Kandy Kush (fem) & Blue Widow (fem)

[EvilCartman]

I'm in search of "moms".
This grow is hopefully a first step toward finding some worthwhile keepers.

Kandy Kush is: OG Kush x Train Wreck
Blue Widow is: Blueberry x White Widow

The "plan" is to grow out 4 plants at a time in a DR80 grow-tent. This time out, in addition to the 2 fem beans mentioned, there are 2 bag-seeds I've gotta check. The 2 fem are the center of attention, so they'll get catered to. :thumbsup:

"Planning" on a 6-7 week veg, under a 400W Eye Hortilux Blue.
Grow is soil, and will be using Fox Farm nutrients.


Since I'm *quite* the procrastinator, Sherman will set the "Way-Back Machine" for November 8, 2009. I'll try to whip through this and get caught up over the next day or two.

11/08: Expanded 12 peat-pucks with water+1 drop Superthrive. Placed the dry seeds in pucks, covered with dome and maintained ~83F.

11/10: (Day 1) BW & KK as well as 2 others have broke ground after 48 hrs. Over the next 12 hours, the remaining 8 break through. I'm pretty psyched about the KK, it was the *smallest* bean I'd *ever* tried to grow. If it hadn't been so pricey, I wouldn't have bothered with it, at all.

11/12: (Day 3) Into the 16 oz cups! Red, of course. Cups contain Black Gold Seedling mix & worm castings, mixed 3:1

EvilCartman Reviewed by EvilCartman on 12-11-2009. Kandy Kush (fem) & Blue Widow (fem) I'm in search of "moms". :) This grow is hopefully a first step toward finding some worthwhile keepers. Kandy Kush is: OG Kush x Train Wreck Blue Widow is: Blueberry x White Widow The "plan" is to grow out 4 plants at a time in a DR80 grow-tent. This time out, in addition to the 2 fem beans mentioned, there are 2 bag-seeds I've gotta check. The 2 fem are the center of attention, so they'll get catered to. :thumbsup: "Planning" on a 6-7 week veg, under a 400W Eye Hortilux Blue. Rating: 5

[EvilCartman]

11/14: (day 4) The light has been on 24/0 and has been about 3 feet above the plants. Today I switched to 18/6 and lowerered the light to about 2 feet.

11/15: (day 5) Lowered light to ~18" Had to adjust the fan a little, the delicate stem on the KK is leaning a bit.

11/16: (day 6) Lights down to 12" above plants.

11/17: (day 7) Changed intake location. Temps down to 76F and able to throttle down fan to about 50%, they had been running ~78F w/fan at 60%. Lowered light another couple inches to about 10" over.



It's looking like the cooler weather may allow for more lighting in the tent. I had an old 400W MH ballast fall into my lap this week. I'm looking into a cool-tube and a conversion bulb to possibly use this as supplemental light for flowering. :thumbsup:

[EvilCartman]

11/18: (day 8) Not much to report. Light still @ 10", temp @75F.

11/21: (day11) Plants aren't looking very happy, I probably should have transplanted a couple days ago. They'll go into 7" pots tomorrow.

11/22: (day 12) Transplanted into the 7" pots today. Soil is a 50/50 mix of MG and FFOF (I've got a pile of MG to use up) to which I've added about 10% each of worm castings, perlite and vermiculite. Also added a couple healthy tablespoonsful of seabird guano.

[Shovelhandle]

Really good looking grow set up and log. I hope you find that special lady.

Shov

[EvilCartman]

Really good looking grow set up and log. I hope you find that special lady.

Shov

Thanks for the compliment, and the good thoughts! Glad to have your experienced eyes look things over. :thumbsup:

Onward...

11/25: (day 15) I don't feed any nutrients for the first 2 weeks, there's more than enough goodies in the soil. Today they get the first taste of the FF system. Everybody took about 20 oz (pH'd @ 6.5) mixed @ 50% of the FF week 2 schedule.

They look a little sad, they've been out of the tent for a couple hours while I did house cleaning. :wtf: Thanksgiving means relocating the tent for a couple of days. :wtf:


11/27: (day 17) Still got guests in the house , just made a quick check and grabbed a couple shots. (I could use a couple "shots" at that point, lol.)

The tents purrin' away in the garage with a small kerosene heater keeping things pretty danged cozy. Light-on temps out there have been in the mid 80's. I'm not too concerned with the added heat, hoping the extra CO2 from the heater lets 'em enjoy themselves. (like a day at the beach) They *do* look pretty happy!

[EvilCartman]

First pic is another shot from day 17.

I should have explained the layout of the group shots, for anyone trying to spot the "stars" of the grow. Everyone has a tag, which becomes apparent later. The 2 center-most spots in the 12-pot layout are where the BW and KK are found. BW is to the left. :thumbsup: In the group shots the KK is a bit of a runt. :wtf:


11/28: (day 18) Moving back into the house today, the guests have departed! :dance: I'm loving the tent, being able to move everything like that was nice.

Yikes! The kids are pretty thirsty! The pots are light as a feather! Everybody takes about 20 oz of pH'd 6.5 with a tsp/gal of molasses. I water with distilled or RO water, tap water here reminds me of a Belize swamp...I think I'd prefer the swamp-water.

Here's everybody lined up for a drink and then back in. Rearranged a few plants to try and manipulate the canopy a little, a few are getting ahead of the others.

[EvilCartman]

12/1: (day 21) Feeding day. All get the FF week 3 schedule @ full strength. A couple suspected males get a rather poor "fim" attempt to slow 'em down. One gets the crush-and-bend treatment. The torture begins. The group shot is before any "alterations" to the suspected males. There are some clear favorites emerging from the 2 bag-seed groups.



Hindsight is 20/20: :error:
At this point I probably *should* have culled the 3 plants showing the most masculine traits and went to the 2 gallon pots. I went the lazy route, deciding to wait and see if I'd get any definite indications of sex @ 4 weeks. The plants look ok, *but* they are more crowded now than they need to be. So, I've cut down the available light to the plants I'm keeping, by keeping plants that will need to be culled anyway. Genius!

[EvilCartman]

12/5: (day 25) No major problems, just a bit crowded.
Plants are using about 16 oz every 2 days. I've let the plants grow up to the light, maintaining about 2-3" of space below the glass of the reflector. I'm varying the reflectors' position slightly, by sliding it in and out on the supports, to try and improve light penetration.


12/7: (day 27) Everybody out for inspection and feeding! FF week 3 @ full strength and since it's so close to week 4 they get a 1/4 tsp/gal of the Open Sesame.

I broke 'em down into 3 groups:
Group 1: Almost certainly male.
Group 2: I'm leaning toward female, but, there are some strong male characteristics showing, too.
Group 3: The best shot at life, beyond Saturday. These are most certainly females. The only one to show any definitive pre-flower is the KK. Duh. Not exactly news...

[EvilCartman]

Still Day 27 pics. Thought i'd give a look at the whole line-up, before thinning the lot out on Saturday. Here's the first 5.

[EvilCartman]

...and the next 5.