Greetings to all DinaFem lovers! I'm Teetee, and I like growing huge Autos under LED's.
I mainly grow Dutch Passion stuff, but I once grew a couple of DinaFem Critical Jacks..... beautiful, resin coated plants, which unfortunately were overshadowed by two DP AutoUltimates that gave over a kilo in total.
I really enjoyed the Critical Jack, so I want to give a big THANK YOU to @Dinafem-Mark for the opportunity to grow some DinaFem strains again and see if I can get on @912GreenSkell 's Dinafem Highest Yield list.
Looking through the catalogue, two strains caught my eye......
Auto White Widow XXL - an old school legend, in an XXL!!!! Say no more!
Auto Blue Amnesia XXL - the name says everything.... taste, high potency and yield!
I was in a bit of a rush.... I had 3 months till I moved out and I wanted to get this grow on the go ASAP, but I only had a few litres of Coco left over, so I wasn't able to use my usual method of planting directly in 20L airpots. I have 5L airpots which I sometimes use if my 20L ones are still in use, but there wasn't enough coco even for them.
So I got a few paper cups, poked a few holes in the bottom and filled them with coco, soaked them with EC 0.7 feed made up of 0.3ml/L House and Garden Cocos A&B, 0.1ml/L drip clean, 0.3ml/L Roots Excellurator and 0.3ml/L Nitrogen boost.
I selected one of each strain, and also 2 DP beans for the ride.
I planted the seeds about 2cm under the surface and covered each cup with clingfilm and topped them with some thick card to keep the light out. I stuck them under a Skyline 400 LED at max height for a bit of warmth.
2 days later 3 had popped, the Blue Amnesia was first, follwed by the White Widow, then the DP Night Queen.
The next day there was no sign of the DP Glueberry OG so I carefully dug down to find her with her helmet off, cotyledons out and looking very pale - almost white. I teased her head out of the coco and pretty soon she started to stand up and turn green.... SHE'S ALIVE!!!!!!
100% succesful germination technique..... just.
Here they are later on that 2nd day....
I started feeding the same mixture on day 3, and again on day 5 and 7.... using a 50ml syringe to deliver 100ml gently around the seedlings.
Here they are on day 5
I was beginning to panic, the bloody Coco still hadn't arrived, and I didn't want to have the tap roots hitting the bottom of the cups as I want to avoid stressing them out during the transfer to the 20L airpots.
Finally it arrived on day 9..... so I filled up my trusty 20L airpots, and made a hole in the centre to fit a cup in.
I used scissors to cut the bottom of the cup off, made a slit up the side of the cup, then carefully plonked it in the hole, and slowly pulled up the cup, leaving the seedling in place in the 20L airpot.
It worked a treat.
clockwise from top left: Glueberry OG, White Widow XXL, Blue Amnesia XXL and Night Queen.
I used the syringe to give them another quick 200ml feed just around the seedlings, and got on with the rest of my day.
That evening, I mixed up another 40L feed, upping the Nitrogen to 0.4ml/L making it EC 0.8, pH 5.8, and gave each pot 10L to saturate the coco and get a bit of run off. The Aquavac is a vital piece of kit for sucking up the run off in a jiffy and giving the tent floor a quick hoover.
I had them under 2 Skyline 400 LEDs and was turning them a ¼ turn every day.
They all looked pretty happy. The Dinafem girls are bigger, and the Glueberry is the smallest but she was dug up from the dead, so she'll be a day behind the others, but its early days!
Some close ups on day 9 just after repotting, to finish off.....
Blue Amnesia
White Widow
By day 13 the plants were about 5 inches high.
They took to the 20L airpots very well, and I was feeding them 1-2L a day, and that's just giving me a dribble of run off. If I wasn't using Drip Clean, I would give them more (but don't start Drip Clean mid way through a grow - either use it from word go, or not at all).
I gave them EC 0.7 from the start, increasing to EC 0.8 (mainly by adding extra Nitrogen boost) from day 9.
From day 13, I increased the feed strength to EC 0.9, this time by adding a touch more A&B (from 0.3ml/L to 0.4ml/L) and starting Multizyme. I use House and Garden nutes and additives, except 'Bloom' Cal-Mag.
Here they are as individuals on day 13, starting with the Blue Amnesia XXL......
....then the White Widow XXL (ignore the colour, I did an auto correct on the brightness by mistake)......
Both were looking very healthy and had started perfectly. They are showing XXL potential so far!
Two weeks later. on day 28, the Blue Amnesia looked like this...
.... but the White Widow looked like she's gonna be the star of this grow.... she is absolutely perfect and is gonna be another monster....
They were getting BIG, so in the next post, I'll show how they progressed.
