Speaking of water, heres my H2O supply, I don't use RO water, I just filter it through a filter that I homemade out of a bed skirt when I need to mix nutrients or just want plain for something then PH it. It works quite well. I had more pictures of my collection process but it's pretty straight forward when
you think about it, I basically used a gutter that drained off the most on my property and used a submersible pump to move it where I needed it.
Cool end of May photo of one of the many guardians I've observed in my garden chilling on one of the DD clones, every morning I usually catch em
hangin' out on the canopy.
So back to the clones, heres a photo from June 7, a little over 1 month in the 1gals, the 7 up front are the 2nd batch of cuts of DD I took on May 10th, those have since went to a buddy.
The one in the far back is the Johnny Appleseed, she remained un topped for a while, until I actually got some structure out of her. The cuts I got off her were not as mature as I would have liked them to be. Everything else was topped within the first week of transplant.
And heres a few pictures of the 2nd batch of cuts I got off Dre. I use a simple homemade dome using 2 clear totes + hot glue.
And I spray em' with a soluble seaweed foliar spray
June 13th This is Chronic cut #2, 2nd attempt at mainlining. This is Chronic cut #3, I FIMMED this one and am liking the results of that technique. This is the Johnny Appleseed that wasn't giving me any structure. Pruned up Dre again before flower
I been brewing tea for them all, heres a few of the nutrients I've been running. I've had all these leftovers from the years, so I haven't spent any money on nutrients and probably won't need to this season. Nice!
A typical recipe will include:
Fox Farm grow Big
FloraNova grow
BioThrive Grow
BioThrive Bloom
TigerBloom
BioBud
FloraNova Bloom
Techniflora SolubleSeaweed
Crushed eggshells
H202
Strapped
Bat Guano
Epsom Salt
I even toss in various things from the property into homemade tea bags and steep them in it as well, the property is plentiful in resources that I'll continue to use to my advantage. The plants don't seem to complain at all.
I constructed a bucket with valve control for 2x air stones and it works great.
June 14th
So I did some transplanting. Went real cheap on the media because lets face it, you just don't need $25 bags of soil to achieve greatness.
There I said it.
The blue bin is compost that is extremely plentiful around the property.
Chronic #2 cut (Mainlined) to a 5gal Plant Warrior.
Chronic #3 cut (FIM'ed) to a 15gal RootPouch.
4x of 6x Chronic cuts to 1gal Plant Warriors.
I managed to get 1 rootball shot of 1 of em'
Happy Happy
Last pictures before chop the following day (June 26th) @ 13Wks from seed
I was going to chop earlier but I just let her go. Got some beautiful purples, mahogany's, lime greens out of her BUT reason I'm not a huge fan of Ruderalis is yield related. Didn't have a scale for wet weight but I can already tell that by the time I'm done trimming her up for cure, its looking like an OZ at most, maybe a little bit more.
Good news is I got to test out climate conditions in my drying room. It's your standard bedroom with a window AC unit + a larger fan for air movement. Windows covered with some black poly. It keeps on AVG a cool 60/60 zone +/- a couple degrees & %. So Im hype for that because most people fuck up this part and I refuse to waste 3 months of my time for some fresh cut grass smelling shit. Its basically like a fuckin jar in there already TBH. no Central AC system, I've had to get creative with ideas this season as Im trying to do it as budget friendly as possible. (Not like runnin AC constant for days is budget friendly but you understand)
June 26th Cheese #1 Auto (TENT) Couple pictures before hang (whole plant) + Rootball (disappointed in this root system TBH) But to be fair I did stress the F out of her, had nutrient deficiency early on as well. probably played a factor if I know anything.
June 26th Transplanted to 5gal containers after 7 1/2 wks. (54 days) veg in 1gals Longer than I wanted them to be in 1gals, but they had good root systems established and should still do pretty well.
same medium mix used for the Chronic transplants + a bag of hydroton pellets I had laying around because I ran out of perlite
I took the 3 best looking DDs and put them in Plant Warriors
The other 3 (2x DD; 1x JA) are in Smart Pots
3x Smart Pots
3x Plant Warriors
So that is more data I am collecting. what will yield more. of course, there is a lot of factors to consider for this, but they are 2 completely different containers so having any type of data for the strain(s) will be effective. Happy Happy