Ase's Multi-Strain Quadlining In Coco

I agree. I think I'll wait until full blow flower to cull my weaklings and all but 1 male (dubbed SGt Stank). I'm in the same boat 2 have shown hairs, but that still leaves me with 4 unknowns for now. Time will tell as the old saying goes.

Hope you had a good 4th! Who you rooting for in the world cup now?
 
I agree. I think I'll wait until full blow flower to cull my weaklings and all but 1 male (dubbed SGt Stank). I'm in the same boat 2 have shown hairs, but that still leaves me with 4 unknowns for now. Time will tell as the old saying goes.

Hope you had a good 4th! Who you rooting for in the world cup now?

Croatia. They've just been fun to watch. Russia has been fun as well so likely the winner of that game. Might as well cheer for the underdogs.

Growing regs would be a lot easier if I wasn't using just two tents. I've got clones of each one so I can always grow one out as a mother and clone it and try this again at some point if it ends up in a complete disaster but I'm just hoping my instincts are right.
 
Day 8 Flower ATFs

The ATF in the middle got a booster seat today as it just is smaller than the other ones. I raised the net a bit and did a bunch more defoliation. Now everything up to the net is pretty much gone. I'm hoping doing in this in the middle of stretch doesn't hurt them too bad but it had to be done. I'm pretty happy with the spacing now and the net is at a height that makes it easy to feed again. Now I will just wait to see how much they stretch and what the canopy looks like in the next week or so.



The clones are doing fine. I thought the one with the yellow 5 tag wasn't doing well but when I dug it up I saw a healthy white root so I expect it to start growing again. I still don't exactly know what I am doing with these yet. The Durban Poison just doesn't want to seem to play ball. I pressed against the seam a bit (not recommended) with my fingernail and got it to split open a bit. I saw fresh green and white so I think it might have worked. I'm just hoping the taproot can get out as it wasn't doing anything. If I don't see anything by tomorrow I'll drop another one.


Bonsai loving this environment. Starting to get the shape I want.
 
Day 10 Flower ATFs

What a weird day in my world. The location that I work at announced that it was shutting down. A few opportunities have already been brought to the table for me. One is to move laterally to another location which is actually closer to home. A couple others are technically promotions but I've been salaried and I hated it because you were always on call. I don't know if more money would be worth it but I'll entertain the offers. Either way I'll be having some sort of change.

With that being said, I've always said when my current location closes that I might look seriously into turning my hobby (growing) into a profession. Needless to say I've got 2 months to figure it out. I did expect all this to happen at some point but I was really hoping for about another year to start working on it. The timing of this isn't great but might give me the kick in the butt I need to do something better and not so corporate. I think I just need to channel my inner @newty and go for it.

Anyways the ATFs are looking really good. The back right one is not growing quite like the others. The middle one is propped up so I guess that is the slowest of the bunch but I knew that one was going to be smaller from how it was growing the whole time. The other 4 all grew about the same so in terms of the big plants, it's the smallest. The back left one still is showing to be the biggest and the other two in the front are doing really well. I am on the lookout for hairs and should be any day now. I haven't checked yet today so I'll probably go do that after I am done here but I'm pretty sure the front right one had one hair I found yesterday. I don't like to confirm it's female until I see a few though.

Canopy
Net shot
 
Day 10 Flower ATFs

What a weird day in my world. The location that I work at announced that it was shutting down. A few opportunities have already been brought to the table for me. One is to move laterally to another location which is actually closer to home. A couple others are technically promotions but I've been salaried and I hated it because you were always on call. I don't know if more money would be worth it but I'll entertain the offers. Either way I'll be having some sort of change.

With that being said, I've always said when my current location closes that I might look seriously into turning my hobby (growing) into a profession. Needless to say I've got 2 months to figure it out. I did expect all this to happen at some point but I was really hoping for about another year to start working on it. The timing of this isn't great but might give me the kick in the butt I need to do something better. I think I just need to channel my inner @newty and go for it.

Anyways the ATFs are looking really good. The back right one is not growing quite like the others. The middle one is propped up so I guess that is the slowest of the bunch but I knew that one was going to be smaller from how it was growing the whole time. The other 4 all grew about the same so in terms of the big plants, it's the smallest. The back left one still is showing to be the biggest and the other two in the front are doing really well. I am on the lookout for hairs and should be any day now. I haven't checked yet today so I'll probably go do that after I am done here but I'm pretty sure the front right one had one hair I found yesterday. I don't like to confirm it's female until I see a few though.

Canopy
Net shot
I love when a door opens!
 
I'm sure you'll make a decision that is right for you. Sometimes doors open for a reason and having a backup plan is always handy. Best of luck with whatever you decide.

