Scarlet Grapes and Hot Cakes from G2f

[Smallgrow]

Okay gang, the time has come to start my next run. It’s a little early to call it my fall run but that’s what it will be.
I’ll be running Scarlet Grapes and Hot Cakes autos provided by our own @Going2fast.
I promised feedback on the seeds, so I’m going to try to create a bit of a journal. We’ll see how that goes, I’m not making any promises but I’d like to go from germination to smoke repot with at least some posts on each stage to show my approach to our craft.

I’ve got my Black Swallow Soil KIS Organics mix, re-amended with Black Swallow’s amendment pack, Purelife organic EWC, and some Perlite for aeration ‘cause that’s what I had. This will be my 6th run with this soil, so almost 3 years.
I try to keep things simple, I hope to just too dress once or twice in flower. My 7 gallon pots are the minimum size for water only “living soil”.Otherwise, good Canadian well water with Microbial Mass occasionally hand watered in. Usually my soil runs right about 6.7 or 6.8 according to my Bluelabs soil probe meter.
I’m using my usual Blumat watering system. The drip rings are new to me, usually I’ve just used the basic drippers or the drip tape when outside in 15g fabric pots. I figure the rings will be easier to move out of the way to top dress.

Some pics to start:
-A freshly cleaned tent ready to go.
-Germination in paper towel , no soak. at About 21c (70F) between two small saucers. About 48 hours for 3 seeds, 1 took another day. 100% germination, yes!
-Straight into final containers
-starting to break groun
-mixing soil approximately 8 weeks before planting to allow microbes time to break things down

 

[DabberDog]

Ooh! I like those!! Can I watch?

 

[dirtymike]

Looks promising. I haven't had the pleasure of those 2 strains. Hope you get the purps.

 

[Ckbrew]

Let the show begin

 

[Bowhunterwoody]

My winter grow will be a few of Going2fast scarlet seeds. By popular demand. Don't have the hot cakes so I'm looking forward to watching this one.

 

[Pyrokill]

I did a few Scarlet Grapes and all of them had a little different look and flavor. All delicious however. It will be a good time growing that dudes artwork.

 

[Going2fast]

Gitrdone small grow. Looking forward to seeing your results.

 

[golfnrl]

I love your set up. Looks well put together. Is that Kerdi board ? Nice touch. Lookin' forward to your posts.

 

[Smallgrow]

Thx! I’m always working to improve it.
Good eye, yes that is Kerdi board. I used it for a tile project last year it is cool stuff.
The magnets on those ACI lights suck (the lights are nice) so I needed another plan. The Kerdi board is stiff enough that it fits tight but I can still slide them up or down as needed based on plant size

 

[Smallgrow]

Germination went well , but some challenges after that.
I dropped all the sprouted seed into their final 7 gal fabric pots. I hand watering with a with a 10ml syringe.
The Hot Cakes came up happy and are off and running but the Scarlet Grapes had troubles. One couldn’t escape its shell and wore its helmet for too long despite my efforts the other came up but was not happy and has stalled out.
I will cull both, although I think they could survive, as autos they have lost too much time to continue

 

[Allenpro]

Who is the breeder?

 

[Allenpro]

Who is the breeder

 

[Going2fast]

Pop 2 more

 

[DabberDog]

Someone isn't paying attention.

 

[Going2fast]

These are my creations.

 

[dirtymike]

time is still on your side for now .as G2F has hinted. this time bury them a little deeper so the helmet get taken off by the medium.

 

[Smallgrow]

Ya I did pop two more no big deal. One is already sprouted and in the pot.
I’m always trying to bury them not too deep to make it easy for them to break ground, but maybe a bit deeper would help with removing the shell. I usually shoot for about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch deep

 

[Smallgrow]

Well I’ve got 3 replacements above ground, not sure why I’ve had so many issues starting this grow.
I have changed a few things in my system and starting seeds in my final pots is not something I’ve been doing lately growing photos.
I think my watering has been off, and/or my soil may be a bit hot for the auto seedlings.
The one hot cakes has gone great it’s about 2 1/2 weeks above ground now.
I couldn’t bare to cull the runts so they went back in seedling pots , not sure what I’ll do with them.

 

[Smallgrow]

Still struggling out of the gate here. I don’t usually have problems in the germination and seedling stage but this time has been a different story unfortunately.
Happy to have people’s input.

My feeling is that my soil is too hot for auto seedlings , perhaps any seedling. Watering may also have contributed as I have my Blumats keeping the soil happy at depth, but that leaves the top of the pots dry so I’ve been hand watering the seedlings and pots.

My environment has been set at 79-80f and initially 70% rh without using domes but as the one plant races ahead Ive reduced to 65% and gone back to using domes for the young seedlings.
Light is set at 18/6 and about 250ppfd for the seedlings.

pics below

The good - Super Cakes as I call her is rocking. She’s almost 4 weeks above ground and going like I’d hoped all of them would.
She’ll start to flower and stretch soon I’d think. I’m tempted to cull the others, move her to the middle of the 3x3 and grow her out alone.

The rest - first two pics are the other Hot cakes doing okay, but showing issues typical of this grows problems.
Last two pics are of the better Scarlet Grapes
These were the replacements and went into paper towel Sept 6th
Germinated normally in about 48-56 hours, and into 7g pots Sept 9th.
At this point I’m going to move forward with them as I’ve used too many of my precious seed gift from Going2fast . Hopefully they will come around soon, and not be too small before flower

 

[Going2fast]

Hang in there. That hot cakes is going to be big. Try using a one quart planter in the center of the bigger planters to hold your soil back when filling. Then fill that void with unfertilized seed starting mix and plant the seeds in that. This should give the plants time to get a good start.