Welcome to my Jungle...

Long time observer, first time diary. Judging from what I’ve seen there’s not much I can teach but a lot I can learn. Just a little background then we will get to it. Shut the room down last fall after a few years growing commercial (as it got) . A friend/caregiver let me build/run his rooms and set mine up while I was recovering from a 3 story fall. Was mainly a water meter and rotator for 20 plant runs on a 4 week flip.

Flash forward and there is no grey market anymore and things stalled. Bad spider mites on final run of summer made me shut down and call it quits for the fall. Bleached, froze, bombed my space eventually killing the last (GG4) mother I had. Before she died I was able to get 24 viable cuts before she passed so I just finished the first run and am back on a 4 week schedule.
Baseline grow to dial everything back in yielded a pound from three plants. Two super cropped and topped for hedge top and one topped twice and let stretch.
Nutrients were Off the shelf granular in veg and AN a and b flower (leftovers).
Nothing else special was done other than care, a bit of pruning and observation.

Here is the lineup for the next three plants, they will have to earn themselves a win, place, or show during veg to earn a spot in the flower room.
Up front are two morrocan beldia Kif plant - 2regs
Right middle and back - Ace Panama red - 3 regs
Center. - MTF -1 , 2 still in dome cracked to help today.
Ohhh already earning one spot is my bagseed Purple Thia that’s 3 weeks into veg.

Feel free to comment, my goal is to run some landrace (or close) to get back to some of the roots of cannabis through 60’s 70’s and 80’s. Possibly some seed runs and crosse with the strains I like best.
Back and middle left - Mystery grab bag of good stock - 2 regs

A few more pics

Looking great.
FF

Thank you Sir, some future contenders are Durban Poison 100% Sativa. Some Black Pearl crosses, Ace Bangi haze.
The Mystery bag seed catagory could get interesting. Gifter of the seeds says they are G-13, WW, Golden Tiger, MTF crosses

Looks awesome! Love those frosty girls. I’ll be following along, happy growing!

Just an update, looks like the lineup is set. The beldia is early riser and stretching half inch a day put my led on them last night will start moving them closer as they desire. The two mystery strains are catching up, along with the one MTF that popped. Other two are still in tray but I think they are gonna be duds. Also lost a mystery seed. Panama Is bringing up the rear looks like I have twins and a runt. Nice color with pink stalk and darker leafs.

Well with the work shutdown I am dead in the water so looks like the girls will be getting a lot of attention. All the seedlings shot a half inch in the dark and started shooting the first saw tooth leafs. So far this morning everyone got a little RO flush from a hot batch of nutes, I have been pushing the GG4 to see what it will take, water and light hog but she don’t need a lot of help otherwise. Now that’s done I have another rack to install and adjust my fans to lower my temp at lights to 80-85, been peaking at 89 with the little warm weather. Put the Purple Thai in to flip to 12/12 today. I have about seven tops that have bridged the cabbage like canopy, hoping for some stretch so I can get a few more longer shoots to get clippings for sexing.

Day 11: Second set of leafs popping out, I slowed the stretch a little by pushing to the light. Leaf growth Is still steady . I helped the runt Panama Red get rid of its shell, Should start spreading out and catching up, about 2.5 inches smaller that his kin. Still soaking the last 3 (2-MTF and 1- mystery seed no love so far.

Day 12: seedlings were a bit bleached from moving closer to LED, mixed a 20% feed and moistened the cups. Went in to tend the flower room and came back half hour later and they were half emerald on the leafs so hang on here we go. All the plants are experiencing level grow the twin reds staying strong and consistent although a little behind height wise and are showing thicker pink to dark purple at base stalks.

Thai day 3 from flip: 12/12 lighting starting 4’ from light. I would say she has stretched here tops at least 6” above the canopy, stalk nodes are steering also showing a slight bit of stress with a few twisting leafs at the tops otherwise healthy and on a full flowering nute schedule feeding once a week, and on third day after with RO water until she tells me what she likes. As soon as destresses I will start pushing the tops to the super HPS.
This plant is so sensative that if I even grab the tray and turn it, it will start kicking a burnt rubber, pepper and pine scent that overwhelms my two rooms of GG4! Only for the time I am fucking with her though.

Since I have been working out of the shop while on shutdown all the plants are getting a large dose of 70’-80’s hard rock so they remember their roots. I need to make Them up a “weed mixtape”...lol, remember cassettes? 8 track? Reel to reel?

First track :

Passage to Bangkok - RUSH!


feel free to add to the list with your favorite pot song

Day 14: watching plants race is like watching paint dry! Short update, seedlings are going good and steady except for the runt Red. One mystery plant has huge broad leafs already, other has taken over lead from the two hash plants. The twin reds are keeping pace just behind. Started pushing them up to the LEDs today and will feed them at 25% nutes in RO. Should start taking off now. Debating how long I will veg as I am going to keep all grows from now on with the same baseline. No more than 2 toppings, only light distance to control stretch, 4 week veg from seedling?? What do you guys think is a fair time for mix of Sativa sand indica to show their best? Here’s a few pics the next 2 GG have started a second wave of pistils and the Purple Thai is stretching nicely, look at the wide tapered top stems( last few pics , they should hold some weight.

Here is the Purple Thai, thick stalk developing thinnerleafs as it climbs

And now for something completely different

Plant song of the day: (lmfao, I just pulled first one off YouTube, I need. To go burn a fatty of Sativa and watch it again, classic.)

“Sweet leaf” - Black Sabbath

instg8ter said:

And now for something completely different

Plant song of the day: (lmfao, I just pulled first one off YouTube, I need. To go burn a fatty of Sativa and watch it again, classic.)

“Sweet leaf” - Black Sabbath

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Good memories Thanks for this one!

Thanks I posted before I watched. I have a movie poster from the one they parody on my growroom door. Stop in anytime farmer, I’ll be drowning my plants daily with the lockdown.

Here’s the poster sign on my door.

instg8ter said:

Here’s the poster sign on my door.

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You're nuts. Hope that works out. Every strain increases the strain involved. You asked. Nice hors dourves. When's brunch?

Day 16 since seed drop: ended up 8 out of 11 viable. 2 MTF duds, 1 Mystery plant and a Panama Red Runt that’s going to be held back a grade.

Lineup is now
2 - morrocan beldia in the lead
2 - mystery plants just behind
1 - MTF
2 - Ace Reds slow and steady just behind
1 - purple Thai (4 week lead, 3 days in flower and stretching pencil thick green and purple tops and secondaries) Male or female??
This is my first run from seed, don’t want to work these more than one or two tops and let them express themselves.

How long should I let them veg??
Usually let my clones go 3-4 weeks of hard training before I ease them into flower.

My veg time is determined by growth rate, known plant max size, indoor or not, space available and training or not. I would also be clearing some under growth from the second and third plants pictured. I always keep my medium exposed after my plants have established and are healthy. I'm a firm believer in moderate stress to maintain maximum defensive growth.

Thanks mich I was holding back until she stretched her lower shoots so I can take two cuts for sexing then I will take the huge supple lower leafs and thin the Tharp out of the middle. Beautiful plant can’t wait to see her start to bud. How far into flower should it show sex, last two pics are topping nodes and main trunk. I see no sign of balls yet and two thick hairs.