and clean up the dirty pots on my workbench.
