Re: Donpaul.p's latest 400watt hps grow,
its been a while people, but im in a new place and got my grow room set back up,
i just harvested a ak47 cross uk cherry cheese,
i got several plants left to harvets over the next few weeks so got plenty going on plus got lots in veg ready to go into flower,
i had a go at making some fem seeds and so far it turned out ok and all plants turned out fem with no hermie traits, i read an interesting way of making fem seeds without using that silver solution, i was speaking with someone who used this method below,
1 when plant has flowered leave a few buds on the plant and keep it under 12-12 so it goes past the harvest date by a couple of weeks, the plant then starts growing little bananas, when these are opening i collected them in a small paper bag and left them to dry so i could collect the pollen,
2, i then put this pollen on 3 plants, i did not cover the plant in pollen i selected several buds on 3 of my best fem plants, i put pollen on these bud sites and harvested the seeds, so far all seeds have turned out fem and the buds look amazing, i got 3 plants from these seeds that are coming up to harvest, no hermie traits in none of them, i was told using hermie pollen would give me hermie seeds, but letting the plants go past harvest resulted in these banana type pollen sacs instead of the usual male pollen sacs, so buy using the pollen from these it has given me fem seeds, well so far all have been fem but only time will tell,
i get some pics up tomorrow so you can see the buds, their covered in thc goodness, much better than the buds i got from the mother plant,
so this is what i got going on,
i got 3 plants in late flower that are from the fem seeds,
i got a huge kc45 auto in late flower, i had 10 seeds of this strain and none got as big as this plant, the branches on this one grew strait upwards and not out, so i got 4 long branches growing strait up as the main buds, all 4 are over 1ft long and will be easily 1 foot buds on each branch, again ill show in pics tomorrow so you can see for yourself,
i got a big buddha auto cheese growing, not in flower but showing sex,
i got ken estes gdp growing but its male so will use for breeding purposes, pulled all branches off it and just left top branch to collect pollen from, growing in different location to prevent contamination,
i got several clones growing from the fem plants i got in flower, due to the quality of the buds i decided to take clones to keep the strain growing, you will see from the pics why i decided to do this,
also got a jack flash growing, my all time fav strain, how ever its suppose to be fem seed but im starting to think its male but will no for sure over next few days,
i got more but best to wait till i get some pics up so you can all see whats what,
im using 400dual spec hps
bpn for nutrients,
all grown in soil but i do have 1 2ltr dwc hempie growing as well,
ill do my best to get caught up with everyones journals but will take some time, so if their are some good journals or new growers i need to catch up with then please post link to their journals so i can get caught up with everyone, the people that know me know im very active on here and was all over everyones journals but due to my flat getting flooded i had to move out then was told i could not go back to my old place so finally got a new flat/apartment after spending couple of months living on moms sofa,
so im back growing and will do all i can to get caught up with you all,
look forward to hearing from you all and post a comment and ill get caught up on your journals over the next few days, ill be on here on a daily basis again,
peace