My first grow journal

1:1 @ 10% each is killer! Not sure if that what you are saying, but if it is, can I get a cut? lmao.
Just flipped your ice an hour and 57 minutes ago. lol.

Sure man, you can get a cut of this acid and it's a perfect 10% each THC and CBD. I dare say at 10 week it may ve gone up slightly-we will see. Please let me know if that reverse works for you! Her pollen isnt super viable I dont think but I have been plucking nanners all week and hate it. this test better be a whopper or rare as shit this isn't worth all this trouble...sniff sniff....yeah it is! LOL: now the update

So the smell is coming on with the nanners like always. I am doing a good job but not great and I only have two testers going til I harvest her and clean up. Than I have some widows and Qtrain cuts to run but for now pick pluck and pray and hope. I should add that harvesting will begin in under 2 weeks. maybe an 8 week sample to see if I can get a curve out of the 9 and possible 10 week tests. but soon, its coming soon and fuck the haters I'm looking to flush for a few days to a few weeks. I think it's fun.

sample out front in the jar from IRON LABS with mommy in the backround. One lab tested keeper. 4 more strains/phenos to test. Maybe 6 (fat purple isn't sexed yet)

Opps...wrong thread thing.

UPDATE 11-9-12: This will be a nervous harvest. I have seen many nanners. I refused to go with the Dutchy spray this time. I want baseline for the lab and if Glad can help me out and let me know if it works for him then I will know what's what and all but I fear there are seeds. I have not seen one, but I have crushed many pods with them all being empty so far. I plucked as best I could. let's hope. When I finish my test matrix I will post it as well as the final test results. here they are. Harvest begins 11-16-12 and there will be a quick cut test tomorrow cut for an 8 week taste and seed inspection.








The veg room, jsut randoms. Mostly acid here

widows ready to flower after Ice harvests
acid and widow moms

[video=youtube;9LjbMVXj0F8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LjbMVXj0F8[/video]


I sprayed the reverse. Had some light leaks. Fixed them. Think everything will be ok.
Great job on the medicine bro!

word. if you don't get any nanners at all then the reverse is a sucess and the cut is saved (provided it doesn't have a terrible profile)

TheMan13 said:

Perpetual grow/flower would be too tough to equate reliably. You are probably good with the per plant weight verses over all input costs.

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Just guestimate... when yer kinda done w the last tweener (inbetweener), track everything in the room over a 60 day period. If 6 finish in the first month, then only count a percentage of the final 6 that aren't done in 60 days, like that.

NON-PHOTO UPDATE:
OK so I have cut 2 of the 9 so far. I have one early eighth dry and cleaned up and I didn't find a seed in it. The 2 plants that are hanging will have the final trim tonight and tomorrow. I have a crazy map to fill out my matrix from week 8 day 0 thru 9 week 3 day.I may extend that on some depending on what I find. the bananas are not nearly as present and I have done my best to pick them all out. This is one of the times that I HATE that the caylx swell with or without seed. its nerve wracking not knowing if it's ripening or seeding. This could be the end of a 2+ year road with this train. she will have one more test should she be seedy a quick go round with the dutch reverse but now that I'm producing for others I can't take risks on seedy stuff killing my yeild just cuz I like the flavor and buzz. The massive downside to growing for others and having patients I guess is not going with what you like 100% of the time. I still hope she is throwing inept unfertile pollen bananas....I love her man! LOL

Well, it's all jarred up now. A bunch of it had to be consigned out or I would have been over my limit and I don't play that! Once that consign comes back I will be getting my own membership to Ironlabs and getting my samples tested for 8, 8.5 and 9 weeks harvest. People like pics so here you go, it's mostly white widow. should be done in january and is my last strain that I have to finish out and test.

UPDATE: the harvest on the ice was good and high. I had to take her down in pieces to avoid going over my limit. I figured and converted to metric to match breeder discription and my calculations came up with 480 g/m2 and the breeder pack said yeild was between 400 and 500 so that's a home run I think. So now we're changing gears to white widow for the next harvest. technically second grow journal's TGA strains will finish first before the widow but it's a 2 plant test run and has it's own journal so I'm doing the widow now for this journal.
WHITE WIDOW:
Flowering widow. I have one test screen on there too and it's working well. long stretcher this one.
Another view. she's about done stretching and will be filling out starting now.

http://www.ironlabsllc.co/results/client.php?id=163
Here is a link (that I hope works) to the somewhat disapointing test results. I got to ask the guys at MN to look at the contaminants comments and shit though cuz one of the picks looks like some dick droped a cotton ball on it....or it's smeary resin or something. 15%. LAME. The flavor is only so-so now that I know the numbers aren't as high as I thought. Meh, think I should count myself lucky I don't have to grow her anymore and move on.

What's it cost to have it sampled at another lab? Do you have a sample available? I'll throw in a few bucks to see if you get similar results from another lab.
I have been very curious about this.

