Creeper is creeping again.

[Creeperpark]

I all most forgot I told Cfl King I would do a dairy this Winter. Sorry, I'm late. I'm 30 days into flowering and just will keep it simple as I can. This growing method is so easy a blind person can do it. I was going to share it with another outfit but they wouldn't believe me. Anyway, here we Grow.

Potting Mix Used​

Foxfarms OceanForest potting mix
ProMix Hp potting mix

Fertilizers​

General Hydroponics Flora series: Base nutrients only, (no additives)!
Cal-mag

Water​

Rainwater for seed spout and seedlings
RO water for veg and flowering

Lights​

(Combo setup) lights are (one 400w HPS,) (two 130 watt Chinese 1000LEDs) and one 4ft fluorescentT8 sidelight for blue bans. Around 750 watts total. I will get a good light someday.

Strains​

3 Strains are Columbian Sativa/Haze cross and two unknown sativa-indica crosses from Spain?

Total grow area is a 6x6​

I plant the seed directly into Fox Farms Ocean Forest in dixie cups. I weigh the dixie cups before and after watering and write the weight down on the top of the cups. That way can keep from over or under-watering for the fastest growing.

 

[goingrey]

Good to see you back Mr. Park!

 

[Creeperpark]

Out of 12 reg seeds I got 12 females. Here they are right out of the dixie cup freshly transplanted into one gallon of FoxFarms Ocean Forest. From the beginning, seed germination and one-gallon pots get rainwater only. NO fertilizer while in FFOF is needed.

 

[Creeperpark]

Thanks, goingray call me creeper friend.
After a few weeks of using rainwater, all the plants showed female flowers. The high female ratio is induced by the sequential introduction of light hours. Starting the seed at 12/12 and gradually increasing one hour and then two hrs a week until I hit 16 or 18 hr photoperiod mimics nature. Sequential photoperiod, fox farms rich potting mix, and rainwater only, yielded a higher female ratio.

 

[Creeperpark]

At around 5 to 6 weeks from planting it's time for the flowering containers and time to change to flowering potting mix. I use Promix HP with 3 to 5-gallon containers. I don't fill the 5s all the way. I plant the vegged plant, FFOF and all into a mix of Promix. It's very important not to plant them too deep. Here's transplant day into flowering pots.

 

[exploziv]

Good luck with your grow! Good to see u back!

 

[944s2]

All the very best with this run,,,,,s2

 

[Creeperpark]

I water the one-gallon fox farm pots real well with rainwater before I transplant. After I put the little pots into the big pots I let the plants sit in dry Promix overnight before I water them the next day. When I water the next day I switch to RO fortified with cal mag. and General Hydroponic Flora series.

 

[Creeperpark]

I follow the guidelines and the fertilizer manufacturer's recommendation only not giving as much. I feed at 1/2 and with every watering. These plants don't look like what I thought a Columbian Sativa/Haze would look like. I have four and the others are hybrids. At this point, I'm scratching my head.

 

[Creeperpark]

I'm only using 6 ml of cal mag to 5 gallons of RO water and giving the plants just 300 ppm total EC with every watering counting fertilizer. The plants filled up all the space in the room so I flipped to 12/12. I have no space left in the 6x6.

 

[DcSantos]

So interesting that light period affects the gender of the planted seeds. Good to know as am thinking to get some regular seeds and make more regular seeds to have a kind of seed stock . Good looking forest in there !

 

[Creeperpark]

It took about 12 days for the plants to start stretching but they took off. I knew had shot myself in the foot because had too many females with not enough space. It was very difficult trying to water and prune this many plants in such a small space. I had to start tying tops to keep the plants from pushing the lights off the hybrids.

 

[Creeperpark]

Here is my cheap light combo setup. I'm making it work but it's not the best for sure. I hope to someday get a professional light.

 

[Creeperpark]

After a while, I could see a little Colombian stretch on 4 plants. The flowers are all over the plants in 20 days after flipping.

 

[Creeperpark]

Here's a green shot in the early flowering stage. I still have 50 or 60 days left at this point.

 

[Creeperpark]

It's very hard to get to the far corners on watering days and plus the plants are starting to do a leaf drop from excess shading. So I'm going to break this bunch up and move 4 plants to the OUTDOORS under full Sun. The photoperiod outside is 11 hrs and 8 min. So I'm going to trick them into thinking it's Fall when it's really late Winter. The crowding problem is Solved. When I come back I will update you on the growing live.

 

[Creeperpark]

Here is what the plant split does on space. I put 4 plants in a night holding area for the outdoors and the other photo is the new grow space in my original garden.

 

[Creeperpark]

Here are yesterday's outdoor photos. The rest of this grow is live and the photos are as they are growing now. Forest the K9 approves.

 

[DARKSIDER]

Best of luck with this run Creeperpark and so on ..

 

[sallyforthDeleted member 75382]

A really nice grow creeperpark. I've made note of the photoperiod for seed, I have mainly regular. Looking forward to how these turn out. Cheers