12/12 From Seed Experiment - 21 Strains

In that 3rd picture, do those leaves look a little too dark green to anyone? Today was the 1st time in 5 days I've had one out of the tent and besides, the lighting outside of my tent sucks so it's hard to see.

I see what you mean bro that one in front is slow to flower. Prolly a sativa dom strain and may not be warm enough to get her going. Def not what your looking for so I feel you on gettin rid of it.

Naw the leaves aren't too dark on that third pic is just the lighting where you took the pic just don't give anymore high N nutes and you will be good bro

Day 48 Update - Day 23 Flower

Girls are doing good. A few of them are still stretching a little. Did some selective defoliating but nothing too drastic. On several plants where there were two bud sites right next to one another, I removed one fan leaf and left the other. This should make for a good comparison to see how the two bud sites develop differently.

I needed to windex the reflector glass so I thought I would take this opportunity to put the MH back in so I could get some good pictures as well give the whole tent a good look over. Pleased to report that they look perfectly healthy. Thinking about running the MH for 2 days a week and then probably for the last two weeks exclusively...thoughts?

Looking great nice and healthy some of them girls are soo tall its crazy make sure you keep a eye on them once they have huge buds up top or they will break in half overall great job!

Hot Diggity Sog said:

Day 48 Update - Day 23 Flower


Girls are doing good. A few of them are still stretching a little. Did some selective defoliating but nothing too drastic. On several plants where there were two bud sites right next to one another, I removed one fan leaf and left the other. This should make for a good comparison to see how the two bud sites develop differently.


I needed to windex the reflector glass so I thought I would take this opportunity to put the MH back in so I could get some good pictures as well give the whole tent a good look over. Pleased to report that they look perfectly healthy. Thinking about running the MH for 2 days a week and then probably for the last two weeks exclusively...thoughts?

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Hey brother I would flower with just your HPS you'll get more lumens per square foot and hopefully you'll end up with more bud your already all in $$$ wise on seeds time to get paid back IMO.
These are some tall plants!! I'm interested in finding a heavy weight strain and doing just 1 or 2 females seeds at a time after this run. I really want to see these finished so we can see the numbers per plant.
I would hate to have so many strains to keep separate on drying rack

DirtyNerd said:

Looking great nice and healthy some of them girls are soo tall its crazy make sure you keep a eye on them once they have huge buds up top or they will break in half overall great job!

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Yeah, you're right. This is something I had not considered early on and with my pots being so tall and narrow the pots are tip prone too. What do you think...a make shift scrog net of some kind?

Youtube has lots of vids on trellis tying, really easy and a good skill to have Took me a couple tries to make a good one.

Can't find the vid I used.

Mainlinekush said:

Hey brother I would flower with just your HPS you'll get more lumens per square foot and hopefully you'll end up with more bud your already all in $$$ wise on seeds time to get paid back IMO.
These are some tall plants!! I'm interested in finding a heavy weight strain and doing just 1 or 2 females seeds at a time after this run. I really want to see these finished so we can see the numbers per plant.
I would hate to have so many strains to keep separate on drying rack

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I'm not concerned at all with getting paid back...in fact nearly everything I get is being given away as free meds to a few people. I never would have considered flowering with MH but something interesting happened the other day after I cleaned the reflector and put the MH in so I could take some better pictures: Within an hour the leaves on all the plants shot up reaching for the light. I began researching what kind of results others have had with MH and it got me curious. Also, take a look at the spectrum on my MH bulb vs other MH bulbs. This is the Hortilux Eye Blue.


As we get further along in flowering I will start taking detailed pictures of each strain I have left. And at the very end I will provide dry weights for everything.

Mr.Head said:

Youtube has lots of vids on trellis tying, really easy and a good skill to have Took me a couple tries to make a good one.

Can't find the vid I used.

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Cool....I'll hit "The Google" and youtube and get to reading

Hot Diggity Sog said:

I'm not concerned at all with getting paid back...in fact nearly everything I get is being given away as free meds to a few people. I never would have considered flowering with MH but something interesting happened the other day after I cleaned the reflector and put the MH in so I could take some better pictures: Within an hour the leaves on all the plants shot up reaching for the light. I began researching what kind of results others have had with MH and it got me curious. Also, take a look at the spectrum on my MH bulb vs other MH bulbs. This is the Hortilux Eye Blue.
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As we get further along in flowering I will start taking detailed pictures of each strain I have left. And at the very end I will provide dry weights for everything.

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ALL PHASE High Output MH Lamps
SolarMax Gold All Phase High Output MH lamps are designed to produce significantly more orange / red wavelength than other halides. SOLARMAX lamps have reduced size jackets to fit most of today's compact, super efficient reflectors.

ALL PHASE High Output
Metal Halide Horticultural Lamp
SOLARMAX Gold are similar to a 3000 deg. Kelvin light source, these lamps are excellent for fruiting / flowering applications and because they are metal halides lamps they have enough full spectrum energy for all a plants needs from 380 to 760 nanometers.

I almost used a MH SolarMax Gold full spectrum bulb to flower.
I had to buy that digilux bulb last minute to match the one I got for free with my tent.
Around 8th week of veg I tried the gold MH bulb for left side of tent. I didn't really get to use it very long to see any difference but this bulb would be great for this kind of experiment for my self. The one I have is now discontinued so it's a back up bulb.

