Welcome to my grow journal!
I was a little skepitcal of posting a grow journal however I'm very proud of what is happening so I will post for everyone.
As of right now I do not have any images though they will be here soon.
My Setup is as follows:
1 duel tube flourescent light ( dont ask me if their cool or warm- I DONT KNOW - they came out of an office )
1 Fan
Walls covered in tin foil (went to 15 different stores, no one has mylar!!!).
SEEDS: The seeds I'm using are "regular" or "commercial" seeds from you're run of the mill "dookie" weed. I also used seeds that came directly from some very potent buds of the Fruity Loops strain and Hindu Kush strain.
GERMINATION: The germination process had a little hicup though I think it has helped in a way. I started with about 28 seeds, 14 of the "dookie" weed and 14 of the "exotic" weed (exotic being Fruity Loops+Kush). All of the seeds sprouted pretty quickly. The second day of germination the seeds were ready to go in the soil, however due to time restrictions I was forced to wait another 8 hours before I could put them in the soil! When I returned 8 hours later I came to find that the paper towels around the seeds were COMPLETELY DRY and the tips of the exposed roots had already begun to shrivel up. I doused the paper towels w/ water and let the germinating seeds sit in it for a good 2 hours in hopes that the shriveling roots would take on the water. Unfortunately because of this germination mishap half of the seeds did not even make it to sprout.
SPROUTS: Started with 14 sprouts, 8 sprouts from the dookie weed and 6 from the exotic weed. (24HRS OF LIGHT)
2 WEEKS: At 2 weeks the dookie plants were growing the best. The exotic plants were taking some time to get growing, though some were obviously doing better than others. Because of the drastic size differences I decided to start pulled plants from the garden. (some of my plants were on the 2nd node while others were still sprouts struggling to make it to Veg.) At the end of 2 weeks I was left with 8 vigorously growing plants- 5 of them dookie and 3 being exotic. (24HRS OF LIGHT)
4 WEEKS: All of my "dookie" plants are doing great. There is only 1 dookie plant that I suspect will be a male. I suspect this plant will be a male because it has had a LOT of upward growth however nothing is really developing at the nodes, it seems to only want to grow up. Because of its "shitty" growth style I've decided to make this my "bonsai" testing plant. I've already began tying it down and forcing it to grow in ways plants don't normally grow. Every other plant looks AMAZING. All of my other dookie plants are short and very busy with LOTS of growth at the nodes. The leaves are DARK DARK GREEN + BIG + THICK. My exotic plants are still a little bit behind the dookie plants. My exotic plants are at the 3rd node and it has become obvious that I do indeed have two different strains of exotic type bud. 2 of the exotic plants are DEF Sativas- perhaps pure. They're leave blades very thing and VERY long- I think these babies will become my mothers. The other exotic plant appears to be a 50/50 mix of indica + sativa- I say this because the leaves have qualities of both- whereas my dookie plants mostly appear to be Indica. (24HRS OF LIGHT)
As of right now I'm very impressed with my grow- I didn't think I'd get this much off of flourescents. In 2 weeks I'm getting a HPS/MH 600 WATT and this is when I'll change from 24HRS of light to a 18/6 cycle. I want to give these plants maybe another month under the MH just to give them a little boost of growth before I begin to flower them.
I will have images up soon.
Please comment and let me know what you think so far!
I was a little skepitcal of posting a grow journal however I'm very proud of what is happening so I will post for everyone.
As of right now I do not have any images though they will be here soon.
My Setup is as follows:
1 duel tube flourescent light ( dont ask me if their cool or warm- I DONT KNOW - they came out of an office )
1 Fan
Walls covered in tin foil (went to 15 different stores, no one has mylar!!!).
SEEDS: The seeds I'm using are "regular" or "commercial" seeds from you're run of the mill "dookie" weed. I also used seeds that came directly from some very potent buds of the Fruity Loops strain and Hindu Kush strain.
GERMINATION: The germination process had a little hicup though I think it has helped in a way. I started with about 28 seeds, 14 of the "dookie" weed and 14 of the "exotic" weed (exotic being Fruity Loops+Kush). All of the seeds sprouted pretty quickly. The second day of germination the seeds were ready to go in the soil, however due to time restrictions I was forced to wait another 8 hours before I could put them in the soil! When I returned 8 hours later I came to find that the paper towels around the seeds were COMPLETELY DRY and the tips of the exposed roots had already begun to shrivel up. I doused the paper towels w/ water and let the germinating seeds sit in it for a good 2 hours in hopes that the shriveling roots would take on the water. Unfortunately because of this germination mishap half of the seeds did not even make it to sprout.
SPROUTS: Started with 14 sprouts, 8 sprouts from the dookie weed and 6 from the exotic weed. (24HRS OF LIGHT)
2 WEEKS: At 2 weeks the dookie plants were growing the best. The exotic plants were taking some time to get growing, though some were obviously doing better than others. Because of the drastic size differences I decided to start pulled plants from the garden. (some of my plants were on the 2nd node while others were still sprouts struggling to make it to Veg.) At the end of 2 weeks I was left with 8 vigorously growing plants- 5 of them dookie and 3 being exotic. (24HRS OF LIGHT)
4 WEEKS: All of my "dookie" plants are doing great. There is only 1 dookie plant that I suspect will be a male. I suspect this plant will be a male because it has had a LOT of upward growth however nothing is really developing at the nodes, it seems to only want to grow up. Because of its "shitty" growth style I've decided to make this my "bonsai" testing plant. I've already began tying it down and forcing it to grow in ways plants don't normally grow. Every other plant looks AMAZING. All of my other dookie plants are short and very busy with LOTS of growth at the nodes. The leaves are DARK DARK GREEN + BIG + THICK. My exotic plants are still a little bit behind the dookie plants. My exotic plants are at the 3rd node and it has become obvious that I do indeed have two different strains of exotic type bud. 2 of the exotic plants are DEF Sativas- perhaps pure. They're leave blades very thing and VERY long- I think these babies will become my mothers. The other exotic plant appears to be a 50/50 mix of indica + sativa- I say this because the leaves have qualities of both- whereas my dookie plants mostly appear to be Indica. (24HRS OF LIGHT)
As of right now I'm very impressed with my grow- I didn't think I'd get this much off of flourescents. In 2 weeks I'm getting a HPS/MH 600 WATT and this is when I'll change from 24HRS of light to a 18/6 cycle. I want to give these plants maybe another month under the MH just to give them a little boost of growth before I begin to flower them.
I will have images up soon.
Please comment and let me know what you think so far!
