Popped two seeds from each strain. Germination is gonna be in jiffy peat pucks and flower in #3 pots.
- LSD, Green Crack, Girl Scout Cookies Extreme, Chemdawg
- Method: Hydroponics/coco coir
- Vessels: Jiffy peat pucks, #3 pots
- PH: 5.6-6.5
- PPM: wk 2-3 100ppm, wk 4-8 350-450ppm, wk 8-hvst 700-800ppm
- Indoor, 2X4X5 and 4X8X6 grow tents
- Lights: T-5, LED, MH, HPS
- Temps: 68°F - 82°F
- Humidity: Veg-65%, Flower-45%
- Ventilation system: Yes, 4”
- AC, Humidifier, De-humidifier
- Co2: No
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One of the Green Crack seeds didn’t germinate but I’m doing a bit of damage control right now to see if I can coax this dame out of her shell. One of the LSD’s (the one in the back) looks a little runty too but sprouted none the less. So far that’s an 87.5% germination/seedling rate, my best so far!
Wow you have a heck of a nice line up there. Those look like some good strains that you’re growing 
good luck with them 
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@dbrn32 hey dbrn, feel free to “@“ whoever you want, I don’t think there’s too many people on this thread. Thank you
Ran out of coco and I’m broke so the 3 plants in solo cups are in limbo. I can salvage some coco from an older grow that should be enough for 2 of them. I also have just enough hydroton to fill one net basket and make a DWC but I’m still trying to figure what plant will go where. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!
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Thanks man! I ran out of money and have been jerry rigging everything for the past few weeks lol.
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Well it seems like you’re doing a good job at figuring things out to use in the meantime. Sometimes we have to improvise to get us through
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Yeah for sure. These guys are a lot more resilient than I thought, everything I read makes it seem like this or that is imperative for the plants’ survival but I think as long as they’re in veg, it’s fine. My doc just put me on this medicine and it had me knocked out sleeping for 4 days now and these girls look good as ever.
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that’s what I hate about new medicine you never know how it’s going to react with your body. I have found the times where I have ignored my plants or didn’t have time for them seems like that’s when they flourish. These plants are so resilient it blows my mind 
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I don’t grow in hydro units, so not much help there. I don’t think it matters which plant you use though. I would say if hydro is a new concept, whichever plant you would be ok with loosing. Not that you will, but I’m sure will be a learning process.
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Yeah I agree, I’m pretty impatient so I find myself screwing around with my plants almost everyday. The days where I leave them alone are the days they look happiest lol.
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Well I really wanted to at least get the Green Crack set up for success since only one of them germinated. I probably have enough soil to transplant into a 3 gal pot but putting her in soil will throw some of my experiments off. You’re a die hard soil guy tho it sounds like? I heard plants in soil take longer to grow or don’t grow as big, is this true or am I reading bunk material? If that’s true then do you know how drastic the difference is? If I’m only gonna lose 1 out of 20 grams or add 1 week to the 14 it takes with hydro, that’s a negligible difference to me. Thank you.
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I’m not die hard soil guy, I’ve just never grown in hydro. Growth is typically slower in soil absolutely. I think you can grow just as large of a plant, it just takes longer. I would expect the differences to be larger than 5% or take longer than a week to match growth.
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Ok so, with soil I should probably expect a grow from seed (or cutting) to harvest to last about 2 actual seasons or about 6 months? So the typical time is ~8 weeks of flower to harvest or at least that’s what I’m reading, whereas the same plant grown in soil would be more like ~12 weeks? I finished all the topics on the grow guides section and I’m still a little perplexed as to why that is. Genetically speaking I mean. I also read that the main reason, next to wanting completely organic produce, is that people enjoy the taste better. Even the ILGM grow guides mention the taste thing multiple times although very carefully and always with at least one qualifier, but still there. I’m too new to make a decision yet anyway but do you think that’s true or maybe just like an old wives tale from when hydroponics were still new and some people were scared of change?
How many harvests have you done, if you don’t mind me asking? Have you just never gotten around to going the hydro thing? I know it can be prohibitively expensive, I used my whole tax refund just to get started lol. Or maybe you do this for a living and have a regular soil farm or something? I wouldn’t mind trying to find a gig in the MMJ industry myself. Every time I look though I just see stuff about starting your own business and such, not being a cultivator or cultivators apprentice or whatever. If you know how to get into that, let me know.
Sorry for another novel man, I think I had too much coffee.
I need to post another pic too, my last was on the 22nd and it’s the 26th now. Tomorrow or whenever I cannibalize more medium for sure.
No, the flowering time doesn’t change from soil to hydro. Just the rate of vegetative growth. So you can run a soil grow just as fast as hydro grow. But comparing healthy plants in each, the hydro plant will usually be quite a bit bigger.
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