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Before anything else, I'm going to say right now that this will probably be the worst grow report ever. I get lazy, followed by fits of enthusiasm. So I can't guarantee that this will be updated regularly. Probably what'll happen is that I'll post a shitload of pics for three or four days in a row, then not post anything for a while. But maybe not. Maybe I'll post on a regular basis. Having said that, I hope you follow along and offer any advice that y'all can, cuz I'm gonna need it.
Specs or whatever:
5 x 5 Green Qube (only got that tent because it can support 200 pounds).
Apache AT600 (weighs 65 pounds, hence the reason I shelled out $550 fucking dollars to have the Green Qube shipped from England to CA).
Soil mix is Coot's/lumperdawgz/BAS's. Equal parts peat/Agrowin EWC/pumice, with added amendments (rock dust, oyster shell, crab shell, neem, kelp meal etc etc. Y'all know this mix haha...)
One 6" Vortex for ventilation, one little bullshit fan on the floor and another clip-on fan or whatever at the top of the tent. I move those two fans around, as well as the plants, just to make things different. The plants I move around after every watering, so every other day, usually, although I have gone three days between waterings occasionally (like I said, I get lazy). But yeah, I move them around the tent as I see fit, just so each one gets a decent amount of light every few days.
3 gallon smart-pots (I wanted five gallons, but the store didn't have them and when I went to get the pots, I was actually planning on flowering out all 14 females, so....).
Watered them with a little OG Biowar after they first sprouted, then added all three packs of OG Biowar when I transplanted, plus a couple ACT's, a couple SST's (one barley in veg, then watered with a corn SST a few nights ago) and that's pretty much it, with the exception of a little Agisil K Silicate every now and then. I haven't really had a full-on "watering/feeding" regimen, for a variety of reasons. Like I said, I'm lazy haha. Plus, I kind of subscribe to the "less is more" theory.
Oh, I forgot to mention that I added a little bit of fulvic when I watered with the barley SST. I also foliared them once with some TM7 relatively early in veg, when it looked like they were showing some micro-nuts deficiencies (boron, maybe?). Other than that, it's been mostly straight RO water.
I actually ordered a cubic foot of BAS's soil mix a whiiiiiile ago, so there's also some of their biochar in this soil mix. I mixed up a bunch of my own "Coots mix" like four months before I used it (although it could've been six months. Or two. I promise that for my next grow report, I'll keep more accurate notes and shit). Then I mixed up another batch using the cubic foot of BAS's mix, along with the Coots mix, so there is a little bit of bio-char in there as well. If I had to guess, I'd say one percent of the total mix, if that. I combined the old soil mix and the more recent soil mix and planted the seeds straight into that. 18 seeds sowed, eighteen seeds sprouted. Got fourteen females, which I was not anticipating at all, so I had to trash a few (I don't wanna talk about it... haha). There really was no rhyme or reason to how I decided which ones to trash, with the exception of one of the Goldstars that was seriously lagging. The other ones I got rid of was based on me staring at every plant for like two hours, hemming and hawing and then going,'Fuck it," and just grabbing five of them and killing them. They all looked really good, so it was very difficult.
One of the Goldstars (these are the Goldstar f4's, btw) showed male after about two weeks of 12/12. I swear it looked like a female when I threw it into flower (all of these plants were vegged for 60 days before flowering, btw), so I'm not sure if it hermed or I'm just an idiot who can't tell the difference between male and female pre-flowers haha. If it did herm, I have to assume that it just needed more room than the 3 gallon smart pots could provide.
Anyway, yeah, so I have three Apollo 11 f4's, two Goldstar f4's and two Prayer Towers from Bodhi's initial release. These Prayer Towers aren't the Indica or Sativa selection that Bodhi made later, as far as I know. And judging from the way they're growing, I have to believe that these are from his initial pollination. One of the Prayer Towers is like twice the size of the other.
There's also one Clusterfunk, also from the original release, which used, as I understand it, a "fake" '91 Skunk VA as the female? Is that right? I know there was some confusion re: the Chem that was used as the mother.
