A Cabinet, a Closet, and a Table walk into a bar…

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One thing that might help - I have a closet grow and tents. I had the closet lined with reflective stuff (space blankets) for better light reflection.
Bad stuff can happen between your sometimes moist enforimnemt, the plastic and your walls... I had no mold, but definitely a place out of the wind for the gnats to hide.

Great point. I actually hung my panda film off chair rail so it sits 3/4" off the walls, and my fan is set up to push air behind the film (it sways and ripples with air movement), as its not attached at the bottom. All that to say no mold, but maybe a rogue white fly is hiding back there. Ill lift it all up and inspect it when I put the Assassin Bugs in. Thanks for the suggestion, hadnt considered it.

 

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Days 26, 27, and 28... Was busy. Tent showed up, had to cut some holes in it. Installed an exhaust fan and some activated carbon filter sheet, put the carbon filter sheet in the intake port for basic filtering (the intake port includes a light baffle from the manufacturer) and over the exhaust port (for light blocking). Just threw an old Viparspectra 600 I had lying around in there for now. Its technically the wife's first indoor grow space for her witchy herb and veggie garden, but I'm highjacking it temporarily to help me with this Mandalorian selfing project. I think ultimately we'll put a 25 gallon Radicle Bag in here, folded over. Its our first fabric grow space, and overall I am pleased. Still waiting on these 4 to confirm fem.



Finished the last few things on my Cabinet build from this fall, added the second panel to my existing 3 light baffles, then added a 4th to the front. I cut a piece of the activated carbon sheet for each of the grill interiors to function as both a light block and basic intake filter. Finally did the cable management I had been needing to do, which included adding a proper cord cutout cover for the main cord entry point, which additionally got some air conditioning filter foam stuffed in it. I adjusted the 2x HLG135 RSpecs to draw 100w each (on my Kil-a-wat) for a total of 200w. Changed how the lights interface with the cabinet and gained an additional 4 inches of ceiling height. Cabinet got vacuumed, wiped down, and reloaded.



Mixed some stuff into a bag of soil. EB Stone Recipe 420, added 2 cups Breiss malted barley (blended just before use), 12 cups Bu's Compost, 6 cups BAS worm castings, 1 cup BAS insect frass, and 1 heaping cup BAS Craft Blend.


Hit the table with 2 gallons of plain water bottom watered before I up potted, they were dry and needed moisture. They will get pruned and watered tonight. They are crammed in here for a few days.

 

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Day 29. Pruned, sprayed, and watered. All the rounds got 1700mL, the squares got 1000mL. Agsil, Pacific Gro Ocean Hydrolysate w/ Bio Char at 15mL per gal, Rootwise Mycrobe Complete, and Rootwise Bio Phos BAS freeze dried coconut and sprayed with EM-5.



Shocked at the difference between these two.


Couple of random Sangria Cookies pics. Closet got the same treatment all around.

 

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Day 30. Let loose the hounds of war, both in the Closet and Cabinet. Yesterday I set the first container in the Cab for a few hours, then moved it into the Closet overnight. Tonight I opened the second container and put it in the Cab, where I'll leave it over night. Tomorrow I'll pull all the cards/containers and put them in the pop up greenhouse to cruise the males. I ordered 250 and Arbico sent me 2x already hatching containers of 500, definitely plenty of bang for my buck.




So here is the CLHP... Clearly my shortcomings as a grower have made themselves evident here. I hadnt planned on her stretch, and didnt prune her appropriately. She has and continues to have aphids which I should have been able to get under control before flower, despite excessive pruning. At this point she is a thorn in my side, and may just end up as my "can I flower a fem outdoors from Feb to May" experiment... I may just do my best to thoroughly inspect and manually remove aphids and throw her back in the closet. I am on the fence. Part of this is due to me hurriedly wetting some fems because in a panic I worried Id end up with 1 female ASA and I wanted an excuse to wet some CLG. I look forward to running this again, when I am better prepared for her.


That being said the Sangria Cookies is far and away the star of the Closet. She either likes what Im giving her more than everything else, or she's just that much more forgiving.

 

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Day 34 & 35. Been a busy few days, phone crapped out, and we've been getting the vegetable starts ready; plenty more to go, but this is the 50 heads of lettuce, 4 spinach, 12 kale, 36 broccoli/cauliflower, 12 basil, 2 celery, and 1 fennel, and 9 mass onion plantings the wife and I got started yesterday.


