Free seed pre harvest pics

[SimonD]

I hope everyone had a good summer. I'm about to start a new season. Haven' worked since May, so I may be a bit rusty, but it was really nice to get a break from growing. No free seed plants, yet. To be perfectly honest, I don't have a whole lot of seeds still around. I flowered pretty much all I had - at least the non-weirdo genetics - in hopes of finding a number of working moms for this season and likely the next two or three, to some extent. Over the summer, I tested the market (if you will) with the bud I plan to offer this season and let's just say the selection process was a great success (insert Borat voice). I don't feel comfortable mentioning specifics for security reasons, but I will say that 3 out 5 strains I'm working with commercially were derived from free seeds. I hope post new pics later in the season, once I get some new seeds.

All the best to everyone,
Simon

 

[Izoc666]

SimonD, its very nice thread !

first of all , yeah i had a good summer

this will be same thread when you re starting a new season ? thanks.

happy gardening.

 

[patsbrady0345]

Im just so jealous wtf those are all wow!

 

[SimonD]

SimonD, its very nice thread !

first of all , yeah i had a good summer

this will be same thread when you re starting a new season ? thanks.

happy gardening.

Hi Izoc! Nice to see you. If I can find a seedbank that'll give me a bunch of free fems with a purchase, I'll likely grow them out and post the pics. Attitude's October offer isn't that great, so I'm still looking. I'll likely order, anyway, though. lol

I still have the Diet Rite can, so half the work is already done.

Simon

 

[SimonD]

I've been trying to think of something useful to post, so let me talk a bit about keeping plants alive and small for an extended period. I finished last season at the end of May and shut down the garden. I planted 2 (each) of the 5 moms I'll be running this year, later culling one of each as they seated in their pots, leaving 5 very small plants in 6" square pots. Mind you, this was late-May/early-June and I needed working stock in mid-September. That's a lot of time in the life of a plant that grows as fast as canna.

Contrary to what one reads on the forums, essentially regurgitated from some growbook, IMNSHE, MHs are relatively poor lights for quick growth. As such, I used a 150MH in a SSII/Galaxy ballast, all housed in a small cab. The light sat ~1' above the clones and produced the absolute slowest growth I've seen since trying to veg under 2x600MH. By September, the clones (LST'd by then) were maybe 8" tall, albeit with a couple of dozen main stems. The summer was totally painless, as the tiny garden needed very little upkeep, and the moms were ready in time to donate their clones. Hopefully, someone can make use of this.

Simon

 

[k0ijn]

Looking forward to your new season of growing Simon.

It's always fun to see a proper grower use his skills to the fullest, have a good one

 

[KidneyStoner420]

Simon! Long time no see. How have you been?

 

[SimonD]

Simon! Long time no see. How have you been?

Hey KS! Hope all is well in your world.

Simon

 

[Kybudz]

Gotta ask you simon how was g13 pineapple express. Got one in veg .was it any good?

 

[SimonD]

Gotta ask you simon how was g13 pineapple express. Got one in veg .was it any good?

I grew out a few PEs over a couple of cycles. The final product smelled and tasted great, the bud wasn't rock-hard and I can see how it could even turn a little fluffy under smaller lights or less favorable conditions, and the yield was good. Not great, but good. Its potency was, maybe, a 7 on a scale of 1-10. Definitely worth the time.

Simon

 

[KidneyStoner420]

Oprah!!!!!

 

[starrboo]

Nice! check this out!View attachment 2383149View attachment 2383149

 

[k0ijn]

@Starrboo

I'm not sure why you are spamming other peoples threads with random pictures.

If you want you can just make a thread of your own and post all the pictures you want, please don't clog up other peoples threads unless they've specifically said people can post pictures in the thread.

 

[starrboo]

new here and I will watch what it says and what I can post. I didnt know it reposted them over and over. I can tell this is a younger web site. Hope I helped a few!

 

[SimonD]

Just couldn't take it, dug around and started some free seeds. I get bored growing the same strains over and over. Gotta have something new to play with! The pics show the seeds exactly a week from sprouting. Well, six of them. The seventh popped several days later. I'm going to try and take a pic every week at the same time, at least during veg, to show how they develop. The seedlings are fed from day-1. Jack's Classic All-Purpose at 1/4 concentration. This goes on for ~2 weeks, as they live under floros. Then they get transplanted into 2gal pots and move under 600HPS'. The fertilizer concentration doubles with each watering until max is reached.


.

Simon

 

[KidneyStoner420]

Looks good Oprah! LOL
I use nearly the same technique, as far as the cfl's then the HPS. Same nute tech also.
I only run a 250, but will be ordering a dimmablr 600 in the next couple weeks actually.
How many watts do you run with the floros? Are they CFLs, T5, T8?

 

[SimonD]

Looks good Oprah! LOL

You should have seen the Bette Midler avatar I had on Overgrow.

I use nearly the same technique, as far as the cfl's then the HPS. Same nute tech also.
I only run a 250, but will be ordering a dimmablr 600 in the next couple weeks actually.
How many watts do you run with the floros? Are they CFLs, T5, T8?

It's a 2'/ 4-lamp T5 fixture. Seedlings are literally the only thing I use it for, but it's fantastic in this application. I also have several 6-lamp T8 fixtures. These are solely used for seating clones: Day-1 two lamps are lit, day-2 4 lamps are lit, and on day-3 all 6 lamps are lit. On the 4th day the planted clones are ready for the HIDs in the veg room. Lamp-wise, I prefer a mixed spectrum. Why? Because, it's more fun to play with. It's the only reason.

Simon

 

[k0ijn]

Good to see you got a litter going Simon.
Do you know which strain?

I'm still waiting for rebuilding before I can set up, I'm missing having a room close by so much.
I think I just miss the plants innerly.


Anyway, gl with the grow hope to see some cool updates

 

[SimonD]

Good to see you got a litter going Simon.
Do you know which strain?

I'm still waiting for rebuilding before I can set up, I'm missing having a room close by so much.
I think I just miss the plants innerly.


Anyway, gl with the grow hope to see some cool updates

Hey Koijn. It's afraid it's nothing terribly exciting: A While Widow (Dinafem), a Madness (World of Seeds), 2 Warlocks (can't remember whose ATM), and 3 Afghan Kushes (World of Seeds). One thing, though, is one never knows what he'll get, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. It least it's something new.

I know what you mean about missing the plants. Over the summer I had virtually nothing going, at least nothing that needed any kind of work. I felt out of place.

Simon

 

[k0ijn]

Hey Koijn. It's afraid it's nothing terribly exciting: A While Widow (Dinafem), a Madness (World of Seeds), 2 Warlocks (can't remember whose ATM), and 3 Afghan Kushes (World of Seeds). One thing, though, is one never knows what he'll get, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. It least it's something new.

I know what you mean about missing the plants. Over the summer I had virtually nothing going, at least nothing that needed any kind of work. I felt out of place.

Simon

A little bit is better than none at all mate ^^

I'd kill to be able to have seeds germinating atm!
I'd be happy with any strain lol so at least seeing other people getting some seeds splitting is nice and distracting from my own torment.

Yeah it's a weird feeling, I hope I can get started this year but there's a lot for me to do and little time, probably won't get anything worth while up and running before 2013.


In the meantime though I know which threads to sub