GR's Fall 19 Grow

Unsure yet what grow method I will be using this grow, either five plant vertical or eight plant horizontal . Will determine method after selecting the plants from the overall selection.
5 - G13 Haze, 4 - BlueBerry and 4 - Original Skunk #1



Pull up a chair and let's see how this run plays out.

Peace out,

GR

It's on!

Planted the germinated seeds today. Top right Skunk Original, bottom G13 Haze and top left BlueBerry.


In 9 oz cocktail plastic glasses painted black. Two parts Canna coco and one part midsize grade perlite. Mixed two gallons of RO with lite rates of CaliMagic and Epsom, Great White and pH'ed at 5.77.


In the tent and ready for the lights


Lights on, running the two outer lamps of a 24" - 6 lamp T5


Let's get the show on the road.

how about the breeders for each of the 3 strains, por favor!

rkymtnman said:

how about the breeders for each of the 3 strains, por favor!

Click to expand...

Ahhhh yes, I can do that!
G13 Haze Barneys Farm
BlueBerry and Skunk #1 were freebies, the breeder is Seedsman. I have grown a Seedsman strain before, Super Citrus Haze, big producer, great flavor and aroma, anda very decent long lasting high.
Believe that was the Fall 16/Spring 17 grow.

Thanks for stopping by buddy!

Looks like, discounting any future problems, we are going to get 11 of 13 spouted.
3 of 4 - Original Skunk #1
3 of 4 - BlueBerry
5 of 5 - G13 Haze
These were started in water on Tues. evening and planted Thur. afternoon.
Got some seed caps wanting to stay with the plant, will give a another day or so and remove manually is necessary.

These were put into jars of water a week ago tonight and are doing fine. Looks like it's going to be 11 of 13 will make it.

I'll be following along bud, best of luck

Gave the ladies their first real fert solution today.
1 ml Silica
2 ml Calmagic
0.5 grams of Epsom
200 ppm A&B

Couple of days growth, we have begun filling the root zone.
8/10


8/12


Would like to get them into 2 gallon Smart Pots this week, but only the ones that are ready. A couple of the G 13's aren't.

Today is the 17th day since sprout, so thought I would go ahead and transplant.
Going into 2 gallon Smart Pots from the 9 ounce cocktail glasses. First filled each pot with weighed coco/perlite, 70/30, then flush with CaliMagic and Epsom to make sure the coco is charged. I then made a solution of lite nutes, CaliMagic, Epsom, Rhizotonic, Cannazym, Rapid Start and Great White.
Here is the SP filled and a cup was place to create the hole,

Good roots on most plants, a couple have weak roots.

Here is one planted.

Here is one that has weak roots, will hand water those with rooting probs for a bit.
Here they are back in the tent.

Had some Cal/Mag issues early on, but that has been corrected.
The two plants to the right of the center row are the two with root issues, as stated will be on a different water schedule until the root system develops.

Transplanted on Saturday and put them under a 6 bulb T5, so today the 315 was installed in the tent.


I have made my decision on the plants I am going to keep this grow.
Giving my assistant, too pic up tomorrow, one each of the three strains, a G13 Haze, Original Skunk and BlueBerry. I am going to do an 8 plant horizontal grow, so 4 - G13 Haze, two Original Skunk and two BlueBerry.

Worked on the irrigation system, set up the rez, installed the pump to manifold and ran the hose into the tent. Once inside I attached the hose to the 8 port Orbit Manifold and put on the emitters.


Hand watering the front three plants, the ones for my assistant, and the others are on the system.


Did not get a pic tonight but this is a pic of the emitters I am using with this setup. This pic is from my Cheese grow last fall.


Just love the coverage. Hard to get good even saturation in coco with a drip emitter, this bitch is the queen. Best I have used to date.
Tested the system with a 5 gallon bucket with my nute solution and it worked just great, just needs the emitters tweaked a bit. Tomorrow will fill the rez and begin daily to twice daily waterings, this is all base on root development. Not happy until I see the root penetrating the Smart Pots.

