First grow, AK-48 from seed under 400w HPS.

Hi Monkeybones,

Nice looking plants you have there. I see you take pride in your work.
Think I'll stick around if I can find a seat. These girls look like they are going to explode.

monkeybones said:

Here are some closeups, 'cause I'm high and they're cool,

... And here my friends, is a duck in my pool.

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lol I agree and beautiful pics! I want a duck! I've been trying to talk hubby into letting me have a mini one for awhile

cruzer101 said:

Hi Monkeybones,

Nice looking plants you have there. I see you take pride in your work.
Think I'll stick around if I can find a seat. These girls look like they are going to explode.

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Welcome aboard cruzer, honoured to share my growing experience with you

DevilishlyKatt said:

lol I agree and beautiful pics! I want a duck! I've been trying to talk hubby into letting me have a mini one for awhile

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Hehe he felt like paying a visit. Thank you for the compliments on the pictures, I like this camera a lot




Day 29 of 12/12

Today I installed a spare LED grow panel I had kicking around to hopefully add a little extra kick to the buds durring 12/12. I emphasize hopefully as I have no clue the amount of watts going into this thing nor the lumen output.

Today I fed each plant 4 tablespoons of Indonesian bat guano (high phosphorus), along with the ritual drop per gallon of superthrive.

Here are some pictures. Enjoy







And here's a shot of the LED panel in there;

NICE! But what of the mystery seedlings??

those look awesome. seeing these pics make me want to start my ak's. Let me know if you think the led helps any. im addin mine tonight also

lowrider44 said:

NICE! But what of the mystery seedlings??

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I'll get some pics of those next time =]

brandon873 said:

those look awesome. seeing these pics make me want to start my ak's. Let me know if you think the led helps any. im addin mine tonight also

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Thanks for stopping by I'll post back if the plants show any spurred growth in front of the LEDs.



Quick update. After rubbing the stalk my fingers recede sticky, pungent and fruity smelling. After smelling a bud site and am washed with a brief and subtle bath of euphoria.

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Take care folks

She's big. 43 inches (3 2/3').

Lowrider44 asked about the mystery seedlings. Of all 10, 7 germinated, 3 turned out female, and this is the only one worth a damn. She's going outside tomorrow. A gift to my father She has some small flowers showing but we expect her to reveg outside.

That is some nice stuff brother .... yum .... love the symmetry ...healthy as f@@k !!
Will come back to check on progress !
Cheers

Puffer Fish said:

That is some nice stuff brother .... yum .... love the symmetry ...healthy as f@@k !!
Will come back to check on progress !
Cheers

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Thanks for stopping by and for the kind words. Glad to have you along. Cheers

Today the last 3 mystery plants went outside to continue vegging. Hopefully my father doesn't fuck 'em up I'll probably post nug shots after they're harvested assuming everything goes well, or even quick snaps during daytime later in the season.

Will maybe find something cool to show you folks later tonight.

Shh, you'll wake her.



You don't want to see the 3 dozen pictures that it took to get that one in the dark

So far the two plants that were transplanted into 3 gallon pots filled with coco and high amounts of perlite are doing exceptionally better as far as vertical and horizontal growth than the 3 transplanted into 3 gallons of peat-heavy promix. One of the two has the most resin and bud on it by far. Additionally, the runt of the 5 plants, which was transplanted into an all organic coco mix ahead of the others when transplanted into a 1.5 gallon pot, has proven to be the healthiest, deepest green, and generally most vibrant plant of them all, even if not the biggest. It is showing exceptional resin production as well.

Yesterday I named each plant and gave them name tags for purpose of categorizing harvested herb and choosing a phenotype as a mother by order of smoke preference and possibly variables such as yield and growth depending on emergent exceptions among said variables, plant health permitting.

Basically ima pick a plant with the sexiest smoke and clone it, so i needed to name 'em. Heiwa, Kibō, Yūki, Karuma, Ai.

