DRB's Multi Strain Tent

[D-RingBinder]

So Im back after my last grow turned to crap. Lets hope I have better luck this time. So...

Strains:
One of each of the following:
Green Love Potion - SamSara
Big Bang - GreenHouse
Critical Sensi Star - Delicious
White Widow x Big Bud - Female
The Doctor - GreenHouse
(all feminised)
Bagseed - from some decent bud

Light:
400w HPS with Cooltube Reflector
Upgraded to 1000w HPS with Air Cooled Reflector mid August 2013

Tent:
.5m x .9m x 1.6m
Upgraded to 1.2 x 1.2 x 2m tent mid August 2013

Medium:
Canna Terra Pro

Nutes:
Canna Terra Vega
Canna Terra Flores

Temps:
17C-26C. Usually between 20C-25C

Since Im running a few different strains, I will be using a combination of LST and topping where necessary to keep them as even as possible. I dont have a lot of square footage, and with the 400w I dont get the best penetration, so I wont be veging for too long in order keep them quite short.

I started to germinate the CSS, GLP, WWxBB and The Doctor 48 hours ago. They were just an now planted into their little seedling pots. They all had a fairly long tap root except the BBxWW, so I would say they mostly popped within 24 hours. Ill get pics up of these in a week or so. Once things get at least somewhat interesting anyways.

Bagseed:
Not exactly sure how old it is, but I'd say at least a month, at most a month and a half. Been on 12/12 for a week and a bit, and showed her sex a few days ago. She hasnt been growing at a breakneck speed, but not exactly crawling either. She was topped a few days before the flip, and seems to have responded well. Ive decided to concentrate on 6 tops. All in all, its fairly healty, sturdy and progressing well.

The Big Bang
Not exactly sure of this ones age either, but I'd guess around 2 1/2 weeks...maybe more. This one has been a slow grower indeed. But I'll put this down to my error. Started her off in a pot that was much too large, and it subsequently took a long time to dry out between waterings. So yea, not ideal, but she should take off sooner or later. Already starting to pick up. Its got very fat/squat leaves.

Anyways, that'll do for now. Im looking forward to this, should be an interesting grow.

 

[DARKSIDER]

 

[D-RingBinder]

Quick Update:

The Bagseed is just beginning to throw out some proper hairage. Its smelling pretty good too...sort of a pungent fruityness. Better than the last bagseed I grew which was more of a perfumey minty type smell/taste.

The Big Bang is still not much to look at, but starting to pick up the pace.

The GLP, CSS and The Doctor have all popped through the soil and are spreading their wings. WWxBB is a little behind. I wonder how long that'll last? The WWxBB had by far the shortest tap root after 48 hours, and now its the only one not to have shown it head. It'll come good, but even if it continues and ends up a runt, Im wont be too fussed. The Big Bud genetics are the least exciting out of all the seeds I have. And I plan on doing another seed order sometime soon so I doubt I'll ever get to them after this grow to be honest.

 

[Synthesis]

Looks good so far mate.

That bagseed plant is looking rather vigorous. It should be growing at a pretty rapid pace at this point.

Can't wait to see your doctor and white widows! I'm very interested in seeing how they go.

Best of luck to ya bud

 

[D-RingBinder]

Looks good so far mate.

That bagseed plant is looking rather vigorous. It should be growing at a pretty rapid pace at this point.

Can't wait to see your doctor and white widows! I'm very interested in seeing how they go.

Best of luck to ya bud

Thanks mate.

Yup, the bagseed is starting to take off. Can really see it getting bigger each and every day.

And I also cant wait. They are the first proper genetics I have grown so its rather exciting.

 

[D-RingBinder]

BTW, this is going to be a fairly picture heavy thready. Sorry In advance if thats not your thing. But, you know what they say...a picture is worth a thousand words.

The Big Bang
Coming along alright considering. You can see on the leaf on the right a bit of curling down. I think this might be because of the large pot. It takes quite a few days for it to dry out.

The Bagseed

The Rest

BTW, dont laugh at my cardboard seedling pots. Im a cheapskate, and they work wonders. The corrugated cardboard seems to let more air get to the roots so they can breath.

 

[D-RingBinder]

Update:

The Bagseed
All good here. Not a lot to report. No news is good news, I guess.

The Big Bang
Starting to pick up the pace now. Its staying very stocky...the distance between nodes is no more than a centimeter. Is this too short? Should I move it a lil further from the light to encourage a lil more stretch?
This is the most indica dom strain Ive personally grown. Leaves are fat as anything.
Going to hit it with a fair dose of nutes later before lights off.

The Rest
All moving along as they should. No pic...tis unneeded.

Enjoy!

 

[Synthesis]

The big bang has some really tight looking nodes! That's actually a very good thing. Even though you're growing it under a HPS and not a MH. Keep it that way, nice short and stout until flowering is the way to go.

 

[standsideways]

Looking good!

Im subbed! We've got very similar setups, im interested to see how yours goes!

 

[brennye]

Hey man just saw this now!

