Sannie's SugarPunch

undercovergrow

undercovergrow

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so i check on them this morning...my blood orange that i thought had died...i now have two sprouts in one pot that have just popped... oops. how is this even possible? the first one was soaked on the 4th and to soil on the 5th... second one was soaked on the 9th and to soil on the 10th--so one pops in two days like i'm used to and one takes a week to pop. i'm glad i've been consistent in watering the dirt.
 
KeizerSoze

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undercovergrow said:
so i check on them this morning...my blood orange that i thought had died...i now have two sprouts in one pot that have just popped... oops. how is this even possible? the first one was soaked on the 4th and to soil on the 5th... second one was soaked on the 9th and to soil on the 10th--so one pops in two days like i'm used to and one takes a week to pop. i'm glad i've been consistent in watering the dirt.
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LOL I don't know... I have some Dutch Passion, Blueberry in flower right now. When I germinated the seeds some popped up in a normal time frame and others took a week or so. I had one that popped her head above ground and then stalled. I thought she died and put her in my discard area. She sat off to the side for about two weeks without water or direct light and then one day she sprouted up again. I was shocked... I moved her to my "special needs area", started watering her again and she perked right up. Now she is as healthy as she can be but about two weeks in growth behind her sisters...

I am still watering my last Anesthesia in hopes that she is stalled or dormant...

Your going to need to separate your seedlings as soon as they are strong enough
 
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st0wandgrow

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Howdy Keizer (love that movie btw). I use rock wool cubes to germinate seeds. I soak the cubes over night in aloe water, then plunk the seeds in. These were up and stretching out within 48 hours. I make my own organic soil, but it tends to be a bit much for seedlings so I cut it with worm castings and rice hulls. Apx 1/3 soil, 1/3 EWC, and 1/3 rice hulls. These will go in to larger buckets in my soil in another week or two. They are currently under a 600 watt conversion bulb. REALLY looking forward to harvest day! I've sampled SP on a couple occasions from other growers and it has been spectacular weed every time.
 
undercovergrow

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KeizerSoze said:
LOL I don't know... I have some Dutch Passion, Blueberry in flower right now. When I germinated the seeds some popped up in a normal time frame and others took a week or so. I had one that popped her head above ground and then stalled. I thought she died and put her in my discard area. She sat off to the side for about two weeks without water or direct light and then one day she sprouted up again. I was shocked... I moved her to my "special needs area", started watering her again and she perked right up. Now she is as healthy as she can be but about two weeks in growth behind her sisters...

I am still watering my last Anesthesia in hopes that she is stalled or dormant...

Your going to need to separate your seedlings as soon as they are strong enough
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i've got a DP blueberry going right now too--just one though and she is due to be done mid-may. she is one of my two girls that i'm having a bit of trouble with... but she smells good.
because of your story, i'm gonna be more careful before i decide a plant is dead or a bean has not germed. this weed definitely wants to live!! :-)
fingers crossed on your last anesthesia!!
thx for the info on the seedlings...i was wondering what to do about them! for now, i've left them alone. both of their shells came off and the cotyledon leaves have opened up just today. i was thinking of letting them alone for not more than a week and then move the strongest one. hopefully, i time it right and don't muck up the transplant.
 
st0wandgrow

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undercovergrow said:
stowandgrow nice looking girls you've got there! :weed: thanks for sharing. what's your plan on when to put them to flower?
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I'm going to wait and see what kind of side branching they kick out. If there's plenty of side branches to clone from in the next couple weeks then I'll take my cuts and probably move them to flower a week after that. Hopefully 12-14 inches tall at that point. If I can't clone from side branches and have to top them then maybe a smidge longer in veg.

Thanks for starting this thread btw. It will be fun to watch everyone else working with the same strain! :-)
 
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stowandgrow that's great you're waiting--it will help others (me too) to decide on how long to veg :-) thanks for sharing--wish i could actually add something to this other than a picture of my dirt. :-) still nothing on my sugar punch but my two blood orange that popped together are doing great, and my chocolate rain that i thought was dead too looks like this morning it has sprouted with the shell still on... hopefully the SP will be soon :leaf: my space bomb is growing great too!
 
KeizerSoze

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st0wandgrow said:
Howdy Keizer (love that movie btw). I use rock wool cubes to germinate seeds. I soak the cubes over night in aloe water, then plunk the seeds in. These were up and stretching out within 48 hours. I make my own organic soil, but it tends to be a bit much for seedlings so I cut it with worm castings and rice hulls. Apx 1/3 soil, 1/3 EWC, and 1/3 rice hulls. These will go in to larger buckets in my soil in another week or two. They are currently under a 600 watt conversion bulb. REALLY looking forward to harvest day! I've sampled SP on a couple occasions from other growers and it has been spectacular weed every time.
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I mix my own soil as well, I follow the SubCool recipe published in High Times a few years ago and have had very good success with it, but I am always looking to learn more. I would be interested in what you use in your soil mix. I assume that the rice hulls are for water retention?

I have never sampled Sugar Punch but couldn't pass on the seeds based on all of the hype. I am very curious and cautiously optimistic...

The movie, "The Usual Suspects", is one of my all time favorites. I am a very big Kevin Spacey fan and found the concept of the "Keyser Söze" character to be very intriguing...

