Lights
Veg room:
Apollo 400w Metal Halide (420 True watts @ 100%)
1x red, yellow, blue LED bulbs 13.3w each for I'm calling 40 haven't checked the outlet yet
Flower room: (Veg JELLYFEET/Tesla HPS @ 50% not running LED)
Apollo 600w HPS (640True watts @ 100%)
Current USA LED Strip - Blue 100%/White 100% (200Tw @ 100%)
*After seeing the results Mr. Canuck's Grow on youtube was getting using lower wattage than HID I used some old aquarium lighting I had and measured the wattage from the wall. I added the LED late flower on "A1" when the few tries-chromes I had stopped growing and spreading. I noticed the new trichrome development was THICKER, LONGER = LARGER HEADS*
***LED LIGHT MAY CAUSE BUDS TO HAVE A FLUFFY DENSITY TO THEM***
SOIL:
Happy Frog
Ocean Forest
Kills bugs in their tracks, I physically watched this happen to a flea.
I use this mainly because I have a gnat problem in my area. Gnats don't really hurt your flowers but their larva will demolish your crop in some cases days. I transplanted into contaminated soil. NEVER again. I dump a huge tablespoon full more like 4 reg tbs on the top of soil after watering and it drain out some maybe 10 mins or so. then mix it in the top layer of soil about 1.5-2 inches deep.
****************************************
How to tell if you have black gnat larva problem:
Do you have a a warm moist area in your grow? Yep the soil.
Well thats where black gnats lay their eggs.
Do you see any gnats flying around?
Eventually a plant will start to look like this
then about a week later a different plant
and then you transplant into soil that already has larva in it 2 days later.
My RH is generally great for growing 52-68% naturally with occasional dips. Horrible for drying harvest. (5-7 days for a good dry)
My H20 comes from a 55 gallon fish tank that contains noting but water from tap heated to 68F, Aerated and filtered with FLUVAL 70 3way fish tank filter (activated carbon, mechanical, biological filtration) with a Ph stabilizer at 7.0.
If I get a wild hair I can always get Nitrogen packed water from my 100 gallon "Show" Freshwater setup. Now I typically use this on fruits or veggies outdoors. Ive grown many a things outdoor but I've brought my gardening knowledge over to cannabis cultivation.
********************
Ready, set, grow!
********************
4.14.17
Germinate seeds from GYO and locals
(3rd ever grow cycle)
4.18.17
100% germination rate with solo cup, soil (Happy Frog only seeds nor seedlings need or require nutrients of any kind you could burn them before you ever get started), water, heating pad, clone dome.
4.19.17
Tasks:
Defoliate, Inspect, apply natural preventative insect repellent, water until noticeable in collection tray.
4.20.17
Initiate grow blog.
3 plants from street seeds and 3 clones in veg.
Seedings:
GYO
Cheeseus 3x
Skunk #1 Auto 1x
Street
Hokey 4x
Space Juju 1x
Tasks:
Noticed 6 or so gnats, 1 Flea and 1 fly in the area
Upsize Skunk #1 Auto to 5G pot 2:1 / Happy Frog : Ocean Forest
(This is the first time I've used this soil as I'm getting away from mixing my own with multiple amendments)
Watered in the Skunk #1 to the new pot/soil mixture being very delicate as to not disturb the tap root. I'm told autos do not like to be transplanted. *sounds legit
Watered all seedlings
Added Diatomaceous earth to top soil of every pot as additional insect defense.
celebrated 4.20 in the garden till the lights went off.
******
The above clone is a great example of how much cannabis LOVES LED see how the growth or "Shoot" is leaned and stretched to soak up as much of that 40W LED light over the 400W Metal Halide that is growing everything in the room AKA "The Sun"
******
4.21
Noticed the RH Dropped so I turned the humidifier on high.
My main focus here is on the seedlings so heres a brief run down.
Street seeds are seeds I've found in bags around town
GYO seeds were ordered from their website.
Space Juju
Seed rating (By appearance) C
This came from an afro-american friend of mine and looks like it was from some flowers that ran to long. Known to my friend as "OG Kush", Whatever..
I will say it is the tallest of the seedlings.
Hokey
Seed rating: A,B,C (Fresh off the mother at harvest)
I guess you could say Hokey is a strain of my own. On my first run my lady got to stressed out and popped a few seeds. i know what your thinking fuck! Oh, no this is great! If you know genetics then your likely to have lady seeds since the primary genes are female however their is the tendency for hermi's or males since the strain is new. Hokey's mother is known as "A1"
A1 / Hokey - Mother
ORGIN: Unknown
Seed Rating: A
Lifespan: 6 Months
Flower: 10 Weeks / Harvested at 9
4.22
Tasks check everything, LST, no ones thirsty
Insects: 1 black gnat, 1 flea
RH 47 humidifier should run dry tonite.
