tazmcd, Jesse, Dawn,
Thanks for the reply. I would like to add more information about myself, so you know what my short and long term goals are. Where I live it is really hard to find good weed, usually you only find "schwag" or "brickweed" which is compressed, heavily seeded, and chemically treated outdoor cannabis, which is really nasty, and if you are lucky enough you might find some "creepy" indoor weed but most times is still seeded (I live in a third world country). However, I went to college in the US and later on worked abroad, which allowed me to smoke some awesome ganja in different countries.
I had the chance to visit Amsterdam 3 times, and one time I stayed for 5 days only touring coffeeshops and trying as many varieties as I could. I researched before I made the trip, however I was a noob and only knew about the big "brands" so I visited, GHS, Barney's, Amnesia, Dampkring, and Katsu. I tried, SSH, Super Lemon Haze, G-13 Haze, Amnesia Haze, Pineapple Haze, Utopia Haze, Kali Mist, Melana Cream, LSD, Black Widow, Blue Cheese, NYC Diesel, NL/Silver Pearl. 16grs in less than 5 days for 2 persons. Strongest were Amnesia and SSH, and even thought they were great they couldn't be a daily smoke for me. However, I liked Blue Cheese and G13 Haze a lot better, they were creative, social, and no paranoia, it was great.
After I got fed up with work (I used to work 60-80h weeks and I was in mgmt) I moved back to my home town and well... (explained above). So I decided I was going to start growing my own stuff. First, grow I did a GHS Cheese outdoors, I live at 7 deg lat we have 11.5 to 12.5 h of sunlight year long, temps are around 18-30C and RH 45-80% yearlong. I know I want to grow this MH outdoors really bad, but I need to find the perfect spot first. I got 40gr in one plant. Then I grew some GHS Lemon Skunk in soil indoors and I got around 30gr and 100gr from 2 plants, different phenos. At the same time, I have been trying to start a hydro food production business, and while researching for it I did a couple of test with MJ, and I will be running the MH in hydro.
Now, I have 3 MH, no show of pre-sex yet on day 25, I took some macro shots with my dslr and there isnt anything there yet. They are growing strong from day 1. They are short and started to grow their 9th node. I will start a journal later on and post pics, I'm really excited. I will take clones and run the seeds, and later select a temporary mom out of the 3 (if female, i'm an optimist), and run a new seed in each grow, until I find my mom.
It is interesting to note that they are under a 500W MH Vertical at 0.8 EC in RDWC since the seedlings showed roots in their respective rapid rooters and they have not showed any signs of overfeeding or stress. I might not have any sativa leaning phenos in this run.
I would like to play with environmental factors (as explained by DJ Short) to increase the sativa tendencies on my next seeds. I have to take advantage of my location to do that.
Sorry for the long post. I like these forums a lot, and it seems we are all here to share.
Thanks!