thistle3583
New Member
This is my first journal, and really my first grow. I've been lurking on boards and slowly building my grow room over the last 6 months. I ended up with a pre-fab tent for a flowering room with a 600W HPS cooled light. The light is cooled with a fan that draws air from the tent through a filter and the ducted hot air is exhausted out of the tent. I use 250W CFL's for veg/cloning and am in the process of building a bubble cloner.
Since this is my first journal, I'll copy/paste the questions listed.
What strain is it?
NYC Diesel and Super Silver Haze from a Dutch company.
Is it Indica, Sativa or Hybrid?
Both are hybrids, percentages unknown. The NYCD has indica growth habits and the SSH seems mostly sativa.
Is it in Veg or Flower stage?
Both
If in Veg... For how long?
Moms vegged for 30 days
If in Flower stage... For how long?
NYCD - 58 days
SSH - 30 days
Indoor, hydro, ebb and flow, 4' X 4' table, 40 gal reservoir
Size of light?
Aircooled, 600W HPS
Temp of Room/cab?
62-72 (78 middle of table)
RH of Room/cab?
55-65%
pH of media or res?
ph 6.0 ppm 1340
Any Pests ?
White flys
How often are you watering?
Moms - when they need it
Table floods for 20 minutes q 6hr
Water changed q 2-4 weeks
Type and strength of ferts used?
General Hydroponics Grow, Bloom, Micro
This is kind of a practice grow. I will post photos of the set up and plants tonight. I welcome all comments, but please remember I am very new and am learning on the fly.
I am learning about these strains. While lurking on boards like this one night wishing I had some weed I clicked on a seed ad and ordered some NYD Diesel without doing much more research than reading about it on a forum somewhere. I didn't know anything about feminized seeds so I just ordered the pot-luck 10 pack and nervously waited for the fuzz to show up at my door to ask about the suspicious package arriving from Holland. Fortunately, the internet does offer some degree of anonymity and the NSA has not trained it's sleuthing supercomputers on poor old doods that just want some relief for migraines yet so the seeds arrived packaged discretely. In addition to the NYCD, the company I ordered from sent along 5 seeds of Super Silver Haze.
I've spent the last several months growing these and selecting vigorous females to make into moms. I also have a strain from a bag that my friends and I call M&M because it was Medical Marijuana (still a rarity in our neck of the woods). The result is that I have three strains (NYCD, SSH, M&M) cloned to soil for a future perpetual harvest grow and two strains (NYCD, SSH) currently in the flower room at different ages.
The flowering NYCD was really treated badly early. I cloned her then had to go out of town after only 5 days, so I just put them in the flower room and figured they would be dead when I got back. The result is they are at Day 58 of flowering, Day 62 post cloning. They have struggled mightily and won't win any photo contests but they do have some nicely developing buds with crystals I'm gonna have to start watching soon.
The flowering SSH were also mistreated, but not as badly. I had to put them in the flowering room without any opportunity to veg. Some of them stretched alarmingly and some struggled to live due to crowding from a previous group of older plants. In spite of my attempts to move them around to balance light exposure, some of them were just runts that should have been culled. Remember I'm new at this and intentionally killing one of my babies that I've fretted over for weeks is not something I am good at yet. I did not know about low stress training, so I just bent some of them over at the side and wove them together to keep them from touching the light. I don't think this strain is suitable for my indoor purposes but I plan to train the clones I have of it to large pots and grow them with my tomatos on the patio.
The M&M has been a wonderful surprise. I grew out a half dozen plants and had an average of about 1.5 oz each that was very nice. It appears to be indica or indica dominant. Any educated guesses about it's actual strain would be welcome. I've heard from a friend who heard from a friend that it came from a SoCal dispensary and my friends and I theorized there must have been some herm qualities due to the presence of seeds. It's the only batch from a dispensary I've ever seen so I don't know if this is common or not. That story could be just b.s. and I somehow ended up with someones homegrow. Good homegrow though. I'm currently training her to produce the first set of clones for a perpetual harvest.
