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Update:
When I woke up for work today the last Bomber had cracked. That's a 100% germ rate over 13 beans, compared to 7 out of 22 bagseeds I achieved a year ago. One of the Diesel Ryders, 201, has broken soil. 201 is a good bit ahead of the other ones and will probably go under a blue light tonight.
I'll just take some time now to outline the problems I had last grow and what I've done to fix them.
1) Genetics - last grow was all hermie bagseed, this time bought from Attitude and local seedbanks. I know you can have great success with bagseed, but good stable genes do stack the odds in your favour.
2) Lights - last time used standard HPS from seed to flower (which probably didn't help with the herm situation), now i have some blue cfls and one soft daylight cfl all for seedling/clone stages and an advanced spectrum HPS for veg and flower.
3) Temp/Humidity/Air pressure - this probably contributed to the herm problem too because i was always running in the high 80s before. I only had one fan sucking air out and a passive duct to allow fresh air in. Now I have an exit fan connected to a cooltube for the light, AND a fan blowing fresh air in at a higher cfm than the exit fan. I think this means i should see a good 10-15 degree drop in temps and a good jump in humidity. I've got a speed dial for one of the fans, so i can tune this to suit my needs.
4) Watering - i was always either over watering or neglecting them, by the time i got it down, i could see they weren't going to yield well so i kind of gave up. Now i'm more aware and have decided to measure soil moistness before watering too. I'm also going to do some hydro so even if i still fuck up watering my soil ones, i'll get something
5) Feeding - I only really over fed a few of them once, but i was always underfeeding slightly. this screwed me when i misread the directions on my supplements and cut regular nutrient TO 33% instead of BY 33%. Now i've revised my feeding regimen and will take proper care. the only thing that worries me a little is the hydro, but i'm a quick learner and i understand it's not how much you feed, its how long you run the feeding.
6) Stress - i wanted to experiment with lst but i got a little carried away and didn't know my own strength so i seriously damaged some plants. This time i'm just growing single cola so all i'm going to do is strengthen the main stalk. I might tie down the plants in hydro because they'll probably grom much bigger but only if i have to.
7) Patience - didn't let plants recover from stress long enough before flowering, harvested after seven weeks 12/12. i'm expecting my first harvest in nine weeks so i can afford to give all my 300 series plants a proper veg. I will have enough time to take clones, root them and veg them a bit before starting 300's flowering. when i have the resources i am going to build a dresser chamber for a few mothers so i can run perpetual. then i'm laughing.
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