Will post back shortly with pictures for a proper update, going to move them around, which means out, which means better pictures than HPS muddled crap. =]




-monkey

Mostly pictures of the two biggest plants. Had them out to switch their spots and move some light around. Enjoy



*edit* The one clone just came out of some really shitty cloning medium. It's not looking too great. They're in pure vermiculite and watered with filtered water with some superthrive added. The 2 new clones are from some lower branches that have so far gotten no light and have not developed any bud sites. Hopefully they take off this time.

I looked around but I might have missed it What are you feeding these things? do you have like a schedule you feed on. It looks like your doing about a thousand times better than I ever did.

lowrider44 said:

I looked around but I might have missed it What are you feeding these things? do you have like a schedule you feed on. It looks like your doing about a thousand times better than I ever did.

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Granular blood/bone meal mixed into the potting medium and bat guanos fed as tea; I fed about 3 times during veg with Mexican bat guano, and have fed about 3 times so far in 12/12 with a mix of Mexican and Indonesian bat guanos. Also, a drop of Super-thrive in every gallon of every water.
Thank you very much for the kind words. =]

I hope your clones make it. Im new to horticulture in general and cloning is the greatest thing ever. I have found that spraying leaves and stem A LOT with weak superthrive and pure water for atleast 7 days and they will make it. Ive cloned a small flower on a stem and was able to make it reveg by feeding 5-1-1 fish and pinching the top after it rooted

lowrider44 said:

I hope your clones make it. Im new to horticulture in general and cloning is the greatest thing ever. I have found that spraying leaves and stem A LOT with weak superthrive and pure water for atleast 7 days and they will make it. Ive cloned a small flower on a stem and was able to make it reveg by feeding 5-1-1 fish and pinching the top after it rooted

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Thanks a lot for that, I'll definitely hit them with some Superthrive spray. I've heard of others doing this and I applied superthrive to the bottled water the clones have in their vermiculite (for the record I acknowledge vermiculite as a fairly middle-rung cloning medium), but it really can't hurt to hit them with some half strength spray. Cheers.

Good day friends and fellow cannabis growers.

Things are looking fairly decent here. Today I watered with a beefed up dose of superthrive. I believe I have managed to eliminate all of the fungus gnats I had bothering me, and the extra superthrive will help the roots to repair any damage that might have been caused, as well as to hopefully improve root integrity for the last couple feedings I have planned for these plants.

Ai is the thickest so far...


She also has the most browning hairs and shows the most resin production.


Here is an even closer view to get a good look at the bud.


Ai, like her sisters, has many branches showing quite good development.


She however shows 2 other colas about as frosty and thick as the main colas on a couple of the other plants. Here's that same branch from a different angle...


Her main cola from a different angle.


Things are bushing up underneath too...


Yūki displays the fat leaves of the indica in AK-48 proudly, and sports one of the tallest colas. I would also like to add that this is the seed that really shouldn't have survived; she couldn't get anything more than her taproot past her husk and remained stationary a millimeter above the soil for about 3 days and began to rot. At this point I removed the husk by hand as carefully as one's dexterity allowed. She looked like shit for the better part of her life as a seedling, yet here she is. A testament to the hardiness of the species and strain.


Kibō glows with a deep green and is exceptionally leafy. It's difficult to see under her veil of foliage at what's brewing, but she is heartening to look at, perpetually reaching upwards like none of the others with her fan leaves. I anticipate her bud especially.


I find myself drawn towards Karuma's appearance more and more as she develops.


Perhaps it is her tendency towards the sativa in AK-48...


But I believe Karuma will deliver an exciting experience.






And a nice shot with Bob smokin' his joint.










*EDIT* The smudge on the camera lens 'ain't comin' off with anything but some nice strong isopropyl, which we're out of for today.

It won't be there next time =]

wonderful!!!!

monkeybones said:

Granular blood/bone meal mixed into the potting medium and bat guanos fed as tea; I fed about 3 times during veg with Mexican bat guano, and have fed about 3 times so far in 12/12 with a mix of Mexican and Indonesian bat guanos. Also, a drop of Super-thrive in every gallon of every water.
Thank you very much for the kind words. =]

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where do you get this shit? And whats the difference between mexican and indonesion guano LOL, whats the costs.