hi all, been pretty hectic this weekend so not been on here, had daughters birthday to sort out with 25 screaming kids in the wacky warehouse, so got some time to myself now so just rolling a fat one and time to relax, its 1:30am and not stopped all weekend,
@burnedout, welcome to 420 mag, you have joined the best grow site by far, no bitching in this site or slagging each other off, so your more than welcome to tag along and enjoy my journal, feel free to ask any questions, dont worry if you think their basic, the more you ask the more you learn, plus you mights ask something that someone else might find interesting, then ill do my best to answer and if i cant answer then any one of the top growers that follow my journal will jump in and answer,
so welcome to the site,
as for fem seeds i didnt do the silver solution like theresa did so cant comment on how well it works,
for cbd strains go to herbies head shop, search for cbd crewe then check out the seeds, all of them are high cbd strains, let herbie know you came on a recomendation from 420 mag and you will be well looked after, he really does do some amazing free seeds with all orders, order 1 seed get 3 free, cant get better than that anywhere else, so if you want seed check herbies, he is a sponsor on this site
@miwa, if i had the room id go with a bigger dwc grow, but i just dont have the room, so the dwc is now under 12-12, its under the hps for about 8 hours then when i go to sleep i move it into the cfl cupboard for its 12 hours of dark, then the cfls come on and its under them for 4 hours before i get up then its back under the hps,
@GiGa, its all good my friend, if you need any new strains drop me a pm, i got more than enough, i owe you one for helping me out when i got flooded, so say the word and their in the post,
welcome pierc89, good to see you floating around.
@runewulfson, did you get the letter i sent you my friend, it should be with you by now i would of though,
now for my plants,
im not sure whats going on, all my plants are growing well how can i say this, growing like weeds, crazy growth on all plants, dwc is by far the fastest growth i have seen, ive had to defol most of my plants, the top 2 sets of fan leaves where getting huge, some where twice the size of my hands, the rest of the plant was in the shade and lower branches where starting to stretch and node spacing was getting bigger so had to defol to prevent stretch on lower branches,
ive not seen growth like this in my plants before, so either i got everything else dialed in perfectly or the 17-7 is really helping these plants grow like this, some of these plants ive grown before and some in the last grow i did, yet they have much bigger leaves and much further along than previous grows, i know for a fact im using a lot more water and my dwc is using the whole 2ltr res in 24 hours, im filling it up with double strength bpn every 24 to 36 hours, i let the res empty so the roots are searching for water as they would in soil, but the roots are just a huge mass, the 2ltr res is packed full of roots now, no room what so ever, ive not had any dwc have root growth like this,
most of my plants are now showing sex, seems my own fem seeds are still on track for all been fem, they showed sex sooner and are all fem, the rest i planted where all fem seeds from herbies and some have shown sex, just waiting on the kc45 to show sex hopefully i got a male and female so i can produce some more auto seeds and i want some auto pollen for future crosses,
ken estes gdp male has given me plenty of pollen, i took it out grow room before pollen sacs opened and had it in another place on its own with just sun light on it, its gave me plenty of pollen but has now gone back into veg so using a dark cupboard to put it back into flower, i want as much pollen as i can get off the gdp seems like a good strain and genetics to work with
ill take some pics tomorrow, my plants have easily doubled in size since the last pics,
the purple cheese auto just keeps growing fatter and fatter, the buds just keep on growing, never seen this on an auto before, but the top bud keeps getting wider and wider and taller, the buds and the node below are now up level with the top bud so its going to be a decent sized bud at the top of the plant, but if the lower buds keep growing like they are then its just going to be one huge bud when its finished,
if you remember i crossed the purple auto with fem pollen, so the seeds from that are now developing, the calyx are swollen with seeds and starting to pop open and i can see the green/brown seed poking out so another week and they will be falling out the plant, the next 3 buds down are also swollen with seeds these are covered in gdp pollen, the strange thing is the whole bud was seed set, but now the bud has grown taller and taller and the seeds are now at the bottom of the bud and now their is much more seed free bud growing at the same place, so its growing well this auto, looks like i made a good move using it for breeding,
so i should have some purple cheese auto female cross with ak47 cross uk cherry cheese female pollen.
the 3 lower buds will be purple cheese auto female cross with ken estes gdp male pollen,
ive got a few crosses now and i need to start thinking of some names cuz its a pain writing down so much info on the seed pots, so i need some names for these crosses i have made.
hopefully between 1/4 and 1/5th of the seeds will turn out auto, i will grow the seeds out and i can then sort out the autos and cross a male and female auto from the seeds and that should give me auto seeds only, but im a few grows away from that yet,
so alls going good, trying to get caught up on all these journals,
thanks for the reps and spreading the reps everyone,