Anyway, all of the plants were topped somewhere around the fifth or sixth node, which I never would have done if I knew I'd be flowering these seed plants out. My plan was to veg them for sixty days, take cuts, root them, trash the mothers and flower the cuts out. And before I go any further, I have to admit that I did not plan this grow as well as I could have. By the time the seed plants were ready to take cuts and shit, it was the holiday season, so pretty much the busiest time at work for me. The long hours I was working, coupled with trying to be a good friend and making it to everybody's holiday parties.... I dunno, it was just too much. By the time I got home every night, I was just too fucking tired to dedicate hours and hours to taking cuts, rooting, setting up another tent etc etc.
Am I rambling? haha. I just wanted to provide as much info as possible.
Vegged for around 60 days, reduced the lighting to 14/10 for two weeks, just to kind of ease them into flower. 12/12 for two weeks, which I think started on either December 25th or 26th. After two weeks of 12/12, I reduced the light schedule again to 11/13, which I will use for the remainder.
The lone Clusterfunk:
One of the Goldstars.
One of the Apollos.
One of the Prayer Towers.
Full plant shot of one of the Apollos. Again, I have to reiterate that these were all topped, but you can still see just how crazy-branchy the Apollos are.
And another random Apollo shot. Like I said, this will probably be the worst grow report ever. With the exception of those grow reports that never get finished. This one will absolutely be finished and reports will be given for each and every plant. Although I understand that "life happens" or whatever, I fucking can't stand when people start reports and then just disappear or whatever. Super-annoying.
Anyway, I'm impressed with how frosty all of the plants are getting already. Very impressed. The Apollos are obviously gonna be done within the expected seven weeks flowering period. So, like, only about four weeks left to go. The Goldstars, which I thought would take the longest, actually look like they'll be the next to follow. The Clusterfunk looks like it'll be the last to finish, which is odd, considering the genetics.
Okay, sorry, I type too much and too fast, I apologize for the rambling.
Also, I've said it before and I'll say it again: none of this would've been possible without the extremely generous and patient responses to my endless pages of pm's to @Bulldog11 and @Seamaiden. You guys have no idea how much I've bugged the shit out of them. They know their shit, we're lucky to have them. Anyway, yeah.... Hope y'all dig this thread. Any input or info anyone wants to provide will be greatly appreciated. Unless y'all say something dumb, in which case I'll just ignore you hahaha!!!
Specs or whatever:
5 x 5 Green Qube (only got that tent because it can support 200 pounds).
Apache AT600 (weighs 65 pounds, hence the reason I shelled out $550 fucking dollars to have the Green Qube shipped from England to CA).
Soil mix is Coot's/lumperdawgz/BAS's. Equal parts peat/Agrowin EWC/pumice, with added amendments (rock dust, oyster shell, crab shell, neem, kelp meal etc etc. Y'all know this mix haha...)
One 6" Vortex for ventilation, one little bullshit fan on the floor and another clip-on fan or whatever at the top of the tent. I move those two fans around, as well as the plants, just to make things different. The plants I move around after every watering, so every other day, usually, although I have gone three days between waterings occasionally (like I said, I get lazy). But yeah, I move them around the tent as I see fit, just so each one gets a decent amount of light every few days.
3 gallon smart-pots (I wanted five gallons, but the store didn't have them and when I went to get the pots, I was actually planning on flowering out all 14 females, so....).
Watered them with a little OG Biowar after they first sprouted, then added all three packs of OG Biowar when I transplanted, plus a couple ACT's, a couple SST's (one barley in veg, then watered with a corn SST a few nights ago) and that's pretty much it, with the exception of a little Agisil K Silicate every now and then. I haven't really had a full-on "watering/feeding" regimen, for a variety of reasons. Like I said, I'm lazy haha. Plus, I kind of subscribe to the "less is more" theory.
Oh, I forgot to mention that I added a little bit of fulvic when I watered with the barley SST. I also foliared them once with some TM7 relatively early in veg, when it looked like they were showing some micro-nuts deficiencies (boron, maybe?). Other than that, it's been mostly straight RO water.
