I’ve grown a couple other autos of his in the past. The Gas & Guns was particularly notable. They had nice big fat buds that had an almost peach flavor to them.
For this collaboration, we are planning a double cross. I’m crossing his Critical Mass x Ginger Alex Blueberry with my Divyder (La Diva x Lowryder2). I also sent him some of my JLo seeds and he is going to cross it with his Brazillian Santa Maria. Finally, we will do the double cross (CMxGAB x Divyder)x(JLo x Santa Maria).
In the process of selecting the best Divyder males, I also pollinated the female Divyders and some Domino Diesel photoperiods.
A couple of weeks ago I installed the Blusoak drip tape. A few days later, I had a flood in the left bed. I turned off the Blumat carrot and let everything start to dry out. Last night, I investigated and I found a leak where I connected the Blusoak tape. I cut off the end and re-connected it. I’ve been trying to dial in the moisture in the beds. So far I have the right bed dialed in where I want it.
I went ahead and gave the CMxGAB a pre-harvest trim. Basically, I took any leaf off that had a petiole on it. These are about 77 days from germination. I will likely give them another week to finish ripening up the seeds. I’m getting a nice pine/blueberry smell from them.
The Dominion Diesel have been harvested and the buds are drying in brown paper bags. In a few more days they will be dry enough to shuck the seeds. I’ll likely do a smoke test on these just to confirm my keeper selection.
The bonsai mothers got a good trimming. I think I’m going to cull the Dominon Diesel down to one keeper plant. So far the winning candidate is the one labeled #3, as it had the highest return of rosin per square foot.
I’m still laughing that had to be like growing a 16 week Columbian in a 2 foot tall cabinet. Always wondered why they get away with those prices in the gorcery store after I grew some once. I had it 4 -5 feet tall.
Yesterday I took down the Dominion Diesel male and collected a little bit of pollen. I’ll dry the pollen for a couple of days, then store it in the freezer for a rainy day. I gave the girls a thorough spray down and moved them into the veg room to finish up making seeds.
Next I cut down the CMxGAB plants and hung them up in the QT tent to dry. This phase of the collaboration is complete. I’ll dry and harvest the seeds then send half of them
to Aridbud. He informed me he was a few more weeks out on his half of the project.
Still trying to dial in the Blumats. I’ve been playing with both the Ecowit and the Blumat digital moisture meters. When comparing the two meters, I noticed the middle bed was much wetter on the Blumat sensor than the Ecowit sensor. I moved the Ecowit sensor and it now reads closer to the values in the left bed, where I had the flood. Once the carrots are dialed in, I will mark them so I don’t have to repeat this exercise.
I still haven’t decided what I’m going to run next. I think I’m pretty much settled on doing a photoperiod run in the beds. I think I’ll make a decision and pop some seeds this weekend.
Did you checkout the latest Growcast episode? Some good tips from sustainable village mayor Michael Backes on dialing in blumat carrots/moisture meters.
I’m a step closer to getting some actual plants going. I amended the beds based on the soil test I got back in February and watered that in. Then I then I covered the beds with a oyster mushroom mulch from Build-a-Soil. Honestly, I could have used another one to cover it as much as I like, I may order one.
A couple possibilities: a stray seed or some stray pollen. I tend to run regular photoperiods and often make seeds, I wouldn’t be surprised if this happened rarely. I would cull the misbehaving plant and plant another seed.
Last night I spent a couple of hours washing and disinfecting pots and trays. I rinsed everything with a high pressure hose, then washed everything with warm soapy water. Finally, I sprayed them with bleach water and wiped them down after a 60 second contact time.
I got the Chem91 x Orange Sour Dub seeds planted in paper cups and under a dome. A couple were cracked after soaking for 48 hours. I’ll give them a week or two to finish germinating.
I was going to get rid of a couple of Dominion Diesel mothers. Turns out my dad is in need of some new plants, so I transplanted them into one gallon pots instead. I’ll let them veg in my flower room for the next few days then drop them off for his next run. I’m going to need to make some more soil before too long, I used the last of it to transplant these two.
I still have a bunch of CMxGAB x Divyder seeds I need to shuck. I’ve been slowly sampling some of the buds with my DynaVap. They have a nice berry taste, that I think will pair very nicely with the Divyder. I also have a bunch of Divyder F2 and Dominion Diesel x Divyder seeds that are dry and need to be run through the birdseed cleaner and package up.
