Cali outdoor SLHaze, Bubba Kush, AK-47, and Red Dragon.

Hey there RIU! This will be my second medical grow. Last time I used the best bagseed I could find. I grew out 9 plants and havested about 8 lb. My goals are set way higher this time. I'm looking forward to growing out some legit genetics that I ordered from the Attitude seed bank. It was hard to pick but I selected Greenhouses Super Lemon Haze, and Bubba Kush. Serious seeds AK-47 and Barnys Farm Red Dragon. The Attitude also sent me five freebies. GH's Trainwreck, Cheese and Dinefem's Diesel, Blue Fruit, and Blue Hash. I plan on growing 12 plants. Two of each seed I ordered and all the freebies accept the Cheese or Blue Fruit I haven't decided yet. Any info or advise on these strains would be helpful. I also plan on starting them indoors to get a healthy head start. I was given an old 1000watt MH light that I wanted to use but I wanted to know if anyone thought that would be overkill? I'm really worried about hemie problems. All the seeds I'm getting are femmed but I need to sex them to be a 100% that nothing but girls are going in the ground. A buddy of mine did this last year with no problem only he was useing flo's. Any advise on starting plants indoors would be awsome to thanks.

Seeds came today gonna pick them up after work. I was wondering if anyone thought a 2x4 veg room would be to small for 32 starts to veg for a month or so? Counting the time it would take to sex em.

that would be too small for my liking. but if you have good ventilation it might be ok. how big are your containers? i ordered some AK47 and Diesel Ryder and I got those Dinafem freebies as well, so im very interested. growing outdoors too. good luck!

To tell u the truth I haven't put much thought into what containers I will use until now... thanks. I might just tarp off a section of the room and I'll probably try 3 gallon buckets if i have the space.
Yeah I was kinda looking forward to greenhouses freebies but now I'm interested to grow out dinefem's White Widow and Blue Widow. Sounds tasty!

Well I ran the light for about an hour without a hitch. The closet got to be around 80+ degrees. I still need to set up ventilation and light proof the space. I'm gonna have to tarp the closet closed because theirs no door. Im trying to think of a way to seal the light in and all I can come up with is some kind of velcro attached to the wall and tarp. Any suggestions? I'll try to post some pics of the set up later.

Well after a couple test runs I found the light or rather the ballist to be unreliable. So after work today I will be shopping for a new lighting system. I'm thinking a 600w just to reduce heat and cost but I was wondering if anyone thought that wouldn't be enough for 20 starts? (I only need to start 20 now). I'm still not sure what containers I should use either. I know 3 gallon bucket won't fit but maybe bags.

Well I picked up a new 1000w MH system with a fan and 2 gallon bags for containers. I'm air cooling the new hood with the ventalation and about 45 min in the temps just under 80. Do you guys think this should be fine or should I try to get it down a bit more? I only ask cause I've read that lower tems and higher humidity is good to keep feminized seed from turning hermi. Here's a section of what I read.

. The female-inducing recipe, to be implemented during the first month of growth, involves providing: 1) more nitrogen, less potassium; 2) more halide (blue spectrum) and less high pressure sodium (red spectrum) lighting; 3) shorter light cycles; 4) a grow medium of 6.6 to 6.8 pH; 5) lower temperatures and higher humidity, plus higher soil moisture; 6) minimized stress (cloning and other stressors can destabilize plants, causing them to go male or hermaphrodite).

Which brings me to my next concern. I'm going to be using a 16/8 light schedual and I was thinking of gradually lowering it an hour a day until I hit 12/12. I'm hoping this will reduce stress to the plants. I was also gonna do this when it comes time to walk them into natural sun light. I would also like to top the taller plants but I don't want to do this until after they are healthy and probably in the ground. I'll try to post some pics of the new set up later tonight. Finally get to germinate seeds!

Well during the hottest part of the day the temp reached 90. I'm going to swap my 4" fan for a 6" to get better ventalation. If this dosent drop the temp then I'm go to vent the light by itself and vent the closet separatly. I broke my light hangers to so after work I'm going to go pick this stuff up and hopfuly have the the closet running by tonight.

Well i got a 100% germination rate. Every bean poped! There all labled in 2 gallon bags of Black Gold. I have them all under the 1000 at 18/6. The temp runs between 80 to 85 and the closet is open now (not light proof). I know this is to high but I can't get it to drop anymore then that. I've tried everything I could think of. It's just to small of a space.



I planted two days ago and all but three have broke through the soil. Every thing looks pretty good accept the high temp. The AK seedlings are hella small compared to the others. Seeds were to though. I decided to only start 18. I will be useing 14 and the other 4 are extras. I went with 4 Bubba Kush, 3 Super Lemon Haze, 3 AK-47, 3 Red Dragon, and all my freebies (White Widow, Blue Widow, Blue Hash, and 2 Blue Fruit).

Checked on the babies yesterday and White Widow didn't make it. I'm going to germinate another SLH bean later today to put in it's place.

I've put what seems to be a weak inclosed air conditioner in the room. I say this because it only drops the temp about 2 degrees. I think I'm going to buy another fan for the intake. If this dosent work then my only other option is to tarp off a section of the room and take the system out of the closet. Gonna tweak with it after work. I also can't find out how to post pictures from my IPhone. Anyone know how I can upload pics?

Well after working with the air conditioner I've managed to lower the temp to 70. I think it might use to much power because when I pluged in my vacuum cleaner it blew the breaker. Everything in the house went off. I freaked!!! Lol. So I guess I'll just have to be careful.

I didn't end up germinating another bean because I found a little sprout growing in one of last years holes lol. Must have been 1 of 3 seeds in the whole crop. Growing in my best plants spot to. But unfortanetly my cat ate it, so I will be germinating another today.

This sucks the air conditioner leaks water and needs to be refilled every 8 hours. It also needs to be turned on manually and I'm not at the grow room for the frist 3 hours. So I'm not going to use it. Temp runs from 75 to 80 degrees with out it. I'm done messing with it. Just gonna let them babies grow now. I'll probably switch to 12/12 in about 2 or 3 weeks. Not sure what I'm going to use for fertilizer, or when I should start feeding. Any thoughts?

The Super Lemon Haze bean popped and was planted today. All the girls are looking good accept one of the SLH plants has a bit of new yellow growth in the middle of it. It couldn't be a nutrient deficiency could it? We are on day 11 since they were planted. Other then that I don't know what it could be. My girlfriend said it's because it's super lemony lol.

Here's a picture of the set up 12 days into growth.

Sweet I finally found out how to post pic's!
So far all the plants are growing at about the same speed, accept two runts that have slow growth. A Super Lemon Haze and a Bubba Kush. Here's a pic of the SLH runt with yellow growth.


Here's a Bubba that has it's new leaf tips curling down? Don't know why? The Bubba runt is on the right of it.


Anyone know what's up with these babies?

These are the babies at day 15.


Bubba Kush


Red Dragon


AK-47


Super Lemon Haze


From left Blue Fruit, another Blue Fruit, Blue Hash, and Blue Widow

I'm freaked! This stressing shit is lame. The temp reached 88 yesterday. It was a little warmer outside and my grandma had the wood stove cooking the house. So I'm hoping that's all it was. Gonna check on them at lunch today to see if anythings changed.

Lookin alright, dont mind the yellow. Start feedin..

DONT worry about over feedin SLH. Its a god damn PIG and will massacre its way through the food

This is gonna be a killer grow all up. Your babies look happy

88 is fine ?

Are you spraying them at night with plain water spray bottle ? keeps pests away and promotes new growth