4.23
All in order in the veg room the flower room is temp. out of service for between harvest cleaning. Hopefully this will be completed by the end of next week and I can pick a candidate for cloning and then flowering. To really get the perpetual aspect going. Im leaning towards jelly feet.
Looking at the label:
Visual Rating: a
Origin: Oregon, USA
Planted from seed on 1.13 I specifically remember this guy! When I was upsizing a crop at the seedling stage from a tiny maybe 3 oz pot to a solo cup size it was a little drier than expected and Broke him clean in half. Immediately though its gonna be ok ill just treat it like a clone! so finally 2 months later she was ready to upsize from the solo cup to the 2g pot on 3.26 as you can see it was off to a slow start but look at her now. Topped, LST'd and FIM'd.
Prior to placing anything into flower i want to be as sure as possible its healthy in every aspect. If you see a little curl in my leaves its because of my spray on insect repellent something all natural food safe made by bayer combined with the diatomaceous earth my insect deaths or mishaps has remained at 2 plants a 1 killer clone.
Radogast thanks for stopping by hope you learned something here and thanks for hitting like!
4.24
Insects: 3 gnats
All in order watered the Skunk#1 Auto only
Thoughts are maybe ill manifold jelly feet?
or Prep Tesla for flower?
The Youngsters and some temps at the 40W LED is 10 inches from top of skunk #1 in when its been a week ill raise the light an inch or 2.
The above picture is a great example of genotype and phenotype.
Genotyoe- A1 / Hokey because all seeds came from same mother at same time
Phenotype- hint there would be 2 (see that runt) this assembly of alleles didn't suite the environment because i can't even find him.
4.27
Tasks:
Clean flower room
Upsize Jelly Feet to 5 G (1 part happy frog: 2 part Ocean forest + additional root hormone blood meal) and place in flower room
18/6 600w HPS @ 50%
General Maintenance
Having a flair up of the gnats (about 4) so i applied additional diatomaceous earth to top soil and catch tray.
****************************************************************Aloe germination experiment was a success. I cut a slit with a razor blade in a live aloe plane and ticked a seed inside and pinched it closed making sure the seed was about .25 in inside the aloe. Shockingly i checked at 12 hours and was unlocked with tap root showing so i placed in soil and will continue this A1/Hokey Genotype the Phenotype will be outdoor.
Genotype: A1/Hokey
Phenotype: Will it look the same as its indoor mother? If yes it will display the same characteristics as the other A1/Hokey Seedlings indoors and will be able to call it the same Phenotype since Geno plays a more dominate role in survival phenotype are going to look different due to their environmental conditions.
4.29
Ok wow have i been busy the past few days! I've made some lighting changes cleaned the flower room when I'm all done ill post pix about to upsize 2 cheeseus because TR is coming out of the bottom of the solo cup size but note its only on node 2 and it is the same age as skunk #1 auto in my "Social sciences experimental auto flower journal" which as fate has it is easier but fuck documenting perpetual to an audience thats a task! if it was for myself it would be very cryptic i should try that out for a week and see if you guys catch on.
****2 Month update******
!!Purchased FOX FARM DIRTY DOZEN TODAY 116$
GYO Skunk #1 Auto
Began to show sex approx 1 month and continued to grow and flower with lightening speed and is now approx 1 meter. The buds are swelling more everyday. The pistils or "Hairs" are beginning to turn red. Ive been told by someone with many years of experience this means your approx 3 weeks away from final watering/flush/dark period/harvest depending on how the crop looks up to 14 weeks for some "Exotic" strains (Shout out to "The Grateful Grower" on youtube for his willingness to share his data).
Remains under veg light cycle
TRICROMES ARE CLEAR AND BUDS ARE NOT RIPE FOR HARVEST
BELOW WE SEE "CHEESEUS" FROM BIG BUDDHA ALL POPPED ON SAME DAY
HERE WE HAVE TESLA MY EXPERIMENT WITH TOPPING, LST, FIMMING, AND OTHER METHODS TO ACHIEVE A MANIFOLD
H.O.T.
NOW HERE WE HAVE MY OWN GENETICS HAHA NOT SO STRONG AS THEY ARE FROM 2 UNKNOWN ORGINS BUT LETS CONTINUE TO PUSH IT TO THE MAX SHALL WE :}
JELLYFEET
BEGAN TO SPLIT AT FLUX SITE SHE LIVED BUT IM LEARING THE SOIL DOES AGE WITH TIME AND EVEN THE BIG POTS WILL NEED TO UPSIZED. SO I USED HER AS CLONE DONOR
BAG SEED GENETICS AKA "OG KUSH" IDK BUT THESE LADIES ARE EXPLODING!!!
