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Bear- grab them while you can. There's almost none left anywhere.
BTW my Smashberries showed sex only 4 DAYS into 12/12, and they hadn't even gone alternate yet! Holycrapola.
Keeping the males, and I put the most vigorous female back into veg and pinched her to be a mother.
My bluemoonrocks showed up and I got ANOTHER packet of godbud X for free... actually I'm happy, they are growing VERY evenly.
Thanks for the tip. Gipsy had a fall out with BOG and Seed Boutique isn't carying them any more, but I think that sacred seeds is?
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Fall-out, really?!!! I was simply under the impression the old fart finally hung up his hat after years of hard work. Sacred had a real limited supply of BOG this summer, call them to see if they restocked. I think also that they will not mail seeds to the US. Bear, you're in Alaska, am I correct?
Hey all, I did a bit of transplanting this morning before work.
As you can see, the seedlings are stretched a bit taller than is considered good form, but whatever; they will root from the length of the stem so I don't give a rat's hiney.
The following pics are from my transplant routine, 1-5:
1 and 2) Before transplanting I get all my materials together- soil, labels, pots, and very important, I sprinkle Diatomaceous Earth in the bottom of the kitty litter tray that the pots will go into to catch runoff. This will keep pests from breeding UNDER the pots, something that is easy to forget about as you concentrate on keeping them off the LEAVES.
3) Here's a shot of the roots poking out. I think these babies want a new home!!
4) To transplant from nursery 6-packs, let the soil become somewhat dry. To release the plugs, turn the 6-pack upside-down and support the dirt in the cells with your fingers. With your other hand, sharply tap the base of the cell that you want to release. It should either slide right out, or drop out with a gentle tug of the stem.
5) Here's what the plug looks like out of its container. Note that the roots are white and hairy, and are starting to get pot-bound.
These pics came out really fuzzy, sorry.
Here's the rest.
1) Once the plug is out, place it on the soil that you have half-filled your pot with. Support and protect the stem with one hand while you pour the rest of the soil around the plug and stem with the other. A stretched seedling can and will sprout roots right up to the cotyledons, but you have to make sure it doesn't get a fungus from burying the stem in too-moist soil.
2) The last transplant step is watering-in. Don't press the soil with your fingers, but let the water do the work of settling it around the plug.
3) Here's a good shot of my protection, on the lookout as always for someone to drool on.
So anyway there's that.
The White Rhino are not germinating as I would like them to. Only 3 have popped after a week, and I'm concerned.
I started Super Skunk Saturday, and as of this morning, 9 have already popped and are in dirt. The last was kind of runty-looking. I managed to drop it in the dirt bucket, oops.
I found 1 more male from the BOG mix, and all the others look female that I've put into 12/12 so far, so that's um, 6 males out of 8, a healthy ratio in my book!
I think that's it; you know, just waiting for more plants to ripen. I took down a couple stragglers that looked like they were not going to really do anything to make space for more vigorous plants. There are a few massive colas in the flower room that I have to go in and check on a few times a day because they smell so damn good, and they've been falling over a lot.
Bud shots tomorrow!
Falling over? Hmm, I was a catcher in little leag, LOL. Maybe I could be there to catch the fruits of your labor? How long do you keep seedlings in those 6 packs?
That BOG thing is a big deal over on IC mag, I guess BOG caught wind that Gipsy was making F2's of Bog's strains and reselling them as Bog's breedings, so in the long and short, Bog was getting put over on, so they say.
Adieu
Uh... if that is true, I think I just lost my main source for seeds. That's fucking BS IMO if Gypsy was doing unauthorized breedings and selling them as BOG; I'm going to look into that because now I feel uncomfortable about giving them my business.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueBear
Bear, if it isn't too much trouble I would like you to post a link to that discussion under the 'where oh where has the BOG gone' thread in strains and seeds, because it would certainly clear things up!
This is from BOG and can be found at www.icmag.com/ic/archive/index.php/f-19.html under Good by from BOG.
Goodbye from BOG
BushyOldGrower
MY forum will be closed soon because BOG Seeds will no longer be sold here and as Gypsy says, "Why keep your forum open then"?
