Kooki's diary(K2 T44 DG BB)enviro/cfl

[kooki]

Thanks GMT.. hoping to keep that tri around for a while .. prob take another cut from it,wait for that one to root first,then flower it out while i wait to find a suitable male.
Did u see the mutie next to the Purple Power, this started as 3 cotyledons, but is just a small clump of twisted together odd leaves at the moment.. was excited with the tri cotyledon state, but since its just ..... odd hehe i was hopin for a tri from it considering how it first appeared(maybe it cld be a male lol) but only time will tell if it will either straighten out ,be male or even be any use to make beans with. After all its a screwy baby plant, not really a great sign?
Take it easy , and stay lazy

 

[hanfiking]

High Kooki, great looking plants!!!! Wickid thread dude
Can you give me some tips on training them because I also don't have a lot of space, and I want to get some Sativas on the go indoors.

If you want some infos on Purple Strains I started a thread just for that reason http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=968956#post968956

stop by sometime PEACE

 

[kooki]

Hi Hanfiking, thanks for poppin by.
Lst isnt as hard as u first think, a few tips is.. always make sure u got an anchor string, opposite side of where your bending the main stem down. This adds some stability. And second is to at first do it slowly slowly, so u dont go snapping stems, they will bend right over if u just put slow gradual movement when u bend them, if u go quick they can damamge.. i cld give some more tips, but i think if u read this thread..

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=39473

Pieceofmyheart did this thread and several growers show their lst plants, and on first page u can see photos of POMH's that show it in good detail.. im sure pics show more than words sometimes, so that thread will give u a good idea
With Lst u can do training during veg and early flower when there is stretch, but with the sativa's if space is short u may consider a shorter veg period.

Thanks for the link to your thread, i like to get some purple growing , and have just the one variety to play with at the moment, so shall pop in to have a read on your thread about the diff purple varieties

Hope this helps some, the abc&lst thread should help loads i think

 

[GMT]

Hi Kooki, no way to tell how anything will grow at that kind of age, it'll be interesting to watch though. Any healthy male from a line you like will do for your tri girl, gotto either make f2s or do a backcross anyway, so you can choose wich direction to point it in later.

 

[kooki]

Hi Kooki, no way to tell how anything will grow at that kind of age, it'll be interesting to watch though. Any healthy male from a line you like will do for your tri girl, gotto either make f2s or do a backcross anyway, so you can choose wich direction to point it in later.

hya GMT, its a wierd little mutie for sure at start, but has started to grow some recognisable leaves (still in a strange way tho will post pics tomorrow when i take the weekly vegging shot of the blueberry, which incidentaly is pickin up great again after the root mishap )

And i been thinking , as i have the Doublegum cut also rooting at moment, i might grow some more DG and T44 and cross over, so a Top44 male to put to the Doublegum girl cut and a Doublegum male to the Top44 girl cut, still i have other strains i cld use too, but i think i might try for that route first. And then decide on the way forward.. i gather with F2 u mean find a good male and female offspring to put together and with backcross u mean choose a good male offspring to put to the female "parent" cut ? If so , cool hehe it might end up being that i cross the F2's but am hoping i keep the cuts around, but cant guarantee that .. thanks for helping tho, ya know i sure appreciate the ideas and advice.

 

[GMT]

Hi Kooki, this is where it gets interesting erm confusing lol. If you did the M DG x F T44 and you did the M T44 x F DG then both of those sets of seeds would be F1s. If you crossed siblings from one set of seeds, then they would be F2s. if at any stage, you cross seeds from both sets of seeds together, you get F1s again. Although some may still refer them as being a DG T44 IBL. And it would all be accurate yet shed little light on what you actually did.
But yep, thats exactly what I meant, but you have to make all the choices bud, it's you running the risks and taking the time.

 

[hanfiking]

Thanks for the thread link Kooki, i will definitely be using it to tame my indoor sativas. I'm just a lazy grower who want the best yield too!

PEACE

 

[kooki]

Hehe hanfi
well with those leggy sativas, a bit of lst works wonders to keep them shorter, u can continue lst into the stretch period of flower also, some do just a few budsites at the top level some more, i choose more because i use quite small power lights, without the range of the Hps bulbs.. (125watt envirolet cfl is what the K2 is under) and aim for lots of small buds.. with a bigger light like a 400watt HPS u might do fewer tops, because u can grow the bigger buds with the light, but still the aim is to keep the tops at even level so they all recieve even light, as u see in POMH's thread , diff levels of LST people have used.. its great to see the pics and choose how u gonna approach LST yourself, also look into toppin plants , that without lst helps lower branches reach a similar level as the top ones, and u can take the cut to root , and grow on if its a "keeper"

 

[kooki]

Some updates,
The blueberry is recovered now, growin on and at 7 weeks is being loosely trained to the size of pot, because of veg space. I can train the branches out of the pot footprint when it goes into flower so , no worries there
Im just glad it recovered from the rootloss.. and hasnt shown any male preflowers either, so hopefully this girl is ok..



