My Current Grow - 10 Varieties
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EMan your grows are always so much fun to watch! You've always got a lot going on and daily changes...it's hard to keep up..but I will..DD
Thanks doobieduck - I know what you mean about being hard to keep up - you should try it at this end! To be honest, I'm having to impose an embargo on myself from now on in terms on new strains - it's getting ridiculous:
In veg currently:
Leb 27 (from seed)
JLo - KC X Flo (from seed)
Flo phenos #3 and #4 (clones)
Grape Krush #2 (clone)
SAGE (clone)
Cheese (clone)
Cheese X Purple Afghan (clone)
Cocoa Kush phenos #1 and #2 (clones)
OG Kush (clone)
Goldfinger (clone)
Plus another propagator of clones, etc. etc...I'm going to have to put all the large plants into flower shortly just to make some room! I really need to trim down a bit now and concentrate on my new hybrids, and starting some new specialities. Once the outdoor plants are sorted and planted out (all guerilla - I have no garden now), I can relax a little...
In veg currently:
Leb 27 (from seed)
JLo - KC X Flo (from seed)
Flo phenos #3 and #4 (clones)
Grape Krush #2 (clone)
SAGE (clone)
Cheese (clone)
Cheese X Purple Afghan (clone)
Cocoa Kush phenos #1 and #2 (clones)
OG Kush (clone)
Goldfinger (clone)
Plus another propagator of clones, etc. etc...I'm going to have to put all the large plants into flower shortly just to make some room! I really need to trim down a bit now and concentrate on my new hybrids, and starting some new specialities. Once the outdoor plants are sorted and planted out (all guerilla - I have no garden now), I can relax a little...
Thanks Paddi - this is my first time growing Leb27, so it's good to know I've got the experts around to keep me on track! I'll be checking your threads religiously, of course...
I finally chopped the two remaining Cocoa Kush on Saturday, and the harvest pics can be found here:
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=1537697#post1537697
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=1537697#post1537697
Well the veg cabinet is going insane with stretching seedlings - some serious poles developing amongst the JLo, Leb27 and Mikado, which will necessitate some serious 'discipline' over the next few days. I've moved out four plants for repotting and flowering, as they're large (clones!), and kind of in the way - OG Kush, Flo#3, Goldfinger and Grape Krush#2. So the Vanillunas will have to squeeze up a bit, but they're doing fantastic - all five phenos are building up rapidly, and very resinous at five weeks exactly.
Sadly I had to give up my camera for a few days as it's not technically mine, but I'll keep updating as and when required. BTW, first barely-dry taste of the Cocoa Kush suggests quality...
Sadly I had to give up my camera for a few days as it's not technically mine, but I'll keep updating as and when required. BTW, first barely-dry taste of the Cocoa Kush suggests quality...
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I'l have to get that replacement transformer to you asap mate, really sorry the lamp crapped out on ya.
I'm samping the barely dry Sour Diesel I chopped yesterday, it's also quality imho. We can compare SD to CK while we fix that lamp!
I'll bring a camera down too you can have with pleasure, it's a coupla years old but works fine.
I'm samping the barely dry Sour Diesel I chopped yesterday, it's also quality imho. We can compare SD to CK while we fix that lamp!
I'll bring a camera down too you can have with pleasure, it's a coupla years old but works fine.
No probs - looks like I'll have two MH lamps by the end of the week! And that's great news on the camera, if oyu're sure you don't need it - thanks a lot.
You read the whole thread? Nice one - good to know it's still interesting with half the pictures missing! I just had another move-around - fitted a new 250W MH lamp in the veg chamber, and it's much, much better now - all my stretchy new plants will hopefully stop!
And some more...
And some more...
