Alright shiny happy people, sorry for the lack of updates on this grow. Hope everyone had a cracking xmas and new year, I'm not going to lie there was too much drinking and smoking over the xmas  

 and then I was fortunate to get some graft working away pretty much straight away in the new year hence the lack of updates.
Unfortunately this meant I had to get the only person I know and trust not to blab to look after the ladies but lets just say he isn't naturally green thumbed. Thing is the wife could easily have looked after them as she knows just as much as me after me battering her lug about it for years but I didn't think she would be happy looking after 3 kids and 2 plants  

  So I decided to cut my losses and cut the Kalamata reds down early which meant they were unsmokable for me so I binned them.
Being the optimistic guy I am I thought I would set up my mothers on my unused blumat system and all he would have to do would be keep the bucket filled up once a week. Well suffice to say I'm  3 mothers down  

 he filled the header tank up with a bucket I use for mixing soil in and lets just say 1.5mm tube doesn't like peat particles so my roadawg, and 2 copperhead skunks I was going to run one more to make a final decision on a keeper from wilted and dried out, luckily my ugorg#1, sour garlic cookies and chocomania og survived, just.
So when I got back, I lost my rag then cleaned out the system and set them up again. I've just about managed to scrounge 14 shitty cuts off them. I did try and source 16 cuts off the clone fairy till she told me her prices, now I've got 5 coming  

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Group shot from just before xmas
The two Kalamata reds
The sour garlic cookies from just before xmas, she got taken down between xmas and new year. I didn't grab any shots pre harvest. Some lovely pinks and purples but these didnt carry through to the final flower.
Some dry nug shots of the sour garlic cookies, ill be honest she is nothing special but I paid 120 quid for 10 seeds 4 of which hermed so I'm determined to get my moneys worth out of this so she's going to make the numbers up for my next run then she will probably go the way of the dodo as I've got runtz and apple fritter coming so they'll cover the cookies end of the spectrum for now.
my bonsai-ish moms. In 3 litre pots of Bio Bizz light mix being fed 2ml per litre of shogun soil grow through the blumats. I cut them right back removing a lot of the damage from drought after taking some cuts, when there healthy I could easily take 10-15 cuts of these every 2-3 weeks but that's far too many for me so ill do this normally once a month then trim about 30% of the root ball off once a year and add new compost. This way I don't have to renew my mothers from cuts all the time. All this can be info can be found in a guide by the legendary ot1 from his overgrow days online through google, some cracking info and guides for bonsai moms if anyone's interested.
If its ok with the mods ill just keep this diary as a rolling grow diary  