That big bang sure has fat leaves, I'm looking for something like that for my next strain. Hopefully it grows into a little indica tank for you

I'll be watching


EDIT: That bagseed looks huge, how tall is that thing?

 

[D-RingBinder]

The big bang has some really tight looking nodes! That's actually a very good thing. Even though you're growing it under a HPS and not a MH. Keep it that way, nice short and stout until flowering is the way to go.

Yea, good. It doesnt seem like its going to reach for the sky anytime soon. Its going to be dense!

Looking good!

Im subbed! We've got very similar setups, im interested to see how yours goes!

Cool cool. Good to have you along for the ride mate.

Hey man just saw this now!

That big bang sure has fat leaves, I'm looking for something like that for my next strain. Hopefully it grows into a little indica tank for you

I'll be watching


EDIT: That bagseed looks huge, how tall is that thing?

Yea, I initially wasn't too interested in the Big Bang, but its so different to anything I've grown so far that I cant help but be interested. Its drawing me in.

And the bagseed isnt as big as it might seem. Its pretty puny actually. Probably at about 25-30cm right now. Its in a pretty small pot too. Maybe that makes it seem bigger.

 

[D-RingBinder]

Update:

All in all, some pretty slow growth over the last few days. Had a heater malfunction so its been getting pretty cold in the room. Back to normal now though.

And forgive the not so great pics.

The Seedlings:
Didnt exactly love the cold stint. They've developed a purple tint on the underside of the leaves. I assume thats from the cold?

The Big Bang

The Bagseed
In desperate need of some Cal-Mag for the bagseed. Dont have the funds until Friday. Its going to suffer a lil until it gets here. Some rusty spots showing, and lower leaves yellowing. Otherwise, it hasnt slowed too much.

 

[brennye]

Yea, I initially wasn't too interested in the Big Bang, but its so different to anything I've grown so far that I cant help but be interested. Its drawing me in.

And the bagseed isnt as big as it might seem. Its pretty puny actually. Probably at about 25-30cm right now. Its in a pretty small pot too. Maybe that makes it seem bigger.

Funny you say that, having only grown sativa hybrids and sativa's along with some "indica's" that come out sativa leaning, I'm staring to think it's time to try the other side lol. Short flowering time would be such a nice change!

She's looking good for 25cm haha, can't wait to see what she can do

 

[brennye]

And the purpling will be gone after a few days of solid temps, that's just the seedling trying to use phosphorous to grow roots, but unable to uptake it due to the cold temps. With the cold in my area at the moment I have been making up my feed water with 17L cold tap water and 3L hot water to get approximatly room temp water. Might help with your babies, who knows

 

[gardenfather]

looking good

 

[D-RingBinder]

Funny you say that, having only grown sativa hybrids and sativa's along with some "indica's" that come out sativa leaning, I'm staring to think it's time to try the other side lol. Short flowering time would be such a nice change!

She's looking good for 25cm haha, can't wait to see what she can do

And I do like to Indica high a lil better... That's just me though. But, they both have their place and time.

And the purpling will be gone after a few days of solid temps, that's just the seedling trying to use phosphorous to grow roots, but unable to uptake it due to the cold temps. With the cold in my area at the moment I have been making up my feed water with 17L cold tap water and 3L hot water to get approximatly room temp water. Might help with your babies, who knows

Yea I thought so. It should get back to normal then. Temps are back to the 20-25C range.

And I do the same thing re warning the water. Not with exact measurements, but roughly just so its not ice cold.

looking good

Thanks mate. Im a lil worried about the bagseed, though. Its going to lose a few fan leaves before I can fix it. Shouldn't be too far gone though.

 

[D-RingBinder]

Whoops. Move along people, nothing to see here.

 

[D-RingBinder]

Update:

The Bagseed
As feared, the bagseed has been hit pretty hard. Nothing life threatening, as I'll be picking up some stuff today to hopefully remedy the situation. Its just look quite ugly at the mo. Otherwise, continuing to bud nicely. Still stretching a lil.

It looks nice when you're just looking at the top half of the plant.

The Big Bang
It doesn't seem to be growing very fast at all. Dont know it thats me, or the strain. Otherwise, it seems fairly healthy overall.

The GLP, WWxBB, CSS & The Doctor
They're going quite slow too. Hopefully it picks up. Going to pot them up in the next day or two, and we'll see how they go from there.

 

[D-RingBinder]

So had some issues, and will probably have to scrap the WWxBB and The Doctor, unless the miraculously pull through. I dont know what the issue was. They just yellowed, patchy dead spots. I dont have hope for them.

Group Shot:

Bagseed
Definitely flowering slower than my last bagseed run. Gonna be a 10 weeker the way its going.

Big Bang
Still staying low. Some of the branches are catching up to the top. so i squeezed them through the leaves and hopefully Ill have 3 tops now.

 

[D-RingBinder]

Slowy coming along. Should start to get established soon and pick up the pace a lil.

Critical Sensi Star

Green Love Potion