Grow Journal: Hindu Kush - CFL

Hey everyone and welcome to the thread that is going to play out all my trials and tribulations of this my first CFL grow. Now In saying that it may sound like I've grown other ways before, thats not entirely true. This is the first time I'll be growing from seeds to harvest. Last time I had to kill my plants before they could flower (for various reasons).

On to the good stuff.

Seeds Breeder: Ontario's Best Seed Company
Seeds: Hindu Kush
Purchased: Toronto420.com on 8/2/8



I am only going to post 1 picture of my grow box here, if your interested in seeing it from start to end check out my other thread. Ok so heres the pic of my grow box from the outside.



As of 11pm last night (8/2/ 2 of the 5 seeds were placed in between 4 pieces of paper towel folded over a few times to form quite a few layers of water holding paper and its between 2 small plates. Sorry didn't take pics of a germing seed. I will update with my next set of pictures when the seeds sprout a little tail.

I will be using a mix of organic soils and will be potting my little guys directly into 6" pots. The plan is to veg the suckers till they are between 12" - 18" and then hit them with 12/12 to finish with a plant thats roughly24" - 32" total height (not including side growth and bushyness). So I think thats about it for now. If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask and I'm on here alot everyday so I'll respond as quickly as I can !

Thanks for joining along

-Tdot

Nice little setup from what I can see. Good luck on the grow, and keep us posted on your grow progress!

Way to go T.O.! Keep on growing.

A great example peice for a newer grower! Looks very nice! Rock on Canada!

Thanks for your replies ppl

12hrs of germ have now passed...nothing to report.. lol... And we wait . . . .

-Tdot

You know I'm taking a front seat for this one =]

Thanks Wolfman. That makes me feel that much more confident that I'll get through this grow well with all the help from everyone !!

Germ Update: Been 15hrs... I've named me 2 seeds.. Fairly simple.. BS and SS for Big Seed and Small Seed.. and thats pretty straight forward.

SS: has already cracked and I can just see a tiny lil white tip starting to poke "her" head out.

BS: Nada... I thought this was the healthiest seed based on looks and the runt seed is germing first. Just goes to show how deceiving seeds can be. Next update at either 18hrs or the Full 24.

-Tdot

-Tdot

setup looks promising. i think that poster on your setup is from junes high times issue too.

Thanks Goblin !

Almost, High Time Aug 08 Tera Patrick on the cover. Its a nice Purple Kush plant.. its for Karma heh So the pictured Kush can talk to my little Kush babies hahah

-Tdot

I'm definitely subscribing to this thread! I'm planning an all CFL grow my self and I also live in the GTA.
BTW I have the same poster on my wall lol.. did you check out "Ontario Seed Bank" when you were shopping for seeds?
They have a full page ad on the back of the same high times issue the kush poster is from, I only ask because thats where I was thinking of getting my seeds.
any advice?

Good luck with the grow, hope to see lots of updates!!

Hey thanks thcbloom !! Thats awesome to see another gta'er here. And to answer your question yes and no. I did see the ad on the back of the magazine and looked at it alot, however they don't have a website and that kinda bothered me. Unless they do and I'm just a big stoner which is very possible. Another reason I went with Toronto 420 is cause I happened to be at my brothers place yesterday and he lives around the corner from kensington so I just went for a walk and did it. I wanted 5 seeds as I'm aiming for a mother to clone. Any idea what strain your going with ? how much room do you have ? I was debating the Hindu Kush or Blueberry Skunk also from Toronto 420. In the end I wanted a "pure" strain so to speak so I took the Kush. I didn't wanna just go to the Ontario Seed bank to "look around" I did that at Sacred Seeds and it just felt weird. So yeah, thats my reasoning !! Keep me posted on what strain you go with and your grow.. Maybe we can do a lil clone swap thanks for stopping bye !!

-Tdot

Update 20 hrs of Germination..

So, SS has cracked and there is a nice lil white head pokeing out.. but still far too small to plant.. BS has just started to crack open but no signs of white yet... Will update again in 4 hrs at the full 24 hr mark !!

-Tdot

Alrighty, heres my 34 hrs of Germination update:

SS: "she" has cracked open and has about a 1mm tap root showing. I'm going to give it only a few more hrs and constantly check on it so it doesn't grow into the paper towel. SS will be planted at some point today !!!!

BS: Not as lucky with this one, "shes" still in her shell I thought I saw a crack last night but I must have been mistaken. I will continue to look at BS as I check on SS.

Thats all for now folks ! I'll update again when SS is in soil.

Thanks for Stopping In !!

-Tdot

Good idea to plant that soon before it grows to the towel, lol.

Alrighty, well based on the advice of Chiceh and another person I spoke too I decided to plant SS with her little tail instead of waiting for the tail to get bigger and possibly grow into the paper towel.

So this is the real beginning !!! HK SS (Hindu Kush - Small Seed) has been planted and I have 2 pictures of very exciting dirt. lol.. enjoy as I wait in agony for something to sprout !!!



As you can see the temps are still a slight bit high and RH% is low but I'll be working on those as this goes on...




Thanks for tuning in !

-Tdot

Update: So after 40 hrs, BS has done nada not even crack, nothing, I'm only impatient as the other one cracked and popped so quickly. Anyway since i"m really looking for just one mother plant to constantly clone. I decided to start germinating one more seed so that even if all 3 pop I end up with at least 1 mother. I'm going to name the third one well #3 for now. So thats my little update... I'll post again at 48hrs then not again till something happens..

-Tdot

Don't worry FT... out of my 6 seeds.... one poped right away, a few take a couple of days... and the last one popped 4 days later... 2 didn't do anything.... so just keep and eye on them. for at least 5 days before giving up on any of them.

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Yea, I hear ya Wolfman, I'm just being impatient I know it can take up to a few days, I'll just watch it and give it one maybe 2 mists a day from the spray bottle.

I'm hoping BS cracks at least at the 48hr mark give or take. And We'll see about #3 give that one at least a day

-Tdot

be patient FT...like they say, GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT !

jojaxx said:

be patient FT...like they say, GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT !

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Thats is so very very true

-Tdot