Craptastic Spring 09

[Hempfester]

I started planning my outdoor grow a whole year ago....but nothing ever goes how you plan it seems.

The plan was to make my own feminized seeds over the winter indoors, get the seedlings vegging in April and plant out at the end of May. I live in northern Ontario btw.

I have 2 strains to play with. The first is a sativa that I grew out from bagseed and then cloned.

The second strain is Northern Lights X Mountain Tundra. I bought these seeds from my hydro shop for 60 bucks for 10. A really nice strain that flowers early and branches out a LOT during veg. A nice indoor indica.

So, after doing some research, I decided to use the colloidal silver method to make my feminized seeds. Do you think I could find any 99% pure silver anywhere? The jewlers in my town didnt have any for sale and the pawn shops didn't have any pure silver coins or bullion either. The best I could do was pre 1969 Canadian quarters that are 80% silver and 20% copper. This actually worked since copper isn't toxic to plants. I wouldn't try this with coins that contain any nickel since nickel is a very toxic metal.

2 weeks before flower I began spraying the lower half of a sativa and the lower half of the best plant from my indica strain with the silver solution I made. Well, the silver solution worked in making the female plants produce pollen. In fact, it worked too well...EVERYTHING in my grow room got totally seeded! The plan was to hand pollenate only certain plants so as to keep track of what plant was what. In the end it was a big cluster fuck and I ended up with hundreds of seeds with all different phenotypes.

So, I get my seeds started in cups in April. I start scouting for a nice place using Google maps. I have a motorcycle, but I don't have a car, so I needed a friend to drive me out to the bush with my plants. No one could help me out. The guy who planned on helping me lost his license.

So, I end up taking my plants and all my shit out to the bush on my bike. I used bungi cords to tie my shovel to the side of the bike and I put all my cups with my plants into a blue coleman cooler that I bungie corded onto the luggage rack on the back of my bike. What a sight...I should have taken a picture!

I decided to go with a mix of coco and natural topsoil for my holes. You can easily carry 5 or 6 bricks of coco in a backpack. Because I was on a bike, coco bricks were the only choice I had really.

Well, I get out to my grow site, and I open up my cooler, and it looked as if someone threw the dam thing down several flights of stairs. I had a cooler full of empty cups, and a mash of plants and soil. Fuck. I dig my holes and plant what I could and went home.

I go back out to the site a few days later, and ALL the leaves were stripped off my plants. SLUGS! They were all over what leaves were left and you can see their slime trails around the plants.

It's a good thing I had lots of seeds and made more seedlings than I thought I would need. So I worked on making a holder for my cups so I don't have another disaster like last time. I cut a piece of styrofoam to fit in the bottom of my cooler and cut holes in it to hold my cups. I pinned the cups in place with paper clips then screwed the styrofoam to the cooler. Nothing was going to move this time!

I get back out to my grow site and open my cooler, and cluster fuck again! All the cups were still perfectly in place, but all the plants and soil was everywhere! fuck! But at least I didn't have to dig any holes this time. I just used the holes I already had and this time i put some "Slug Bait" around to kill those slimy cocksuckers.

So, I go home and check the weather... WTF? FROST warning? June and freaking frost warning? I go back out to my spot a few days later and everything was dead! The frost killed them all. Crap!

I figure the 3rd time is the charm and i load up with more seedlings and head out to my spot. Just as i'm finishing up, I can hear a truck coming up the road. It stops, two doors close, and I can hear people talking. I creep through the bush to see where they stopped, and some asshole is building a house right there! Way way too close for comfort. Google maps satellite view must be at least a year out of date for my area cuz there was no house on the freaking map there!

I pack up all my stuff and jump on my bike and start it up so I can get the hell out of there. No doubt they heard me fire up my rattle rocket. I could hear the guy yelling at me through the bush,"Hey! Hey you!". I twisted the throttle and didn't look back!

I still have more seedlings, and it's still not too late to get some going I figure....just need to find a new spot now!

But I'm not even sure if it's worth the effort cuz I think my seeds are going to suck. Three weeks ago I decided to force flower some of my seedlings indoors early just to see if they would all be female. Sadly, out of 6 seeds, 2 are male, 2 are female and 2 are hermies with both white hairs and balls. Crap!

