Orange cookies for the new year

[woolybear]

Hello ICMAG!


This story started in summer of 2018. I got several packs of beanz seeds, and germed a bunch of orange cookies x black and black lime x lucky charms.


Actually, it started in 2017. I ordered the beans then, seedbay went down, then I posted for help in the forums and got my seeds.



Didn't have the best germ rates, and all the lucky charms turned out to be male - two that i thought were fems grew balls right after flipping, which was a shame as one of them was the most vigorous plant I've grown.


Fast forward to the new year. I have two orange cookies ready to chop this weekend. One is super purple, the other less so. Golfball shaped nugs. Here they are!


Coco / LEDs / cocos nutes:


Purple:














plant thats less purple:









I'm really looking forward to smoking these plants. I'll need to get more seeds cracked, I have 3-4 beanz packs left over.

[woolybear]

Tent shot:








Shot with black lime males in the back:

[ronbo51]

Your story sounds remarkably like mine. 5 packs of Beanz seeds after weeks of sorting it out with the Bay, but like you, I was made whole and couldn't be happier about it. I too grew out orange cookies first, followed by lemon zinger black lime Malawi. Next winter I will do the lucky charms black lime and lucky charms apollo 13.

I had a very broad leaved pheno of the cookies that had more frost than the thinner leaved models, although the more sativa varieties were still very well frosted. I think I took mine to over 70 days. The next run is cuttings of the 4 females I had so I suspect it will shorten the flowering time by a week or more.

I am about 3 weeks in the jars now. I think the flavors are still developing. I also think the reserve in the black lime reserve brings a lot of fuel flavor that is the up front taste that I get from almost every sample. But there is some increasing citrus, which I like and was looking for that is starting to push up from the background. Did you get citrus smells while it grew ? I did not, at least not enough to note.

I run in organic, water only, and the orange cookies was trouble free, easy to grow, and has been fun to smoke so far. I can sleep with it, converse semi intelligently, as well as make cabinets and do carpentry. I also dusted a branch on every plant with studly male pollen and of course took cuttings of everything, just in case. Good luck.

[woolybear]

Thanks for the info ronbo!


The orange cookies is a beautiful plant, and I love golf ball nugs. Will be easy to trim.


Haven't scoped the trichs yet, but the fan leaves have started to die, so she's telling me she's ready.


I believe I started flower on 11/6, so it be almost exactly eight weeks this weekend.


Here's the beans I have left:
Luck Charms x OJSDKB
Headbanger x Black Lime
Lucky charm x black lime
and another pack of orange cookies.


1st time in ten years of growing that I didn't get a female. I suppose I was long overdue!

[Mlewis1987]

That purple plant looks really nice. I love a plant that shows its color like that. I’ve only had one that’s done that. Nice work brother keep it up. Thanks for sharing

[beanz]

Your story sounds remarkably like mine. 5 packs of Beanz seeds after weeks of sorting it out with the Bay, but like you, I was made whole and couldn't be happier about it. I too grew out orange cookies first, followed by lemon zinger black lime Malawi. Next winter I will do the lucky charms black lime and lucky charms apollo 13.

I had a very broad leaved pheno of the cookies that had more frost than the thinner leaved models, although the more sativa varieties were still very well frosted. I think I took mine to over 70 days. The next run is cuttings of the 4 females I had so I suspect it will shorten the flowering time by a week or more.

I am about 3 weeks in the jars now. I think the flavors are still developing. I also think the reserve in the black lime reserve brings a lot of fuel flavor that is the up front taste that I get from almost every sample. But there is some increasing citrus, which I like and was looking for that is starting to push up from the background. Did you get citrus smells while it grew ? I did not, at least not enough to note.

I run in organic, water only, and the orange cookies was trouble free, easy to grow, and has been fun to smoke so far. I can sleep with it, converse semi intelligently, as well as make cabinets and do carpentry. I also dusted a branch on every plant with studly male pollen and of course took cuttings of everything, just in case. Good luck.

I would love some pics , sounds like you were happy and thats great

[beanz]

Thanks for the info ronbo!


The orange cookies is a beautiful plant, and I love golf ball nugs. Will be easy to trim.


Haven't scoped the trichs yet, but the fan leaves have started to die, so she's telling me she's ready.


I believe I started flower on 11/6, so it be almost exactly eight weeks this weekend.


Here's the beans I have left:
Luck Charms x OJSDKB
Headbanger x Black Lime
Lucky charm x black lime
and another pack of orange cookies.


1st time in ten years of growing that I didn't get a female. I suppose I was long overdue!

great job , its bloody quiet in here hay ..... glad you enjoyed also .

[woolybear]

Of the two plants, i think i prefer the purple. The buds themselves are a bit higher quality.

Definitely one of the loudest plants i've ever grown. Does not require a lot of ferts. Have gotten a few comments on the strength of the smell of the smoke!

Currently have a few clones almost ready to go into flower.

Got a few destroyer x black lime beans going, baby stage. I'm wondering if destroyer is a sour d or og type of plant?

Going to pop a few other beans as well. i usually do 3-4 at a time.


