happys grow,

hi guys and dolls
thanks for all the imput you have gave me on my last couple of threads, i have decided to post my next grow here again, during this grow i shall be taking clones, and i shall also be crossing breeding, this will also mean i cross a several females with various male strains on various bud sites, there fore saving space, i have used this technic many times, it works well and is quite easy,

i will also post pics from the very begining including spliting seeds before planting, many of you will allready be very familiar with this process but there will be some that would like to know,

i chose the advanced technics section as some of this process might be of interest to regular readers of this section,

i am a medicinal user, without my weed i would not walk.

here are the seeds that will become my medicine,
in this grow i will use, white widow skunk, ww/bd, white widow, chronic, and if they come up strawberry cough,

in these pics you can see the seeds,for splitting the seeds i use polystyrene dishes, (the sort you might see at a childrens party), i lay cotton wool in dish evenly, i soak the cotton wool with tepid water, about body tempreture is just about fine, i care fully lay the seeds on the pre soaked cotton wool, i then use another dish and tape it on top,

i repeat this for all the other seed strains, i clearly mark the dishes to avoid a nasty cock up.

i place my seeds on my computer unit to keep them warm and stable, the polystarene dishes act like a thermos and keep the seeds warm even when my comp is turned off,

hey presto a day later i have a tray of perfectly split seeds, on the first day about half of my seeds split, the next day the rest split, out of 41 seeds i got 39 to split

in these pics you can see, the seeds have split well, about half split on the first day and the rest split the next, 39 out of 41 split,

i potted these up into the pots you can see, i like to do this as soon as there split as the roots grow fast and it can be a prob to untangle the roots from the cotton wool,

i left them to stand in a warm dark place after watering gently, until enough had broke the surfice, i then put them into the grow room under 3x 60 watt floros,

here you can see my lil babys being born, cute aint they !!!!

i will post pics when there has been enough change in there growth,
please let me know what ya think, peace to you all

here are the pics

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Originally Posted by the happy chappie

here are the pics

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Howdy Happy,

Thanx for your very informative pics and descriptions of your germ method,I think that I'm going to try it ! I see that your thermometer is reading 37.6 c,what's the equivalent in farenheit ? Also,what do you use for water(to split yer seeds in)..is it ph adjusted or distilled or reverse osmosis ?

Have a good one !

damn...37.6C is nearly 100F! (or 37.66 degree Celsius = 310.81 kelvin)

here's a great conversion site for any and all known measurements:
http://www.onlineconversion.com/

hello torog and del
yes 37.6 is around 98 f , thats around body tempreture,.... you can use normal cold water , i warm the water as its less of a shock to the seeds and deffinatly speeds the process, i also find that i get a better germination rate, normaly above 99% if there fresh, as it happens the seeds i choose were about nine months old, and i still got 39 from 41 seeds

as for what type of water i use , well i might be luckey here in the uk cos mine comes straight out the tap, i boil a kettle and allow the temp to drop, i dont have to mess about with ph, i rarely have ph related probs

i have had one disapointment allready, the feminised strawberry cough seeds spilt and showed a nice tap root but failed to pop through the dirt, there still with the others just incase they show very late, but i am not holding any hopes,

i hope my germ method will prove usefull,

in a couple of weeks i will show how i sex these babys easily before the full flower shows, the earlier i can get my males and females seperated the better, i have found through some experiments that young males in the same room as the girls can slow them a little, i will also be crossing some of the widows and cloning some .
...........peace to you all, i am gonna go its time for happys medicine

hello guys,
its now 21 days since i planted my seeds, they have been quite happy under my florys,... they look a little irregular at this size and stage thats becourse there are several different strains there, ... tonight they begin there 12 hour cycle, i am expecting to begin to see early jender in around a week, i will then select from them the ones i want to cross, and those i want to keep for my medicine,

not all these babys will show jender in a week, the rest will show during the following week,

the next pics will be to show early jender, sex determination can be a prob for many growers especialy newbies i hope this will be informative for some.

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Originally Posted by the happy chappie

hello guys,
its now 21 days since i planted my seeds, they have been quite happy under my florys,... they look a little irregular at this size and stage thats becourse there are several different strains there, ... tonight they begin there 12 hour cycle, i am expecting to begin to see early jender in around a week, i will then select from them the ones i want to cross, and those i want to keep for my medicine,

not all these babys will show jender in a week, the rest will show during the following week,

the next pics will be to show early jender, sex determination can be a prob for many growers especialy newbies i hope this will be informative for some.

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Howdy Happy,

As per-usual..your garden is lookin great ! :)

Sadly,I trusted my friend,to be able to determine the plant sex..and he let me down and allowed males to pollinate our grow..and we had no choice but to shut down our grow for now,in our indoor room:( We needed to solve our heat and ventilation problems anyhow..and it was his first experienc with indoor growing,so he wasn't prepared for how fast things develope indoors..oh well. At least they were just bag-seeds..I held back all of my good beans and I'm glad that I did ! At least I have some indica's going outside..I'm testing them in the hot Texas climate,so far they are doing okay.

I hope that you and your's,are doing well :)

Have a good one !