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thekatalyst
The Katalystik Scientist

Registered: 12/30/09
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Last seen: 14 years, 6 months

5 Unknown Strain CFL Grow- FIRST TIMER

#339263 - 01/03/10 12:37 AM (14 years, 10 months ago)

I WILL POST PICTURES ASAP, I SWEAR!!!

Hello All... First, let me say that I am a COMPLETE noob at this. I've got no friggin clue what I am doing. I have basic gardening skill, and can grow just about anything... I like to smoke weed... I like to garden... This is the next step, in logical progression... GROWING MY OWN WEED. I've started this thread to document my grow of 5 unknown strains of herb. Most of the strains came to me with names, but I have no idea which plants are which now, as they got mixed up after moving them from my seed-bed... (stoners aren't particularly well organized, and I don't start projects well... sue me.)

STRAINS:
Anyway, the strains... I've got one called "Mexican" by a local mountain grower, who also produces a strain he calls "Rehab". I believe that "Rehab" may just be the primo smoke, and the "Mexican" is the denser, less-kind end-product of "Rehab" plants gone to seed, or picked at the late end of the flowering phase. I have 6 of this variety, all seedlings in their first week, and less than 2" tall.

Another is a purple strain, but I am not sure which one. It may be simply "Purple". Possibly some relative of Purple Kush. It is in its' third week of life, and is vegging like crazy... I think I only have one of these plants. It is roughly 3 1/2" tall, but it doesn't want to stand up straight like the others... It perplexes me.

Another strain I have is a Northern Lights plant... I think it may be #5, but if not, then it is plain old Northern. It is reaching for the sky under the CFLs', and at roughly 6" tall, it has a pretty 2" cola. It just got tall enough that I felt I could risk a shot at cloning it. I gently clipped the top center out of it with a pair of moustache scissors, dipped it in some hormone, and put it in nice loamy soil, underneath an improvised dome made from an empty plastic water bottle. It has been three days, and everybody still looks happy. The structure of this plant is very different from the others previously mentioned. I will include pictures of them, and it will be obvious what I mean.
This plant is 4 weeks old or so.

The next strain is a complete unknown, however it has a structure similar to the rest of the plants, and could easily be of the same lineage, however the seeds came from two different batches, and I am reluctant to guess which, because I've had so many varieties. I do remember though, that the buds were very dense, like a hash plant almost. Both are as tall as the Northern plant, and are the same age (roughly 4 weeks), but are completely different from the Northern in appearance. One of these plants got burned really bad under a Mercury Vapor light (my bad...), and lost ALL of its' leaves. It is coming back, but right now it has three poofballs of leaves progressing in size, going down the stem, like a funky cut poodle's tail.

Then we have the clone army... I just saw a friend of mine today, and he gave me a cutting of ANOTHER unknown strain. It is definitely an Indica strain, and the herb I sampled was very light, with large green-purple crystaline buds, and a light, skunky, fruity smell that I don't often encounter. I turned the cutting into three clones, and I am trying to root them now. We shall see.

LIGHTING AND ENVIRONMENT:

My lighting right now is entirely 27W (100W Equivalent) GE Compact Flourescent. I have 4 clip-on utility lamps with reflective hoods, a CFL Floodlight, a small bedside lamp, and two 3 bulb adjustable lighting fixtures ($14.99 @ Wally-Mart). I removed the hoods on these, and screwed on two-bulb splitters, for a total of 6 lights per fixture. With a lamp-head, in place of the screwdown on one fixture, and an extra splitter I added two more bulbs, for a grand total of 8. So I've got 20 CFL 100W equivalent bulbs in a 2'x3' area under a desk downstairs. 17 of the 20 bulbs are 6500K Daylight bulbs. The other three are 100W Equiv. 2700k bulbs.

My temperature varies between 85 degrees F under full sun, with both fans blowing, to between 63 and 68 degrees at night with fans blowing. I can't seem to raise my humidity, which has been pretty well steady at 22%. I question the accuracy of my cheapie humidity monitor, but its no biggie.

I have been monitoring my soil humidity with my finger, and watering when it feels dry more than 1 1/2" below the surface. I just scattered worm castings on everything, and noticed a difference in the plants overnight.

**************************MY GOALS HERE*******************************

1. Positively identify as many of my strains as possible.
2. Care and feeding help. I need to know what to feed them, and when.
(After-all, I am not doing this to grow mediocre dope. I want Sock-Rockin' weed!)
3. To document this grow as well as possible, and perfect my techniques
4. To learn more about hydroponic growing methods, and possibly implement some, if cost and space allows this.
5. To spend AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE! I'm a broke fuck!

Thanks again! I hope people find this interesting, and post lots of helpful replies. COME ON EXPERTS!!! I WANNA HEAR YA!!!

Here are the first of my pics:

My Northern Plant...

My little Purple...

My burn victim...

My Poofy sativa-looking plant

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Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for."

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Edited by thekatalyst (02/22/10 10:54 AM)

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