How's everyone tonight? Don't know if you remember mcp, I posted about 20 pages ago.
https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/289968-show-me-what-u-got.html Again, I had no access to my camera for a bit so haven't been able to keep up on her here but I have been popping in now and then.
To catch everyone up, Princess, who was dubbed by my wife, is my first successful grow and she was the last of 6 bagseed of which 2 others germinated first and they ended up being males. The others didn't make it (please give a moment of silence). She grew under 200 watts of CFL and in the end I figure I yielded about 1.5 to 2oz of fairly tight bud, and I might be a little conservative on that. I've smoked and given away about half now and it's OK but I did chop it early, so it turns out. Good cerebral rush, which is what I was going for, hence the little jump on the chop, but it's really short lived and I'm running back for more, but not in the way I want. When I decided, I based it on what I saw through my magnifying glass, which I thought was milky trichs. Well, after harvest I realized I had an old, German made, schoolroom microscope that I grabbed at a church sale for a buck, original pine case and all. You know the ones in primary school? Well I popped the dry bud under it an sure enough the trichs were crystal clear, but man was it pretty. So there's the lesson you keep being told about here on RIU. LOL. Sorry I have no picks of the dry bud for you guys but I'll get some tomorrow.
Anyway, part 2 of the story, and another lesson that is talked about all over here, deals with hurrying to find out if it's a girl and not taking a cut or two beforehand for backup. Anyway, I did grab 4 cuts but not till 3 weeks into flower. I've seen some posts about weather you can clone in flowering so I thought I'd post some pics here today showing how it's going for me so far. In the meantime I acquired 5 new seeds, from "a fellow", and he assures me that 2 are AK, and they've been in peat pellets for about 4 days now, aaaaand, the 600s on the way! Ordered it today and should be here in a couple of days. Here's the question I have about that though. I ordered a Super HPS bulb (8800 lumens) and a regular HPS (8000) for backup, but he was out of the Supers so he offered a dual arc for the same price as the Super and I said OK. I'm wondering what peoples thoughts are on these bulbs, and I love links if there's any. I'm kinda liking the idea of the broader spectrum but I don't know what to think of splitting up the wattage.
So thanks for letting me spill, love to hear back from ya's. Coming up, like I said, some pics of dry bud and a couple of gadgets I made up that I think you'll all like.
Peace.