Thanks again beans

[woolybear]

Still rockin' beanz beanz. The destroyer x black lime didn't turn out well at all.

orange cookies x black lime was excellent smoke. those plants are gone, but one o them produced tons of bagseed. mixed blessing!

I have the following in the tent, most about a month old:

3 lucky charms x OJSDKB
2 lucky charms x black lime

and a couple of my F2 orange cookies x black lime.

Hope you're doin ok out there beans!

[woolybear]

Week six of the new grow. I had planned on using this recycled glass material (like perlite but manmade), but the plants just didn't like it. Around the 4th node they all started looking a bit droppy and under the weather.

So instead I'm using a mix of coco and the perlite substitute with some rockwool tossed in.

Took a couple of days for the plants to adjust to being in coco, but they are doing fantastic now.

The lucky charms x OJSDKB (3, top row) were the first to pop from seed and most vigorous.

Middle row: I made the Karma's Cuban Bubba Haze F2 seeds about 5 years ago by lightly dusting a female with pollen from a male. Of the three, the one in the middle with the big leaves stands out.

Bottom row, Lucky Charms x Black Lime. These were the least vigorous of the seeds. The big one on the right is as old as the rest, middle I popped a few weeks after, left one the same but this one has very stunted growth.

It developed that thing early on where an area of the stem basically died, and it grew very slowly as it didnt have a full functioning stem to work with. Its the same after as the other two on the bottom row.

Once it finally sprouted some roots, after 4 weeks or so, I transplanted it to coco where after a couple of days I saw root growth. Way more than before.

The 4 plants on the left going counter clockwise are bag seeds of the orange cookies x black lime I ran last year. A combination of sloppy light leaks + it being a cookie cross led to me getting over a 100 seeds.

Free seeds!



Using canna coco nutes. Have more coco coming in the mail.

[woolybear]

Week 10 update

Karma's Cuban Bubba Haze F2 3/3 Female
lucky charms x OJSDKB 1/3
Lucky Charms x Black Lime 1 Male, 2 not sure

I learned that when germinating seeds, especially old ones, you should wash them vigorously in a mesh strainer. Sanitize. I think its because I didn't do this my lemon og seedlings (among others) died shortly after cracking. Luckily I still have a few of those lest.

In the picture below, the bottom left plant is the middle Karma's Cuban Bubba Haze F2 in the picture above. It's quite a bit stretchier and rangy than the other two, plus it appeared to suffer from fungus gnats when none of the other plants did. Even if she's a bit gnarly right now I'm sure she'll produce some nice colas.

Debating on topping her or not. They all have been topped once and Low-stress trained.



Treated the coco with BT at least once a week or so. Took a couple cuts of the females, thinking about flipping to flower soon, maybe this weekend. I've been guilty of over-vegging in the past.

The other plants are in the other big tent, and the male lucky charms x OJSDKB are in the small tent, haven't killed them yet. Going to attempt to get pollen I think.

[woolybear]

day 10 flower update

I figured out that the big Cuban Bubba Haze girl is a cal/mag hog. She's growing explosively, I may need to tie down the tops as its only been 10 days.

The other plants have been topped once, then low-stress trained. Got lots of tops!

I can't get this digital timer to work correctly for my male tent. Note to self - look for basic timer at the hardware store.

I'm almost out of the good weed, still have a couple jars of shake and herb that didn't make the cut in my freezer.

3 Cuban Bubba Haze F2s with a lucky charms x OJSDKB in the bottom right.


Canopy view. Things are going nicely.



The big CBH

[woolybear]

Thanks for stopping by my grow journal! This grow marks 10 years of growing and 10 years on icmag. Thank you icmag!

Week 5 of flower has passed. Photo update, entire tent.
Clockwise from top right:
CBH #2
lucky charms x OJSDKB
CBH #1
CBH #3



CBH #2 is the big boy, and has been a minor pain when the other plants in the tent have had no issues. A cal/mag hog with nute sensitivity, she's developing some lovely pink/purple buds:



CBH #1. Looks like she'll be nice and chunky:


CBH #3:



the lucky charms x OJSDKB looks like the buds will be on the smaller side, but she's giving off a nice bubblegum smell and is super frosty:

[woolybear]

week 6 text update

the ogkb, cbh #2 and cbh #3 look to be winners so far. Both the cbh have nice golfball sized nugs, with the #2 purpling up nicely.

ogkb is stacking a bunch of nice triangle shaped nugs. smells like bubblegum.

on the down front, despite the nice nugs, cbh #2 about 40% of the leaves are in a sorry state. curled brown leaf tips, dead yellow rotting fan leaves, but most of the smaller leaves are green.

especially odd when the other plants are mostly fine, save for some MG def as evidenced by the serrated outer leaf edges turning yellow.

meanwhile, tent #2 is doing fine.

loser? cbh #1. just not stacking like the others are at the moment.... perhaps she'll catch up?

[woolybear]

CBH#2, aka problem child, is seriously showing signs of being done. Drinking a lot less water, and the leaf tips are browning fast. Could she be a 7.5 week strain?

trichs are clear/cloudy.

Think I can harvest the tops first. CBH #2: