WENDY420_TGAsubcool/Paradise/DNA/Caliconnection grow + My own breeding projects.

Hi to everyone, new here on rollitup. First time posting, been growing for a few years. Wanted to see what people thought of what I had going on. Got some plants Running in all stages of growth. Firstly id like to say I started to grow passionately as a hobby to begin with 6 years ago, but now after realising the preventative medical benefits of raw juiced cannabis in the diet and the medical uses of cannabis oils for cancer treatment (specifically a relative of mine with basil cell carcinoma), I now grow on moral grounds as well as for pleasure. So I try to keep things as clean and organic as I can and quality comes before quantity, I dont grow for profit. now I guess you want the details so here it goes.

feed - organics as much as possible, have grown to loathe chemicals and adulterants. I use a volcano alot and can tell instantly what's flushed and what isn't.
I use the biobizz nutes full range.
alternating that with an aerated tea made of:
bat guano
molasses
a tiny amount of humic acid
kelp extract
occasional cal/mag salts, if they need it, and they never do!

Medium - soil-less & hand watering with RO water from our own well. (I don't believe hydro is necessary you can achieve the similar results with organics and surprisingly, plants naturally like to grow in soil! DUH!) I mix a bucket of 5 year old cured horse manure into every 200 litres of soil and leave it for a month of two just to heat it up a bit. Its surprisingly completely free of pests other than the odd worm they are not fed Vegetative nutes during the veg stage this way, other than a little bio-bizz root-juice.

Pots - 25ltr Air-pots (a great investment!)

Lights - 1 x 1000w Osram Nav-T super son-T plus 130,000 lumen (at the back of the 'room', with the oldest plants, air intake comes in at the back so mature plants are a little cooler, to encourage fall colours and ripening, but never below 70f)
1 x 600w Sunmaster Super HPS 95000 lumen (at the front of the room with the new plants, sometimes I swap this bulb out with my 600w MH when I know I have to keep stretch down.)
Ballasts - Adjusta-watt Digital ballasts.

All lights are completely run off grid on a 50,000kw per/day solar panel and wind farm.

I am also trying to run as many different types of seed as possible because i'm still searching for 'my girl' to keep. but alas, I haven't found her yet. I try to stick to regular seeds, but we all know that isn't so easy now days, and I have no shame in investing lots of money in seeds to find 'the one'. So anyway, expect to see plenty of different strains. Also i'm still playing around with a few techniques here and there. I tend to LST almost everything, super cropping, mainlining, topping, fimming if I can catch it just right, but not too much stress. But I only really do this with hybrids that lean more towards sativa dom. Most indicas I like to get me a fat single cola, if I know genetically, she wont get too big and tall for my limited height.
As for my breeding projects I hit my last crop with bit pollen from an unknown sativa male I called 'Blamnesia' (Black Domina x Amnesia) that I got from a seed from a friend, and on another note im runnig a strain I got from a bagseed that I simply call 'Troll'. i'll label them all as best I can to show you guys and i'm very excited to see what I get from my new crosses. I also have a couple other strains that I am re vegging mothering out from my last harvest, and I run few seedlings every 3 weeks that I start in a veg room. I tend to go for strains that are varied in all ways, with lots of different terpine profiles, and lots of different highs, with lots of THC and CBD ratios, I like to mix 'em up!
so here's the line up (a new group every 3 weeks)

Strains:
Group A - Wendy420 - The Troll
Cali Connection - 818Headband (sour OG kush)
Paradise - Cheese (IBL)
Group B - TGAsubcool - Apollo 13 BX
TGAsubcool - Vortex
Soma - Amnesia
Group C - Wendy420 - Liberty Haze x Blamnesia
Wendy420 - Ace of spades x Blamnesia
Wendy420 - Mango(bagseed) x Blamnesia
Greenhouseseeds - White widow
Coming soon! -
Group D - Wendy420 - Ice Cream x Blamnesia
Dna Genetics - Cannalope Kush
Barneys farm - Red cherry berry
Group E - Greenhouseseeds - Strawberry cough
TGAsubcool - Plushberry
Elite - Banana joint

so yeah thats about it for now, let me know what you think, and go easy on the critique guys, I do the best with what i'm working with. And BTW I am not a girl, despite my username so don't assume anything. expect more pictures soon, and also by request! happy new year!

Wendy

420

Impressive and welcome to RIU. + rep.

thanks! happy to be here. looking forward to actually talking about my grow with people.

here are pics from my previous grow enjoy!

more from just before flowering

looking good,
looking forward to running as many strains and breeding as well

HAPPY GROWING!

week 4 flowering old grow

putting on weight! ace of spades looking very pretty! as is my beautiful mango. which had been re-vegged and scrogged. bit too crowded in there with around a months vegging. also they are all under one 1000w hps. also a pic of my breeding male that I chopped after harvesting some male bud for breeding.

temp 22c humidity 35%

next post will be straight to harvest and bud porn. no messing!

wendy

420

last grow final harvest pics. sorry i didnt get a chance to photograph all my plants, only got to photograph my mango plant, but you get the idea.

final harvest amounts:
ace of spades - 38 grams dry
liberty haze - 36 grams dry
ice cream - 42 grams dry
mango scrog - 3+ ounces dry

finished them all at 9-10 weeks flower with 2 weeks of flush with plain RO water.

temperature fluctuated by 10 to 15 degrees between day and night to give plants fall colours. and they look sexy as hell!!!
will try to take more pics of the next lot!

wendy

right on to the current grows beginnings!!!!

hope this isnt all too confusing!

enjoy!