TILL NEXT TIME
GROW SLOW
#WORLD_PEACE_2_DAY
Veg room:
Apollo 400w Metal Halide (420 True watts @ 100%)
1x red, yellow, blue LED bulbs 13.3w each for I'm calling 40 haven't checked the outlet yet
Flower room: (Veg JELLYFEET/Tesla HPS @ 50% not running LED)
Apollo 600w HPS (640True watts @ 100%)
Current USA LED Strip - Blue 100%/White 100% (200Tw @ 100%)
*After seeing the results Mr. Canuck's Grow on youtube was getting using lower wattage than HID I used some old aquarium lighting I had and measured the wattage from the wall. I added the LED late flower on "A1" when the few tries-chromes I had stopped growing and spreading. I noticed the new trichrome development was THICKER, LONGER = LARGER HEADS*
***LED LIGHT MAY CAUSE BUDS TO HAVE A FLUFFY DENSITY TO THEM***
SOIL:
Happy Frog
Ocean Forest
Kills bugs in their tracks, I physically watched this happen to a flea.
I use this mainly because I have a gnat problem in my area. Gnats don't really hurt your flowers but their larva will demolish your crop in some cases days. I transplanted into contaminated soil. NEVER again. I dump a huge tablespoon full more like 4 reg tbs on the top of soil after watering and it drain out some maybe 10 mins or so. then mix it in the top layer of soil about 1.5-2 inches deep.
****************************************
How to tell if you have black gnat larva problem:
Do you have a a warm moist area in your grow? Yep the soil.
Well thats where black gnats lay their eggs.
Do you see any gnats flying around?
Eventually a plant will start to look like this
then about a week later a different plant
and then you transplant into soil that already has larva in it 2 days later.
My RH is generally great for growing 52-68% naturally with occasional dips. Horrible for drying harvest. (5-7 days for a good dry)
My H20 comes from a 55 gallon fish tank that contains noting but water from tap heated to 68F, Aerated and filtered with FLUVAL 70 3way fish tank filter (activated carbon, mechanical, biological filtration) with a Ph stabilizer at 7.0.
If I get a wild hair I can always get Nitrogen packed water from my 100 gallon "Show" Freshwater setup. Now I typically use this on fruits or veggies outdoors. Ive grown many a things outdoor but I've brought my gardening knowledge over to cannabis cultivation.
********************
Ready, set, grow!
********************
4.14.17
Germinate seeds from GYO and locals
(3rd ever grow cycle)
4.18.17
100% germination rate with solo cup, soil (Happy Frog only seeds nor seedlings need or require nutrients of any kind you could burn them before you ever get started), water, heating pad, clone dome.
4.19.17
Tasks:
Defoliate, Inspect, apply natural preventative insect repellent, water until noticeable in collection tray.
4.20.17
Initiate grow blog.
3 plants from street seeds and 3 clones in veg.
Seedings:
GYO
Cheeseus 3x
Skunk #1 Auto 1x
Street
Hokey 4x
Space Juju 1x
Tasks:
Noticed 6 or so gnats, 1 Flea and 1 fly in the area
Upsize Skunk #1 Auto to 5G pot 2:1 / Happy Frog : Ocean Forest
(This is the first time I've used this soil as I'm getting away from mixing my own with multiple amendments)
Watered in the Skunk #1 to the new pot/soil mixture being very delicate as to not disturb the tap root. I'm told autos do not like to be transplanted. *sounds legit
Watered all seedlings
Added Diatomaceous earth to top soil of every pot as additional insect defense.
celebrated 4.20 in the garden till the lights went off.
******
The above clone is a great example of how much cannabis LOVES LED see how the growth or "Shoot" is leaned and stretched to soak up as much of that 40W LED light over the 400W Metal Halide that is growing everything in the room AKA "The Sun"
******
4.21
Noticed the RH Dropped so I turned the humidifier on high.
My main focus here is on the seedlings so heres a brief run down.
Street seeds are seeds I've found in bags around town
GYO seeds were ordered from their website.
Space Juju
Seed rating (By appearance) C
This came from an afro-american friend of mine and looks like it was from some flowers that ran to long. Known to my friend as "OG Kush", Whatever..
I will say it is the tallest of the seedlings.
Hokey
Seed rating: A,B,C (Fresh off the mother at harvest)
I guess you could say Hokey is a strain of my own. On my first run my lady got to stressed out and popped a few seeds. i know what your thinking fuck! Oh, no this is great! If you know genetics then your likely to have lady seeds since the primary genes are female however their is the tendency for hermi's or males since the strain is new. Hokey's mother is known as "A1"
A1 / Hokey - Mother
ORGIN: Unknown
Seed Rating: A
Lifespan: 6 Months
Flower: 10 Weeks / Harvested at 9
4.22
Tasks check everything, LST, no ones thirsty
Insects: 1 black gnat, 1 flea
RH 47 humidifier should run dry tonite.
