3rd grow - GDP, Blue Rhino, NL#5, Lemon Kush

My previous grow was some GDP and BR in my closet, under 400w in an ebb/flow system. I revegged the plants after harvest and farmed quite a few clones from them, and currently have 5 GDP and one BR in bubble buckets. I built a 6x6x4 cabinet, and bought a 1000w system.

I got some Northern Lights #5 seeds, only ended up with 3 females and they all started to suffer from root rot from being in the hot closet. They've since been recovering, I took some cuttings for clones from the biggest plant just in case. I also popped a few Lemon Kush seeds I got from some bud from the club. I had 5 at one time, but most of them died when I let them go too long without water. The one remaining seedling was the strongest, now I just hope it turns out female.

I plan on building another cab for flowering, so they won't all have to be on the same schedule anymore. When a plant is ready to flower I'll just move it over and the others will follow when their time arrives.

Here are some pics I took today of the grow. I tied a few of them down LST style, I used LST in my first grow and SCROG in my 2nd and had great results both times.


The Blue Rhino is still impressive, showing bigger/faster growth than all of the GDP. I got roughly twice as much bud from the BR than the GDP on the last grow. The biggest cola weighed 90g wet, dried to around 17g. The GDP had tastier nugs but not as much yield, can't wait to see what happens this time.



There are 2 GDP that are also coming along nicely (albeit with some burned tips)





The other 3 GDP are starting off a little slower but are still showing new growth. The last one seems to just now finally be revegging again, a few of my clones for some reason started to flower even though they didn't get any darkness

Today I started tying the plants down LST style. I just drilled the screws into the lid (sealed w/ silicone to prevent leaks/rust/etc) and used garden twist ties to pull the branches down. I pulled a little too much on one and busted a branch, oh well. They're still a bit short to start LSTing them but I'm trying to keep them as short as possible anyways. I like bush

You can see the Lemon Kush seedling in the pics as well, the little one to the right.








I got roots!

I have a bunch more that aren't in buckets yet, including more GDP, BR and the NL.

That gigantic "clone" in the left tray was air layered, meaning it grew roots on the mother plant before being cut



This is how the roots looked just before I cut it from the mother. All I did was scrape/cut away the outer layer of the branch and wrap the wound with rooting hormone and a rockwool cube. I was flushing the mother plants for a good while and started adding nutes to the air layer cube, enticing the roots to come out. I did this same technique for one of the plants of my 2nd grow, as you can see you can take pretty big cuttings complete with their own root system already growing. I have a few more in progress but they aren't really showing any progress after a couple of weeks. Then again I've been feeding the mother plants again, I may have to cut it back to flushing to try to get them to root.

Got a new strain yesterday, Blue Sky Cotton Candy



It's apparnently an 80/20 sativa dominant strain, which is exactly what I wanted. The other strains I have are all mostly or completely indica, I've developed a liking for sativa and wanted to see how small I could keep one in my system. I've got a big cube soaking right now, into which this plug will go and then it can go under the 1000w and into a bubble bucket

From what I could find, the strain is from Oaksterdam and is a mix of Mendo Purps and Sweet Pink Greatfruit.

Before tying down today




After



I topped the Cotton Candy and put two NL clones in cubes

Got some nice shots of the stems while training the ladies today

The GDP directly under the light are gettin huge. After training them I swapped them with the outer plants to try to get them to catch up a lil.



The Cotton Candy is also doing well, it's got some nice roots already. I topped it and there are at least 3 tops, maybe 4 up top.

Another example of bending my ladies to my will

BEFORE



AFTER

Since the plants are gettin so damn big, I started building the 2nd cab yesterday. I'll probably use this one for veg and put the 400w in there; in the original cab, I'll switch the light to HPS and 12/12 and start flowering the bigger plants in there.

Got the 2nd cab almost completely built. Gotta run power and put up some doors, that's bout it. Gotta wait til I get paid again to get the air pumps, fans etc I need in order to start flowering some of these ladies.


They've got a ridiculous number of branches comin off, I gotta start cuttin clones again

Kablam!






Major rootage

Cool grow man, im running a GDP too. How long do you veg them for usually? I grew them once before, real good smoke but a little short on the scale. How much do you usually get off 1 plant? Keep growin good dope.

I don't have any usual numbers, I've only grown it once before. I veg them for as long as I need to to get them the size I want. I like to keep them super short and spread them out, once they're as horizontal as possible I may let them grow up a little bit before switching. I don't want to keep them too long in veg cuz I want them short, but with the indicas I shouldnt have to worry too much about height. The CC though is mostly sativa and is already pretty stretchy, it's gonna catch up quickly. I don't yet have the flowering cab ready yet, though. Still have to run power in there and get fans n such, prob next weekend

Got the veg cab up and running



I've got the NL and the CC in there now. Still gotta get fans in there.

Here's the NL I topped twice


The same plant before/after training





My sea of GDP (and one BR)

Here's a week's progress I've finally finished changing the water over for them all, changed the MH to HPS and set the lights to be on from 8pm to 8am. They're so bushy I don't know if I have enough room anymore





I cut a few clones from the GDP and BR to be flowered, as well as some NL and CC. Here's to 100% rooting lol

Yeah I switched them over and put some MOAB in it to get them to start flowering ASAP