update:

the 304 Hindu Kush has sprouted, seedling has opened up and is looking good so far. 305 Super Skunk has started to sprout too, they were germed a day apart so this is looking good. both were just planted out of the bag into peat pellets without cracking first and both have made it so far so i might just skip the germination step in the future.

201 is still catching up, but the second set is deffinitely there. the one leaf on the first set is still fucked, i blame the sprout only having one cotyledon. the rest of the 200s are doing really well, we're almost three hours into day eleven and they're working on their third set. some of them have really strong root systems, others not so much, but i still have them all in the ghetto starter plugs i made. i will transplant for their first time on sunday.

i fiddled with the fans and exhaust some more and got temps down around 82-84. i will operate in this range when flowering the 200s but if need be i still have some options to lower it even further for round three. when i have more money i will probably buy several more fans.

i am 99% finished building my bubbler dwc system, all i NEED is to patch up one leak with some caulking but i will buy a chiller too because my high temps worry me about res. temps. that said, i'm anxious to start flowering some chronic.

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UPDATE:

all fifteen seedlings were transplanted into party cups today. i took a picture of them (roughly 2 weeks since initial contact with water) before transplanting and i'll take some tomorrow to compare.

my room is 95% complete, all i have to do is put up the finishing touches of panda-poly and seal some small air leaks around the door. temps are in the LOW 80s with the light on, will probably drop to low/mid 70s with the light off. the 600W enhanced spectrum bulb is beautiful.

about half the seedlings are working on their third set of true leaves, the other half not far behind. super skunk (305) has an incredibly advanced root system for it's age which will only be made better by transplanting. as it is, i've got the 300 series still under a single 26w cool white (6500k) cfl but i've put the 200s under the 600W HPS. we will see what this does for them over the next few days. the light is just over a foot away right now.

when i transplanted, roots had started to grow out of the bottom of my egg carton plugs. i left the bottoms on when i planted so as not to damage the roots. it's just cardboard anyway, i'm not concerned. if anything, it anchors the plant in better and helps for even root distribution.

seven more weeks before i chop down the 200s, if everything goes well. i can't wait to see the growth spurt they'll have over the next two or three weeks.

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UPDATE:

new vegetative growth noticed on the 200s, i guess this means they've started to take to the bigger cups. they are now on 20/4 light cycle. i have finished tweaking the room and i've got temps in the mid 70s with the light on.

i am very proud of myself but could not have done it without an experienced buddy of mine. he told me to cut a hole in my door three time as large as my exhust hole, for passive air intake. this allowed me to use my smaller fan to cool the bulb using fresh air from outside the room, and exhausting directly out the room. the main exhaust fan is running on full blast sucking air from the room through a carbon filter and out. both exhaust holes are at the top of the door and the intake holes are at the bottom. i can't have my curtain closed all the way and there's a 14 inch hole in my door so a good deal of light escapes right now. i will have to strategically hang more poly to combat this as best i can. i can have the curtain closed fully when the light is off and still see a minor drop in temps, so light leaks IN are less of a concern.

the 300s are still under the blue cfl but are starting to grow again themselves. i'm not in a hurry for them, the longer they stay out of the room the better for the 200s. i think a lot of the 300s will be males anyway, call it a strange feeling. one of the bombers' cups fell and spilt it everywhere, but i scooped it up as soon as i noticed (5 hours later). i hope this isn't too harmful for it.

pics coming in two days max.

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Starting to look like some happy little sprouts!

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yeah.. they're still a little saggy from the last time i watered them, but the cups are drying up pretty quickly so the roots should start searching faster. once i have to water the cups, they should look a lot different.