Wendy

And these are from a couple weeks ago!

end of week 4 flower for group A
end of week 1 flower for group B

will have more pics to show later!

a small side note on feeding. I feed three times a week
monday - normal feed
wednesday - organic tea (recipe in first post in this thread) for taste and cure later on!
friday - normal feed
sunday - week 3/week5 flowering flush with mild EC of 1.0 then dry plant out for 5 days. then the following saturday they get a feed with an EC of 1.8 - 2.4.
so every 3rd and 5th sunday of the flowering cycle they get a flush and dry, 7th sunday also for sativas.

I cant stress how important this is for great tasting swollen fat calyxes. needs to be done. this way they get a smooth taste no salt or residue build up and a nice natural fade of foliage colour!
remember to keep track of all these dates and feeding schedules on a calender so you can look back over what you've been doing and improve.
difference between good and great growers is in planning and recording data.
I also find with organics this variety in feeding brings out the best in my plants, I have very minor if any nutrient lockups and have,(touch wood) never burnt my plants ever, to date. nice gentle organics is the way to go.

hope one day to change to subcools super soil one day when I can source all the ingredients.
but until then this is doing fine for me!

enjoy the pics! might do a mainlining/LST/topping tutorial next in this thread, if I have time! thanks for taking the time to check everything out!

Wendy

420

Very pro....looks good...

I gotta say i think i would have been a little more interested if you where a chick. Thats why i came over to check it out. But its all good your grows looking good you know what your doing thats for sure. Just kinda curious where on the other side of the pond your from?

Cant really talk about where i'm from. because we are very much still in prohibition here. And I still worry about who might be listening.
pure jelly about whats going on in the states at the moment. 2 states down. 48 more to go!

Maybe if you guys lean the way the hypocrisy might end! but all that politics isn't for here anyway!

Wendy

420

Very nice grow shit looks great. Happy growing

Good stuff wendy - real nice looking plants, and glad to see you're growing organic

But I gotta ask - why do you feel you need to flush with organics? If you are feeding them all natural things, what would you need to flush out??? Just something that always piques my curiosity...

wendyc420 said:

here are pics from my previous grow enjoy!

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Nice mobile scrog setup.

looking great - subd and reppd

thanks cann!
the reason I flush is, even with organic nutrients you get salts, sugars and basically plant food being delivered to your leaves and buds. whist they probably aren't as bad as chemical nutes, they still don't taste that great, Would you smoke your nutes if you dried them?. the other reason is you want to starve your plants for the last couple of weeks, timing it just before peak potency. Because you aren't providing the plants with any kind of nutrition, the plant will react to keep producing flowers, which it thinks are essential for survival, so the plant will leech nutrients from its stores, which are the leaves. that's why ripe flowers have wilting yellow nitrogen deficient leaves. a beautiful natural fade. The bud will usually turn a nice blue or purple too. its basically another step in fooling plants into thinking winter is coming. and imitating nature indoors is what we're trying to do here. all this adds up to a slightly better smelling and tasting product. and your plant will never be lacking for nutrients with an organic grow because there's still alot of excess nutrients and carbohydrates than need to be used at the end of every flowering cycle. because you're not so much feeding them as stimulating the soil into providing nutrients, all I am adding is mainly carbohydrates and trace minerals/vitamins to amend the soil. feeding up to the very end is a waste of feed if anything else. as a rule I say never be lacking in anything, but less is always better than more. sorry if any of that sounds contradictory, I guess a good balance is the key.

thats all what i can gather anyway, im always learning!

like they look of your grow man, sub would be proud. good looking meds.

what do you think of the ace of apades? I cant get enough of it, a new firm favorite for me such an incredibly taste. looking forward to the vortex and apollo 13BX im running. such a pretty sativa pheno. i'd love to get a hold of a cindy plant, going to try mosca to see if they are good genetics. wish i knew about subcool when black cherry soda was around. amazing plants!

Looks amazing... WELCOME! Any pics of your wind/solar set up? sounds awesome... I'm curious to see what it takes to actually produce enough energy to do what you're doing. Mad props and be safe!!!

+rep!

thanks Jeep4x44life! would love to show you, but cant go around taking pictures of my location really. but I can tell you the setup didnt come cheap. nowdays the solar panals and cells are getting very efficient, and my setup doesnt draw more than 2-2.5kw per hour for more than 12 hours during the day. not much more than 30kw per day. and that is when light is available. but visually, it is a large thing, roughly 40-50 sqr/ft of panels. not to be sniffed at.

sorry I cant really be more helpful.

wish I had as much daylight and seclusion as you do up 'them hills'. your plants look just great outside. you have one hell of a year ahead! good luck!

Wendy