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homer371

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Hmm...Exact method, this time around I took a paper towel, folded it in half twice, got it fairly wet, opened her up and put the seeds in, folded it back over, and popped it in an OPEN ziploc bag, put it in a drawer directly underneath my cable box to keep 'em from getting too cold, and checked 24 hours later...The seeds I started Monday night were actually ready thursday morning, I just waited till I got home from work to plant 'em. I dunno, I've had good luck germing seeds, but it's most likely just that, luck. I've seen a ton of people use this method that hate it. The only piece of good advice I can offer is, as soon as the seed splits apart, plant it. Don't wait to see a little baby taproot coming out, cause they can be damaged easily in the planting process...Instead, as soon as the seed pops or cracks or splits or whatever you wanna say, thats the time to plant in my book! Someone say seedswap in april when we click up?! ;) Talk to ya tonight, brother!
awesome dude. thanks for the detailed description!! i'm saving this in my special folder where i keep good info. by the way, does it matter what orientation you put the seed in the soil? (crack facing up or down?).

also, there's no WAY all four dwc plants are male! from the looks of it, the tall one might be man-ish, but the other three are likely female, and in the rare scenario in which 3 are male and 1 are female, well you know what to do then ;) and man, i can't wait till the april swap!? (we're having a mini swap on the 9th in the bay area... if you happen to be around, obviously join). my plants are improving, little by little, which is making me happy. peace brother.
 

Metasynth

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Oh yeah! I can't compare my seeds to yours. Mine were at the very least 3 years old and kept in a film canister. LOL
Yeah, I wanna start a seed collection, so I'm gonna start doing research into seeing how I can keep germ rates up as long as possible, but then again Lefty's seed was between 5 and 10 years old, so there's proof it's possible right there!

awesome dude. thanks for the detailed description!! i'm saving this in my special folder where i keep good info. by the way, does it matter what orientation you put the seed in the soil? (crack facing up or down?).

also, there's no WAY all four dwc plants are male! from the looks of it, the tall one might be man-ish, but the other three are likely female, and in the rare scenario in which 3 are male and 1 are female, well you know what to do then ;) and man, i can't wait till the april swap!? (we're having a mini swap on the 9th in the bay area... if you happen to be around, obviously join). my plants are improving, little by little, which is making me happy. peace brother.
Um...pointed end down, so crack down, cause thats where the root is gonna pop out and try to dig into soil. I'm still waiting on my order from The 'tude, but hopefully I have some Blue Mystic(Nirvana) and Dr. Grinspoon(Barney's Farm) coming, and I think I'm gonna get a pre-paid credit card and drop another order before it gets too late...I wanna go into the ground ouside in late April, and am still short on strains for my garden. I have like 8 different freebies coming in the mail, but I wanted to be able to grow 2 or 3 of each strain, but if these seeds don't come in the mail it's looking like i'll have to grow these humboldt baseeds, and I only have 5 left because I just germed like 3 and then 5 more right after...Dang...I gope my seeds come in the mail. Like I said, tomorrow is payday, maybe it's time to put in another order from a different seedbank to see if we can hedge our bets!
 

homer371

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thanks for clarifying bro. i'm sure your seeds will come. from what i've heard, the 'tude abides... i didn't know there was a strain called "dr grinspoon". that's awesome, mad respect for that man. ok, off to engage in some patty's day silliness, back later to see the visual updates!
 

Metasynth

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Oh man, so lights came on in flowering and I went to play in the garden. I'm always a little wary that my home made light trap will leak, so I try not to play in the veg tent too long while the girls are sleeping, since they're right next to each other...Well I open up the veg tent to check out whats going on with the fReAkS in the DWC, since they've been growing like mad for the past week...Well i'm checking out the plant I dubbed "Little Sprout" like ten pages back in my thread and LO AND BEHOLD I see she's pushing pistils!!!!!!!! Fuck yeah! like 6 and a half weeks into veg and this shit is confirmed female...I mean, could it be an autoflowering trait? I know some strains just show sex during veg...I personally like to think she was dying to show me her naughty parts, but whatever, I'll take it! That's One confirmed female in the DWC, looks like Runty won't be getting gangbanged after all!
 

