This is about Archive Seeds Race Fuel OG. Because these are 4 regular seeds with at least a 50% male rate. I might try 10 veg/10 week flower so I can get decent yield with a 3x3 tent.
As a companion strain, I will be using 4 Exotic Genentix Milk and Cookies.
The plants will progressively be planted in 16 oz cups, 1 liter air-pots, and finally 2 plants per 5 gallon air-pots. I like to flush at week 4 by taking the 1 liter pot outside and us a minimal amount of water. There will probably be 3 more flushes in the final 5 gallon air-pots.
I soaked the seeds for 30 hours. They were floating on top and when poked down, they sank to the bottom. Upon close inspection you can notice they split.
I fill 16 oz. plastic cups with Happy Frog and submerge the seeds root down a little lower than a centimeter. If the seeds are not submerged enough in the dirt the seed shell stays on the sprout head too long. I place the cups on a heating-pad germanator with a T5 turned off.
I start my grows on the weekends. Around Tuesday - Wednesday there's a seedling. By the next weekend the seedling will be slightly stretched out by the T5 lights on the germanator.
The second week the 16 oz cups are in the tent and by day 14 the roots hit the bottom of the cup and grow sideways about an inch. They should separate easily from the cups in perfect cup shapes.
Weeks 3-4 I will vegetate in 1 liter air-pot with the stretch from the T5 lights submerged as far as possible in to the soil of the air-pot.
@BarrieGrower, thanks. you have fun with yours. HST is more of a stativa that's grown to 4 feet and snapped over a net. In week 7 and 8 i'm snapping the colas that are too close to lights.
@fogcitymarathoner, I hear you, been there done that. My LST is like S&M, haha. Its all good, I am just enjoying the process and having fun. Everything else is gravy.
Cheers!
@BarrieGrower, I wanted 8 weeks of veg in these pots. Week 3 I had to start 3 feminized to compensate for my 3 out of 8 success rate with regular seeds. That resulted in the final pot at week 5.
I'm claiming I'm practicing HST because for a good 10 weeks I defoliate almost half the fan leaves. At week 10 veg I had to remove 30-40% of the mainlined branches. Some branches close to the light are snapped into a '7' shape and taped. I'm getting a head start trimming the buds while the plant is alive.
Looking good ... Just got done harvesting a Northern Lights Auto & a AK-49 Auto myself. I wish you the same success.Good luck with the rest of your grow
@Mr_Weeds_Autos, I just started a July - October outdoor Northern Late. (?) latte(?)
My harvest looks good. I'm holding out for a complete weigh in after a 40 day cure.