First, I'll start with a little background. I had a few grows back in the 70's and now finding myself a medical marijuana user due to not being able to take narcotic pain meds for my back (post surgery for a ruptured disk 3 years ago), I decided to get back to growing my own.
I really didn't know much about what I was doing back then, but the few grows I did were fairly successful. I remember that I used some plastic restaurant bus trays filled with lava rock. I drilled holes in the bottom of the trays and it was a passive hydro system using the cheap soil ferts that came with the 400 MH light I bought back then.
Despite my complete ignorance and lack of guidance (no forums like this back then), I managed to grow some bud.
So, when I decided to get back to growing, I wanted a strain that was really easy. I lurked here and in other forums and read about how easy lowryder was to grow and decided to order some seeds.
I wanted to do a seed grow first so I ordered 10 regular lowryder seeds from a seed bank.
The seeds arrived in only a week but three of them were crushed. In any case, I planted the remaining seven directly in soil in a Tupperware tub.
I have to talk about my first lowryder grow a bit because my second grow is from the seeds I made from this first grow.
All seven seeds sprouted after 3-4 days and I did my best to water and feed them appropriately while I semi-patiently waited for them to flower.
Ok, this is where things took an unexpected turn. The plants were healthy and growing well, but they wouldn't auto-flower. They stayed in veg for over six weeks until I finally changed them to 12/12 and they showed sex in about another week.
By this time, they had grown much bigger than any lowryders I had seen on this forum and others. I had two males and five females. The two males and two of the females were pretty tall when they finally flowered.
There were three phenos. One female was a micro and yielded one bowl. Two females were average in height for lowryders, and the remaining two males and two females were much larger at over 30" when they finally showed their sex.
The plants were in a tool cabinet until they outgrew it and then I put them in the outdoor shed. Temperatures in the shed during the winter months were colder than ideal and I later thought this might have been what delayed flowering as I had read somewhere that you can keep lowryder in veg with root temps below 60.
I pollinated the two larger females with the pollen from the two large males and they produced lots of seeds. The buds were extremely seedy but I got just over one ounce of smoke all together.
That's all for this post. I want to see if the pics load and then I'll start posting pics of my second grow.
I really didn't know much about what I was doing back then, but the few grows I did were fairly successful. I remember that I used some plastic restaurant bus trays filled with lava rock. I drilled holes in the bottom of the trays and it was a passive hydro system using the cheap soil ferts that came with the 400 MH light I bought back then.
Despite my complete ignorance and lack of guidance (no forums like this back then), I managed to grow some bud.
So, when I decided to get back to growing, I wanted a strain that was really easy. I lurked here and in other forums and read about how easy lowryder was to grow and decided to order some seeds.
I wanted to do a seed grow first so I ordered 10 regular lowryder seeds from a seed bank.
The seeds arrived in only a week but three of them were crushed. In any case, I planted the remaining seven directly in soil in a Tupperware tub.
I have to talk about my first lowryder grow a bit because my second grow is from the seeds I made from this first grow.
All seven seeds sprouted after 3-4 days and I did my best to water and feed them appropriately while I semi-patiently waited for them to flower.
Ok, this is where things took an unexpected turn. The plants were healthy and growing well, but they wouldn't auto-flower. They stayed in veg for over six weeks until I finally changed them to 12/12 and they showed sex in about another week.
By this time, they had grown much bigger than any lowryders I had seen on this forum and others. I had two males and five females. The two males and two of the females were pretty tall when they finally flowered.
There were three phenos. One female was a micro and yielded one bowl. Two females were average in height for lowryders, and the remaining two males and two females were much larger at over 30" when they finally showed their sex.
The plants were in a tool cabinet until they outgrew it and then I put them in the outdoor shed. Temperatures in the shed during the winter months were colder than ideal and I later thought this might have been what delayed flowering as I had read somewhere that you can keep lowryder in veg with root temps below 60.
I pollinated the two larger females with the pollen from the two large males and they produced lots of seeds. The buds were extremely seedy but I got just over one ounce of smoke all together.
That's all for this post. I want to see if the pics load and then I'll start posting pics of my second grow.