The metal halide lamp in the veg cabinet is making a huge difference - a lot hotter apart from anything else! But it's given me much more room to play with, and the stretching plants have managed to get under control. There's a lot in here, but the back row is JLo F1s - Kentish Creme X Flo. They look tremendous - purple stems, dark leaves with a distinct KC slant to them, and a nice sharp berry aroma when the stems are rubbed. One definite male so far, but I only really need one of each gender to take this forward:
Other plants in there include 3 Leb27 (big ones in the middle), 4 Mikado, and a bunch of other strains in various stages of reveg - Cocoa Kush, Flo#4, SAGE, Mystery Strain, Cheese, and Cheese X Purple Afghan. The Leb 27s are a serious pain to grow under lights, and insist on stretching daily. I'm down to three plants from ten seeds, as all the rest were too stretchy to even deal with - inches a day. They had to go, sadly. Two of the final three look to be males, so if the last one is also, I'm starting another ten seeds immediately, as these will be the premier outdoor strain!
Down below in the flower cabinet, it's full steam ahead. The four small plants are recent additions at one week flower - OG Kush, Flo#3, Grape Krush#2 and Goldfinger. The five Vanillunas are the larger plants around the sides of the cabinet, and they're at six weeks exactly:
The Vanillunas make for interesting viewing - four phenos out of five have the same 'kush' structure as the Cocoas, to varying degrees of raggedness, but nothing as extreme as the Cocoas. All four have the same 'rosebud'-shape buds, with curled budleaves, and all with resin down the edges and back:
The smell of all four is definitely as described - very sweet, fruity, honey/melon musk - some sweeter and tropical and some more spicy hash, but all distinctly fruity.
However, pheno #1 is completely different, and appears to be some kind of halfway plant between a classic Blueberry and F-13. I didn't get any good pics of the shade leaves, but it's the bud structure that interests me. They are very big and fluffy, far more so than the other phenos, and are definitely joining into semi-colas on the main stems - first time for me with a DJS strain. And the budleaves are long and thin, with more of a sativa influence.
The lower buds are as developed as the upper buds, and the resin is much stickier and 'softer' - as are the budleaves, which lack the leathery feel of the other four, and point downwards. Also, the smell of this one is totally different - more creamy vanilla than fruity, but also distinctly peppery and spicy, like the Nepalese black hash smell with some Flos.
I'm getting very excited about these, but particularly that one as it looks like it could yield heavy. I'm giving thanks to 'the great magnet' that this is one of the two phenos I took clones of...
And some more...
The metal halide lamp in the veg cabinet is making a huge difference - a lot hotter apart from anything else! But it's given me much more room to play with, and the stretching plants have managed to get under control. There's a lot in here, but the back row is JLo F1s - Kentish Creme X Flo. They look tremendous - purple stems, dark leaves with a distinct KC slant to them, and a nice sharp berry aroma when the stems are rubbed. One definite male so far, but I only really need one of each gender to take this forward:
Other plants in there include 3 Leb27 (big ones in the middle), 4 Mikado, and a bunch of other strains in various stages of reveg - Cocoa Kush, Flo#4, SAGE, Mystery Strain, Cheese, and Cheese X Purple Afghan. The Leb 27s are a serious pain to grow under lights, and insist on stretching daily. I'm down to three plants from ten seeds, as all the rest were too stretchy to even deal with - inches a day. They had to go, sadly. Two of the final three look to be males, so if the last one is also, I'm starting another ten seeds immediately, as these will be the premier outdoor strain!
Down below in the flower cabinet, it's full steam ahead. The four small plants are recent additions at one week flower - OG Kush, Flo#3, Grape Krush#2 and Goldfinger. The five Vanillunas are the larger plants around the sides of the cabinet, and they're at six weeks exactly:
The Vanillunas make for interesting viewing - four phenos out of five have the same 'kush' structure as the Cocoas, to varying degrees of raggedness, but nothing as extreme as the Cocoas. All four have the same 'rosebud'-shape buds, with curled budleaves, and all with resin down the edges and back:
The smell of all four is definitely as described - very sweet, fruity, honey/melon musk - some sweeter and tropical and some more spicy hash, but all distinctly fruity.
However, pheno #1 is completely different, and appears to be some kind of halfway plant between a classic Blueberry and F-13. I didn't get any good pics of the shade leaves, but it's the bud structure that interests me. They are very big and fluffy, far more so than the other phenos, and are definitely joining into semi-colas on the main stems - first time for me with a DJS strain. And the budleaves are long and thin, with more of a sativa influence.
