2010 grow 1: Black Domina & friends

[leafminer]

Following the latest issue I've decided that the grow has now changed so radically that I am starting a new journal for it. So:

As of today -Thur, 21st Jan - the grow consists of:

Greenhouse:
1. Black Domina, 32" height, in 4 gallon insulated container.
2. "on loan" Mexican sativa, 24", just in flower now.
3. AI x Oaxaca sativa, 'Mint Choc' seedling.

GH conditions: currently 27C outdoors, GH is 33C, 6 hrs sunshine, 11 hrs day.

Grow Room 16/8:
1. Black Domina, about 22", in veg, 3 gallon pot.
2. Two clones of the Mexican sativa taken two or three days ago.
3. Four clones of the Black Domina, all nearly three weeks old: two look as if they're going to be fine, one looks a bit iffy and the fourth looks very doubtful.

GR conditions: One, 150 HPS and the 120W CFL cluster in use. Roughly 6KL/ft sq.

Outstanding issues:

The main question mark right now is when the big Domina is going to go into flower. She's been in the GH for a while but is still growing like mad. Already at 32" she's going to go to at least 36" before flowering, by the look of her. She's already too big to be put into the grow room. I have the feeling that repotting her into the bigger, insulated, container has stimulated her into a burst of veg growth despite the short day and sun hours.

Otherwise the health of the clones bothers me somewhat. Another week should clear that up one way or the other.

 

[smoove]

3. AI x Oaxaca sativa, 'Mint Choc' seedling.

^ this intrigues me. I'm definitely gonna keep an eye on your grow. Looks like you'll need to dominate that domina... really show her who's boss. Good Luck.

 

[Locked]

Good luck leaf....GREEN MOJO....

 

[leafminer]

Reference pictures:

d1: Domina clone#1, 32"
d2: Domina clone#2, about 20"
dmc1: Domina clone#3, nearly 3 weeks old
dmc2: Domina clone#4, same age as dmc1
dmc3: Domina clone#5, same age as dmc1
dmc4: Domina clone#6, same age as dmc1, pretty sickly.
mc: Mint Choc seedling, looking a bit rough
sc1: Mexican sativa, clone
sc2: Mexican sativa, clone

 

[leafminer]

The big Domina is at 34" this evening after a very hot day, loads of sun. Very branchy. I'm getting the impression she is about to flower. Probably at 36" or so ... and I'm betting on 10" colas from this sweetie, so she'll probably go to 4 feet, biggest indica dom I've ever grown.

I found what are almost certainly 4 of the AIxOaxaca seeds, (because they are the tiniest seeds I ever saw) in the bottom of the weed drawer. I think I will see if they germ. They have been there between 1 and 3 years I think.

Good job I took clones from the sativa. It's in flower now.

 

[2Dog]

very cool I will be gazing at this grow!:hubba:

 

[leafminer]

The big Domina is at 34.5" and I have the feeling she is just switching to flower.

I repotted the sativa which is 24" high and in flower. Looking a bit deficient. It was just in a 7" pot but even so, totally rootbound. I think sativas seem to need lots more root volume than indicas. I put her into a 3 gallon pot for now but I bet she's headed for 5 gallons.

Gave everything another sprinkling of lime and watered in with magnesium sulphate, 1 tsp per gallon. Tomatoes are looking better and I do think it is the calcium and magnesium responsible.

 

[leafminer]

Yep. The Domina finished veg at 36" and is now making colas.
The sativa is doing really well - the repot was what it wanted. It's at 24" now and going like a train, full flower. I will repot again in another couple of weeks to a 5 gallon pot.
Clones still look very poorly. . .

 

[2Dog]

well good luck with the clones leaf...I am trying to make the diy bubble cloner..lol... I want to master cloning even in cold weather...

 

[leafminer]

Colder weather again, but a little sun had the greenhouse rockin and rollin. Gave a top dressing of hardwood ash and watered it in with 1 tsp magnesium sulphate in 1 gallon, plus 1/4 tsp superphosphate crystals.
Pics:
1. Big Domina, just begun making colas.
2. Mint choc seedling AI x Oaxaca ex 2008
3,4. The Mexican sativa, well in flower.

 

[Droopy Dog]

I'll be following this as well.

I was going to suggest perhaps another couple of clones off the Domina, but too late now?

DD

 

[leafminer]

Yeah, I was thinking of cloning again ... they do not look good. But I have another Domina in the grow room under 16/8, she's about 2ft tall, following on from the big one in flower. I could clone from that one. I put a couple of Domina seeds to soak too, just in case (my own seed production from the one that got bud rot)

 

[leafminer]

Pretty sure my problems are all due to temperatures. Look at the twisted Mint Choc seedling below, it's a complete mess, nutrient lockout I am guessing because of the too-low temps.

