I think the most important consideration I've learned from growing is giving the plant a consistent environment. It seems that a lot of times the diagnosing of problems can sometimes be the problem itself.

I was starting to suspect that constantly moving the plants in and out of the sun wasn't such a good idea. Although I love how the plant goes literally hyper when its out.

Anyway, here's a daily update. PPM is 980, no signs of flowering, still growing very fast. According to the instruction manual it should automatically start to flower, although if I have to "entice" it by going 12/12 that's fine.

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I too am germinating a freebie dinafem roadrunner at the moment so I'm watching your thread with great interest. A nice quick flowering plant would be nice to hold me over until the harvest of white widow and super lemon haze.

This all will be my first grow. I've done my homework but I'm still quite nervous about it all.

The plant's dead. It has had stem rot or someone described it damping off or Pythium wilt. Sorry and thanks to everyone who commented on this journal.

I will sterilize the setup and start something else in a few weeks.. I hope.

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Oh man, that really sucks. I gave my dad a roadrunner seed that I got free for his medical grow, and his died after a week. Maybe its not a good strain? and I just subscribed to the thread yesterday too. could you cut it up and grow it like 3 or 4 plants? Or would you only get 3 or 4 little tiny buds?

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I just had my first seedling die of damping off. I gave the little guy a lot of stress in the short experiment that was its life. He came from humble beginnings as bagseed from some of the nastiest schwag I've ever smoked. I disturbed its roots repeatedly early and often in attempts to learn more about the cannabis plant in preparation for my Super Lemon Haze grow. I put the still green fan leaves into a book for storage...

GH Fem Super Lemon Haze is looking good so far with at least 9 for 10 germinating and sprouting within 48 hours (and the tenth looks promising). Maybe I'll take some pictures later to share....

Completely dead? really?

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Yeah, basically an hour after the break the leaves started having very weird dark spots on and to curl upwards. I chopped it off and the remains are being cremated as we speak


Thanks for the kind words folks. This was just dipping toes in the water with a freebie and I learned a lot. I'm a lot more confident about doing a bigger grow with non-auto variety (that actually costs $$$)

To those of you who are also growing the Roadrunner, let me know how it turns out.

Best wishes to everyone, hope to see you in a grow journal soon!

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why the hell would you save fan leaves in a book for storage??