fear's 5th grow : NLX

YES!
Grow number 5 is here.
The fifth grow I will document here on this forum.
NLX this time.
These are the free seeds that I got from Nirvana, when I bought the seeds I used for my previous 2 grows (COB & NLxBB)
I found 11 seeds in the bag that were supposed to be 10.
Looked really pale and unhealthy to me, so I figured it's time to stick'em in the soil and see what happens.
Seedling soil that is, nothing special, but I know it won't burn them.
I've got them under 2x18=36W of two foot long fluro tubes now.
Temps are around 20C and the humidity is about 50%.
I'm running without ventilation still in this stage.
Much to my suprise I found some of the seeds sprouted.
5 are obvious and the 6th just broke the surface.
Another slow germinator like COB, freakin' Sativa genes.
I've watered then twice now, simple pH 8 tapwater.
(one of the great virtues of the Netherworld...mmmm....lands is it's water. Lots of it. And you can actually safely drink the tapwater here too!)


Here look, my ganja toking ass just took a pic for you all to watch :

*pulls up a chair*

Go get 'em

EDIT - if you LST this time make sure to keep a momma. your last yield was gold mate.

gr8est

Long time no see. How has the HPS been treating you (I think I remember you using a HPS during flowering in the last grow I was around for)?

Hey youngandnotthatstupid!
Welcome to the show buddy!
Thank you for joining us.

The HPS has been great.
This bulb I use is a 400W Philips SON-T PIA Plus.
It's one bright motherfucker I'll tell ya that.
56500 lumens is a shitload of light, I never open the growbox with the light on.
I only use the HPS for flowering and the plants love it.
Bigger taller wider nugs, my personal best is now 22 grams bonedry on 1 nug.
So yes I recommend HPS for flowering because it makes your grow so much more efficient.

I just choose not to use HPS for seedling/vegging stage because of the power it consumes and thus money it costs to operate it.
I have good experience seeding/vegging under fluros so I'll stick to that because its cheap and it works fine.

I'm glad to see you're still posting and your grows are getting better with each one. I just checked your last grow and damn man, damn. Looking at those buds make me want to get an HPS quite bad. But I don't think I will because as of this July I have to hang up my grower's cap (moving in with the gf and she doesn't want to risk growing ). Plus I like the idea of getting results with just a basic setup. Your grow makes it really tempting though. Do you top your buds? I'm going to try and get back into the groove here at the city so for as long as I'm back I'll be diligently checking this thread, and green-eyeing your HPS.

UPDATE DAY 030 transplanted

It's been ages since I've posted, my computer went bust on me....
I'm using another compu right now, to keep you all updated on my progress.
See it here :

day 008 :


day 030 :



They have a little damage because I've failed to water them properly around day 14.
Nothing they won't outgrow is all my lazy ass has to say about that.

Of the 11 seeds only 6 would germinated.
I guess the freebees from Nirvana are not that great.
I'm gonna put the lights on 12/12 as of today, to see how many boys and how many girls heaven has sent me.
The plants are small for 30 days old, but hey what do you want with only 36 Watts of power.
I've turned on all the other fluros today, for a total of 216W.
The bad news is that the plants are about 4 inches away from the lights because I can't lower them anymore.
The good news is that they are now growing in 8 gallon containers and they'll strech upwards to meet the light in only a few days no doubt.
No hurries here.....I'm still blazed from my last harvest.

EDIT : O yeah I'm trying out a new type of soil in this grow, just another type of general potting soil but this actually tells me pH = 5.5-6.5 and eC = 350.

EDIT : O yeah I'm trying out a new type of soil in this grow, just another type of general potting soil but this actually tells me pH = 5.5-6.5 and eC = 350.

Isn't that too low of a ph for soil? i thought they wanted between 6.0-7.5, but i could be mistaken. i dont grow in soil myself so im used to having my ph at 5.5-5.8

Those look a wee bit small for 30 days but when I remember that that's with only 36 Watts it makes sense. It sucks that only germinated but hey that means whatever girls you get you can turn into monsters . How's your last harvest's smoke?

52 days ago I stuck the seeds in the soil.

A long long time ago....in a galaxy far away.
I started growing NLX and tried to keep a regular log of this grow.
Then I started smoking from my COB harvest from my last grow.
Definately not the best weed I smoked but if I smoke enough of it, it'll get me toked.
And it has a tedency of making me lazy...not like couchlock lazy but still lazy.
If all Sativas are like this then I prefer Indicas.
So I'm not unhappy that this, NLX I'm growing now, supposedly partly sativa, is displaying mainly Indica traits.
But like I said, if I smoke enough of it....and my last harvest is still keeping my buzzed daily so I'm allright there.
This stuff actually makes me so lazy I didn't even bother raising the lights this week...my plants are toasted on top.
Oh fuck it...they look strong enough no problemo.
Good for the side branching no?

