La Buena Hierba Grey Bear does LBH

[La Buena Hierba]

Weird? whas he online?

 

[epenguin]

GB,

you are doing LBH proud. Showcasing their seeds in the best possible way. Top growing my friend

 

[pop22]

Its great to find those who have already gone down the road I'm traveling now. My entire mission now is maximizing the production of each 4'x4' space, without going to extreme expense or complications. Each transition points out deficiencies, unseen before. I went to auto pots and coco coir a few months ago, from organic soil in regular pots. The increase in plant mass showed me my lighting was grossly inadequate, I plant that should have produced a pound, gave 6 ounces. The buds stayed small. I've seen this three times now and in each space as I went to auto pots.

I've been running 24/0 for sometime now myself. Having just started back up with some photos, I've had good luck at this point with 13/11. Going to test 14/10 next.
And that damned Ducksfoot just made me lose the rest of this rambling....lol!

No problem, I can be pretty verbose.
Strains I have had good luck indoors with on a short darker period
RP Skywalker kush did fine under 11hr dark period
Second gen did well under 10.5 No third generation yet
White Afghan (breeder not known) did well under 11 first generation, 10.25 second generation and 9.5 third generation
White widow (breeder unknown) same
Northern Lights ( breeder unknown)did well under 11 first generation, 10.25 second generation and 9.5 third generation, fourth generation 9 hours.

Plants were selected for speed and vigor.
Base is 50 seeds
Given 24 hours light schedule.
First 25 to produce leaves were selected, the rest discarded
after 10 days the top 15 are selected, the rest discarded
at 21 days the top 5 females are selected, if males are desired top 3 are selected also otherwise all are discarded.
At this point I pay careful attention to preflower, those that seem to be the fullest and most robust are selected for shorter dark period.
There is no transition period
first gen goes straight to 11 dark period.
Assuming they handle it well, next generation is worked for a 10.5 hr dark period and so forth.

If I was a nordic grower, I would work the strains I was interested in, indoors to reduce dark period.
Then introduce them to outdoor conditions after I was reasonably certain I had the photo period fixed (probably 5 generations)View attachment 501880

Update on the #3's
Doing very well at this point, finally greened up to my liking.
They are about 43"/109cm
pushing out pistils, so the budding has begun
The darker plant at the front is a Magic SB
The two plants in the back are the #3's.