12/12 From Seed Experiment - 21 Strains

Boy it's been a min since I been here and these have come along very nicely bro. Great work your doing. I need me a filter too but it's too late as mine is gettin ready to come down Friday. But I'll def have one for the testers I have going right now.

Keep up the great work man. Those girls are sparkling like diamonds. Have you narrowed em down to which ones you like best? Which ones are doing the best for what your looking for as growth and in the pot size they're in???

akhiymjames said:

Boy it's been a min since I been here and these have come along very nicely bro. Great work your doing. I need me a filter too but it's too late as mine is gettin ready to come down Friday. But I'll def have one for the testers I have going right now.

Keep up the great work man. Those girls are sparkling like diamonds. Have you narrowed em down to which ones you like best? Which ones are doing the best for what your looking for as growth and in the pot size they're in???

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I have my favorites but I won't reveal them until harvest. Then gotta go thru the smoke report too
Pot size has not really seemed to matter except I will never use small pots like this again just because of how often they have to be watered. But this has shown that a plant can do just fine with a small volume of root space.

Hot Diggity Sog said:

I have my favorites but I won't reveal them until harvest. Then gotta go thru the smoke report too
Pot size has not really seemed to matter except I will never use small pots like this again just because of how often they have to be watered. But this has shown that a plant can do just fine with a small volume of root space.

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Sounds good bro will be waiting for those results. I agree will the small pots as a full flowering plant is very thirsty and those small lots won't hold enough water. If your looking for small type of pots look at grow bags. I'm trying them out now for the first time and the 1 gal I'm using right now is nice size for people doing 12/12 from seed or flowering clones immediately. You'll be amazed at what these plants can do to survive and thrive

akhiymjames said:

Sounds good bro will be waiting for those results. I agree will the small pots as a full flowering plant is very thirsty and those small lots won't hold enough water. If your looking for small type of pots look at grow bags. I'm trying them out now for the first time and the 1 gal I'm using right now is nice size for people doing 12/12 from seed or flowering clones immediately. You'll be amazed at what these plants can do to survive and thrive

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The next progression for me will be to run the experiment again but instead of using individual containers, I will use some form of rubbermaid totes and do them hempy style. Will make sure to only do one strain per tote due to plant height variance.

For the most part, most of the strains would be perfectly suitable for 12/12 fs. Going into the experiment, I kind of figured there might only be a few strains that actually do well but as it turned out, there are only a few that did not do well.

Day 67 Update - Day 42 Flower - Part #2

Replaced what I thought was a failed carbon filter in the tent today. Did not solve the problem. Removed the glass on my reflector and gave it a thorough clean. It occurred to me that last time I cleaned the glass was around the same time the odor control started to fail and last time I reseated the glass while the fan was still on which really sucked it into place. This time I turned the fan off and seated the glass and secured it and then turned the exhaust back on. It's a long shot but worth the try. Last step is to replace all of the ducting. I can't find any leaks but I suppose that does not mean there aren't any. The room the tent is in reeks but not nearly as bad as the tent when I open the door and the outer room is controlling the odor thus far.

Switched the HPS out for the MH again. Yeah...I'm OCD...shoot me. Honestly, the few days the HPS was on...they just were not diggin it like they were with the MH. Won't be switching again...it's MH from here on out.

Here are some tent pictures and a few close ups...enjoy.

Wow that is awesome bro them girls are getting HUGE! the frost on that last photo is sexy and shes still got some time on her now awesome job

DirtyNerd said:

Wow that is awesome bro them girls are getting HUGE! the frost on that last photo is sexy and shes still got some time on her now awesome job

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Thanks!!!! I'm super pleased and with it only being day 42 I'm very excited about the possible outcome.

Yeah you are going to have some great smoke on your hands that's for sure almost a new flavor every day of the month need to do 30 on the next grow

DirtyNerd said:

Yeah you are going to have some great smoke on your hands that's for sure almost a new flavor every day of the month need to do 30 on the next grow

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Variety is the spice of life
Wish I could convince my wife of that....lol, jk...

Hot Diggity Sog said:

Wish I could do my camera justice. I'm a terrible photographer.

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Looks like you're getting the hang of it.

Sativied said:

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Looks like you're getting the hang of it.

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Thanks man...I think I'm starting to. Appreciate your help too

Really good effort. I love stuff like this, rather than hoping to get answers from others, you've actually been bothered to do the experiment yourself. With great results.

Its interesting about the pot sizes, I've just gone and moved mine into massive monster pots, hoping to increase the yield, but maybe it makes less of a difference than I thought.

