Race Fuel OG

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.

Grow diaries CMS is lame. Pic is my first 48. Week 3 will be a compressed catch up. In 2 days there will be sprouts. Those sprouts will have T5 stretch by the weekend.

After 2 weeks in pint cup, 1 week in heated dome and 1 week in tent, the seedlings are transplanted into a .5 l (?) air pot.

HST - seedling grew to 4 nodes. hacked all nodes except the 3rd node. The small Race Fuel on the right is going to dictate the speed of my grow. It's the slowest of the 8 plants in the grow and of the 2 race fuels it might be the only female. These are going into 1 gallon air pots this weekend.

Down to one race fuel. I over trained my fast growing race fuel and broke all the shoots. I moved the broken plant outdoors. Something should happen in 7 months. The slow growing race fuel pulls out of it's training restraints. This is the kind of stuff I'm likely to do with multi-stain grows. The grow isn't a total bust because I have 5 regular Exotic Genetix Milk and Cookies and 3 feminized The Church.

Week 6, just before transplanting to 5 gal air pot.

Growth rate stepped up with transplant to 5 gallon air pot. 4 5-gallon air pots increase the humidity to 50% from 35% with 8 1-gallon air pots. (8 gallon grow to a 20 gallon grow) Using nutrient levels qualifying as "aggressive vegetation." I don't see burn. I plan on flushing with florakleen at week 4 of veg in new pots before stepping down floragrow, stepping up floramicro, adding florabloom, and adding molasses. I'll flush again at week 8 before starting flower and changing the nutes a little bit. Every couple of days the training posts are moved up and 3 -5 fan leafs have to be removed if covering a cola stock or touching ground. Training is most quickest with 14 gauge solid core wire. The interim tools with bamboo skews, toothpicks, and stranded core wire take 3 - 5 minutes to make. My grow currently requires 36 of these training tools.

Defoliating once a week. I'm training the close end to turn 180 back to center and training the far end to the center of the tent. The 180 side will have big 9 point fan leave within 48 hours. Broke one of the stems. That stem has been topped and those 2 stems will be allowed to grow upwards. I have another broken stem in the tent that will be allowed to grow upwards. 2 pots in the back of the tent are ready for flower and I'm running out of pot surface to train with. So this next week will have upward growth.

the side i'm training to turn around grows slowly and is crowded with stocks. the side i'm training to grow towards the center grows much faster. in 3 days the fan leaves will back. the fan leaves interfere with the trained growth 4 days of the week.

growdiaries is lame. i don't know why my week nine post shows up under week 10 edit. Also my week 10 post is not saving. I use growdiaries to count my weeks. this week is more of the same. I'm letting the plant grow upwards.

growing height. raised light 10 inches. 15% of the rib-like branches had little chance so 15% of the branches off he 2 left-right mains were removed and set aside for clones.

more of same. last week of vege.

next 3 day schedule saturday last defoliation before flowering, consume last of vege nutes, with absence of trellis net slight pot rotations made sense. sunday each pot gets 6 cups flora kleen monday weird major uptake growth tuesday obstructive leafs on tops obstruct bottom targeted growth, switching to 12/12. Race Fuel/Milk and cookies will have 13 weeks. The church 10 weeks. I wanted 8 weeks of vegetation in the final 5 gallon air pots which was claimed to be a 7 gallon equivalent . i do pretty complete defoliations every saturday, i really don't see visible shock 5 hours into the next lighting cycle, by tuesday fan leaves interfere with targeted areas. defoliation during flowering will probably be more frequent with less transparency in the canopy. judging from the canopy that looks kinda like an 8 week canopy with trellis netting, trellis netting and a 8 week vege is more practical. im really hoping avoiding the trellis weave will speed up trimming. the last crop ruined a whole weekend with trimming responsibility and scads of thumb size buds.

im skipping defoliation during the first 10 days of flower, then small defoliation steps every 48 hours. looking down the canopy and up the canopy. i want to see what tops will surface through fan leaves during stretch. 1 leaf has a deficiency of something that i don't care about. im running out of lighting gap. not sure i want to use or can use the height extension for the gorilla grow tent. i think the bud tastes like newspaper if the lights are too close.

11 days of flower and no flowers compared to other strains. first defoliation during flower. i want as many leafs as possible as they contribute to terps and indicate ripeness.

buds starting to appear, still kinda boney. selectively defoliating frequently to expose buds to direct light. those pots dampen whatever shock from defoliating at this point. that's why i put 8 weeks of veg into these pots. still getting a feel for the manifolding technique. the canopy is a little too dense. this plant alone is enough for the 3x3. this would have been fun put in it's own tent and snap all the outside stems and expose the center branches which i just wasted.

more of the same week 8 in the air pots, flush every 4 weeks. used flora kleen and stopped using flora grow, stepped up florabloom.

week 5 flower. (?) wont know until i commit. slight stacking on the buds. defoliating leaves fingers sticky now.

nothing left to defoliate not particularly productive partial HST. the vertical stems are 3-4 feet and hollow in the top half. the hollow parts dent like cans and lean. i can't figure out how to enter details like ph, humidity, ...

week 7 of flower. three more. might have to do some partial harvesting with forced ripening with florakleen complicating the process.

week 7 of flower. three more. might have to do some partial harvesting with forced ripening with florakleen complicating the process.

used a microscope on some colas that have been snapped and found the trichomes to be mostly milky, so I harvested 4 of the tops. The buds are fattening at the tips. First phase of harvesting next weekend.

i spent about a month harvesting by layer. top parts ripening sooner. also small spurts of trimming duty. harvesting at once is 15 hours straight trimming work. 10 days hung to dry. 30 days in a jar. I haven't weighed the product nor tasted it. Im hoping i can edit this post after a weigh in