Yeah it’s nice to know that my worst option is staying in my current position but closer to home. I really am at a point in my life where I feel like it’s time to be risky and try to do something that I enjoy. We will see what door has the best option as the weeks unfold but I think I’d be cutting myself short if I didn’t try to turn this hobby into something more. Especially considering this is the perfect time to be getting into that market as legalization continues across the country.
 
Good looking scrog Ase!
Now that's a proper SCROG. :welldone:

Thanks guys! If they are all female I’ll probably jump up and down. It’d be assurance that I can tell what a plant is going to be without having to clone or flower them. That’s a good knowledge to have. Also if they are all female this should look like a frosty forest. That’ll be a pretty sight to see.
 
You have the talent, drive, and passion to reach out and have a chance to succeed on a dream of yours. I'm jealous as I'm sure others are too to have that chance. Embrace it my friend.

Yeah it’s a whole melting pot of emotions but excitement is starting to take the lead and I think after relaxing this weekend that I’ll start to get more and more excited about the future. Time to match my talents to the industry and see where I fall. I’m hoping some of the work I’ve done on this site will be a good portfolio for me to show off.
 
I wish you the best in what you decide. It will never be an easy decision which way to go, or everyone would do it.

Care to share the how to predict females? If its in your thread someplace just say so, I will go dig for it.
 
I wish you the best in what you decide. It will never be an easy decision which way to go, or everyone would do it.

Care to share the how to predict females? If its in your thread someplace just say so, I will go dig for it.

I will share if I am right, or at least do the best that I can to explain it. A lot of it is experience and just seeing something a little different than normal. If I am wrong then no point in sharing as that is bad information!

In fact today I discovered that the one in the back left is actually a female and saw multiple hairs on it today. That was the one I was a little worried about. It had the teardrop looking things but it is bigger than all the rest and more stretchy. I started to convince myself I was wrong and that I had a male just based on the notion that males grow taller and lankier. With that one being female I am actually thinking I might have all females and that would be awesome. It will likely be my ATF mother if it finishes strong and I'll probably give away the other clones.
 
I understand. Thought maybe you would want a few more testers of the theory. If it shows any promise at all I will be giving it a go when you release the details.

The Wicked Widow is in need of a good foliar tomorrow night. I have to look I think she may be in the window for her first CAT also.
 
I had a stankberry I thought was male for the same reason .. they "grow faster and blah blah." I even thought I saw a nut but the nut made a hair and tuned out to just be the best plant AND female.
 
Day 12 Flower ATFs

Aggressive stretch mode is just starting to kick in so we will see how the next 4-5 days go and how tall they end up. If they all stretch more I will move the net up a little bit and defoliate a little more after they are done stretching below the net. Three of them have sprouted hairs. The one I thought was a male in the back left is for sure female and has many hairs now sprouting. The front right one has a few and now the front left has a few. Those are the 3 largest ones so that's awesome. The other awesome part was I am 99% sure that the middle one and back right are for sure female. In fact if I had to put money on 2 that were for sure female, it would have been these two. So it's starting to look like maybe the whole dang net is female and that would be a gigantic relief. I was experiencing some anxiety as I really wanted this to work to 100% of it's potential. Would have been lame to have to cut a plant out and leave a hole in it's place when I wanted to show off how to make a cool scrog. There is always the chance that I read one of them wrong and I end up with a male but I know the middle one had a couple hairs sprouting before I transplanted and it started really vegging again. I think the back right one did too because that is why I put it there. I knew I wasn't going to be able to move them around and I really didn't want a male in the back right spot. I slightly remember putting the for sure female there.

We are having a heat spell for 5-6 days and I don't run an A/C in my area so kind of bad timing as this can be a sensitive time for plants. I'll have to think of something on the really hot days but I think I've had 2 plants herm in the past because they got really dry really fast due to the heat of summer. After the crazy week I have had, it makes it all the sweeter that I probably have 5 females. Every time something like this happens it gives you a little more confidence in the "grower experience" category. That reassurance is key when you might be making big decisions to do this as a livelihood. Also remember the 3 key things when growing:

1. Enviroment
2. Lights
3. Grower Experience

Most of the time you can spend more money to improve lights or environment but grower experience can't be bought and little things like being able to tell male/female without having to flower the plants or wait on a clone is a nice thing to have in the bag of tricks.

Anyways the girls are rocking. You can begin to see the cola forest that will ensue. Even though you can look at prior posts, I wanted to show what 4 days in the tent looks like, just after a big defoliation. As you can see when plants are healthy and spread evenly with the quadline, everything grows fast.

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