Metasynth

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So, as previously stated in the post above, I have a lady in the DWC and it's Little Sprout!!!! I knew she wouldn't let me down...Making the switch to 12/12 on Saturday, and not a moment too soon, with one plant pushing pistils and the one double the size of everyone else, it's time to find a couple keepers. So here's a quick video update of them vegging out, Little Sprout is the lady to the right of the behemoth suspected male. Also, say hello to the 2 newest sprouts, and 5 soon to be babies in SOLO brand party cups!

[video=youtube;CMM5unOJMEM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMM5unOJMEM[/video]

If the big plant turns out to be female, ima chop off all the branches for clones and start vegging for a SOG, but I think we all know it's gonna have balls!
 

Metasynth

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Damn, it's like MOTHER FUCKING CHRISTMAS tonight...lol...I just tracked my order from The 'tude, and for the past week it's said "Origin of post preparing to ship" or some shit like that, I even checked at like 2 o' clock today and same thing...so I checked again right now...

Label/Receipt Number: XXXX XXXX XXXX X
Class: First-Class Mail International
Service(s): International Letter
Status: Processed through Sort Facility

Your item was processed through and left our JAMAICA, NY 11430 facility on March 17, 2011 at 10:36 pm. The item is currently in transit to the destination. Information, if available, is updated periodically throughout the day. Please check again later



OH FUCK I HOPE THEY COME TOMORROW!!!!!
 

homer371

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Aw sweet dude!!!! I'm on the phizone and can't view the vids yet but wanted to congratulate you real quick on the Lady Little Sprout! Awesome news! Also great about the seeds finally shipping, it's a good night. Luck o the Irish!
 

angryblackman

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Meta I may have to have you send me some info on seeds. I go to Attitude's site and stare at all the possibilites, get frustrated and leave. LOL
 

Metasynth

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I'll reply to everyone in a bit, I just got home and stepped into the garden and Righty has what look like 'nanners on her, so upon closer inspection, I could not find a single banana that was giving off pollen, yet Righty started producing little premie seeds...:finger:...It's all good if I get a couple seeds off Lefty, cause she is some bomb genetics, but I'm over Righty, so I'm chopping her down...It's that or put it outside to do it's hermie thing and make seeds I don't have any interest in. Yeah, not gonna happen...lol. Besides, I really don't think Lefty is at risk, since I really scrutinized them both, and no sign of pollen anywhere, no open flowers, I'm about to chop and trim, so I can inspect closer, But I think I'm safe as far as Lefty goes, she's almost done anyway,just another couple weeks :) And for real, it's not even a big deal to me that Righty is a disappointment, I sorta expected something like this from her ;) So positive attitude to the rescue and I'll have some updates in a bit!
 

homer371

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whaaaaaa????? i can't believe that dude. 6 1/2 weeks into flower and shoots out nanners? man, i respect you for your positive attitude. i would've been doing :wall: for about 4 hours.

at least you've got lefty. she's gonna have to learn to play nice with my two girls, now that she's outnumbered and all ;)
 

Metasynth

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And I did a really quick trim job, stripped the buds off the stems and broke 'em down. I left a lot of the smaller leaves on since they were coated in tric's, and this is gonna become a batch of BHO :-P So not all is lost! If I have any left by the time Lefty is done, I can smear some on her...smoking sister on sister action!

Haha...still feel confident that Lefty will be seed free, but the worst that happens is I get a few seeds with genetics that could be very interesting, considering Lefty is one frosty lady!

Here's the damage. Turned out to be a little more than I thought it would be, too bad, but at least the DWC goes into flower tomorrow! And I'm seeing the soil in the party cups bulging a little bit, so I bet some new seedlings will be peeking out soon!