Mainlinekush said:

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ALL PHASE High Output MH Lamps
SolarMax Gold All Phase High Output MH lamps are designed to produce significantly more orange / red wavelength than other halides. SOLARMAX lamps have reduced size jackets to fit most of today's compact, super efficient reflectors.

ALL PHASE High Output
Metal Halide Horticultural Lamp
SOLARMAX Gold are similar to a 3000 deg. Kelvin light source, these lamps are excellent for fruiting / flowering applications and because they are metal halides lamps they have enough full spectrum energy for all a plants needs from 380 to 760 nanometers.

I almost used a MH SolarMax Gold full spectrum bulb to flower.
I had to buy that digilux bulb last minute to match the one I got for free with my tent.
Around 8th week of veg I tried the gold MH bulb for left side of tent. I didn't really get to use it very long to see any difference but this bulb would be great for this kind of experiment for my self. The one I have is now discontinued so it's a back up bulb.

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Despite suggestions otherwise, I think I'm going to use this Horitlux Blue MH the rest of the flowering cycle. Heck, maybe some of you will be interested just to see how it turns out?

Day 51 Update - Day 26 Flower

Things are going well. Had to kill two plants yesterday. One was just somewhat defective and the other just got too tall plus it was about 2 weeks behind in flowering.

I'm experimenting with some close ups...these first few closeups are not very good quality so I'll keep working on it. I pulled out one of the more resinous plants....the Northern Lights

KC Brains Northern Lights Special



Delicious Seeds Critical Jack Herer (Critical Mass x Jack Herer)
This one looks like the top cola could be pretty long (relative to most of the others)


Center of Canopy

Day 55 Update - Day 30 Flower

Half way home! Things are going great. While I don't have anything to compare it to, I am really pleased with the Blue Planet nutrients as well as Coco + perlite. Except for the one minor issue I had early on, it has been smooth sailing. Plants have been healthy every step of the way.

The biggest challenges I face these last 30 days are going to be plants toppling over. These 3" x 10" pots simply have no means to stand on their own any more...especially once they start to dry out. Over the next week I hope to come up with a clever solution for securing the pots as well as the tops of the plants as they are starting to put on a little weight.
If they all were approximately the same height this would not be difficult.

Tallest plant: 42"
Shortest plant: 16"

This update will show case strain #6: Delicious Seeds Critical Jack Herer.
A few days ago I almost killed these two because they are the tallest and among the least developed but I decided to give them a chance.
There are two plants from this strain...one in a 3" pot and one in a 4" pot. The one in the 4" pot is about 1 inch taller but interestingly enough, the one in the 3" pot has larger flowers. Probably just coincidence and/or pheno and has nothing to do with the pot but I wanted to mention it.

Strain #6: Delicious Seeds Critical Jack Herer



Strain #9: Skunk #1
I keep coming back to this strain. It is just a beautiful looking plant and easily the most recognizable. I have two of these...one in a 3" pot and one in 4" pot and they look identical.


I promise to stop fixating on Skunk #1 and post pictures of other strains.

Only 2 pics left before the 10 Pic max so here are 2 Canopy shots.


The defoliating that I did on or around day 21 of flowering has not shown any adverse effects. I studied several node sites where one fan leaf was removed and the other was kept and I see mixed results. On approximately half of the group, the bud site where the fan leaf was removed is *larger* and more developed than the side with the fan leaf and the other half of of the group, the bud site where the fan leaf was removed is smaller and less developed. Overall, results are inconclusive. One thing I am noticing is that Uncle Ben is right...lower bud sites do not seem to need direct light. Again, I see mixed results but I have numerous plants where lower bud sites that get no light at all are quite nice...not the stringy fluff I would have expected.

Cheers, and until next time

Haha shit things are looking good i can see some baseball bat sized colas coming very soon them girl's are looking great mate good job

Thanks DN...I'm hoping.

Many thanx for the bud porn

The Ladies are looking right as rain

Peace and Great Grows

Asmallvoice

Good job dude, doing great. Looking absolutely lovely in there.

Thanks man...the smell in the tent is amazing. With all of the different strains it's just a wonderful mix of goodness.

Day 56 Update - Day 31 Flower

Today's update will showcase 2 more strains:

Strain #12: Bomb Seeds Bubble Bomb

Pictures 3 & 4 are from the node directly underneath the main cola. One side had the fan leaf removed 10 days ago and the other side was left alone. This is an example where the 2 flowers at the node show minimal, if any, differences.


Strain #2: Barneys Farm Seeds Top Dawg

This strain seems to be noticeably leafier than others but it has pretty good resin production and looks like it might yield pretty well.

Cheers

P.S. New camera comes Thursday...thanks goes out to https://www.rollitup.org/t/sativieds-picture-journal.831229/ for sharing his thoughts with me on his camera. I bought the same one he has. If you have not checked out his journal and his pictures you have to...utterly amazing detail.

Looking great brother I want to see the Sensi Star!!!!! Mine was a runt from seed now she has the best buds growing.