New City Grower 3.5 - Our Perpetual Grow - Continued

[mrrobert420]

im here and subbed BAR - Nice start as always

 

[Green Dreamz]

Congrats on the harvest you two......anxiously waiting to see the results of the cloned auto afghan....very cool that you are trying it out

 

[B A R]

QUICK UPDATE​

Jan 23, 2015​

THE GERMINATION EXPERIMENT​

ROUND 1 / Day 6




SIP Seedling with her sidekick Good Luck Clover


She took 3 days to sprout.

RAPID ROOTER & ROCKWOOL


The Rapid Rooter never sprouted & has been discontinued.
The Rockwool sprouted the 1st day & will be planted today.

Round 2 / Day 3


The Rapid Rooter sprouted in 2 days.
The Rockwool hasn't sprouted yet.

Round 3 / Day 1

Photographed before covered

The Rapid Rooter peeked within the time I buried her this morning until I took this pic; Appx 3hrs.
The Rockwool also seems to be ready to peek. I can only imagine what will be waiting for me when I get home.

So my results are as follows:

Tap-roots sprout quicker in cubes than they do in Soil or a Soiless Mix.
Rapid Rooter & Rockwool cubes are pretty much equal as far as sprouting rates go.
We also have to take into consideration that all beans used in this experiment were bag seeds & not identical strains.
It was only a 3 round test.

And remember:
When using plugs make sure to cover the sides by fitting them into a non-transparent dish or wrapping them. Rockwool cubes come pre-wrapped.
Squeeze the water out of the cubes before inserting the seed.
Don't let the cubes sit in standing water.
Spray at least twice a day.

So counting everything we had a 62.5% sprout rate.
With the plugs alone we're at a 66.6% sprout rate with 2 seeds still unaccounted for waiting to be part of this equation.


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AFGHAN KUSH (Auto) Day 31


We spotted her first pistils.

 

[Pigeons420]

Great update. Great experiment. You have us rookies gazing in awe, scrambling to write this shit down.

Hats tipped

 

[skunnymonster]

Great little test Can we have an update in a week to see which one has better roots, root riots or rockwool?

 

[B A R]

Will do Skunny...

 

[skunnymonster]

 

[Dusty Kiefers]

Great update Reg. Kool info man I've yet to try rootriots, cause my shop only carrys r.w. ,and fungusgnat infested peat pellets . Lol

 

[Bonzmoking]

QUICK UPDATE​

Jan 21, 2015​

We're just getting started daT.


Here's the dry weights on the 2 plants chopped on the last update of New City Grower 2.0







SECOND WAVE STREET GIRL (Unknown Strain) Chopped on Jan 18

CARAMELA Chopped on Jan 18


We only dried the main cola. The bottom of this plant was left on the trunk to re-veg.

That's nearly an OZ combined. If we can do this or better every week or week 1/2 once this perpetual grow is in full swing I'll be satisfied.




Next is "the best way to germinate experiment" (highest sprout rate). We've narrowed it down to Rapid Rooters, SIP (Sub Irrigation Planter) with 75/25% Perlite/LI Grower's Mix, & Rockwool cubes. In the first round the Rockwool cube is by far the winner with the SIP running 2nd.
The bean in our soiless peat-moss/perlite/vermiculite mix hasn't even poked it's head out yet.


Day 4 / Round 1



SIP Sprout with her sidekick Good Luck Clover

RAPID ROOTER & ROCKWOOL



The RR doesn't know what it wants to do but the RW is off to the races.

Day 1 / Round 2


We'll just let the 2 cubes go toe to toe.

Our next experiment has to do with a convo we were having earlier today on Jesstar's Thread about cloning Autos. I'll let the pics do the talking.



AFGHAN KUSH (Auto) Day 29


This 1st pic's for you Bonzmoking.

Thanks for that mate, she is looking good

 

[B A R]

Here's that first sprout from the "germination experiment". We planted it in my version of PJ's Organic Soil Mix. I have been reading up on soil & has made a few tweaks to it. I also sprayed the inside of the Soda Pop Pot with Neem Oil before hand so let's see how it works.

 

[Green Dreamz]

Hey Reg....great update.cant wait to see how great that turns out.......now i have a question for you ......have you tried the rapid rooters without covering the sides up?......i have never done this, but like my roots popping out the sides as it makes me feel better when i put them in what ever media i am using that i can spread them out and in my mind anyhow it quickens the process of them stabilizing themselves in the new medialol....i hope that makes sense, but if you have done it both ways and find it being covered is better i want to give it a go

 

[B A R]

I'm just starting to use cubes again Dirty. When I first started I had poor success with rapid rooters so I stop using them. If you saw in my last post roots came through the sides of the rockwool cube as much as it did the bottom; even though it was covered. I'll let you know if the same happens with the RR

 

[Green Dreamz]

Thats a good point on the last rw cube.....but i will keep an eye anyhow....thank you

 

[CronicHempHog]

damn it takes a bit for me to notice new links in peoples sig

 

[B A R]

So counting everything we had a 62.5% sprout rate.
With the plugs alone we're at a 66.6% sprout rate with 2 seeds still unaccounted for waiting to be part of this equation.

Now that the last two have sprouted the
cube success rate has gone from 66.6% to 71.2%. Not bad for bag seeds. We'll start germinating some of our known strains now.

 

[daTenshi]

new babies!! I baby seedlings

 

[Dennise]

Hopefully we will see soon enough guys. On another note:


We have a new lady in the house.




SLEESTACK X SKUNK (Regular) Day 80 / Day 5 under 12/12


We spotted her first pistils today.

SPIDER GIRL I (Unknown Strain) Day 88 / Day 44 under 12/12



She's pregnant!
I think our 2nd Wave Street Girl that hermied pollinated her. The were next to one another & hopefully she was the only one it got to. There's a good chance of that because that Street Girl was 165 days old when chopped & when plants hermie to self pollinate for survival the pollen usually falls instead of floats. Anyway, we can always use more beans.

Those are seeds & not balls right? Is it even possible to have male sacs & pistils?

I didn't think so but so help me I saw it on here the day before yesterday... I can't even remember who's journal it was but it has hairs and balls... craziest thing I have ever seen. Wish I could remember who it was and it turned out they were all fem seeds and every one he had popped had come in male then this one he thought was a female and it threw pistols then balls. Crazy Man!....

 

[CronicHempHog]

they are seeds BAR
Happy Shatterday Brotha

 

[B A R]

PHOTO SHOOT​

Jan 24, 2015​

Part 1 / The Veg Tent​

UPPER DECK ​

BAG SEEDS Let's just call these four Day 2

BAG SEED & her sidekick GOOD LUCK CLOVER (in SIP; Sub Irrigation Planter) Day 5

BAG SEED Day 6

BAG SEED Day 7


This seedling sprouted & is still in Peat Moss, Vermiculite, & Perlite. It's slow getting started.

LEMON KUSH (Feminized) Day 9



This is plant will be fluxed under the guidance of Light Addict. You can follow the progress on his "FLUX CENTRAL" thread.

AFGHAN KUSH CLONE (Auto ) Day 3

SPIDER GIRL II CLONES Day 4


Trying our hand at cloning plants in Bloom again. If at first you don't succeed, try & try again.

AFGHAN KUSH II (Auto ) Day 13

LOWER DECK ​

CLONE OF A CLONE (Two headed) Day 13

SUPER CLONE Day 19



She's been topped once already.

CARAMELA (Re-veg) Day 6

AFGHAN KUSH (Auto) Day 32

 

[CronicHempHog]

Damn your Busy
you definitely got your grow on