[compostverte]

Hello ICMAGgers

I wasn't sure if I was going to post over here, but Tiki Seeds is represented here and I bought the seeds from the Boutique.
And there's bound to be loads of stuff I can learn from new people.

I'm a very modest toker, so I even though I only get half a gramme per watt - quite likely down to cheapskate ventilation - I only need to grow once every couple of years at the very most and in fact I haven't grown for 5 years.
What I have in my jars is pretty mellow after all this time, but I'm aware that my "palate" will have become stale.
If this grow is as good as I hope, I will most likely turn all my old indicas into dry-sift hash.

My indica reserves were possibly more pressing than the sativa, so I've plumped for this Pakistan Chitral cross - as opposed to the pure purple one from Ace/Cannabiogen, or CB's "Sandstorm" - which has Moroccan in the mix.

Anyway I liked what I got from the Tiki Mix I grew in 2006, and Blabblabberbab of ***** personally recommended it - he'd used it in his famous bondage chamber.

Not much to report so far, but here was my seed raising setup warming up under a 250 watt HPS, prior to my sowing the 11 seeds in B&Q MP.

Because it's cold, the plants will be in a backless PVC greenhouse for the first 4 weeks.

There's a 3 foot tube heater (wasteful I know) wired to a thermostat - so the compost temp is a constant 23 degrees C.



They've been in the compost for a couple of days now.

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I'm starting to get anxious about this grow.
I'm used to my seeds popping up like cress. I've never bothered with pre-chitting.

One is up under its own steam, and two have needed a little help.
I had a careful poke around and there are a few more with evidence of some activity...

Temperature is a steady 23 / 24 degrees.

I sowed 11 seeds, I need 4 females - though being indica, I could probably get away three and more vegging.



The ones that have hatched will need to come out of the propagator soon and get much closer to the CFLs.

[compostverte]

Sunday morning.
7 days since the seeds touched warm, moist compost and I have 4 seedlings out of the propagator and under the lights - albeit one of them hasn't broken out of its seed coat yet.



Fingers crossed this doesn't end up as two mega-trained plants that take until Easter 2013 to be harvested - though I know that these genetics are good for that.

[compostverte]

10 days since sowing and I have one definite, one quite likely, and it goes down from there.



In the past I've coaxed life from the merest bit of green in a revegged sativa, so perhaps I'll manage to wake up the anaemic blobs that lacked the energy to do much more than crack the shells.

My schedule is tight, but I suppose I have a reasonable chance of getting at least one mother, and could possibly improve my cloning technique ... or I may have to take a punt on another pack of Tiki mix.

[Greenadian]

Im pulling up my chair for the show!!
Goodluck bro

[compostverte]

Thanks mate.

If I have to pull it off with one mum and a bunch of cuttings, it will be interesting to say the least !
If only I had started a month or more earlier.
It would help if I had a separate vegging area too so I could flower the mum while waiting for the cuttings to be ready ...
What I've done for the past two grows is sow a packet of seeds, so I have 4 females to veg for 6 weeks, then bend the tops over, veg another two weeks to fill the space, then go 12/12.
Perhaps since I have two lamps, I'll be able to keep the mum in veg while the babies are growing....

[Moonwaterz]

Nice job, bro! I'm definitely gonna follow this thread.
Success with the grow!
P's

[compostverte]

Sorry for the break in transmission folks.

Kerala very decently offered to send me some new seeds, but it's nerve-wracking enough for an otherwise impeccably law-abiding citizen to order seeds - even with Gypsy's stealth methods, so I was too scared to enter into a private arrangement with someone else - even someone I have no reason to mistrust.
I anguished over this for weeks on an almost daily basis. This is what this disgusting law does to us folks.

So many apologies to Kerala - loving the genetics - more later.

After 17 years of growing (intermittently - it's been 5 years since my last), I'm inevitably a bit set in my ways, and it's actually when things go wrong that I've made major changes and improvements to my technique - and this is no exception.

So on with the catching up ....

[compostverte]

At 4 weeks :-



At 7 weeks :-



At 10 weeks :-

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So I eventually had a decent tent-full of foliage - albeit I'd lost heart more than once so I neglected the feeding...

Given the bonkers-long vegging, they were very slow to show sex.

Once they'd worked past their shaky introduction to the world, there seemed to be two distinct phenos and it was one of the hungry ones that eventually showed distinct female pre-flowers.

I originally thought that if I ended up with only one plant, I would be taking cuttings - and there was this wonderful, purple-tinged one - also the smelliest .. it even threw up a few female pre-flowers.
But then, over the course of a few days, along with a third plant, this beauty revealed its true robust male nature :-



When you have only 3 plants, it's tough to ditch two of them. :(