Hello OG!
I grew a bit as a young man from clone in my closet at rented apartments. It helped save a few bucks and made me realize I could grow much better product than 90% of what I’d seen and 99% of what was readily available. Have taken about ten years off due to life, but last summer I decided I had all the pieces together to responsibly undertake such an endeavor again! Threw some bag seeds in soil outside and began making a plan.
The initial plan was a 5x5 flower tent and a 2x4 veg tent. HA!
That evolved into getting another 2x4 for an extra flower tent to run the first seeds I bought. Which then turned into me gifting one if the 2x4s to my wife to start an indoor cat free safe spot for her plants and also to start all of our spring veggies, so OF COURSE, I had to upgrade that tent to a 4x4 and now the 2x4 veg tent was never going to cut it I HAD to add another 4x3 tent with shelving for veg/cloning and maybe a few mothers! I’m sure this story sounds familiar to many…
So here’s where I’m at and what I got planned!
5x5 AC infinity tent and ventilation, HLG 650R, running bioall soil with dry amendments, microbial/fungal inoculants, with occasional fermented plant extract soil drenches. Currently housing my first large seed hunt. Completely OVERGROWN for this point in the grow as I just flipped them to 12/12 last night. In the tent I have 8 LaDiosa (smaller ones on the left) from SeedsIVchange that I popped a week after the other batch (18 made it to this point) to “fill in any holes if issues arise”LMAO, most seeds are regulars so my plan is swap the LaDiosa into the 4x4 when I hopefully finishing trimming my last crop that’s currently drying In there on Monday. Once the males show I hope to be able to fit all the females left back into the 5x5 to finish out flowering together, may have to cull a few, the goal was 16 plants.
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The seed lineup in the 5x5 (various numbers of each)
Going forward the plan for the 5x5 is to continue seed hunts of normal flowering time cultivars.
The 4x4 that’s currently finishing drying last crop will be getting some longer flowering cultivars!
These are in the 4x3veg tent currently, about a week out of the ground. Have 5/6 BLRxNWHP, 4/6 Bandaid haze, 3/3 Zamaldelica, 4/4 NorCal purp haze. The goal was 9 plants in the 4x4 in 7gal grow bags. The plan for the 4x4 will be longer flowering seed hunts.
In the 2x4 I’m running a viparspectra xs2000, currently have 2 each Humboldt seed co, Hella Jelly and Pineapple Upsidedown cake. They were planted quite some time back but were stunted due to poor soil choice for seedlings. I have since moved to Happy Frog for my seedlings and they seem to love it. They bounced right back and are currently in week 2 from flip and are filling out the small tent enough to make me happy!
That’s about where I’m at! Last run I just finished in the 5x5 was the last of my bagseeds, had 7 plants, lots of issues. Yield was terrible due to underwatering issues halfway through flower (had over watering issues first run), learned a bunch to dial that aspect in and also that it did not hurt the quality AT ALL. I know this has been studied but I will definitely be researching more into dry down stress and quality vs quantity. I’m sure the genetics play a huge role but definitely interesting! I’ve only smoked my two clones so far from the first run and they’re fantastic, turned out much better than first round besides yield. One is straight lemons, no weed smell at all. Lemon. The other has a great truffle and forest floor smell, my wife says puppy breath. Here’s a few pics from last run. Starting with the first trimmed bud on 4/20!!
Thus far I’ve really been enjoying the discussion over at Doc D breeders lab! They’re killing it! Got a ton of Doc D stuff for the future.
Also been reading a ton into the diy SIPs, @CrunchBerries thread was a great read. Will pour over that at least once more. I’d like to get into large living soil containers or the SIPS. Hand watering isn’t sustainable for what I got going. Thanks everyone for taking the time to check this out and the people that have come before and shared their successes, failures and knowledge! Excited to see where this journey goes. Fantastic plants to share with all around is my prediction! Much, much more to come, but now I have to get back to trimming.
