[fortragni]

Hey all!

I was gifted a few seeds from a forum friend. I was asked to test the germination rates of his home made seeds and also to show any of the plants that made it/i decide to keep.

He pollinated with a favorite Satori male of his (MandalaSeeds). I started 8 SatoriF2 seeds, 16 Sk/Satori, and 6 Hashberry/Satori (HBS). I was gifted more than 6 of the HBS (maybe 15), but a lot of them were green and I decided on visuals alone not to even bother planting - sorry dude.

Also planted 1 Menage a Trois bean, and 1 Reeferman Sweet Treat seed. Not sure which of those is which.. oh well.

I'm very interested in the Sk./Satori, seems like it'd be an interesting mostly sativa mix.

So far, within two days, 3 Sat.F2s have popped the soil, cotyledons reaching high. Same for 3 Sk./Satori. Also currently in early re-veg (I sexed it using 12/12) is a MOD Menage a Trois, looks like Dreamgoddess.. she is 6" so far.

I plan on... testing these new genetics, learning more about growing, upping my grow up from a single 250 chamber to a perpetual 250/1000 setup, and learning to take cuts and keep mums.

I don't have pics right now, because my whole grow op is being redesigned (you'll see soon); currently I veg/bloom in one enclosed area using a 250W. That area will now be the Vegetative/clone chamber of an even larger room, which will be a 1000W HPS bloom room. I'll post up some pics this week of the seedlings, the Dreamgoddess baby, and the grow room set up as is. I expect to be doing major remodeling of the inside of this room within 3-4 weeks. Hope some of this interests you all, take care. Peace.

[blynx]

Sounds great! keep us updated, with pics!!

[fortragni]

Here's some pics and an idea of the area/area to be. The bloom area, what's not enclosed in the pics, is 4x4x10' ceiling. I might remove the toilet, for room. The 1000 will hang above basically where the toilet is now. You can see my cabinet, work space, sink. Right now my bulb is slightly raised, just finished a grow, it's a jury rigged enclosure using those heat-reflectors for cars. You know what i mean.

However, when the bulb IS lowered a few inches, and when i mount it on the side of that sink cabinet, the area will be entirely reflective and entirely enclosed.

I use a loose starting mix for seeds, so i keep them under humidity dome type things. Not everyone does this; but i dont want them to dry out.. i'd rather them a bit too wet/humid than to dry out. I remove them when the cotyledons open.

My camera sucks and it was lights-on time; you can't see the seedlings in the cups (closeup) but they are there, with 4 of them showing cotyledons, two of those 4 showing tiny true leaves.

suggestions welcome, thanks!

P.S it's a half-bathroom, we have another bathroom. Smell is not an issue, heat might be. Considering venting heat (somehow) into adjacent bedroom.

Peace

[fortragni]

The original soil mix, the one that I used last cycle, and some the cycle before that: it was originally a mixture of Light Warrior, coconut Coir, and small-grain perlite. After a run with that, I mixed it together with 'forest humus/top soil', peat moss, sand, coir, vermiculite, perlite, bone meal. This last mix was the one I just used and harvested a plant using; it was WAY too heavy a mix.. so the current mix is the above soil mix, but now about 35-45% Chunky perlite. I took a picture of the work I did on mounting the 250W yesterday; enjoy. I'll update with better pics as things happen.. we're up to 9 seedlings now, i think.

SatoriF2 and Sk.Satori both seem vigorous, the seedlings of both are already at their first (tiny) set of true leaves.. Hashberry/Satori havent popped yet, but it's only a few days. I'll give them all a fair chance, probably up until next week. 9 seedlings so far. 6 of them with tiny sets of true leaves. Very vigorous so far.. thanks again for the seeds, dude!

[diggity]

cool little room bro

[fortragni]

Just big enough to fit a 1000W HPS into. So i'd be walking into the bloom room, when opening the door to the bathroom, and the little light space you see above (behind purple curtain) is off to the right in the bathroom.

[TotalHeavenClub]

hi man,
good to see you already began to work the seeds.And some of them germinated and seem viable !
I'm especially pleased with the sat/sk as the mother had a difficult life and I was afraid I cut her early for the seeds to be viable:

mother of the f2s on the right,mother of the sat/skunk on the left(looks like she didn't like my soil mix experiment)

best of luck with your new room!
keep us updated

grow on
g.

[fortragni]

hey man thanks for chiming in. i'll keep it updated Me and the girl are smoking our (early) harvested Satori right now, it's killer smoke even cut early, can't wait to look through the F2s. thanks again and take it easy.

i'll add new pics and updates as they happen, peace.

[fortragni]

Hey what's up all, hope all is well
Went to hydro shop today , gonna buy 1000 watter on Monday.. picked up some cool new tools at radioshack while we were out..

A craft precision knife set, and a 60-100X lighted Pocketscope. neat huh?

5 of the Satori F2 and 2 of the Skunk/Satori looking real good. 3 other seedlings still growing, might cull them, showing weaknesses. not the best practice but i can't waste time on a runt or slow grower or a nute sensitive girl. No pics, you all know what little seedlings look like.. i'll add an update and pics in a few days. Take it easy yall.

[fortragni]

Some updates and pics for all you viewers out there. Since last chimed in I culled about 10 cups that never showed anything. I also killed off two SatoriF2 seedlings and one Sk./Satori seedling, they were all displaying abnormalities of one form or another. I hate playin god but sometimes we just have to.. the Sk./Sat stopped growing after the cotyledons, and the F2s both had one single curled yellow cotyledon and one normal one. Could mean nothing but it could mean a growth or nutrient uptake problem so i killed them!

So the count is in. I have 7 seedlings. None of the Hashberry/Satori popped the soil. 6 out of 8 ! SatoriF2s sprouted. 10 out of 16 Skunk/Satoris sprouted; though a low number made it through their early early life stage.

I also , today, took 3 cuttings of the small MOD Menage a Trois I call Dreamgoddess, looks like that particular cross. I did these using my new knife set, sterilizing before a cut with alcohol prep pads. I transported the first cut in water to a glass pan full of water, under which i performed the rest of the cuts.. removing lower nodes, making a nice diagonal. Dipped these in RootOne and set them in my juryrigged bubbler. Hoping at least one will root; i think so.

I'm just not sure what to do with the original plant? Should I re-pot her, trim her roots, make her a mother? Or just veg her out more, and eventually flower? Or just kill her. Let me know what you all think, it'd be much appreciated.

We think we're getting the bigger light this week or next.. does anybody think I should switch out the 250W HPS for a MH bulb? aren't there "Conversion" bulbs i can get? I hear they are expensive. let me know what you think, thanks.

Enjoy.. and comment !!!!!!!!!!!!!