Lobster's Room of Funk w/ Vortex, Buddha's triplets, and Rx

lobsterbush · Feb 16, 2013

Come on in and grab a seat everybody, this one should be interesting.

Got some new beans to try out since I've been growing the Rx almost exclusively for over a year.

I have a 1k in a partitioned room with about a 4x5 growing area but the total grow area with room for fans and stuff is about 4x8 so sometimes I will cram some veggers in out of the optimal light footprint to expose them to some HID.

Veg is a small closet about 2x3 with 4 26w cfls that do alot better than I would have thought they could do. Homemade bubble- cloner stays on the top shelf and thats where I currently have the seedlings under 1 26w cfl.

I make my mix with peat, compost, perlite, espoma bio-tone, blood, bone, lime

I use Alaska fish occasionally in veg and PBP grow,bloom and sweet raw as needed or whenever I'm feeling froggy.

I am not worried about pulling crazy numbers this is all for personal and that's how I like it.

There will be clones of two different Rx phenos growing alongside the new genetics. Here is a shot of the veg closet/jungle with some plants that will be going into flower in a couple days.

On to the new beans

Buddha's triplets

Vortex

Hopefully things will take off around here pretty soon. Thanks for stopping in. :tiphat:

killerweed31 · Feb 17, 2013

yeAH first row....im tuned brotha!!!
ps: genetic sound super !!!!

lobsterbush · Feb 18, 2013

Thanks for stopping in KW, I'm trying to get some variety like you got going on bro.

Got some eye candy for everyone, we should have a nice mix of bud pics and veg shots of the new beans in this thread. Hope I can keep it entertaining.

Crappy pic of the flower room, two of these were just placed in and two more will come out in a few days.

I have been flowering in 3 gallon bags but I'm trying this one in a #7 pot. It is a Rx 2 Day 14 flower, just trimmed alot of undergrowth and topdressed.

Now a little bit of the frosty stuff.

Rx 7 day 56

Rx 2 day 70

Thanks for looking and feel free to chime in and give me any tips or advice, I'm still learning every day.

:smoke out:

lobsterbush · Mar 2, 2013

Little update for everybody. Everything is going pretty good placed the seedlings right under the veg lights and they are chugging along nicely. But I think I should get a 2 ft T5 for my veg closet, any sugestions?

I popped 5 seeds of each of the new strains and had 100% germ rates. Now I hope some of these little babies are dank females. All are about 10-12 days above ground.

Vortex

Buddha's Triplets

Rx 7 day 68

GOT DANK · Mar 3, 2013

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lobsterbush · Mar 10, 2013

Glad to have you along for the ride Got Dank.

Have an update on the little ones. All seem to be healthy, one runt in the Buddha's triplets but I'll continue growing all until sex shows. Take cuts from the females, cull the males and flip these bitches.

I'm going to flip these earlier than I normally would because of unknown stretch. My Rx doesn't stretch too bad at all but I know the Vortex can be a stretcher and those OG genetics have a tendency to stretch like crazy too.

Will transplant to bigger pots this week.

BT on left Vortex on right

lobsterbush · Mar 20, 2013

Here are a few pics of the seedlings chugging along.

The Vortex defincately seem more vigorous at this point but everything is looking pretty healthy.

The Buddha's triplets (BT from here out) look pretty good but definately varied heights/sizes at this time.

Shots of all seedlings on day of transplant with a few Rx clones over on the left.

I think I will divide the main part of my veg closet with a shelf for the smaller plants/cloner lit by CFL and a 2ft T5 fixture below for the bigger girls in 3-5 gals getting ready to flower.

killerweed31 · Mar 21, 2013

VERI HEALTHY GREEN PROGRESS m8, gonna be super flow fo su!!
great job lobs!

lobsterbush · Mar 22, 2013

Thanks KW will try to get some frosty shots up this weekend.

lobsterbush · Apr 4, 2013

Whats up everyone?

Got a quick udate for ya on the garden.

Flower room is getting along nicely except for the damn yellowing.

I have to make a (long) trip to the grow shop in the next couple weeks and plan on picking up some different ammendments for my soil (kelp, alfalfa, EWC, crab shell, greensand) to try and improve it.

The veg closet is looking nice and green. We have 2 confirmed Vortex females and 3 suspected males that are still under investigation. The BTs aren't showing sex yet but I have a couple suspected males over there too.

A Closeup of the Rx 2 at day 57

Dabs anyone? Some of my 1st try at bho, a few bubbles but was only heat purged in a super thin film. No sparks or nasty taste, very nice and much easier than I thought. Much easier and much better return than my bubble-attempts. Will definately try this again.

budman678 · Apr 4, 2013

im taking a seat for the vortex. weed nerd! they look great. keep it up homie...im tuned in till the end....

do you mix your own soil? i have used subcool mix for a year or so and its perfect...find his recipe and dont change anything...you will be so pleased

lobsterbush · Apr 4, 2013

Thanks for dropping by budman.

I may try subs soil recipe if I can't get the hang of recycled soil.

lobsterbush · Apr 14, 2013

Whats up everyone? Ready for 4/20? I know I am...

Anyways to the garden, the Vortex are looking great! Nice growth/node structure and they seem to be loving life. 4 Females out of the 5 popped so that's always nice too. Haven't tossed the suspected male yet, jury is still out on him.

The BTs are growing fine but have little to no side brancing at this point. I usually let the seedling grow un-topped until I sex by preflower and top the females. Only confirmed the sex of one female out of these 5 so far. I guess they're slow veggers although a couple are trying to stretch like crazy.

Heres a pic before I topped/took clones of the females.

Going to do some transplanting tomorrow and maybe try to do some work to the veg closet, will update with pics.

:tiphat:

Avinash.miles · Apr 18, 2013

NE_GROWER_978 · Apr 18, 2013

Dope thread so far man! All the ladies in flower are looking real good. I'm def interested in watching the vortex. I'm a big TGA fan so this one I'm looking forward to. Glad I got a front row seat.

NEG978

lobsterbush · Apr 18, 2013

Glad to have you join us Avi And negrower

Will update Monday or so. On my way to Denver for the cup

ZZTops · Apr 18, 2013

Looking Good...!

Pulling Up the Lazboy...

Avinash.miles · Apr 18, 2013

lobsterbush said:
Will update Monday or so. On my way to Denver for the cup

lobsterbush · Apr 28, 2013

Make yourself comfortable ZZ, nice to have ya here.

Whats up guys? Sorry for the lack of update but I've been busy as shit. Had a blast in Denver! Tasted some nice nugs and concentrates, met plenty of like minded people and got the munchies like I was 16 again.

First off I found a hermie in my flower room. A purple pheno that came out of a mixed pack of seeds. Have been growing it for over a year and never seen any nanners before. Sucks but it was not a huge loss because I usually just make butter from it cause I don't really like the taste.

Just put 3 more clones into flower to make some more room in veg. Veg closet got kind of cold and plants dried out while I was gone so they don't look the best. Should not have put my central t-stat on vacation setting. A cold snap set in after I left for CO. Will get these girls transplanted this week.

The BTs are still not showing any sex to speak of. I will go ahead and take some clones off the remaing seedlings, may place the clones in the flower room for a few days to encourage sexing.