started...continued a newer grow, got 5 juanita(lowland oaxacan bagseed) mom +4 clones this thing loves the spidermites or rather spidermites love it. A random bagseed i started a while ago i cant remember which one it is though i think maybe one of those 2 seeds i called thunder in the last thread. i didnt really care too much about this plant in the past cuz i had bigger shit to worry about like strange creatures in my water, root rot and ppm and pH and shit like that. But after i finished smoking all the zombie kush(mishaf3xkush); who's clones never took, i mean some rooted but never took off or i broke their roots, let em dry out, shit like that. i was kinda sad cuz despite the bland kush taste it was actually pretty stony, better than any kush i ever smoked anyway. but i was outta weed and was in need of a smoke so i chopped part of one of the top buds off and i smoked it with a quick microwave drying and kapow, like someone punched me in the head, fuckin lights out. i was so wasted i couldn't believe it good thing it was night time lol. so i ended up chopping the whole top off which was a dense nugget in itself (sprouting nanners from when i switched the lights from 10.5/13.5 to 12/12 like 4 weeks in flower) i topped it right before i put it in the box and it grew 3 little colas all so close together they forced themselves to grow out from the middle at a 30 degree angle almost sideways. wish i had taken a pic, needless to say i needed to save this so im gonna let the lower branches (2 nodes lol) grow out some more then ill reveg and clone.
next up i got the juanitaXkush cross i made (SSK, super silver kush from when i thought juanita might be ssh) this one started in my veg/clone box 24/0 pretty short and dark leaves looks very indica its in soil cup im just sitting it on top of hydro tub till i sort out the new small res so i can grow all the plants together in the same box.
then lastly we have a male random indica bagseed, i dont remember what seeds this plant came from might have been some seeds i found in whatever i was high on at the time. anyway i was sure this would be a girl but once i got the roots situation sorted with my res it exploded in growth, i left town for the weekend and the calyxes i thought might be developing on friday were balls by monday.
i have a theory im going to be working on this grow too which is why i need to get my new res built. i think that the plants sex themselves by sensing the sex of the other plants around them. i put this seedling in with all girls and it turned male. so now im going to try 1 plant at a time in different environments.
ill grow all girls and add 1 plant at a time and note the sex, i expect them to all turn boy or hermy.
then i will try 1:1:1 1 male, 1 female and 1 young seedling and note the results. i expect they will probably be 50:50 but vary depending on how viable the males, or females are in comparison. for example i expect this seedling i put in(SSK) to either turn female because there are already 3 other girls in there or become a bigger faster male than the one already in there so that it can pass its more dominant genes, in which case i will take pollen and kill the first. i figure this will have a 2 fold effect, strong genes to pass on/cross, and quick girls to cross. win:win.
next i will try multiple males and adding 1 seedling at a time i expect all the seedlings to either go female or hermy. strong fast girls to cross, hermies to weed out, and if its the former i will have proven how to always get girls.
i will also be testing out hempy buckets for the first(second) time unless you count my perlite cloner which is just a wicking system cloner based on just perlite in a bowl with plain water in the bottom. perlite naturally holds moisture and wicks it upward, and as the water in the bottom evaporates and is wicked up by the perlite it keeps the roots as well as all the perlite above it moist. worked so well that in 2 weeks the 2 little baby clones i took from juanita had grown roots all the way down and were dying from no food.
and when i say baby clones i mean like little tiny thin shoots from the mom in the red cup the stems themselves were thinner than the initial taproot on a seedling, they were about as thick as the stem on a baby leaf. i just threw em in there on a lark and to test the cloner. if these sprout in there anything should root in it.
im still working on starting seeds in there, theres a zone where they are not too moist and drown and arent too dry and die out. i managed to sprout one sasha seed (i cant find any of my f1 or f2, only f3's
sadface) and it did pretty well till i transplanted it into the DWC and it dried out cuz the bubbles didnt keep it as moist as i thought. i shoulda refilled the rez then and there instead of oversleeping in the morning and missing lights on. doubly bad since im running out of seeds, gotta find that cinnamon pheno.
ill also be testing a hot resoviour in a hot box with no bleach, nothing against the guys who told me to use it in my res but everytime i add some to my res it kills my roots off. i havent changed my res out in like 2+ weeks, last time was 3+ weeks i added bleach when i changed the res after the 3+ weeks and bam roots dying within 24-48 hours. this last 2+ weeks summertime has come on full force and its been hot as satans balls in here, roots taking off so much that the unknown male tripled in size over 1 week. im just gonna keep the res how its been, the little critters are still in there, they seem to be helping in some way, the ph always comes back to right around 6ish no matter how long i leave it or how often i lower it. i lowered it to like 5 one day and by the next evening it was 6.5, i left it alone for 2 weeks i ph last night and its right around 6. no issues evident in the plants, in fact theyre doing super awesome. temps in the plant area are like mid 80's, up top as high at 103 res is like between 76-78 degrees in fact so i dont lie to you im gonna go use my digital thermometer to check it right now...
