This morning I was surprised to see that one of the solo2’s I planted 18 days ago and totally wrote off, has emerged above the soil! All the others are doing not so good. They seem to have stalled out and have not been growing.
I’m trying to figure out why and my assumption is that they are experiencing nutritional lockout from a overly acidic ph. I don’t have anything to test the ph, but I think because I made my own potting mix and the main ingredient is Canadian peat moss which is said to be a ph of 4-5. So, I went out to the road and gathered up some limestone and crushed it with a hammer into dust and sprinkled it on top of the soil and tried to gently work some into the top inch. Then watered in a bit.
I will keep you all posted on the results.
Transplanted the last soloberry3 to a slurpee cup…that makes 7x soloberry3 total.
The first batch of 8x soloberry2 seeds were put into paper towel, cracked, put out a small root and went into solo cups…from there, they stalled and died. With this second batch of soloberry2’s, I put them all in paper towel again (I’ve always had great success with this method), all cracked (if I remember correctly) and threw small tails, 3 of these went into peat pucks and the rest into soil and solos. Again, all the solos stalled and died, but the 3 in peat pucks all made it and look healthy and vigorous…a little deformed, but they’ll grow out of it shortly.
Currently sitting with 6x soloberry3 in flower
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1x soloberry3 in veg
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3x soloberry2 seedlings in veg (middle vertical row) looking a touch deformed for now.
that’s about what mine look like now
at 3 weeks old, they aren’t looking too promising, if they don’t perk up or start showing better growth or structure soon I will have to bail on this test run. Although I appreciate all of the hard work and expense that @anonymous4289 went to in order to get the seeds in my hands, I don’t have space or time to run slow growing mutant plants. If I decide to bail, I will be happy to reimburse any shipping costs.
I have a Soloberry2 that looks exactly like that stunted seedling. I gave up on it over a week ago and left it outside the tent. Didn’t make it to the bin though. It’s still there in a dark corner of the room. A green little twisted sprout. A memorial to my own forgetfulness. Now I’m curious just how long it will remain that way. I figure one day years from now I’ll turn to find it all bushed out and talking to me about negligence.
My Soloberry3 plants are fairing much better. Still some weird growth on a couple but they’re finally vegging pretty normal. The farthest left is growing in 3’s on each node. The smallest plant in the pic is the only Soloberry2 that made it, started at the same time as all the Soloberrys.
They’ve got 2-3 weeks more veg before flip and I hope to know sex by then. I definitely will not be topping these. They’ve all got the purple coating on the underside and stems like their Snow Lotus daddy. Nice big Goji-esque leaves. I’m hopeful for some good smoke.
nice pics, nice looking plants
nice plants, great job, I wish mine looked like yours
Did you happen to start any of the Soloberry3? The 2’s seem to be weaker across the board.
yeah the bigger of the 2 runts in the photo was a 3, the others are looking the same, at 3 weeks and one set of leaves, and odd shapes, mismatched and freakish looking, thought maybe they were freakshow lol
no need. i don’t blame you. a bunch of people are having similar issues.
the bottom pic looks like it may recover. the first one not so much.
I tried something different with the sb3 that I do have up - it’s been stalled a while. I mixed in a ½ml of 4-5-8 dollar store miracle grow into 250ml distilled, Tonight I have new leaves emerging.
May just need extra nutrients sooner…
My 3’s were less viable then my #2’s , but once they were up and the seed husk off they all seem equal,in fact a #3 is the tallest(male?) and they took longer germinating. I had 4 out of 6 #2’s come up, 3 number #'s came up but seed husk claimed one of the 3’s. There all doing well now.
They have been x planted from solo cups to 1 gal fabric pots. using happy frog and xtra perlite in the bottom of the pot then peat in the middle , with happy frog the top inch. Covid has made it so i had to use regular peat.
Well I’m afraid non of my SB2 seedlings made it, they got to be about 2 inches tall then just seemed to stop any uptake, soil never dried out and they just slowly died.
Thinking I’ll wait until spring and then run the ones I have in tubes still, some inside some outside and maybe start feeding nutrients earlier this time around
@anonymous4289 I haven’t given up on them yet, just need better conditions
Balance will find them and take from the because they haven’t given back.
sounds good.
Not much too see right now @anonymous4289 but they will be treated good and hopefully be as berry as they can be 
6 of 8 are up and going right now !
Started 2 each of the soloberrys the 3’s sprouted after a few days in a peat pellet and appeared to be strong the 2 number 2’s never sprouted and the 3’s both damped off after about a week and expired.
I’m not sure who you are, but ok, lol. are you the guy @JBow918 shared seeds with? i hope you have better luck if you have more seeds.