I hope you all are having better luck this spring than I am!

Hempfester Reviewed by Hempfester on 06-20-2009. Craptastic Spring 09 I started planning my outdoor grow a whole year ago....but nothing ever goes how you plan it seems. The plan was to make my own feminized seeds over the winter indoors, get the seedlings vegging in April and plant out at the end of May. I live in northern Ontario btw. I have 2 strains to play with. The first is a sativa that I grew out from bagseed and then cloned. The second strain is Northern Lights X Mountain Tundra. I bought these seeds from my hydro shop for 60 bucks for 10. A Rating: 5

[JD1stTimer]

I would say just stress them to the point of herm, then let them self-seed. They'll be as fem as they can be! And the stuff about getting seeds that go herm is only partially true. If you have a plant that goes herm every time a fairy farts on it then the seeds will do the same. But if it takes a lot of screwing around with the light schedule at night, then it would take the same kind of abuse for the seeds to go herm. Well, there could be some variation, because there are still two sets of chromosomes that combine, but it would be a lot closer than from two different plants. But only the likelihood of herming gets passed down, not actual herm characteristics.

[seattlesmoke247]

Sorry to hear about all the misfortunes you've encountered, I actually had my plants eaten as well... I put a spider on there to help it out and ended up snapping off the top leaf sets on my best and last plant derived from my feminized seeds.. It's got one leaf set left and I'm not sure if it has the power to pull through

Good luck!

[Hempfester]

JD1stTimer: Yeah, thats the weird thing. There was no previous problem with either strain going hermie indoors.

The NL x MT seeds I bought turned out to be 8 females and 2 males. I killed off the males right away as soon as I saw balls for preflowers. When I made my seeds, I only used female plants and don't understand why I got some seeds that turned out to be male plants.

I really do hope that these seeds won't make many male or hermie plants cuz I gave away hundreds of them to a few friends.

Maybe I'll just go and toss a bunch in the flower gardens at the court house and city hall and see what pops up.

I have to take it easy on the indoor grow too. My dad hooked up the power for my house and the bill is in his name. About a month after I got my 1000w HPS he calls me on the phone and says,"What the hell are you doing over there to use so much electricity? Growing marijuana?" And I'm like, "Shhh...don't say that shit on my phone!" I told him I was using a 1000w space heater. But it's summer and I can't use that excuse any more. I don't have A/C so I can't blame it on that for the summer. My dad is Italian right, so he notices things like the power bill jumping from 50 bucks a month to over a hundred. I'll either have to get an old A/C unit and stick it in a window for good looks or get the power bill transferred to my name before I turn Big Birtha on again.

[zcarlson]

Why dont you man up and put the electricity in your name? I am sure your dad would love to be indirectly involved in something he has absolutely no knowledge of. If you cant get it in your name, maybe you cant grow inside, ever thought of that one? Dont be stupid and pull other people down with you. Your outdoor garden location is an indicator as to how careful you are. I bet you have told everyone you know about your plans too havent you? Geeze....

[Stoner38024]

Why dont you man up and put the electricity in your name? I am sure your dad would love to be indirectly involved in something he has absolutely no knowledge of. If you cant get it in your name, maybe you cant grow inside, ever thought of that one? Dont be stupid and pull other people down with you. Your outdoor garden location is an indicator as to how careful you are. I bet you have told everyone you know about your plans too havent you? Geeze....

hahaa

[Hempfester]

Why dont you man up and put the electricity in your name? I am sure your dad would love to be indirectly involved in something he has absolutely no knowledge of. If you cant get it in your name, maybe you cant grow inside, ever thought of that one? Dont be stupid and pull other people down with you. Your outdoor garden location is an indicator as to how careful you are. I bet you have told everyone you know about your plans too havent you? Geeze....

Dude, take a toke and relax. You don't have to flap your jaws to try and prove you're the man around here. I used to live out of town and it was more convenient for the bill to go to my dad's house. But why am I explaining anything to you? I should know better than to feed the trolls.

[Stoner38024]

round 2?

[mtrxdrgn]

Anyone for a smoke:jointsmile:?

[LetsSeeYa]

TROLLS, LOL:rasta: