Inferno Mike's Fantasy Phenotype Festival

Inferno Mike

In Bloom
I had the worst germination I have ever had.

8 of 24 survived, pretty fucking bent about it actually. Seems like I bought some rockwool that is mostly rock. Grodan brand and everything, but it has chunks of wafer like rock in some of the cubes and is far too dense. I prepped it properly, have used rockwool for germination for years now, but this might be the last time. I threw away the rest of the sheet of cubes and cried a bit. We lost some good soldiers over the last two weeks.

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I had the worst germination I have ever had.

8 of 24 survived, pretty fucking bent about it actually. Seems like I bought some rockwool that is mostly rock. Grodan brand and everything, but it has chunks of wafer like rock in some of the cubes and is far too dense. I prepped it properly, have used rockwool for germination for years now, but this might be the last time. I threw away the rest of the sheet of cubes and cried a bit. We lost some good soldiers over the last two weeks.

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That sucks! I've germed in Rockwool too with good results. I moved to Jiffy Pellets and never looked back. It's convenient and I'm lazy.
 

Inferno Mike

In Bloom
You owe me a coffee and if you keep this up a keyboard. I just snorted coffee all over my keyboard when I read that :) very subtle LOL and yeah it's like 110 here I need a shower.
Victory!

I'll buy your coffee and a new keyboard, as long as it is a good one. What about your shirt?

I'm just being my goofy-ass-self over here.

It's going to be over 105 every day for the next week out my way, but that's not unusual this time of year. I'm a little worried about Portland, OR, though. They are NOT ready.
 
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It's going to be over 105 every day for the next week out my way, but that's not unusual this time of year. I'm a little worried about Portland, OR, though. They are NOT ready.
I've wondered about that. I'm very ambivalent. All the times I've gotten, "But it's a dry heat." when I bitch about it being 118 makes me want them to experience 118. Then I grow up and worry that we are going to see a lot of people with thermal regulation problems and less access to A/C get very sick or die.
 

Inferno Mike

In Bloom
Regular gear to run from my existing stash in 2023:
  • OBS x Triple Nova from @Chunky Stool
  • My own Panther Muffin (Cookies n Chem x [Tropicana Cookies x Animal Cookies])
  • Cookies n Chem, Cookies N Chem F2 and Cookies n Chem F2 + BX1 as a group pheno hunt
  • Sin Mint Cookies x Romulan Grapefruit (a full pack Sin City freebie)
  • Dynasty Cherry Vanilla Skunk freebies x3
  • @THT Lemon Banana Sherbet x Sour Strawberry (both Crockett’s)
  • Honey Stomper 22 x Hickock Haze from ol’ Big Horn Buds

  • @Frimpong Blackberry Bread - Dropped January 20, 2023
  • Orange Blossom Special - Dropped January 20, 2023
Re-post from not this thread. ?
 

Chunky Stool

Plant Destroyer
Regular gear to run from my existing stash in 2023:
  • OBS x Triple Nova from @Chunky Stool
  • My own Panther Muffin (Cookies n Chem x [Tropicana Cookies x Animal Cookies])
  • Cookies n Chem, Cookies N Chem F2 and Cookies n Chem F2 + BX1 as a group pheno hunt
  • Sin Mint Cookies x Romulan Grapefruit (a full pack Sin City freebie)
  • Dynasty Cherry Vanilla Skunk freebies x3
  • @THT Lemon Banana Sherbet x Sour Strawberry (both Crockett’s)
  • Honey Stomper 22 x Hickock Haze from ol’ Big Horn Buds

  • @Frimpong Blackberry Bread - Dropped January 20, 2023
  • Orange Blossom Special - Dropped January 20, 2023
Re-post from not this thread. ?
This brings back memories!
Years ago when 'Big Horn Buds' had that HUGE yield with Hickock Haze. :weedleaf:

So much drama since then.

We are older and smarter now... ?
 

Inferno Mike

In Bloom
This brings back memories!
Years ago when 'Big Horn Buds' had that HUGE yield with Hickock Haze. :weedleaf:

So much drama since then.

We are older and smarter now... ?
BHB gifted me the HH he used to get that outrageous (3lb!?) yield (one light, one square meter of floor space) and a bunch of HH crosses, including both phenos of C99 x HH and a couple Honey Stomper pheno crosses. Been sleeping on those too long. I need to run at least one of his chucks this year.

I am older, wiser, and healthier than I was back then. ¡Pura Vida!
 

Inferno Mike

In Bloom
Great progress was made on cleaning up the basement garden space, locating and consolidating all my tools and supplies and furthering the pheno-fest. I had a young friend of mine come help. He’s my top goon. Glad he could come work today since my junk is still swollen and purple. I feel better and did quite a bit myself, probably too much. Now I have to lay down and ice mah nuts
 

PlumberSoCal

? Guy Fire-y ?
I was gonna do a cookies and chem f2 project, but got all fems. Same thing happened a few months ago when I couldn't f2 Ripped Bubbas because of 100% fems. It's so odd to be rooting for males. I digress.

I kept 2 cnc clones, then decided I liked #3 after smoking them. It's on it's 3rd run for buds, the only drawback is it's long to finish and a light to moderate yield, so it'll be the last run. Real good smoke; I see why it's so popular.
Amazing. The time of year is way more important than the strain and it's historic grow cycle out of season, such as we see today at least here in the West (sunny so cal) Reactions of strains per temperature and natural lighting change the pHeno of most plants. FACT. Amazing but here we are. Almost like real fucking science. Observable and repeatable. Change my mind?
 

PlumberSoCal

? Guy Fire-y ?
Looks like someone

Those drippers don't work worth a shit on a gravity fed system, but I always wondered how they would do under pressure.

I think that sounds like a sick setup, I'm jealous and probably out of my depth. I've never had to think about chloramines, and I'm genuinely curious about municipal water. What ppm active chloramine does your water municipal water system have normally? Can I assume you've got some sort of RO membrane system or is it some other type of filtration? Around here they use chlorine at 2ppm +/-1, I don't even think about it. Total ppm at our source is around 100ppm, no significantly measurable biologicals or other poisons. I have an RO filter for breeding soft water cichlids in the aquarium and drinking water (because my gf likes it that way) but after doing a fair bit of research on water safety I drink water right out of the tap these days and so do my plants. I don't think chloramine evaporates, does it?
There's something seriously wrong with you. I like that, call me crazy but you're ?
 
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