Thanks for looking in!
I mainly grow Dutch Passion stuff, but I once grew a couple of DinaFem Critical Jacks..... beautiful, resin coated plants, which unfortunately were overshadowed by two DP AutoUltimates that gave over a kilo in total.
I really enjoyed the Critical Jack, so I want to give a big THANK YOU to @Dinafem-Mark for the opportunity to grow some DinaFem strains again and see if I can get on @912GreenSkell 's Dinafem Highest Yield list.
Looking through the catalogue, two strains caught my eye......
Auto White Widow XXL - an old school legend, in an XXL!!!! Say no more!
Auto Blue Amnesia XXL - the name says everything.... taste, high potency and yield!
I was in a bit of a rush.... I had 3 months till I moved out and I wanted to get this grow on the go ASAP, but I only had a few litres of Coco left over, so I wasn't able to use my usual method of planting directly in 20L airpots. I have 5L airpots which I sometimes use if my 20L ones are still in use, but there wasn't enough coco even for them.
So I got a few paper cups, poked a few holes in the bottom and filled them with coco, soaked them with EC 0.7 feed made up of 0.3ml/L House and Garden Cocos A&B, 0.1ml/L drip clean, 0.3ml/L Roots Excellurator and 0.3ml/L Nitrogen boost.
I selected one of each strain, and also 2 DP beans for the ride.
I planted the seeds about 2cm under the surface and covered each cup with clingfilm and topped them with some thick card to keep the light out. I stuck them under a Skyline 400 LED at max height for a bit of warmth.
2 days later 3 had popped, the Blue Amnesia was first, follwed by the White Widow, then the DP Night Queen.
The next day there was no sign of the DP Glueberry OG so I carefully dug down to find her with her helmet off, cotyledons out and looking very pale - almost white. I teased her head out of the coco and pretty soon she started to stand up and turn green.... SHE'S ALIVE!!!!!!
100% succesful germination technique..... just.
Here they are later on that 2nd day....
I started feeding the same mixture on day 3, and again on day 5 and 7.... using a 50ml syringe to deliver 100ml gently around the seedlings.
Here they are on day 5
I was beginning to panic, the bloody Coco still hadn't arrived, and I didn't want to have the tap roots hitting the bottom of the cups as I want to avoid stressing them out during the transfer to the 20L airpots.
Finally it arrived on day 9..... so I filled up my trusty 20L airpots, and made a hole in the centre to fit a cup in.
I used scissors to cut the bottom of the cup off, made a slit up the side of the cup, then carefully plonked it in the hole, and slowly pulled up the cup, leaving the seedling in place in the 20L airpot.
It worked a treat.
clockwise from top left: Glueberry OG, White Widow XXL, Blue Amnesia XXL and Night Queen.
I used the syringe to give them another quick 200ml feed just around the seedlings, and got on with the rest of my day.
That evening, I mixed up another 40L feed, upping the Nitrogen to 0.4ml/L making it EC 0.8, pH 5.8, and gave each pot 10L to saturate the coco and get a bit of run off. The Aquavac is a vital piece of kit for sucking up the run off in a jiffy and giving the tent floor a quick hoover.
I had them under 2 Skyline 400 LEDs and was turning them a ¼ turn every day.
They all looked pretty happy. The Dinafem girls are bigger, and the Glueberry is the smallest but she was dug up from the dead, so she'll be a day behind the others, but its early days!
Some close ups on day 9 just after repotting, to finish off.....
Blue Amnesia
White Widow
By day 13 the plants were about 5 inches high.
They took to the 20L airpots very well, and I was feeding them 1-2L a day, and that's just giving me a dribble of run off. If I wasn't using Drip Clean, I would give them more (but don't start Drip Clean mid way through a grow - either use it from word go, or not at all).
I gave them EC 0.7 from the start, increasing to EC 0.8 (mainly by adding extra Nitrogen boost) from day 9.
From day 13, I increased the feed strength to EC 0.9, this time by adding a touch more A&B (from 0.3ml/L to 0.4ml/L) and starting Multizyme. I use House and Garden nutes and additives, except 'Bloom' Cal-Mag.
Here they are as individuals on day 13, starting with the Blue Amnesia XXL......
....then the White Widow XXL (ignore the colour, I did an auto correct on the brightness by mistake)......
Both were looking very healthy and had started perfectly. They are showing XXL potential so far!
Two weeks later. on day 28, the Blue Amnesia looked like this...
.... but the White Widow looked like she's gonna be the star of this grow.... she is absolutely perfect and is gonna be another monster....
They were getting BIG, so in the next post, I'll show how they progressed.
Thanks for looking in!
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