Uknow's 2019 - Less is More!

Hey all!

I'm back for another season! I'm about a month behind last year's schedule, but still plenty of time since I don't plant out til the first week of June. I think last year I started almost 500 or 600 seeds of around 50 varieties??? This year, I finally cut back, lol. Only did two trays, 144 cells total of 14 different varieties. I'm only planning on keeping 56 plants max, that's what my tent fits in 1 gal (6") nursery pots. However, I'll be keeping 4 to 6 of each variety, instead of only 2of each like last year, so that's where the less is more part comes in! The rest will be given away to friends and family.


Here's the pics...


(Not pictured is Chocolate Habs, added in after this pic)

For anyone new wondering about my setup, here are the details:

Homemade grow tent - 50" wide x 38" deep x 48" tall.

Lighting - 6 twin tube T8 shop lights (12 bulbs total) mounted together as one unit. with Sylvania Octron FO32/865/XP bulbs. 384 watts total with 34,200 Lumens. I'd like to upgrade this to a COB LED setup soon, probably the Optic 4 XL.

Heat mat - 48"x24". I use this one even when not starting 4 trays, because it's a more consistent temperature throughout the mat, vs smaller single tray mats (which I have a few) that get hot in the middle but the outside edges are still cool.

Here's a pic of the timers and stuff on the side of the tent:

Hopefully it's a great season this year!

Best of luck to everyone!

Thanks for stopping by!

 

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Thanks Paul!

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Update for my crosses:

I didn't keep any of the CPR (but not really) "Red Grenade" seeds last season, my fault. So this year I'm growing F1 seeds again. 2 of 3 plants show the hairy stem trait again. Pod shapes are kinda neat. For those of you new to my glogs, a few years ago I got some CPR seeds from Butch, but they must have been crossed because they put out long red pods instead of Chocolate Primo Reapers. So I isolated some flowers and these are the F1 plants for me. (Again, should have been F2 this year but I procrastinated too long on collecting seeds last fall)

Plant 1 (not hairy) no pods yet:

Plants 2 & 3 (hairy)

Here is the Purple Reaper Cross F2 this year... I isolated flowers last year and got 3 plants purple and 3 green. All from the same seeds I collected last fall. Originally, the Mother plant/seeds came from a true reaper pod and I believe the father was my Fidalga Preto due to the pods shape and how they ripen in color (purple->green->orange->red). Last year, pods were smoother like the FP, this year being F2, starting to see a mix of shapes. However, the green plants just put out green pods, no purple first, while the purple plants pods start out purple then go to green, orange and finally red.

Purple plant(s)...

And the green plant(s)

That's all for now, thanks for stopping by!

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