[AnonMe]

Hello everyone.

I am just taking a break from setting up. Washing about 150Lts of expanded clay can really take it out of ya!

I've popped 10 C99 beans from Female seeds. I had 11 out of 10 germination rate. Oh wait whats that mean? 11 out of 10? See my previous thread on double embryo seed. So I had one seed give me two sprouts. Of course, I cant separate them and the runt will most likely die. The most appropriate measure would be to terminate the runt. But I just cant bring myself to do it. Its so cute...

Anyway, My room is a mess. I am a pretty messy gardener and I know a lot of you will give me some heavy flack on the state of my grow. But it still produces so I am happy.

I have a 12 pot system I set up and have pulled one very successful grow from it. See link in signature. I have 3 x 600watt digital ballasts and will start with 2x 600w and 1x 400w MH conversion bulbs during the veg stage.

Once switched to flower, I will be running 3x600w HPS lamps in standard shades.

Nutrient schedule is pretty basic.
My previous grows have been DutchMaster Advance (I suspect no different from original) as a base for veg and flower. In flower I also add rock resinator (not a paclo or chlormaquat product, just a potash with perhaps some other stuff). I also run H+G shooting powder and depending on how I feel I might hit it with a PK13+14 style product the week befor the shooting powder. I also run H+G drip clean. I never bothered with other additives as I run a sterile environment with the addition of H2O2 and am lead to believe H2O2 causes instability in the other additives.

This time around I am planning on doing it different a little.
I might try the H+G base. This is because I like the idea of one set of A+B for veg and flower. This means I can remove 2x 5lt bottles from my storage area. Traditionally I have kept 20lts of base nutes because I was using 5lt bottles of veg and flower A and B. I really like the idea of reducing this.

I am also going to be abandoning H2O2 this time around and running an enzyme. Probably multizyme from H+G just to keep it consistent. I never suffer root rot or anything anyway but I think either one of these just adds another layer of protection.

Anyway, going to get back into it. I hope I can bring you some photo's soon.

AM.

[AnonMe]

Oh and I forgot to say as well...

The plan is to take 3 clones from each, plus an extra 2 clones for a total of 32 clones.

20 (2 from each) will go into my tent and be vegged till I can visually see they have put roots down. There will be two trays of 10. I'll try my hand at hitting 10 of them with colloidal silver and hopefully produce some pollen. The other 10 will remain untreated. I'll set up a small fan on the treated side and hopefully blow some pollen across to the other 10.

I am hoping to generate myself a CRAPOLA load of c99 seeds.

If I am successfull I am going to do it to all the other seeds I have. I find its getting harder for me to secure a safe address and when I do I dont have much luck with getting anything through. I think I will have to preserve what I have in seed form and if their female seeds then all the better.

[BullnAChinaShop]

Ha-ha I'm a messy gardener too. Just FYI, I have had twins twice and both times was able to successfully separate.

[AnonMe]

Oh nice! The thought went through my mind, but she is so small I didnt want to risk it. I think it will die but we will see

[pisspotgrower]

Really looking foward to seing the c99 grow out mate, ive heard she is a real winner

Ohh and no flack here on the messy growroom, mine is partial to a few vb cans laying round lol, just as long as thoes cords r up off the ground mate

[aussiepurp]

Looking good there I'm pulling up a chair

[AnonMe]

As promised, some pic's.

11 sprouters in a tray, including the double embryo seed which is also shown. Little runt, would love to get at least one bud off it lol.

[AnonMe]

And of course, some more....

My wheelie bin res, and shots of the pots. You can see I actually ended up getting 2 different bags of expanded clay. The canna expanded clay looked mint. It didn't even require washing which is a huge plus. I washed it anyway but I dont think I needed to. The other bag was something called rockcorn or something. It looks a lot less uniform. Would this effect the end product? I dunno. I doubt it though. The other thing I noticed was when I was washing the rockcorn and stopped the rocks made little snap crackle pop noises. The canna expanded clay did as well, but no where near as much. Perhaps the cheap nasty one is more pourous? Maybe this is better?

[aussiepurp]

nice one man

[AnonMe]

Some closer shots of the two different types of clay.
Also, my control bucket after its been sitting between grows. I didnt bother cleaning anything out. It appears to have just got up and run with no maintenance. Love it. Also, after the level has been reached in all the pots I dug away a little to show the water level.