Second grow...golden goat, blue dream, others

Please bear with me, this is about 5-6 weeks of journal, I finally had a few moments to explore the whole website and this public grow diary thing looks cool. I'm very inexperienced (this is my second grow) and there are no 'resources' whatsoever near where I am...
Anyhow, here goes...please anyone who sees me makin big mistakes don't hesitate to tell me about it. Thanks for any input.

RUN #2 9/5/15
4'x5'x8' room
A/C
One oscillating fan
One inline exhaust fan
One 20" charcoal filter


9/5/15
- started four seed starter cups
*three blue dream, one golden goat (GG, BD1, BD2, BD3)
*seeds are bagseed, not feminized, not from a breeder

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9/7/15
- started another seed starter cup
*seed is of unknown origin
*the count is now 5 seeds (GG, BD1, BD2, BD3, UNK)

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9/11/15
- first four sprouts are going into 1 gallon pots
- fifth seed hasn't sprouted yet so will stay under the baby light

9/16/15
- started three more seeds (2 Afghani {reg,} 1 Holy Grail 69 {fem})
Placed all three directly into pot, no starter pods
- unknown seed (OMG) will be placed into pot as well
- total count is 8 (1 GG, 3 BD, 2 AFG, 1 HG, 1 UNK {OMG})

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9/20/15
- Afghani #1 and Holy Grail 69 moved into 1 gallon pots
- Afghani #2 last seed yet to sprout
- Humidifier and electric heater added to room

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9/22/15
- Afghani #2 removed from herd
- remaining 7 plants fed big bloom, cal-mag, armor Si, and great white
- (clockwise from top left...) GG, BD3, BD2, HG, AFG1, BD1, OMG

9/27/15
- GG, BD1, BD2, BD3 and OMG are all placed into 5 gallon smart pots
- AFG1 and HG remain in 1 gallon pots

9/30/15
- BD1 dead, removed from population. Damping off suspected.

10/2/15
- BD2, BD3, OMG, GG topped

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10/3/15
- HG and AFG1 placed into 5 gallon smart pots. (Ocean forest soil/Mykos)
- AFG1 root ball came apart during transplant.

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10/5/15
- Fed plants 2 gallons
- Fox farm soil schedule week 2 (half strength)
- 1 tsp Ca/Mg, 1/4 tsp ArmorSi, 2 Tbsp fish emulsion
- didn't use entire amount

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10/8/15
- Fim'd Holy Grail and Afghani
- New LED ordered (Mars Hydro 960w reflector)

10/10/15
- All plants placed on table set 16" off of the ground (heater placed into room as temps have already hit freezing, didn't want heater blowing directly onto leaves)

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10/11/15
- Holy Grail and Afghani #1 topped, FIM must have missed.
- Everyone fed
- 2 gallons of water, Fox Farm week 3 schedule used (only at half strength.)
- Also added was 1/4 tsp Armor Si, 1 1/2 tsp Ca/Mg, 2 Tbsp fish emulsion, 4 drops of pH down
- didn't use entire amount

New addition to the room...Mars Hydro 192x5 Reflector. Wasn't going to get it at first because I assumed it was junk from the price, however I looked further into it and there seems to be some good things said about them. Time will tell, as for now anything would be better than the 4' 4 bulb T5 I used the entire first grow and beginning of this one...will post some close ups next week after they've been under the LED for a awhile.

10/18/15
- fed according to Fox Farm schedule week 4
(Also added 1tsp Great White, pH down)
- installed CO2 generator (yeast, sugar, water, bottles, flex rubber tubing)

The plants look pretty puny in back but tonight was the first time I turned them since getting the LED on Thursday, so the plants are heavily canted away from the light for the time being, will add another photo tomorrow after they adjust.

Holy Grail 69 and Afghani moved out of flower room and under the T5...

Blue Dream 1 and 2, Golden Goat, and OMG remain in the flower room and were super cropped...will flip after plants recover

Holy Grail 69 (bottom right, Fem) got bigger so I put her back in the flower room, and then decided electrically there's no point running a t5 for one plant so the Afghani went in there too (center) and we shall see what gender it is soon. The OMG turned out to be a male so it is gone. So now we have, along w the aforementioned individuals, Golden Goat (front left, Fem,) Blue Dream 2 (back left, gender still TBD,) and Blue Dream 3 (back right, Fem)

after super cropping only a couple days ago the plants look as healthy as ever, so I will make the flip to flower in the morning...it got down to 14 degrees last night so I need to get these hoes going. The heater running at 20 min/hr managed to keep it no cooler than 59 in the shed so I'm impressed...when I have all three heaters running at three 20 minute intervals the cold shouldn't become an issue.

