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Frank Nitty

Frank Nitty

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Pistil Kid said:
My Mephisto garden - A little bit overcrowded as I mistakenly thought the strawberries were a small strain, you can see some signs of heat stress but I will have that sorted when my extraction fan arrives. In the garden I have going Sour Crack, White Crack, Chemdogging which are all in advance stages of flowering and a few Strawberry nuggets in the early stages of flowering. View attachment 4219429
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Yeah boy!!!
 
Pistil Kid

Pistil Kid

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Dendrophilly said:
Im growing sour blues; shes at around 65 days now and im going to take her to 85.
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They quote Sour blues to run for 60 days but yours does not look ready and it is 65 days. I have found they tend to run a little longer than the listed time but it depends a lot on your setup and environment. They can also change very quickly so I plan to check Trichomes everyday with my loupe.
 
CikaBika

CikaBika

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"Hey guys,

It seems everyone has their own way of germinating, but I just thought I'd show you simply how we always germinate our seeds,
and at the same time make a germination test of some strains.

I guess it's one of those personal things, where if you have success one way, you keep doing it... creatures of habbit :)

Some people like to soak for some time, then plant,

Others like to plant direct,

But for me, I know I get impatient and start poking around in the soil and that's never helpful.

So usually, for growing large amounts, I know the number of pots/plants I want to start in a given space, If it's a large amount then I'll put in to germinate more than I need (I know that's a luxury to have.. but we are a seed co. at the end of the day :) )

This is more just to have germinated seeds at the same rate when planting, it then means they'll all sprout the same day or very close to, and that keeps things more consistent. After all, 3 days difference when it comes to autos, we know can be a lot.

So, one person messaged me to say they'd had a little trouble germinating chemdogging, but hadn't seen anyone else say they were having trouble. We haven't had any trouble either but I thought i'd do a test just incase.

I took 100 out of the bag, not specially picked, just the first out of the bag at random.

Chemdogging fem x 100


So, I take my beans, put them on toilet paper. I use 6 sheets, and fold over once to halve it, then again to halve that. This provides a nice thickness.

I did the same with 100 fantasmo and 50 walter whites


I write on a slip of paper with permanent marker the strain name, Then I take a spray bottle of tap water, and spray liberally until the paper is wet through.

Fold again, leaving a bit of the paper out (helps to re-open) and spray again.

At this point placing them in a dvd case.


Then I wrap in a spare piece of clothing, t-shirt, jumper, whatever is to hand, and place somewhere warm.

Our house is NOT warm at the moment, and all active g-rooms are on 12/12. Normally if I'm running auto's I'll just place the package somewhere shaded in a grow area that's nice and warm.

But I put on our router as it's on 24 hours and gets pretty warm.

............

After 72 hours the chemdogging looked like this:


98/100 with long tails. The remaining two had cracked, one looked like it would definitely germ, the other I wasn't sure. But very happy at 98% to be honest.

After the same 72 hours, I had 52/100 fantasmo, and 36/50 walter white.
It could be that these seeds are still a little fresh, or could be the not typically ideal temperatures going on here.

But I took the remaining 48 fantasmo, and 14 walter whites, put them onto fresh toilet tissue (repeating above fold, spray method)
And tonight less than 24 hours later, another 30 fantasmo had popped, and another 6 walter white.

So i'm hopeful that they will all pop, or 95% at least.

I've had seeds in the past, I've had to pre-crack, or scuff or bla bla bla, and really I don't want to have to expect our customers to go through any of that.

Ok I'm not super stoked at the time taken for these to pop, but it goes to show that you shouldn't write off seeds too soon.
I'll report back tomorrow night, with more results.

cheers mitch!"

end of quote..

maybe it helps?
 
Dendrophilly

Dendrophilly

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Pistil Kid said:
They quote Sour blues to run for 60 days but yours does not look ready and it is 65 days. I have found they tend to run a little longer than the listed time but it depends a lot on your setup and environm They can also change very quickly so I plan to check Trichomes everyday with my loupe.
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On attitude it says 60 day flowering time, this girl is right on scedual. Auto blues has 65 to 75 day flowering and sour crack says 49 day flowering period.

Checking trichomes for maturity seems midevil to me, it easy enough to tell when a plant has reached full maturity. Ive noticed a variety of trichome development to bud maturity senarios, now adays there more variance especially in autos.
 
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Pistil Kid

Pistil Kid

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Dendrophilly said:
On attitude it says 60 day flowering time, this girl is right on scedual. Auto blues has 65 to 75 day flowering and sour crack says 49 day flowering period.

Checking trichomes for maturity seems midevil to me, it easy enough to tell when a plant has reached full maturity. Ive noticed a variety of trichome development to bud maturity senarios, now adays there more variance especially in autos.
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On the Mephisto site is says Sour Crack 55 - 65 days I am nearly at the 65 days but still has a little ways to go going by the look of the buds and white pistils. When I look at the trichomes they have not started to turn cloudy yet having said this they can turn pretty quickly so I will be keeping a close eye on her :)
 
Pistil Kid

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I had to chop the Sour Crack I found the first signs of botrytis due to the high temps and humidity levels in my grow space which I will have under control within a few days as my extraction fan arrived today. I think a couple more days and she would have been great but something is better than nothing.
 
SwiSHa85

SwiSHa85

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Pistil Kid said:
I had to chop the Sour Crack I found the first signs of botrytis due to the high temps and humidity levels in my grow space which I will have under control within a few days as my extraction fan arrived today. I think a couple more days and she would have been great but something is better than nothing.
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Had same probs with my NYC Diesel recently. H202 spray and get that extraction fan going.
 
CikaBika

CikaBika

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Those seed to harvest time are not to be taken like default..I hadd sour crack waay past 70days and there eere non amber trichomes, so I finally cut them down..
 
Frank Nitty

Frank Nitty

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Pistil Kid said:
I had to chop the Sour Crack I found the first signs of botrytis due to the high temps and humidity levels in my grow space which I will have under control within a few days as my extraction fan arrived today. I think a couple more days and she would have been great but something is better than nothing.
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Believe that!!!
 
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