hey OG, how yall doin? I’ve been posting around for a bit now and I really dig it here. I grow outdoors in the beautiful foothills of california where as a medical user I’m allowed 12 mature plants a season. Not too shabby if I say so myself. I like to grow in a semi-but-mostly organic fashion inspired by JADAM and knf. I have a few grow seasons under my belt and I’ve started to make the transition from clones to seeds and I’m hoping to start dabbling in breeding and seed reproductions once I build my indoor breeding box / landrace grow space.
I’ve been messing around with a bag seed strain I got from a friend and I thought I’d use it as an opportunity to make my first grow journal and document the process 
The story goes basically how you expect it would - my buddy (an old stoner) runs out of weed mid summer a few years back, buys some seeded weed from his buddy (a slightly less old stoner) only really memorable for how schwaggy it was, but it likely could have been grown better by the look. I soaked the several dozen seeds we had, the vast majority of which floated but maybe ten sank. Planted them all in a 1 gal, and then separated the 4 seedlings that popped up. Two however were either planted right next to eachother or a set of twins, and so I left them together. One dampened off and out of the “three” that remained, the solo plant grew into a healthy male, and the duo resulted in a 2-3in male and a healthy female roughly the same size and structure as the healthy male. They grew under a crappy desk lamp with a screw in “grow bulb” led. Here are the only pics I took of them at the time. I wish I did more documenting but I was just goofing around and seeing if I could grow them at all.
You can see the tiny male flopped over in the bottom right of the left plant pot. They didn’t get magnificent seed or pollen production under that light as you may imagine, but I have a few dozen healthy looking seeds that sprouted with vigor when I started a few early april of this year. Of the 5 I started, 1 dampened off, 3 are healthy and one was stunted by overfeeding and then over watering (oopsie). It was treated very similarly to the other seedlings so I suspect it’s just a lighter feeding pheno. For preservation sake I want to keep them all until I have tents and can take clones to begin selection.
Of the three healthy plants, they appear to have a sativa structure, actually somewhat similar to the one healthy trainwreck (twenty20 mendocino) I have growing near them. Two of the bag seed plants are in bags (apt eh?) with very similar structure, and one is in the ground guerilla style on the site of an old tree stump, which even as a seedling was much leggier than any of my other plants. It needed support very early on.
The soil is nothing special, bulk stuff from nearby nurseries and seed supplies, mixed with different bagged soils from the same places that looked nice. In the two bagged plants I also added some rich, loose earth I found under an old fallen tree because I didn’t (and still don’t) have enough soil to fill the bags, which are somewhere around 25 or 30gal. I can’t remember which 
. The dirt was dark, rich smelling and loose like sand 
One bagged bag seed is male with obvious pollen sac preflowers, one is female with obvious white pistils, and I can’t tell yet but ol stumpy is looking male as well. It may be maturing slower but it also gets slightly different light than the two in bags - less direct sun in the morning, more in the evening.
Having the known male has now given me motivation to build my breeding tents and collect some pollen…more to come later Here are some pics
the known female:
the known male:
ol stumpy:
and the little runt. It was perking its head up for the first time in awhile today, after a feeding and then a healthy spraydown with soap and JLF this morning, a few days after:
all three healthy bag seeds are about 4-5ft in height as of today. Ol stumpy was the leggy bag seed, which needed propping up as a seedling and ended up being buried up to its cotyledons when it was transplanted from its solo cup to a 1gal so in theory it could have been taller right now. Their stem rub smells range from licorice, cloves, cinnamon, and I suppose menthol? kinda minty and herbaly. I really like it. I’m looking forward to seeing how these turn out!
feel free to hang out and post, this is just going to be a causal follow-me-in-my-adventure kind of thread. I would also love to hear if anyone has ideas what strains these plants might be related to
) , some local weeds and grasses, trimmings from a vine and the blackberry bush, put em in a 5gal out in the garden, topped it with a handful of healthy local leaf mold and a little man-made nitrogen right fron the tap if you savvy, watered to fill it most of the way up. I did that in the middle of a summer and by god if that thing wasn’t overflowing like a waterfall the next day from I can only imagine was the sudden and rapid microbial action it got. Everything I touched with that stuff reached for the moon. I essentially do variations on the same theme with different plants in the garden each year
When the time is right I’ll start a new diary and post the link here. For now I’ll drop some pics of what remains of my outdoor grow and maybe make a diary for that, or wait till after the fact so I don’t jinx it again 
Heres one for the loss.