dc's Island Sweet Skunk F2's and AK47 F4's from seed!
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d.c. beard
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Hey, I'm not from Texas or anything! lol You blazed ass mofo! haha
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Alright guys, I snapped a few pics of the babies here to show you how much better they're looking already. Obviously from the last pics you saw the problem was that they REALLY needed to be transplanted. So now that they are they are taking off already.
So first are a couple of group shots of them under the T5 (backed off for pics of course), then 1 of a sativa expression ISS, one of an indica expression ISS, and last 2 pics of 2 different AK47 plants.
Oh and also please note 7 fingered leaves coming out at the SECOND node on some of the ISS's. I've never seen that before!
So first are a couple of group shots of them under the T5 (backed off for pics of course), then 1 of a sativa expression ISS, one of an indica expression ISS, and last 2 pics of 2 different AK47 plants.
Oh and also please note 7 fingered leaves coming out at the SECOND node on some of the ISS's. I've never seen that before!
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Thanks man!
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Just wanted to throw a couple more pics up to show progress, one with the flash and one without. They're looking great. It shouldn't be but another 2 weeks tops till they all sex I would think. Secondary growth is coming along nicely now.
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d.c. beard
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Hahaaa, thanks bro!
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Took a few more pics this morning. Things are looking great and progressing quickly now. Two of the ISS seedlings have pistils now, and one AK47 seedling is a girl for sure too. Now the fun part is here...waiting for them to one by one show sex! Can't wait to see what ratio of females to males that I get this time around. I think I did a lot better job caring for them at the beginning than I have in the past, so I should get more girls this time. As long as the delay in transplanting them didn't stress them out too much that is.
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d.c. beard
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Hey Aev, here's something I dug out from a past post of mine.
"Yeah the watering technique helps a lot. Water slowly and evenly, until 10% leaks out the bottom, then wait 15 - 30 mins or longer for the substrate to soak up whatever you already gave it, so that if you give it more it doesn't just run right out again. Then, 15 - 30 mins later, water again to top off all the pots and this extra amount will really seep in and stay in the substrate providing water and nutrients for a longer amount of time."
stinkbudd1
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Hey DC, as always those girls look great more impressive is the way you always have control over your grow area and your grow hey man i subscribe to HBO just to see bill mayher and i subscribe to you just to see you get down with it bro, keep up the good work..Peace
d.c. beard
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Thanks man, but I hope I get one AK male to breed with though!
Hell yeah I'ma get down like Jungle Boogie in there this time! Get down, get down, get down, get down... lol
aeviaanah
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right on...so you must be hand watering. i am not going to grow in coco again. every water i would have to carry plants to bath tub so water can have a runoff of around 30 percent. NOT PRACTICAL. this time im going with soil-compost mix. it was real hot last year. it has been sitting in a tub for about half a year now....im sure it is ready. it has alot of good stuffi n it. steer manure, chicken manure, perlite, vermiculite peat moss, coco coir. some others that i cant think of at the moment.
so when you germinate you do in a paper towel? then u pick these and put them in the soil pellets. what percent sprouts do you get to come up? i have about 7-8 sprouts now. do you just keep moving them in and out until you have every pellet with a sprout in it? we need to start talking about how i am going to choose which are best for next breed. is there anything i should be doing this early in the game? i have been taking notes on when each sprout has sprouted this way i can keep track of the fast growers and what not.
so when you germinate you do in a paper towel? then u pick these and put them in the soil pellets. what percent sprouts do you get to come up? i have about 7-8 sprouts now. do you just keep moving them in and out until you have every pellet with a sprout in it? we need to start talking about how i am going to choose which are best for next breed. is there anything i should be doing this early in the game? i have been taking notes on when each sprout has sprouted this way i can keep track of the fast growers and what not.
d.c. beard
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Cool man, the soil mix sounds good. Wish I'd have invested like that 6 months ago! That stuff should be aged to perfection now.
Yep paper towel, then into Jiffy pots. Not sure what you mean by 'moving them in and out'...?
Yeah track growth rates, height, # of nodes, spacing between nodes, rate of secondary growth, speed to sexual maturity (when they first show sex), leaf type (indica, sativa, brief description), color, and smell/flavor when rubbed. Whew, that was a lot! But you'll just have to keep tracking everything all the way through flower till the end, because new traits can pop up all the way to the last week of flower (i.e. hermies), and you also won't be able to comment on the final product until it is complete of course. At that time you can rate potency, which is one of the most important traits to consider, but also the hardest to gauge ahead of time.
aeviaanah
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so how many actually make it to the cloneable stage. basically what i am saying is. your not going to keep 50 clones of 50 seedlings. what is your cut line to the plants you will be working with.
you are cloning a certain number of plants that you are putting your faith in. you then bud out the seedling plants and refer back to notes for which to breed with. what is this certain number YOU deal with?
you are cloning a certain number of plants that you are putting your faith in. you then bud out the seedling plants and refer back to notes for which to breed with. what is this certain number YOU deal with?