What strain would you pick?

[RastaKaze]

Read the lumen output, and make sure you have atleast 8,000 lumens per plant in cfl's... Happy to hear you've got seeds! Be very careful not to disturb the tap root.. I soak my seeds till they go to the bottom of the cup then sow 1/4" deep in fully saturated soil, never to water them again. Monitor moisture levels frequently and be very careful as it is extremely easy to overwater a seed and cause pythium rot Good luck man

Peace

[RastaKaze]

Oh looks like you've got sprouts... yes keep them under 24/0 for now. I even use 24/0 for the entire veg... you can make the plants grow faster this way and they're havn't been any reports of undue stress of hermies. Photosynthesis is the process of the plants taking in light and co2 and making food, in turn causing growth. So of course, if you constantly supply your babies with plenty of both they will thrive

Peace Again

[turtle420]

Thanks Rasta!

Now that you mention the never to be watered again,:::
I placed a small mixture of my pot mix (soil/pro-mix) with the gel crystals... These are the gel crystals that puff-up when you pour water on them.

Anyways, I though these crystals would really help out because they would hold moisture for the small tap roots to use.

Thanks for the input man... I'm almost as happy to have my seedlings as to having you somebody post!

I though Garden Knowm had made a deal with everyone and nobody was going to post nothing in my threads any more... Garden,

Don't worry Garden, I love you too. Really. I do. Like love you. Me. To you. Love.
good thing this is through the internet because that sounds so gay

[BukDatAss]

When or around what week is it good to take a clone from ur plant? Can you leave the clone together with the mother in the veg stage untill the clone or clones catch up, in order to enter the flowering stage together?

[seedbare]

hey turtle just to clear up some of my confusion, after they sprouted you buried them 1/4'' inch down in the soil with the tap root down ... right??... because sprouts shouldent be just layed on top of the soil like that with a light on them....

[seedbare]

When or around what week is it good to take a clone from ur plant? Can you leave the clone together with the mother in the veg stage untill the clone or clones catch up, in order to enter the flowering stage together?

the clones for determining sex should be taken after the plant has 6 or 8 nodes on it. you then establish roots for the clone ,then place it in 12/12 lighting (12light12dark) sex should be determined in 10 to 14 days.

pot plants are male,female,or hermie's

males are too low in thc content to smoke, females are what you want, hermies can be good, they are as potent as females if you can keep it from self polinating,(cut off balls), also if you cut off the balls of a hermie save them because if you polinate another female (not the plant they came off) You will get 100% female seeds, (this wont work if you polinate the plant they come off) it hast to be a totally different plant (not a clone of the hermie).

[turtle420]

hey turtle just to clear up some of my confusion, after they sprouted you buried them 1/4'' inch down in the soil with the tap root down ... right??... because sprouts shouldent be just layed on top of the soil like that with a light on them....

No seedbare, I did not.

I didn't leave them on the surface... but I inserted them about 0.25" deep into the gel/soil mix. But I don't think this is working out too well... So right now, being 3:20am, I'm going to replant my 5 sprouts about 0.25" into the soil with the tap root looking down.

Thanks seedbare

-turtle420

[turtle420]

Hey... just an update of these seeds...

I transplanted from the gel stuff to the soil, and already they're taking shape.

Seems that in the gel, they were like: Dude, this sucks... this crappy gel isn't going to help us out much... HELP! Get us out of here!

So now in the soil, they took a "grab" of the soil and now they're standing up! Nice

Here's a pic.

[turtle420]

Read the lumen output, and make sure you have atleast 8,000 lumens per plant in cfl's... Happy to hear you've got seeds! Be very careful not to disturb the tap root.. I soak my seeds till they go to the bottom of the cup then sow 1/4" deep in fully saturated soil, never to water them again. Monitor moisture levels frequently and be very careful as it is extremely easy to overwater a seed and cause pythium rot Good luck man

Peace

Hey Rasta, hello again...

I have the box of the CFLs, and they read:
ENERGY USED: 42 watts
LIGHT OUTPUT: 2700 lumens
BULB LIFE: 10,000 hours
APPLICATION: growing Cannabis strains

I see that you suggest having 8000 lumens per plant... Ok, so with three of these bulbs I would be getting 8100 lumens... BUT! And here's the but, I plan of using these plants as mothers... NOT as my main grow.

Once they're bigger, I'd like to take clones, and give the clones 12/12 to determine sex. For the actual female clones I'm going to use in my hydro NFT LST SCRoG (cool when I write all that, seems so "wow") I'll be using a 600W HPS + a 400W MH.

Do you think I still should buy more bulbs?

Thanks for the input

-turtle420

PS: I'm just fucking around with the "APPLICATION: growing Cannabis strains"

[seedbare]

Id just get them to 2 weeks then use your metal halide, you could set them near a window in the day-light for extra kelvins and lumens till there 2 weeks. Also on lights there is a kelvin temperature idealy they should be at 6500k the one's they sell at wall-mart wont work to well, id check out home depot for the high kelvin &lumen kind. also you need to get those cfl's 1 to 2 inches from your plants when they pop up or there going to stretch too much and fall over killing them.