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Metasynth

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thanks for clarifying bro. i'm sure your seeds will come. from what i've heard, the 'tude abides... i didn't know there was a strain called "dr grinspoon". that's awesome, mad respect for that man. ok, off to engage in some patty's day silliness, back later to see the visual updates!
Yeah, it's supposedly some heirloom sativa strain, I dunno, wanted to grow a couple pure sativas this year, so these beans were the lucky winners! Hope they come in the mail tomorrow!

looking good bro love your setup
Thanks dude! It's a work in progress ;)

Aw sweet dude!!!! I'm on the phizone and can't view the vids yet but wanted to congratulate you real quick on the Lady Little Sprout! Awesome news! Also great about the seeds finally shipping, it's a good night. Luck o the Irish!
I know! I'm stoked that I have a lady in the DWC! They're growing so fast, I cant wait to see them explode in flower!

Meta I may have to have you send me some info on seeds. I go to Attitude's site and stare at all the possibilites, get frustrated and leave. LOL
Man, I spent like hours surfing that site...correction, I spend hours surfing that that site on a regular basis...lol...I'm a glutton for weed strains, I wanna have 'em all! Thats why I wanna research how to keep germ rates up for as long as possible with seeds, there are so many strains I wanna try! But if you wanna chat seeds, lemme know!


Congratz Meta! Another girl to add to your stable.
Totally! Just a bummer that Righty turned out to be a wolf in sheeps clothing...But I guess thats how shit works...lol...Funny that I found out about a girl yesterday, and a hermie today, just the universe's way of evening things out I guess! If thats the way it's meant to be, then who am I to argue? Haha, gonna make a nice batch of BHO though!

whaaaaaa????? i can't believe that dude. 6 1/2 weeks into flower and shoots out nanners? man, i respect you for your positive attitude. i would've been doing :wall: for about 4 hours.

at least you've got lefty. she's gonna have to learn to play nice with my two girls, now that she's outnumbered and all ;)
Haha, I know! I'm so bummed that I don't have two girls to share with your two girls anymore! Really, I was totally cool about this whole thing till you posted that, I guess it just tugged at my heartstrings a bit, haha. Okay, I feel better now...naw, this isn't a big deal because I've been saying all along that I'm not too stoked about Righty's genetics, and this just proves my gut feeling! Haha, knowing her parent plant and the weed she produced, I know it's not a terrible loss. We grew one outside last year, it was my dad's plant(he got the seed from his friend, the same friend who pollinated his plant and produced Righty's seed as well, hence my knowledge of Righty's lineage), and he hung it to dry and forgot about it. Well, he ended up giving it to me cause he didn't wanna trim it and doesn't smoke. I just made BHO out of that plant anyway because I wasn't pleased with the smoke, and it was fully mature! So it's only fitting that Righty be made into honey oil as well.

Anyway, I'm totally staying positive, and sitting here reflecting upon it all it doesn't really phase me one bit! Anyway, updates on Lefty tomorow probably, gotta do my Rez change and move the DWC plants into flower. Going with Dyna-Gro Bloom for flowering nutes, gotta pick that up, and some more soil in anticipation of the new seedlings! Also gotta start getting my soil shit together for the outdoor season. I guess I'm keeping myself too busy to get bent over one hermie late in flower! Keep those thumbs green, boys and girls!
 

Metasynth

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So, today was rez change day, and I switched the DWC to 12/12 today as well. That freed up a lot of room in the veg tent, and I moved shit around a lot. I know you guys don't come here to read, lol, so lets get to the good stuff!

Here are the beastly DWC plants, Little Sprout, my confirmed female is in there somewhere, and a bic lighter for scale...And the Solar Friends Club says goodbye to the DWC, they'll be staying in veg to keep the little ones company!

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So with all that free room in the veg tent, I re-arranged shit, and dropped the T-8's down to withing a couple inches of the sprouting seeds. The seedlings in the 2.5 galon pots have a decent amount of light between them for babies, all together it's 3 x 26w 6500k, 1 x 42w 6500k, and 1 x 23w 2700k, Obviously I'll be adding more as they get bigger.

