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Seven years without the best activity I experienced in my lifetime: sow, plant and watch my medicine grows.
I had a couple of seeds from a long time ago, not sure about exactly the kind of skunk it is, super or #1, it's a kunk, and I'm fine for a while.
Filled up a couple of small pots with some media I use to grow herbs to my cats like corn grass, catnip and lemongrass.
Basically matter from EWC (30%) and soil from my last grow 7 years ago (35%) with no sorts of amendments, pure shit to start. To aerate, 20% perlite + 15% coco fiber.
Started under my desk job under simple desk lights, straight in the medium:



4 out of 4 from old seeds. Then I place it at the window to take some sun, where they were guarded bravely by a small black panther. First plant transplant for 1 gal pots.



Keep mumble jumbling around the place to find a decent spot to grow. Good, in the process, could throw away lots of garbage gathered in a small deposit.



Why not take it to the end? Remember the days when there were no dozens of grow shops and brands selling you all kind of gadgets and there was a punch of threads teaching about how to build everything for your growth space, starting from the chamber. Got a pack of PVC pipes and hands on the job. Visqueen plastic, electrical and duct tape. 120W of 5000°K and 6500°K LEDs, including budgets and Osram 5050.

they are loving life . nice light

Things were going well with the soil until I messed up by adding biofert from my EWC, I kind of burned the plant. The soil was strong enough and there was no need for amendments at that time. But a newbie's anxiety and the breaking of a filter to clean the water I use for the plants were also adding chlorine to the soil, and symptoms of micronutrient deficiency began to appear. Also, consider some dry backs and over watering, pots and medium are kind of new for me regarding growing cannabis.



Since no amendments were added to the soil, there was in my view an absence of calcium and magnesium. The material produced at EWC is basically the result of banana, melon and watermelon peels, with some leftover vegetables. I believe it is a very complete byproduct, but I don't see sources of CalMag there. The fact that the soil of the entire South American continent suffers from magnesium deficiency is relevant. Since my food and vegetables are all planted around here, it is natural that magnesium remains absent even after the composting process. So, I decided to add a little dolomitic limestone, even breaking my organic chain a little, this is the fastest source I could obtain of these ions. Two days ago I applied a layer of cover to all the pots and now I must have to continue using good water and wait for the soil to rebalance.



Everyone here, hazers, skunkers, kushers, sativa and indica lovers, feel free to leave your impressions and share info anytime you want.
Thanks for passing by.
Now I'm gonna build my flowering chamber.

m1100 said:

they are loving life . nice light

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Made a little investment for flower, for vega I'll keep it simple to start. Expensive products.

you need to focus on light ,ambient temperature ,co2 and nutrition in that order of relevance i would up pot them in cloth pots they are very nice almost imposible to over water and they avoid root bound spiraling problems

m1100 said:

you need to focus on light ,ambient temperature ,co2 and nutrition in that order of relevance i would up pot them in cloth pots they are very nice almost imposible to over water and they avoid root bound spiraling problems

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Yeah, up pot for cloth (fabric) pots was made earlier today, the soil rested for 15 days, the minimum acceptable for this type of compost. One of the biggest problems was the obvious lack of planning, the soil was mulched and the plant was placed in it on the same day... it was not balanced enough...
In the upcoming weeks I plan to improve the lighting conditions and even better distribute this light I've concentrated in the middle of the chamber and see how my exhaust fans operate under given conditions. I had a close setup working in the past but maybe the fans' are old, 7 years without use.
Roots are bounding, but as I choose to rest the soil instead of up potting it's all about trade-offs at this moment:



Losing fabric pots virginity. Never underestimate the ability of a newbie to do shit hahahah its always possible over water plants...



I'll let them rest for today. Tomorrow, finish the LST.



Plants transplanted before are already showing signals of recovering. When the special seeds arrive, I think the flow will be ready.
New transplants will be fine in a week.

