Beansly
RIU Bulldog
I've been waiting for my last crop to finish so I could switch my grow to bare-bulb vertical set up, so since I harvested my Northern Light Blue and White Widow x Big Bud the other day, I thought I'd start a new journal starring the legendary, Mr. Nice Seeds Super Silver Haze. I wanna start off by saying thanks to a member of RIU that over the pass few months, has become a good friend. If it wasn't for Kevin Murphy, my grow would be over the day I harvested the last crop. The SSH I'm running now was a gift from him to me. He heard about my situation, and bought me the seeds from Shanti and had them delivered out of the kindness of his heart. Say what you want about him, Kevin Murphy's a good dude and a decent human being who just wants everyone to grow some bud and get along. Truly a cool dude, and real homie. Thanks Kev.
The genetics of this strain are some of the pillar strains of the cannabis world; 25% Northern Lights, 25% Skunk and 50% Haze, and I've been dying to grow it since the first time I smoked it 10 years ago. This strain fits me and my personality like a glove. It won the Cannabis Cup three years in a row in 1997, 1998 and 1999. It was bred by Nevil who at the time, was working for GHSco. It was made by selecting a mother from over a thousand Northern Lights#5 x HazeC plants to pollinate with a very special Skunk x HazeC. For those who don't know, the Haze C male is one of two original Haze males that 99.9% of haze plants are based on today. When he finally settled on his favorite nl5xhaze, he hit it with skunkxhaze pollen and Super Silver Haze was born.
When I moved the grow from the closet to the spare bathroom, I left the lights horizontal because the plants were trained in chicken wire and for the most part, had a level canopy. My philosophy on growing has changed a lot in the past few months in that, I want to make things as efficient as possible while at the same time keeping things as basic as possible. I guess that the philosophy of most growers but you know.....whatever. lol. So I decided to change to a bare-bulb, vertical set up. After doing some reading on different grow rooms and Ops; amateur grow science and botany and such; I realize that I don't want to use air cooled hoods, or grow horizontally anymore. Vertical seems like the way to go to get the most out of your plants and equipment. As for the hoods, the glass blocks UV which impedes trichome growth for one. The glass also blocks about 5%-15% of the lumen output. And when you're already using a 400w, you need all the lumens you can get. And with a good a/c you can offset the heat easily.
With the a/c going and a fan on the bulb, the room stays at a good 80 degrees F. I'm starting to wonder why I ever used air-cooled hoods to begin with. That's like $150 I could've spent on anything else... Oh well. Here's the setup before and after.
Before
After
When I started I had 20 reg SSH's. 3 didn't germ, 5 were lost to mice, and 7 to a fucking dog. Now I have 5 left and so far, one for sure is a female. I'm 51% sure that another one is a female, and a third one has yet to show sex but it looks like it could be a female. 2 for sure are males. All of them look really pretty. They have a great structure and sturdy tough little stems. Quality genetics, you can bet on that. Shanti is a genius. Here they are.
Yup. That's it for now. pretty boring I know, but it's early. For those who don't know, my light is a 400w HPS, the soil is MG Organic Choice, the containers are 2.76 L nursery pots and the nutes are House and Garden for now. I'm thinking of going partially organic for this grow meaning I'll be switching to earthworm casting/compost/guano teas soon. From what I can tell from after their first feeding is that it looks like they prefer a rich soil to chemical feeding. Today is day 45 from germination, and since they started showing sex today, the first day of flower. Even though I don't like to, they've been in 12/12 from seed. I like to wait until the plants are sexually mature but oh well I guess. I hope that at least two of them are females. I can work with two. I'm gonna grow these out normal, maybe take some clones when they get big enough, and start my mother search next time when I can get a bag of seeds again. Either that or make my own seeds.
Till next time, happy growing everyone.
Beanz
The genetics of this strain are some of the pillar strains of the cannabis world; 25% Northern Lights, 25% Skunk and 50% Haze, and I've been dying to grow it since the first time I smoked it 10 years ago. This strain fits me and my personality like a glove. It won the Cannabis Cup three years in a row in 1997, 1998 and 1999. It was bred by Nevil who at the time, was working for GHSco. It was made by selecting a mother from over a thousand Northern Lights#5 x HazeC plants to pollinate with a very special Skunk x HazeC. For those who don't know, the Haze C male is one of two original Haze males that 99.9% of haze plants are based on today. When he finally settled on his favorite nl5xhaze, he hit it with skunkxhaze pollen and Super Silver Haze was born.
When I moved the grow from the closet to the spare bathroom, I left the lights horizontal because the plants were trained in chicken wire and for the most part, had a level canopy. My philosophy on growing has changed a lot in the past few months in that, I want to make things as efficient as possible while at the same time keeping things as basic as possible. I guess that the philosophy of most growers but you know.....whatever. lol. So I decided to change to a bare-bulb, vertical set up. After doing some reading on different grow rooms and Ops; amateur grow science and botany and such; I realize that I don't want to use air cooled hoods, or grow horizontally anymore. Vertical seems like the way to go to get the most out of your plants and equipment. As for the hoods, the glass blocks UV which impedes trichome growth for one. The glass also blocks about 5%-15% of the lumen output. And when you're already using a 400w, you need all the lumens you can get. And with a good a/c you can offset the heat easily.
With the a/c going and a fan on the bulb, the room stays at a good 80 degrees F. I'm starting to wonder why I ever used air-cooled hoods to begin with. That's like $150 I could've spent on anything else... Oh well. Here's the setup before and after.
Before
After
When I started I had 20 reg SSH's. 3 didn't germ, 5 were lost to mice, and 7 to a fucking dog. Now I have 5 left and so far, one for sure is a female. I'm 51% sure that another one is a female, and a third one has yet to show sex but it looks like it could be a female. 2 for sure are males. All of them look really pretty. They have a great structure and sturdy tough little stems. Quality genetics, you can bet on that. Shanti is a genius. Here they are.
Yup. That's it for now. pretty boring I know, but it's early. For those who don't know, my light is a 400w HPS, the soil is MG Organic Choice, the containers are 2.76 L nursery pots and the nutes are House and Garden for now. I'm thinking of going partially organic for this grow meaning I'll be switching to earthworm casting/compost/guano teas soon. From what I can tell from after their first feeding is that it looks like they prefer a rich soil to chemical feeding. Today is day 45 from germination, and since they started showing sex today, the first day of flower. Even though I don't like to, they've been in 12/12 from seed. I like to wait until the plants are sexually mature but oh well I guess. I hope that at least two of them are females. I can work with two. I'm gonna grow these out normal, maybe take some clones when they get big enough, and start my mother search next time when I can get a bag of seeds again. Either that or make my own seeds.
Till next time, happy growing everyone.
Beanz