I actually ordered a cubic foot of BAS's soil mix a whiiiiiile ago, so there's also some of their biochar in this soil mix. I mixed up a bunch of my own "Coots mix" like four months before I used it (although it could've been six months. Or two. I promise that for my next grow report, I'll keep more accurate notes and shit). Then I mixed up another batch using the cubic foot of BAS's mix, along with the Coots mix, so there is a little bit of bio-char in there as well. If I had to guess, I'd say one percent of the total mix, if that. I combined the old soil mix and the more recent soil mix and planted the seeds straight into that. 18 seeds sowed, eighteen seeds sprouted. Got fourteen females, which I was not anticipating at all, so I had to trash a few (I don't wanna talk about it... haha). There really was no rhyme or reason to how I decided which ones to trash, with the exception of one of the Goldstars that was seriously lagging. The other ones I got rid of was based on me staring at every plant for like two hours, hemming and hawing and then going,'Fuck it," and just grabbing five of them and killing them. They all looked really good, so it was very difficult.
One of the Goldstars (these are the Goldstar f4's, btw) showed male after about two weeks of 12/12. I swear it looked like a female when I threw it into flower (all of these plants were vegged for 60 days before flowering, btw), so I'm not sure if it hermed or I'm just an idiot who can't tell the difference between male and female pre-flowers haha. If it did herm, I have to assume that it just needed more room than the 3 gallon smart pots could provide.
Anyway, yeah, so I have three Apollo 11 f4's, two Goldstar f4's and two Prayer Towers from Bodhi's initial release. These Prayer Towers aren't the Indica or Sativa selection that Bodhi made later, as far as I know. And judging from the way they're growing, I have to believe that these are from his initial pollination. One of the Prayer Towers is like twice the size of the other.
There's also one Clusterfunk, also from the original release, which used, as I understand it, a "fake" '91 Skunk VA as the female? Is that right? I know there was some confusion re: the Chem that was used as the mother.
Anyway, all of the plants were topped somewhere around the fifth or sixth node, which I never would have done if I knew I'd be flowering these seed plants out. My plan was to veg them for sixty days, take cuts, root them, trash the mothers and flower the cuts out. And before I go any further, I have to admit that I did not plan this grow as well as I could have. By the time the seed plants were ready to take cuts and shit, it was the holiday season, so pretty much the busiest time at work for me. The long hours I was working, coupled with trying to be a good friend and making it to everybody's holiday parties.... I dunno, it was just too much. By the time I got home every night, I was just too fucking tired to dedicate hours and hours to taking cuts, rooting, setting up another tent etc etc.
Am I rambling? haha. I just wanted to provide as much info as possible.
Vegged for around 60 days, reduced the lighting to 14/10 for two weeks, just to kind of ease them into flower. 12/12 for two weeks, which I think started on either December 25th or 26th. After two weeks of 12/12, I reduced the light schedule again to 11/13, which I will use for the remainder.
The lone Clusterfunk:
One of the Goldstars.
One of the Apollos.
One of the Prayer Towers.
Full plant shot of one of the Apollos. Again, I have to reiterate that these were all topped, but you can still see just how crazy-branchy the Apollos are.
And another random Apollo shot. Like I said, this will probably be the worst grow report ever. With the exception of those grow reports that never get finished. This one will absolutely be finished and reports will be given for each and every plant. Although I understand that "life happens" or whatever, I fucking can't stand when people start reports and then just disappear or whatever. Super-annoying.
Anyway, I'm impressed with how frosty all of the plants are getting already. Very impressed. The Apollos are obviously gonna be done within the expected seven weeks flowering period. So, like, only about four weeks left to go. The Goldstars, which I thought would take the longest, actually look like they'll be the next to follow. The Clusterfunk looks like it'll be the last to finish, which is odd, considering the genetics.
Okay, sorry, I type too much and too fast, I apologize for the rambling.
Also, I've said it before and I'll say it again: none of this would've been possible without the extremely generous and patient responses to my endless pages of pm's to @Bulldog11 and @Seamaiden. You guys have no idea how much I've bugged the shit out of them. They know their shit, we're lucky to have them. Anyway, yeah.... Hope y'all dig this thread. Any input or info anyone wants to provide will be greatly appreciated. Unless y'all say something dumb, in which case I'll just ignore you hahaha!!!
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haha), but I could've sworn he told me that the model I have was specifically for growing weed. 
