PartyBro420
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Hey all! So I started growing again about 2 months ago. The last 2 times I grew just a single plant for the sake of trying it out and seeing how I did with just the instruction I could find for myself.
Both original attempts worked out quite well. Unfortunately I don't know the names of either of their strains.
One was from a seed I had found in a particularly potent bag I had once. I used only organic fertilizers like blood and bone meal, with worm castings. The bud was on the dense side and I didn't realize it's a lot more difficult to flush out fertilizers that are mixed into the soil and not dissolved away and absorbed.
The second I was given by a friend after he had grown it under a vegetative fish tank light for 12 months, which I ended up just flowering after a week of adjusting to proper lighting under a 1000w MH (I know a bit strong for just one plant, but I use it for more now This plant I had a problem with Powdery Mildew, but It was kept under control very quickly with a mixture of Baking soda and water, and match burning.
Ok! So for my setup I have: 1x 1000w MH magnetic ballast 1x 1000w Electronic ballast (running 1000w HPS bulb currently at 75% for 3 flowering plants. when I run it at 100% the bulb starts to scream at me) with variable control, 1x 25lb co2 tank/regulator (still don't have a controller though so I'm just trying to use math as best I can for the space I'm using), one maverick sun air cooled shade, and one plain old batwing. My reservoir is a 50gal fish tank constantly aerated and 2x 55gal drums (not being used yet)
For this round I started out with 8 seeds from the Vancouver Island Seed Company in BC, germinated in a wet paper towel. After they started to sprout I placed them into seedling pucks that were soaked in a very weak nutrient solution. They were placed in a little growing dome under the 1000w MH and moistened as the pucks became lacking in moisture. About a week and a half after this they looked ready to be transplanted into bigger containers. I started to see root poking out of the sides of the pucks. All 8 were placed into 5gal pots with ProMix HP soil, and placed under the same 1000w MH light.
I didn't start taking pictures until they were about a month and a half into the whole process so you'll see what the progress has been from about week 5/6 onward. Also since I started and then ended up having a lot of other obligations pop up into my schedule I didn't get to pay as close of attention to them as I would have liked, but hey, it's the holidays. I Just couldn't wait to start them
This is my first time using liquid nutrients, so I'm using a simple drain to waste routine from General Hydroponics FloraGro/Micro/Bloom on a 12 week cycle with what looks like might be an extra week added into flowering.
The seeds I had were non-feminized, so 5 of the 8 turned out to be males, and were removed after the first week of flowering, leaving 3 lovely ladies (or so I thought!) behind. Well it turns out there are a few male flowers that I found on the lower 25% of 2 of the 3 plants.
I removed as many of them as fast as I could find them as carefully as I could, and turned off the ambient circulation fans in the room in hopes it will lessen the spread. I've resided myself to the fact that there will most certainly be a few seeds in this batch because I can't eradicate every bit of pollen from the flowers. It doesn't look like a rampant enough problem to completely ruin the batch anyway. Besides I love seeing them grow either way. It was hard enough to get rid of the males!
Pictures to follow! let me hear your input everyone! Questions, concerns, advice, constructive criticism, etc!
Both original attempts worked out quite well. Unfortunately I don't know the names of either of their strains.
One was from a seed I had found in a particularly potent bag I had once. I used only organic fertilizers like blood and bone meal, with worm castings. The bud was on the dense side and I didn't realize it's a lot more difficult to flush out fertilizers that are mixed into the soil and not dissolved away and absorbed.
The second I was given by a friend after he had grown it under a vegetative fish tank light for 12 months, which I ended up just flowering after a week of adjusting to proper lighting under a 1000w MH (I know a bit strong for just one plant, but I use it for more now This plant I had a problem with Powdery Mildew, but It was kept under control very quickly with a mixture of Baking soda and water, and match burning.
Ok! So for my setup I have: 1x 1000w MH magnetic ballast 1x 1000w Electronic ballast (running 1000w HPS bulb currently at 75% for 3 flowering plants. when I run it at 100% the bulb starts to scream at me) with variable control, 1x 25lb co2 tank/regulator (still don't have a controller though so I'm just trying to use math as best I can for the space I'm using), one maverick sun air cooled shade, and one plain old batwing. My reservoir is a 50gal fish tank constantly aerated and 2x 55gal drums (not being used yet)
For this round I started out with 8 seeds from the Vancouver Island Seed Company in BC, germinated in a wet paper towel. After they started to sprout I placed them into seedling pucks that were soaked in a very weak nutrient solution. They were placed in a little growing dome under the 1000w MH and moistened as the pucks became lacking in moisture. About a week and a half after this they looked ready to be transplanted into bigger containers. I started to see root poking out of the sides of the pucks. All 8 were placed into 5gal pots with ProMix HP soil, and placed under the same 1000w MH light.
I didn't start taking pictures until they were about a month and a half into the whole process so you'll see what the progress has been from about week 5/6 onward. Also since I started and then ended up having a lot of other obligations pop up into my schedule I didn't get to pay as close of attention to them as I would have liked, but hey, it's the holidays. I Just couldn't wait to start them
This is my first time using liquid nutrients, so I'm using a simple drain to waste routine from General Hydroponics FloraGro/Micro/Bloom on a 12 week cycle with what looks like might be an extra week added into flowering.
The seeds I had were non-feminized, so 5 of the 8 turned out to be males, and were removed after the first week of flowering, leaving 3 lovely ladies (or so I thought!) behind. Well it turns out there are a few male flowers that I found on the lower 25% of 2 of the 3 plants.
I removed as many of them as fast as I could find them as carefully as I could, and turned off the ambient circulation fans in the room in hopes it will lessen the spread. I've resided myself to the fact that there will most certainly be a few seeds in this batch because I can't eradicate every bit of pollen from the flowers. It doesn't look like a rampant enough problem to completely ruin the batch anyway. Besides I love seeing them grow either way. It was hard enough to get rid of the males!
Pictures to follow! let me hear your input everyone! Questions, concerns, advice, constructive criticism, etc!