Close to a working flowering chamber.
Some adjustments in the electrical system and more waiting for the ventilation systems to be delivered.
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Plants are ready for flipping, something like 16 weeks to light up some flower from it. Time for flowering, harvesting, drying and curing.
For a while and probably for this pair of plants, let me see how these light works. That old blurple has proven itself in the past, quantum looks nice, 200W summed up. My original thought was to take this chamber (3x3x6) with 500W, still have a few weeks to think about it before flipping another plant.



"Don't panic, it's organic", said the man, here we are, after lots of messing and stupid things made by the gardener, plants keeps thriving.
Corn and oat grass for cats and black pepper are both the two loving the soil.



Countdown: 16 weeks

Yesterday was a day to remove organic matter from one compost bin, separating the humus from the hard-working worms. A boring job, like pruning plants and removing the leaves after harvesting, but it provides the best matter available from a renewable source usually treated as waste, vegetables leftovers like carrot and lettuce plus the peels of fruits I eat which basically is banana, melon, watermelon, suitable pieces of citric fruits. In a few months I will send a sample for analysis and thus know exactly what the composition of this humus is. Already noticed a low pH, something around 4, I'll be adding more crushed eggshells, decrease the usage of pine shells as carbon source replacing it for card boards and dried marijuana leaves.



Tomorrow will be day one of flowering for both plants. Last days made some tests with lamps and electricity now everything is ready for flipping to 12/12. Plants are showing signals of maturity since week 4 and are fully recovered from initial problems.



2 Skunks#1 from GHS are ready to flower and 2 will vegetate for 1 month more. Need clones from this plant and develop better bud sites. Trying to sow some peppers (Tabasco, Chili, Jalapeño) from very, very old seeds, no results for a while, so I'll be waiting for a week more. Black peppers are strong and thriving.



Freaking out waiting for my seeds. Crossing fingers and praying and meditating. Silver Haze and Afghani, it will be the first time sowing these strains.

1) Found a male but has no room to cross, had to dismiss it. Plant No2.
2) Skunk#1 #1 day 19 flowering. After a good stretching, cats fucked up all plant, breaking a branch and removing LST ties. After blocking the air and cat entrance, shit won't happen again.

3) Skunk#1 #3 is now under flowering day 01 (could see some pistils today).
4) Blurple light is not cool. Plant seems not to enjoy it. My other VS1000 is stucked at customs, time to experiment with some basic LEDs.

We're taking a morning dump, whatafuck're u looking at?

Towards the end of last year I was asked about old clothes to donate to the Salvation Army, so I cleaned out my closet and in an old sock was a pack of seeds with no label (I was looking for money or acid who knows hahah). From what I could remember, those could have been seeds from my last run in 2017 that were basically Skunk#1 from Greenhouse and Amnesia Haze from Royal Queen, so that's all I could be planting.

I have always used feminized seeds and found it strange to have a male in the middle. Today I realized that I have another male and the plants are different but none are Haze. One even looks like Skunk#1, but at this point it doesn't make sense.

The other very unlikely explanation would be that these seeds came from a friend, received in 2010 and forgotten there until then. They were crosses that he made with Nirvana's WW and AK48 seeds that I gave him as a gift previously.

In the end, I have plants that are very different from each other and two males out of 4 and one showed slight signs of being a hermie, as it showed pistils on most of the branches, although there is one weird, I see balls, which has never happened with seeds from well-known brands.
Would be possible to "unhermie" a plant by hand, picking out its balls?
The shitty thing about all this is that I don't even have bagseeds to run with, luckily I've been smoking good weed and I've never seen seeds in the buds.
Fucking customs, release my beans.

Overview, Plant#1 day 23



Plant#2, Plant#3, lack of aesthetics in the shine of budget leds but these plants are quite different. Plant#2 will be earthworms food in a moment.

Wayne Shorter: Tenor Saxophone
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Two plants left
Plant#1, Day 30

After cat's party few days ago, trying to recover some LST, I fucked up the plant. Slow, easy, gently. I'll learn.
Top covering with bone meal, dolomite lime, kelp, oyster shells, greensand, raw sugar and EWC over all these minerals.


