Okay! This is my second grow diary on overgrow, the first was HazeMan’s white grapes and urban poison. The white grapes ended up the big winner there and I’m excited to grow her again as well as her sister seed that I kept as clone but haven’t flowered yet.
For this grow I will be flowering two seeds of his pre-98 Bubba Kush pollinated by stardawg males selected from seeds unknown by the breeder.
These came as freebies when I made my last big order from the seed bank, and the genetics have excited me ever since I popped them. I started with 10 of these and these are the two confirmed females that I kept from the lot. I have a few more seeds, but I wanted to grow these before making up my mind about dedicating the extra space to them.
In the middle I have an as of yet unsexed seedling that was given to me as seed, it is allegedly Bodhis dragons blood hash plant. This is unconfirmed, but it does seem likely as the individual who gave it to me seems to know quite a bit about the strain.
Yesterday I culled the other seedling of the dragon’s blood, it showed obvious male preflowers under 18/6 lighting. It’s a shame because it was the more vigorous of the two, but that’s usually the case with males.
I’m excited as this is my first grow with my new grow light science grow 300, the light is dimmable and strip style versus my previous quantum board and cob set up, so I’m playing around with getting it very close to the plants and dimming it way way down for efficiency. This light was deeply discounted at LED grow light depot, so I had to give it a try since it’s efficiency numbers are through the roof. I’m curious if this translates to healthy plant growth, my one criticism of their efficiency numbers is that they use a ton of 660 nanometer red diodes compared to their competitors, such diodes are notoriously highly efficient although not exactly and the most useful part of the photosynthetic spectrum. That said it’s got great micro moles per dollar output, and running it close in dimmed should keep it right in the pocket of efficiency.
Since these strains are clearly slow and low, lol, I’m going to veg them for a bit longer until I see some clear vertical growth, then consider a trellis net or perhaps just stakes around the perimeter of the pot to support the flowering stretch. I am assuming they will about double in size, my tent is 5 ft and they are currently about 22 in from the ground at the tops.
Medium is 100% coco, nutrients are general hydroponic micro and bloom, with flora blend, SLF 100, and a small amount of Epsom salt. I consider this a modified iron head method. I hand feed every morning, and sometimes twice per day in flower.
Clones and moms reset, getting ready to gift.