Next up is the Purple Power.. this is shy of 2 weeks(2week mark is friday) but i thought i would just take the pics today.. next to it is the mutie , which is about the same age, so showin next to it for comparision(i believe it to be a white widow seed from some bag i had of it.. so wwbagseedmutie) .The second pic is the muti up close, u can see its now throwing the odd normal(ish) leaves still gonna keep it round to watch its wierd growth
The purple seems ok so far, quite nice broad leaves, an indica influence and with the breeders 7week flower time i expect it to have some.. pleased so far.

 

[kooki]

Ok so its time to update my flowerin girls.. Had a busy day today, (no work cos of cold, so plenty time to get some things done ) been takin pics, flushing/waterin and some string work on the Doublegum.. still waiting on some bits to do my light upgrade,so thats on the backburner for the moment.

So i find it hard to take great pics with my cam, been wanting to get some frosty shots, and today i managed to get some ,not the best of shots ,but clearly showing the triches i been trying to capture, of course i had to use all the cams memory try diff settings ,angles of shots etc etc and most turned out too bright cos of flash etc.. but in end i managed to get a few that show things..

Here up first is the borin shot of the Doublegum its 2week mark in flower, its starting already to hair up at the budsites, so all is well so far

 

[kooki]

Next up is the Top44 at 5weeks, with FROST hehe
Prob the first time i managed to get some frosty pics with my shakey hand and cheap ass cam.. im proud of them anyway although they cld be better im sure..
Heres the pics

 

[kooki]

And of course the K2 at 8weeks , only a few hairs are orange so far, and triches are begginin to cloud, but not near how i like them yet. Its given 8to9 weeks by the breeders recommendation so we shall take a look during this week how they go, tho i expecting it might go to 10.. took a snip off it anyhow to cure for a few days n test strength etc
The last pics shows frost can u tell im pleased to have some frost in my photo lol

 

[BeAn]

Hey Kook's, man those flowers are pretty...nice work bro!!

Be safe, and keep it green!

 

[hanfiking]

Does that girl come with the car?? only kidding, she's all yours, but i am slightly envious, i hope my girls look that fine. my little dutch dragon.

PEACE

 

[kooki]

thanks bean.. i do like the looks of the top44 buds, and the smell.. hashy and musky a very deep smell to them, mmm indica goodness its stayed quite compact..
The K2 took a while to start frostin nicely but seems to have a good covering now, and still time to go , small buds but frosty now this is very lemonish smelling and very sweet/sugary at same time, its like a lemon desert or sommat hehe

 

[kooki]

@ hanfi , when its harvest i shall roll a cyber joint for us all to toke hehe take it easy , and im sure u will be growin some fine girls yourself.

 

[Black Ra1n]

Hey man that K2 looks awesome, some good training on that and the T44. Congrats man, looks like you'll have some good smoke in the future.

B/R

 

[kooki]

Thanks Black Ra1n i am impressed with the 125watt envirolite, and what it can do so far, covers a good area and although buds arent massive they are frosty easy to cool also, not bad at all.
Hope to be upgrading my flower cab soon to a 400w hps, so the Doublegum thats in flower shld end up spending most of its flower time under that, stretch cld be over by time i got it upgraded, and just 6+weeks of buddin growth to go after that , the 400w shld give even better results..
The envirolite is gonna be part of another project to make some beans etc, so i shall make another smaller cab maybe to fit it in, get some pollination going on and flower out the plant in there also, i feel the envirolite will manage that just fine

 

[Black Ra1n]

Nice I'll be sticking by to watch and cheer! How's that envirolite as far as heat goes? More light is always nice kinda miss the 1000's, but I don't miss the electricity bill haha, take care man....

B/R

 

[kooki]

As far as temps go.. with the 125watt envirolite and 5 cfl bulbs (110watt total) cooling is pretty easily achieved i use just 2 x 3inch pc fans to exhaust at top, with 2 passive intake holes in bottom, and a 3rd 3inch pc fan to blow over the top of plant. It keeps canopy level at high 60's low 70's 67f to 74f taken at diff times of lights on , depends a little on the air being pulled into cab too of course. But im pretty happy with those temps. with the upgrade using the cooltube and ducting i hope i can keep similar temps in the cab, keeping the tube independant of the cabs own ventilation... we shall see when i get to doing it.