New Grower Turtle's Colorado High Altitude Grow

[turtlespeed99]

The 1st objective of this grow is to try out some Auto's for the first time to see how they grow and what they produce. I will be trying out 3 DP Think diff, 3 DP Mazar and 3 DP Snow storm #2 and 3 CBD CREW Med Gom 1.0. Also will be doing 6 Photo's at my site with the greenhouse. Second objective is to really test out the DP Snow Storm #2 and see how well it does at 7,000ft elevation as they claim that this is a strain specifically breed for high altitude. I have passed along seeds and seedlings to 3 other experienced growers in my area to grow these outdoor as well. It's been 5 years since I last grew, so I wanted some more skilled growers to try these out. If they do awesome, this might be the new strain for outdoor growers in my area. Or anyone that lives at high altitude with colder temps at night.

Now for my grow and set up:
Site #1 (6 photo's & 6 auto's) will be in Hoop house/ Greenhouse 8'x12' floor space with six foot high peak on roof. 12" exhaust fan with automatic shutter and 12" intake automatic shutter w/ thermostat. Fans should kick on and off at any temp I want.
Site#2 (6 auto's) will be at my parents house, outside with an enclosed fence. At night they will sleep in a small greenhouse tent, just to stay warm.
At both these sites all plants will be in pots for ease of transportation. Auto's will be in 3 gallon nursery pot's and photo's will be in 5 gallon nursery pot's. Soil is a 1/4 HF 1/4 OF, 1/4 Native rich top soil and 1/4 perlite mix with small pebble stones.

I've already fallen behind on posting as I'm on day 9 of growing. I haven't had time to post pics or be by a computer for more than 10 min. I will post pics tonight when I get home. I'm done with some remodel jobs and will be able to tend to my plants a few hours every day.

 

[Trapper]

Good luck! Fellow Coloradan!

 

[Eyes on Fire]

Sounds like a winner to me dude.cant wait ta see a couple pics."AFN smoke out"

 

[Ronin]

Congrats on getting started.
Here's to a successful grow.:Sharing One:

 

[Gadgetguy]

Turtle gifted me a snowstorm today that I will be growing outside so I'll post my results in this thread as well as the season goes on.

Thanks Turtle!

 

[Trapper]

Sweet! (John Denver playing between my ears)

 

[turtlespeed99]

As promised, Here are some pics


First Pic is what I call day one when they were first poping out of the cubes
2nd pic is day 2
3rd pic is day 6
4&5 are day 9
On day 5 I finally got the 250w HPS light my buddy was gifting me. As you can see in day 1 and 2 is that I only had a 55w incandescent grow bulb that made the girls really stretch, or at least I think. Or maybe just the nature of the Auto's??? Think different is the 3 farthest to the right in the tray and they got to 7-8 in!!! Anyway's, I got the 250w HPS over them and they loved it! no more stretch! On day 8 I transplanted them as roots where starting to poke out all through the cubes. I put these in one gallon pots for now as my table space is limited and these girls need so more time to " Beef up" before slowly getting acclimated to the outside light and conditions. The close up on picture #5 is what I've nicknamed " BEEFCAKE" cause this seed was twice as big and beefer than all 20 seeds I started. This is the Auto that didn't stretch and stayed short and stocky! Plus if you look closely, she sprouted 3 sprout leaves and 3 first set fan leaves! WTF... But for now, the girls are super happy being in the pots with the HPS on them. They are showing awesome growth and now showing node spacing.

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Sweet! (John Denver playing between my ears)

LOL Country Rooooad take me home!!! LOL

 

[Trapper]

Beefcake!

 

[turtlespeed99]

Day 13
Today I put the plants outside for a hour this morning, to slowly get acclaimed to the outdoors. The girls where showing the second set of leaves and standing strong. From other peoples pictures these should be bigger, but it's probably because of the crappy light I had on it the first 3 days, and probably should've taken them out of the seedling tray a couple days sooner! But they are doing awesome and growing faster than my photo seedlings.... I put my shade cloth around it too keep the temps down and not have it be direct sunlight. Just morning sun from 10-11 am while it's still 75 degrees outside. I'll bring them back inside under the HPS 250 for the day while it gets hot and then stick them back outside again tonight from 6-8pm ish.
Beefcake is picture 2. Picture # 3 is one of the mazar's and is growing the best IMO.

 

[Trapper]

Alright! Great start and wise to "harden" them slowly...cool, this is gonna be great!