4.23
All in order in the veg room the flower room is temp. out of service for between harvest cleaning. Hopefully this will be completed by the end of next week and I can pick a candidate for cloning and then flowering. To really get the perpetual aspect going. Im leaning towards jelly feet.
Looking at the label:
Visual Rating: a
Origin: Oregon, USA
Planted from seed on 1.13 I specifically remember this guy! When I was upsizing a crop at the seedling stage from a tiny maybe 3 oz pot to a solo cup size it was a little drier than expected and Broke him clean in half. Immediately though its gonna be ok ill just treat it like a clone! so finally 2 months later she was ready to upsize from the solo cup to the 2g pot on 3.26 as you can see it was off to a slow start but look at her now. Topped, LST'd and FIM'd.
Prior to placing anything into flower i want to be as sure as possible its healthy in every aspect. If you see a little curl in my leaves its because of my spray on insect repellent something all natural food safe made by bayer combined with the diatomaceous earth my insect deaths or mishaps has remained at 2 plants a 1 killer clone.
Radogast thanks for stopping by hope you learned something here and thanks for hitting like!
4.24
Insects: 3 gnats
All in order watered the Skunk#1 Auto only
Thoughts are maybe ill manifold jelly feet?
or Prep Tesla for flower?
The Youngsters and some temps at the 40W LED is 10 inches from top of skunk #1 in when its been a week ill raise the light an inch or 2.
The above picture is a great example of genotype and phenotype.
Genotyoe- A1 / Hokey because all seeds came from same mother at same time
Phenotype- hint there would be 2 (see that runt) this assembly of alleles didn't suite the environment because i can't even find him.
4.27
Tasks:
Clean flower room
Upsize Jelly Feet to 5 G (1 part happy frog: 2 part Ocean forest + additional root hormone blood meal) and place in flower room
18/6 600w HPS @ 50%
General Maintenance
Having a flair up of the gnats (about 4) so i applied additional diatomaceous earth to top soil and catch tray.
****************************************************************Aloe germination experiment was a success. I cut a slit with a razor blade in a live aloe plane and ticked a seed inside and pinched it closed making sure the seed was about .25 in inside the aloe. Shockingly i checked at 12 hours and was unlocked with tap root showing so i placed in soil and will continue this A1/Hokey Genotype the Phenotype will be outdoor.
Genotype: A1/Hokey
Phenotype: Will it look the same as its indoor mother? If yes it will display the same characteristics as the other A1/Hokey Seedlings indoors and will be able to call it the same Phenotype since Geno plays a more dominate role in survival phenotype are going to look different due to their environmental conditions.
4.29
Ok wow have i been busy the past few days! I've made some lighting changes cleaned the flower room when I'm all done ill post pix about to upsize 2 cheeseus because TR is coming out of the bottom of the solo cup size but note its only on node 2 and it is the same age as skunk #1 auto in my "Social sciences experimental auto flower journal" which as fate has it is easier but fuck documenting perpetual to an audience thats a task! if it was for myself it would be very cryptic i should try that out for a week and see if you guys catch on.
****2 Month update******
!!Purchased FOX FARM DIRTY DOZEN TODAY 116$
GYO Skunk #1 Auto
Began to show sex approx 1 month and continued to grow and flower with lightening speed and is now approx 1 meter. The buds are swelling more everyday. The pistils or "Hairs" are beginning to turn red. Ive been told by someone with many years of experience this means your approx 3 weeks away from final watering/flush/dark period/harvest depending on how the crop looks up to 14 weeks for some "Exotic" strains (Shout out to "The Grateful Grower" on youtube for his willingness to share his data).
Remains under veg light cycle
TRICROMES ARE CLEAR AND BUDS ARE NOT RIPE FOR HARVEST
BELOW WE SEE "CHEESEUS" FROM BIG BUDDHA ALL POPPED ON SAME DAY
HERE WE HAVE TESLA MY EXPERIMENT WITH TOPPING, LST, FIMMING, AND OTHER METHODS TO ACHIEVE A MANIFOLD
H.O.T.
NOW HERE WE HAVE MY OWN GENETICS HAHA NOT SO STRONG AS THEY ARE FROM 2 UNKNOWN ORGINS BUT LETS CONTINUE TO PUSH IT TO THE MAX SHALL WE :}
JELLYFEET
BEGAN TO SPLIT AT FLUX SITE SHE LIVED BUT IM LEARING THE SOIL DOES AGE WITH TIME AND EVEN THE BIG POTS WILL NEED TO UPSIZED. SO I USED HER AS CLONE DONOR
BAG SEED GENETICS AKA "OG KUSH" IDK BUT THESE LADIES ARE EXPLODING!!!
TILL NEXT TIME
GROW SLOW
#WORLD_PEACE_2_DAY