Everything looking great bud.

Plants have reached that growth stage where it is time to top and start some clones. My assistant will be growing 8 plants so these clones are for him.
The roots are protruding from the Smart Pots.

There is good healthy growth.


Waited for 7 nodes and topped to the 4th node, trimmed and put into my DIY EZ Cloner.


Back in the tent, and got a heavy hand watering with nutes and Great White, 30% runoff at minimum.


My assistant will pick up three of his plants tomorrow and he will get 5 of the clones. Will be
spreading the other 8 plants in the tent.

So this morning I pulled the plants and did the first trim and tie down, removed bottom growth and some fan. Tied the branches down to the pot.


Here they are trimmed, tied and back in the tent.


The 11 new clones clones placed in the DIY EZ Cloner. The clones taken on Monday are doing well, see a few bumps on the stems, start of the roots.



Keep y'all updated!

Today I am getting the ladies ready for flip. Major trim and tie down, will give them about a week and look to flip around then.

After minor trim and tie down on 8/29.


Yesterday 10/1 nice recovery for only 4 days.


Today after major trim and tie down.


If I get the recovery response I got from the last Thur's trim I will consider flipping next week or we may do another series of toppings. So many decisions so little time!

Just a little update.
Monday 9/2 after trim


Tuesday 9/3


Thursday 9/5


And today 9/6


Looks like I will be going into flower within the next few days.

This is strange. can anyone figure this one out? Same plant two different bud sites.

I figured it out after a couple of hours and going back and looking at older pics.

Day 1 of 12/12

Let the show begin! It gets kind of boring from here for a few weeks then the action picks back up.

Grow Bitches Grow!

Day 8 of 12/12

Beginning to stretch, put the screen on but decided to wait until the 21st day of flower when I will do a major trim, then I will put the screen on and move the plants as necessary.
9/7&8


9/15

Should have turned the fan off for this pic.
A pic of my screen that will be going in the tent around 9/28


Peace out,

Later

Looking great bud, will be fun watching them fill that space with bid ole buds.

Update: Day 12 !2/12

Been a busy week. Although I normally would not do this, but I did a fairly heavy trim due to just overgrowth. I would normally wait till the 21st day to do this trim, raise the skirt and start some flowering training.
I did the trim on 9/16 after lights on.
Prior to trim.


The next morning after the trim, 9/17


Had a friend come by to help me install the screen in the afternoon of 9/17 and when the light came on that evening I did some tucking and bending. Snapped a couple of stems but taped them up and all is good. Look kind of funky after the T&B.


Here they are this morning 9/19, sprang back to life and doing well.


A canopy shot this morning.


Have been working on stabilizing the pH in my rez. Would like to have to not pH every evening . The pH has been floating from 5.8 +/- to 6.1+/- in just one night. So, I started making up my solution a couple of days ahead of time to add to the rez and that helped, 5.8+/- to 5.95. Have not tried letting it run a second night starting at that 5.95.
I use 21 gallon in my 27 gallon rez I have now set up two 32 gallon containers, one I added nutes on Monday evening Today I dumped it into the rez and will pH it prior to tonight's cycles. The other I filled with RO water yesterday and will add nutes later tonight. That will give the nutes 4 days to stabilize before going into the rez. Again my goal is to get as many days between having to pH the rez as possible.
I spoke with my Hydro guy and he recommended a product, don't remember the name, to treat RO water with prior to adding any nutes, say's some get up to a week without pH'ing.

When I did the trim on Monday evening I placed multiple clones of each pheno of the three strains and put them in water. Yesterday I planted them in a shallow sorghum tub with coco/perlite. About 50 clones in all and hope to get 50% plus to take.


Need to supply my assistant with some and my PTSD group will get the rest. I was going to do the spring planting with clones but I would rather do another strain and grow it Vertical.

GR