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Coastal Seeds Burmese IBL Repro
- Thread starter Lolo94
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Looks like you have plenty to work with now. Thanks for posting and keep me updated. I would like to see how these turn out.
Sativa high on an indica like frame. Story is its originally from Referman to Bodhi then to Coastal. Grew Coastals Burmese x Malawi. Nice slightly motivating, in your head down memory lane high. Pleasant with a bit of a deer in the headlights feel. Had no comedown too, which was great. Great ROI strain, based on ease of growth, speed and high.
Strictly_Medicinal
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Nice grow! I'm interested in doing basically the same thing since I'm also limited on space and I would like to reproduce some regular seeds that I have. Do you mind sharing some information on your setup, such as what size your grow space is, what light you're using, and maybe how it's built. Thanks!
The setup is in a 2'x2' x 4' tall light proof metal grow box cabinet. I got it second hand 5 or so years ago. It was prewired and included a carbon filter and exhaust fan (on the inside top of the cabinet). The inside of the box is covered with reflective insulation that helps to dampen the noise. There are 2 passive air intakes along the bottom of the side panels. The air is diverted at a 90 degree angle to eliminate light leaks. I placed a small 5" circular fan midway on the side panel using a magnetic hook to provide circulation. The light I use is an Area 51 ,100 watt LED light. It has 2 switches to control wether the veg only or vegetative cycle. This light runs cool and I've had the plant tops a couple of inches from it and not get burnt. I looked for this particular model online recently but couldn't find it.
The box is on an external timer and the lights and fans are on at most 13 hours a day. I've read that fans need to be on all day long, but I've never had mold or mildew. It could also be that I don't grow indicas that are typically more sensitive to mold and mildew.
Strictly_Medicinal
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That's a pretty sweet set up! Thank you for the information, I believe I can build something similar out of wood, I'm handy with a saw!
Here's a little update. The males have shot up in height and are dropping pollen. They are about 1.5x the height of the females. I screwed up and let the plants go too dry before watering. I got to them just in time and they bounced back ok, but some of the lower leaves were affected and will likely drop. I still haven't totally mastered the dixie cup growing yet (either watering wise or nutrition). My previous method was to grow many plants in a large pot and weed out the poor performers/males (if not breeding). This restricted the height and by the time the final poor performers were culled, the stretch period was mostly over. This method uses alot of seed, but I make my own so it's not an issue. The dixie cup method (once I get it down) will hopefully better allow me to breed plants with different flowering timelines in this setup. It'll be interesting trying it out with more traditional sativas.
I cut the bottom out of the 8 dixie cups with females and filled another dixie cup 3/4 full and stacked one ontop the other. This will decrease the watering frequency and allow for more nutrient access during seed maturation. The males will be left to dry out and die in their current cups.
I cut the bottom out of the 8 dixie cups with females and filled another dixie cup 3/4 full and stacked one ontop the other. This will decrease the watering frequency and allow for more nutrient access during seed maturation. The males will be left to dry out and die in their current cups.
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Thanks. Being limited to such a small setup is not ideal, but you gotta make the best of what you got. Looking forward to moving back to the tropics in several years and creating an outdoor thread on the search for motivational weed
gedLang
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I can see some spots on a few lowers but it still looks good to me. How are you feeding them?
I'm using Fox Farm's Veg, Bloom, and CalMag. All are PH adjusted when applied. The soil is a local knockoff of Fox Farm's potting mix. I've used this combo since I began growing indoors in this setup. One thing I noticed with my first dixie cup grow (vs. the one large container grows) is that some plants needed more nitrogen early during flowering to prevent premature leaf drop. When I grew the Burmese x Malawi, the lighter green pheno (Burmese) required more nitrogen than the darker green Malawi phenotype. It's kind of a fine dance fertilizing in such a small container. The typical fertilizing every other watering will likely need to be amended for some phenos. I'm not overly concerned on this grow, since it's for seed only and I've seen ample seed produced with hardly any fan leaves remaining. Even on non seeded plants, I'll typically harvest when all fan leaves have dropped.
Latest update:
Pollination is complete. In retrospect, I could have waited a little longer and allowed the females to flower more, but there will be more than enough seeds. It was getting a little too crowded in box. Plants are still a little N deficient, so the flowering formula will need to be amended to a mix of Grow and Bloom. Smokable harvest will be paltry, but enough for a sample.
Pollination is complete. In retrospect, I could have waited a little longer and allowed the females to flower more, but there will be more than enough seeds. It was getting a little too crowded in box. Plants are still a little N deficient, so the flowering formula will need to be amended to a mix of Grow and Bloom. Smokable harvest will be paltry, but enough for a sample.
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