Earth Box vs Living Soil

[No3odiesShad0w]

Here's an interesting anomaly. From where I supercropped her, everything above has three pointed leaves and looks really dark green and already forming buds and frost while everything below the break is growing normal 5-7 pointed leaves and the flowers look like normal sativa like buds. It's like the super crop caused a split in the phenos and is growing 2 different extremes on one plant. She's also super leafy. I had to defoliate her yet again.

Anyone ever see something like this?

[No3odiesShad0w]

Since I'm leaving the Mandarin in place, I transplanted the Freak Show into a 3 gallon pot. I trained the MAC1 x BD # 1, the only one left of the 4 seeds. I don't know if the freak show or the Mac x BD are females or males. I'm just going to keep them small and flower them out under the table tent. Another 3 weeks or so.. and I'll be flipping the switch on all the plants to 12 hour lighting.

Gave the Mac x BD a top dress too since it's been months just running on the initial feeding. I took 2 clones of this plant ..... Just in case. I need some practice cloning. It's been some time. I've just been seed popping.

Freak show got my normal living soil recipe with the fresh castings I just harvested. Hopefully it's a female. Would be nice. I'll take clones when it gets bigger for the same reason.... Just in case.

Well it's lights on time.... That means back to work. I'll post a few more pictures when I'm done.

[No3odiesShad0w]

Yeah she's staying. This set of leaves looks better and the following set doesn't look deformed at all. Good good. I didn't want to have to do another transplant.

[No3odiesShad0w]

Still a little twisty but looking better. I think I'm just gonna stick with the Mandarin. It may get better. The leaves look healthier. I'll post another update tomorrow.

[No3odiesShad0w]

Hence why I'm conflicted. I think i might leave the mandarin. She seems to be turning around. I'm gonna give her one more day and see what she does. I noticed some new leaves that don't look too beat up. Maybe there's hope. One more day and I'll make the call on Saturday.

[Going2fast]

Hard call. I've grown freakshow and she's a nice sativa high that does well with wet feet and high humidity. On the other hand I've grown a few mutants that either leveled off after a month or so or gave good/ bad bud. Black cream auto from sweet seeds one gave me a freakishly wild mutant but produced the most beautiful lavender buds ive ever seen. Nice smoke too. Northern cheeze haze was a waste of time.

[No3odiesShad0w]

IDK what to do. That Mandarin Zkittlez is mutated for sure. Even on the time lapse video it's doing a whole lot of nothing and it's been 7 days. All the other transplants have grown new sets of leaves.

Here's the choices.... Both have risks... Both potential rewards and/or setbacks

1. Keep the Mandarin Zkittlez and let it give me what it gives me.

2. Replace with healthy Freak Show seedling but IDK the sex

Both options are a 50/50 shot. But what 50/50 shot do I want to take?

If the Freakshow is a female, there's high potential of good reward. If it's a male then I just have a hole. I won't have time to plant an auto.

If I leave the Mandarin, I'll get something out of it...buuuuuut..... Because of the mutation, there could be a high chance it can be a herm or end up herming later in flower.

I'm leaning FreakShow just because If I'm going to keep a mutant then I might as well keep the one that's intended to be a mutant, not the one that's just a bad draw of the seeds. Maybe it'll be a female and it'll all be good.

[No3odiesShad0w]

You can make lots of homemade ones from buckets or wooden structures that sit on top of each other. I bought this plastic one because it fits in my tiny apartment. It's not in the way and produces the perfect amount of castings that I need for my 4-5 plants. It can produce significantly more. I only have about 2 inches of material on each layer. You can stack it to about an inch below the rim. I just don't have that much waste material so I work with what I got.

[No3odiesShad0w]

I can sound like that. I've done my share of heavy metal singing but now focus on Mongolian throat singing 🤣🤣. The avatar is from Far Cry Primal a video game I enjoy because I'm endlessly fascinated with the stone age and earlier.

[Franklin]

Dude. That video!
Nice work, man. With your avatar photo, I always thought your voice would be gravelly and death metal like, or like the singer from Motorhead. You sound much gentler than that.
Man, I have been vermiconposting for a couple years now And I love it, that's pretty much the most of the nutrition that my my plants get when I start a new round. But I just use buckets for my worms. Your system looks way better than mine. I might go buy one of those.

[No3odiesShad0w]

I also made a new video on my YouTube channel documenting my Vermicomposting journey

https://youtu.be/6dQS1OQsvaA

[No3odiesShad0w]

At first I thought it was my terrible VPD that was causing word growth on the seedlings, but after more than a week of stable VPD, the Mandarin Zkittlez hasn't improved. I see new leaves growing. I'll have to see if those are properly formed or if they're misshapen. I might have a mutant on my hands. The Grape Balls of Fire is growing perfectly healthy and normal leaves which leads me to believe the Mandarin is a mutant. Lolol IDK what it is. Can't get 4 nice plants. There's always gotta be some anomaly.

I have 3 plants on stand by. I have the Freak Show..... Which IDK if it's a female or male. A bit of Russian roulette....I have 2 more clones of the UG AND I still have 1 of the MAC1 x BD left over. Though IDK if it's a male or female. Not the best standby team but it's what I got. I'm hoping the Mandarin pulls through. It's a favorite of mine.

[No3odiesShad0w]

All nice and neat!

Plus I transplanted the 2x UG the Mandarin Zkittlez and Grape Balls of Fire.

The Grape Balls of Fire and an UG went into the Earth box with the living soil that I made. The Mandarin Zkittlez and the other UG went into the Earth Box with the Earth box nutrients.

Both got a Tbsp of mykos and Azos for the transplant. They all had healthy roots but the soil was too dry and it fell apart on me. They'll all probably have a little bit of transplant shock. Tbh. Could have gone better but that's okay. I don't need them getting huge on me. Especially not with that giant lilac diesel there. They can take all the time they need

[No3odiesShad0w]

I finished cleaning up all the cables and wires. I just need to remove the wood and plaster it up. The whole place is really coming together nicely. More organized. Not tripping on everything.

[No3odiesShad0w]

Here's an update on the Battle of the Breeders Lilac Diesel by Ethos. She's freaking huge.... So huge she's taking up half of the 2x4. IDK how I'm gonna fit 2 plants in the earth box and this lilac diesel next to it. It's crazy. Every grow, they just keep getting bigger and bigger 😅 not that I'm complaining. I'm just going to have to go back to 4 plants again. 5 is too much.

I need to plant the clones and seedlings into the Earth boxes today or tomorrow. I've already waited long enough. But wow. This Lilac Diesel is a beauty. She def looks like she's going to be a yielder. That main stalk is almost an inch thick. These autos just keep on impressing me.