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And here's a look at the new arrangement in the flowering cab. I added like 7 more lights, mostly 23w 2700k and one 26w 6500k, and I gave Lefty the rest of Righty's lighting, starting to look sorta like a grow in there! :weed:

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:leaf: And now, what we've all been waiting for, some frosty budporn!! :leaf:

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Anyway, Righty is drying right now, looking forward to some fresh BHO, I hope I can save some or Vegas! Hope ya'll enjoyed Lefty showing off, maybe 2 more weeks to go...in any case, getting close and looking nice! (if I do say so myself) :-P
 

KushXOJ

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Meta u da man
everythings looking great bro
sorry to hear about the herm
but in the bright side you have those new sprouts to look foward to now

i guess ill switch my timer to 12/12 today too
since i already took a clone from each plant already
keep it up man lovin your thread !!
 

homer371

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meta, what can i say brother? damn, i'll try to go in order. little sprout and the dwc toddlers are looking green as day. love the picture of cat and flower posing for the shot!! the seedlings look awesome, and i'm starting to lose track of all your plants my man. but of course, lefty is looking dank as fuck!! excellent bud porn, those frosty closeups are SWEET! top notch photographs. two more weeks!!! by the way, apart from my condolences for the herm situation, i never congratulated on the righty harvest, so congrats bro. enjoy the bho, and if you manage to save some for vegas, try and save a pinch for your pal homer haha. peace.
 

Archminister

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Meta there isnt anything that can make your grows look bad man! You have an excellent mad scientist setup and girls girls girls on rotation. They all look amazing and I am sure they will continue to provide you with the finest weed due mainly to your hard work. You among others make this forum worth being a part of. Way to make lemonade brother!
 

Metasynth

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Meta u da man
everythings looking great bro
sorry to hear about the herm
but in the bright side you have those new sprouts to look foward to now

i guess ill switch my timer to 12/12 today too
since i already took a clone from each plant already
keep it up man lovin your thread !!
Right on Kush! It's cool about the herm, I got Lefty almost ready and looking frosty. Can't wait to join you with the outdoor growing, only one more month for me!!

meta, what can i say brother? damn, i'll try to go in order. little sprout and the dwc toddlers are looking green as day. love the picture of cat and flower posing for the shot!! the seedlings look awesome, and i'm starting to lose track of all your plants my man. but of course, lefty is looking dank as fuck!! excellent bud porn, those frosty closeups are SWEET! top notch photographs. two more weeks!!! by the way, apart from my condolences for the herm situation, i never congratulated on the righty harvest, so congrats bro. enjoy the bho, and if you manage to save some for vegas, try and save a pinch for your pal homer haha. peace.
Woot! Thanks, the DWC plants are loving life, I suspect 3 males and then Little Sprout I'm hoping is a true female cause she showed pistils in veg...Cat and Flower will miss the DWC, but they have the new sprouts to look after, all 5 of the beans I put into soil have broken the surface, and are now reaching their heads towards the light, not sure what I wanna do about them right now. And yeah, Lefty is starting to look pretty fucking awesome, almost like some real, medical quality bud! And finally, the loss of Righty wasn't a big deal, but thanks for the congrats on the harvest! She's drying in a paper bag right now cause I just want her to dry fast so I can make that BHO! Don't worry, brother, I'll save some honey oil for ya!

Meta there isnt anything that can make your grows look bad man! You have an excellent mad scientist setup and girls girls girls on rotation. They all look amazing and I am sure they will continue to provide you with the finest weed due mainly to your hard work. You among others make this forum worth being a part of. Way to make lemonade brother!
I could make my grow look like shit, but I don't have to take a dump right now ;) Haha, yeah, when my genetics arrive in the mail finally(they made it through Vegas last night, so soon!) I'm just gonna plant the last 5 of these humboldt seeds and start fucking with them, I wanna LST some branches into a knot, and see if I can graft two branches of the same plant together, try homer's suggested "layering" or taking the plant bending it over and burying an upper portion so it roots(like the St. Louie arch, only weed!), and all kinds of other abusive things you can do to plants. Anyway, guess there's no time to get bent outta shape over anything since I DO have a bunch of plants in rotation! And thanks or the kind words, I couldn't agree more, it's you guys that make this site worth coming back to!
 

Smokey11

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Bud Porn LOOKS amazing.VERY Frosty and nice and FAT!!!!!! Sorry to hear about righty but like you said BHO so not a complete lose...
 
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