KnightPhobia
Member
Who I am:
I am in my twenties, I live in Northern California. I've been smoking weed for almost 8 years now, and I am in the "heavy user" category, and I love my Afghan-indica based plants. Over the last 2 years I have come to understand much more about the plant I love so I started my life as a recreational (rather than occupational) Marijuana grower 16 months ago to better appreciate this love affair, and maybe to save a little cashola (8 years, 2 grams a day, you do the math).
My top 3:
1. Big Blue - Perfect high, not too much, and a mellow comedown.
2. Trainwreck - An original variation from a Lompico grower. Hard to come by.
3. Skush - Super stone, excellent high, stanky
Last year I tried Durban poison plants (VERY difficult for a first timer I found out later). My setup wasn't ideal, it was a hot summer and they were in an outdoor shed with semi-sufficient fluorescent lighting and minimal air flow, but I went 10 for 10 from seed, all girls. The first 3-4 plants were wispy and not cured properly. The next 3-4 plants were cured better, but still wispy. The last plants I managed to allow to flower for 12 weeks and they came out nice but no plant produced more than 1/2oz. I learned much from my mistakes in this first grow, mostly about bugs and moisture, but also about chemical, heat and physical stresses.
One of those plants Hermed a few nugs, and I have 40 good mature seeds... somewhere around my apartment... I can't find em, but if I do I'll grow more, even though they take a long time to complete compared to other strains they were still hella stoney for all the fkups I made.
The Current Situation:
So where I am now is in my second official grow, and I'm trying to do something different this time because I want something original, and something BOMB!
Here in California we have Medical Cannabis Clubs. I have been visiting one of them (Greenway) regularly over the last year, tasting and testing everything under the sun. During this extensive testing I have come across some seeds, probably as a result of herming. I was fortunate enough to get 1 from a Mr. Nice and 2 from a Big Bud. Since I've had the chance to partake in the finished product from both of the strains I know what I'm growing.
The Mr. Nice had a mild skunky scent and was very sticky with dense, resin filled, nugs. Most impressive is the color scheme which features a lot of dark amber hairs over dark green, dark purple, and some blues, completely iced in white. The high was definite couch lock with a deep "low," which faded into a needed weed nap. Not my favorite kind high, but it was very strong.
The Big Bud had a subtle citrus smell, more like grapefruit than lemon, with a hint of pine (could have been the area I was in though). The nugs were large but a little leafy and loose, not bad, but not ultra-dense. It has a great mellow high that was good for "doing things," albiet at a slower pace.
I planted the seedlings in May, transplanted them to new digs in June, and started flowering just before July began. The Mr. Nice started slow, it took nearly 8 days just to crack shell, while the Big Bud's started fast and strong. It is clear and aparent now that Mr. Nice is my boy, while both the Big Bud's are female. Something interesting is that the second fan leaves on the boy is a 3 prong, while the second fan leaves on the girls are 5 pronged. I'll be watching for this as a possible sexing mechinism I'm in breeding business!
From this point forward I will allow them to continue to flower and will paint brush the girls with pollen. This will give me my first generation which is similar to a home made Critical Mass. This is my starting point.
Breeding:
General idea:
I will select 24 seedlings for the first generation. Since I have two Big Bud plants that gives me two "Bloodlines" when I begin. So the best 12 of each bloodline will be chosen.
They will veg and then I will begin a process of flowering the 4 best fems for harvest, cutting 2 clones of each to repeat harvest. I will also keep a "Mom" and "Pop." I harvest it all at once, then planting 16 or so seeds of each Gen while keeping the strongest clones to flower for smoking. I repeat the seed, flower mom and dad, breed, process while harvesting sensi in the other closet.
More specific:
Gen1a will breed with Gen1b to create Gen2. Gen2 will then breed back to the strongest Ge1 I have to create Gen3. Gen3 breeds into Gen1 and into Gen2 to create Gen4 and Gen5 (1+3, 2+3). Gen4 will be bred into Gen5 to create Gen9(4+5). Gen 9 is then bred back in with a healthy Gen 1 for stability and I have now created Gen10, or what I've been calling Gen0 (because this is my real starting point).
Genetic break down:
Its Mr. Nice/G13 x Big Bud(x2) = home made CM
CM1 x CM2 = CM squared. Then I breed my diverse CM back into it's parent families, and pull a Portugese royalty breeding their children together again in Gen 4 and Gen5. This gives me a focusing of varience at Gen9 which I can then breed back into an established Gen1 variety which holds true to it's elders for a heartier, helthier strain, named Gen0. This single strain is then bred into itself a countless number of times.
I am naming Gen0, Element Zero, in line with the Critical Mass name. The first refined plant of Element Zero will be called Agent Double "oh." I also plan on breeding it with 3 other strains; Super Skunk, Cinderella99, and Blueberry, all obtained as clones from an Oakland dispensary, but I haven't thought up witty names for those cross-breeds yet.
