BlackBeard
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Hey everyone, I'm new to the site but not new to growing, I've just been unable to do so for the last few years but now i'm able so have been having a rummage in the seed stash.
Strains
Grape 13 by Hazeman seeds - Grape Stomper x G-13
Unknown x Anesthesia which is a strain I've done a few grows with, it came about years ago after me and a few mates made various crosses of all sorts and shared them between us.
Well I managed to get some of mine mixed up (genius) I decided to grow out the unknown ones as we expected to be able to identify them once grown, most were identified by traits they inherited from their parent strains but one had no recognizable traits of either parent so we just stuck with calling it "Unknown".
A while later when I was growing out some Anesthesia by Sannies seeds I had quite vigorous growing male so I decided to pollinate the Unknown with it, these seeds have been used on multiple grows with great success of passing on the genetics of the Unknown in some of the phenos, I may even have an accidental cross of this and Strawberry Diesel which I may put in the veg tent soon too.
Starting things off
8 Grape 13 and 8 Unknown x Anesthesia went in root riot cubes a few days ago and have been sat next to a radiator to get things started, most of them have already cracked, some poking their heads out, some showing roots and some being a bit lazy still.
Today I potted up 3 of each into 1.5L pots of coco, the stuff I used was washed with Calcium Nitrate, I pre-charged the coco with a light dose of formulex and PH'd the water to 5.8, the others will be potted as they poke their heads or show me some roots.
The tent is a DR120 by Secret Jardin and I've got them under an 8 x 54watt T5 hood which is where they will all stay until possibly put a 400watt MH over them.
I will be putting a small clip fan in the tent shortly to stop them getting too lanky.
The plan
The plan is to hand water them for a while until they build up a nice root system and then run them in a drain to waste setup with drippers, I just need to finish off seeing what bits I'll need for the dripper setup.
Once they've got a bit of size on them they'll go in the flowering tent for sexing and flowering.
The flowering tent is 1.2m x 2.4m and has 2 x Lumatek Ultimate pro 600w 400v digital ballasts, I use parabolic reflectors as I feel they give a much better light spread.
The strains will have separate dripper systems so their feed can be tailored to what they want.
I will be using Ionics nutes by Growth Technology as I've used these before (in hydro) and they gave me just a good results as other brands which cost twice as much or more.
Thanks for stopping by and reading all of the above, feel free to pull up a chair or offer tips and advise as I've been out of the game for a while now so am likely a bit rusty, I'll leave you with 2 pics of what is going on so far.
BlackBeard
Strains
Grape 13 by Hazeman seeds - Grape Stomper x G-13
Unknown x Anesthesia which is a strain I've done a few grows with, it came about years ago after me and a few mates made various crosses of all sorts and shared them between us.
Well I managed to get some of mine mixed up (genius) I decided to grow out the unknown ones as we expected to be able to identify them once grown, most were identified by traits they inherited from their parent strains but one had no recognizable traits of either parent so we just stuck with calling it "Unknown".
A while later when I was growing out some Anesthesia by Sannies seeds I had quite vigorous growing male so I decided to pollinate the Unknown with it, these seeds have been used on multiple grows with great success of passing on the genetics of the Unknown in some of the phenos, I may even have an accidental cross of this and Strawberry Diesel which I may put in the veg tent soon too.
Starting things off
8 Grape 13 and 8 Unknown x Anesthesia went in root riot cubes a few days ago and have been sat next to a radiator to get things started, most of them have already cracked, some poking their heads out, some showing roots and some being a bit lazy still.
Today I potted up 3 of each into 1.5L pots of coco, the stuff I used was washed with Calcium Nitrate, I pre-charged the coco with a light dose of formulex and PH'd the water to 5.8, the others will be potted as they poke their heads or show me some roots.
The tent is a DR120 by Secret Jardin and I've got them under an 8 x 54watt T5 hood which is where they will all stay until possibly put a 400watt MH over them.
I will be putting a small clip fan in the tent shortly to stop them getting too lanky.
The plan
The plan is to hand water them for a while until they build up a nice root system and then run them in a drain to waste setup with drippers, I just need to finish off seeing what bits I'll need for the dripper setup.
Once they've got a bit of size on them they'll go in the flowering tent for sexing and flowering.
The flowering tent is 1.2m x 2.4m and has 2 x Lumatek Ultimate pro 600w 400v digital ballasts, I use parabolic reflectors as I feel they give a much better light spread.
The strains will have separate dripper systems so their feed can be tailored to what they want.
I will be using Ionics nutes by Growth Technology as I've used these before (in hydro) and they gave me just a good results as other brands which cost twice as much or more.
Thanks for stopping by and reading all of the above, feel free to pull up a chair or offer tips and advise as I've been out of the game for a while now so am likely a bit rusty, I'll leave you with 2 pics of what is going on so far.
BlackBeard