2024 Solo Cup Challenge

[Ckbrew]

Has anyone else done a solo cup grow this year? Day 74 total.

 

[Gingerbeard]

Until I can do hydro fem, no bloody way! Y'all Solo cup challenge people are snobs. Coco folk like me got no chance against you fancy hydro people. Why would I drive my beat-up '77 Fiesta next to your next generation hyper cars?
Uh-uh. Tried the first one. Man was I a shlupp! Fool me once...

 

[Pyrokill]

I did, but with clones. Is it a fail if I got bud from it? We lost the battle but won the war? Went full through the life cycle and I got about a doob worth. Done in living soil and water only. I'm shocked some lived really.

 

[Ckbrew]

Bud is not a fail, it is a win. Clones are valid for a solo cup grow. The only rule is that it must be grown only in the cup. Nice work. I like a challenge.

 

[dirtymike]

I have a hard time in a 5 gallon pot, solo cup is for drinking not growing. Give up alcohol when i woke up on my scoot going 90 so aint no more solo cup challenge for me.

 

[Ckbrew]

The buds on the solo plants are starting to plump up.

 

[Bluey]

Coco on a drip with a timer I would think could work really well. You'd flip after what, 6 hours of veg? Lol

 

[piercer]

Im thinking any challenges should have everyone starting with the same growing medium. That way results would be dependent on growing skills

 

[Bluey]

But choice of medium given all considerations is a growing skill

 

[Ckbrew]

The solo cup harvest is in. Day 100 from sprout, day 58 from flip. Two did really well, and two were hurting at the end.

All trimmed up.

 

[dirtymike]

Oh damn it Jim, where's me pipe.

 

[Franklin]

Holy doodle those two bigger ones are ridiculous. Nice job. Can't wait to hear the weight.

 

[Bowhunterwoody]

That's impressive. Nice job.

 

[Ckbrew]

I'll post the weight when they are dry

 

[Ckbrew]

The thing about the cup grow is these are the seedlings that were the runts of the pick and no one wanted them. I couldn't bear tossing them so they were grown out, but didn't exactly get the best care compared to the main plants. I wonder how they would finish if they were the strong looking plants from the bunch. Just goes to show how persistent these plants are.

 

[Allenpro]

Thats pretty cool, there is a article on here about micro or bonzi mothers in small containers about the size of a solo cup. It works

 

[Ckbrew]

The solo grow has been weighed in.

solo 1 -6.21g
solo 2- 5.04g
solo 3- 14.59g
solo 4- 19.12g

Total was 44.96g from four solo cup plants.

 

[Bluey]

Solo 3 & 4 wow.

What do you put the difference in yields down to?

 

[Ckbrew]

They were all equally cared for, ignored, and abused. The seeds are all from the same plant, same breeding, the RP-1O4 project. See post #33. https://forum.growweedeasy.com/foru...male-is-this-what-is-supposed-to-happen/page3
The only difference is in the phenotype genetics of the seeds. BTW these plants were the runts of the give away seedlings that no one else wanted.

 

[Ckbrew]

My final entry for 2024. The house plant solo. Sprouted in the cup, and grown in the cup. Topped once above node 4, then each branch topped above node 4 again. Fed only scraps of nutes from the main grow. Survived only in sunlight in the window. It is now 235 days old and starting to die of old age so I stopped watering it. At 48 inches tall with two toppings I think this is a record solo for me.