Finally going to plant my seed collection!

[TGT]

I just got back from Florida and have yet to see how well my brother is doing with my grow that I left for him to take care of while I was gone. We were gone for three weeks and he triggered them a week ago, so I hope he did everything correct. I am sure it will be an okay yeild, but I am so anil about my grow I am sure it is going to be a smaller finish than usual. I am still hoping for at least four pounds bone dry - but I guess I will find out tomorrow when I visit the grow.

Usually I do a perpetual garden, but with the trip it screwed up my timing so I made no clones to go in behind this grow, so I am finally going to get to sprout my seed collection. I have never really grown a whole large grow from seed before and always used clones so I am a little nervous. The good thing is I have about twenty differenty strains so I am hoping to find a killer pheno to replace my AK47 I have been growing for years now. It's a great strain, but I think it's time for a change. I still will be keeping a mother of my prized AK47 as it is the best I have had all around to date.

The seeds I will be sprouting consist of mixed bag seed from great strains over the years, Blue Berry from DJ Short cira 1999, California Orange, Ak47, Hash Plant, Blue Berry/AK47 cross, Big Blue, Steel City Stone, Sweet Weed and much more. A lot is strains from around my area also that I have been collecting from friends.

Can anyone give me some advice about starting a large grow from seed consisting of many different strains? I will have 4 - 1000 watt HPS and I like to veg with clones for five to six weeks, but with seed I have no idea how long to veg for? Also, I would like to know how many seeds to plant if I usually have 24 female clones going at once at five weeks veg? They will be in Promix and in 3.5 gallon pots.

Any suggestions or info that I will need or that you think will help out please let me know. Also I will need to clone each and keep a record so that I know which plant is which. Thanks in advance!

TGT

 

[Mrpiston38]

hey tgt first off when you srtat a large grow from seed hoy large is your grow space. or how many fems do you flower at once. aslo do you have a large veg area? the best thing to remember is that when you start seeds just think ok 1/2 are males. Ok thats ok what about hermies? shit ok maybe you get a couple and the rest be fems lol well like i said thats my thought prosses since i havent benn able to get clones to root. so its best to let seed plants veg depending on soil and how rich it is to veg them 3 weeks to 2 months depending on the strain. gl

Mr.P

 

[TGT]

My grow area is about 20 feet by 16, but I only use a small portion, may be 10 by 10 with the four 1000's over-head and positoned vertically. I flower usually 24 females that are vegged for 6 weeks and they are in 3 gallon buckets filled with straight promix BX.

What I am thinking of doing is sprouting around 100 seeds and selecting the best 70, so I should get around 35 females if I am lucky . That way I will have enough females to fill the room. Also, I will keep them a little smaller than I usually do with clones, so I can keep more and ultimately have more variety to select from.

A question I have is how long do you usually have to veg before they can be triggered when starting from seed? Most, if not all the plants are indica and if they were clone they would probably take anywhere from 6 to 8 weeks until finished budding - but from seed you can never be too sure.

Are they ready to trigger when the nodes are staggered? That is what I recall reading, but how long does that usually take with an idica plant that usually finishes bud in eight weeks?

I will keep this thread updated to record this grow. Tomorrow I start the seedlings, so there won't be much to see for a while. Tonight I finally get to see how my brother has done with this grow so I will post some pic's from that also.

Anyone have any suggestions for what I want to accompish? And thank you Mrpiston38 for your response. Anyone else?

TGT

 

[sneakinman13]

sounds incredible... i would love to see some pics of your prized ak..
ive always wanted to get my hands on an ak clone... the one time some ak came threw it had me so blazed i could eat anything withing a 2 foot radius.. real strong indica pheno i had. but man was it amazing

 

[Mrpiston38]

like i said it could take as little as 3 weeks from seed but as long as 2 months before there ready for sexxing and or flowering. always remember when you get pre flowers on plants there mature enough for flower.. gl

Mr.P

 

[TGT]

Cool, thanks for the input!

I just went to the grow to see how the AK47 was doing that my brother was taking care of for me when I was in Florida. Actually he did a pretty good job. They are very healthy and 1 week into bud. The only problem I had was he didn't prop any of the plants up so I had a three hour session tonight fixing them up so that they look the way I like them too. I trimmed all the lower branches off as he didn't do so and when I got there they were laying all over the ground. I also thinned them out to allow more light into the center. Unfortunately I forgot my camera.

I'll post some pic's tomorrow when I go to water them so you can see how nice they are doing. They look much better now and I can finally stop stressing. The only thing that bothers me is there could be about three more plants to produce the most under the four lights, but unfortunately I didn't make enough this time around. Yeild should still be okay. If I get four pounds bone dry this run I will be happy.

Time to start the seedlings and make some cuttings. I decided to go half clones of my AK47 and half seeds.

TGT