201 still looks like shit though.. not a lot of recent growth. i'm thinking of mixing some cloning gel in with it's water to stimulate new roots

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UPDATE:

so far i've LOST 201 and one more from the 200s. another one is on it's way out too. i'm so bummed. it is not the seeds, it's my room. everything is perfect except one thing: humidity. it's averaging 25%. ive tried every simple solution i can think of but to no avail. two reasons: i live in an appartment building so lower air pressure, and my fan is way too powerful. i need the fan to keep temps down though. i'm hating myself right now... i've done my best to ensure nothing bad happens to the rest of them.. i'd take pictures but i'm not in the mood to share these results.

on the other hand, the 300 series are all vegging away in the bin still, seeing some new growth on all of them. i'm proud of my hindu kush because it looks like all the pics of real hk i've seen here. the super skunk's first set of fan leaves are HUGE. two of the bombers are more stretchy than the third, who looks very healthy right now. too bad they're still so small. i'm not a fan of this waiting game...

other than the upcoming funerals i have, i think everything should go smoothly. it's my fault for letting the plants dry up like that, and i had the circulation fan blowing directly on them on full (stupidest thing to do in hindsight). i've since moved the fan further back and turned it down, and watered all the survivors. i will look into more complex ways to raise humidity, but with that in-line fan going, i don't expect much.

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UPDATE:

two of the diesel ryders have started flowering! they're about an inch taller than the other plants now. still too early for me to tell gender, but i'm thinking they're males. the hindu kush and super skunk that i put under the 600W are by far my healthiest plants; they were the ones started in peat plugs instead of the makeshift ones i made. they were fed a lighter nute solution along with the remaining 200s and have exploded since. i gave them all a foliar feeding with purplemaxx just now and i'll check for results after work.

i'm going to get some more pics up soon, but the batteries for my camera are fucked and not holding a charge whatsoever...

the b52 bombers are still under the cfl, i won't be moving them into the room until i've removed my diesel ryder males. they're about the same size as my smallest diesel ryder, and have not been fed nutes yet. they will be asking for them soon.

i am going to FIM the kush and skunk plants very soon and try to keep the tops alive as clones so i can find their gender sooner. probably a week after that i will do the same with the b52s. the diesels will not be topped, i want to see how they grow naturally first. they are supposed to yield up to an ounce per plant and i want it to be as concentrated as possible. also, the reason i'm fimming the other ones is so i can take clones off the females to flower. i think i can fit more than twelve plants in my space (3gal buckets) but i might go for fewer and grow some in larger pots. either way, if i have 2 or three mothers i'll be able to take larger clones and save some time. i cannot keep mothers right now, so the entire plant will be used for clones.

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UPDATE:

I was right about the Diesel Ryders being male, but having said that the other five have started to flower and they're all female! 50% living females was all I could hope for from the seeds and I got it. I killed the two males, I didn't want to bother with the seeds because I won't be growing here from much longer.

All the other ones are under the light too, ALL plants have been transplanted into 3 gal pots. Hindu kush and super skunk are looking very nice but with some yellowing on the bottom leaves. I fed higher doses to them to combat this. The bombers are okay, stunted growth for some reason but they're catching up. They're on the nutes now too.

When I transplanted, I layed down clay pebbles first (just over an inch) then my potting soil (mostly promix but some random one too 'cause I needed more) then a top layer of clay pebbles again. I hope they will help with water distribution, aeration and drainage.

When I feed, i give the vegging plants veg nutes and a touch of purple maxx and i give the flowering plants veg nutes, light bloom nutes, bloom stimulator and foliar with purplemaxx. Judging by how well the flowers are coming in, i will be able to foliar for about another week or week and a half then it's on to a different program. The DRs won't be getting any bushmaster because they're short naturally but towards they end they will get gravity to compliment the purplemaxx.

All in all, i saw female flowers at less than five weeks from seed with the DRs. I am impressed. They have started to smell like chronic, not just leaves, i can't wait to smoke them bitches.

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im currently doin a diesel ryder sog myself. 75 to b exact, under 2000 watts. im waitin for them to sex. im hopin for 25 fems at least. ill replace the males with newly germed auto kush an more dr.

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damn.. you'll have to show me some pics of that setup. some of mine to come once i get new batteries

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