12/12 From Seed Experiment - 21 Strains

Hot Diggity Sog

Hot Diggity Sog

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12/12 From Seed Experiment - The 2nd Chapter

Setup
(2) 54 Gallon Hempy Totes in a 4'x4' Gorilla Tent
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These will be primarily the same Coco/Perlite mix. The only significant difference will be 6 inches of 100% perlite on the bottom.
The drains are 2 1/2" from bottom and will connect to a standard hose.

Strains
Will be running two strains: Barneys Farm Chronic Thunder and Sensi Seeds Skunk #1. (One strain per tub)
Will be germinating 100 seeds of each with a target of having between 78 and 91 seedlings from each strain.

Nutrients
Blue Planet 3-Part High Yield System

Lighting
600 Watts. Metal Halide from start until early flower, High Pressure Sodium during flower, and back to Metal Halide for the final 2 weeks.
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Objective
To average no less than 10 Grams per plant which, depending on germination rates, will result in between 1560 grams and 1820 grams.
This translates out to 2.6 - 3.0 grams per watt. Sounds nuts...can I do it? I don't know but we're going to find out.
 
sky rocket

sky rocket

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Dam you will be squeezing a lot if girls in there. I'm afraid you may not have enough room in your 4x4 tent even if you your germ rate was 78-91 percent. But good luck. I'm sitting front row for this. How are you germinating your seeds I.e. Paper towel method seeds in a cup of water......Wich name brand of coco will you be using also I take it by looking at your setup you won't be using any co2?
 
Hot Diggity Sog

Hot Diggity Sog

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sky rocket said:
Dam you will be squeezing a lot if girls in there. I'm afraid you may not have enough room in your 4x4 tent even if you your germ rate was 78-91 percent. But good luck. I'm sitting front row for this. How are you germinating your seeds I.e. Paper towel method seeds in a cup of water......Wich name brand of coco will you be using also I take it by looking at your setup you won't be using any co2?
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I'm going to be using 1.5" rockwool cubes with a heating pad and a humidity dome...will be keeping the temp between 76 and 80.
No CO2.

Using a higher quality Coco this time...Roots Organics Compressed Coco.
The inner dimensions of the tubs is roughly 15" x 35.5"
Spaced 3" I get 6 x 13 or 78 total.
Spaced 2.5" x 3" I get 7 x 13 or 91 total so my spacing will be determined by how many of the 100 seeds germinate and look healthy.
 
DirtyNerd

DirtyNerd

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Yeah i'll be doing a full upgrade next time i start up really looking forward to future planning can't wait to see the girls must of cost you a bit
 
sky rocket

sky rocket

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With your coco brick did you have to charge it with nutes and pH it? Man you spent a lot on seeds. I hope you can get your money back 3x's with this grow. My first time with a coco brick was just plain messy for me. I had to add water to it and I left over coco. That's why I went with canna coco in a bag.
 
Hot Diggity Sog

Hot Diggity Sog

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sky rocket said:
With your coco brick did you have to charge it with nutes and pH it? Man you spent a lot on seeds. I hope you can get your money back 3x's with this grow. My first time with a coco brick was just plain messy for me. I had to add water to it and I left over coco. That's why I went with canna coco in a bag.
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No nutes and just rinsed with plain water. I'll run 6.0 water with a little calmag thru the whole vessel prior to putting seeds in. The coco brick is Canna and claims to be super well rinsed...hope so. Regarding the up front cost of the seeds...not too worried about that *now* as this is still experimental prototyping. Looking forward, the cost and availability of seeds becomes a serious concern so being able to generate my own will be paramount.
 
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I'll be keeping it real simple...light waterings with PH'd only water until I think they are ready for some light nutes. I made several mistakes early on in the 1st experiment...gave CalMag way too often and then started feeding too early. I won't be making these same mistakes again.
 
Hot Diggity Sog

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The 100 Chronic Thunder seeds arrived today!
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The 100 Skunk #1 seeds shipped one day after these so should be tomorrow.

Here is the jig I made:
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This jig is made out of 1 inch XPS foam board and 1.5 inch square wooden craft blocks spaced 3 inches apart.
It is made to punch holes in the wet coco for the rockwool cubes and is 1/2 the length of my container. There are 40 blocks but 2 more rockwool cubes will fit where the rounded corners are which will translate to 84 plants per tub. Sounds good in theory, will have to see how it works.
 
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