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This garden will mark a couple of firsts for me. It is the first garden I will have grown from completely reclaimed soil and compost. It is also the first time I will be growing landrace strains. I know it's not a good idea to try to change too many things at one time, but my reclaimed soil has been doing better than expected with my other house plants and well...landraces!!! I mean c'mon!! So let's break this down and get started on the Fall garden and journal. Strains See, My Organic Garden: Part 1 - Strains, for more details on the strains if you're curious. Texada Timewarp (Hybrid) Sativa Dominant Two mother plants. TXTW#1 TXTW#3 [*]Not planning on taking cuttings from the mothers until I'm ready to start my Spring garden. [*]Toxic Blue 33 (Hybrid) Indica Dominant One seed only (feminized). Freebie / UFO from Attitude Toxic Blue #1 [*]South African Kwazulu (Landrace) 100% Sativa Five Seeds SA Kwazulu 1-5 [*]Afghan Kush (Landrace) 100% Indica Five Seeds A Kush 1-5 [*]Purps (could be Chocolope...someone forgot to label his seed bags ) Indica / Sativa Five Seeds Purps 1-5 Grow Info See, My Organic Garden: Part 2 - Grow Areas, Soil, and Nutrients, for more details if you're curious. Grow Meda: Soil See the link above for the soil mix I use. [*]Containers 5gal cloth containers for TXTW#1 and TXTW#3 Starting seeds in 3" plastic containers Transplant females that will be taken to flower in 1gal cloth containers might use 3gal, but tent area may restrict the size to 1gal [*]Grow Area: 7'x7'x7' tent [*]Light (fan cooled and vented out of tent) Veg Cycle ( 16:8 ) 1000w Hortiluxe MH Universal [*]Flower Cycle ( 12:12 ) Plan is to use a 1000w HPS. Haven't decided on which one to use yet. [*]Nutrients: compost tea (home brew) [*]Exhale C02 bag [*]10000 BTU Portable A/C (vented out of the tent) [*]Avg Temp: 80*F Garden Goals Living in the buckle of the Bible Belt it gets hot, rrrreal hot in the summer. Even though this summer has been "cooler" than last summer, we've still remained in the upper 90's and had several weeks of 103*F +/- days. Going into the summer I had three Texada Timewarp mothers. One of which was pretty poor quality (most likely due to my over zealous gardening attempts) so I tossed her. I also had two Kali Mist mothers. Even though Kali Mist is a Sativa dominant strain, these girls didn't make it through the summer heat. What is interesting is of the two Texada Timewarp mothers that are remain, TXTW#1 proved herself to be very heat tolerant. TXTW#3 is stable and growing well, but not as strong as TXTW#1. How does all that relate to my garden goals? Well, my next step is to start a breeding program. I'm planning on using TXTW#1 as a mother and hoping her heat tolerance will be a trait that will be transferred to the new child strain. Jury is still out on which strain will get to be the proud father (landrace maybe....) So aside from using a TXTW#1 clone for a parernt mother, my underlying goals are: Isolate 1-2 P1 Mothers from each strain Isolate 1-2 P1 Fathers from each strain Observe and evaluate growth characteristics of each strain Yea, I'm a nerd (but aren't most of us here all nerds about this shit anyway). Hell, I even keep a hand written log where I track the moiture level of each plant, when watered and how much, when fed and how much, date, temp, and time. I even go so far as to transfer this data to a spreadsheet where I can make nifty charts showing things like how frequently each plant gets watered over time compared to temp and container size. Collecting this data allows me to track trends for each plant and general trends for each strain. I can then use this data to make adjustments specific to each individual plant. [*]Document smoke characteristics (arouma, flavor, type of high, etc) [*]Take cuttings from parents and prep for Spring garden. [*]Plan for Summer '14 to be veg only. ...and now on to the updates! Germination: Day 0 (17-AUG-2013) - Seeds in the soil Prepped and cleaned the tent. Started seeds in soil. Transplanted TXTW#1 and TXTW#3 into 5gal cloth containers Watered all plants with home brewed compost tea Light cycle 16:8 (off during the hottest part of the day) Germination: Day 3 (20-AUG-2013) checking tent 3+ times per day misting / watering seeds daily (checking soil moisture level to make sure I don't drown 'em) Avg Temp: 80*F Germination: Day 4 (21-AUG-2013) Nobody has poked their head out of the soil yet so I thought I'd share some pics... Photo 1: Garden Overview (nerd alert...yes, each label has the plant name on one side and the date planted / cloned on the other) Photo 2: TXTW#1 Photo 3: Waiting for seedlings is painful!! Photo 4: TXTW#1 Close up
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