High blades! Here's another journal of a fine strain in the Coconut Grove series. This is the strain my wife MrsEd picked as her choice, so I'm happy to grow this in her honor and hopefully have a nice smoke for her sometime in March. ================================================= GROW INDEX *Note: All updates have pics 12/19/09 Day 00 - Cracked & planted ..... Page 1 12/22/09 Day 01 - Broke ground ..... Page 1 12/27/09 Day 06 - Update "Coming Along", 2nd set of leaves open ..... Page 1 12/31/09 Day 10 - Update "Good Bye 2009" Page 2 01/04/10 Day 14 - Update "Let's Go" ..... Page 3 01/11/10 Day 21 - Update "Blue Monday" ..... Page 4 01/16/10 Day 27 - Update "Got her stride on..." ..... Page 6 01/22/10 Day 32 - Update "Damn..." ..... Page 7 01/30/10 Day 39 - Update "Flower Time" ..... Page 8 02/03/10 Day 44 - Update "Ball starting to roll..." ..... Page 8 02/15/10 Day 55 - Update "Domination" ..... Page 10 03/02/10 Day 70 - Update "Big Girl Buds" ..... Page 12 03/12/10 Day 81 - Update "Free Fat Hairy Porn" ..... Page 14 03/23/10 Day 91 - Update "Home Stretch" ..... Page 15 04/03/10 Day 102 - Update "Are we there yet?" ..... Page 16 04/08/10 Day 104 - HARVEST ..... Page 17 04/29/10 SMOKE REPORT ..... Page 20 ================================================= GROW DETAILS Lights: T5 (24" 110w) @ 18/6 for veg .:. HPS 600w 12/12 for flower Medium: Coco (fiber coir) & perlite (50% - 50%) Nutes: Fox Farms Trio (Grow Big, Tiger Bloom, Big Bloom) plus whatever STOCK Strain: LSD (Feminized) Breeder: Barney Farms Source: Attitude THC: 24% (YES!) Height: Medium Flower Time: 60-65 days Type: Indica/Sativa, mostly indica Genetics: Skunk #1, Mazar Breeder Notes: Barneys Farm LSD Feminized is an old Skunk variety crossed with Mazar. - Called LSD by the Farm crew because of its powerful trippy effect. Developed from ancient genetics long established in the Farm seed bank. Crossing Skunk #1 with a potent Mazar we have created a very powerful Indica strain. Barneys Farm L.S.D. Feminized is a hardy, disease resistant plant and it's cannabis seeds responds well in all grow conditions. With just a little care and attention, the Barneys Farm L.S.D. Feminized strain will give the grower high yielding award winning powerful results. The flavor is intense earthy chestnut with a sweet musky smell. The Barney's Farm LSD Feminized cannabis seeds produce a euphoric, almost psychedelic experience. It’s a super-trippy and very powerful stone, a Barney’s Farm special. Yield optimum indoor is 600 gr/m2, indoor height: 50 - 60 cm and flowering time is 60-65 days. Grower Notes (that's me!): We will call her Jenna Jameson in honor of her leading the way by setting an example and being such a professional. Plus she's admitted to dropping acid LOL --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LET'S GET IT ON! OK, here we go! After dropping the seed in a shot glass of water and covering it with lucky ol' JD#7 cup, it dropped & cracked within 24 hours. Jenna came busting out of the ground with a big brown helmet and had it thrown off before I could get a picture. She's ready to go! Other than that... nothing else exciting to report on, I'll get some more pics in about 5 days or so. This is my first go at good seeds everyone, wish me luck!
My personal pick and even gave her the first dive into the pool to get her started. Very exciting! Very much looking forward to March.
damn ed you are going full scale huh? i guess you did mix up different seeds i love it thats more like it mrs ed quick on the draw!
Humper you are the man dude (even though MrsEd beat ya this time LOL) Yeah I've decided to keep the strains to their own journal - just something I been wanting to try.
Hey AE, I'm in. The shot glass method, huh? When I was getting ready to crack my 20 dollar LSD seed, I speculated as to which germination method has the greatest likelihood of success. It seems as though the paper towel method is the most popular, and anecdotally, it may enjoy the most consistent results. That's a hunch on my part. But like the shot glass method, it requires handling of the seed once the tap root is out. For that reason, I went with a modified plant-it-in-the-ground method. I soaked it till it sank, about 12 hours, then I planted it uncracked. It is hard to determine which method has the most consistent results because all the methods enjoy very good results. If the shakiest method is successful 80% of the time and the most consistent method works 95% of the time and there are no scientific studies handy to tell you which is which, then it comes down to a hunch, followed by likely success with that hunch on the first go, which nudges you into one of the camps on the basis of personal experience. Is that a solo cup you've got her in? I know you've done some transplanting with the coco coir, and I recall that early in your first grow here on GC, you were wondering how the coir would hold together during a transplant. So how did that end up working out? How does the coir hold together during a transplant? Not much goin' on? Not much goin' on? If there ain't much goin' on then how come I have all these questions? A 600 watt HPS? Fine, be that way.
