Vortex, day 1, 60+ to go

I'm going to try to stay adamant in a weekly log for the next 18 weeks or so. Here's the very first picture. I'm battling thrips in the actual room now, so it's a mess, and an embarrassment. Once they're gone, the room will be rebuilt so the vortex sisters will all have a nice place to grow.
To start out, I've put 10 vortex seeds in a cup with RO water and a few drops of H2O2. I'll let them germinate for the next 2-3 days, then plant them in rockwool 1.5 inch wrapped cubes, which have been sitting in RO water with a PH of 5.45.
My current plan is to grow out all 10 seeds, and make 3-4 clones of each, and instead of waiting on the clones to grow out, the mother's will all be put into flowering. This way I get a clear view of what those clones will have to offer me, and a bit of variety in the flowering room as well. I've heard of 3 different phenos coming from every bag of vortex, so I shouldn't be dissappointed at all.
One pic of the grow room is attached to give you the gist of my setup. The third picture is a plan of the new grow room.

A journey, where only bold men have gone before....


I'll be watching this log very closely. And if you run into any problems, I'll do my best to help you out, as long as you promise that you give everybody here a nice pic of all of the finished product = D


Good luck, and Godspeed!

Thanks.....I'll just take the actual finished product, thank you. :D

Vortex....is that a strain? I've never heard of it. Can you give me some info. Cool name. :cool:

Absolutely. In order, this is what I've done to rid the room of thrips. Manual crushing, tons of yellow sticky traps, neem oil, neem oil + pyrthrum, tons of blue sticky traps, garlic barrier, TONS OF GARLIC BARRIER. Rooms smells like garlic, and it sucks. I've got hydroguard on the way, and as per someone's reccommendation, I bought some Safer's insecticadal soap, and have sprayed a bit of it. I'm going to spray it again right before the hydroguard application. Last night I also hung a NO PEST STRIP, and am hoping for some results from that. If it kills or hurts the plants currently vegging, oh well, I've got seeds of gold to replace those bronze plants. Along with the vortex seeds, I was given for free, Spacequeen as well. So if all plants somehow fail, I've got that to fall back on.

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Originally Posted by Weedhound

Vortex....is that a strain? I've never heard of it. Can you give me some info. Cool name. :cool:

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It's a cross between Spacequeen, and Apollo 13. There are at least 3 phenos you can get from a set of 10 seeds.
"A fast growing and exotic blend of excellent potent genetics, combining the pollen from a spacequeen male to add that special something to an already top performing strain Apollo 13. Needs to be flowered early to keep short or topped, excellent for scrog with its long branches..very tarty mango/pineapple almost like rotting fruit with an energetic mind expanding high, cerebral humour invoking."

Spacequeen!? :eek: Never heard of that one either. Wow....no kidding about bold men going......

That's a nice looking plant in the photo btw...:thumbsup:

I don't want to cram this full of too much non-grow conversation, BUT I do feel it necessary to let you know the person who created this strain is THE weed god, and without him, I'd still be lost. Subcool is someone who I hold in the highest respect, and hopefully, I may meet him some day.

P.S. that's his picture in the post above, not mine

Good luck with your thrips issue. Very nice plant. :thumbsup:

Patience is a virtue and you seem to have it. This log ought to be as educational as it is provocative.

It's now officially day one of the new pheno(s) grow. One of the seeds arrived a bit crushed, but it might still have a fighting chance. The other 9 seeds germinated amazingly fast, compared to all the nasty bag seeds I've had before. In just 12 hours, I had 3 seeds germed, 4 hours later, 7, and when I got home earlier, the last few also sprouted. I've got them in grodan cubes that were soaking in 5.6 ph water, which dropped to 5.45 some how, but it should be fine. I'm going to refresh their drinking supply with a bit of a flush, every day. PH 5.6 and a few drops of peroxide will be their diet for the next 2-3 weeks.