The lower buds are as developed as the upper buds, and the resin is much stickier and 'softer' - as are the budleaves, which lack the leathery feel of the other four, and point downwards. Also, the smell of this one is totally different - more creamy vanilla than fruity, but also distinctly peppery and spicy, like the Nepalese black hash smell with some Flos.
I'm getting very excited about these, but particularly that one as it looks like it could yield heavy. I'm giving thanks to 'the great magnet' that this is one of the two phenos I took clones of...
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I haven't posted in here for a while, as I've been so busy, but it's really moving fast right now. The first two Vanillunas were chopped today to make room for the new plants - maybe a little early, but they were the fast-flowering super-kush phenos, and I've got their measure really. One more will come down in the next few days, and then the final two I estimate need another ten days at least - the pheno pictured above is getting very large indeed now, and looks like it will double the yield of any of the other phenos.
The OG Kush, Goldfinger, Grape Krush and Flo bushes are all at eighteen days and stretching now. The Goldfinger and OG Kush in particular get very stretchy, and I'm already tying them back daily to increase budsites - now that I know what to expect, I'm much more on top of it, and will easily get better yield than last time, judging by the shortness of the internodes - no empty stems this time!
Upstairs in the veg cabinet, it's hot. The warm weather is still playing havoc with my plans, and I'm having to water everthing daily to stop them dying - it's that serious. But as soon as the last Vanillunas are done, I can thin the veg cabinet out and decide what happens next. I've got shitloads of strains in veg now, too many to list again!
I have seven Highland Oaxacan Gold seeds in paper towels now, and I need to start more Leb 27 urgently, as my first run has resulted in males, stretchy maniacs that were culled long before sexing, and now one, remaining plant of unknown sex. But these are the crucial outdoor plants, so will start some more asap.
I'll take some pics of everything tomorrow and post them up - also harvest pics of the two Vanillunas as soon as I have time to process them...
The OG Kush, Goldfinger, Grape Krush and Flo bushes are all at eighteen days and stretching now. The Goldfinger and OG Kush in particular get very stretchy, and I'm already tying them back daily to increase budsites - now that I know what to expect, I'm much more on top of it, and will easily get better yield than last time, judging by the shortness of the internodes - no empty stems this time!
Upstairs in the veg cabinet, it's hot. The warm weather is still playing havoc with my plans, and I'm having to water everthing daily to stop them dying - it's that serious. But as soon as the last Vanillunas are done, I can thin the veg cabinet out and decide what happens next. I've got shitloads of strains in veg now, too many to list again!
I have seven Highland Oaxacan Gold seeds in paper towels now, and I need to start more Leb 27 urgently, as my first run has resulted in males, stretchy maniacs that were culled long before sexing, and now one, remaining plant of unknown sex. But these are the crucial outdoor plants, so will start some more asap.
I'll take some pics of everything tomorrow and post them up - also harvest pics of the two Vanillunas as soon as I have time to process them...
Here's a few shots of the veg cabinet - bursting at the seams, frankly.
I'm waiting for the JLos (the tall ones at the back) to sex before repotting and putting into flower - one definite male and female, and two undecided. All have deep violet stems, and a gorgeous minty/berry smell when rubbed. All also seem to have a distinct Kentish Creme influence in leaf-shape.
The remaining Leb 27 has gone very weird - one stem is 'crozzled' and stunted, whilst the other is perfect - anyone ever seen this before...?
Anda quick shot of a Cocoa Kush clone regrowing, showing once again, that the dreaded (in some quarters) leaf mutation can often be a transient thing...
I'm waiting for the JLos (the tall ones at the back) to sex before repotting and putting into flower - one definite male and female, and two undecided. All have deep violet stems, and a gorgeous minty/berry smell when rubbed. All also seem to have a distinct Kentish Creme influence in leaf-shape.
The remaining Leb 27 has gone very weird - one stem is 'crozzled' and stunted, whilst the other is perfect - anyone ever seen this before...?
Anda quick shot of a Cocoa Kush clone regrowing, showing once again, that the dreaded (in some quarters) leaf mutation can often be a transient thing...
Well it's getting difficult to keep up with progress in the elevator - so much going on I don't know where to start. Still no photo uploading, so will just carry on with the words for now.
