12/12 From Seed Experiment - 21 Strains

whos on deck??

Thanks for all the love everyone!

As for plans...nothing set in stone yet. I'm going to get this stuff all dried up the best I can and get a lot of pictures and weights and then go from there.

I think I have an idea of your upcoming plans.....

Bump!

How's it going HDS, hope you had a great holiday season.

Sativied said:

Bump!

How's it going HDS, hope you had a great holiday season.

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It's going great...hope you did too. I am only days away from posting final numbers

The way the harvest went, I ran out of hangers so we basically had the 1st cut and then the 2nd cut. The 2nd cut dried out on a large 5 level circular drying rack.

The 1st cut ended up being exactly 1218 grams - 43 1/2 ounces - 2.71 Pounds.
The 2nd cut is still out being processed (I hired this out). I don't want to speculate but the 2nd cut should be no less than 1 pound but unlikely more than 1.5 pounds.

I will drink to that!

Harvest Cleanup Update

It took a while for the roots dry up and today I decided to time how long clean-up would take and take a good close look inside the tubes to see how mucked up they were. To my surprise, the tubes were spotless. Completely clean! To remove the roots, I simply yanked on each plant until I could get my shears underneath the net pot and cut the tap roots. Once that was done (about 5 minutes), the roots pulled out of the tubes with very little effort. In 10 minutes I was able to remove all 63 plants and dispose of the roots in a single 5 gallon bucket. Sure beats the hell out of hundreds and hundreds of pounds of coco or dirt! At this point, the only thing I need to do is run some fresh water thru it to remove some of the root *dust* and it's ready to go again!

@Sativied The dry roots smell like produce or vegetables. Interesting

Here are a couple of jars...I'm waiting on a new freezer before these go into storage for a bit.

Glad to hear it work out well for you. The lack of waste and ease of cleanup is definitely a huge plus, having only plant material as waste makes it even more attractive.

Some companies make a ton of money grinding up hemp roots to powder and selling it as superfood.

Hot Diggity Sog said:

At this point, the only thing I need to do is run some fresh water thru it to remove some of the root *dust* and it's ready to go again!

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I always added a good amount of bleach flushing it after cleanup. Not sure if necessary but since it costs little to nothing better safe than sorry.

I look forward to follow your next project.

Hey everyone,

It's time to start planning for the next round. With the success of the octagon, I feel it is important to run one more round without changing anything to confirm that it was not a fluke or luck.
That said, it is time to pick a strain. If anyone would like to suggest a strain that I can get from Attitude Seeds (Feminized only), I would love to hear from you.

HDS,

Sorry if already posted in this amazing thread, ive only started to reads it

What additives do you use, do you run any root conditioner (Uc roots) or benifical bacteria?

Hot Diggity Sog said:

Hey everyone,

It's time to start planning for the next round. With the success of the octagon, I feel it is important to run one more round without changing anything to confirm that it was not a fluke or luck.
That said, it is time to pick a strain. If anyone would like to suggest a strain that I can get from Attitude Seeds (Feminized only), I would love to hear from you.

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I don't think it's a fluke or luck-----just good ole dedication and attention to detail.

Curious about your final yield?

As for a new strain, I got some fem critical kush from attitude-----no gripes about how it performed during growth, good smoke also.

Never grown the blue dream-----only read good things about it-----liked the smoke a lot.

How strong was the skunk smell compared to others you've grown?

A~~~

Alaric said:

I don't think it's a fluke or luck-----just good ole dedication and attention to detail.

Curious about your final yield?

As for a new strain, I got some fem critical kush from attitude-----no gripes about how it performed during growth, good smoke also.

Never grown the blue dream-----only read good things about it-----liked the smoke a lot.

How strong was the skunk smell compared to others you've grown?

A~~~

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Don't have the secondary stuff back yet from the person I hired to trim it. He's dragging his feet a little. 2.7 pounds not including that...will let you know as soon as I know.
This Skunk #1 was the strongest smelling run to date for me. Empty jars are enough to destroy a room

gand3r said:

HDS,

Sorry if already posted in this amazing thread, ive only started to reads it

What additives do you use, do you run any root conditioner (Uc roots) or benifical bacteria?

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For the octagon(s), I kept it very simple.

House & Garden Aqua Flakes A&B
EC/PPM's kept very very low...under 1.0 EC the entire time.

PH Down and PH Up although I began using Silica and/or CalMag anytime I needed to raise the PH. Raising PH was only ever needed for the last couple of days before a reservoir change. For whatever reason, PH would start to rapidly drop 5 to 6 days after changing the reservoir.

Aside from that, the only additive I ever used was Dutch Master Gold ZONE.

Well...as you guys can probably imagine, I have quite a variety of seeds now. I guess I'll go with one of the HSO strains again. Either Blue Dream, Sour Blueberry or Blueberry Headband. I should have around 30 or so of each so I won't need to order that much.

Well...scratch that. I only have 11 Blue Dream seeds...not the 30ish I thought I had. Still open to any and all seed suggestions.

Alright everyone...the next chapter is set. I will be taking a detour this chapter to revisit some techniques from the 1st chapter and to also test out my new LED that I built.
Over the last few days I've really convinced myself that I need to try out some Kush strains (based on some negative Skunk #1 feedback that I received primarily).

At any rate, I have chosen to go with Cali Connection and just ordered the following:

(12) Larry OG Kush
(12) Tahoe OG Kush
(12) SFV OG Kush

The foot print for this round will be roughly 3' x 10'. As long as I get 30 out of the 36 seeds to sprout then I'll be at 1 plant per sq/ft.
The lighting will consist of (2) 600 Watt HID's and my LED which pulls 392 watts out of the wall...(16) Cree CXB3590 3000K

The octagon will be simply be on vacation for this round...more on this later.

Larry OG is a great plant. I love the smell and the smoke.

Hot Diggity Sog said:

Well...scratch that. I only have 11 Blue Dream seeds...not the 30ish I thought I had. Still open to any and all seed suggestions.

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Love to see a run of DNA lemon skunk or Dynasty Salmon River.

Great job btw

Hot Diggity Sog said:

Alright everyone...the next chapter is set. I will be taking a detour this chapter to revisit some techniques from the 1st chapter and to also test out my new LED that I built.
Over the last few days I've really convinced myself that I need to try out some Kush strains (based on some negative Skunk #1 feedback that I received primarily).

At any rate, I have chosen to go with Cali Connection and just ordered the following:

(12) Larry OG Kush
(12) Tahoe OG Kush
(12) SFV OG Kush

The foot print for this round will be roughly 3' x 10'. As long as I get 30 out of the 36 seeds to sprout then I'll be at 1 plant per sq/ft.
The lighting will consist of (2) 600 Watt HID's and my LED which pulls 392 watts out of the wall...(16) Cree CXB3590 3000K

The octagon will be simply be on vacation for this round...more on this later.

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I had a Larry O.G clone in my garden once, but regretfully didn't propagate it.I was another patients plant. It was planted late in a 10 gallon bag of used soil.....I know, I tried to tell em' too. Anyway It yealded a couple of the dankest ozs that ever came out of the garden. I always wanted another shot at that one.