NAs grow journal

It’s a basic soil mix… peat moss, perlite and worm castings. If you’re confused by the straw then that’s just what I use for mulch on the top layer

 

I got promoted at work and things have been hectic but I have everything back up and running and I’m ready to get started…




I’m running the @Organic sinse pot setup again with 10 gallon fabric pots sitting inside of a 15 gallon hard pot with lava rock in between to act as a SIP. Two pots are filled with homemade soil consisting of Craft Blend with added kelp and rock dust, the other two are a bagged supersoil from BlueSky which is somewhat local to me that I’ve had success with before. Threw in about 20 worms in each pot. The 1 gallon pots are mainly filled with BlueSky plus some seed starter mix since I was running low with no worms.
I have the Mars Hydro FC-E4800 sitting 42” above the soil running around 65% power which puts me at 220 PPFD or a DLI of 16 running at 20/4 which should be great. Temps are about 24.5°c with 65% humidity and past grows my leaf temps average 2°c lower than air which would put me right at 0.7kPa for VPD.



I planted 3x True Mac autos (MAC x Grape Dosi Breath auto) and 1x Grape God auto (Grape God x Grape Rolex auto) both being from ROC bud. They’re on day 1 today




I also planted 3x “Purple Voodoo Monster” from in-house genetics which I found from 7 years ago. Surprisingly they all germinated and just broke soil today but I’ll call it day 1 for those on Sunday to split things up. Here’s a couple photos from 2015/16 when I first grew it though

I believe they’re (Purple Haze x Forum Cut GSC) x 09’ Animal Cookies). I will likely be running into some serious space issues in a month or two but hopefully I can manage with enough training on the photos



I have a bunch of plants outside too that aren’t even worth showing but I’ll get photos up sometime soon, they’ve seen the wettest June we’ve had in years and temps as low as 6°c/43°f so they really took a hit. I think that’s all? Hoping to be much more active on here now

 

Thanks! Fingers crossed

 

Day “1” for PVM

 

Day 7 for all the autos



MAC 2 and 3 are definitely the leaders. MAC 1 and Grape God seem to be slower and possibly overwatered even though I haven’t given them any since the initial “soak” and won’t for probably another week. Still steady around 0.7kPa and 15 DLI which they seem to appreciate

 

Thanks Tim! I’m worried about the small ones but time will tell. They’ll get recharge next watering which always helps

 

Grape God was one of my favourites years ago, I’m curious to see if the auto is anything similar… I hope it picks up the pace though. Thanks!

 

Day 7 for the PVMs

Looking a bit deformed but the pots were definitely too moist and they’re not getting much light behind the 15 gals. I’m sure they’ll snap out of it

 

Here’s that 707 headband that I found from 7 years ago, it’s on day 40 and really starting to take off now that the weather is getting better

It’s in a 10 gallon pot filled with reused soil that I didn’t even reamend and I haven’t watered it once with how much rain we’ve been getting, when the pot finally dries out I’ll hit it with recharge and I’m sure she’ll explode.

 

Thanks Tim. Every day I think about training it but I’m gonna let her go naturally and see how big it gets before the frost kills it

 

Day 14 for all the autos… I raised the temps closer to 80°, humidity around 70%, dimmed the light and watered for the first time last night and they seemed to have responded well to that. This next week is the real race though.



MAC 1 - Seems like a lankier pheno so I’m curious to see how it plays out, hopefully I get a stretchy one cause I like playing with those




MAC 2 - Looks super healthy with some good side branching starting. I *think* I see a pistil now that I look back at the photos




MAC 3 - Looks like the leader in terms of size but still very similar to #2 when it comes to structure and colour




Grape God - Had to have been overwatered from the start… It’s struggling to keep up but looks healthy enough and I got space so she’s staying around




I think I’ll start ponytailing tomorrow and get those side branches to stretch out. Happy with the progress and light so far!

(ignore the plant tags, “CB” is the soil mix)