The four JLos (Kentish Creme X Flo) F1s have just been chopped into many clones - they were getting seriously tall, and way to rigid to bend. Also they're so symmetrical that I had to get the branching alternate if I'm to do anything useful here. I've left the stalks with small branches alive, as they're small enough to squeeze back in the cabinet, and the clones will get rooted asap. I only need one pheno of each sex to cross, and am just waiting for all to show themselves - quite slow so far with only one definite male.
I do have pics before they were chopped, and will be starting a new thread on this cross shortly. But very dark purple stems all-round indicate Flo-dominance at this stage.
All other clone-plants are still vegging vigorously, with only a fresh Kentish Creme clone added recently to increase the strainbase of vegging plants. As for new stuff coming up, there's a few more Leb 27s to replace the last lot that hit the roof and proved to be mostly males - and more exciting still, two pure Highland Oaxacan Gold seedlings. They were the only two to germinate from thirteen seeds, and I'm treating them with royal respect at this stage. I also managed to chop a branch from a friend's Hashberry the other day - this is the wide-leafed bushy pheno, and is sweet, apparently - four clones in the propagator now.
Down in the flower chamber, we have purple Flo, OG Kush, Grape Krush and Goldfinger at around 33 days - all budding furiously now. The Grape Krush was my keeper pheno from the seed-run a few months ago, and is the sour grape number - it didn't quite stretch as much as I'd have liked, being quite an indica plant compared to what I'm used to, but the buds look like they'll be much fatter than last time, which is good.
Between all these are the three Mikados, which all look very similar, and very bushy indeed for indicas - they're coming up to one week, and I'll have to take yet more clones of these until I know which will be the keeper.
Outdoors is busy busy too, but that's all in my outdoor thread, which I'll update again soon. I need a spliff...
The four JLos (Kentish Creme X Flo) F1s have just been chopped into many clones - they were getting seriously tall, and way to rigid to bend. Also they're so symmetrical that I had to get the branching alternate if I'm to do anything useful here. I've left the stalks with small branches alive, as they're small enough to squeeze back in the cabinet, and the clones will get rooted asap. I only need one pheno of each sex to cross, and am just waiting for all to show themselves - quite slow so far with only one definite male.
I do have pics before they were chopped, and will be starting a new thread on this cross shortly. But very dark purple stems all-round indicate Flo-dominance at this stage.
All other clone-plants are still vegging vigorously, with only a fresh Kentish Creme clone added recently to increase the strainbase of vegging plants. As for new stuff coming up, there's a few more Leb 27s to replace the last lot that hit the roof and proved to be mostly males - and more exciting still, two pure Highland Oaxacan Gold seedlings. They were the only two to germinate from thirteen seeds, and I'm treating them with royal respect at this stage. I also managed to chop a branch from a friend's Hashberry the other day - this is the wide-leafed bushy pheno, and is sweet, apparently - four clones in the propagator now.
Down in the flower chamber, we have purple Flo, OG Kush, Grape Krush and Goldfinger at around 33 days - all budding furiously now. The Grape Krush was my keeper pheno from the seed-run a few months ago, and is the sour grape number - it didn't quite stretch as much as I'd have liked, being quite an indica plant compared to what I'm used to, but the buds look like they'll be much fatter than last time, which is good.
Between all these are the three Mikados, which all look very similar, and very bushy indeed for indicas - they're coming up to one week, and I'll have to take yet more clones of these until I know which will be the keeper.
Outdoors is busy busy too, but that's all in my outdoor thread, which I'll update again soon. I need a spliff...
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Looking great (as usual!) and that halide does make a difference over fluoros don't it! As long as you can keep it fairly cool with some airflow, the plants will love it, faster and tighter growth than fluoros.
I've seen that type of leaf like you have on the leb27 a couple of times, inbred Dutch Blueberry is one example I recall, they grow out of it though, not sure why it happens.
I pulled my Grape Krush cut out of flowering yesterday and gave her a thorough flush as I thought she was showing some overfert from a couple of clawed upper leaves, but the ec of the runoff was 1.6 and only two leaves are a little bti clawed, so I think it's just a lil bit of variegation and not overfert at all. Can't recall which pheno of GK I have, but it's nice and compact, looks quite indica leaning and has deep purple stems.