I'm on my second batch of my experiment, I'm growing them horizontal. Last time worked amazing, this time I've made some mistakes that I somehow avoided last time (through luck more than judgement) but it's all part of the learning process.

42 days to get to where you are, makes me want to rethink everything I thought I knew about growing!

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Really good effort. I love stuff like this, rather than hoping to get answers from others, you've actually been bothered to do the experiment yourself. With great results.

Its interesting about the pot sizes, I've just gone and moved mine into massive monster pots, hoping to increase the yield, but maybe it makes less of a difference than I thought.

I'm on my second batch of my experiment, I'm growing them horizontal. Last time worked amazing, this time I've made some mistakes that I somehow avoided last time (through luck more than judgement) but it's all part of the learning process.

42 days to get to where you are, makes me want to rethink everything I thought I knew about growing!

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Thanks for the kind words. I don't think I would ever use pots like this again because I have to water so often but this has proven to me that a small root volume can still generate good results.

Day 70 Update - Day 45 Flower - Part #1

We're on day #45 and things are going great. Had another unfortunate power outage for over 3 hours. My UPS on the secondary carbon filter only held out for about 30 minutes and an hour later my entire house was FUCKED UP. Took all night to air it out after the power came back on...lol. That's 2 power outages in the last 5 weeks...I mean come on, really?

It's getting pretty cold here and the basement temps are dropping.
I turned the exhaust fan in the tent down to about 70% to try and bring the temps up a little during lights on.

Temps in the tent are 70 during lights on and 61 is the coldest it has gotten during lights off.
RH pretty stable...43% in the tent and it fluctuates from 38% to 44%.

I've made slight alterations to my feeding regiment. I've dropped the "Micro" portion of my feed from 50% strength down to 40%. I felt like the plants were getting a little too much Nitrogen and the Micro is rated at 5-0-1 and is the highest source of N. If anyone thinks this was a bad move, please chime in.

I've kept every other part running at 50% except for the "Bloom" which I increased to 60%. Started adding small amounts of CalMag to alternating waterings at only 3 ml/g which is quite a bit less than the suggested. CalMag really makes the PH skyrocket up btw...anyone noticed that?

Watering once per day with a feed every water. Still watering with 5 gallons and getting approximately 3 gallons of run off and this has been working well...its like I'm flushing on every watering.

Alright...enough jibber jabber...some overall group pics:

Day 70 Update - Day 45 Flower - Part #2

Because I was not entirely sure which plants had been killed off along the way, I took updated counts according to pot size and here they are:

3 Inch Pots
Barneys Farm Seeds Top Dawg
Barneys Farm Seeds G13 Haze
Barneys Farm Seeds Chronic Thunder
Barneys Farm Seeds Red Dragon
Delicious Seeds Critical Jack Herer
KC Brains Northern Lights Special
Reserva Privada Sour Kush AKA Headband
Sensi Seeds Skunk #1
Barneys Farm Seeds Critical Kush
Bomb Seeds Bubble Bomb
Connoisseur Genetics Seeds East Coast Sour Diesel Haze
Barneys Farm Seeds Blue Cheese
Delicious Seeds Critical Sensi Star
Dinafem Seeds Critical Cheese
Samsara Seeds Green Love Potion
Seedism Seeds Cheese

4 Inch Pots
Barneys Farm Seeds Top Dawg
Barneys Farm Seeds G13 Haze
Barneys Farm Seeds Red Dragon
Delicious Seeds Critical Jack Herer
KC Brains Northern Lights Special
Sensi Seeds Skunk #1
Sensi Seeds Silver Haze #9
Barneys Farm Seeds Critical Kush
Bomb Seeds Bubble Bomb
Strain Hunters Seedbank Seeds Flowerbomb Kush

Grand total of 26 Plants.

The next few updates will showcase 9 of these strains...stay tuned.

Day 70 Update - Day 45 Flower - Part #3
Barneys Farm Seeds G13 Haze

I have one of these in a 3 Inch pot and one in a 4 Inch pot and these two plants look totally different. They are both super short.
The 3 inch pot looks quite a bit frostier and further along but probably will not yield as well as the one in the 4 inch pot. This is the only example I have seen so far where the strain varies this much in appearance.

Here is the one in the 3 Inch pot:



And the 4 Inch pot



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Great update man them girls are looking so good! the room was smell insane they are really filling out nicely not long to go now couple of weeks i think the yield is going to be good

Day 70 Update - Day 45 Flower - Part #4
Sensi Seeds Skunk #1

Will have to finish in the morning...7 more strains to showcase still.

Day 70 Update - Day 45 Flower - Part #5
Dinafem Seeds Critical Cheese
(Last one for the night) - One of my recent favorites