So I've never documented a start to finish grow and wanted to finally do it. I've read through a ton of things here but have posted very little over that time. Too much information, not enough time.
I do not have a full set-up of equipment. I lost some in a recent move and have been slowly building up again over the last few months.
I purchased a G13 Haze that came with a few feminized BubbleGum seeds as well. A majority of what's in the pictures are 2 strains from a friend of mine, I do not know the names, but I plan on getting the genome history from that person before harvest. They have been creating crosses of their own for years and have been growing for over 30 years, so I'm sure they will end up nice, whatever they are. I will post it once I've gotten that information.
I didn't start taking pictures until I had sprouts of the G13H and the BG, which was 6 weeks into veg of the un-named strains.
Everything started out under CFL and then went to MH at 1st to 2nd week of veg. The G13H and BG started out under CFL, went to MH and then I recently purchased a 240w 6 band 3w chips LED that they finished veg out of and went to HPS for bloom, just like everything else. I currently have everything in bloom under 1 1000w HPS and 1 600w HPS. I prefer to replace the 600w HPS with MH as the plants react much more favorably to the wider spectrum of light, but a couple weeks into bloom of the random strains it popped and I haven't replaced it yet.
Air temperature in the room is slightly cool during their night, it gets to 55 degrees on nights that are below freezing here, but stays between 68 and 72 when lights are on. Central air keeps the area rather warm, but it's not perfect yet. I use the full line of Fox Farms products. Ocean Forest potting soil, Big Bloom, Grow Big, Tiger Bloom, Open Seasame, Beastie Bloom, Cha Ching, Microbe Brew, Kanga Rootz and Sledgehammer. I follow the Fox Farms soil feeding schedule off the website except for week 3 of bloom I repeat in week 4 (except "Bush Dr", keep that as is); and week 4 is used in week 5 and 6 (again, except Bush Dr). I then pick up normally at week 7. This seems to fit MJ better by giving it more flowering time, which thus far has served me well.
I use 2 techniques that I learned about from these boards, that has seemed to work very well for some members. I have tried them in the past but never gotten results like this grow, in part I believe because I was too scared to fully apply the techniques out of fear of ruining my garden. Since a majority of these plants are an unknown strain, I'm not keeping them, so fealt no personal attachment which gave me what I needed to expand my skill a bit. I use the "Super Cropping" technique and the "FIM" technique. I'm sure most will know what they are, but if you don't, a quick search here will show you all you need to know about both of these.
In pictures, you will see the progression of the super cropping and the FIMing. Also, of the 2 BGs that made it, 1 is being super cropped and FIM'd, the other is not. I will do end weight (see dry & cured) comparrisons to decide how to pick my generational parent. Alright, on to the good stuff.
This is week6 day2 of veg. These went into bloom the next week. The ones given to me may not of been rooted when I got them so the long veg time might have been due to that. A couple of pictures of how the SCing is making this late veg crop grow stright up.
Week 1 day 5 bloom for unknowns, week 1 day 5 veg for G13H and BG.
Week 1 Day 6 bloom/veg. Close ups of post FIM. G13H and BG both get 1st SuperCropping. Some decent shots of my final under trim and how well the super cropping is working.
Last shot: Week 2 day 2 bloom. First 4: Week 2 day 4 bloom, super cropping close ups.
Week 2 Day 5 veg. Looks like a 4th G13H might make it at this point. Weird yellowing of parts of single leaves, only happens to leaves that are coming off of this particular node. SC'd plants much more compact, all tops are at the same level by 3rd week veg.
Thanks to friend that gave me these starts not having sanitary conditions, I hatched their white flies and bred their spider mites for them. Plants were set back 9 days in total to recover. Put timeline back almost 2 weeks by the time everthing was said and done. Caught both problems early enough to have minimal impact on plants. Sanitized and bug bombed room again just to be safe after washing all plants. First picture is after almost 4 full days of debugging (couldn't seems to kill the last couple spider mites, but kept finding webs; finally got them all after 3 days), plants still stressed at this point. Last pictures are the first day plants seemed to spring back up, put them on week 2 feeding.
Week 3 Day 6 veg for G13H and BG. Just received 240w LED. Only 3 G13H alive at this point, 4th one didn't make it. Both BGs showing signs of female pre-bloom.
Transplanted G13H & BG #1&2. No definative pre-bloom on G13H. These 4 plants go into bloom next day. Still no idea why yellowing of G13H off of that 1 node.
First two shots are Week 3 day 1 bloom. Second shot has 4 (2 G13H 2 BG) in first day of bloom. G13H #2 showed signs of male, was removed from room. G13H #3 vegging much slower and still no signs of pre-bloom. G13H #1 showing signs of female pre-bloom. Couple of lights out shots. Opened all plants to get inner growth. All SC'd plants moving along well.
Week 3 Day 6 bloom. Couple of close-ups of bloom and FIMing double buds working out well.
