12/12 From Seed Experiment - 21 Strains

12/12 From Seed Experiment - The 2nd Chapter

Setup
(2) 54 Gallon Hempy Totes in a 4'x4' Gorilla Tent


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.


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.

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?

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.

Woohoo looking forward to the next round best of luck my friend

DirtyNerd said:

Woohoo looking forward to the next round best of luck my friend

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Thanks! Seeds are on the way and my setup work is nearly done.

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

DirtyNerd said:

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

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Yeah...just under $1100.

Well shit i hope they gave you a lot of freebees

Continued Preparation:


The 100 Liter bag of course perlite was the perfect amount to fill the bottom of both tubs. The tub on the right has an entire Coco brick added on top. Will be adding a little perlite to mix in with the coco layer and then these will be ready to go.

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.

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.

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.

The 100 Chronic Thunder seeds arrived today!


The 100 Skunk #1 seeds shipped one day after these so should be tomorrow.

Here is the jig I made:


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.

Awesome bro looking forward to the show woot woot

DirtyNerd said:

Awesome bro looking forward to the show woot woot

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Me too man, me too! Was getting really worried about the seed order from Attitude cause it's taken longer than usual and none of the tracking numbers work but I feel much better after getting 1/2 of the order today.

Did they give you many freebee with that huge order... ?

I am starting up again soon i can't wait anymore i miss the hobby to much

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Did they give you many freebee with that huge order... ?

I am starting up again soon i can't wait anymore i miss the hobby to much

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Not as many as you might think. Looks like I got 8 freebies with the this order and not sure about the one coming tomorrow.

Good luck Hot diggity!

Really hopefully they give you move most of the time when i order with Bonza i get around 10 freebees with only a order of $100 anyway looking forward to the show this one is going to be awesome

B166ER420 said:

Good luck Hot diggity!

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Thank you!!!!!