Thinking about the bagseed that I've started to germinate. I will probably need to get a couple into medium today. Roots were already showing this morning. These plants won't get the best care I can provide, meaning I won't purchase anything extra for them until I have an idea of what I'm growing. My best guess on their origin is some outdoor sativa strain. ( likely southern us or mexico ) I expect to be able to re-use some rockwool from a previous grow to get these plants going. As with my other seeds, my primary objective is to create good mother plants to clone with, so flowering these plants will be secondary.
Only the sole feminized seed that sprouted ( sour cream ) will be grown to flower.
I think I will reuse 4x4 rockwool blocks and place a seedling in each top corner. This will limit the root space even when the males are removed. As long as it has enough substrate I should be able to grow these to a good cloning size.
Out of 20 or more seeds of different sizes and unknown origins, I have four ready to move now. My inexperience at growing seeds probably leads me to believe in a high humidity for seedlings (like clones) , although I can see no obvious reason for this to be the case. Assuming that I will get more seeds to grow ( to experiment with ), I think I will try to grow these four seeds in the room environment, without anything special. Viva Sativa.

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So, I took 8 of the sprouting (bag)seeds and put them in rockwool. Placed one seed in each corner of the rockwool, and closed the top on four, and plugged with wet paper towel on the second four. These are sitting in about 1" of water ~ pH 6.
In the other case, I removed the seedlings from the humidity dome and placed them in 3"x3" rockwool. In a place where there is some airflow, hopefully to strengthen them. I will just have to watch the moisture carefully. The other, larger plants are some of my Sensi Star clones.

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I need to make a decision soon about flowering. I think I'm ready to start tomorrow, but I'm unsure about the size and bulk of the plants and if it will be an efficient harvest. Any opinion is welcome. Should I go or wait ? Will the plants be too big or too small to flower well under 2 x 600 w HPS ?

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In preparation for flowering, i've moved my small plants to the large box. Attached are some internal pictures showing the reflective walls, the cfl bulbs ( only the blue are lit ). The hole in the roof for the ac unit, and the sensi star clones on the right, and seedlings on the left. The ac unit keeps a constant internal temperature of 80 degrees, but heats up the room. It's a sort of home made refrigerator I'm running about 180 watts of light in there atm, and in addition, the ac fan is constantly moving the plants.

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One more note on the bagseed : I have what looks to be 5 sprouts :

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Starting my first 12 hour dark period today. I will set up the timers tonight as soon as I can open the door.

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just skimmed through. Ill be back to read the rest nice set up!

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4 Sensi Star 1 mendo purp 1 bagseed= success hopefully http://www.rollitup.org/general-mari...r-growing.html

Thanks. Oh I probably should have mentioned earlier that I'm cool with posts in my journal, so feel free to comment.

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Just checking on the large plants, and thought I would document a little of veg/pre-flower.

You can see the "true" color of the leaves in the first pic near the bottom where the flash lit up the leaves. Nice dark green.
Also playing around with photoshop on the second pic. It was also photographed in sodium light too, but some auto corrects in PS and it looks much better.
A few lower and older leaves are showing the signs of nute burn, and the upper leaves are a little too pale. I've been flushing with water for three days and it's showing. Back to nutes today.

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I currently have the WR, Sativa, and SS in the large grow box. The pictures are as follows :
1) White Russian, 7 survived my mistreatment. And the one in front is the Sour Cream ( my only feminized )
2) Same as above, top view
3) Large blocks with bagseed (sativa), 6 have come up so far.
4) Sensi Star clones (12)
5) Close up of the lighting system .. 4x45 W Blue + 4x90w Red, only the blue are lit now.
6) View from the door.

Temperature is constant 80 degrees and low humidity with combination of lighting and AC. Giving full nutes daily to keep moisture and N high.

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The first two pictures are of bugs that seem to love my plants. I haven't treated for them, since they seem to do no harm. I've had them around the whole grow cycle a few times, but I don't know what they are.
The last two were just for fun playing with the microscope, looking at leaves, I'm not sure what I'm looking at. 20x, 400x

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