Plant#2, Day 15
Full spectrum, huh?



Stick clones (Day 8 from cut) from the plant's bottom without aloe, myco or clonex (not available for now). 3 out of 4. Dropped one male, make it two.
Full of mites, brown mites, oribatidas.
Mites made my clones working.
Mites poop may be full of mycos.
Good research to dive in.
Led below is a 75W piece who deliveries 75 lumens/watt. Plants are loving.

Then I find out that customs is on strike. Fucking customs. Not an item has entered the country since December, it is estimated that 50,000,000 packages are awaiting release. I won't see my seeds until March. I found a local breeder, I hope he's honest.

Little Vega with peppers and clones.



Flowering Day 43. This plant is a Paraguayan Skunk for all the signs she is showing, especially the flowering time, this is the sixth week and it looks like more six will be needed. Its an outdoor plant, hermie skunkagaya photo pheno. I've lost my good seeds and kept the bad ones. Not a good start but the importance of breeding emerges strongly.

Paraguayan open fields - Marijuana Cultivation in Pedro Juan Caballero.
It's exactly the same pattern.

Nice work man, good job reading your plants. I'm old school too, build almost everything I use. Broke down and bought tents though finally. My veg cabinets will never be replaced!

cannabiscrusader said:

Nice work man, good job reading your plants. I'm old school too, build almost everything I use. Broke down and bought tents though finally. My veg cabinets will never be replaced!

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Hello Crusader, thanks for passing by!
These equipments are very expensive here, with time I'll have access to more things... tents are in the bottom of the list, but I'd like to try some in the future..
For everything I've been reading about strains post 2012, this Paraguayan sativa became meaningful. It's a hybrid sativa dominant growing wild by simple farmers. Ten years ago it was a completely different plant, a real landrace, wild, ugly, 4 meters of a lanky and tall plant. Now it's a short hybrid, medium to long flowering time. It's always a trip sowing bagseeds.
I'd love to go to Central America or Africa to find some bagseeds !!

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Hello Crusader, thanks for passing by!
These equipments are very expensive here, with time I'll have access to more things... tents are in the bottom of the list, but I'd like to try some in the future..
For everything I've been reading about strains post 2012, this Paraguayan sativa became meaningful. It's a hybrid sativa dominant growing wild by simple farmers. Ten years ago it was a completely different plant, a real landrace, wild, ugly, 4 meters of a lanky and tall plant. Now it's a short hybrid, medium to long flowering time. It's always a trip sowing bagseeds.
I'd love to go to Central America or Africa to find some bagseeds !!

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That would be a sick trip!

I have been away from indoor growing for approximately 7 years. This is not the return I would like but incredibly it was the run where I learned the most valuable info since 2005 when I planted my first bagseed.

The obvious and most important lesson is that without seeds, you plant a sh1t.

I realized I'm growing a widely distributed although little known Paraguayan bagseed. Discovering the facts and phenos behind this plant will be my soul search, going far beyond these boring catalogs full of indica hybrids that all look the same. This is an Indica hybrid, but I believe still carries the old local sativa pheno.



So, part of the failure may be the beginning of the success. After the week 3 of flowering, my cats had a party inside the chamber, broke two main branches and untied all my LST laces made with CAT6 wirings. In order to retie it, I split the main stem in 2, right before open a new and unnecessary air entrance, where the light started to leak inside the chamber and "herming" the plant.
So now I got seeds from my last bagseed.
In true Paraguayan style, I will harvest the buds that will give me some good puffs and good seeds to restart my running, now trying to look inside this plant let me watch what it reveals. The first selection is throwing out hermies, finding good male and females. The general idea is to look for sativa traits in the plant.



Not a stable pheno from known breeder. The world is running out of this sort of seeds. But the hermie plant who gave me this seed is a different one from the cuts on the right. Seeds came from the same unknown batch, but they're slightly different. Not sure if they're the same plant.



Paraguayan Hybrid - Day 62 of Flowering.
Last few days new pistils appeared, so I'll be waiting a little more, maybe 70 days.