Please continue to post. I will be very interested in your progress.
 
st0wandgrow

st0wandgrow

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KeizerSoze said:
I mix my own soil as well, I follow the SubCool recipe published in High Times a few years ago and have had very good success with it, but I am always looking to learn more. I would be interested in what you use in your soil mix. I assume that the rice hulls are for water retention?

I have never sampled Sugar Punch but couldn't pass on the seeds based on all of the hype. I am very curious and cautiously optimistic...

The movie, "The Usual Suspects", is one of my all time favorites. I am a very big Kevin Spacey fan and found the concept of the "Keyser Söze" character to be very intriguing...

Please continue to post. I will be very interested in your progress.
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Kevin Spacey is the shit! My favorite movie of all time is American Beauty.

As for soil, a member here by the name of "Rrog" first turned me on to ROLS (recycled organic living soil) a couple years back and I have been rolling with it ever since. It's very similar to subs super soil, with a few variations. IMO, the cornerstone of a good organic soil is the quality of the compost, and plenty of rock dusts which improve the CEC of your soil. As soon as I started using my own worm castings from my worm bins and adding rock dusts my plants took off and have been crazy healthy ever since. I really think that is the key. The amendments that you add such as blood meal, alfalfa meal, etc are important, but secondary to the compost and rock dusts. I use the following:

Base:
1cf peat moss, 1cf coco coir, 1cf worm castings, 1cf aeration (rice hulls, perlite, pumice, etc)

To that I add (per cubic foot of base): 1/2 cup alfalfa meal, 1/2 cup kelp meal, 1/2 cup neem seed meal, 1/2 cup crab shell meal, 1/2 cup Espoma Garden Tone, 1/2 cup oyster shell flour, 1/2 cup garden gypsum, 3 cups rock dusts. I then wet that down with a compost tea, and let it sit for 6 weeks. I re-use this same soil for several runs until I retire it to my veggie garden outside.
 
KeizerSoze

KeizerSoze

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undercovergrow said:
i've got a DP blueberry going right now too--just one though and she is due to be done mid-may. she is one of my two girls that i'm having a bit of trouble with... but she smells good.
because of your story, i'm gonna be more careful before i decide a plant is dead or a bean has not germed. this weed definitely wants to live!! :-)
fingers crossed on your last anesthesia!!
thx for the info on the seedlings...i was wondering what to do about them! for now, i've left them alone. both of their shells came off and the cotyledon leaves have opened up just today. i was thinking of letting them alone for not more than a week and then move the strongest one. hopefully, i time it right and don't muck up the transplant.
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I have 5 DP Blueberry, with two distinct phenotypes in my flower room. The first is tall skinny, branchy and streeeeeeeeeetchy... One is the tallest in the room and had to be tied down sideways LST style to fit under the lights... I can crank my lights up pretty high to the point where I can stand under them and I am 6' 2". So she is a tall girl. Her stretchy sister is close to being tied down as well but I think I can leaver her alone. Then I have the three "crinkly leaf" phenos that are short and bushy. These girls look way better than their sisters and are just beginning to smell a bit. I don't think the stretchy ones are going to be good producers. I am very interested in the "crinkly leaf" pheno. Mine are supposed to be ready in about the third week of May, so we shall see...

I may throw in the towel on my last Anesthesia soon...:? 9/10 with a twin isn't so bad though. Although the one twin seems to be incapable of ridding herself of her shell helmet, and I cant help...:-?

Sugar Punch has been a bit of a challenge for me. I think two popped their heads up and died...:( One has tried to opened up it's first set of leaves and has stalled and I have another that is really scrawny and not quite "out of the woods" yet... I would say my most likely outcome for Sugar Punch is 6/10 or 7/10, which is a bit of a poor showing. Especially since I germinated Anesthesia at the exact same time under the exact same circumstances. I also germinated Extrema and Cotton Candy a few weeks ago using the exact same methodology and went 9/10 on Extrema and 8/10 on Cotton Candy.

Is anyone else having germination issues with Sugar Punch?

As far as transplanting one of your Blood Oranges, you may want to consider moving the weakest one. I think the one you move is will be the one that would go through the greatest amount of shock and most likely not to make it. I would want my strongest to have the best chance of survival. Your way would probably give them both the best chance of survival, so once again it is really a matter of personal preference...

My electrician has been here the last couple of days, so hopefully no more unexpected electrical outages... and more $$$ out the door... I love spending money like this. :evil:

Ahhh, but Spring has sprung here in The Land of the Easily Amused and the weather is getting nice and warm. Here is a pic of my Cotton Candy "hardening" in the California shade/sun.



Peace bongsmilie

 
OGEvilgenius

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Yikes! I am very sorry to hear that. What a heart breaker. I feel for you... So what are you going to do? What do you think went wrong?

I hate to say it but I am 10/10 above ground on Sugar Punch. Only six are showing leaves at this point and not all of them look "great", but I expect that most if not all will make it through. I am 9/10 on Anesthesia, but since I got a twin I still have ten. I have fleeting hope that the final one will show up, but not likely... Anesthesia is a bit smaller and a bit slower than Sugar Punch and only four or five are showing leaves at this time.

It's not all sunshine and rainbows in my little world either... I had a breaker kick last night and was down for about an hour in the middle of my flower room's light cycle... The night before it kicked twice and I was down for 15 - 20 minutes each time... I am very afraid that my flower room is going to hermie...
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You should probably be more afraid your flower room is going to start a fire IMO.
 
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