Grow log #2!

[Pedro de Pacas]

I'm curious to see how the organic fertilizer works out. I just purchased some today for my plant. What was the name of the brands you got?

LOL, "The Shitz" Grwoth blend and Bloom blend!

[Pedro de Pacas]

Sweet, yesterday's watering seems to have agreed with both plants: they both grew taller and bushier. I added 3-4 pinches of the Shitz Growth formula to the top soil. I also raised the HPS a few more inches to avoid heat stress.

The next waterings will gradually release nutrients to the plants...knock on wood they're both girls! :hippy:

[Pedro de Pacas]

Watered the plants a bit to give them a bit of nutrition from the ferts I'd sprinkled on the top soil yesterday; I took a closer look...pistil located on tall and bushy (the one on the right)! :thumbsup:

Okay, one source claimed that on their 12/12 from seed grow, signs of sex appeared in 14-15 days. In my case, 25, 10 days later. Now I fully realize the actual strain may affect this...but using their stats as a general rule of thumb:

Theirs: 14-15 days to sexing , 52 to 58 days to harvest
Mine: 25 days to sexing...so I'll extrapolate that harvest should be 62 - 68 days...

AND...I couldn't help myself, found me a LED UFO grow light (hopefully better quality than the panel I bought last year) which boasts 90 1 watt LED's, 80 red and 10 blue.

HPS is tried, tested and true, I don't regret getting the HPS kit. But I cling to the notion that LED's are more energy efficient (a good 90W UFO or 100w Procyon are supposed to be the equivalent of a 400w and 600W HID respectively) and generate less heat ...perfect for a stealth grow.

The UFO I got listed for $499.99 I got it at an auction for a fraction of the cost...we'll see, on my next grow!:hippy:

[Pedro de Pacas]

And the babies are growing steady! :hippy:

More pistils showing on rightie...I think I'm seeing signs of balls on leftie though...I've been wrong before, so I'm going to give leftie some more time. I thought one plant would turn out male during my last grow, only to have it turn out to be my most productive female so...I'll keep my eyes open! :thumbsup:

[FourTwenty4Life]

Just a suggestion...maybe just update your log once, twice, or even 3 times a week. 7 days a week for a full grow is a lot of pages and reading. Plus it's easier for a reader to see growth changes when the pics arent day after day. It's your log so your choice but if you read many other logs, you will see most do it how I'm suggesting. Good job so far and GL.:hippy:

[Pedro de Pacas]

Well...the tally so far: out of 5 seeds, 3 popped out of the soil, 2 never gave sign of life. Of the three, one shrivelled up and died. I was quick to say it was my mistake, however...the conditions were identical for all three plants, why that one only and not the three?

And out of the two remaining, Murphy's Law: one girl one boy, and then there was one.

I guess any packet of seeds can have equal odds of great seeds and duds no matter who the distributor is. Based on the online description of Dutch Passion's Oasis seeds, I thought they were worth the extra money...but one successful female out of five seeds is hardly impressive.

Agreed I may have equal chances of the same thing happening with KC Brains seeds, but at least I won't have paid as much ,so it won't feel like I've been ripped off as badly.

End rant...I had a feeling I'd need the Afghani Special seeds before my next grow, sure enough that day is today. I've prepared three new pots, and I'm soaking three A.S. seeds in preboiled water, only this time I've placed the jar in a small cardboard box on top of my Digital Cable box for increased warmth.

This time I want to be damned sure the seeds have split open and show a bit of tap root before placing them in the soil. The 12/12 from seed schedule does seem to agree with my remaining Oasis girl...can't wait to see what kind of yield I get!

[Italiano715]

can't wait to see how she looks on the straight 12/12......:thumbsup:

And out of the two remaining, Murphy's Law: one girl one boy, and then there was one.

That sucks, I guess some ya win and some ya lose.....My recent grow I probably had about 14 plants to start and ended up with only 4 that were females :wtf: So I suppose it's luck of the draw sometimes, even though it blows how that is how it happens sometimes! Besides that good luck with the next set of seedlings and I will be keeping up with the log :hippy:

[Pedro de Pacas]

And this is where K.I.S.S. becomes a tad more complex: The Oasis girl has a 30 day head start on the Afghani special seedlings, the HPS is at a safe distance from the Oasis girl but may be too high for the Afghani's to sprout out from the soil...so until they're out of the soil and have grown their second set of leaves, here's my solution...

The CFL is cool white, 13 watts and located at close distance to the soil. I'm not really concerned with lost lumens as it's only there to supplement the HPS until the seedlings have turned to healthy sprouts. This is where the UFO would have come in handy I think - good light intensity and no added heat.

Though the weather's been rather cool so I guess the extra heat in the cab won't go amiss, current temp: 80 F, humidity 49%

Photo!:hippy:

[Pedro de Pacas]

Well, too tall's a big girl, tall and strong. As expected the AS seedlings seem to be working in slow-mo...I'm replacing the 13 watt CFL by a LED panel I got off ebay last grow...need more blues to help the seedlings.

Still very curious about the UFO light and whether or not it will be effective...

[Buckten]

looking good
i was tinking about doing 12/12 from start to finish but ill see how ur works out
good luck:thumbsup:




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