Jerry Garcia's Blue Widow, Blue Apollo, and Mystery Seed From Start to Finish

JG, I wish I was in the same bind as you! HA! I know you will hate for the waste, but hopefully you'll be able to find a good outside location, which will present a nice lil' experiment to watch the progress of the same genetics inside v. outside! I am still very curious to watch the development of these strains - I am a sucker when it comes to different colors; I remember being in high school and hearing about some "Purple Indica," which at the time I didn't understand what the purple and indica indicated - I only knew it meant it was some fire bud. But, ever since, I have been amazed and distracted by "all the pretty colors."

Well, I'll stop the rambling. I wish you much luck on this grow - I'm subscribing, as I want to see these beauties from start to finish. Be good out there, my friend!

Well is has been 12 days since I started and going well:)

I currently have 16 seedlings that have broken ground. 14 are very healthy, 2 are weak looking but coming along.

No nutes yet but have changed light today to my 400w MH and are responding very well.

Here are some random pic's, I had to support the stem's due to strech. That is why I switched to the 400.

JG, it looks like you are going to have a few amazons on your hands! It looks like it won't be such a bad thing having so many seedlings, as you will really be able to cull the runts, winding up with the best of the best.

I was glad to stop in and see some pictures. Even though seedling pictures are not the sexiest, it's always nice to watch development from the beginning.

Well it has been about a week or more since I updated. Everything is going well, I have 18 healthy plants going :). There are about 12 plants ready to be transplanted to 2 gallon buckets and start the LST on them. I plan on transplanting tonight plus start the first round of nutes.

I will post pics and description tonight of how I do this and a detailed description of each step.

JG

Good luck with your grow. :)

I am on my 10th day above ground with my 5 plants so gonna be interesting to follow your grow paralell to mine.
Hope all works out for us

Peace

Puffzter

JG, I hope all is going well with your grow. I'm looking forward to an update on all of your blue ladies. Be good out there!

simillarly to putszer (sp) i recently started an grow, funny thing is, i started the SAME day as you.
fortunately, its also outdoor grow time and im using seeds from my last indoor grow (dont ask :mad:)
im curious to see how the grows turn out side by side considering your using a 400mh (veg. then switch to hps.. i assume....) and im harnessing the pure power of the sun. of course i will use the same nutes i use for indoor grows, and the same type of soil/compost/peat mixture.

if you dont mind, when you post pics of your progress, id like to post some of mine here also....for reference, and too see some nice side by sides of bagseed vs. quality, sun vs. light, etc.....

To make this easier I am going to post pics in one post then describe in the next post. It has been awhile so there are going to be multiple posts.

I know I am very late on this update but I have documented everything so I am just going to bundle it together in multiple posts

I am going to start with the current conditions in the grow box. On July 18th. I took out the 400watt Mh and swithced to my 600 watt Mh.

Also for future referance I am going to use July 8th as the date for the first day of Veg. So germination and seedling stage took 16 days.


1st & 2nd pic are at the end of week one of veg and are ready to be transplanted. They do show some signs of heat stress from getting to close to the light but they are only the first set of leaves and will be trimed off in the next couple of weeks anyhow.

3rd pic is of the 36 gallon Rubbermaid tub I use to mix and store my new soil in.

4th pic is of the MG moister control and perilite I am using this grow. The Actuale mix is one 1 - 64 Qt. bag of MG Moister Control and 1 - 8 Qt. bag of perilite. Mix well thats it! Again keep it simple and cheap.

5th pic is showing me mixing it in small parts this prevents leaving pockets of unmixed soil.

More to Come:)

Next set of pics