Ed Rooney: Back to School

[Ed Rooney]

Full house. Pulled one of the Skunk Star early, it had fallen over and was taking up too much room in a bad shape.

Still got a Zkittles and another SS in the back in 40L pots, the Zkittles will get pulled this weekend or next, I need a closer look. The SS still has a few more weeks which is surprising I thought it would have finished earlier. Otherwise its Skywalker, SS, Zkittles and Stardawg.

Moved all the other girls from the smaller tent into this one so I can use it for veg as I potted up and was running out of room fast.
Will take cuts of the Grape Ape x Zkittles this week after I actually stop procrastinating and get in and clean the cloner. The 4 plants all look a little different so they need sorting.

The last Nice Chunk I pulled went and bukkake'd all over the Star Dawg, it blew so quick I didn't catch it. I'm going to leave it and run the seeds when it's done. The Nice Chunk was a hit and the Star Dawg might be a good mix. Let's see how bad those hermi traits are or if I was just too rough with it.

More beans popped, 2 Exodus Cheese x Kush and 3 Domina x Domina.

Waiting on Special Mosca Mix, Chem, WW, GG Allain.

And just threw down some Grand Poohbah from Norstar too, should be interesting if they get going.

 

[Ed Rooney]

What a fuck up! I accidentally turned back on the lights in the tent and now it looks like the Skywalker is starting to throw bananas.
Mostly I'm pissed that I didn't label the switch like I've been meaning to do for weeks now, normally I do everything with my phone so no mistakes.

Needless to say there is a whole lot more room in the tent now. Zkittles, Skunk and Skywalker all got the chop. It's my way of cleaning up this run and getting past some of the issues I've had with it. So, back two and front left gone.

The girls left have lots of room now and are well supported. The Grapevine cross (2) are smelling really interesting and I can't wait to see what they turn out like, they have been super vigorous and easy to work with, if they turn out well, I'll run some more beans and do another look through.

In other news, I popped into the local shop for some calmag and silica which I wanted to try and they gave me a freebie bottle on mammoth P!
Looking forward to giving it a go, I've heard good things so far except it's like microbial royalty and costs a mint.

 

[Ed Rooney]

Time for an update.

Massive failure in the 4x8, had to pull all the girls early. The soil I reused was way to acidic and I couldn't work out why I was giving it sooo much calmag and it wasn't working. I tried amending with dolomite but it was too late. Live and lean.

The lemon skunk x zkittles is powering along, lots of stretch on these girls. I've taken cuts of the indica leaning girl for another run (on the left).

This is 2 weeks from flip.



Because my soil was so bad I went berserker and transplanted all to a coir/perlite mix. This is 2 days later, the girls have done well. Now I have to feed them up and get them looking healthy again before cuts and flip. All Skywalker Kush.




The veg room. All repotted. 4 Zkittles, 3 Star Dawg, 1 Skywalker. The seedlings are 3x Double Black (Domina) and 2x Exodus x Kush.



Here's to my new adventures in coco running Green Planet 3 part.

 

[Ed Rooney]

What goes around! After gifting a mate cuts of Skywalker Kush and Star Dawg he shows up today with some new beans for me.

Deadhead
Mazar x Deadhead
Shiskaberry x Deadhead
La Kush Cake x Deadhead

I've got 10 of each so if any of the Ozzie crew want to have a crack at any of these let me know.

 

[Ed Rooney]

Time for an update. Finally up and about after an operation last week, don't recommend it at all, they beat the shit out of you!

I'm so impressed my girls didn't get too stressed while I was away. I'd only just changed over 2 tents to coco and didn't end up getting enough time beforehand to set up auto irrigation.

All the plants went 5 full days without water. I was thinking the girls in the bigger soil pots would do ok and buy day 4 I'd convinced myself all the coco girls would have dried up and died, I was wrong.

Veg tent......Zkittles, Skywalker, Star dawg, up front Double Black and Exodus Kush. One of the dominas' is a prehistoric monster, massive leaves and great vigor.


The Skywalkers that I transplanted from soil to coco are now in the flower room, doin fine. You can see some nute burn on some of the leaves from letting them dry out too much.




Tahoe tent chugging along.


Zkittles tent bouncing back, a lot of leaves died on these but seem to be recovering ok.



Main flower room. Zkittles x (Lemon SkunkxGrapeApe) All 4 from seed, all looking a bit different. The one up front on the left is maturing way quicker than everything else. Front right is most broad leaf, behind it most narrow leaf. They all dropped a heap of leaves with the stress, thankfully not seeing any nanners!

 

[Ed Rooney]

Getting to the business end with the Zkittles, Tahoe and Lemon Skunk x Grape Ape tents.

Zkittles (in soil) looking frosty as.






Tahoe tent (soil).
These girls are taking their sweet ass time. Smells like burnt rubber, lemon and for want of a better olfactory descriptor I'll say baby poo.




