Happy news on the seed front..
www.marijuana-seeds.nl agreed since I had such crappy germ rates and males they decided to throw in some "freebies" with my new order.
I ordered all feminized this time, 10 white rhino, 10- medi Bud(says up to 1200 gm/plant!), and 10-amsterdam haze, with that they are replacing 10 bubblegum, 10 white widow and 10 crystal, all feminized, and this WILL be my last seed order for a long while, time to get a couple great mums and get to cloning, I got 10/10 on that 1 batch but this last attempt sucked, was pulling limp slimy ones out every few days, not many rooted, but I tried to clone them in flower after I saw what monsters a few had become, so not the best idea of mine.
Now for my seedlings..I germed 8 crystals, 1 kinda pooped out at 1/4" and looks to be dying, 7 look leggy and healthy, also have others germing, 1 bubble, and still have about 10 in the moist paper germing.
This will be a pick the best of them thing, and along with some fem seeds from my new order will make up my first hydro grow with my ebb&grow.Or maybe I will plant these(seedlings) out on the hillside somewhere and just go all feminized in this grow, will be nice not wasting resources on males.
Got my hugee ass tent today, as well as a box big enough for a big flat screen TV with a 50 ft roll of actual shiny mylar in it,lol.. but man, can't they ship in tubes??? Guess that is "discreet packaging" haha...neighbors are going to wonder wtf with packages due here for the next week plus, ordered another 600 watt light, plus 2 fans, a carbon scrubber with air filter, ducting, new ec meter as my ppm one died already.
Every surface of the room will be covered in mylar, the tent is 96"x76" by 48" it's a monster, how many plants ya think I can grow in that? Also beefed on the security issue, installed outside lighting on the building, new electrical panel, a combo lock and a key'd lock will both be used on the main door, the swing-out doors will be sealed shut and framed with plywood over them so no light creeps out, though the actual room within is light sealed.
I am also going to put in a couple cameras, just cheapies I can view on my laptop anytime or my pc. This neighborhood has gone to shit, if I have methed out zombies walking through my yard in broad daylight looking for "treasures" in my side yard while I am HOME, then this will just set my mind more at ease. Joined the neighbor in a "neighborhood watch" type thing, he has a cam aimed at his driveway/main road, so any cars that do go by (I am the only house down here) better have a reason to be, he gets plate numbers of strange cars, which was oddly comforting.
As big as that tent is do ya think it'll be far too hot with 3 lights(w/ fans and vented outside?)? 3 should cover the footprint nicely..think I will do 1K in the middle and a 600 on each side when they are bigger, overlap the lighting, and run MH and HPS both in flowering next time.Read somewhere the increased spectrum helps yields.Thinking I will still veg with the T-5 till they get a certain height, the light seems much more gentle on young plants, and mine always did better under the T-5 in early veg. Maybe now with plenty of room I can veg some under MH and some under T-5 to compare.
Very excited, got the 65 gal res cleaned and sterilized, ready 2 go! Need to resoak and clean all the hydroton tomorrow and get the ebb and grow setup now that I have seedlings! Won't put into the pots until they are 6" or so and am NOT going to use the 4x4 rockwool, just put them right in in the starter plugs, less rockwool to have buildup in. I'm sure that small amount of initial support while they're building up roots will be plenty to keep them upright.
My flowers don't seem to me to be getting much bigger yet, but they still have 4-6 weeks, don't know the thc snow is supposed to be ready in 6 weeks..not sure it will be.
sadly, I am going to have to face the facts, luna is NOT getting ANY pistils...if it weren't for my project with her and Icannabis, we wouldn't be growing so well!!! So it'll be hard to put him out to pasture...I got my new jewelers loupe and mag glass, so I will give her a little longer. I think pulling off balls and all the wishing in the world isn't working, lol. Out of the 19 plants that got this far I have only 11 or 12 females..males need to be chopped tomorrow, nothings changing.Glad I started with more, knew some would be male but not that many.
My bubble clone I took off 2 grows ago before they died (feminized) is now close to 6 feet and covered in flowers, is there a way I can weigh her limbs down, they are wanting to touch the light which is all the way against the ceiling! She has 6 main cola sights and I think if I do this right is going to be a killer yielder! I was thinking soft cloth/rope and just pull them down slightly and thread the bottom of it through the cloth pot? So more light can get on the inner parts and so she keeps herself off the bulb??!
I have never thought of sog'ing b4, but now can def see it's benefits, maybe I will try that so all the colas are at the same level? Do ya have to use like wire fencing? I worry about puncturing my tent...I would have to clear off all the under foliage and then just train it to the screen, I have watched many videos on it, does it generally make for better yields?
I can pack them in the tent pretty tight, without worrying about making it in to water(with the hydro), but still going to have to come up with a design so it's easy to access them when big to look them over every so often (like daily) Am also thinking about using rigid PVC instead of the 1/2" black tubing to set the pots all together., that will make my nutes warmer running through all that black tubing...will keep the res outside the tent where it's still very cool.
Been having trouble 4 some reason last 2 days with my room temps, they always have stayed 78-79 tops...yesterday was up to 85 I freaked, I read they quit growing at like 84?
It is getting a tad warmer out, but still in the 40's at night,. 50's in the day, window open 3" with a fan blowing the heat out the window..not sure if that tint increase in outside temps would cause this, if so I am going to have problems in the summer, though we usually don't have terribly hot summers, we get some waves in the 90's now n then...also, budding humidity has to be down for the plants to get resinous, right? I may also need a dehumidifier..shit this is 50 & 100'ing me into the poor house! I'm having a hard time keeping humidity under 60, but once the lights are vented outside, may even get worse as that heat dries things up I'm sure.
I did see a decent enough one for like 168 on amazon, maybe next week.
Psyched to get my hydro grow going...totally stoked with the new genetics I ordered and that they should be all girls! Happy growing..