92 up top, 88 in the plant area, 81 in the res. no bleach in there not worrying bout ice, everything is awesome in there for a change, all i do is monitor the PPM. i was worrying about that thing for a while cuz it seemed like a waste of money, but now i've found a use for it. i monitor the ppms and when they drop to like 600 i mix a new solution and top it off. till then i add back plain water and watch the ppms, once in a while i check the pH usually comes out 6ish which is why i stopped checking so much.
lastly im gonna get some mychorrizae(sp?) and use it in my soil grows and later in my hydro, its called hydrobact, says its for hydro and soil.
whew, i totally didnt mean for this to be this long.
tits below.
juanita mom on left hempy clones on right. 4x23 wattcfl actually i think they might only be 13 watts, yep 13 watt. 52 watts total veg box for now.
the flower box, labeled for your convenience. 70w hps, no carbon filter for now, working on a new design thats both stealth and efficient.
next up i got the juanitaXkush cross i made (SSK, super silver kush from when i thought juanita might be ssh) this one started in my veg/clone box 24/0 pretty short and dark leaves looks very indica its in soil cup im just sitting it on top of hydro tub till i sort out the new small res so i can grow all the plants together in the same box.
then lastly we have a male random indica bagseed, i dont remember what seeds this plant came from might have been some seeds i found in whatever i was high on at the time. anyway i was sure this would be a girl but once i got the roots situation sorted with my res it exploded in growth, i left town for the weekend and the calyxes i thought might be developing on friday were balls by monday.
i have a theory im going to be working on this grow too which is why i need to get my new res built. i think that the plants sex themselves by sensing the sex of the other plants around them. i put this seedling in with all girls and it turned male. so now im going to try 1 plant at a time in different environments.
ill grow all girls and add 1 plant at a time and note the sex, i expect them to all turn boy or hermy.
then i will try 1:1:1 1 male, 1 female and 1 young seedling and note the results. i expect they will probably be 50:50 but vary depending on how viable the males, or females are in comparison. for example i expect this seedling i put in(SSK) to either turn female because there are already 3 other girls in there or become a bigger faster male than the one already in there so that it can pass its more dominant genes, in which case i will take pollen and kill the first. i figure this will have a 2 fold effect, strong genes to pass on/cross, and quick girls to cross. win:win.
next i will try multiple males and adding 1 seedling at a time i expect all the seedlings to either go female or hermy. strong fast girls to cross, hermies to weed out, and if its the former i will have proven how to always get girls.
i will also be testing out hempy buckets for the first(second) time unless you count my perlite cloner which is just a wicking system cloner based on just perlite in a bowl with plain water in the bottom. perlite naturally holds moisture and wicks it upward, and as the water in the bottom evaporates and is wicked up by the perlite it keeps the roots as well as all the perlite above it moist. worked so well that in 2 weeks the 2 little baby clones i took from juanita had grown roots all the way down and were dying from no food.
and when i say baby clones i mean like little tiny thin shoots from the mom in the red cup the stems themselves were thinner than the initial taproot on a seedling, they were about as thick as the stem on a baby leaf. i just threw em in there on a lark and to test the cloner. if these sprout in there anything should root in it.
im still working on starting seeds in there, theres a zone where they are not too moist and drown and arent too dry and die out. i managed to sprout one sasha seed (i cant find any of my f1 or f2, only f3's
sadface) and it did pretty well till i transplanted it into the DWC and it dried out cuz the bubbles didnt keep it as moist as i thought. i shoulda refilled the rez then and there instead of oversleeping in the morning and missing lights on. doubly bad since im running out of seeds, gotta find that cinnamon pheno. ill also be testing a hot resoviour in a hot box with no bleach, nothing against the guys who told me to use it in my res but everytime i add some to my res it kills my roots off. i havent changed my res out in like 2+ weeks, last time was 3+ weeks i added bleach when i changed the res after the 3+ weeks and bam roots dying within 24-48 hours. this last 2+ weeks summertime has come on full force and its been hot as satans balls in here, roots taking off so much that the unknown male tripled in size over 1 week. im just gonna keep the res how its been, the little critters are still in there, they seem to be helping in some way, the ph always comes back to right around 6ish no matter how long i leave it or how often i lower it. i lowered it to like 5 one day and by the next evening it was 6.5, i left it alone for 2 weeks i ph last night and its right around 6. no issues evident in the plants, in fact theyre doing super awesome. temps in the plant area are like mid 80's, up top as high at 103 res is like between 76-78 degrees in fact so i dont lie to you im gonna go use my digital thermometer to check it right now...
92 up top, 88 in the plant area, 81 in the res. no bleach in there not worrying bout ice, everything is awesome in there for a change, all i do is monitor the PPM. i was worrying about that thing for a while cuz it seemed like a waste of money, but now i've found a use for it. i monitor the ppms and when they drop to like 600 i mix a new solution and top it off. till then i add back plain water and watch the ppms, once in a while i check the pH usually comes out 6ish which is why i stopped checking so much.
lastly im gonna get some mychorrizae(sp?) and use it in my soil grows and later in my hydro, its called hydrobact, says its for hydro and soil.
whew, i totally didnt mean for this to be this long.
tits below.
juanita mom on left hempy clones on right. 4x23 wattcfl actually i think they might only be 13 watts, yep 13 watt. 52 watts total veg box for now.
the flower box, labeled for your convenience. 70w hps, no carbon filter for now, working on a new design thats both stealth and efficient.