Hey Alatar, You know I've tried all the common germing methods - paper towel, jiffy pellets, shot glass, straight medium, combos, etc. Honestly they all work great in my experience. As for top performers, I think jiffy pellets with a dome produce the healthiest plant (perfect green top to bottom), but that can take a week or so. I like the shot glass method because I can watch and see it crack, put it in the ground at the perfect time, it's the quickest and I never have to touch the seed. When it cracks, I just pour it into the 1 gal pot and cover lightly & water. As for coco and transplanting - man it went smooth. Normally I see some stall for a day or two, but when I transplanted Linda from a 1 gal to a 3 gal, her growth had increased within hours it seems. Amazing IMO. And the coco held together fine, in fact I forgot it was a concern to be honest. The coco never really dries out so it's bricks together nicely. Jenna is in a 1 gal, no solo cup for her. I'll get a pic up here in a few...
DAY 6 - Coming along Lights {18/6}: 110w @ 6400k ~~ Nutes: None ~~ ph: 6.0 ~~ Temps: 69-78 ~~ rh: 34% ------------------------------------------------------------- Not much to report on, 2nd set of leaves is on the way and she seems to be right on track.
That was the open question, and you have provided the answer that I wanted to hear. But that begs the next question: If the coco never dries out then how you determine that it is time to water? You're a rebel, AE.
That's one of the confusing parts of coco - do I treat it like soil or a hydro sytem? When they are young they don't drink a lot so I can go days between waterings, but once they hit 3 weeks or so I just water them every other day and look at the runoff to see how thirsty they are and how much they use. I've discovered if you let the coco dry out (like a I did with some clones), the plant will be wilted and near death already. As much as this stuff drains, it's impossible to over water them with this schedule I'm convinced.
You water every other day and feed every third watering. OK, I think I'm beginning to piece it together here. Soiless media are somewhere in the middle, right? Which leads to yet another question. When considering nute regimens, should you be looking at nutes for soil or nutes for hydro? You have been using nutes for hydro, so at least on that day, you considered soiless to be more like hydro. It's certainly easy to make that argument. Naturally, I have been using nutes for soil, but if I switch to coco, should I go buy different nutes? The fact that Fox Farm makes separate mixtures for the two classes of media would seem to indicate that there is a difference, though that could just be a case of canny marketing. If you can sell the same stuff twice then why not go for it? We already know that they at least double the appropriate dosages in an effort to get us to consume more of theor products. And to add a wrinkle, Fox Farm references soiless media in their soil schedule, not their hydro schedule, implying that they intend that you use their soil nutes for your soiless grows, not their hydro nutes. Yet you have been having success using their hydro nutes in your soiless grow. So maybe it is all marketing. What's the big deal? My plants are like that half the time.
The way I see it - soil has organic components that process and deliver nutrients to roots in a certain way. A DWC system using water has a different delivery system, thus the hydro difference. I'm beginning to see that coco acts very much like a sponge as opposed to soil. I think the delivery system is more like water than soil. I have lots of reasons for thinking this and I don't want to create a wall of text with it, but that's really why I treat it more like a hydro system. Now to confuse things a little more, coco is organic! So it goes back to looking like a soil, and initially I felt this way. But after looking at how the coco acts - I don't see it processing like soil. Reaction to nute adjustments is fast, just like a DWC. It absorbs calcium and causes a def, and also salts build up easily. These are the characteristics of the coco's organics. I correct these easily with CalMag to balance the absorption and a shitload of perlite to make flushing easy (clears out the build up). Other than that, I think any hydro nutes are fine with this stuff. I should note this is just grower experience and research talking here. Good coco info is pretty hard to come by IMO, but I'm finding that my results agree with much of what I've found.
You're killin me! The coconut patch must be poppin' about now! Can't wait to see how that LSD turns out for ya dood.
Hey prpl Hey smokin! Haha, yeah the grove has shit growing everywhere now, February looks to be a good month if all goes well...
Had to check this thread for two reasons...well, three. 1. I know a really good guy named "Ed". 2. Coconut is my favorite "Flavor"/Scent...(It is all I wear in terms of lotions, sprays, oils, bubbles, even coffee creamer...) 3. Herbs are yummy!! I am going to tune into this thread!!