Man, nice grow. Too bad about all the nanners. What drove you to buy Nirvana?

Bigtacofarmer said:

Man, nice grow. Too bad about all the nanners. What drove you to buy Nirvana?

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I was a pure bag seed grower for about 7 years. It made a me a good grower as I know how to identify and treat about every tox and def in the book using wonky genetics. For whatever reason a few years ago I was buying seeds for my ourdoor veg garden and it kind of hit me-I dont buy tomatoes and gut them to plant tomoatoes.....so when I decided to buy genetics I thought it would be best to start sort of at the the begining so to speak and I looked for old school genes like white widow and bubblegum and other old school hightimes cup winners. The site that kept coming up in searches for white widow and bubblegum was seed.nl and the middle of the road price was nirvana. The nanners were all sterile aparently so not a big deal. Now I have done the classics that I had in mind and I'm up on shit and seeing that it's mostly genetics now that are my limitor and not the growing so it's a gene hunt for the best. TGA grew OK real fast and looks good (labs won't be back for the first pheno for another week) but doesn't hit like a truck. anyway, LOOOOOONG answer to your question, and I will stop rambling LOL.

gladstoned said:

What's it cost to have it sampled at another lab? Do you have a sample available? I'll throw in a few bucks to see if you get similar results from another lab.
I have been very curious about this.

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tests are 40 a piece at ironlabs thru the disp I go to. getting in contact with lab guy was pretty easy but actually becoming a member is tougher. I don't have the time to meet in the lab on their schedule, its just not in the cards for me so I have to use that thrid party. If I could have gotten a membership I'd have enough "free tests" to cover it but meh I will get it done. in January, near the end, I will have a huge white widow harvest to test. Thanks for the offer Glad but I got this; and I will be posting the thing in a journal. You have given me a ton already I need to get you back so I got this one.

Good answer. and now you know. I'm always a little surprised to see a good grow with $20 beans.

Cory and trevor said:

I was a pure bag seed grower for about 7 years. It made a me a good grower as I know how to identify and treat about every tox and def in the book using wonky genetics. For whatever reason a few years ago I was buying seeds for my ourdoor veg garden and it kind of hit me-I dont buy tomatoes and gut them to plant tomoatoes.....so when I decided to buy genetics I thought it would be best to start sort of at the the begining so to speak and I looked for old school genes like white widow and bubblegum and other old school hightimes cup winners. The site that kept coming up in searches for white widow and bubblegum was seed.nl and the middle of the road price was nirvana. The nanners were all sterile aparently so not a big deal. Now I have done the classics that I had in mind and I'm up on shit and seeing that it's mostly genetics now that are my limitor and not the growing so it's a gene hunt for the best. TGA grew OK real fast and looks good (labs won't be back for the first pheno for another week) but doesn't hit like a truck. anyway, LOOOOOONG answer to your question, and I will stop rambling LOL.

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UPDATE:
Here is the next big harvest in line. She is the one the only white widow. I chose a phenothat was one out of only 2 that showed in my pack way back when so uniformity was good in that pack. This is a slightly stronger more UP high and candy flavor wit ha purple finish . The others (for sake of background) grew very indica and hit tthe same way with a little down to it. leaf to caylx on this one was much better too but I deal with mad stretch as a trade off
Same ones, my fat purple is in the bottom left corner too.
easy cleaning and pretty fast finishing (I assume, this will be the first labs on her so far its been taste and rate so far)

so those will finish the minute I step off the plane from Jamaica and I'll be trimming like a fiend from then til who knows LOL. perpetual grow and 2-3 week intervals for 4 people is some seriously complicated shit and throw in a week out of the country and I seriously doubt most people who don't have a serious love for Mary could hack the stress and planning and forethought it takes to run a garden LOL. hug your caregiver today, he/she deserves it ROTFL!

AND THE VEG ROOM:

Overview. it's all mothers and few cuts/babies for back up. I have remade mothers and will start to cut for the next cycle this weekend or shortly after
some cuts that are going to be either white widow mom or ice mom and a give away clone for a buddy.
same
In the back are the old moms. I used their root system as a base to make my first grafting attempt. didn't go well. I got the process down a little better I think and the makeshift humidoms out of pottles system is getting worked out but this is not easy.
chernobyl mom, haven't run her yet jsut bought her with a gram of finished product. it was nice but I'm a competitor: I want to do it better! LOL
qtrain mom I think the qurkel pheno, not sure it is on the pot tho.
qtrain, trainwreck pheno i think again...its on the pot
Acid mom, the new one. old one was a graft attempt.
All graft attempts failed of 4. the last one wilted and died much slower than the rest LOL but that's not a win. I think maybe if I harden them off, sort of slow shit down on the main stem I can get more time for the graft to take. Taht and I am going to order some proper parafin and tools and watch more vids on it. Anyone who has sucessfully grafted any and all help appreciated if you're out there.