My 1st Sour Diesel grow strategy.

I planted seeds in mid February in a mix of peat moss and soil. I had around a 75% success rate. After some initial troubles I ended up with 6 healthy seedlings. With insufficent lighting I have been doing my best to help these plants grow as fast as the environment will let them. now about 4 weeks later things seem to be on their way, with plants ranging from 3 to 6 inches tall and wide and healthy looking spreads at their tops full of dark green foliage. I stared fertilizing with a diluted dose of miracle grow around week 2 and have fertilized 2 or 3 times without signs of nute burn. Although plants are growing slow and steady they appear to be healthy and well rooted in 6 inch pots with a little sand mixed in for proper drainage. They are under 100 watts of flourecent grow-lux tubes (24/0) for now and when the weather breaks they will be transplanted outside where they will be able to continue to veg until flowering time in late summer/early fall. These early plants will be allowed to veg for roughly 4 months or more creating the oppurtunity for monster results. In addition to this 6 plant grow I will also plant around 20 sour diesel seeds in mid April and see what germinates. I will raise thes plants inside on 24/0 in identical conditions to the first batch but indoor time will be about 2-4 weeks and then they will also go outside in beginning to mid june. I also am thinking about making cuttings off the older females to root and grow with the second batch of seeds. I have one area to plant almost all of my plants outdoors where I will be cutting down all males. There is a secondary spot far away from there where I will put a few plants for breeding to get seeds for future grows. My overall goal for this grow is to produce a large amount of potent bud and a large amount of seeds for the future. I will post pics of the whole operation from seedling to finish along with other information. Any tips and ideas are welcome. Thanks for reading.

here are pics of the first week after germination (roughly 3rd week of February) I got off to a bad start with these guys due to over watering and extremely poor lighting.

here are pics of the plants between 2 and 3 weeks right around the time I started fertilizing.

week 4... Second diluted dose of nutes. I will probably give a normal dose of nutes next week. I also plan on adding about 10,000 more lumens in CFL bulbs within the next couple of weeks. Tallest plant is between 6 and 7 inches and shortest is 3 inches.

Just got finished fertilizing with 20-10-20 fertilizer. This was the first time I gave an almost full dose of nutes so hopefully I won't start to see signs of nute burn. This is the 3rd or 4th time I have addeed nutes without a problem.

I may be moving plants outside earlier than expected due to the over-powering skunky smell that I started noticing yesterday which threatens my security. Hopefully the weather holds up.

I put 2 plants outside on 3-16. they have been holding up under their little greenhouse. It snowed lightly yesterday (first day of spring).

here are pics of the four that are still inside. I topped them 1 week ago.

Any updates?

Well, unfortuneatly I had to go away for a couple of weeks shoertly after i put the first 2 outside. i put them in a seperate spot under a little tunnel greenhouse and by the time i got back the greenhouse collapsed and crushed the plants against the ground and they were dead by the time i got a chance to visit them again. However, the original 2 that i put outside are still alive. today it has officially been 2 months since they were put outside. they went through freezing tempetures and a few light snow falls and freezing rain and they lived through it all. Now the weather is finally broke and they are in steady desireable conditions. they took quite a beating in the 2 months of bad weather and they didn't grow much during it but in the past week or 2 of decent weather they grew about 4-6 inches taller. they look fairly healthy now. I did notice that the leaves would shrink and expand quite a bit over time. the leaves were bigger when they first went outside but i assume they will be ok. here are some pictures from a few days ago.

3 months outside. the past few weeks have been cool and rainy. hopefully they take off when the sun comes out and stays out.