Kali Mist Grow Journal

[|FCG|Frank]

I've got some feminized Dinafem Royal Haze seeds here, so I think that'll be the next one. If Kali Mist is a typical sativa high, then I want more sativa for sure. This time I'll know what I am actually doing, so I'll maximize yield. After this, I'd like to grow Snow White or something from the CBD Crew. I have my eyes set on CBD Yummy because something described as "Tropical fruit salad , exotic richness with delicious mouth watering tastes" sounds yummy for sure.

It's fantastic because now I have weed for the day, and weed for bed time. I no longer have to sacrifice some productivity in favor of relieving pain anymore.

 

[Socrates]

Yeah, that sounds like Kali to me - great general enhancer daytime weed that gives you energy and makes everything better. Glad you got what you were looking for. It's definitely important to have a range of strains for different scenarios. I like to have at lest one for daytime / partying, one for chilling out in the evenings, and one for sleep.

Your second one looks more haze-like to me, and may push that up feeling toward raciness (hard to tell just by looking). You didn't get any uncomfortable speediness with this one? It can happen with some sativas, but I find Kali more forgiving in that department without sacrificing the rest of the sativa experience, which is why I love her.

 

[|FCG|Frank]

I definitely felt the speediness but it wasn't uncomfortable at all. Tonight however I overdid it and there was a quick reverb into dramatically mellow territory. I will have to know when to stop.

With M39 I don't really have a ceiling, at a point it just makes me sleepier and sleepier.

But it seems you can definitely do too much Kali Mist.

 

[|FCG|Frank]

Yeah, that sounds like Kali to me - great general enhancer daytime weed that gives you energy and makes everything better. Glad you got what you were looking for. It's definitely important to have a range of strains for different scenarios. I like to have at lest one for daytime / partying, one for chilling out in the evenings, and one for sleep.

What strains do you use for sleep and night time chilling?

Insomina has been an issue for me for a long time, I'd be nice to have something put me to sleep.

 

[Cannavore]

Another fellow Kali Mist lover here. You should run her again now that youve seen how she grows and what she likes to be fed at which amounts! Second runs are almost always better providing your environment and whatnot stay the same.

Also a fellow insomniac lol; I've always found more relief in the highly potent hybrids such as Chemdawg, rather than strains that give the lazy effect (purple strains and lower potency non-og kush normally give me the lazy burnt out feeling).
Blue Dream is another great medical quality plant if you can find a cutting of it. Great yield, great taste, great potency and effect. It's my cure all haha.

Great job Frank. Keep up the good work.

 

[|FCG|Frank]

Ill check those out, Cannivore, thanks

Harvest of plant #1 has been jar'd. Plant #2 is still coming alone. Some branches are more ahead than others, so now that I know which trich profile to look for, I'll harvest as I a go and check individual branches.

 

[Socrates]

I'm still working to find my ideal strains for different times. Until the Kali finishes I only have two of my own right now, grapefruit and bubblegummer. I also ran some White Widow which was pretty decent as a sleep aid but didn't taste good, so gave most of it away. The grapefruit's definitely the daytime stuff, and the bubblegummer falls somewhere in between chilling and sleep. It's a tasty, lazy indica but it doesn't put me straight to sleep. Not really my ideal, honestly - kind of want it to choose a side.

Eventually, I'd like a more social chilled out hybrid for the evenings (so something a little clearer-headed than the bubblegummer but more relaxing than grapefruit or kali), and a heavier KO for night. I'm working on filling the former slot first. I've got some headband that has been filling that spot nicely, but didn't grow it. Coming up on my list are BOGs Sour Boggle, some Ganja Rebel's Mr. Nice crosses (mostly with sativa-dom elites like OGK and Sour D), and some of my own Blue Satellite crosses (with my grapefruit, bubblegummer, and kali).

