first grow: 6 critical kush and 6 green crack

This is my first grow. My only reason for for sharing isn't to really show my grow off, but I want to share my grow to get positive/negative feedback. Please feel free to let me know if there's anything I could do better, or call me out if I'm doing something wrong please! I did my reading and feel like I know a lot, but i still got my nervous first time grow feel going and I'm always wondering how my progress is going. Like if my plants are behind and smaller than normal, or if they look healthy and vigorous and are big for their age etc. thanks

My specs:
I plan on growing 6 critical kush scrog and filling a room, and with the green cracks i plan on just veggin for a weekish and basically SOGing 6 just for a little extra yield because im stopping growing after these for a couple months due to extreme cold conditions where I live and my grow rooms are in their own little building non insulated(yet).

Instead of a single cola SOG plant, im going to try an experiment i guess lol, I'm going to top each green crack right before flower removing the 3rd set of leaves. leaving me with only 4 branch locations and a 4 way top. so each plant would have 4 main colas and I still wouldn't have to do any LST or other training.
24 bud colas instead of 6 just sounds better even though i know the 6 single buds/cola would be bigger, but i feel like 24 would outweigh 6.

I have two 3.5 ft x 4 ft rooms.
6 green crack bagseed from hermie females in one room (from what i understand hermies make female only seeds right? hopefully lmao)
6 feminized barneys farm critical kush 100% indica in the other room.

my reflectors are big and fill each room horizontally.
400 watt cheap cool white metal halides
400 watt hps digilux hps bulbs (25% more blue spectrum than typical hps)

lighting is 24 hours on 0 off during veg.
using reverse osmosis water supplemented with epsom salt, and molasses
using just fox farm grow big and fox farm tiger bloom for liquid fertilizers.

my soil is half happy frog and half fox farm ocean forest. In the mix i added 15 lbs worm castings (1-0-0), blood meal (12-0-0), bone meal (4-12-0 Ca), epsom salt(MgS), and dolomite lime(MgCa)

white panda film for reflective material.

bent the plants early and topped 5 of 6 critical kush early to promote branching early. my critical kush is currently 25 days old with about 8-12 nice tops starting on each plant. I "think" i am done topping and done bending the whole plant with typical LST. I will though however plant on just bending down/tieing down the tallest branches lower than the others to keep and even canopy.

My green cracks are 4 days old. I plan to top them in a couple days then a couple days after start their 2 month flowering somewhat SOG style.
With my Critical Kush I plan to start flowering the day I feel like my 6 plants are big enough to fill my 3.5 x 4 ft room.

i just switched my 6 critical kush from my MH to HPS but still 24 hours on and vegging. I just want to see if the red light spectrum alone with give me some vertical growth now, which I want, because my internodal spacing is super tight im guessing due to 3 factors. They are kush... They are 100% indica and the MH color spectrum it had.

I will update this thread with new pics of both rooms/strains.

Right on! I'm about to start a critical K and a green crack sog myself. If Chicago stops seizing my beans. I'll follow your journey...

Day 7 Green Crack


Day 30 Critical Kush

tmcraig92 said:

6 green crack bagseed from hermie females in one room (from what i understand hermies make female only seeds right? hopefully lmao)

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That's correct.

If your plants are truly Green Crack x Green Crack (rather than say GC x "mystery pollen"), then your beans could fairly be described as "Green Crack S1 feminized".

For reasons of genetic scrambling, you should expect a wide variety of phenos to be present in plants grown from these se-eds; they're not all going to look exactly like the Green Crack "clone only" parents.

And interestingly Green Crack S1 plants tend to go purple.

If you want to read/learn more about this, please check out my prior grow report on Sickmeds Green Crack S1. I think there is some good info in there, if I do say so myself.

In the meantime, here are a few key pics from that grow to whet your appetite:

the critical kush seems to be growing really fast now. Just topped the critical on day 33 again on the tallest colas then bent them a little LST outwards allowing some light to get to lower branch shoot locations and i took a few leaves off that were gettin no light on the bottom or no matter what in the way of good bud sites. So far I think keeping the 6 plants even and bushy across the whole room should be pretty easy especially once i get my screen up here in a couple weeks(ish)

my crack is a little yellow on them, i think i might have used a touch too much liquid nutes. Gonna use very diluted nutes next watering to try to recover them faster.

added a picture of each of my grow rooms. made a scrog screen from pvc twine like string and i ran out of that so i finished it with some ribbon. made the squares in the screen 2 inch. ive been using twist ties to attach the tallest branches to the lip of the bucket to bush my rooms in, did a couple tops and defoliation to expose good bud shoots and to slow down growth of some shoots. pretty sure i found my first official preflower as well on one of my kush in 24/0 lighting. my green cracks are still on 12/12 with no preflower yet but probably in a couple days to a week im thinking. im using only hps with full spectrum but more red for both my grows until they are finished now. Im done with MH. I want the red spectrum for the end of my kush veg to help me make them fill the room faster so i can start letting them grow upwards! lol.

I think my plants are starting to look nice. How do they look for 39 days?
Also, how does my height on my screen look?
thanks

also, ignore my temp in the 2nd pic lol. i had the hygrometer out of the room for a minute lol. my room usually about 70-78.
if it gets colder im goin to add a heater for the end of the grow.