NorCalHal
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Well, here we grow again.
First off, here is a little story of how this came to be.
A good friend hooked me up some Sour Diesel cuts about 4 months ago. Bad Shape, not rooted and needing love bad.
I took them home and gave them the love they needed. I got them rooted, vegged them up under my T5, repotted them into 3 gals and vegged them longer under a 1000w MH. I ended up with 5 Healthy girls.
So, I took about 50 cuttings from the moms. I got 48 out of the 50 to blast roots. Of these, I choose 45 and started veggin' under my T5 in 4" rockwool cubes.
Meanwhile, I had 35 Mazar plants READY to flip in my Flower room.
I had to make a desicion. Do I flower out the Mazar, or scrap them and flower out the SD, which STILL needed a few weeks Veg time.
To make matters worse, I also had 9 girls I started from seed. Chem Haze Diesel from Rezdawg. They were already getting big and needed to be sexed and flipped. What to do??
So, I called my buddy who gave me the SD. I told him I had Mazar ready to flip, and he could HAVE them if he came and got them. Mind you, he Lives in Truckee, about 3 hours from me.
He drove down here with the quickness. We loaded up his Van with 35 2-3 foot Mazar plants and off he went, back up the hill at 11 pm. Van REEKING.
Don't worry folks, he made it and the Mazar are flowering out big at thier new home.
So, back to me.
I changed the bulbs in my flower room to MH (gotta love switchable ballasts!) and started veggin the SD. I wanted to get them around 18-24" before I flipped them.
Meanwhile, what to do with these huge ChemHazeDiesel plants. I got a bright idea. I would "manually" flip the CHD. I run my lights from 6pm to 12pm (18 hours) when I veg. So, every morning at 6 am, I got up and took the CHD into another spare room that I blacked out to get them starting to flower. After about 10 days of this, they showed sex and I tossed the males. I ended up with 4 female CHD.
I also took 4 cuts from each CHD BEFORE I flipped them, as to keep a cut from the pheno I like best of the CHD. Just an fyi.
So, for another 14 days, I continued to get up each morning and move the CHD to the dark room, to keep them on the 12/12 regimine.
At last, the SourD was at the height I wanted them. So, I finnaly flipped the flowerroom. No more getting up at 6 to move those big girls.
So that was 5 days ago. I now have my flower room at 12/12 and all is WELL!
Here are some pics I took today. Don't worry, these pics were taken while the girls were "sleeping". That is why they seem a little droopy. About an hour before the lights come on, believe me, they PERK up.
The first 3 pics are the SD. I have not went in and trimmed up the bottoms yet, or even hooked up the feed lines. I am still hand feeding
The last 2 pics show the ChemHaze Diesel. They are budding out fat.
This is the first time I have grown either strain, but I am confident it will go well. They are both 70 day strains.
Not much to look at yet, but enjoy!!
First off, here is a little story of how this came to be.
A good friend hooked me up some Sour Diesel cuts about 4 months ago. Bad Shape, not rooted and needing love bad.
I took them home and gave them the love they needed. I got them rooted, vegged them up under my T5, repotted them into 3 gals and vegged them longer under a 1000w MH. I ended up with 5 Healthy girls.
So, I took about 50 cuttings from the moms. I got 48 out of the 50 to blast roots. Of these, I choose 45 and started veggin' under my T5 in 4" rockwool cubes.
Meanwhile, I had 35 Mazar plants READY to flip in my Flower room.
I had to make a desicion. Do I flower out the Mazar, or scrap them and flower out the SD, which STILL needed a few weeks Veg time.
To make matters worse, I also had 9 girls I started from seed. Chem Haze Diesel from Rezdawg. They were already getting big and needed to be sexed and flipped. What to do??
So, I called my buddy who gave me the SD. I told him I had Mazar ready to flip, and he could HAVE them if he came and got them. Mind you, he Lives in Truckee, about 3 hours from me.
He drove down here with the quickness. We loaded up his Van with 35 2-3 foot Mazar plants and off he went, back up the hill at 11 pm. Van REEKING.
Don't worry folks, he made it and the Mazar are flowering out big at thier new home.
So, back to me.
I changed the bulbs in my flower room to MH (gotta love switchable ballasts!) and started veggin the SD. I wanted to get them around 18-24" before I flipped them.
Meanwhile, what to do with these huge ChemHazeDiesel plants. I got a bright idea. I would "manually" flip the CHD. I run my lights from 6pm to 12pm (18 hours) when I veg. So, every morning at 6 am, I got up and took the CHD into another spare room that I blacked out to get them starting to flower. After about 10 days of this, they showed sex and I tossed the males. I ended up with 4 female CHD.
I also took 4 cuts from each CHD BEFORE I flipped them, as to keep a cut from the pheno I like best of the CHD. Just an fyi.
So, for another 14 days, I continued to get up each morning and move the CHD to the dark room, to keep them on the 12/12 regimine.
At last, the SourD was at the height I wanted them. So, I finnaly flipped the flowerroom. No more getting up at 6 to move those big girls.
So that was 5 days ago. I now have my flower room at 12/12 and all is WELL!
Here are some pics I took today. Don't worry, these pics were taken while the girls were "sleeping". That is why they seem a little droopy. About an hour before the lights come on, believe me, they PERK up.
The first 3 pics are the SD. I have not went in and trimmed up the bottoms yet, or even hooked up the feed lines. I am still hand feeding
The last 2 pics show the ChemHaze Diesel. They are budding out fat.
This is the first time I have grown either strain, but I am confident it will go well. They are both 70 day strains.
Not much to look at yet, but enjoy!!