Well, that's where I'm at so far. Things seem to be coming along well. I will add more posts as I progress further. Thanks for reading, I know I started with a lot of crap. Enjoy
I do not have a full set-up of equipment. I lost some in a recent move and have been slowly building up again over the last few months.
I purchased a G13 Haze that came with a few feminized BubbleGum seeds as well. A majority of what's in the pictures are 2 strains from a friend of mine, I do not know the names, but I plan on getting the genome history from that person before harvest. They have been creating crosses of their own for years and have been growing for over 30 years, so I'm sure they will end up nice, whatever they are. I will post it once I've gotten that information.
I didn't start taking pictures until I had sprouts of the G13H and the BG, which was 6 weeks into veg of the un-named strains.
Everything started out under CFL and then went to MH at 1st to 2nd week of veg. The G13H and BG started out under CFL, went to MH and then I recently purchased a 240w 6 band 3w chips LED that they finished veg out of and went to HPS for bloom, just like everything else. I currently have everything in bloom under 1 1000w HPS and 1 600w HPS. I prefer to replace the 600w HPS with MH as the plants react much more favorably to the wider spectrum of light, but a couple weeks into bloom of the random strains it popped and I haven't replaced it yet.
Air temperature in the room is slightly cool during their night, it gets to 55 degrees on nights that are below freezing here, but stays between 68 and 72 when lights are on. Central air keeps the area rather warm, but it's not perfect yet. I use the full line of Fox Farms products. Ocean Forest potting soil, Big Bloom, Grow Big, Tiger Bloom, Open Seasame, Beastie Bloom, Cha Ching, Microbe Brew, Kanga Rootz and Sledgehammer. I follow the Fox Farms soil feeding schedule off the website except for week 3 of bloom I repeat in week 4 (except "Bush Dr", keep that as is); and week 4 is used in week 5 and 6 (again, except Bush Dr). I then pick up normally at week 7. This seems to fit MJ better by giving it more flowering time, which thus far has served me well.
I use 2 techniques that I learned about from these boards, that has seemed to work very well for some members. I have tried them in the past but never gotten results like this grow, in part I believe because I was too scared to fully apply the techniques out of fear of ruining my garden. Since a majority of these plants are an unknown strain, I'm not keeping them, so fealt no personal attachment which gave me what I needed to expand my skill a bit. I use the "Super Cropping" technique and the "FIM" technique. I'm sure most will know what they are, but if you don't, a quick search here will show you all you need to know about both of these.
In pictures, you will see the progression of the super cropping and the FIMing. Also, of the 2 BGs that made it, 1 is being super cropped and FIM'd, the other is not. I will do end weight (see dry & cured) comparrisons to decide how to pick my generational parent. Alright, on to the good stuff.
This is week6 day2 of veg. These went into bloom the next week. The ones given to me may not of been rooted when I got them so the long veg time might have been due to that. A couple of pictures of how the SCing is making this late veg crop grow stright up.
Week 1 day 5 bloom for unknowns, week 1 day 5 veg for G13H and BG.
Week 1 Day 6 bloom/veg. Close ups of post FIM. G13H and BG both get 1st SuperCropping. Some decent shots of my final under trim and how well the super cropping is working.
Last shot: Week 2 day 2 bloom. First 4: Week 2 day 4 bloom, super cropping close ups.
Week 2 Day 5 veg. Looks like a 4th G13H might make it at this point. Weird yellowing of parts of single leaves, only happens to leaves that are coming off of this particular node. SC'd plants much more compact, all tops are at the same level by 3rd week veg.
Thanks to friend that gave me these starts not having sanitary conditions, I hatched their white flies and bred their spider mites for them. Plants were set back 9 days in total to recover. Put timeline back almost 2 weeks by the time everthing was said and done. Caught both problems early enough to have minimal impact on plants. Sanitized and bug bombed room again just to be safe after washing all plants. First picture is after almost 4 full days of debugging (couldn't seems to kill the last couple spider mites, but kept finding webs; finally got them all after 3 days), plants still stressed at this point. Last pictures are the first day plants seemed to spring back up, put them on week 2 feeding.
Week 3 Day 6 veg for G13H and BG. Just received 240w LED. Only 3 G13H alive at this point, 4th one didn't make it. Both BGs showing signs of female pre-bloom.
Transplanted G13H & BG #1&2. No definative pre-bloom on G13H. These 4 plants go into bloom next day. Still no idea why yellowing of G13H off of that 1 node.
First two shots are Week 3 day 1 bloom. Second shot has 4 (2 G13H 2 BG) in first day of bloom. G13H #2 showed signs of male, was removed from room. G13H #3 vegging much slower and still no signs of pre-bloom. G13H #1 showing signs of female pre-bloom. Couple of lights out shots. Opened all plants to get inner growth. All SC'd plants moving along well.
Week 3 Day 6 bloom. Couple of close-ups of bloom and FIMing double buds working out well.
Well, that's where I'm at so far. Things seem to be coming along well. I will add more posts as I progress further. Thanks for reading, I know I started with a lot of crap. Enjoy
