Harvest Time

Strains are unknown and are all from bag seed.
Total varieties : 6
Total Plants 16
Total time from seedling -> sexing -> cloning of females : ~70-80days (i think) I stopped useing herb IQ halfway through
Total time of flowering: ~9 weeks still harvesting on a daily basis (I dont believe in chopping an entire plant down... Tops finish first.)
Yield per plant 0.8 oz Total yield thus far 10 oz. Im thinking I may have around 4-5 oz yet to harvest
Light system: 1000watt HPS Yeild master II MH for veg, HPS for flower
Medium: Peat moss, perlite
Container Size ~3 gallon

Clones have been taken of the 3 of the varieties that appeared the best. All but one variety showed male flowers during flowering. Each stain that did displayed them at different times. Most were to far along to get pollinated. I spent a lot of days plucking off male flowers with tweezers.

This wont be an issue again. I have selected ones that display male flowers around week 7. I intend to order seeds in the future but I will not abandon my current plants genetic's. I wish there was a way I could dtermine the origin of these plant that have came from several different varieties of bag seed.....

NICE!~!!!!!! Looks like you will be smoking some pretty dank ass bud bro!!! + rep, oh wait, i cant give out any more rep till tomorrow. ill check back tomorrow

USMC said:

Strains are unknown and are all from bag seed.
Total varieties : 6
Total Plants 16
Total time from seedling -> sexing -> cloning of females : ~70-80days (i think) I stopped useing herb IQ halfway through
Total time of flowering: ~9 weeks still harvesting on a daily basis (I dont believe in chopping an entire plant down... Tops finish first.)
Yield per plant 0.8 oz Total yield thus far 10 oz. Im thinking I may have around 4-5 oz yet to harvest
Light system: 1000watt HPS Yeild master II MH for veg, HPS for flower
Medium: Peat moss, perlite
Container Size ~3 gallon

Clones have been taken of the 3 of the varieties that appeared the best. All but one variety showed male flowers during flowering. Each stain that did displayed them at different times. Most were to far along to get pollinated. I spent a lot of days plucking off male flowers with tweezers.

This wont be an issue again. I have selected ones that display male flowers around week 7. I intend to order seeds in the future but I will not abandon my current plants genetic's. I wish there was a way I could dtermine the origin of these plant that have came from several different varieties of bag seed.....

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Thanks man. It has been an awesome time getting to this point. The next go around I intend to come up with a hydroponic system. I really want to be able to do side by side comparisons. There are so few of these out there, and it seems to be the most important. After I finish this flowering cycle i will start a journal covering my next grow... as soon as I find out how to do it LoL. It may take me a while to get that journal going however. I need to invest in one more light (600watt) for the vegg room. Ahh you guys will see the setup in a bit. stay tuned...

The picture with the foil containers is epic! Great job man!

for sure, i to am looking into going the dwc route. Although i am still a noob, but i have done my share of researh. I hope you get it going though, i hear that hydro will give faster and denser buds than soil, but if you like taste like i do, they say soil is the way to go!!!

Good luck on the setup, keep us updated.

USMC said:

Thanks man. It has been an awesome time getting to this point. The next go around I intend to come up with a hydroponic system. I really want to be able to do side by side comparisons. There are so few of these out there, and it seems to be the most important. After I finish this flowering cycle i will start a journal covering my next grow... as soon as I find out how to do it LoL. It may take me a while to get that journal going however. I need to invest in one more light (600watt) for the vegg room. Ahh you guys will see the setup in a bit. stay tuned...

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Great first go dude!

Best of luck for the future runs!

btw, I am currently running a strain side by side. They are not the same pheno's, but i am just looking for DRAMATIC results as the plants are about the same and I feel that I can already match the soil phenos to the hydro ones.
TBH, I enjoy Hydro a bit more and I imagine the soil / hydro thing will break even.

too add, this last run I put my mother plant(soil) along side the cuttings(hydro), The cuttings were bigger and tasted a bit better, Growing conditions for each were a bit different as the hydro ones got the main focus of the light, This go, the soil and the hydro ones are each receiving fair shares.

