Space Man's 12 seed grow

Indoor Growing Growroom Diaries
#21

Update with pics

Here is tent one after taking the kids out to stretch their legs a bit,

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Both groups average about 15" tall minus pots.
Now I’m not planning on topping, I want as many as possible, to get an understanding how far you can take the whole “12 plant limit” practically.
For a super small grower that is.
The side branches will either be donated as clones or into the extract bag.

Tent one,

A little manicure here and there.

Here’s tent two,

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Both rooms got a clean up and both trays are elevated by 10" - 12".
New sticky traps in place to monitor fg population.
Also numbered them 1 - 10 with the single seed I sprouted first as 11 and the Afghani Gold in the gallon pot as 12.
I’m getting the feeling she’s a he.
No sex showing on any plant though.

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#22

Quick update.
The sex showed on most Tuesday and I guessed at the others.

Totals 6 fem 5 males including Afghani gold and one “Pat” can’t tell what it is.
Culled 2 males that were slightly smaller than the other two.

All square pots upgraded to 1 gal rounds light duty mix with 20% EWC.
Added additional nematodes on all pots with deeper additional granigrit mulch.
This one two punch has me FG free for a week now, I’m liking it!
Also 1/2 tsp mycorrhizal fungi (Rooters) at root level.

Male tent right side w/Afghani Gold at right.
Plants are droopy after Joy soap/rubbing alcohol80%/h2o spray down and complete rinse down.

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Female tent

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Pat

All plants are well except Afghani which shows some def.
A very twisted thing it is with wider branch sections higher up the plant

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#23

Forgot to add, the males are back under 24/0.
I’m calling it the cold shower treatment.
I’ve never tried this before with males, any chance they’ll quit blooming?

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#24

They will for sure. Id give them 24/0 for 3/4 days to a week and then switch to 20 or 18. Or gradually.
Trial and error has shown this to be best for me.
I skipped the 24/0 on my youngest clone and she still hasnt rooted.

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#25

Thanks.
I was hoping that’d be the case, zero chance they’ll hermie?
The Afghan Gold is pretty randy atm, had to clip a few down, …down boy.

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#26

FWIW I think the easiest thing is getting a up and established worm bed don’t know how it does it but beneficial mites seem to find there way in some way I have an outdoor two pot sytem even with fruit rinds and wet bedding right in top FG don’t fuck with it! It I see them In indoor pots I top dress with this worm casting compost mix and they are gone in 2 days or <

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#27

Not sure if these mites in the soil eat the larve or if they just notice them when trying to set up shop and they go elsewhere in short time!

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#28

I’m incredibly cramped in my basement furnace room, but as soon as I typed this it became apparent that I could design and build a bin incorporated into a stand to support my tents.
Looks like another thread in the making.

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#29

Do it outside in a shady corner somewhere when winter hits move them into a garage I suspend mine up off the floor in the winter on heavy styrofoam boards if it gets damn cold like in the teens I throw a heavy blanket over them pretty hardy little creatures !

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#30

Strain dependent. Id just keep that in mind as a general thought.

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#31

Update
A little over 2 weeks ago I had to leave town suddenly. All TJ’s had just been upgraded to 1 gal pots.
I managed to get back for a short stop over 5 days later to find the females had leaped to the top of the tent!
Now that I think about it, the roots did resemble springs when I re-potted!
Sorry no pics of that, didn’t have my camera.

So I had to do a severe trim.
I overwatered before leaving again and returned 12 days later to find this:

Female’s tent

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Male’s tent

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After a much needed watering they popped back except one. Afghani Gold needs some restraint.

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After 12 days the females(11/13) hardly used much water, whereas the males(24/0) were parched.
I’m not sure if 24/0 has slowed the male flowering much, at least the male I culled(#1) had many spent flowers.

2 Tiger Jack males left, 1 Afghani Gold male, 6 females.

Anyway, I decarbed all of my trim from the last two grows today, I’ll weigh it up tomorrow in prep for a 1st time green dragon run.

More later…

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#32

Side jaunt update, cold ethanol extract.

4oz of destemmed trim and larf, males too.

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In the freezer overnight I placed:

  • Hamilton Beach glass blender
  • 750 ml Everclear
  • 32 oz wide mouth mason jar

SOP, gradually blended using the pulse button all 4 oz into about 730 ml of Everclear, the remaining 20 ml went into a glass with mango/carrot juice, damn good.

I was pretty busy today and forgot to take pics of the process but here is the result,

Back into the freezer for a spell

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#33

Quick update on the extraction,
Man what a pain in the buttockskis!
11 hr alcohol evap plus 4 hr scrape time netted 14 cc’s of average+ potency, not the mind stuttering funk I had been hoping for.
Coconut oil and 8 hr slow cooker boil for trim and larf next time, cookies and candies are def the way to go.

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#34

12 seed update

Back on July 21, I introduced and paired females 5, 6, 7, and 10 with male 4 and females 8 and 9 with male 3. 25th day of flower.
The Afghani Gold and Pat were tossed, the AG had too many undesirable quirks or mutations for use as a breeder and Pat was Patrick,
Male 3 and 4 are twins and look identical.
Friday the 26th the males were tossed and female 5 was moved to tent 2.
No real good pics at this time.

Tomorrow I’ll take some seed plumped bud shots, they’re sleeping now.

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#35

Some not so good bud shots, this is the best of the bunch:

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6 plants in all, 1/2 typical stretchy sativa; 1/2 shorter more compact. So it looks like 2 distinct phenos.

In blurple

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#36

200W equiv? Could you really use 4 to 6 of those in a 4x4 tent and have enough intensity?
Or maybe just for veg and move on to the HPS or CMH for flower?

#37

How was the final outcome? Get many seeds?

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#38

Hey Mich,
Sorry, I’ll have to go upthread and check if I wrote down the wrong dimensions, I’ll have to use the standby disclaimer; stoned.

My two tents are 2’w X 2’w X 4’h each.
(edit)And I’m actually only using one of those 200 equivalent/24 watt actual in that tent, the others are a 120 watt ebay FS blurple…

… two 21 watt ebay FS blurples, and 2 15 watt 6500k leds.
All actual wattage.

My other tent is lit by a 50 watt 6500k ledmo flood with a 21 watt ebay blurple sidekick.
It puts out serious lux,

Certainly not tried and true old school but I’m pretty happy with the results I’ve had.
I want to limit at least one tent next grow to a single plant, probably in a 3 gal airpot once the cold weather hits and gnats are gone.
That will be the grow I hope to get some serious yield from.

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#39

Hi HaRdRoC,
See here for the tally,

I pollinated the females at 21 days of flower, read somewhere that you get a greater percentage of viable seed with young females but I’ve gotten much better numbers pollinating at 40-50 days flower. Near a 100% germ rate w/5yr seed too. It’s tough for me not to try something new each grow.

First count got me 1440 seeds, later I sifted through them again and probably tossed an additional 200 or so.

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#40

Thanks good to know I’ll have to hit my OG’s again then, thanks

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