Gonna be a tricky grow to manage, at least early on. Have 2 seedlings started in the tent now. My plan is to start 3-4 more and shuffle them outside if the weather permits soon enough. Once I can migrate plants I’ll be starting some more. SAFC will consist of 4 meph strains in soil. I will also be doing a “soil shootout” in search of and ideal medium for outdoor autoflowers.
all together I intend to have 9 autos outside this spring, some will be organic, some will get bottled nutes, really just an experiment/comparison.
Getting down to the wire here. With everything going on right now I’m a bit unprepared. Tomorrow I’ll be taking a trip out of town to a hydro shop that seems to be well stocked with soils and amendments. As of now I have some ocean forest, happy frog, and some locally sourced organic topsoil to blend. Grabbed a big 4 cu/ft bag of perlite and some lobster compost from coast of Maine to experiment with. Not as much as I’d like but should get me started.
Took a quick trip today to stock up on whatever I could get my hands on...I think it payed off. Got a bag of roots original, and roots lush which I’m told feeds for 8 weeks! Very curious about this, I’m told it’s a hot soil and not to put a seedling in so I’ll start in the original then a transplant around week 2. Was also given some freebies. Roots terp tea and hpk and aurora big swell and bloom.
With the unsteady weather here I will only be starting 2 plants on the 20th as I’ll have to wait to shuffle them outside and start more. There are 2 plants currently growing in the tent in coco and I’m expecting them to neglect social distancing rules.
the 2 strains I start will be an on the fly decision of the above mention Mephisto a beans.
Late start for me as I had to get up early for work. 6 am start for the ladies. Forum stomper and avt x 3bog. Once germinated they will go into rapid rooters...Happy 420 everyone!
Brief update. About 35 hours in paper towels and seeing some progress. I expect these to go on rapid rooters early tomorrow morning
seeds are germinated and placed on rapid rooters. They are now in the tents where it’s warm and covered by an extra black fabric pot.
So I had a small issue...long day at work and the rapid rooter housing the avt x 3bog dried up completely. Looks to be a fried seedling so I put another seed in paper towels today. As a precaution I went ahead and out the forum stomper in a seedling bag with roots organic original soil to keep it wet longer.
So some stuff is happening, forum stomper having a little trouble so I moved her away from the light a bit. Popped another avt x 3bog (top solo cup) and it’s moving along. Also the avt that looked fried and dried out looks like it might recover. It’s still standing and the taproot/stalk looks like it’s taking up water and trying to shed the membrane...may have to perform surgery. Also in the tent samsquanch og and 4 assed monkey growing in coco.
Also forgot I popped another avt x 3bog seed as another backup, has about 1/4” taproot showing and will probably go in a pod tomorrow morning. If the weather doesn’t start getting better I may have to donate a seedling to a friend. Simply don’t have the space atm
Haven’t posted much because as you can see, there’s not much to see. Precisely why I prefer coco. There moving slowly, should have given them more time before going in soils but they’ll get over it. I still plan to move them outside but even in the next 2 weeks temps will still struggle to reach the 60s with night temps around 40. Been a really strange year here for weather hopefully we get some warmer days.
Also a joint of the Pineapple Express from the NYGC along with a little bubble has from the trim
