My 6 sq foot, 300 watt badseed grow.

I think I owe rollitup.org something for the wealth of info I’ve acquired since coming here. I'm pretty much fizzled out on the journals in all forums as well, I think I’ll contribute a grow journal of my own fifth or seventh grow -kind of lost track!

Fortunately this grow begins at about 10 days into the 12/12 light schedule - I have no patience for grow logs that start at day 1.

They were planted straight into super soil(except for the 4 gallon one which had regular soil padding the root ball and super soil) after being in the crammed veg tank in quart size pots for 2.5 months as the last harvest was finishing up. They had to be topped twice and eventually had flowered on their own throughout this process.
All eight plants ended up as female. Obviously I’m not doing LST since I prefer my Stalinist approach with more pots of soil/plants due to this lighting scheme and for all my fail-safe reasons. Also, I typically stagger harvest my plants which is why I left most of the bottom foliage alone.


This soil mix is a semi-verbatim super soil recipe by subcool found in the organics/subcool old school organics forum so all I have to do is just water when needed and use molasses only on the 30th and 45th days as per subcool recommends. On this recipe, I adjusted the blood meal and high P guano out, added with seabird guano instead since there’s little to no veg time for this mix and used 2/3 FF Ocean Forest, 1/3 Light Warrior instead of the recommended Roots Organic. I’ll tell you what, these plants are the healthiest I’ve ever seen of all grows that I’ve done. There are 3x 32 gallon cans of this mix.


Lights: 250 watt HID, 2x 6500k 26w CFLs under the canopy in a 6 sq ft semi-sealed, folding door closet.


With 400 cfm ventilation unit working in a 30 cubic foot space, temperatures get up to 83F and down to 72F with 50-60% RH in this closet. Fresh air is pulled directly from the next room from the left to and passively through the wall vent behind the 30in fan also from the left conjoined into a 4”x4”x6” ‘Y’ ducting attached to left of the ventilated hood. Exhaust is duct directly to the bathroom that is the next room to the right. Of course, I found that the bathroom to be the best place for odor dissipation especially for apartment growing. Due to Tennessee heat, lights are on from 9pm to 9am.


In this little closet with 5-7 plants, harvests averaged 3.5 months worth of smoke and between two heavy smokers –my girlfriend and I; we can smoke like we still have LOTS of bud by first week of curing a recent harvest. Colas are usually heavy after drying averaging an ounce or more each filling up a case of 32oz mason jars with colas and some 2-3x 16 oz jars of cherry buds –except from the last harvest which was quite a lackluster.

So far everything has been just OK. Plants went dry for a day or two when I was out of state. Leaves went haywire a day after being rehydrated. I normally don’t let my soil dry and for the first time I found out the hard way. DO NOT LET PEAT BASED SOIL DRY! It’s a chore to rehydrate properly and lockouts will apparently happen as with these. Otherwise these plants were just thriving in this super soil. I had these plants “wick” up soapy water (non-detergent fatty soap) from the bottom up. It works but it will take awhile. Otherwise the dry peat content would just repel plain water back out through the bottom if watered normally at topside and the pot would still remain mostly dry.
By the looks of all recent growth, I think they’re back on course. A little under a third of leaves ended up clawed and spotted –not a big deal. Looks like now only 5 of these plants will make it to 2nd harvest. Last night they were given an inch of super soil dressing atop, 4 tbls/gallon humic acid and 2 tbls/gallon molasses.

Very nice! Those Sativas are looking mighty delicious! I bet it's some Mexican or Jamaican strain if it's bagseed. As you know, some seeds from shwagg are as potent, if not more potent than what you can get from a local dealer buying some internet seeds, not that many businesses selling highly Sativa strains with long flowering time anyway. It's not good for business.

Our plants have smaller buds compared to Indica that is 30 days in but will be the same size or bigger in twice or three times the amount of time, with twice or three times the amount of joy from smoking your own from a trash stash (not that you may have gotten it from shwagg, just saying). Good job

P.S. Subbed

I've move into a bigger suite since. My new flower room is a spacious 5'x5' at least. LOL! I've totally have forgotten this thread during the coarse of that hectic move.

I may start another on the next beginning flowing cycle but I feel this time that I must win absolute approval from my fiance since she pays the rent and most of everything else now.

I'll tell you what though, those seeds I harvested from my first ever grow - some 150-200+ all come up as females with 100 percent germination. What you seen above are from that same brood. Its parents were picked from a seed collection that was accumulated from only good weed accumulated since the nineties. They do still produce stamens around day 70-84 but by then it's pretty late for them to be a threat and I have yet to see a seed yet since probably thanks to DM Reverse. The smoke from these seeds as with other cycles I've grown are still fresh for my head to this day. They are mostly 50/50 sativa indica. Every so often a Grinspoon like plant would pop up. I had a few polyploidals too. Those were fun. But I've encountered a few weaklings that produces mediocre medicine and yields on some were a waste of potting soil and space like some from my last cycle. I hunkered down and did the Attitude thing last week. I look forward to some regular Jack the Rippers and some Jilly Beans. Who knows, I may show those off and dust off the old seeds to see if they grow with a new journal. Thanks for coming by.