BTW, the Cheese x Yumboldt has aquired a new name - Stilton! All my mates here thought that's what it tasted like and a couple of growers/breeders I visited the other day also thought she had a distinct Cheesiness and agreed that Stilton was an appropriate name to describe it's taste. They asked for cuts so this cut is gonna become much more popular before long methinks, we'll have none of the daft hoarding of 'elite' cuts here in the UK, I always think 'what if I lose this cut' if I haven't shared it with others, it's gone forever, but if i have, then a quick phone call and I can get her back.
I've seen that type of leaf like you have on the leb27 a couple of times, inbred Dutch Blueberry is one example I recall, they grow out of it though, not sure why it happens.
I pulled my Grape Krush cut out of flowering yesterday and gave her a thorough flush as I thought she was showing some overfert from a couple of clawed upper leaves, but the ec of the runoff was 1.6 and only two leaves are a little bti clawed, so I think it's just a lil bit of variegation and not overfert at all. Can't recall which pheno of GK I have, but it's nice and compact, looks quite indica leaning and has deep purple stems.
BTW, the Cheese x Yumboldt has aquired a new name - Stilton! All my mates here thought that's what it tasted like and a couple of growers/breeders I visited the other day also thought she had a distinct Cheesiness and agreed that Stilton was an appropriate name to describe it's taste. They asked for cuts so this cut is gonna become much more popular before long methinks, we'll have none of the daft hoarding of 'elite' cuts here in the UK, I always think 'what if I lose this cut' if I haven't shared it with others, it's gone forever, but if i have, then a quick phone call and I can get her back.
The Grape Krush was the most indica pheno of the three - #1 in my harvest pics thread. It grows into a little bush without too much persuasion. Do you mean you pulled it out of flower for good? The leaves will show some variagation, but I didn't see any claw shapes on the GKs. However, they could take nutes with the best of them - only Flo in my roster has shown any problems with strong nutes.
As for the Chumboldt, there's no danger of that disappearing now - one of my other friends is running it pretty much permanently now, as all his customers loved it too. Which is a relief, as I can't keep every strain that ever passes through my fingers...
Just running a bubblehash session now with all the trim from Christmas onwards - so that's from Grape Krush in my harvest thread until today, plus some trim from a friend - 20 strains in all I think...
As for the Chumboldt, there's no danger of that disappearing now - one of my other friends is running it pretty much permanently now, as all his customers loved it too. Which is a relief, as I can't keep every strain that ever passes through my fingers...
Just running a bubblehash session now with all the trim from Christmas onwards - so that's from Grape Krush in my harvest thread until today, plus some trim from a friend - 20 strains in all I think...
Well I got 14.5g of bubblehash, so I'm well chuffed!
A quick word on the Mikado 'f2's - they're easily the most bushy and branchy indicas I've ever grown - anyone else ever seen this? They're at about 11 days flower and rocketing out in all directions - just gave them a good tie-down, though, and they've very bendy and flexible, so no real issues yet.
Two phenos look very similar, but one has insanely bright green growing tips - fluorescent almost. I thought it was a nute problem, but it looks perfectly healthy otherwise. It only showed sex today, whilst the other two phenos declared two weeks ago, so I don't know if this is a really slow-flowering pheno. If anyone's ever grown Mikado, I'd love to get some feedback! I should be able to get some pics up i nthe next few days, but I juts temporarily had to give up the camera...
A quick word on the Mikado 'f2's - they're easily the most bushy and branchy indicas I've ever grown - anyone else ever seen this? They're at about 11 days flower and rocketing out in all directions - just gave them a good tie-down, though, and they've very bendy and flexible, so no real issues yet.
Two phenos look very similar, but one has insanely bright green growing tips - fluorescent almost. I thought it was a nute problem, but it looks perfectly healthy otherwise. It only showed sex today, whilst the other two phenos declared two weeks ago, so I don't know if this is a really slow-flowering pheno. If anyone's ever grown Mikado, I'd love to get some feedback! I should be able to get some pics up i nthe next few days, but I juts temporarily had to give up the camera...
