Ok, this will be an experiment in a few fashions.
The plant in question is a Sour Apple Autoflower from Jon's Hermie Factory, originally from Humboldt Seed Co.
1. Other than this post, this will be a photographs only journal. I will post today and then once a week on Sunday afternoon I will post an update photo. I will respond to any comments as consistently as I tend to do, but in this journal only with emojis. Any and all comments are welcome or you guys can join the journal part of the experiment and only comment with emojis yourself and together we can maybe keep it all just a series of photographs. I think that might turn out to be cool. But my end will remain comment free. This is the journal part of the experiment.
2. The plant experiment is this: from my last grow I found, to my surprise, 9 seeds in the Sour Apple Autoflower I recently harvested. All nine seeds were found only in one bud, and that bud was the very bottom center of the stem and the only bud I had already committed to flarf. The seeds appeared to be quite viable. I know they are female and hermie prone if the plant they came from generated them, but for the sake of the experiment we don't care about that. Here are the elements of the "experiment:"
- The pile of soil this plant is in is comprised of the soil that was in the pots from my previous grow. The root balls were complete in these pots, so the soil has tons of broken up roots in in. It was dumped where you see it as the plants got harvested with no future intentions. It is between two months and a month old. When I found the seeds I had the idea to see how used, spent, supposedly dead soil will do and if a plant will develop to any worth in it. I tried my best to keep the mulch out of the mix as I piled up this pile. So Part One is How Does a Plant Grow in Spent Soil? Mostly this mix is comprised of my Fox Farms soil mix of 40% Ocean Forest/40% Happy Frog/20% perlite #3. And the plants in this soil were all given the primary three part FF nutes when they were alive. She is in a pile that is at least equal to a 7 gallon pot, probably bigger.
- I will let nature take it's course 100% on this grow of this poor plant. I will only water in case of extended drought which is highly unlikely. More likely is tons of rain. I have the plant where the pile was, and that is in a spot where the first part of the day until around 11 am is shady, and then the rest of the day the sun hits the plant. There is also some minimal protection and shade from the bush she's under, but I will be trimming the top branches from that bush that overhang the Sour Apple.
- I will add no nutrients or additives of any kind. If she dies she dies. I expect her to.
- For curiosity, I tested the ppfd (par level) of the natural sunlight using the Phototone app and the sunlight setting with the diffuser in place. At the top of the seedling, in the shade as she is in the photo she's getting 330 par. In the direct sunlight at the same height the app reads 2600+. Lol.
That's it. That's the experiment. So five days ago I popped two of the Sour Apple bagseeds into the pile. After three days they both popped out of the soil, so today is Day 2 for them. Only it's not them, only one of them. One came out green and sweet and strong and the other came out pale, almost yellow, and sickly looking. Easy pheno selection, lol. So I pulled the pale one and the survivor is our girl. Her name is Sacrifice.
Kind of silly, but kind of a cool little experiment, right? And since it'll be photographs only from here out (on my end) the journal should be very short and sweet and to the point. There won't be anything to say because I am literally doing nothing, and what you will see is what I will see. I may add a weather update if something extreme happens. So I hope you guys enjoy this and we have some fun with it.
So the first photos of a photos only journal:
Day 2
August 22
-- Sacrifice on Day 2 of her life
-- A picture to show the entirety of the space she is in
Next post/photo update on Sunday, August 29, Day 9
The plant in question is a Sour Apple Autoflower from Jon's Hermie Factory, originally from Humboldt Seed Co.
1. Other than this post, this will be a photographs only journal. I will post today and then once a week on Sunday afternoon I will post an update photo. I will respond to any comments as consistently as I tend to do, but in this journal only with emojis. Any and all comments are welcome or you guys can join the journal part of the experiment and only comment with emojis yourself and together we can maybe keep it all just a series of photographs. I think that might turn out to be cool. But my end will remain comment free. This is the journal part of the experiment.
2. The plant experiment is this: from my last grow I found, to my surprise, 9 seeds in the Sour Apple Autoflower I recently harvested. All nine seeds were found only in one bud, and that bud was the very bottom center of the stem and the only bud I had already committed to flarf. The seeds appeared to be quite viable. I know they are female and hermie prone if the plant they came from generated them, but for the sake of the experiment we don't care about that. Here are the elements of the "experiment:"
- The pile of soil this plant is in is comprised of the soil that was in the pots from my previous grow. The root balls were complete in these pots, so the soil has tons of broken up roots in in. It was dumped where you see it as the plants got harvested with no future intentions. It is between two months and a month old. When I found the seeds I had the idea to see how used, spent, supposedly dead soil will do and if a plant will develop to any worth in it. I tried my best to keep the mulch out of the mix as I piled up this pile. So Part One is How Does a Plant Grow in Spent Soil? Mostly this mix is comprised of my Fox Farms soil mix of 40% Ocean Forest/40% Happy Frog/20% perlite #3. And the plants in this soil were all given the primary three part FF nutes when they were alive. She is in a pile that is at least equal to a 7 gallon pot, probably bigger.
- I will let nature take it's course 100% on this grow of this poor plant. I will only water in case of extended drought which is highly unlikely. More likely is tons of rain. I have the plant where the pile was, and that is in a spot where the first part of the day until around 11 am is shady, and then the rest of the day the sun hits the plant. There is also some minimal protection and shade from the bush she's under, but I will be trimming the top branches from that bush that overhang the Sour Apple.
- I will add no nutrients or additives of any kind. If she dies she dies. I expect her to.
- For curiosity, I tested the ppfd (par level) of the natural sunlight using the Phototone app and the sunlight setting with the diffuser in place. At the top of the seedling, in the shade as she is in the photo she's getting 330 par. In the direct sunlight at the same height the app reads 2600+. Lol.
That's it. That's the experiment. So five days ago I popped two of the Sour Apple bagseeds into the pile. After three days they both popped out of the soil, so today is Day 2 for them. Only it's not them, only one of them. One came out green and sweet and strong and the other came out pale, almost yellow, and sickly looking. Easy pheno selection, lol. So I pulled the pale one and the survivor is our girl. Her name is Sacrifice.
Kind of silly, but kind of a cool little experiment, right? And since it'll be photographs only from here out (on my end) the journal should be very short and sweet and to the point. There won't be anything to say because I am literally doing nothing, and what you will see is what I will see. I may add a weather update if something extreme happens. So I hope you guys enjoy this and we have some fun with it.
So the first photos of a photos only journal:
Day 2
August 22
-- Sacrifice on Day 2 of her life
-- A picture to show the entirety of the space she is in
Next post/photo update on Sunday, August 29, Day 9