-Fed according to week 5 Fox Farm feed schedule (week 1 of flower, 1/2 strength in 2 gallons per usual)

-also added Cal-Mag, Armor Si

-plants are looking great, Blue Dream #2 (top left) and Afghani (middle) still haven't shown gender, only been in flower for four days so not worried. Holy Grail 69 also hasn't shown but was started from fem seed. Golden Goat and Blue Dream #3 showing pistils. Temps have been staying between 54 and 77 in the room (actually had to turn on ac the other day for a few hours) while temps are getting into the 20s every night. Should be getting some 0 temps here in a week or so, so we'll finally get a chance to see how the heaters will do.

Fox farm week 6 (in two gallons @half strength)

CO2 generator recharged

All 5 have been confirmed fem

Rearranged: BD2 top left, AFG top right, BD3 center, Holy Grail 69 bottom left, Golden Goat bottom right

Haven't had golden goat out in the Midwest for awhile. One of my favorite strains. Looks good so far.

Giddy up said:

Fox farm week 6 (in two gallons @half strength)

CO2 generator recharged

All 5 have been confirmed fem

Rearranged: BD2 top left, AFG top right, BD3 center, Holy Grail 69 bottom left, Golden Goat bottom right

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Nice work.

Well I'm not sure it's purely a golden goat...picked up an 1/8 last time I was in Denver and found the seed in a bag. As I understand golden goat was an 'accident' from Kansas, so I didn't know if someone is making seeds now or if it is still a clone only strain...anyways it was a private grower so I guess what I'm saying is, unless it self-pollinated, it might not be a purebred lol...
Either way, Im pretty pleased w them.

Thanks lisa!

Clone only but nothing wrong with a bag seed! There are some good goat crosses. Golden Gage by Gage Green looks awesome.

Yeah bag seed I guess can be a funny thing. My first grow (not even a guess as to what it was) I started four seeds from the same nug and got four very different plants. Then you see my two blue dreams on the current grow, one looks pretty hybrid while another has very narrow leaves, both of those came from the same nug also I do believe.

I actually have been sitting on some super lemon haze fem seeds, but I wasn't sure how my shed would perform in the winter (I live in a very cold place at almost 7600') so I decided to grow my goat and bd bag seeds I had left over just in case, I'd rather not waste my expensive fem seeds in a freeze over. The Afghan and Holy Grail 69 were bonus seeds from Herbie's. I heard nothing but shit talked about the Holy Grail 69 and Samsarra seeds in general but it is looking pretty excellent, and I am surprised by how squatty it is considering the haze in it.

Giddy up said:

Yeah bag seed I guess can be a funny thing. My first grow (not even a guess as to what it was) I started four seeds from the same nug and got four very different plants. Then you see my two blue dreams on the current grow, one looks pretty hybrid while another has very narrow leaves, both of those came from the same nug also I do believe.

I actually have been sitting on some super lemon haze fem seeds, but I wasn't sure how my shed would perform in the winter (I live in a very cold place at almost 7600') so I decided to grow my goat and bd bag seeds I had left over just in case, I'd rather not waste my expensive fem seeds in a freeze over. The Afghan and Holy Grail 69 were bonus seeds from Herbie's. I heard nothing but shit talked about the Holy Grail 69 and Samsarra seeds in general but it is looking pretty excellent, and I am surprised by how squatty it is considering the haze in it.

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7600' Damn! I've been higher, certainly, but living at that alt' full time is something else.

It fucking rules. The air is super crispy in the morning, even in the summer. I can out drink just about anyone else at lower elevations, and things like boot amp aren't shit at sea level when you grew up a mile and a half up.

I'm lucky to not live far out of town, there are people who live deeper and higher on my road lol.

Drawbacks: I am excruciatingly far from anything over 15,000 people, and it can/does snow in July or August at least once a year. Summer temps are typically low 80s but it always seems to freeze at least once in the summer so I could never consider an outdoor grow.

Already had to turn/re-arrange again...putting the Afghan back in the middle. I can't believe how fast these plants respond to the LED...I last moved them around 5 days ago and they already were growing into one massive canopy. I turned them all 180 degrees, except obviously the one that was in the middle and the one that went into the middle so that all the canopies are canted away from each other. My first grow I used a scrog, and I think my next grow will be as well.
Also shown are the first two clones I have ever attempted. They were taken about a month ago, and I just took them out of the dome two days ago.

BD2 back left, BD3 front left, Afghan center, Holy Grail 69 top right, golden goat bottom right...