My transition from soil to Coco: A new beginning

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I've been following some of the bigger members of this magazine so I'm suffering from a small bit of stage fright.
I'm going to try and post some photographs off my existing grow which is just finishing. I have another grow in veg just about to go into flower. I have also 24 regular seeds planted in Coco. Some of these seeds are homemade.

I only grow for personal use. So yield is not an issue but efficiency is. I always try and improve on the last grow.

 

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Welcome Triumph, looking pretty good in the garden.

 

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The ones under the orange light are about a week from finishing. There is 3 AKS and one white widow. There under a 400 watts HPS.
that room normally has a 600w HPS.
The plants in veg are under a homemade LED. It's pulling about 120 Watts from the wall it's supplemented with a 30 wash LED.

My reason for changing from soil to Coco is total frustration with lack of control .

 

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Thank you penny.
The girls get a lot of pampering.

 

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Thank you penny.
The girls get a lot of pampering.

 

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I must learn how to stop doing that. Lol
The small pots in the flower room are the new seeds in Coco.
They are regular seeds so I have them in the flowering room until they show sex then I will re_veg them.

 

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You going to cull the males?

 

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I might grow a male from one of my crosses.
Jack Herer x papaya . It smells divine.

 

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But yes the poor chaps will be culled

 

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I hope to do some seed increases this summer.

 

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Have you ever created any intesesting strain?
I have noticed that the seed banks are offering less Regular seeds.

 

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A new problem.
But not necessarily a bad one. lol.
The growth in coco has taken me by surprise.

planted 21 day ago.

 

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There still under 12/12 . Until they show there little bits. ( regular seeds ).
They might be a bit stretchy because of the hps light.
So.

Back under the LED.

 

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I only want 4 plants out of the 24.
The last planting off 8 seeds give me 7 males.
At those odds I won't even get 4 female's.

 

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a little paleness is appearing in some of the plants.
Do I increase the strength or water more often?

 

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I just want to throw a question out there.
How does one increase their odds of getting female plants.
1 from 8 are bad odds.

 

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This was the White Widow this morning.
She couldn't take the light.
Where as the ak 48 appear under no stress.

 

[Camaro1691]

I've been following some of the bigger members of this magazine so I'm suffering from a small bit of stage fright.
I'm going to try and post some photographs off my existing grow which is just finishing. I have another grow in veg just about to go into flower. I have also 24 regular seeds planted in Coco. Some of these seeds are homemade.

I only grow for personal use. So yield is not an issue but efficiency is. I always try and improve on the last grow.

Welcome to Triumph, no need for stage fright, your plants look plenty happy and show you have an idea what your doing. I don’t know how to increase odds of not getting males, other than getting feminized seeds. Which sounds like something your trying to avoid and I don’t blame you. But I personally have had bag seed males ruin crops before which sucks... either way welcome along and cheers mate

 

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Thank you Camaro1691.
I've been reading that the sex hasn't been decided until they're about 3 weeks old.
So I keep them on 12/12 until I'm sure.
I do buy fem. seeds from time to time.
I have a Moby Dick and a critical in there.

The rest of them are home produced seeds.
Unpredictable I know, but they have yet to disappoint.

 

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During a recent tidy up all the markers and pins were put into a mug. Including a selection of whiteboard markers.
Now I have 24 labels, 18 of them blank.
I guess it's going to be a guessing game.

This is not a major problem.
As I only want 4 girls going forward from these 24 plants.