Plopped 10 IGLM London Pound Cake beans in a shot glass with R/O and 20 drops hydrogen peroxide 2/27.
They had tails in 12 hours and went into 9oz clear cups of 75% buffered coco coir, 15% perlite, 10% vermiculite. Broke ground 12 hours later. Strong beans.
Currently under daylight spectrum flouro. Will be up-potting and burying stem a few inches in a couple days. Maybe tonight.
They will grow and strengthen in 2 gal. plastic pots with reused Happy Frog (old base soil), rinsed well (hot and cold rinse) and amended with epsoms, potassium carbonate, silica, Jack’s 20-20-20, and time release lime pellets. They will then go under full spectrum T-5s and T-8s until stout and ready for LST or something…
I hope you enjoy this. I hope the beans hold the genes to be special in my environment. Room runs 72F-80F, CO2 at 600-1300ppm, humidity moves between 45%-70% depending on the day.
The first, veg, phase will be under banks of tube LEDs, daylight. Some will get Jack’s 20-20-20, some will get Jack’s and a little molasses, some will get ‘Grow Dots’ and ‘Recharge’, some will get ‘Recharge’ and R/O, some will get R/O only.
Thanks. Hoping for some solid phenos. At least one. Takes a lot of space to search for a keeper mom so I hope it pays. Considering firing up another smallish veg space for the overflow.
I had a heater get stuck on and though I was remotely alerted it took a day to get there for repair. The kidlets spent 18 hours @ 90F and 25%RH. A very tough VPD on youngling. They seemed to take it ok, surprisingly.
These London Pound Cake beans broke ground 19 days ago.
They have been moved into a private room. I was going to do some side by sides tests on nute mixes and additives but have decided to run them all the same for a better clarity in the pheno-hunt.
Getting Jack’s 20-20-20 @ 650 PPM, in fluffy pretty well managed reused soil, recharge @ 1/2 tsp/gal rate, soluble SI @ 10 drops/gal rate, pH@6.2ish, temp of 72ish,RH @ 60%ish, 24/7 light under banks of 50watt LED Full Spectrum 4’ bulbs.
Now 34 days from bean split. Looking ok. Getting close to uppotting to 5gal.
Is that myco or a bad mold forming at the drain holes? It’s very white and has healthy roots popping through it…
That white fuzz at the holes is in the pots treated with myco and those not. It’ll be interesting to see the rest of the roots when I pull the plant for uppotting.
5/3 7 days later. 1 week into flower, 67 days from seed split.
Stretch is on! The London Pound Cake beans from ILGM don’t appear to be going to stretch too much.
Getting heavy lighting from 1000HPS with supplemtal CO2 to 1,100ppm.
Temps steady at 75F, humidity 45-65%, now moved onto Jack’s 10-30-20 with 1g epsoms a gal and calcium carbonate for pH buffering. pH slides between 6-7.
with R/O and 20 drops hydrogen peroxide 2/27.
Frog (old base soil), rinsed well (hot and cold rinse) and amended with epsoms, potassium carbonate, silica, Jack’s 20-20-20, and time release lime pellets. They will then go under full spectrum T-5s and T-8s until stout and ready for LST or something…
and Good Health!
