Hello everyone. Names Odin. I am new to the site but not new to pot. 
Been around growing medical marijuana for many years. Worked with many OG 1970s growers who have been working on their genetics for just as long, to this day. I feel blessed with the knowledge and experience they have bestowed up me throughout the years. Thing is, you can read a book about how to kick someone's ass, but doesn't mean you can actually do it without practice. I don't claim to know it all, cuz face it, know one does. I didn't actually grow my own weed until 2 years ago. Up until that point I had a lot of experience helping other people grow pot, but I still fucked up the first year. Lot of mistakes - I won't get into it.
Anyway, second time around I corrected my errors and went overkill on procedure and for what I had to work with (5 hours peak sunlight, outdoors), I am extremely pleased with the results. Blew my pessimistic predictions out the window.
Here are a couple pics from my gallery of of one of my Cotton Candys and one of my Diesel Goos from my outdoor garden, 2009:
Heres the thing. I have a two problems. I just moved from the middle of nowhere, to the middle of the city. Property... to Apartment. Its for a good reason, don't worry. However, a friend hooked me up with a Phototron cuz he knew I wasn't going to be able to grow. Small apartment. He said he had pretty good success with it using the hydro method but thought it could be vastly improved upon. He just didn't want to fuck with it anymore. Bought it in the 90s. Since its better than nothing I gratefully accepted his gift, knowing the poor reputation these things have.
So the first problem is solved. My second problem is that all that growing knowledge I have, is all outdoor. I don't know jack shit about indoor growing, let alone growing in a little box. So here I am. No one I know has any knowledge of these things besides my friend, and he only tried it once and never again. Seems like a few people have been able to be successful with these things on here, so I am going to do my best to document how my attempt at growing in a Phototron goes. I have read through a couple abandoned grows and will be doing further research as I go along.
Currently, I have two plants inside it. It is the smaller model. Not doing that again. Hate being limited to one type of weed to smoke but I'm already feeling that maximizing the space for one plant is the way to go. My friend told me to grow six...
Probably why his only attempt at indoor failed in this little thing.
So I'll see how these two plants turn out, I'm pissed because one of the clones I got developted spider mites that didn't manifest for about a month after I got them, then quickly spread. So that is my current battle. Been spraying them with Neem oil and its been helping but the war wages on. I don't want to over do it with the Neem oil.
The 3 plants strains I was originally going to grow in the Phototron were as follows:
Cotton Candy - didn't survive the mite invasion, they took it out while I was out of town for a couple days. Couldn't save it. >
Unknown F-1 cross. This strain I obtained the only 4 remaining seeds from a line of genetics that goes back 10 years. Friend who it came from got popped and they burned all his plants, confiscated his seeds. I had the only 4 he gave me shortly before they got him. It appears to be EXTREMELY spider mite resistant. They are on there but they ain't slowing it down. I am preparing to clone it shortly here. Need to keep this strain alive. It smokes awesome too.
Diesel Goo - struggling with the mites but appears to be overcoming it. Also end of the line genetics, however if it continues to struggle I may have to axe it to provide the best possible chance for this F-1 cross (still working on a name for it) to continue. It is mite resistant, and grows at much more rapid pace than the DG does indoors. If I can pull it off, I will be the only person with this strain and I hope to improve upon it further and cross it down the road with something.
Knowledge I crave, and reports I will provide.
I need to smoke a
. I will do my best to get some pictures going.
Odin
Been around growing medical marijuana for many years. Worked with many OG 1970s growers who have been working on their genetics for just as long, to this day. I feel blessed with the knowledge and experience they have bestowed up me throughout the years. Thing is, you can read a book about how to kick someone's ass, but doesn't mean you can actually do it without practice. I don't claim to know it all, cuz face it, know one does. I didn't actually grow my own weed until 2 years ago. Up until that point I had a lot of experience helping other people grow pot, but I still fucked up the first year. Lot of mistakes - I won't get into it.
Anyway, second time around I corrected my errors and went overkill on procedure and for what I had to work with (5 hours peak sunlight, outdoors), I am extremely pleased with the results. Blew my pessimistic predictions out the window.
Here are a couple pics from my gallery of of one of my Cotton Candys and one of my Diesel Goos from my outdoor garden, 2009:
Heres the thing. I have a two problems. I just moved from the middle of nowhere, to the middle of the city. Property... to Apartment. Its for a good reason, don't worry. However, a friend hooked me up with a Phototron cuz he knew I wasn't going to be able to grow. Small apartment. He said he had pretty good success with it using the hydro method but thought it could be vastly improved upon. He just didn't want to fuck with it anymore. Bought it in the 90s. Since its better than nothing I gratefully accepted his gift, knowing the poor reputation these things have.
So the first problem is solved. My second problem is that all that growing knowledge I have, is all outdoor. I don't know jack shit about indoor growing, let alone growing in a little box. So here I am. No one I know has any knowledge of these things besides my friend, and he only tried it once and never again. Seems like a few people have been able to be successful with these things on here, so I am going to do my best to document how my attempt at growing in a Phototron goes. I have read through a couple abandoned grows and will be doing further research as I go along.
Currently, I have two plants inside it. It is the smaller model. Not doing that again. Hate being limited to one type of weed to smoke but I'm already feeling that maximizing the space for one plant is the way to go. My friend told me to grow six...
Probably why his only attempt at indoor failed in this little thing. So I'll see how these two plants turn out, I'm pissed because one of the clones I got developted spider mites that didn't manifest for about a month after I got them, then quickly spread. So that is my current battle. Been spraying them with Neem oil and its been helping but the war wages on. I don't want to over do it with the Neem oil.
The 3 plants strains I was originally going to grow in the Phototron were as follows:
Cotton Candy - didn't survive the mite invasion, they took it out while I was out of town for a couple days. Couldn't save it. >
Unknown F-1 cross. This strain I obtained the only 4 remaining seeds from a line of genetics that goes back 10 years. Friend who it came from got popped and they burned all his plants, confiscated his seeds. I had the only 4 he gave me shortly before they got him. It appears to be EXTREMELY spider mite resistant. They are on there but they ain't slowing it down. I am preparing to clone it shortly here. Need to keep this strain alive. It smokes awesome too.
Diesel Goo - struggling with the mites but appears to be overcoming it. Also end of the line genetics, however if it continues to struggle I may have to axe it to provide the best possible chance for this F-1 cross (still working on a name for it) to continue. It is mite resistant, and grows at much more rapid pace than the DG does indoors. If I can pull it off, I will be the only person with this strain and I hope to improve upon it further and cross it down the road with something.
Knowledge I crave, and reports I will provide.
I need to smoke a
. I will do my best to get some pictures going. Odin
+reps
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