I just completed a grow with some sativa crosses and I really liked the results. This grow will take things a bit further by aggressively training sativas 12/12 from seed. No rope is needed since I will be pinching and bending my way until I see pistils. This grow is a bit of an experiments so things could go wrong. I will have a couple clones in the cab just in case.
Sativa in a cup: This is from my last grow. She was vegged too long, but I did get her to bush.
My space is 21" X 23 X 4'. I have a 250W hps and also use a couple 42W cfls for side lighting. I really think transpiration is key to a good grow so I have a 300+ cfm inline fan. My cab has an intake at the base and I pull the air through my cooltube and exhaust out the top though my can33 filter. I also keep a fan at the top of the cab blowing air down on the plants. I use coco and beercups the hole way through and feed by bottom feeding with trays and smartvalves. My setup does not waste nutes, but I do need to frequently flush my gals because of salts. I feed using pureblend pro, calmag, liquid karma, sweet, and hydroplex. This pretty much a botanicare grow except I do add bio-cat beneficial micros.
I just put (16) highland oaxacan and (6) ace panama in rapid rooters to germinate. I am only going to grow 3-8 of these plants and will select base on what I see in the seedlings. The oaxacan beans are a bit of a mistery, but I have grown them before and the qualities did match the descriptions I found online. They are supposedly from a line from the late 70's. These seed came from a hermy plant two generations ago. Sounds messy huh? I found 4 females and 1 male my first run of them and did not see any hermies. Then again I rarely see hermies.
More to come!
Sativa in a cup: This is from my last grow. She was vegged too long, but I did get her to bush.
My space is 21" X 23 X 4'. I have a 250W hps and also use a couple 42W cfls for side lighting. I really think transpiration is key to a good grow so I have a 300+ cfm inline fan. My cab has an intake at the base and I pull the air through my cooltube and exhaust out the top though my can33 filter. I also keep a fan at the top of the cab blowing air down on the plants. I use coco and beercups the hole way through and feed by bottom feeding with trays and smartvalves. My setup does not waste nutes, but I do need to frequently flush my gals because of salts. I feed using pureblend pro, calmag, liquid karma, sweet, and hydroplex. This pretty much a botanicare grow except I do add bio-cat beneficial micros.
I just put (16) highland oaxacan and (6) ace panama in rapid rooters to germinate. I am only going to grow 3-8 of these plants and will select base on what I see in the seedlings. The oaxacan beans are a bit of a mistery, but I have grown them before and the qualities did match the descriptions I found online. They are supposedly from a line from the late 70's. These seed came from a hermy plant two generations ago. Sounds messy huh? I found 4 females and 1 male my first run of them and did not see any hermies. Then again I rarely see hermies.
More to come!
