Grape God Grow Journal

SSHZ

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These do most of their stretching in the 2nd week of flowering.......... day 10. It's time to stake the perimeter.
 

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budbro18

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Yeah you grow from seed so the flower delay is probably a little later than from clone. It was nice runnin clones cause we were able to harvest a few days earlier and theyd start budding earlier too. Especially cause i run 18/6 for veg.
 

SSHZ

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Yup.........I may go to clones, as getting seeds to the U.S. is getting harder and harder. I keep reading the Williams Wonder I'm growing is extremely strong, even better then the Grape God so I'll probably make a final decision after this crop. I'm tired of spending $500 a crop for seeds!
 

SSHZ

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Day 13 in flowering......elongation is almost finished, maybe 3-4 more days. No silica burn this time, I threw that shit out. Botanicare already includes silica in some of their products, so I didn't need it anyway- adding more probably contributed to the overdose last time. Very healthy, nicely green, no runts out of 25 plants!
 

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SSHZ

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Here's a little better picture taken today at day 15. I went in and trimmed loads of small stuff off the bottom on most of the plants I could get to......loads of work, a labor of love I guess.
 

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bassman999

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Looking Good SSHZ!

U say ordering beans isnt working out well for ya anymore?

Have u tried Peakseedsbc?

I have read they are reliable and quality genetics at low prices...only prob is they dont sell fem.

They will re-send beans if they dont make it, and are said to be faster than avg at sending as well.

What method do you use to pop seeds?
I am having trouble with some right now...
 

budbro18

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No silica burn this time, I threw that shit out. Botanicare already includes silica in some of their products, so I didn't need it anyway- adding more probably contributed to the overdose last time.
i remember that shit tore up your plants!

glad you worked it out. cant wait to try out that DOG kush

You should try using one of the silver products to make fem seeds?

Use your second room for 2 females, one to turn to a male, and one to pollinate. Then after one plant youll have a few hundred to a few thousand seeds depending on how big you veg/flower her.

I miss the taste of her!!!
 

SSHZ

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Hey Bassman.......nice to see you pop in. I researched Peak Seeds before, mainly because they have a large presence over at ICMag and people love their stuff. But I'm mainly a feminized seed guy so I passed. But some day maybe.......

I still use the paper towel method, warm water, in towels and then into a baggie kept on top of the fridge. If your are gentle with them, they always seem to pop in 2-3 days, no problems. As soon as they are about 1/2 inch long, I put them into their pro-mix pots and water heavily again.
 

bassman999

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Hey Bassman.......nice to see you pop in. I researched Peak Seeds before, mainly because they have a large presence over at ICMag and people love their stuff. But I'm mainly a feminized seed guy so I passed. But some day maybe.......

I still use the paper towel method, warm water, in towels and then into a baggie kept on top of the fridge. If your are gentle with them, they always seem to pop in 2-3 days, no problems. As soon as they are about 1/2 inch long, I put them into their pro-mix pots and water heavily again.
Yeah I am into fem as well, but upon getting low you can make more beans if you have a male.
I do worry about infecting others with stray pollen though.
And there is wasted time checking to see which are fem or not as well.

I have several beans this time that after several days wont open after both towels and cup of water.
I have never had issues in the past, but several seeds from several sources...makes me realize it must be me.
 

SSHZ

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Not necessarily........not sure if they are freebies, but I've found a lot of freebies are "older" seeds and often don't sprout. My rate on freebies sprouting is only about 70% or so.

Also, when you make your own seeds, they are F2's, not F1's which will lead to more variety in pheno's and often lesser quality. That's why if I was to do my own thing, I'd use mother plants (clones) to insure the quality remains.
 

bassman999

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Not necessarily........not sure if they are freebies, but I've found a lot of freebies are "older" seeds and often don't sprout. My rate on freebies sprouting is only about 70% or so.

Also, when you make your own seeds, they are F2's, not F1's which will lead to more variety in pheno's and often lesser quality. That's why if I was to do my own thing, I'd use mother plants (clones) to insure the quality remains.
I got these ones all as freebies honestly, but not from seed-banks.
 

SSHZ

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4 days later, day 19 in flowering. It's like a friggin jungle in there!!!!!!!! I had to go in and trim all around the base of the perimeter plants just to be able to water the inner plants.
 

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SSHZ

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Shockingly so...........in just a day or two. Don't remember the crop last time doing anything like this.
 

SSHZ

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Here's a picture at day 17 of the last crop.........same amount of plants (24). More variety this time......

 

budbro18

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got that one tall ass one in the back left corner every time. haha

they really look nice though. what size pots do you use?
 

SSHZ

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LOL.......IN this room, I always put my tallest plants in the back grow. But in flowering, sometimes tall ones pop up anywhere. You got me nailed, though!

Right now, 4 gallon pots. Sometimes 5 gallon though....just depends on how much pro-mix I have around. 4 gallons are plenty big for a 3.5 month start to finish.
 

budbro18

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haha nice ive been wanting to step up pot size for a while and now that i got some super thrax seeds i really want to.

i can get pretty good pulls off the 2 gallon air pots. but i feel like a 3-5 gallon pot would help alot more.

just gott figure how many pots i can cram into my 4x4 tent.

hell, might just have to say fuck the tents and start a whole room thing.
 
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