Shwagbag
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Hi all, my name is Shwagbag and you're probably here because you like the ass in my avatar. Please stick around and help me dial in my medical garden, lets share some information, growing tips and top secret genetic infoz. I am a legal state medical cardholder. This garden meets my state's medical cannabis requirements 100%. Now that that's out of the way thanks for joining! I thought I'd start a journal to share some of my perpetual strains and experiences. This is my organic perpetual garden. Over time I've transitioned from organic, to synthetic, to a combination of both depending on plant stage. I've come to realize that organic growing is the style I love, and I'm now 100% organic. The last synthetic fertilzier I used was cal mag additive, which I only plan to use in case of emergency from here out.
Substrate
I currently use a Subcool super soil variation, with amendments that I felt would improve the mix i.e. humic and fulvic acids, innoculants, and a few other friendly helpers. I'll be swithching to a variation of LC's soilless mix once this batch starts running low, just enough time to cook it for a month or so.
Organic Additives
I've been using teas in the past, but have had a hard time finding the time to make and clean up after them. I've been increasing their frequency and plan to use AACT once per week throughout the perpetual garden, mostly flowering mixture.
Containers
Clones - rapid rooters in a dome, soon to be jiffy pellets, much cheaper.
Clone to veg - 6" pots or 1 gallon grow bags.
Late veg (occasionally) - 5 gallon buckets chopped to about 3 gallons.
Late Veg / Flower - 8 Gallon Oregon Breather pots with handles. Handles rule.
Lighting
Clones - Single 2' T5.
Early Veg - Four bulb 4' T5 - Usually 6" containers or 1 gallon grow bags at the largest.
Late Veg - Two 150 watt GLH LED's.
Flower Tent #1 - Two 600w HPS in a 4 x 4.
Flower Tent #2 - 1000w HPS in a 4 x 4.
Ducting is currently being upgraded to 450 CFM with carbon filters using 6" ducting. Summer requires AC and perhaps the 1000 running at either 600 or 750.
Genetics
I run between 8-20 strains depending on time of year, I like variety. Some come and go, some stick around indefinitely, but its always nice to have a situational smoke to share with my friends and strangers alike. Running perpetual has major advantages for transplanting, cloning and trimming, but it does not often allow me to start a number of the same seeds. As such, I don't always get the best phenotypes, but if I don't like it I'll try again later
I found 12 or more was too many for my garden size, so I've been forced to get rid of some strains and kind of go with the flow, replacing some strains for newer favorites. I don't use mother plants, just cuttings off from plants before flower. 2 -4 cuts from each plant usually depending how many are currently potted.
Current Strains
AK47 Cutting - Someone did the work on this one, its a winner.
Super Lemon Haze Cutting - Its the only one I've ever done, and I really like it.
El Monstre - Sannies Seeds freebie and one of my favorites.
Jackberry F2 - Sannies Seeds green pheno.
Jackberry F2 - Sannies Seeds purple pheno.
Sugar Punch - Sannies Seeds sativa.
Skunky Monkey - Seedfairy California hybrid.
Querkle - TGA Subcool Seeds.
Kevorkian - Collective Cutting about to be retired. Good smoke but horrible yield and node spacing.
Killing Fields - Sannies Seeds purple pheno.
Lemon Head - Bag seed self titled. Smells like dank ass lemons lol. Even more than SLH.
Retired Keepers
I've lost some strains due to mislabeled cuttings
Some of my old favorites include Pure Power Plant, Northern Lights, Deep Purple Haze.
Recently Germed
Queen of Hearts - Seedfairy Subcool Hybrid Ace of Spades x Vortex
Kollossus - Sannies Seeds, big yielder.
Bagseed - Either Cotton Candy Kush or Orange something. More info later.
Canopy Management
I'm really into canopy management and lollipopping to increase yields of quality fruit and decrease trimming times. I've do some topping, recently a couple attempts of Nugbuckets mainlining technique. I've settled on a combination of mainlining and simply influencing primary branch development during the veg process. I've been suprcropping for a quite awhile, but I haven't started extensively lollipopping and influencing branching until 2012.