My only real reason to going the hydroponic route is the ease of getting rid of waste products (Like all that root bound medium). The flower bed outside my house is getting full, and oddly enough my marigolds in the bed are HUGE. Must be all that non flushed out nutrients. I have looked at different setups and I think Im leaning towards a drip irrigation system tied in with dwc. Half way through my veg cycle I purchased a spherical aqaurium from petco. I think they have up to 15 gallon bio orb aqauriums. Airstone and filter are already in place in the bottom, and i think it was under 80 bucks. I thought it would be perfect for a res tank.

have u taken the top which is ready now r r u waitin on the bottom to b ready? cause at that stage the top will b overcooked some what

Tops and some midsize below the top "canopy" have been harvested. Alot of midsize and and smalls below are not ready yet. I do not think I will gain anymore weight in the buds at this point. I am only waiting for the remainder to caramalize a little bit more and alow some of the white hairs to wither.

Gotta question for you guys: As I am going through processing the buds I am pulling out the stray seed I find here and there. "Hey there was no way I was going to catch all them dam little pollen sacks". Obviously I dont know which plant polinated which calyx. But I have been keeping the seeds individualized based on the mothers strain. But like I said I dont know which plant was the Bi-Female that donated the pollen.

The questions is: Will the seeds produce plants that more closely resemble the MOTHERS gentics or the BI-Female confused father plant? Genetic selection seems to be a shot in the dark in my case but I am more concerned with the genetic trait of male flower production, i.e. I want varieties that exhibit the pollen sacks later rather than sooner.

All the seed I used were from various compressed brick sources. It's no wonder I got all the hermies, Mexican growers must not give a sh*t which variety they use. Someone should tell them how to grow their plants right. The MJ I produced looks like hightimes stuff while the original crap in which the seed was plucked, was horrible.

BTW: I used the following throughout the whole process at different stages. I have detailed info but I will save it for the future journal.
Vigoro, Potassium silicate, N-Cal-Mag, Molasses, Amber Humic, Vinegar, H2O2,, Big Up Powder, Bio Cozyme

Damn, I wish I could grow 16 plants. I'm jealous lol. Looks great. Can you explain a little about how you harvest gradually? I was thinking of doing that myself.

& P.S: nice taste in movies (Ferris Bueller and Boondock Saints) lol

HootnHolla4me said:

Damn, I wish I could grow 16 plants. I'm jealous lol. Looks great. Can you explain a little about how you harvest gradually? I was thinking of doing that myself.

& P.S: nice taste in movies (Ferris Bueller and Boondock Saints) lol

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I have seen people chop down plants with very few matured bud sites at the bottom. Now if you are growing massive quantities of plants by all means you dont need to worry about a few extra more matured bud sites. When I harvest I chop down what one could call the top canopy. A plant is sectored into 3 regions, top, mid, and low. Nutrients and light hit and or travel towards the tops first so it only makes sense they would mature first.

Looking at the hairs and trichome colors aswell as the individual plant overall appearence (How much yellowing does she have). I like to push the plants close towards that plateu in ripness. There is nothing worse than harvesting to early... buds taste like grass and are as light as air. I cut a bud or branch of buds based on the 3 things I mentioned. Over the next few days I will cut more as the days go on. By doing it this way I have found that I would have missed another bloom period on one variety of plant. There is more potential damage by cutting a plant to early rather than to late.

The most important thing I have learned during the whole grow. Dont listen to everyone you talk to and dont believe everything you read.

Thanks a lot. Great advice. Ive never seen anyone else cut em down gradually like that, but have always wondered/thought about it. I was thinking maybe the bottoms wouldn't grow to full potential if the plant was in a major state of repair from cutting the tops.