Ive also been hardening off the Mandalorian males to flower outside in the pop up green house. Overnight temps are in the high 40s, daytime highs in the high 70s, inside it gets too hot zipped up during the day, 90+, I am working on the timing of when to seal it up to help trap warmth overnight. Threw that privacy shade fabric over them the first full day they spent out.


These are the breeder males chosen to self the Anvil line. They were chosen due to their sac / cluster density and the fact that they were showing reddish purple hues on their sac bases early on. They had the most vigorous vertical growth, and were both very uniform in size and structure. This is the morning after their first night out (22hrs after transplant).


Some of the other Anvils that did not make it were these 2 here. One was slightly, but noticably shorter and was the slowest to begin flowering. The reddish purple color also seemed weaker on the sacs, almost non present. The other showed similar vertical vigor and strong branching similar to the chosen 2, but was slower to flower and is showing weaker color. Unsure if I want to flower them out or compost them.


Here are the JEMs selected. They have been the densest flower clusters this whole project, first to show. I have another JEM female in the Radicle Bag that has amazing growth, but in regard to pollen does not compare to what these two gents have going on. The soil for the the 2 pots with the males is recycled reamended Coots that sat for months, cut with some soil from my last indoor grow. We'll see what it does.


Indoor plants for watered last night. The recently up potted Cab and Tent plants were a bit over watered on day 30 and looked as such. The more mature Closet plants looked unaffected. I hit the young plants with 1 qt of Agsil, BAS Coconut, and Ful-Power solution each, the more mature plants got 2qts. Im going to check them tonight and likely water in another 1qt all around. Ill try to shoot some pics tonight.

 

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A few pics of the chosen males.

Chosen Anvil:



Chosen JEM:



Non chosen:

 

[TerpyTyrone]

Next up...

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10x Anvil F7 by Mandolorian Genetics
10x JEM F9 by Mandolorian Genetics
2x Canna-Cheese F4 1:1 by Mephisto Genetics
6x Whitebread by Freak Genetics

Waiting on 2 packages before I can get started, new light is en route, as well as the Whitebread to my knowledge. The plan will be to self the Anvil & JEM, and hit the Canna-Cheese with some male pollen. Presently I plan to use 3" Cowpots, then up pot to 6" Cowpots. Might just start them in the 6", I am hoping to get them to show sex before putting them in their final 2 or 3 gallon pots. Not even sure if I can use the Cowpots in this way effectively, but I've used Fertilpots in the past, and watched them air prune… anyone have experience with up potting autos in Fertilpots or Cowpots? I have grown several autos, both topped and untopped, but haven't read anyone doing this, but transplant shock is why these products exist, so consequences be damned. Ultimately they will likely be going into a mix of 2 and 3 gallon brown Root Pouches, and 3 gallon Radicle bags, for performance comparisons. This will be my first time using 2 gallon pots, and my first time using Radicle bags. Soil will likely be bagged, as my current batch is still too hot.

I have the golden jem going now fro. @farm139 its Acapulco gold x jem
Have U heard of,it?
Great journal btw

 

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I have the golden jem going now fro. @farm139 its Acapulco gold x jem
Have U heard of,it?
Great journal btw

Not familiar. Id be interested to know more. I appreciate the kind words, not going for volume/weight here as I was more focused on plant count for the purpose of selfing, but Im looking forward to seeing what these do next run uninhibited by my multiple up pots.

 

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Day 36. Transplanted an Anvil I couldnt gift away into a 10 gal outside. Went from doing single branch all around to instead open pollinating. Going to be doing 2 females and 3 (maybe 4 - I have one that is more of a green pheno less desired trait) males for the Anvil, and 2 females and 2 males (maybe 3 - one has great branching but super slow to flower and hasnt stacked much yet. Great healthy color. Ill shoot some pics tomorrow, here is the throw away seed mother Anvil, Anvil 09.


Cabinet got hit with nematodes and I selected my breeder fems. The fungus gnats were out of control after my overwatering fiasco, things are still showing a bit of strain but they are infact bouncing back. 1 more Anvil and 2 JEMs set aside to go outside with the males. Nematode mix was a heaping 1/4tsp of each variety into 1 gal, bubbled. Added aloe (25%) and coconut at the last minute. Sprayed directly onto the soil surface heavily.