How it's made:
My setup is indoor. I have a flowering room, a Vegetating room side by side, and a pollenating box for my "man of the hour" kept nearby. I will be using florescents for the clones/veg state and a 600w HPS ballast system for the flowering plants. I'm put the "couples" together using a 150w CFL system away from the sensi plants to keep them from pollenating my harvest plants. The main area is a closet, about 6x8, but ventilation isn't an issue. The breeding area is in an outdoor "storage" kept inside one of those plastic flower houses.
My potting recipe:
(22 gallons by part)
3 part organic soil, 3 part worm castings, 2 part cow manure (composted), 2 parts redwood compost, 6 parts perlite, 1 part peat moss, 1 part lime, 1 part green sand, 1 part kelp meal, 1 part blood+bone meal, 1 part rock phosphorus supplement.
Same mix used for everything. It is pretty even balance of nitro-phospho. When you make 40-50 gallons of the stuff it'll run you about $5 a gallon depending on your vendor. Variation of nutrients is done manually via a tea (mollassas and liq. nitro or phospho supplements) which can be used to encourage vegging or flowering. I try to avoid using any pesticides, but sometimes you do what you have to to save the crop. I've also been hearing good things about mycorrhizal fungus, but think it would be better suited in an outdoor grow.
The Beginning:
Every plant starts life in the same kind of peat pod. Seeds use a little plastic greenhouse for germination while clones are placed in the pod and then planted in wet soil straight off. I'll start 30-40 seeds and transplant the strongest/fastest 18-24. I use 3qt black plastic planters for my clones and seedlings to start in. They get a chance to root and vegetate in these containers for 7-8 weeks, about when the fan leaves reach out beyond the edges of the planter.
The Middle:
I then transplant into these large 12 gal "nursery" planters, and allow another 2-3 weeks of veg light cycle for them to get rooted before flowering. The planters cost $12, and are 21" wide. They are large enough to guarantee no root lock and allow the plant to reach it's complete indoor potential. The wood fiber makes for easing bending of branches also.
My breeders are placed in 5 gallon containers, they seem to finish quicker as the roots kind of run out of room, and they take up less space and cost less to fill with soil.
The End:
So, in my setup I'm producing about 1 square meter of harvest every 70 days or so. I also harvest a new strain every 100 days (14 week lifespan). I expect every harvest to increse yield, starting around 100g and moving up (total guesswork).
Conclusion:
Thank you for taking the time to read my plan. If you approve, know ways of improving, or see something I overlooked PLEASE let me know. I don't start Gen 1 until September, so there is plenty of time to alter the setup.It should be 2 years, 7 variations, and like $5,000 in materials, until I finally have Element Zero. But I have a plan, I have a goal, I have a dream.
This is just the beginning.
I am in my twenties, I live in Northern California. I've been smoking weed for almost 8 years now, and I am in the "heavy user" category, and I love my Afghan-indica based plants. Over the last 2 years I have come to understand much more about the plant I love so I started my life as a recreational (rather than occupational) Marijuana grower 16 months ago to better appreciate this love affair, and maybe to save a little cashola (8 years, 2 grams a day, you do the math).
My top 3:
1. Big Blue - Perfect high, not too much, and a mellow comedown.
2. Trainwreck - An original variation from a Lompico grower. Hard to come by.
3. Skush - Super stone, excellent high, stanky
Last year I tried Durban poison plants (VERY difficult for a first timer I found out later). My setup wasn't ideal, it was a hot summer and they were in an outdoor shed with semi-sufficient fluorescent lighting and minimal air flow, but I went 10 for 10 from seed, all girls. The first 3-4 plants were wispy and not cured properly. The next 3-4 plants were cured better, but still wispy. The last plants I managed to allow to flower for 12 weeks and they came out nice but no plant produced more than 1/2oz. I learned much from my mistakes in this first grow, mostly about bugs and moisture, but also about chemical, heat and physical stresses.
One of those plants Hermed a few nugs, and I have 40 good mature seeds... somewhere around my apartment... I can't find em, but if I do I'll grow more, even though they take a long time to complete compared to other strains they were still hella stoney for all the fkups I made.
The Current Situation:
So where I am now is in my second official grow, and I'm trying to do something different this time because I want something original, and something BOMB!
Here in California we have Medical Cannabis Clubs. I have been visiting one of them (Greenway) regularly over the last year, tasting and testing everything under the sun. During this extensive testing I have come across some seeds, probably as a result of herming. I was fortunate enough to get 1 from a Mr. Nice and 2 from a Big Bud. Since I've had the chance to partake in the finished product from both of the strains I know what I'm growing.
The Mr. Nice had a mild skunky scent and was very sticky with dense, resin filled, nugs. Most impressive is the color scheme which features a lot of dark amber hairs over dark green, dark purple, and some blues, completely iced in white. The high was definite couch lock with a deep "low," which faded into a needed weed nap. Not my favorite kind high, but it was very strong.
The Big Bud had a subtle citrus smell, more like grapefruit than lemon, with a hint of pine (could have been the area I was in though). The nugs were large but a little leafy and loose, not bad, but not ultra-dense. It has a great mellow high that was good for "doing things," albiet at a slower pace.