Going to post pics...
Since this is my first journal, I'll copy/paste the questions listed.
What strain is it?
NYC Diesel and Super Silver Haze from a Dutch company.
Is it Indica, Sativa or Hybrid?
Both are hybrids, percentages unknown. The NYCD has indica growth habits and the SSH seems mostly sativa.
Is it in Veg or Flower stage?
Both
If in Veg... For how long?
Moms vegged for 30 days
If in Flower stage... For how long?
NYCD - 58 days
SSH - 30 days
Indoor, hydro, ebb and flow, 4' X 4' table, 40 gal reservoir
Size of light?
Aircooled, 600W HPS
Temp of Room/cab?
62-72 (78 middle of table)
RH of Room/cab?
55-65%
pH of media or res?
ph 6.0 ppm 1340
Any Pests ?
White flys
How often are you watering?
Moms - when they need it
Table floods for 20 minutes q 6hr
Water changed q 2-4 weeks
Type and strength of ferts used?
General Hydroponics Grow, Bloom, Micro
This is kind of a practice grow. I will post photos of the set up and plants tonight. I welcome all comments, but please remember I am very new and am learning on the fly.
I am learning about these strains. While lurking on boards like this one night wishing I had some weed I clicked on a seed ad and ordered some NYD Diesel without doing much more research than reading about it on a forum somewhere. I didn't know anything about feminized seeds so I just ordered the pot-luck 10 pack and nervously waited for the fuzz to show up at my door to ask about the suspicious package arriving from Holland. Fortunately, the internet does offer some degree of anonymity and the NSA has not trained it's sleuthing supercomputers on poor old doods that just want some relief for migraines yet so the seeds arrived packaged discretely. In addition to the NYCD, the company I ordered from sent along 5 seeds of Super Silver Haze.
I've spent the last several months growing these and selecting vigorous females to make into moms. I also have a strain from a bag that my friends and I call M&M because it was Medical Marijuana (still a rarity in our neck of the woods). The result is that I have three strains (NYCD, SSH, M&M) cloned to soil for a future perpetual harvest grow and two strains (NYCD, SSH) currently in the flower room at different ages.
The flowering NYCD was really treated badly early. I cloned her then had to go out of town after only 5 days, so I just put them in the flower room and figured they would be dead when I got back. The result is they are at Day 58 of flowering, Day 62 post cloning. They have struggled mightily and won't win any photo contests but they do have some nicely developing buds with crystals I'm gonna have to start watching soon.
The flowering SSH were also mistreated, but not as badly. I had to put them in the flowering room without any opportunity to veg. Some of them stretched alarmingly and some struggled to live due to crowding from a previous group of older plants. In spite of my attempts to move them around to balance light exposure, some of them were just runts that should have been culled. Remember I'm new at this and intentionally killing one of my babies that I've fretted over for weeks is not something I am good at yet. I did not know about low stress training, so I just bent some of them over at the side and wove them together to keep them from touching the light. I don't think this strain is suitable for my indoor purposes but I plan to train the clones I have of it to large pots and grow them with my tomatos on the patio.
The M&M has been a wonderful surprise. I grew out a half dozen plants and had an average of about 1.5 oz each that was very nice. It appears to be indica or indica dominant. Any educated guesses about it's actual strain would be welcome. I've heard from a friend who heard from a friend that it came from a SoCal dispensary and my friends and I theorized there must have been some herm qualities due to the presence of seeds. It's the only batch from a dispensary I've ever seen so I don't know if this is common or not. That story could be just b.s. and I somehow ended up with someones homegrow. Good homegrow though. I'm currently training her to produce the first set of clones for a perpetual harvest.
Going to post pics...
Your grow is looking good man! One of my favorite strains is the Diesel, I love it's smell and taste. I'll keep checkin back to see how this goes for you. (looks good so far!)
