COCO COIR Frankie Goes To Hollywood

[SoOrbudgal]

I do really want to give these beans a go on my auto run next and give them a try outdoors later in June. I've not grown heavy CBD strain yet, just like the harloquin & charlottes web i've purchased to blend into my heavy indica strains. I like grinding bud to bud 1:1 helps with RA hands & elbows

 

[Pyrokill]

I have 4 of this red CBD going now. 3 did not express the color and they look normal but one looked like what you are asking about. Fast forward to now and they are expressing purple buds . The edges of the leaves have a bluish tint to them Right Bluey?

 

[SoOrbudgal]

huh how interesting i can't wait to try them

 

[Bluey]

Yes Pyrokill . It's only just come on with a decent increase in the light but that new leaf growth is showing that bluish tint, mostly at the tips of the fingers and a bit of a halo effect if I can call it that. The odour in the room has picked up nicely and no sign of anything but veg growth so far. I'm quite liking these, they are enjoying 1.6 EC now and just under 30 DLI
One of these 4 is the Orange Zkittles x photo but all 4 actually look identical, all getting that dark bluish tinge on 4th node. Bottom leaves have very fat fingers, maybe 2" across. No signs of problems, but they appear close to their healthy limit. Wound the light back a tad last night as the very tips of the leaf serrations were showing the slightest of up lift/curl and very minor start to clamming/taco.

These things are speaking nicely to me. Temps 22/26⁰C

 

[Bluey]

I feel quite fortunate SoOrbudgal being able to give these a go thanks to Franklin

I've never grown anything like these before in my life and there's zero local knowledge on them.

Doing my best to give the grow justice

 

[Franklin]

I don't remember any colored leaves until flowering, but those are looking nice. I really like that cross. Not many of those seeds left!

 

[Bluey]

You really do amazing work mate. I take my hat off to you.

I need to do another seed run here on my sativas. I sent out a few lots to my outdoor grower friends here and one I met on this site 5 to 6 months ago and got consistent reports of only 50% or less germination rate.

I only have about 40 seeds left and I'll need most possibly all to get up the next breeding project. I will not be able to live with myself if I fail at continuing this line.

 

[Franklin]

Thank you! I'm not being humble when I say I'm just a pollen chucker. I don't have the space or time to do real breeding. It's fun to take great genetics and make seeds free to people.

edit to add that the prices of mj seeds are ridiculous compared to conventional crops and simply a remnant of prohibition. Making seeds is simple and in my mind they should be about 25 cents or less per seed if one truly factors in time and energy. So I make them free to try to balance this out and cause it's just fun.

 

[Bluey]

Agreed. Seed cost is through the roof but there are costs involved.

Buying seeds here often means being ripped off or worse

 

[dirtymike]

And my garden is full of cannabis of various flavors from the humble pollen chucker. Franklin

 

[Bluey]

4 autos coming along including the mutant one on the left. Bottom right is the OZ x photo.

All very healthy and smashing it, but the mutant not so great but still hanging in there. It's struggling with growth and pigmentation and I suspect it's roots are not up to the task.

Temps today I've allowed to drop a little 22/23⁰C and I've lowered room RH a bit to around 67%, EC just under 1.6 which I think is a healthy limit, 5.9pH, DLI 30 which was upper limit yesterday as they showed signs of exhaustion an hour before lights out. Gave them about 450ml today each which produced the first sign of runoff in one of them.



Below three photos just sprouted. Lids off domes. In coco with a wash of nute mix 0.2 EC 5.8ph and lightly sprayed in with plain water. Wont water these for a while, plenty of moisture in the soil. Next light spray around 0.15 EC. Fingers crossed as I've lost 5 seedlings to date this grow as they have not been rooting.

Edit. The paper towel below is to stop additional light from the RHS grow light hitting the seedling...light on seedlings is around 175 PPFD where as light on the plants next to it around 480ish PPFD.

 

[Rootsruler]

DAMN! I'm lagging....

Looking good Bro!

 

[SoOrbudgal]

woohoo get them photos growing and them autos look great too

 

[Bluey]

The MUTANT

It appears I accidentally chemically topped this one with to hot a nute mix on its first feed. The other 3 autos same genetics survived fine and so did a Orange zkittles x Sour Diesel (photoperiod.)

It's an auto Red CBD x AK47 and I've tried to save it and it looks to have come good. Pigment is good in the new growth and it's picking up steam. It needs a bit of a clean up because it's growing kind of weird but I'll wait and reassess this once it fully recovers.

Pic below of how it ended up after the hot shot showing the topping and what looks like a stunted growth where the main stem should be. This stem also looks like it has topped itself at the next node. I don't think this stem will produce any bud sites, but it might.



And pics below showing its new growth and how it's going.


It's lower leaves looked low on N and a bit patchy with the lovely green pigment but the tops are now coming along well with new growth and looking healthy.
🤞

 

[Bluey]

The seedlings appear to be stalling again. I just gave them 10ml of plain water and have vented domes on them. I'll leave them alone but if they don't get up and boogie it must be the H²0² and perhaps I'm not doing something right with that, but the first five in new coco no problem...they are rocketing along. I won't be feeding them today, the coco is saturated.

 

[Bluey]

First what looks like tiny little preflower showing on lights on on the 3 autos and the photo and the mutant....hmmm, maybe not. Pic below.

Seedlings Completely stalled...so popped 10 of my seeds in papertowel . No H²0² this time

The photo I think. Shouldn't be flowering
Pics below definite autos flowering

And the mutant below

 

[Bluey]

First what looks like tiny little preflower showing on lights on on the 3 autos and the photo and the mutant....hmmm, maybe not. Pic below.

Seedlings Completely stalled...so popped 10 of my seeds in papertowel . No H²0² this time

The photo I think. Shouldn't be flowering
Pics below definite autos flowering

And the mutant below

 

[SoOrbudgal]

So you think that the photoperiod is trying to bloom on 18/6 how old are the plants?

 

[Bluey]

Well I could have mixed it up, but I don't know. Looks like it might be in preflower but maybe not. Will know tomorrow.

5 plants all the same age. I'd have to check but maybe 31 days.

Temps now 79⁰F day. Humidity 60% DLI 38 EC 1.6

 

[Franklin]

Which photo is showing flowers? A small percentage of the OZs will be autos (check my oz breeding page for details or I can tell you more)