Parzival’s Log - 2024

A place to log and share my 2024 growing adventures.
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Cultivar: (Gary Payton x GG#4) - bagseed
Cycle: Veg - couple weeks from seed
Medium: DWC - 27gal tote - Jack’s 3-2-1 - SA GFF
EC: 0.8
pH: 5.8
Temp: 75f day, 65f night
Humidity: 55%
VPD: ~ 0.88
Light: 260w (max at wall) DIY Samsung f-series gen3 3000k x10 strip
DLI: 38 @ canopy - 18/6
Sup. Light: 24W UVA (365nm, 395nm) @ 50% - 2/22

Cultivar: Sour Diesel IBL - Katsu
Tent: 3x3
Cycle: Veg - 1.5 weeks from clone
Medium: SIP - 17gal tote - FFOF soil, compost, and Dr. Earth 4-4-4
Temp: 75f day, 65f night
Humidity: 53%
VPD: ~ 0.88
Light: 260w (max at wall) DIY HLG QB288 Rspec x2 - Meanwell XLG-240-H-AB
DLI: 35 @ canopy - 18/6

Cultivar: (Gary Payton x GG#4) - bagseed
Cycle: Veg - couple weeks from seed

Things seem to be going well! I got the camera all situated for the log--I still need to work out the white balance though but can't seem to locate my gray card. I'll get two more plants going once more seeds arrive. I think USPS may have lost the package as it's been "in transit for the next facility" for 5 days.

Hell yeah! Seeds finally decided to show up! Got a bit of a surprise when my phone pinged showing a tracking update, I was beginning to think these ones fell victim to the postage gods. This will be my first time using this seed bank (Royal Queen Seeds), but they have a handful of CBD offerings and I need to find a daytime smoke for anxiety that doesn't knock me on my ass.

So I have room for two more flowering plants. First up: Stress Killer auto and Cookies Gelato. Plopped the Cookies Gelato in some soil, but need to finish building another 17gal SIP for the auto. I should be able to get to the SIP this evening.

List of what arrived:

Cultivar: (Gary Payton x GG#4) - bagseed
Cycle: Veg - couple weeks from seed


Cultivar: Sour Diesel IBL - Katsu
Cycle: Veg - couple weeks from clone

Got seeds planted for the Stress Killer and Cookies x Gelato, in addition to a defoil and LST on the Sour Diesel IBL and Gary Payton x GG#4.

Cultivar: (Gary Payton x GG#4) - bagseed
Cycle: Preflower - flipped to 12/12 on 12/21/23
Flowering this one early since it's bagseed. If it ends up being good, I'll grow it again and make some S1 seeds from a couple lower branches.

Since I just planted a feminized Cookies x Gelato seed for the SIP next to this DWC and I don't want to 12/12 from seed, I will veg it with the mothers and transplant to the SIP when it's ready for flowering.

I will also probably flower the Cookies x Gelato early to test, as well. If I like the pheno, I'll keep its clone as a mother, flower out a clone, and make some S1 seeds from a couple lower branches.


Cultivar: Sour Diesel IBL - Katsu
Cycle: Veg - couple weeks from clone
Seems to be recovering well from the defoil and LST. I'll probably veg this one for two or three more weeks. I planted an auto seed in the SIP to the right so it shouldn't really matter when I change the light schedule.


Since I was also working in the veg area, I thought I should snap a picture of one of my mother plants.

I prefer to keep my mother plants as bonsai's in small plastic pots. When kept small like this, the mother plants require very little water, nutrients, and space. I just give them a heavy prune every two weeks to keep them small. After about six months or so, or when they start requiring water every day, I will clone and either flower out the bonsai for the hell of it, or just bin it. When going on vacation, etc., I push a single blumat carrot into the soil and that seems to keep them happy without any other maintenance for about two weeks.