Down At The Doctors - Dogstar's NHS test grow 2009

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Dogstar

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NHS seed grow 2009

Hi all,

I was going to wait for my seeds to arrive but am too excited, so here we go.

All my first grows will be in soil, split between indoors under 600w HPS (plus 400w MH if available), outdoors in 15L pots (maybe force flowered) and outdoors in the ground and left to nature. This is west coast UK around 53N, so hope for a mid-late October finish outdoors, without shading.

I'm going to take cuttings and run a 2nd grow indoors in soil of my top 3 plants, then maybe try a 3rd run of my favorite strain under a screen in a NFT tank. Will also try and select a plant for outdoors if they work out.

I've just finished selecting a hazy SSH mother, and will be interested in finding something with a slightly shorter flowering time and more skunky to complement it.

Good luck with your grows

EDITED TO ADD SUMMARY REPORT BELOW:

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NHS at 9 weeks 12/12

I thought it would be a good idea to summarise my observations on this grow at the start of the thread.

- 15/15 germinated.

- 5/10 female (outdoors crew to sex)

- All plants healthy with no mutations, one smaller seedling which caught up

- Some pheno variation in early veg stage (single cola/branchy) - not as much variation as SSH

- More variation in leaf edge pattern (ie rounded, sawtooth) than leaf shape (possibly identifying phenos)

- Easy to grow, takes full strength nutes OK

- Success of supercropping (ie snapping main stem) depends on pheno

- Vigorous, stayed green throughout flowering (no Mg def)

- no mould (but no mould on any other strain either) Humditiy in flowering was very high 80%+

- no insect attacks (unlike the adjacent Blueberry which was covered in aphids and had to be removed)

- Easy to clone (100%)

- Potentially light sensitive, may develop male sacs in poor environment (irregular hours in my case)

- Stretch x 2 - x 2.5 (max) after 12/12. Average was x 2.2 (ish)

- Flowering 9-11 weeks after 12/12 depending on maturity at 12/12

- Some pheno variation by smell (some more skunky, some with haze undertones), but nowhere near the range of phenos as SSH IME

- A medium to heavy cropping strain
 
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Seeds have arrived!

Seeds have arrived now! No need for the impatience.

22 seeds altogether; 13 big brown stripey ones, 5 medium sized paler and 4 small and pale (about the size of my SSH seeds).

I'm going to take a sample of each size and put 15 of them in a damp J-cloth until they split, then into seedling compost.
 
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LOL yeah im kinda excited too,jus feel if i do my thread then it might hex things,so will be waiting....i think...maybe...:D

best of luck with your grow m8 :)
 
the Doctor is IN! :D


looks like you have all sorts going on in here mate... I'm looking to clone mine for a second data run too, so I look forward to hearing how you get on. it'll be interesting to see how easily they take and how the flower times are affected :)
 
First root tip showing after 24 hours

One of my seeds has split and has a root tip showing, 24 hours after putting them in a damp J-cloth. Will transfer the seeds to seedling compost over the next few days as they pop.

Next report in a week, showing seedlings.
 
Seedlings showing above the soil

I was going to wait for them all to sprout before my next report, but took a couple of emerging seedlings...I need to get a tripod for my next shots.

I love it when seedlings first break through.

I put all of the seeds in the seedling compost 36 hours after they went into the damp J-cloth. About 1/2 of the seeds had root tips showing by this time.

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lol, 22 seeds man, hehehe, best of luck Dogstar with your seeds and grow. :)
 
Cheers mate.

Here's my flower room at the moment, I'm trying a perpetual multi-strain grow, here we have a range of plants 1-4 weeks since 12/12. Some are 2nd grow from cuttings, some from seed. My NHS plants should be ready to go into here in about 5-6 weeks time, once the Devil have finished.

Strains

SSH (cut)
DV - Devil (cut)
BW - Black Widow (seed) - you could thatch a small house with the leaves on this one.
KM - Kali Mist (seed)
BG - Bubblegum (seed)
BB - Blueberry (cut, DJ Short)

No need to say it smells like heaven.
 

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Last seeds breaking through

Last seeds breaking through now..just one left to show itself.

Handheld shots with a compact camera :)

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Week 1 - All seedlings showing

7 days after receiving the seeds and we have 15/15 out of the soil. This is quite a good rate for me, I wonder if I am taking a little extra care on this one.

I thought two of them weren't going to make it. I'm glad NHS7 pulled through, I'm going to keep an eye on that one.

They are under a 110w Powerplant light (2 x 55w tubes).

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they are looking great m8.
those pics are brilliant what camera are you using m8?
good on you
 
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they are looking great m8.
those pics are brilliant what camera are you using m8?
good on you
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Cheers elmo,

I am using a Ricoh Caplio GX100, which is a quality compact with a wide angle zoom (24mm equiv). I mainly bought it for the wide angle and manual controls, but it has a couple of other useful tricks like time-lapse photographs, where you can set it to take a shot every 5 mins, 1 hour or whatever. I thought a series of a seedling emerging over 12/24 hours would be cool, but didn't manage it this time. I had to take a few of the macro shots in order to get a good one.

I found the best exposures were 2-3 stops below the camera's auto exposure (on a dark background), and now use it on manual exposure and look at the screen to gauge the best exposure. I also messed around with the white balance to get the colours right.

Indirect sunlight or diffused side-light helps to lower contrast and avoid bleached out highlights. So shading the plants, adjusting the white balance and using a tripod are three tricks I'd suggest!

e2a. The indoor shot of the flower room I just put it on soft flash and left it to it.
 
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excellent start Dogstar,
they look like strong seedlings.
09 may be a year to remember.
good luck
scorpion
 
those plants look great m8 thanx for the camera name im deff keeping my eye out for one of those
good on you fella:)
 
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stunning pics mate, really impressive, after seeing the quality of your pics and the macro capability of the Ricoh Caplia GX100
i'm seriously thinking of ditching my Canon EOS 450D SLR and buying 1 of those,

peace
 
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