![]() Many users actually gave up or abandoned attempts at growing TD initially due to poor germination rates compared to other plants being grown together with them. Some research online at the time revealed that we weren’t alone having slight germination problems, as many people were having very low germination rates with the initial release of this strain (early 2011). ![]() The germ’d seed was then placed carefully into the hydroton. After two days, one seed had germinated and was almost shedding its shell while the other looked dark and unviable. We placed two seeds in wet paper-towel with the intention to use the healthiest looking one to germinate. These units allow small-growers to grow hydroponically and still only have a few plants at a time. A 1/2″ plastic tube runs through the top bucket near the corner, down to the bottom of the reservoir in which an air-tube is installed with a pump to push air down and force the water up through another plastic console which exits a round ‘drip-ring’ at the surface of the hydroton. The 2 gal bucket has small holes in the bottom and is filled with inert hydroton or clay-pellets (I use hydro-corn actually), the larger 4 gal bucket serves as the unit’s reservoir and is filled with your water/nutrient solution up to the bottom of the smaller bucket. For those unfamiliar with the waterfarm, it’s basically a simple drip/circulate all-in-one hydroponic grow system consisting of one lower-profile (2 gal) square bucket suspended inside a larger square bucket (4 gal). At the top of the tent, in the corner, I strapped a carbon-filter in which has its own fan attached to it to draw in the warm and smelly air before filtering and exhausting it out the top of the tent. The tent had a small 75w inline fan blowing fresh air into the bottom corner using a short run of ducting – this allowed me to keep fresh air circulating from the bottom. I figured with the small tent it would be easier to control temps, with the smaller light creating less heat, and the reflective inner-walls of the tent would be closer to the plant in order to allow the low light-wattage to be more beneficial. Having decided to focus on a single plant this round, my smaller single-sized grow tent (4’x4’x7′) was used with our 400 watt MH light and open-style batwing reflector. Although we’ve only grown out one seed of the TD, comparing our results to other growers (online) during that time proved and disproved a few claims made regarding this sativa dominant selection. ![]() For this reason, we grow exclusively from seed. I’m an indoor tent grower and, like many private ‘closet growers’, my space is extremely limited – no room to keep mother plants or maintain a cloning cycle. This also happened to be my first adventure in hydroponic style growing, after doing some in-depth research with waterfarm growing. Having grown out numerous BF strains (Vanilla Kush, Red Dragon, Acapulco Gold, Blue Cheese – to name a few) with impressive results, we had high hopes and expectations for this one to match the impressive genetics which were previously proven by this ‘big 2’ breeding company.
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