I quite agree. Because we no longer have an agreement it seems a no brainer.
In fact you may not see much of me at other sites either for some time.
Don't anyone be mad. Its just a change and the reasons are just business concerns. My online presence will be much reduced in the long term as well but
the need for a new secret location is paramount now. The book sales are quite robust and the book will be my main business.
When this forum closed please dont be angry at Gypsy or DG or myself. I am sorry about this. BOG This is the link www.icmag.com/ic/archive/index.php/f-19.html to the archive of the BOG forums, if you go down to What and Where is BOG you will see some stuff like this, "Thats funny,last i heard Bog was at BCBD and has recently made quite a few posts,he is not retiring and is coming out with yet another run of sour bubble.he
has also said that there should be no stock of his left at the boutique and is claiming that Gypsy was making f-2's of his work and selling as Bogs."
plan b at bc bud depot
"Like rabbit said, and i do apologize on BOG's behalf! To make a long story short, BOG was suppose to be exclusive to gypsy, but too many lies and production
of fake seeds left BOG no choice! BOG has never had any problems with BCBD, or Canadians, or anything! BOG is a loyal person, and that is why for a long
time he never left gypsy, but now that gypsy is selling fake seeds and lying about stock and stuff, it was best that we spread our wings to honest people."
In the long run, who knows, but we just want to be as informed as we can when we are doing business with these companies, hope this helps some Stinky.
Adieu
Couple quick updates...
-All the Super Skunk have broken dirt. One seems to have run its taproot into a pebble or something and the whole palnt lifted out of the ground. I re-set it but think it's going to die anyway.
-The slowpoke White Rhinos that I moistened like 2 weeks ago... one more popped today! WTF. They are at a good 76-78'F, moist, in the dark... shouldn't be takig this long but I'm thankful at this point to see them germing at all!
-Just started my freebie 'gypsys gum' from seedbay; bubblegum X somango.
-ordered a bunch of sweet tooth and SWT crosses from seedbay lst night.
-Topped a whole bunch of stuff that is technically not supposed to be part of this log, but some of it was the BOG mix and Smashberry, so it's going in here.
Here's what I did:
I've got NO space whatsoever left in my flower room; to the point, I've been reduced to putting 2 plants in one bucket if they lok runty, even though I usually think that is a bad idea!
So anyway, usually I pinch rather than fully top plants with the exception of breeder males. This time, since it's going to be a couple weeks before space opens up anyway, I topped off the terminal 3 nodes plus stem down to the 4th, and put them in my *NEW!!!!* ex-cloner. I hosed the plants down with wilt-pruf then with neem and gave them a drenching at 9AM, and after 12 hours took clones at 9pm. I sprayed them once more wioth wilt-pruf once they were on the cloner. This morning there was no sign of any wilt even though as I've said my humidity is like 35% and I'm not using a dome. I've just got one small CFL on them. Whatever, they should be fine.
What else... oh yeah, a bud shot as promised, with my favorite beverage as comparison. Yay, local microbrews!! Yay, IPA!!!
So the biggest news in my growing misadventures is that I ran out of space entirely and took over the dining room closet for mothers and clones. Who needs table linens anyway! :D
Here's a pic of the ez cloner that I picked up from the guy who I got the chocolate chunk from. I got it for $100 plus weight of some of my juicy yummy homegrown.
As you can see, a couple of the slips that are in it ARE from budded plants- kind of an experiment to see if I get better results rooting flowering plants with this thing. When I got flowering plants to root in my old wick cloner, they came out really lame and just sort of sat there with no new growth until the damned thrips ate them.
The last 2 pics are
-4 week old plants vegging happily
-another Afghan pic for Bear. Plant porn! Too bad my camera sucks, but the whole plant including the smaller fan leaves looks like it has been dusted with snow. And for all the newbs wondering what plant is hardy and easy to grow, note that this girl has been flowering about 6 weeks and shows NO SIGN of insect damage or deficiencies. That's very unusual in my garden, as I stop treating for insects after 4 weeks flowering.
Did you say you were 28 in the Growers Lounge? Just wondering.
Adieu