World of Seeds - Strawberry Blue

**NnthStTrls** · 02-07-2012, 04:44 AM

Hey there. Figured I would get this journal started now that my little seedling is "Up and at them".

Grow set up as follows:

Seed: World of seeds - Strawberry Blue

Growing Medium: Soil grow with my own personal add-ins. All natural and home-made.

Lighting: Compact Florescent (If you don't like it, I don't want to hear about it. It's what I have and it's what I'm gonna use)

Grow Space: 33"w x 23"d x 54"h cupboard/closet

Grow Technique: LST and SCROG

Just did an add up of the total output of my bulbs combined and am quite happy with the result.

20,600 Lumens which are being delivered to my plant in the correct PAR range
The combined wattage is 300 watts when all lamps are running.
During veg I won't be running the 125 watt red spectrum bulb to save on energy costs but once flowering begins, it's no holds barred.

seeds arrived. Put one in my dirt mix in a 3 inch pot. Watered in. Covered in plastic wrap and placed on a shelf above my hot water tank. Surrounded by sheets and placed a ceramic floor tile a couple of inches above it. Let sit for 36 hours. Well look there, It's cracked.
Placed back on shelf for another 16 hours and checked again. Starting to push up out of the soil so I helped the seed coat off at this point. Placed under a 125 watt red spectrum floro(I dropped my 85 true-watt blue spectrum

and now await replacements(1. 65 true-watt, 1. 45 true-watt), and put a scrap piece of mylar reflective side down on top of the plastic wrap to dim the light hitting the young seedling to avoid too much stress for it. Now as of this morning the plastic wrap is off and she's getting all the light she needs for the moment.

I plan on vegging for a bit longer than you normally would to help offset the fact that I am using floro's. That's also why I'm going to be using the SCROG technique. I know that using cfl's the lower level buds won't get as much light if I just let the plant grow vertically, so by using the SCROG method I can ensure a good amount of light over the entire plant.

Anyways, I'll probably be doing updates once a week or so for this journal and I'm already looking forward to smoking a perfectly cured bowl of this enticing looking specimen especially since I don't know anyone to buy any buds from where I live and I'll probably only get to smoke 2 or 3 times before my own harvest.

So that's it. The start of my journal. Here's a couple of pics to start us off and remember folks, feel free to comment all you like and I would love for you to share your own pics.

closet.jpg sprout.jpg sprouttile.jpg sproutomatic.jpg screen.jpg

The 2 beer cans contain Trinidad Scorpion Butch T seeds. The hottest peppers on earth!

And let's keep the harshness to a minimum. I can't believe how much negativity I see in the threads here sometimes. Isn't this a stoner's site? Much love. Peace.

**NnthStTrls** · 02-07-2012, 04:47 AM

As an update to this previously written start, the first of my blue spectrum bulbs (65 true-watt) has arrived and been installed next to a red one of the same wattage. I'll be adding the 45 as soon as it arrives. The little lady is looking lovely and I can't wait to see her progress after I get home (I'll be away from tomorrow evening until next Tuesday).

**Darth Budder** · 02-07-2012, 04:50 AM

Looks good man, I'm subbed.

**tactile** · 02-07-2012, 04:54 AM

Was this a freebie from attitude?
I'm also using some cfl's to grow.
Will check in on your progress, good luck man!

**NnthStTrls** · 02-07-2012, 07:51 AM

Originally Posted by tactile

Was this a freebie from attitude?
I'm also using some cfl's to grow.
Will check in on your progress, good luck man!

Thaks for the luck.

No. I was looking for a strain that would hopefully not be to skunky during flowering and from the researching I did these were amongst my top 3 choices. I'm a big fan of fruit strains and the other two were just supposed to be low odor so I decided to go with this. They were cheap too.

**NnthStTrls** · 02-17-2012, 06:31 AM

Day 12 today since the seed first popped. Charging my camera right now but I'll post pics in an hour or two.

**NnthStTrls** · 02-17-2012, 07:59 AM

Okay. As promised, here are some update pics. The second pic shows the stem splitting that I asked about in a different thread. I was going to leave the plant along for 5 days so I went ahead and transplanted it so that I wouldn't have to worry about it drying up in that time. When I got home and checked it out, I noticed that the stem had split like this. I searched for reasons on RIU and Google'ed the fuck out of it to no avail but here's my theory.
I think that by transplanting it early, the taproot/root system was able to go hog wild with growing room which lead to a growth spurt of sorts in the stem, thus resulting in the split you see here.
Anyways, I'm picking up some cloning/rooting hormone gel tomorrow and I am going to give the split area a light treatment to encourage roots to develop there. I know that given enough time, the plant would do this on it's own but I'm just going to try and give it a jump start.

In the other pics you will see my Trinidad Scorpion seedlings after having been transplanted into their final pot.

In a small pot, there is a bag seed that I picked up from a friend when I as on vacation. I'm going to let it grow indoors for now but I'll probably transplant it to a safe place outdoors in a month or so. If it turns out female, great, but if it turns out male, I don't care that I don't know the genetics, I will be taking some pollen to pollinate one or two buds on my Strawberry Blue female so that I have some seeds for next time. THAT SAID! As an alternative, I may take a clone from the SB and use the colloidal silver technique to produce some pollen and make myself some feminized seeds. We'll see.

So here you go. Day 12 since popping up. Last pics were from the evening of day 1. I'm stoked and will continue to be so as long as things go smoothly. Keep it green folks. Peace.

stemclose.jpg stemsplit.jpg day12.jpg butchtthyme.jpg veglights.jpg vegset.jpg planttemp.jpg

**kevin murphy** · 02-17-2012, 08:01 AM

im subbed mate here for the ride

**NnthStTrls** · 02-17-2012, 09:53 AM

Thanks for joining the journey.
Well I couldn't wait so I just went out and picked up some rooting powder from the garden center. Got home and exposed the part of the stem with the problem. Good news and bad.

The bad first - The problem is worse(the pic of the stem I posted is from Wednesday). The splitting has extended in both directions.
The good news - The stem has DOUBLED in thickness since then and that can't be a bad thing.

Anyways. I went ahead and roughed up the exposed area with a clean razor blade, wet it with a bit of water, put a light coating of rooting powder on, covered it back up with dirt, and lightly watered to get the soil moist.

Fingers crossed and wish this little lady luck. I'll keep this thread updated with all new developments. PEACE.