Shov Winter 2013-2014 Sativa Grow

[tlranger]

Party on dude!! Sounds like a movie line. :jumphappy::rastabanna::woohoo:

[Shovelhandle]

Shut down the grow lights and misted all the plants. Took photos while I was waiting for them to dry so to turn the lamps back on. I tried to center one plant in each photo.

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[Shovelhandle]

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[d00g]

Shut down the grow lights and misted all the plants. Took photos while I was waiting for them to dry so to turn the lamps back on.

Hey Shovel - why do that? Is that for foliar feeding or another reason?

[Shovelhandle]

Outdoor plants and house plants all love a bath once in a while, so do crop plants. You can add a little something nutritious or just water and a surfactant. They do like it

BTW, I was just doing a preliminary estimate of cost savings for electricity by running from seed directly to 12 hours of light instead of the usual eight weeks of 18 hours a day of lighting for the veg period before blooming. It looks like a HUGE difference even if the crop takes twenty weeks total 12/12 compared to eight weeks of 18/6 and then 10 weeks (or more) of 12/12. It would be more like 12-14 weeks for most of the phenotypes and possibly more for the one late bloomer. From the looks of it I should pull good yield anyway.

[tlranger]

[QUOTE=Shovelhandle;22608 from seed directly to 12 hours of light instead of the usual eight weeks of 18 hours a day of lighting for the veg period before blooming.

Pretty amazing, have done this several times in my SOG system and only seem to grow almost individual buds, with little or no branching, yours look great.

[catbuds]

Ranger, is that from seed, or clones? My seedling bush out, but my clones can give me just a big single cola if I go 12/12 as soon as they root.
-- So how did the old wives tail hold up? Did that seem to give you a higher male to female ratio. Can you remember the early High Times mag telling us vegging less than 8 wks raised the number of males? I took that as fact for years & just went with it, but it doesn't seem to be true. Beautiful girls!
-- My RH hasn't went over 21% since I turned the heat on, sometimes as low as 17%. So I spray mist often. Sometimes foilar feed, but always a few drops of dish soap in which ever I'm using. Keeps the buggers away!

[tlranger]

Ok, that's true, but I'm thinking about extra early in green house and temp may play a role in my variety. Starting a bunch for outdoor very early, seems like they sex right away, move some under lights 12-12 and they keep budding, move others outside into garden where the days are starting to get longer and warmer and those will slip back into veg for the summer. That way I didn't spend much time transplanting males.

But have read on forum about plants having to reach a maturity, before they really start budding, so quessing you guys are right!:jointsmile:

[catbuds]

Shov, since they took a little longer to bud, I'm wondering if a compromise may be in order, like maybe trying 2wks of veg before 12/12? Just a thought. I'm always looking to tweek things here & there. Next time I take clones, I'm sticking one straight into 12/12. I usually give them about 1wk to start developing roots first, but since clones are chronologically the same age as the mother plant, it SHOULD flower just as fast. Unusually if I see I'll be out of smoke before my outdoor harvest, I'll take a couple of clones & put them in flower as soon as they root. If going into flower straight from the cut doesn't slow them down, that would give me a faster, shorter SOG. Be a great way of growing out a fast seed crop too, when you find an exceptional male.

[Shovelhandle]

clones are a totally different grow style, imo. I do 95% seed plants. So many seeds, so little time.