The birth of a speaker grow 9"x13"x26"

[Swanson]

Thanks blue and everyone. Tips welcomed. This is a new style of growing for me to cover the little I use and toy with breeding again. Haven't grown much in decades but enjoy it.
Temps didn't seem to change much at all with one CFL added so am going to add another soon. May go total CFL in the future as I am kinda flirting with being too hot due to the LED. Intake and exhaust are same size but have fans going each way. Will add more or bigger fans if need be.
Might add a frame around the base of speaker to add some height and build a mother chamber in another speaker.

 

[Swanson]

69 watts cfl 6500k for the win. They instantly perked up. Temps dropped too. I wonder if my LED is bad spectrum for veg or just bunk.

 

[Swanson]

Adding kelp and calcium to my next few waterings. The one is looking a little difficient in something to me now.

 

[Swanson]

Mutant looking like it's trying to flower. Alternating nodes. Found a tiny preflower pistil. Planning on flipping them all to 12/12 and changing to 2700k CFL lighting in about a week. Have to be somewhere else for July and need it for sure done by then. Nothing else is getting topped, just tied down during flowering.

Hope my difficiency is getting sorted out. May not use this soil brand again. I like that it's local and has lots of coco in it but recall it stunting a grow back in the day. I think it has zero nutes, maybe a low ph and a fair bit of wood debris in it. Should have amended it.
Gave them a healthy kelp dose both is soil and a slight foliar spray. I also stirred some organic Bloom mix (bone meal, potash, P) into the soil to prime them.

 

[JustSumTomatoes]

Nice.

 

[Swanson]

Day 0 12/12:
24 hours darkness followed by 12/12 starting tommorow. Going to keep running the 6500k for a bit before going to 2700k as I read that can help with stretch. Wish me luck

 

[Swanson]

Day 1 flower:
Set it up for now with 2x 2700k 23w and 1x 5000k 23w. May add a bulb at a some point.

 

[Swanson]

Day 4 12/12:



Tied the older ones yesterday and again tied harder today. Flushed them a couple days ago too, New growth seems better already.

 

[Swanson]

Pruned out some yellow leaf. Added a 13w CFL. Total watts at 82 now (all 2700k). With lights on, temps around 30C.

 

[JustSumTomatoes]

Keep'em coming!

 

[Swanson]

Day 7 flower: More training today and saw a few early pistils. Hit them up with kelp again.

 

[Swanson]

Day 8 + the 24hr darkeness rather. Looking forward to being able to edit my posts. Ha

 

[Swanson]

Both bagseed plants are ladies but looking a little more sativa-ish now.
Mostly sure I found two female and one male LA con (the weird super wide leaf one on the left).
Will cross them up to half keep the bagseed alive in any case.

Am thinking Auto Northern Lights and/or Autoduck for a round two quickie this summer. I grew the orginal sativa dominant ducks foot 15 years ago. Very nice smoke, very cool looking unbelievably vigorous plants but took ages flower. Curious about the auto version.

 

[Swanson]

Something resembling bud shots for this update.

 

[Swanson]

Starting to look like I am not gonna get a male. The one I thought was decided to throw a bunch of pistils. I'm off my game.


Glad I took some last minute lower branch cuttings of the bagseed earlier in the week. Probably setting up a mom box. Yes, that's just a bottle cap with holes in a jar of tap water. Ive had good success with this method but have to cut cap if left root for long.

 

[Blu3Kush]

Looking good. If your looking for a good strain for micro grow you should try hso bubba's gift I've ran it a few times most pheno's will not stretch alot so would be easy to manage plus it's a good yeilder also. If you got the funds you should get your self some Real Growers Recharge it's got a bunch of beneficial microbes to keep your plants healthy and kelp. And next run you should look into fabric pots they help keep your plants from becoming root bound.

 

[Swanson]

Day 17 flower










All 5 confirmed females now. Sensimilla run, I guess.

 

[Swanson]

Upped the lighting to 138w 2700k CFL. Added big bud coco and molasses to my waterings. Both fairly light dosages. Alternating between the two for a bit before I cut out the big bud. Hoping to encourage these colas pack on some decent weight as I only have so many of them.

 

[JustSumTomatoes]

Lookin good buddy

 

[Swanson]

Day 20 flower Found my first few red hairs tonight and am seeing/smelling some trichs all of a sudden.