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BM Special Queen #1 from seed

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19 L
Pot Size
3.79 L
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Week 1
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30
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Bongman Bongman
7 years ago
Hi All, After doing three grows of the same strain. I am ready to venture out and start a new one. And that is Special Queen #1 from Royal Queens Seeds. But I am off with a rough start... :( GERMINATION: Super fast and easy to germinate. Four out of four seeds germinated after 3 days using the paper towel method. (my first sign that this is not going to be easy) transferred two to rockwool and two to jiffy cubes. The rockwool ones grew faster but when I transplanted them into solar cup size pots I severed the two in jiffy cubes while transplanting!!!!!! :( Sign one. SEEDLING: I am a person of experiments so I placed soilless medium in both containers and placed one in my Rainforest Aeroponics cloning machines and one just hand watered. After 2 weeks the one in aeroponics were three times the size of the hand watered one. TRANSPLANTING to VEG: (My second sign that this grow is jinxed) Again the curious BM in me can't resist experiments. So I transplanted the hand water one into a 5G pot and moved the aeroponics to a GH bucket DWC. The hand water transplant to soil went really well. And I thought transplanting from aeroponics to DWC should be a breeze but didn't realize that the holes that goes from the top chamber to the reservoir are so small that I only managed to get 3 out of 30 roots thru the holes :( So the hydro mother plant was stunned and had root rot. This leads to a whole slew of problems. There was severe light burn, nutrient burn on the mother although my solution was less than half strength compared with the aeroponics cloner and I went from 200PAR top of canopy from a CFL to a LED dialled down to 185 PAR top of canopy. I thought that would be good enough, cause I tried that with the WW clones before. But I think because the root ball (size of two fists) were mostly on the top chamber under clay balls. I am kind of sad because the mother plant was thriving under the aero cloner ( The fan leaves were the size of my hand) But it is now half dead and severely stunned :( SOIL USED IN VEG: Foxfarm Ocean Forest 40% Coco 40% Perlite 15% Wormcastling 5% Brewed Compost tea - Microbes 36hours and soaked soil mix with tea before transplanting. Wormcasting, Greatwhite, Mykos, himalayan pink salt, kelp meal, molasses Take aways from all this: Got to think about when and where to transplant and the risks and implication of transplanting too many times. Cause theoretically vegging in hydro and flowering in soil is the quickest method to get your plant to a certain size in the shortest time. But unforeseen things do happen more often the more you handle/transplanting. So next time round I will use rapid rooter cubes or plant the germinated seedling directly into 2G air pots and see if that is the balance I am looking for. I will try to update sooner this time around so stay tuned... Happy growing BM 4TwenTee
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Bongman
Bongmancommentedweek 57 years ago
Hi Guys, Please be a little patience because I missed the flowering window so I need to wait two weeks before I start flowering. So this grow will have a long veg time. Looking at lights out mid december so stay tune. Happy growing BM
Zannabis7
Zannabis7commentedweek 137 years ago
What a killer trichome shot! Had to stop in and take a closer look at your grow. Nice work!
Zannabis7
Zannabis7commented7 years ago
@Bongman, You're welcome and I will certainly stay tuned! Looking forward to your future grows!
Bongman
Bongmancommented7 years ago
@Zannabis7, Thanks a lot man. Still trying to master my presentation skills here, hehe... Glad you liked it. Please stay tune for more grows with the BM coming up...
420_liquidsun
420_liquidsuncommentedweek 127 years ago
Nice grow bro, looking lovely.. ✌️🏼
420_liquidsun
420_liquidsuncommented7 years ago
@Bongman,hope everything goes well.. crossed fingers..
Bongman
Bongmancommented7 years ago
@420_liquidsun, I have to confess and tell everyone that i made a super newbie mistake. Basically I got a new COBs light and was adding to the grow to test it out. I was lazy and didn't hook up the light to the timer and I forgot to turn off the light after lights out. Roughly about 2 hours... So I hope this is not going to force the ladies to herm.... But I am sure I will loose maybe 20% of bud weight, because my grows usually pack on a lot the last two weeks... So the moral of the story, be diligent and NEVER procrastinate or be lazy when it comes to setting up timers... :(.....
biggreens420
biggreens420commentedweek 117 years ago
Looking nice and frosty nearly there now u might wanna start flush now
biggreens420
biggreens420commentedweek 107 years ago
Looking beautiful nice trich production stacking nicely
CaliGrown
CaliGrowncommentedweek 57 years ago
Bushes on Bushes, they all look happy and healthy. Keep doing what your doing πŸ‘πŸΌ
GrueneHand
GrueneHandcommentedweek 37 years ago
Good Luck πŸ‘½
pifflestikkz
pifflestikkzcommentedweek 139 months ago
This is a brilliant diary, well done πŸ™Œ plant looks healthy. I'm doing my 2 in a couple of weeks will be using advanced nutrients and hps. See if there's much of a difference βœŒοΈπŸ’š
CANNASIM
CANNASIMcommentedweek 137 years ago
πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ» Well done Bongman! RQS rocks in my opinion! Congrats on the harvest. If you have the opportunity give a go in recharge since you liked the great white. πŸ™ƒπŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘ŠπŸ» Cheers, happy growing!
Bongman
Bongmancommented7 years ago
@CANNASIM, Thanks bro. I've been eyeing the recharge for sometime now. Maybe I will take the plunge on my next auto/super soil grow... will let you know and thanks for pointing that out... Have a great easter weekend...
CANNASIM
CANNASIMcommentedweek 137 years ago
Hey Bongman! All right? What is next? 😎
put_around
put_aroundcommentedweek 137 years ago
Congrats on the grow!
James
Jamescommentedweek 137 years ago
Hey, you have private message ;)
put_around
put_aroundcommentedweek 127 years ago
Excellent grow!! Can’t wait for final #’s
biggreens420
biggreens420commentedweek 77 years ago
Looking nice bro bushing up
biggreens420
biggreens420commentedweek 57 years ago
Looking nice I dont see another special queen I will be following good luck