Lemon Skunk x Grape Ape tent (soil). The four girls are all different.
This one is my fav. Smells the best and great look to her but not the top yielder.


This one just keeps stacking and will be last out the door.

This one will be best yield, nice and chunky.

This one is a good all rounder, more indica dom.


Veg tent cleaned up and cuts taken.

I'm smitten for the black domina at the front.

 

[Frosty78]

great work ed. great selection. are the lemon skunk grape ape f1,s?

 

[Ed Rooney]

great work ed. great selection. are the lemon skunk grape ape f1,s?

Don't think so mate, there is just too much variation in them. I'm going to order a couple more packs and have a sort through if they smoke up well.

My bad, they are actually (Lemon Skunk x Zkittles) x Grape Ape.

 

[Ed Rooney]

Tahoe......are we there yet!

 

[Willie]

You're kicking ass in here! That Tahoe looks sweet.

 

[Frosty78]

You're kicking ass in here! That Tahoe looks sweet.

complete agreeance, youre absolutely killing it ed. always a pleasure to pop in here and see what youre up to

 

[Ed Rooney]

Thanks guys, very much appreciated. ?

 

[Ed Rooney]

I'm going to change tact again . Instead of running longer veg times and bigger plants I'm going to run more numbers in smaller pots to get a better look at phenos' and ruthlessly select from there.

I've hopefully got my soil game in better sorts after the previous runs. The extra dolomite has gotten me through and I can't wait to sample the zkittles this weekend, it's smelling delicious. Also going to add more vermicompost and perlite, let's see.

While I wait on packs to get through the iron curtain that is oz customs, it's into the pool for:
5x 710 - Purps - Kush x Purp Afghan
8x Southern Star - Lil Peep - WhiteFire Og x Black Domina F2
20x Seedsman - CBD Sweet n' Sour Widow (Black Widow x Remedy) 1:1

 

[Frosty78]

I'm going to change tact again . Instead of running longer veg times and bigger plants I'm going to run more numbers in smaller pots to get a better look at phenos' and ruthlessly select from there.

I've hopefully got my soil game in better sorts after the previous runs. The extra dolomite has gotten me through and I can't wait to sample the zkittles this weekend, it's smelling delicious. Also going to add more vermicompost and perlite, let's see.

While I wait on packs to get through the iron curtain that is oz customs, it's into the pool for:
5x 710 - Purps x5 - Kush x Purp Afghan
8x Southern Star - Lil Peep - WhiteFire Og x Black Domina F2
20x Seedsman - CBD Sweet n' Sour Widow (Black Widow x Remedy) 1:1

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mate ive been an organic guy. just the way ive been taught for years. wont go into chemicals/cancer etc but ive been reading jadam and a heap on knf. worlds last hope on ig etc. i brewed my own cal mag and one hit last week on the seedlings before i left for melb.... i came back to little shop of horrors. im definitely bringing them into all fertilizing, pest management etc for them and the farm. including my worm casting teas etc which i was already using. game changer mate. i cant recommend highly enough.

 

[Ed Rooney]

Skywalker Kush approaching end of week 5, no more head room for these girls!

 

[Ed Rooney]

Girls starting to fill out nicely, should have supported them better. I wasn't expecting this much weight!
Looking like they still need another few weeks.



These girls are at week 2. Zkittles, StarDawg and (front) a look see at an Exodus Kush (left) and a Double Black (Domina).
Finally using a screen!



My coco setup. Drilled a hole in a garland tray and have a 40L storage container underneath with a small pond pump and hose to a 80L container on the outside that also collects dehumidifier water. Working a treat. Still need to automate at some stage to stop hand watering every day. Gnats aren't too bad but have ordered nematodes and really interested to see the results.

 

[Frosty78]

What size tent is that ed

 

[Ed Rooney]

Main tent is 2.4m x 1.2m running with 2 600w MarsHydro lights. The one above is a gorilla tent, I've also got one the same size by Powerhouse, it's excellent and was a hell of a lot cheaper.

 

[Ed Rooney]

Mothers. Double Black (domina) right, Zkittles (left) & Skywalker (back).
I've got one more pack of Skywalker left, I'm going to pop them to see if there are any other phenos of interest.



Exodus Cheese (left) and DB (domina), the pheno I didn't like. Almost week 3 I think.



Zkittles (back) & Stardog (front), starting to pack it on. I moved them from the other tent to give them some head room. This tent is 100w less @ 500w but a lot less stress.




Just threw down 20 Apocalypse Meow beans from Tiger Stripe Seeds. Sounded really interesting so will do a seed increase for anyone interested and a pheno hunt. Plus, I can name the progeny A Clockwork Meowrange!

 

[Ed Rooney]

Great germ rates on the Meow, I can't tell you how long it has been since I threw down this many beans and had nearly 100% pop.



Cat Shit One (apocalypse meow japan)