WolfieLee
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The Story so far...I tried to germ the first attempts of these four strains in a Greenhouse, when the Weather was "Bat-shit Crazy" warm around here, but the greenhouse got too hot, I'm afraid...90 PLUS degrees F during the day, at times, and the beans never germmed, just BAKED! It was the warmest on record for over 100 years around here in the Midwest (near 80 F Hi temp for almost a week).
So, I used a little four-chamber seedling disposable plastic planter. It was cooler, again, by then (about the 21st of March), so I moved them inside in an un-heated upstairs room, in the East-facing window (was House-sitting for the Folks...Florida Snow-Bunnies that they are). I placed a flat cardboard square on top of an infra-red muscle therapy heat light to give a good constant warm temp to the moist potting soil. All of them but the AutoAssassin were germmed on the 23 of March, yet, not even quite out of the soil, at that point. The Assassin just a day or two later, not sure, 'cause they were all proud little seedlings next I saw them around the 27th.
For a few days I brought them to a downstairs heated environment in a large picture window, and supplemented the light with around 65-80 Watts of CFL (four varried bulbs) for around 5 hours a day, and only the lights in an open, un-heated, dark room rest of the day/nights. Then I moved them to a trusted friends water cellar (on Fri March 30th) with only the CFL's until, well tomorrow or Wednesday. Lights were off at night until a week ago, when I had him switch them off only 3-4 hours a day after he got up.
I transplanted them almost two weeks ago, as follows. Super Cali Haze (femmed) into a 5 Gallon Smart Pot with 2/3 good dirt mixed with 1/3 Roots Organic Growing mix. I did the same with the rest, but I used 2 gallon size Smart Pots for the shorter growing cycles. I mixed the Aurora Innovations Roots Organic mix down because I was unsure about the plants being over-fed...? Does anyone know if I could have used it straight? I tried to post about it before the fact and got no responses to any of my questions. That thread is now gone (for lack of activity, I presume). My goal is as "maintainance-free" as possible, once outdoors.
Will use Dried blood, my own urine, and a sweaty, stinky ripped up T-Shirt...all to be scattered around the scouted growing areas (swampy areas, POSSIBLY UP in dead scub trees) anything I can do to keep the critters away who would dig up the wonderful smelling potting mix...But the Super Cali haze will be attended by the trusted Friend on his property...he has done 3 -4 successful Guerrilla grows there in the past, and also has a clone of some sort or another he just received not long ago to take care of. I'll split the yield with him on the Cali, and make sure he gets at least an eighth each of the others, if the yield will give me at least 2 dried quarters each strain, to myself, for his help.
All but the White Moscow are feminized, and I'm actually kinda hoping to get some pollen instead of bud out of that one anyway, so, MAYBE, I can pollinate and have seeds from the ONLY bean left of the White Moscow. If they are both males, I will have to order 3 more or so. Two days after I ordered, Herbies had the feminized kind BACK in stock...just my luck! LOL
They are all looking pretty well, considering the somewhat stressful circumstances of their short little lives, so far. It looks like the Auto Assassin may have had issue with the watering situation or the light it was closest to (the flat kind, not the helical kind, with more of a silver-ish quality to the light)...? I changed the lighting situation around a bit and made sure to water them more plentifully, even though they were still moist from the transplanting a week earlier.
Here are the pictures from last Tuesday, April 10th, 2 Wks, 3 Days old; a week after transplanting:
Any Ideas about the Auto Assassin? How about the Soil Mix...will it be too much or not enough nutes for the remainder of the life cycles (approx. to June 1st through the 7th, if the info given is correct, on the regular autos)? July 1 to the 20th, for the Super Cali Haze, if on schedule per info given. How about the progress of them? Should they be further along at that time frame of the pics, or have they been slowed down because of the way they were "rasised", so far? Any input greatly appreciated...
PEACE
So, I used a little four-chamber seedling disposable plastic planter. It was cooler, again, by then (about the 21st of March), so I moved them inside in an un-heated upstairs room, in the East-facing window (was House-sitting for the Folks...Florida Snow-Bunnies that they are). I placed a flat cardboard square on top of an infra-red muscle therapy heat light to give a good constant warm temp to the moist potting soil. All of them but the AutoAssassin were germmed on the 23 of March, yet, not even quite out of the soil, at that point. The Assassin just a day or two later, not sure, 'cause they were all proud little seedlings next I saw them around the 27th.
For a few days I brought them to a downstairs heated environment in a large picture window, and supplemented the light with around 65-80 Watts of CFL (four varried bulbs) for around 5 hours a day, and only the lights in an open, un-heated, dark room rest of the day/nights. Then I moved them to a trusted friends water cellar (on Fri March 30th) with only the CFL's until, well tomorrow or Wednesday. Lights were off at night until a week ago, when I had him switch them off only 3-4 hours a day after he got up.
I transplanted them almost two weeks ago, as follows. Super Cali Haze (femmed) into a 5 Gallon Smart Pot with 2/3 good dirt mixed with 1/3 Roots Organic Growing mix. I did the same with the rest, but I used 2 gallon size Smart Pots for the shorter growing cycles. I mixed the Aurora Innovations Roots Organic mix down because I was unsure about the plants being over-fed...? Does anyone know if I could have used it straight? I tried to post about it before the fact and got no responses to any of my questions. That thread is now gone (for lack of activity, I presume). My goal is as "maintainance-free" as possible, once outdoors.
Will use Dried blood, my own urine, and a sweaty, stinky ripped up T-Shirt...all to be scattered around the scouted growing areas (swampy areas, POSSIBLY UP in dead scub trees) anything I can do to keep the critters away who would dig up the wonderful smelling potting mix...But the Super Cali haze will be attended by the trusted Friend on his property...he has done 3 -4 successful Guerrilla grows there in the past, and also has a clone of some sort or another he just received not long ago to take care of. I'll split the yield with him on the Cali, and make sure he gets at least an eighth each of the others, if the yield will give me at least 2 dried quarters each strain, to myself, for his help.
All but the White Moscow are feminized, and I'm actually kinda hoping to get some pollen instead of bud out of that one anyway, so, MAYBE, I can pollinate and have seeds from the ONLY bean left of the White Moscow. If they are both males, I will have to order 3 more or so. Two days after I ordered, Herbies had the feminized kind BACK in stock...just my luck! LOL
They are all looking pretty well, considering the somewhat stressful circumstances of their short little lives, so far. It looks like the Auto Assassin may have had issue with the watering situation or the light it was closest to (the flat kind, not the helical kind, with more of a silver-ish quality to the light)...? I changed the lighting situation around a bit and made sure to water them more plentifully, even though they were still moist from the transplanting a week earlier.
Here are the pictures from last Tuesday, April 10th, 2 Wks, 3 Days old; a week after transplanting:
Any Ideas about the Auto Assassin? How about the Soil Mix...will it be too much or not enough nutes for the remainder of the life cycles (approx. to June 1st through the 7th, if the info given is correct, on the regular autos)? July 1 to the 20th, for the Super Cali Haze, if on schedule per info given. How about the progress of them? Should they be further along at that time frame of the pics, or have they been slowed down because of the way they were "rasised", so far? Any input greatly appreciated...
PEACE
