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D3's 2018. This will be a good year.

2018 already, time sure does fly by  :shocked:
 
Been a member on this forum a few years now (2013?). This has to be a record for me. I usually change hobbies by now. Maybe it's because we get a few months down time to relax and take a break from caring for plants. 
 
Here's the growlogs of the past
 
D3 2017 Keeping it mild
 
D3monic's Crossing Project/Community Grow
 
D3's 2016 Growlog
 
D3monic's 2015 Glog. Lots of pods
 
D3monic's 2014 Glog n Gardening bonanza
 
I'm getting things ready for this years grow. Looking at adding a new grow light for seedlings. I had some nice LED ones but they are starting to go out and my t5 fixture stopped working. Probably the ballast but who knows. 
 
I'm looking at ordering this one https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019J3UPUS/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A18TGAB2SJ5GBJ&psc=1 I just need to make sure it will fit on my bakers shelf right. Should be plenty bright enough for plant starts. 
 
I haven't come up with a list of plants for this year yet. I know it's going to be mostly my crosses with maybe a few I plan on crossing and some for hotsauce. 
 
juanitos said:
yea that's a return. and you only need 4 bulbs per shelf that size. (unless you are having it for other use later for bigger plants later)
i see you got some leds on the lower shelf.
 
wish i had basement / space like that.
 
Wish I could return them but i've had those lights in use on the grow shelf for a few years. That's what I get for buying the $12 fixtures at home depot. 
 
I'm thinking about removing the grow cabinets since I don't grow canna anymore. Would really open up the grow space and make room for more plants. Or maybe i'll just pull the doors off and re-implement the hydro. it is nice since I have hanging eyelets in there to suspend lights from. 
 
I used to have 4 of those LED fixtures but two went out around the same time. They run kind of hot even though loaded with fans. 
 
Masher said:
Wow, that could have been a disaster.
 
Replace your outlets with GFI's would be a good idea.
 
 
 
All the outlets in the growroom are on their own breaker and GFCI. Was sort of surprised it didn't trip it. Maybe I should test it. 
 
The light look great and I wish you a good year! Saw the price was excited about 138 bucks so around 170 canadian $

and its 253 on amazon.ca lol

 
 
santis00 said:
Hey thats the same rack I have set up for this year. upgrading from the cheap one i used in the past. Got my led strips coming in now just need to order my other seed starting parts.
 
What LED strips did you order?
 
Trident chilli said:
Great list D3 looks like it's going to be another bumper season for you ... always a pleasure to drop in and read your glog
 
Thanks for stopping by, going to be a big year I think. Either that or i'm going to get in over my head  :rofl:
 
Next round of seeds are soaking. 
 
Swiss Chocolate
Chocoalte habanero
BOC X Aji Pineapple
The rest of my D3 Goat Giant Pheno none of the first round have germinated. 
Orange Wild Brazil
Orange Thai
El Scorponero f2 (hoping for something different)
 
Here's what's in the dirt so far
 
Tray 1 
D3 Goat Giant Pheno f4
D3 Goat White Pheno f4
D3 Goat Yellow Wicked tail f3
El Scorponero Orange f3 (#6)
El Scorponero Red f3   (#2)
Devils Prick f3 Cool Ripening Pheno (#3)
Carolina Reaper
White bullet habanero
white bhut true long pheno
7pot burgundy x cgn-21500 f2
 
Tray 2
Yellow Fatalii x Brainstrain
Bhut Orange Copenhagen 
Jays Peach Ghost scorpion
Papa Dreadie Scotch Bonnet select 
Yellow Brainstrain
JPGS x Primo
Peach Naga x BBG7
 
Tray 3
Swiss Chocolate
Chocolate Habanero
BOC X Aji Pineapple
D3 Goat Giant f4
Orange Wild Brazil
Orange Thai
El Scorponero f2
Omni Bonnet f2
Cumari Pollux
Foodarama SB
Papa joes SB
bbg7 freeports 
congo Trinidad giant yellow
 
I ordered some 5630 strips from china haha! They actually work good. I rigged an old PC CPU to power them and it works good, kind of a ghetto set up so I ordered one set of strip lights with the power adapter/plug in and then will just solder on the other strips. I think I had 4 strips per shelf on my other set up and it worked great. Looking to do the same here. 
 
Thought about doing some actual grow red/blue lights but just went with the white leds. The hard part for me is waiting. I am not going to start until 2/1 and its killlllling me! Plus my wife wants more of a salsa garden and other stuff this year so have to cut down on my grow list of pepper plants. BUT the Aji Omi and Fidalga Roxa seeds I have are just two of each left this year. Didn't get to save any, having said that I have plenty of other seeds so I just need to suck it up
 
So the three in the middle are supposed to be reapers that I saved from a pheno that had really nice tails from two years ago. They was growing OP near some yaki brown and about 6 feet from that bhut cross by mojo what ever it was called. I'm thinking a lil cross pollination on that center one
 
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ThatBlondGuy101 said:
Should be interesting to see how that one comes out.
 
yea i'm really looking forward to it. I was wanting to maybe do a dark foliage cross this summer. If I can figure out what this one was crossed with I might just roll with that. Judging by the start of that foliage i'm guessing yaki brown was the pollen donor. 
 
 
 
Current update
 
Tray 1                                                      Hook 
D3 Goat Giant Pheno f4  X 2                     1-21
D3 Goat White Pheno f4 X 2                     1-24
D3 Goat Yellow Wicked tail f3 X3              1-19
El Scorponero Orange f3 (#6) X5              1-16
El Scorponero Red f3   (#2) X6      
Devils Prick f3  (#3) X3                              1-20
Carolina Reaper X3                                   1-19
White bullet habanero X1                           1-16
white bhut true long pheno X2                   1-18
7pot burgundy x cgn-21500 f2 X3              1-16
 
Tray 2                                                       Hook
Yellow Fatalii x Brainstrain X6                    1-16
Bhut Orange Copenhagen  X9                   1-21
Jays Peach Ghost scorpion X12                1-21
Papa Dreadie Scotch Bonnet select X24   1-18
Yellow Brainstrain X3                                  1-27
JPGS x Primo  X3                                       1-29
Peach Naga x BBG7                                   1-26
Aji Amarillo x Caribbean red hab x3            1-26
 
Tray 3                                                         Hook
Swiss Chocolate                   x3                  1-29
Chocolate Habanero            x6                   1-29
BOC X Aji Pineapple            x3                   2-3
D3 Goat Giant f4                  x0                    no germ yet
Orange Wild Brazil               x3                   1-29
Orange Thai                         x6
El Scorponero f2                  x6                    1-28
Omni Bonnet f2                   x3                    2-3
Cumari Pollux                     x0                    no germ yet
Foodarama SB                   x0                    no germ yet
Papa joes SB                     x3                    1-31
bbg7 freeports                    x3                    1-28
congo Trinidad giant yellow x3                   1-31
 
I'm starting a 4th tray now, deciding what to germinate. 
 
Seedlings are coming along nice
 
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I just planted some 
 
hot rod serrano x maui purple f3
Jeff Hobbs 4 way habanero
Blue Christmas
Large orange thai
Prick Chee Faa
SB Elysium
SB Beth Boyd Orange
SB Cappuccino 
SB Nebru 7
Hogsweed
Aji painapple f3
 
The un-reaper seedling is coming along very pretty. 
 
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For 3 seasons now my BOC have this discolored white foliage. First two seasons I thought maybe a deficiency but at this point it HAS to be genetics. The two middle rows (left to right) are all BOC. 
 
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