The 3 remaining Dom clones are still hanging on but still do not look well.
Waiting on the two Dom seeds to break the surface.

Big Domina is in pause, has lots of buds developing, still 36". Sativa is looking better every day, 25.5" today and really budding well.

The two sativa clones seem to have taken - they went almost white due to lack of N before taking. Pics below.

 

[leafminer]

Two Domina seedlings broke the surface today. I selected the best two clones, trimmed them up, and I think they will make it. The two sativa clones look good. And the Mint Choc looks weird.
All the above are getting 10 am-5pm in the greenhouse and 12 more hours in the grow room.
I'm going to have to move the last of the first batch of clones into flower soon, it is getting a fair size.

 

[BuddyLuv]

See your are still working with that O. Sativa. Have you worked out the nanners it kept throwing? How is the strength for the Domina's over all structure?

 

[leafminer]

Hi BuddyLuv. Thanks for dropping by!
This sativa is actually a new one, it is of course some anonymous bagseed. My daughter gave me the plant to rescue it, it came from one of her friends who was growing it as a 'symbol'.
The original sativa experiment worked out just fine, the crosses never hermied on me so I count it as a success. Just the yield was poor.

The Domina is a great plant in structure - best I have grown to date, for that. It doesn't stretch when going into flower - just pauses and then starts with the colas. When I put these into 12-12 they will continue to veg for 10 days then pause, so I have got my height control working really well with this strain. And yield is very good.
It's not a high potency strain though. Rather it's a "nice" stone, you know, where you walk around for hours wearing a big grin. Mind you I hard to harvest early because of the bud rot. Let's see how the next harvest is. I'm hoping for at least a quarter pound from the next plant.

 

[leafminer]

With a few warmer, sunny days all the plants are now doing really well. Especially the greenhouse.
I have discovered the key to the greenhouse grow is to control humidity. If you get condensation on the plastic or you see transpiration drops on leaf margins, that's danger.

I really like the look of the sativa. The two clones are growing fast now. Think I will take 4 more clones and have 6 as the outside grow for the year. Start them in the gh and move them into the sunny patch later... the sativa has the nice baseball-bat-single-big-cola look about it already. I am already wondering what to do to preserve this strain if it proves something worth saving.

The #2 clone - in the grow room, I checked and just as well I did, it was ONE inch from the hps bulb.

I gonna move her into the gh tomorrow for sure. Make some sinsemilla outa her. That will leave 2 x seedling Dom, 2 x clone Dom, 2 x clone sat, 1 x Mint choc, that all get moved into the gh every sunny day and back into the grow room after dark for an extra 6 hours of just the 120W CFLs I think, if it has been a sunny day. If not sunny I will hit them with all the lamps for 16h.

The big Domina is at 37" and the sativa is starting multiple-finger colas and triching up. :hubba:

 

[leafminer]

Moved the #2 clone into the GH, it's getting too big for the flower room now. 30" height. Changed the grow room lighting to give me an extra 6 hours of light at the end of the day (7pm-1am) so I'll move all the little ones - 7 of them - back and forth between the GH ang grow room for a while. Saves electricity. I've often done this arrangement.
As soon as the cloned sativas are big enough I'm going to clone two more from each, giving me a six-sativa outdoor grow for later on.

 

[legalize_freedom]

Just popped in to see how your grow was going...what no blue mystfits?...lol...sorry didn't mean to hit your funny bone! So you got that Sat back from your kids friend???...lol...I didn't think it would stay gone forever. They probably took one look at it and new that it would die with them...lolol...better give it back to daddy!

Looking good my friend!

 

[leafminer]

It's wierder than you know. Actually I have had the sativa all this time but the original owner said "can't you pick all the buds off it" (wanted to keep growing it as a "symbol" on her mum's window cill).
So I told my daughter that her friend can have a clone if she wants, because the clones are in 16/8 veg. Oh well. This looks like quite a nice pure sativa, but only a smoke test will tell if I am wasting my time. It's a bit of a gamble but I don't have any more pure sativa strains so I may as well take the risk.

Today: the biggest Domina is 37", second is 32", the sativa is 26".
Two healthy Domina clones, two healthy Domina seedlings, two healthy sativa clones, and one of my Mint Choc that is all twisted and gnarly - this has happened before with this strain, I think it is way, way sensitive to nutes and even the slow-release stuff is giving it a lot of trouble - all my other strains have no trouble with the augmented coco I use, but this one, uh-uh. I have been flushing, but no . . . think I will have to repot again but make up some alternative medium with peat moss, white sand, biochar, and a little of the coco but with any slow-release pearls removed.