Hi there, long time member returning from hiatus due to taking up growing again. Will try my hand at indoors again, perhaps even venture outdoors next summer. We'll see.
Anyway, the is my current situation, with about three weeks until all my parts like tent, fan, filter, oscillating fans, active intake fan, pots, nutes, compressed coco and biobizz light mix (will feed with AN ph-perfect grow\micro\bloom. Minimal with grow due to the reasons below, they will mostly make due with the mix I have of biobizz light-mix (40%), (coco 35%), perlite (25%), vermiculite (5%) (yeah I know, I will have to water and nute plenty with that mix, but I like to be in control of the exact nute level, nothing pre-added. I learn my plants to feed from the tray with a 2-3 day dry period early on in their life cycle so the roots go digging. Pots in the bottom and 2 x 25litres 60 x 60cm x h:7cm trays will both have clay pebbles in them, so there is no compressed medium between the bottom roots and the water\nute mix.
So, since I can't keep permanent mothers and clone tents due to stealth reasons, I go from seed when I grow. Thing is my prefered growing method have always been and will always be SOG with some density.
Got a new tent and gear coming soon, which will be a L:120cm x W:60cm x 150cm tall. Hgl 260 watt led QB plus some supplemental stuff.
Anyway, that is the only tent that I can keep running at all times. Will do a test run first with 36 1,7l 12cm x 12 cm x H:13 pots, that is removing one pot in depth and width plus an entire length row so there will be some room, still going pretty much straight to the point, all plants will be set at 12/12 after 5-6 days breaking soil (or cocoa brick). At a maximum I can fit 50 of these 1,7l pots into my tent at once (using every cm available, on the dot.)
Clearly it isn't sustainable for me to keep purchasing these feminized seeds at such numbers every 35 days or so, we are talking big bucks. So sooner rather than later, I need to make my own.
I know ideally we start the one to be reversed 14 days earlier to get the timing right. Would it still work if I didn't though? Or would I have to preserve the pollen until my next run and then hit the most promising pheno (for me that is fat lollipops with minimal branching and good bud to leaf ratio, finishing after 52 days max (yeah these new fast version, quick version, early version and whatever the different things breeders call them, they are really 40-52 days fast from 12\12.
So what I plan to do is from my high density SOG picks the two most promising ones (you can usually tell with uniform genetics like these from pretty early on. Things like internoding, branching and structure give the winners for my purpose away. Well, actually only a smoke test can do that, but I'll do that afterwards and just donate the seeds if I find them not worth it.
So in between all this rambling (I've just smoked a phat one, writing with a grin :smoking it all cooks down to these questions:
Yeah, quite a bit of questions in one go there
Anyway, the is my current situation, with about three weeks until all my parts like tent, fan, filter, oscillating fans, active intake fan, pots, nutes, compressed coco and biobizz light mix (will feed with AN ph-perfect grow\micro\bloom. Minimal with grow due to the reasons below, they will mostly make due with the mix I have of biobizz light-mix (40%), (coco 35%), perlite (25%), vermiculite (5%) (yeah I know, I will have to water and nute plenty with that mix, but I like to be in control of the exact nute level, nothing pre-added. I learn my plants to feed from the tray with a 2-3 day dry period early on in their life cycle so the roots go digging. Pots in the bottom and 2 x 25litres 60 x 60cm x h:7cm trays will both have clay pebbles in them, so there is no compressed medium between the bottom roots and the water\nute mix.
So, since I can't keep permanent mothers and clone tents due to stealth reasons, I go from seed when I grow. Thing is my prefered growing method have always been and will always be SOG with some density.
Got a new tent and gear coming soon, which will be a L:120cm x W:60cm x 150cm tall. Hgl 260 watt led QB plus some supplemental stuff.
Anyway, that is the only tent that I can keep running at all times. Will do a test run first with 36 1,7l 12cm x 12 cm x H:13 pots, that is removing one pot in depth and width plus an entire length row so there will be some room, still going pretty much straight to the point, all plants will be set at 12/12 after 5-6 days breaking soil (or cocoa brick). At a maximum I can fit 50 of these 1,7l pots into my tent at once (using every cm available, on the dot.)
Clearly it isn't sustainable for me to keep purchasing these feminized seeds at such numbers every 35 days or so, we are talking big bucks. So sooner rather than later, I need to make my own.
I know ideally we start the one to be reversed 14 days earlier to get the timing right. Would it still work if I didn't though? Or would I have to preserve the pollen until my next run and then hit the most promising pheno (for me that is fat lollipops with minimal branching and good bud to leaf ratio, finishing after 52 days max (yeah these new fast version, quick version, early version and whatever the different things breeders call them, they are really 40-52 days fast from 12\12.
So what I plan to do is from my high density SOG picks the two most promising ones (you can usually tell with uniform genetics like these from pretty early on. Things like internoding, branching and structure give the winners for my purpose away. Well, actually only a smoke test can do that, but I'll do that afterwards and just donate the seeds if I find them not worth it.
So in between all this rambling (I've just smoked a phat one, writing with a grin :smoking it all cooks down to these questions:
- Can I buy a micro drying tent or seedling tent, which I just add some LED's to when I want two girls to meet up for some treatment and mingling? This will be removed and taken into my apartment storage when I am not drying or making seed. Any suggestions?
- What should I use for reversing, and when should I start? Should I use CS, pre-made solution, STS?
- Will I be able to reverse and pollinate from the same run of 36-50 seeds? Or will the reversed one be too late for the one to get hit with the pollen?
- I am a minimal effort kind of guy, do I need to collect and dust or will two plants with one being reversed stood in the same micro tent just take care of business naturally? (then I figure the plant will also self polinate to a certain degree, given not all it's parts has been treated, won't it?
- Or will I have to go with option two, find the candidate for reversal in run #1, collect and store the reversed pollen, and then hit up the selected lady in run #2?
- Is it known to have adverse effects on the outcome reversing a feminized plant, and then hitting another feminized plant with it? (And probably him\her-self as well)?
Yeah, quite a bit of questions in one go there