2 Lazy 2 Make Single Strain Diaries #1

5.16 F52 5.20 F56 - Went out of town for the weekend and things held up great. Gotta love having wifi timers and sensors that can be checked from across the country. Pretty interesting seeing things develop this past couple weeks. We are turning the corner towards harvest for some of the early finishers, so I'm putting my performance under a microscope. It looks like I'll be pursuing this as a career soon, so I've gotta continue refining to make sure things transition smoothly. 1) No more mainlining. I love the symmetry of this technique, but it does stress the plants and delays vegging more than I care for. I've had a number of plants that I felt were stunted, even if only slightly, from the mainlining. The taller plants I have have two nodes saved, and I think I'll experiment with keeping up to 4 or 5 nodes. I also found that it's pretty easy to split a trunk when the weight is distributed across a mainline. You really got to be careful. 2) No drinking and watering LOL - Half joking but I came home after being out playing some pool with friends and decided it was a great time to water my babies. Well, did a stumble and fucking fell right into like 4 of them. Fortunately they had the peony rings, so not totally destroyed. But I did split the trunk of both my Dread Breads : Even though they were quickly taped up and supported and recovered fully, they hermed and seeded a bit. I noticed the seeding was isolated to the colas supported by the most damaged branches, so I'm really kicking myself for this one, though the crop is still waaaay healthier than my last harvest 3) Veg a week longer. I didn't get the height I wanted out of these, though they did have nice stretches. I was afraid of running out of lateral space, but ended up having a couple more males than expected. I'm really happy with the 3x3 and ScrOG, but I'd have liked some lankier ladies in the 4x5 give I have another 12"+ of space for them to grow into. 4) Mother-> clone-> pheno hunt with reg seed. Make/use fem seeds for single strain tents and big cropping. I love the discovery and variety that comes with popping seeds. I also love the feeling a maxed out canopy gives me. But as most more experienced guys have found, and is really common knowledge I guess - it's not practical to grow for weight with a lot of different strains in one tent. It's also not possible to learn about the stability and expressed traits by taking individual reg seeds to harvest. Granted I'll have to wait for my new facilities, but I intend to start growing reg seeds to select mothers from. Clone to acquire sufficient n plants to get an idea of the traits of the flower, then select my favorites and make fem seeds from them. I prefer (atm) to grow from seed, and to have seeds as insurance against losing traits I like when a mother bites it. 5) Keep daytime temps at 82 degrees. Massmedicalstrains preaches this for LED growers and I think my observations concur. I've had some brief and slight Ca/Mg/N imbalances and these were remedied by bringing my temps up from 75- 82 during the day. 6) Aloe water - shit is amazing for organic living soil growers. Saponins SAPONINS. lol I use these shitty fucking molecules in a lab setting and they are dangerous as shit to inhale in concentrated forms because they cause pores to form in cell membranes. (so like imagine the mucous membranes in your nose and throat being shot point blank with little molecular bird shot (shotgun shell)) It's all the rage. Aloe is a great surfactant and relatively cheap to buy in fresh leaf form and process yourself. I noticed my bags held onto water better after using it, which I was very grateful for when they started guzzling during flower. 6) IPM works. Be clean. Use companion plants and bugs. Predator mites WORK yo. Lady bugs work. Consult experts. Read shit. Evergreengrowers.com Evergreengrowers.com Evergreengrowers.com 7) Stupid things I feel like should have been obvious: pull air out of the tent through the carbon filter. If you push, even with a decent pre-filter, your fans and carbon filters will degrade and clog more quickly. Meh, I think that is all I got atm. Wish me luck through the finale. Satan willing, we shall reap many rewards and melts from our dark labours to ze flower of joy. 😈 5.22 F59