Good lord Shed, what an amazing and comprehensive update! You're a maniac! (in the best of ways!) Okay, so a couple things...This will be a bit of a long update so please bear with me!
To summarize what's growing:
•Jack Herer 1.1 has been flipped and lives in the shed at night.
•The Candida I transplanted into 7 gallons will get thinned later today.
•The Candida cutting in perlite has been put into ProMix (see below).
•The Sour G STS spray/seed-making project is underway in the tent (see below).
•The Sour G mother will stay around until any seeds harvested have been test-sprouted.
•The Summer grow is in solo cups.
•The DV clones have been upcanned (see below).
•The DV harvest has been jarred for curing (see below).
Okay here we go...
Floating perlite is easy and the only way to get the cuttings out without tearing roots. Here's how I did the Candida.
Cover the hole:
Add water so the perlite floats:
Squish the sides of the cup in various places while slowly pulling the stem out. Stop if you meet any resistance and do more squishing (or add more water). If you've left it a long time, this is what comes out (cut Feb 26):
Sprinkle @DYNOMYCO on the roots:
Plant!
Okay, moving on to the jarred Doug's Varin:
Yes sir, yes sir, six jars full.
It was time to upcan the DV clones, which have been in solo cups way too long...even the one I root pruned back on the 10th. Here they were this morning:
This is the root-pruned one:
And the untouched one, much more root-bound:
I didn't grab a razor blade but I scraped them well with my nails and broke up the clumps with my hand.
Here they are in their new homes:
The one that I didn't root prune is in the smaller pot and will be gifted in a few weeks after it settles in. It wasn't topped. The other one (root-pruned and topped) I will keep for a while as a mother.
Let's see...what's left? Oh yes, the Sour G seed-making project! I tipped the sprayed one over and tapped it onto some foil:
It got very excited all over my hand:
I used that pollen and the pollen on the foil to pollinate some of the tops of the other one furthest into flower. Here are some just after I brushed it on:
I waited about 3 hours and then moved it outside into the sun. We'll see!
I also pulled off a few sacs and put them in the pollen-drying box I made last year:
It's also in the sun and tonight I'll see what comes out of them.
I think that wraps it up here. Thanks for following along and have a great weekend!
Quotes:
Be glad to. Taken yesterday of the Purple Urkle:
Thanks, I slept 2 hours which surprised me when I rolled over and it was 4:30pm.
Excellent explanation, thanks Jon!
Well-said Graytail! Rotting roots take a long time to recover.
- superior display on how to remove cuttings from perlite, with excellent explanation
- the jarred Doug Varin - YIKES!!!! I'll take two to go please!!! That looks delicious! And voluminous!
- again, superior display on the pollenation and how that is done and made, with awesome explanation
Thanks. Great job by you as always.
Thanks double H!
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