Haven't had anything recently that I really like for sleep other than some stuff sold as Girlscout Cookies (but who knows) and some Mr. Nice from a delivery service. While some people can smoke and go straight to bed, I find that most pot doesn't put me to sleep until I'm coming down or I've been smoking all day, so I've struggled to find good sleepy weed. I've had friends smoke the same Chemdog as me and pass right out, whereas it'll keep me up for hours randomly writing songs or doing work or something. I've heard that Maple Leaf Indica, Herijuana, Aurora Indica, Mazar, Master Kush, Northern Lights, Black Domina, and Sensi Star can have good heavy hitter phenos, but haven't run any myself. Some strains that I ran in the past that did the trick include Mangolian Indica, Blockhead, Sadhu, and White Rhino. I didn't like any of them enough to run again, though, except possibly Blockhead. Let me know if you find anything that fits the bill without being boring taste and smell-wise.

 

[LeeROI]

Papaya smells like papaya (I don't really taste smoke) and is the most sleepy stuff I can remember. Groggy the next morning, though.

 

[|FCG|Frank]

I've begun harvesting plant #1. This will be a slow process as the canopy is uneven in ripeness. It'll probably take a full two weeks to harvest it all, then another week of drying, before we have a final dry weight.

Until then there won't be much of any update since it's all the same happening over and over again.

 

[brennye]

Any update on the smoke of the harvested plant?

 

[playainc]

great job man.

your pictures are some of the best i've seen

awesome for first time

i would try maybe some hps for your second grow

when you see what happens when you shoot 75k+ lumens down at a canopy jammed under a small footprint its amazing

your stuff looked great

next round look at around week 3-4 of flowering-my plants always need to get flushed out around this time

look forward to seeing round 2 much respect man

 

[|FCG|Frank]

Any update on the smoke of the harvested plant?

Right here man

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=5781131&postcount=199

great job man.

your pictures are some of the best i've seen

Thanks

 

[Socrates]

How's the smoke from the second plant?

 

[|FCG|Frank]

I havent harvested it yet! Shes still growing, at day 85 of bloom. The light leak fucked her up, but she IS adding on weight.

 

[|FCG|Frank]

I have final dry weight on plant #2: 141.38g or 4.99oz. Based on canopy coverage of plant #2 vs #1, and what the canopy looks like now, plant #1 should yield between 7 and 10oz.

Sadly I doubt I will pass the 1g/w barrier for this grow, but now that I have an idea of what I am doing, this next grow should improve on the last.

I will let you all know the total dry weight of the other plant once harvested, but it'll take a few weeks still.

I'm just happy the light leak didn't mess too much up

 

[dreadman91]

i wouldnt harvest yet you should wait till the calyx all swell up heavy and the trichs start to amber

 

[brennye]

i wouldnt harvest yet you should wait till the calyx all swell up heavy and the trichs start to amber

Simon, the actual breeder for Serious Seeds whom originally created Kali Mist recommends not letting any of the trich's amber at all.

That's when he says it tests at peek potency, and is his personal favorite time to harvest the Kali for the best high.

The Kali Mist also happens to be Simon's favorite strain to smoke out of all of his serious seeds selections, so I take any advice he will part with lol.

 

[brennye]

I have final dry weight on plant #2: 141.38g or 4.99oz. Based on canopy coverage of plant #2 vs #1, and what the canopy looks like now, plant #1 should yield between 7 and 10oz.

Sadly I doubt I will pass the 1g/w barrier for this grow, but now that I have an idea of what I am doing, this next grow should improve on the last.

I will let you all know the total dry weight of the other plant once harvested, but it'll take a few weeks still.

I'm just happy the light leak didn't mess too much up

This is you're first harvest right?

You killed it man!!!!!

I really didn't think there was going to be that much there for you, anything over .5g/w is not bad at all, especially for a first grow!



EDIT: Did you find a good % of the yield come from the inner branch bracts that were fairly shaded? I have been told by a few people that the Kali produces better than average "popcorn buds", and to not trim of too many little sucker branches. I left alot on mine that I would have usually trimmed, hopefully it pays off...

 

[|FCG|Frank]

Yeah, first harvest. I should end up at around 0.635-0.75g/watt. I'm not sweating it... close to a pound of dry Kali will last me a very long time!

LED penetration is awful and I was scrogging so the only viable popcorn came from the bottom part AFTER I harvested the top and let it grow another week or two.

 

[|FCG|Frank]

The seeds for my new grow have arrived!