Seamaiden's gifted seeds journal

littlebat said:

Seamaiden, come over to the Connie thread & give your input!

I just bought some Superthrive, weird you should mention it! I have 5 connies & 5 papaya in rockwool right now...connies are bursting as usual but papaya not yet. So I was thinking of giving them another soak with some of the ST. Let me know how it works for you! And take care of yourself, okay?

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I just gave my Papayas (it's hard to type right now, I bent back a pinky nail past the quick and it hurts!) a mild nute (fish fert) and Superthrive solution last night. They're cracking V-E-W-Y---V-E-W-Y---S-L-O-W-L-Y----::: so I'm a-gonna nurse them along! The Conquistadores are happy to see the world. yay. Still damn smoky though. It's getting depressing.

OW OW OW OW!!!!! My pinkie nails hurt in sympathy.

I just came from my first session of Rolfing...I decided to do it after wondering about it for years. It hurt but in an awesome way. Wow!!!

Yay little Conquistadores! I want to see pics of them!!

I will have to Google rolfing/Rolfing. You don't mean rolling on the floor laughing, do you?

No, that'd be "rofling."

Rolfing is a form of deep-tissue bodywork that focuses on releasing constricted fascia, the body's connective tissue, in order to give the joints a freer range of motion. Another dancer recommended it to me -- I have scoliosis, which has left one of my shoulders noticeably higher than the other, and I was a gymnast as a kid, which means I've dealt with a lot of repetitive stress injuries, particularly in my right leg. All these things can cause trauma to the fascia and result in tightening and constriction.

It's somewhat painful, because they're really digging in and getting underneath the fascia, but my back isn't sore and I'm sitting up straight for the first time in ages. You do a series of 10 sessions over 10-20 weeks -- I'm doing them two weeks apart because they're kind of pricey. TOTALLY worth it though!!!

Now I'm having a lemonade and a bonghit and considering taking a bubble bath. Life is rough!

Oh man... I would love a massage, although the deep tissue HURTS. I'm scoliotic as well, and now that I've seen the MRI films of my neck, it appears that my neck is screwed up as well. Ah, the PAIN! Makes me feel ALIVE, it does.

You're a dancer? (Not me, I'm a stumbler.)

Yup, I'm a bellydancer.

I have only posted pix in my gallery, but here are some to simply remain attached here. Should they ever go away, they're gone forever. Enjoy.

Um well yeah.. is this enough?

Those plants are stretching so tall! Wow! Is that the strain or the light, I wonder? Connie has thus far grown short for me so it will be interesting to see how it does for you. When I planted those Mexican bagseeds a few years ago they got really tall really fast, but unfortunately I had to dispose of them because of my paranoid ex. I'm thinking they were probably sativas, and this is an indica, and I should stop worrying that my plants are too short.

I planted two of your mystery seeds! What happened to your pics of those? I'm trying to find them and can't! I'm so excited to see how they do.

littlebat said:

Those plants are stretching so tall! Wow! Is that the strain or the light, I wonder? Connie has thus far grown short for me so it will be interesting to see how it does for you. When I planted those Mexican bagseeds a few years ago they got really tall really fast, but unfortunately I had to dispose of them because of my paranoid ex. I'm thinking they were probably sativas, and this is an indica, and I should stop worrying that my plants are too short.

I planted two of your mystery seeds! What happened to your pics of those? I'm trying to find them and can't! I'm so excited to see how they do.

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My mystery seeds are all the more mature plants in my gallery. All of those plants stretched just like that as well, I honestly think it's just a phenotypic expression and since they get direct sunlight, I'm not worried about it.

The plants grown from my Mystery have shown different physical traits, with some of them clearly showing more Sativa dominant features (tall, feathery appearance, very slender leaves), whereas others are definitely more Indica with a notably bushy appearance, broad lobes on the leaves, and are much more stout. Then there are two more groups that show a dominance of one species over another, some have slender-lobed leaves but are bushy and stout in growth, others have thick-lobed leaves but are more feathery in appearance. Since I'm LSTing all but one it's difficult to calculate their height, so I look at number of nodes and node spacing.

I am currently sexing as many as I can (I have a thread called Preliminary Sexing if you want to see some of my macro shots ), and awaiting the last of the Papaya to fully crack (I've gotten a few to crack, but they're not giving up those tap roots so easily).

An update. The last batch of Papaya seeds all went moldy on me. A few started to crack, started to even make a pokey end root thing, but never could pop the full boner. I kept adding a mild nutrient solution (after flushing with clean water so I didn't build up salts or anything like that), but the little Papayas just couldn't.

At this point I've also likely killed a HUGE number of the rest of my plants. Possibly overwatering, possibly over-fertilizing with fish emulsion (burning? mayhaps), but it adds up to almost half my grow GONE. One known female, one known male, I haven't the heart to look at the others. I flushed once today, just by hose, none have responded well at all.

However, the Cali. Indica x Big Bud and the lone Papaya are growing as though nothing's happened. Not leafminers nor caterpillars nor harsh nutes have affected them at all. The Conquistadors are all growing well, too. (I am afraid they're not going to have enough vegetative growth time before flowering sometime in October, though.)

Hey I have germinated my seeds and the taproots after two days the roots started to turn brown almost like a stick is that a good thing r bad I have them in those little seed pods with a25 watt fl.light

Um... hm. Well, after germination, once they've got a taproot, they're supposed to be planted. You MUST keep the planting medium moist, or those brand new baby roots WILL dry out. They should not be brown.

Have you read any of the GrowFAQs, link up top left?

I've just been able to add tags, whee! Can't add them all exactly the way I'd like, boo. No big deal, whee! Just finished the transplanting of the final seven Conquistador seedlings. I now have five California Indica x Big Bud, one Papaya, and eight Conquistador growing in the new, all organic soil. Pix soon to come!

Alright folks, all is not lost, all is not lost. Of 25 plants, I killed about 13 with over-fertilization. Then, despite not receiving fertilizer, I lost some more plants. What to do? Now down to 10. Wrap the pots in white paper, because the common denominator with all the plants that went downhill was heat. To that end, they're looking sharp wrapped in fresh paper, it'll be funny to see how they look at the end of the season. I did re-purpose some soil and amendment bags, they're white on the inside. Cut 'em open and tape 'em on.

To that end, I give you, The Organics in White...

Bigger than three or four gallons...?? Dude, you didn't tell me your babies gots big feets.













Bwaa ha ha ha haa haa haaaaahh!!

hydrotech364 said:

hey seamaiden!!!I found that the cali's get rootbound pretty quick so ya might wanna shop around for some bigger planters for em!!!The grow looks awesome!Kool deck too!!!!!could ya pick one pic out and list the strains from left to right????

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Oops, ok, I got myself all bejumbled about the bigger pots thing. So, pic #5, counting from left to right (counting the pix, ok?), what you're looking at is a shelf on a shelf hanging off of the exterior of the deck railing (I REALLY f'ing wish we'd get our galleries back!), so you're looking at two rows of plants.

Entire FRONT row is Conquistador. BACK row is, left to right; 2 Conquistador; The Lone Papaya (I had to make sure this one got a big pot, it's 4gals), the rest are the Cali.I. x B.B., and one of those is in a 4gal. pot.

I'm torn about how I'm going to approach increasing production in these plants. I want them to get as much vegetative growth as possible, but a little FIMing can go a long way, too. One thing I'm noticing immediately with all of The Organics (in White) is that they're much more prolific in the growth of the little leaves at branching nodes. That could be due to a variety of factors. The soil, fertilizers, using filtered water, molasses tea, there are a variety of different factors. I don't know, but I'm glad.