Boffin
Member
"Darwinian Fitness is the contribution an individual makes to the gene pool of the next generation relative to the contribution of other individuals." (Campbell & Reece 2002)
Hi and welcome to The Perpetual Darwinian Fitness Center. Here I'll be keeping a diary about my recent growing and amateur breeding efforts. Grow diaries provide so much more detail and information than a simple grow or smoke report. It helps one learn about every aspect of growing simultaneously. Also it's a much greater adventure for the reader being able to follow things in "real-time".
As the title suggests mother phenotypes are constantly competing in my setup. As I only have limited space I can only keep the very best. Which calls for constant vigorous testing to ensure the best selection
I'm running a small non-commercial, perpetual setup (I'm both a medical and recreational user, but more on that later) with 2 small grow rooms and one room for flower.
Both growrooms are DP90s (lxdxh=90x60x90). I use one as a mother/father room in which I store my mother plants. The other one is used to root and veg cuttings.
I'm running a DR120 (lxdxh=120x120*200) with a 600w HPS on 12/12. It usually has anywhere between 8 and 16 flowering plants.
In this pic all growing plants have been squashed into one room because I'm busy doing maintenance in the other one.
Just changed size of pots (6L->12L) and soil mix. The plants suddenly get a lot bigger, exacerbating the height differences.
I took a small break from growing and have restarted my grow around the end of november 2012. The varieties I'm currently running are:
- Buddha's Sister (Soma): seedlings have just sprouted. got these on offer. smoked some a few years ago and loved the taste. So hopefully we'll get some nice phenotypes.
- Crash Test II F2: these were beans gifted to me years ago by IC member Core with which I made a lot of crosses and some F2s. It's a cross between Amnesia Haze and Bogglegum F2.
- La Nina (Mr Nice): I've currently kept 2 phenos (out of 6) of this beautiful exotic sativa.
- Sogouda (Soma): I still have all 5 female phenotypes and 2 males from this run. VERY nice aromas here and very decent highs. A mate suggested this one and boy am I glad he did!
I'll be going more in depth analysis on all strains in subsequent posts.
Not much to say about myself accept that I'm very much a proponent of scientific literacy, skepticism and critical thinking. I'm a very laid back and tolerant person accept in the face of misinformation and bullshit. Leave the woowoo at home and I'm sure you'll have a great time. This line is not meant to start a discussion on the topic, au contraire, this thread is about growing. I'm happy to discuss things over PM or in the toker's den.
Also I have been diagnosed with asperger syndrome (autism spectrum disorder) and a very rare and unkown neurological disorder (sometimes called persistent migraine aura or visual snow syndrome). I use cannabis to ease a lot of symptoms associated with these disorders. Mostly anxiety, appetite, sensory overload, insomnia, depression, OCD,... Amazing this one plant can help me with so many symptoms which otherwise would have to be adressed with expensive pharmaceuticals with lots of negative side effects.
From a recreational point of view taste is my #1 priority (along with effect ofcourse, can't have one without the other). Resin content is also very important (it contains most of the yummy tasting terpenes) and affects the quality of the smoke/vapour A LOT imo.
Might be important too inform you of how I actually get the cannabinoids in my system.
I used to mostly smoke joints with tobacco (very little tobacco though, otherwise it'll ruin the taste and high). Now lately I've been vaporizing a lot more (volcano) and have started to roll pure joints occasionaly. But still need to get used to their taste. After 10 years of smoking with tobacco I still like the tobacco ones better.
When I'm talking about taste and aromas this will be about the general tastes/aromas apparent in all types of inhalation methods unless specified.
Also I'm not a native english speaker but read mostly in english (my scientific vocabulary is actually better in english). So forgive me for any grammatical or spelling mistakes.
Next I'll be going more in depth on the varieties I'm currently running. First up will be the La Nina.
Cheers everyone!
Hi and welcome to The Perpetual Darwinian Fitness Center. Here I'll be keeping a diary about my recent growing and amateur breeding efforts. Grow diaries provide so much more detail and information than a simple grow or smoke report. It helps one learn about every aspect of growing simultaneously. Also it's a much greater adventure for the reader being able to follow things in "real-time".
As the title suggests mother phenotypes are constantly competing in my setup. As I only have limited space I can only keep the very best. Which calls for constant vigorous testing to ensure the best selection
I'm running a small non-commercial, perpetual setup (I'm both a medical and recreational user, but more on that later) with 2 small grow rooms and one room for flower.
Both growrooms are DP90s (lxdxh=90x60x90). I use one as a mother/father room in which I store my mother plants. The other one is used to root and veg cuttings.
I'm running a DR120 (lxdxh=120x120*200) with a 600w HPS on 12/12. It usually has anywhere between 8 and 16 flowering plants.
In this pic all growing plants have been squashed into one room because I'm busy doing maintenance in the other one.
Just changed size of pots (6L->12L) and soil mix. The plants suddenly get a lot bigger, exacerbating the height differences.
I took a small break from growing and have restarted my grow around the end of november 2012. The varieties I'm currently running are:
- Buddha's Sister (Soma): seedlings have just sprouted. got these on offer. smoked some a few years ago and loved the taste. So hopefully we'll get some nice phenotypes.
- Crash Test II F2: these were beans gifted to me years ago by IC member Core with which I made a lot of crosses and some F2s. It's a cross between Amnesia Haze and Bogglegum F2.
- La Nina (Mr Nice): I've currently kept 2 phenos (out of 6) of this beautiful exotic sativa.
- Sogouda (Soma): I still have all 5 female phenotypes and 2 males from this run. VERY nice aromas here and very decent highs. A mate suggested this one and boy am I glad he did!
I'll be going more in depth analysis on all strains in subsequent posts.
Not much to say about myself accept that I'm very much a proponent of scientific literacy, skepticism and critical thinking. I'm a very laid back and tolerant person accept in the face of misinformation and bullshit. Leave the woowoo at home and I'm sure you'll have a great time. This line is not meant to start a discussion on the topic, au contraire, this thread is about growing. I'm happy to discuss things over PM or in the toker's den.
Also I have been diagnosed with asperger syndrome (autism spectrum disorder) and a very rare and unkown neurological disorder (sometimes called persistent migraine aura or visual snow syndrome). I use cannabis to ease a lot of symptoms associated with these disorders. Mostly anxiety, appetite, sensory overload, insomnia, depression, OCD,... Amazing this one plant can help me with so many symptoms which otherwise would have to be adressed with expensive pharmaceuticals with lots of negative side effects.
From a recreational point of view taste is my #1 priority (along with effect ofcourse, can't have one without the other). Resin content is also very important (it contains most of the yummy tasting terpenes) and affects the quality of the smoke/vapour A LOT imo.
Might be important too inform you of how I actually get the cannabinoids in my system.
I used to mostly smoke joints with tobacco (very little tobacco though, otherwise it'll ruin the taste and high). Now lately I've been vaporizing a lot more (volcano) and have started to roll pure joints occasionaly. But still need to get used to their taste. After 10 years of smoking with tobacco I still like the tobacco ones better.
When I'm talking about taste and aromas this will be about the general tastes/aromas apparent in all types of inhalation methods unless specified.
Also I'm not a native english speaker but read mostly in english (my scientific vocabulary is actually better in english). So forgive me for any grammatical or spelling mistakes.
Next I'll be going more in depth on the varieties I'm currently running. First up will be the La Nina.
Cheers everyone!
she sure is a looker isn't she? Here's a pic of her at 30 days of 12/12