These are the Anvil I chose from. Anvil 09 is already outside. They all look and smell similar, clearly denser growth on 03 and 06.


I originally thought this was a pot variation, thinking F4 Meph genetics would be pretty stable, but when looking these plants over I noticed this is sativa leaning in leaves as well as height.





And here are the 5 JEMs I chose from, I wouldnt choose the 2gal w/ 1gal of soil in it, because I dont want to have to manage that moisture outside. 2 of them have more tree like structure and greener color with more subtle fade to purple, and lighter leaf color. 3 of them have darker purple stems and darker leaves. I chose 1 of each pheno type to put outside.

 

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So these got over watered, but they are starting to recover. Several times in my life I have over watered when up potting, this time in particular because I knew I would be applying the nematodes, and wanted them to go into a moist environment... Over shot my mark. There is plenty of nutrition in the soil, there is just some lock out and stress going on.

 

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Mandalorians got 1qt last night. Closet got 1qt tonight. Pacific Gro w/ Bio Char 15mL/gal, soil moisture is starting to stabilize.

Staying inside:


Headed outside: Going to harden off and open pollinate. Anvil 6 looks rough, but not that rough...


Closet: Hit with Nematodes.


Sangria Cookies (smells exactly like blueberry muffins/waffles)


Alien Sour Apple (Apple Pheno - ASA02)


Alien Sour Apple (Thai Food Smelling - ASA05)

 

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Anvil Chosen Studs:





Anvil Throwaway Stud:

 

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JEM Fem Breeders (left 2), first day in the sun. Threw these ones in the pool so to speak the others got hardened off over 5 days, these fems got thrown out yesterday, end of day at low sun. I kept them outta direct most the day, but where they are they will get hammered tomorrow, hope they are up for it. Sink or swim.

That JEM 10 looks great, but very slow to show sex, equally slow to flower. If it didnt look so good I would have composted it, but because he looks so good Im doubting myself.

Here are the true JEM breeder males. I like the branching and vegetative growth of 02, but 01 has had an earlier and heavier pollen sac set.

 

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Day 40. All the breeders are outside and separated. I have 1 JEM I dont think I should keep, as well as 1 Anvil I dont think I should keep. Some redundancy with the pics, but today is a new day in the sun.

Keeper Anvils:


Keeper JEMs:


Non keeper Anvil & the JEM tucked in between my blueberries and a volunteer nasturtium that has gotten out of control. I want to toss them, but they are so pretty, and have done nothing wrong!

 

[J.James]

Anvil Chosen Studs:
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Anvil Throwaway Stud:
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That's some beautiful Anvil males you got, Looking great! Love the purple hues on the sacks

 

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Day 41. Closet plants got inspected/defol. Found some aphids, removed them, sprayed everything with EM-5.

Sangria Cookies by County Line Genetics



Alien Sour Apple 02 by Obsol33t Genetics (Apple Pheno)



Alien Sour Apple 05 by Obsol33t Genetics (Thai Food)

 

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Since I had the plants out, I figured Id swap the Cab and Closet, as the autos will need more room, and the photos have stretched all they are going to and can easily be managed in the Cab.



Witnessed this assassin bug molt into his next body then go after a fungus gnat...

 

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Breeder pics. Day 43

JEM
So I am just picking up the fems, and rubbing them on the males every morning.


I really need to compost him but hes just so happy there.


Anvil
Breeder female, the strongest female is Anvil 03 in the Closet, 06 was her nearest competition. I will single branch 03 inside, but 06 is going to do the brunt of the seed birthing.


This was a plant I tried to give away but couldnt, nothing wrong with it, just have as much as I can handle right now and was trying to share some love. At the time she wasnt the strongest or the weakest (Anvil 07) of the bunch. She has been forced into the roll of seed birther.


And the studs...




Compost stud... Poor guy, done nothing wrong.

 

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Day 45. Anvil studs.

 

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Everything got and needed water. Fungus gnats are knocked back in the Closet. Cabinet is still outta control, continuing with nematodes with every watering.

ASA05


ASA02




Sangria Cookies