New Grower Perpetual Auto Grow By The Trifid..

[Trifid]

Hey realcarlos. Just heard the timer switching the lights on from the other room i hadn't thought about that! haha.. I'd like to harvest 2 perhaps 3 females every three weeks while doing the odd cross here and there - maybe enough to supply myself and a few friends in need. I have a shed for males and it's filling up quick

 

[realcarlos]

Nice and how many plants do you plan on growing at a time?

 

[Trifid]

i'll stagger it, poping six every two wks, accounting for males and fatalities i am hoping for three-four females from each batch. At any one time maybe 9 or ten

 

[Trifid]

Week 2 (Day 21)

Installed a shelf in the cabinet so i could raise seedlings without compromising too much veg space and made a ufo reflector using a microwave proof bowl... I used flat white spray paint to make it reflective enough to redirect the light intensity down toward the tops. Introduced a four wk old photo-period sativa - i vegged her in there for a wk or so before being relocated to my green house for spring nxt year... As you'll find she develops quickly into beautiful landrace :thumbs: The auto's are thickening nicely at this point, began mild feedings with dilute 0.1% fish emusion and 0.1% rhizotonic with added aminos by foliar at lights out and in the medium between waterings. I like to allow for the containers to dry out completely untill the first signs of wilt before watering and space feedings at least 3-5 days apart and in between feeding with plain pH'ed water. Humidity remained 40-50%, ambient temperature ranged from 75F by day to 63F lights out. Soil temps at night ranged from 50 -55F. The growth of the pineapple express was quite explosive at this stage and revealed their gender. I ended up with one male one female

The Purple mazars and MI5's have very thick, very lush green leaves and very thick succulent stems.. the internode spacing is minimal giving a short, bushy and compact growth from these phenos. The BHK is a bit sensitive to the nitrogen and is turning very dark green at this stage so i decided to gently leech the excess nitrates and salts from the soil by drowning the container in a gallon of 10% calcium solution for a few minuets. I'm trying to avoid flushing as much as possible these days to preserve the established soil cultures.

New strains added at
end of week two;

2x Blue mystic
1x Mossy's gem
1x Mi5
1x Purple Mazar

Here's the photos think they are in reverse order..

 

[realcarlos]

Love your setup. If you're concerned about males. You could always create your own fem seeds. There's a few members who've tried it with great success.
Using the C.S method

 

[Trifid]

thanks for the kind words carlos.. Yea i think i will try for some fems at some point, it would make the process much easier to anticipate... i have some silver nitrate to hand - it's very caustic, does it work like the colloidal? i've read that foliar application works well..

---------- Post added 11-23-2011 at 05:22 AM ----------

Haha.. The landrace kind of reminds me of a ghullie suit...

 

[realcarlos]

You're welcome. I haven't tried either. But there was a few threads on the site showing how to create and apply it. There's also a member here who sells C.S member name is homegrownrx and he has a site as well. It would be a pain in the ass to plant all those seeds only to find out their males so it would take 2-3 weeks off your time. Kind of making the perpetual grow a bit more tedious

 

[Trifid]

yea i'm getting a 65:35 male to female generally. Will certainly need a few males if i wish to cross a few over the years.. But you're right Carl i could do with some fem seed for sure Will look into doing a reversal soon. I did by mistake hermi a few budding females some time ago using an excess of salicyclic acid (asprin), i was experimenting to see if it had growth promoting effects but it gave me damn lady boys haha.. thanks for giving me the inspiration to sort a seed flow out. Its a good idea.. Should have been my initial task really

 

[Trifid]

Breeding room

Here is some breeding stock i've collected over the past few weeks.. I wait at least a few hours between vistiting each of the rooms consecutively since they are releasing pollen. I am collecting every few days now and freezing it with dried silica. The first few batches clumped and went bad due to moisture retention - by mistake i'd contaminated the vial with flower parts and the pollen absorbed the moisture from them. i guess we'll see how effective my anti-cross contamination techniques are soon enough

 

[micro.grower]

I didn't realize short stuff made purple gems now.