I ended up with 3 females and 2 males and decided to go for seed this time.
Yes people you've heard that correct, there's gonna be some serious baby making sex in my closet soon!
I like the way these NLX leaves start to glitter so early in the grow, I'm betting this is gonna be a snow cone grow.
I'm growing 24/7 so far, except for two weeks of 12/12 for presexing.

I'll try to post up pictures every week from now, I think I have something here worth showing :




And because I have a new better camera now, I have the membership privilege of having to downsize my pictures because of that stupid 2 MB upload limit.
And while I still have no clue as to how to control the manual focus on this thing, I can still show you a pretty picture of some leaves.
It'll give you an impression of why I wouldn't mind having dozens of seeds of this type of plant:


Have a nice grow!

lol

Love reading your posts urgr8estfear!

thanks!

:DSnow cones! those are the best:D

Since I'm going for seeds this time I'm kinda wondering how big of a percentage of THC is lost to seed formation.
I want to know how big the smoking-effect diffence is between virgin flowers and those that have been mommiefied.
Maybe I'll start dream about MILFs?

hey great just read through your 4 1/4 grows and u have def come a long way shit i hope my 2,3,4 and 5th grows come out as well i also have a 400w hps ill keep my eyes on this +rep

DAY 065 since I stuck the seeds in the soil.

Damn. It's been more then two months now since I started this grow.
Everything is still going smoothly, they just keep getting bigger and I keep tying 'em down.
I have NOT nuted anything yet, which means the soil I'm trying is pretty well pre-nuted!
They suck up about 2 liters per container per week now and I'm not even flowering.
The growbox is getting cozy, just two more weeks and I'm flat out of surface area, which means two weeks until I hit 12/12.
Here, look what I mean with cozy :


And here are the plants up close and personal, you can see evidence even fluros can burn leaves, especially so when your plant is low on water.






Have a nice grow!

time flies when your havin fun huh?

they look so well tended, good job

Wow thanks IMGreen!
But it's more well unattended then well attended really!
Once a week, maybe twice if I'm itching, is all that it takes.
I throw in the water and use a few bent copperwire sticks to LST in the ground and voila.
10 minutes work max. then I leave it alone for a week.
(but I do check everyday to adjust the height of the lights daily)

Big containers that's the trick!
A bitch to fill but it still saving me time every week.

74 days ago I stuck the seeds in the soil....

and look at where I'm now! :


No more fluros! Yes, you guessed it I've made the switch to the HPS and thus 12/12.
I did give the plants 24 hours of darkness to speed things up a bit.

If you look at the pictures I post today, you can see the plants droop a bit.
This is because I didn't water them for 9 days, I prefer underwatering to overwatering these days.
Ofcourse I watered them today, but no nutes still!
No more of that pre-emptive pro-active nuting bullshit, but simply wait until the plant shows its time.
Works better for me and my generous hands.

I think the plants are big enough now to give me a decent amount of seeds to play with so there's no point in letting them grow any bigger.
Here, look at those boys and girls getting steamy :


They'd be having babies soon!
And I'd be making photos!

lookin good!

I too suffer from the heavy hand of nutes affliction, you should see the current round of damage I did last weekend due to 4 days of no attention...

Your grow looks great!

Yeah overnuting can suck ass badly.

Speaking of which I've just nuted my plants for the first time today.
And it's been 79 days since I stuck the seeds on the soil.
If you look at the pictures in this post you'll see why.
It's always the same shit when switching from fluros to HPS during a grow.
Growth rate goes through the roof, and suddenly the root system cannot keep up with demand for nutes because the concentration of nutes is too low for that speed.
So I've nuted 1/2 stength for starters, they'll get more in a few days when the soil has dried up a bit.
I'm thinking I'm adding a bit of epsom salt during that next watering, the new growth is too yellow.

Here look, that white thing on top of the plants are green smoking joint papers, 4 1/4 inch wide and appearantly alot more reflective then the plants.
This makes sense, the plant actively absorbs light! :


And look at the big cohones on this guy, blowing his wad all over the place:D :


Next update in a few days. I'm dying to make some pics of seeds growing.

p.s. : What the hell is wrong the the GC picture gallery these days? It says my pics are DOWNsized to 1280x960 but when I click on the pic best I get is like 640x480.

93 days have passed since I stuck the seeds in the soil.
19 days ago I switched to 12/12.

I'm up to 3/4 strength nutes these days (MG WS 15-30-15)
Gave 'em some Epsom Salt last week and they are booming under the HPS.
Makes me wonder if vegging under HPS would pay off.

Check out my plants, left container M+F, middle container M+F, right container F.
Let's make babies:


The boys are doing there thing, using nature's default modus operandus (messy)
Enough pollen to pollinate the rest of the city I think so I hope you're not living anywhere near me;):


Girlies are receptive, with the one big girlie upwind :


Seeing all this sex going on in front of my eyes, makes me wonder :
-At what point in time do the boys become useless? I mean after a certain amount of time the boys have done their thing and the girlies are pollinated all over.
Once the girls are pregnant, I want to axe the boys and give the girlies all the space and other resources they can take.
Anyone here with some thoughts on this?