My Weed Growing Journey

[DustyDuke]

Been wanting to start a grow diary for a while but wanted to start it from day one.
Im starting to grow three seedsmen strains, which I will turn into mother plants for clones. They are Black Sugar, Badazz Cookies Og, and Nothern Soul. I will also share the other plants I have growing. All the established plants are autoflowers which is convenient for starting these other seeds off. I will not be running autoflowers again not a massive fan. I have some friends cloning different strains so I can swap with them, which is a bonus. Soon I will have to build a veg room but that’s for later. I’ll try to post pics daily. I am only growing for personal use for myself and the mrs.
Also if you are starting from seed or clone around this time feel free to post your pics here if you can’t be bothered starting a journal always good to see other people’s projects. Happy growing

 

[DustyDuke]

Here’s my seeds in water soaking today is day one

 

[DustyDuke]

Close up, Cookies OG
Northern Soul

Black Sugar

 

[DustyDuke]

I currently am running a 5x5 tent with a 315w cmh and 2 130 cfls. I’m replacing the cfl’s with a 600w hps/mh with a digital adjustable ballast. The cmh and hps will be running on a Iight rail to avoid heat spots and hopefully gain a bigger yield. Originally had a 2000w cheap led as well but I dropped it wasn’t great for flowering, anyways here are few pics of my setup and some plants I have going. Two have bad nute burn but the rest are doing well I doubled up on the nutes accidentally tried to flush but damage was done.

 

[jungle666]

I currently am running a 5x5 tent with a 315w cmh and 2 130 cfls. I’m replacing the cfl’s with a 600w hps/mh with a digital adjustable ballast. The cmh and hps will be running on a Iight rail to avoid heat spots and hopefully gain a bigger yield. Originally had a 2000w cheap led as well but I dropped it wasn’t great for flowering, anyways here are few pics of my setup and some plants I have going. Two have bad nute burn but the rest are doing well I doubled up on the nutes accidentally tried to flush but damage was done. View attachment 4326623View attachment 4326627 View attachment 4326630
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Good luck dusty, following cheers

 

[DustyDuke]

One of my red poison auto’s is starting to shoot a few pistols and showing it’s first signs of purple. Not a big deal to sum but this will be my first truly purple weed. I’ve had specks in bud before but not as purple as these girls will get @Oh My if I can get close to you girls I’ll be happy, that’s some killer TPR

 

[Oh My]

One of my red poison auto’s is starting to shoot a few pistols and showing it’s first signs of purple. Not a big deal to sum but this will be my first truly purple weed. I’ve had specks in bud before but not as purple as these girls will get @Oh My if I can get close to you girls I’ll be happy, that’s some killer TPR View attachment 4326757

Looks like your well on your way Growther!

 

[DustyDuke]

It’s been 24 hours since I dropped the seeds in water. I’ve transferred them into paper towel to germinate, I normally don’t use paper towel but thought I would give it a go. They all sank to the bottom, I was happy with that. Not much else to report. My other plants are doing well my biggest Tangie’matic is in week 2 of flower looking good
Badazz Cookies OG seed

Black Sugar seed already opening after 24 hours, always a good sign.

Northern light seed

Snug as a big in a rug

 

[DustyDuke]

Tangie’matic starting to get some bud sites going. She’s currently 30 inches tall and wide. I have the lights running 20/4 I would normally just go 24 hours but I need the temp to drop for my red poison to get nice purple buds. They seem to be doing well with that light schedule

 

[jungle666]

Happy plants

 

[jungle666]

What are they growing in dusty

 

[Mellow old School]

Looks good, I really dig the signs of purple on that one...

 

[DustyDuke]

What are they growing in dusty

Some in coco and 30% perlite and some in 100 percent coco just as an experiment.
I’m finding perlite/coco is good for plastic pots and straight coco for the fabric bags is better. I ended up watering the the fabric pots more then the plastic pots if I had perlite in them. Which is a pain in the ass.

 

[DustyDuke]

More purple coming out. It’s really interesting to watch this plant

 

[DustyDuke]

All the seeds popped you can always count on Seedsmen for good germination and genetics. If they ever won’t to throw a few test seeds I wouldn’t refuse lol who would.
Anyways here’s few pics of the process.

 

[DustyDuke]

Here’s what the tents doing I also have a 10 day old seedling. I gave my friend 4 seeds they were 1 fem black sugar, 1 fem Cookies Og and 2 regular yantra seeds. It didn’t go well for him he killed 3 and gave me the 1 survivor back. The silly bastard didn’t keep track of the strains so I don’t know what it is. I’ll be stoked if it is a yantra and a female knowing my luck it will be a male lol.
Tangie’matic

Mystery seedling
Moby Dick xxl week 5 bit slower going then the others hasn’t started stretching yet the others have started

 

[DustyDuke]

3 Tangie’matic’s at 5 weeks started stretching this week
This is the biggest of the three

This ones the smallest


This one is in between

 

[DustyDuke]

Red poison she’s at 5 weeks and well ahead of the others it’s supposed to be a 8-10 week plant it might make it I’m thinking week 10.
I didn’t won’t to tip it or lst because of its short life cycle but I think it would have loved it

 

[oldbeancounter]

Red poison she’s at 5 weeks and well ahead of the others it’s supposed to be a 8-10 week plant it might make it I’m thinking week 10.
I didn’t won’t to tip it or lst because of its short life cycle but I think it would have loved it
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Are those pots the fabric pots are in ...the a black dipples like that plastic foundation stuff before you backfill? Looks like good idea to reduce some of the evaporation-humidity but still allow air flow and keep roots in shadows/cool or is other reason for that method?.

 

[DustyDuke]

That’s exactly what I did it for just an experiment seems to work though.
The bags are just reusable shopping bags and there not as strong as the real fabric pots so the plastic adds strength to. I found if I had to move the bags the coco would split and I didn’t want the roots to get damaged and seen that on the job site and had a light bulb moment. cost me nothing to do.