I planted the seedlings in May, transplanted them to new digs in June, and started flowering just before July began. The Mr. Nice started slow, it took nearly 8 days just to crack shell, while the Big Bud's started fast and strong. It is clear and aparent now that Mr. Nice is my boy, while both the Big Bud's are female. Something interesting is that the second fan leaves on the boy is a 3 prong, while the second fan leaves on the girls are 5 pronged. I'll be watching for this as a possible sexing mechinism I'm in breeding business!
From this point forward I will allow them to continue to flower and will paint brush the girls with pollen. This will give me my first generation which is similar to a home made Critical Mass. This is my starting point.
Breeding:
General idea:
I will select 24 seedlings for the first generation. Since I have two Big Bud plants that gives me two "Bloodlines" when I begin. So the best 12 of each bloodline will be chosen.
They will veg and then I will begin a process of flowering the 4 best fems for harvest, cutting 2 clones of each to repeat harvest. I will also keep a "Mom" and "Pop." I harvest it all at once, then planting 16 or so seeds of each Gen while keeping the strongest clones to flower for smoking. I repeat the seed, flower mom and dad, breed, process while harvesting sensi in the other closet.
More specific:
Gen1a will breed with Gen1b to create Gen2. Gen2 will then breed back to the strongest Ge1 I have to create Gen3. Gen3 breeds into Gen1 and into Gen2 to create Gen4 and Gen5 (1+3, 2+3). Gen4 will be bred into Gen5 to create Gen9(4+5). Gen 9 is then bred back in with a healthy Gen 1 for stability and I have now created Gen10, or what I've been calling Gen0 (because this is my real starting point).
Genetic break down:
Its Mr. Nice/G13 x Big Bud(x2) = home made CM
CM1 x CM2 = CM squared. Then I breed my diverse CM back into it's parent families, and pull a Portugese royalty breeding their children together again in Gen 4 and Gen5. This gives me a focusing of varience at Gen9 which I can then breed back into an established Gen1 variety which holds true to it's elders for a heartier, helthier strain, named Gen0. This single strain is then bred into itself a countless number of times.
I am naming Gen0, Element Zero, in line with the Critical Mass name. The first refined plant of Element Zero will be called Agent Double "oh." I also plan on breeding it with 3 other strains; Super Skunk, Cinderella99, and Blueberry, all obtained as clones from an Oakland dispensary, but I haven't thought up witty names for those cross-breeds yet.
How it's made:
My setup is indoor. I have a flowering room, a Vegetating room side by side, and a pollenating box for my "man of the hour" kept nearby. I will be using florescents for the clones/veg state and a 600w HPS ballast system for the flowering plants. I'm put the "couples" together using a 150w CFL system away from the sensi plants to keep them from pollenating my harvest plants. The main area is a closet, about 6x8, but ventilation isn't an issue. The breeding area is in an outdoor "storage" kept inside one of those plastic flower houses.
My potting recipe:
(22 gallons by part)
3 part organic soil, 3 part worm castings, 2 part cow manure (composted), 2 parts redwood compost, 6 parts perlite, 1 part peat moss, 1 part lime, 1 part green sand, 1 part kelp meal, 1 part blood+bone meal, 1 part rock phosphorus supplement.
Same mix used for everything. It is pretty even balance of nitro-phospho. When you make 40-50 gallons of the stuff it'll run you about $5 a gallon depending on your vendor. Variation of nutrients is done manually via a tea (mollassas and liq. nitro or phospho supplements) which can be used to encourage vegging or flowering. I try to avoid using any pesticides, but sometimes you do what you have to to save the crop. I've also been hearing good things about mycorrhizal fungus, but think it would be better suited in an outdoor grow.
The Beginning:
Every plant starts life in the same kind of peat pod. Seeds use a little plastic greenhouse for germination while clones are placed in the pod and then planted in wet soil straight off. I'll start 30-40 seeds and transplant the strongest/fastest 18-24. I use 3qt black plastic planters for my clones and seedlings to start in. They get a chance to root and vegetate in these containers for 7-8 weeks, about when the fan leaves reach out beyond the edges of the planter.
The Middle:
I then transplant into these large 12 gal "nursery" planters, and allow another 2-3 weeks of veg light cycle for them to get rooted before flowering. The planters cost $12, and are 21" wide. They are large enough to guarantee no root lock and allow the plant to reach it's complete indoor potential. The wood fiber makes for easing bending of branches also.
My breeders are placed in 5 gallon containers, they seem to finish quicker as the roots kind of run out of room, and they take up less space and cost less to fill with soil.
The End:
So, in my setup I'm producing about 1 square meter of harvest every 70 days or so. I also harvest a new strain every 100 days (14 week lifespan). I expect every harvest to increse yield, starting around 100g and moving up (total guesswork).
Conclusion:
Thank you for taking the time to read my plan. If you approve, know ways of improving, or see something I overlooked PLEASE let me know. I don't start Gen 1 until September, so there is plenty of time to alter the setup.It should be 2 years, 7 variations, and like $5,000 in materials, until I finally have Element Zero. But I have a plan, I have a goal, I have a dream.
This is just the beginning.