That's it for now, I'll start by sharing a few older pics and then get rolling with some current perpetual stuff in the coming weeks. Thanks for clicking through!
Lemonhead - Bagseed!
AK47 Cut
El Monstre
Hash run from last week
Substrate
I currently use a Subcool super soil variation, with amendments that I felt would improve the mix i.e. humic and fulvic acids, innoculants, and a few other friendly helpers. I'll be swithching to a variation of LC's soilless mix once this batch starts running low, just enough time to cook it for a month or so.
Organic Additives
I've been using teas in the past, but have had a hard time finding the time to make and clean up after them. I've been increasing their frequency and plan to use AACT once per week throughout the perpetual garden, mostly flowering mixture.
Containers
Clones - rapid rooters in a dome, soon to be jiffy pellets, much cheaper.
Clone to veg - 6" pots or 1 gallon grow bags.
Late veg (occasionally) - 5 gallon buckets chopped to about 3 gallons.
Late Veg / Flower - 8 Gallon Oregon Breather pots with handles. Handles rule.
Lighting
Clones - Single 2' T5.
Early Veg - Four bulb 4' T5 - Usually 6" containers or 1 gallon grow bags at the largest.
Late Veg - Two 150 watt GLH LED's.
Flower Tent #1 - Two 600w HPS in a 4 x 4.
Flower Tent #2 - 1000w HPS in a 4 x 4.
Ducting is currently being upgraded to 450 CFM with carbon filters using 6" ducting. Summer requires AC and perhaps the 1000 running at either 600 or 750.
Genetics
I run between 8-20 strains depending on time of year, I like variety. Some come and go, some stick around indefinitely, but its always nice to have a situational smoke to share with my friends and strangers alike. Running perpetual has major advantages for transplanting, cloning and trimming, but it does not often allow me to start a number of the same seeds. As such, I don't always get the best phenotypes, but if I don't like it I'll try again later
I found 12 or more was too many for my garden size, so I've been forced to get rid of some strains and kind of go with the flow, replacing some strains for newer favorites. I don't use mother plants, just cuttings off from plants before flower. 2 -4 cuts from each plant usually depending how many are currently potted. Current Strains
AK47 Cutting - Someone did the work on this one, its a winner.
Super Lemon Haze Cutting - Its the only one I've ever done, and I really like it.
El Monstre - Sannies Seeds freebie and one of my favorites.
Jackberry F2 - Sannies Seeds green pheno.
Jackberry F2 - Sannies Seeds purple pheno.
Sugar Punch - Sannies Seeds sativa.
Skunky Monkey - Seedfairy California hybrid.
Querkle - TGA Subcool Seeds.
Kevorkian - Collective Cutting about to be retired. Good smoke but horrible yield and node spacing.
Killing Fields - Sannies Seeds purple pheno.
Lemon Head - Bag seed self titled. Smells like dank ass lemons lol. Even more than SLH.
Retired Keepers
I've lost some strains due to mislabeled cuttings
Some of my old favorites include Pure Power Plant, Northern Lights, Deep Purple Haze. Recently Germed
Queen of Hearts - Seedfairy Subcool Hybrid Ace of Spades x Vortex
Kollossus - Sannies Seeds, big yielder.
Bagseed - Either Cotton Candy Kush or Orange something. More info later.
Canopy Management
I'm really into canopy management and lollipopping to increase yields of quality fruit and decrease trimming times. I've do some topping, recently a couple attempts of Nugbuckets mainlining technique. I've settled on a combination of mainlining and simply influencing primary branch development during the veg process. I've been suprcropping for a quite awhile, but I haven't started extensively lollipopping and influencing branching until 2012.
That's it for now, I'll start by sharing a few older pics and then get rolling with some current perpetual stuff in the coming weeks. Thanks for clicking through!
Lemonhead - Bagseed!
AK47 Cut
El Monstre
Hash run from last week
