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My Testing Chamber

Mr.Bill

Member
Well hello again weebles, hope all is well. As the title implies this is where I test new strains that are coming through, trying to find some winners, and now that the outdoor is crackin and the indoor is pretty much on auto pilot it's time to get the search for some new winners for next year.

Let's see out of the batch from last time i was posting in nov.-dec. the critical kush, blackwater and headband are out of here, although I do have a buddy who still has it so i can get it back if needed, but I doubt I will. The only one to stay was the grandaddy purple x blueberry, if you want to see any these plants check the link in my signature. Also the Violator Kush didn't pan out all that great.

Anyway that was then this is now so on to now then, well a lot of stuff is going to be zipping through this little tent in the next few months.

The specs for the equipment in the tent itself is at the beginning of my last thread on here.

As far as medium goes for the purpose of this tent it's just Fox Farms Ocean Forest with absolutely nothing added, oh let me take that back, I do add some dolomite lime to ensure proper pH levels in the soil throughout it's usage.

For nutrients, I use the foxfarm line, not all of it of course but I use growbig, tiger bloom, open sesame, beastie bloomz, and cha ching. Also I use Blackstrap molasses for instant sugars and plain just makes the weed taste better imo, and Mycorrhiza but that's just for transplants, not really relevant to this thread but I'm high so now you know about it.

I'm not going to really show any "vegging" in here, I might pop a couple shots here and there but then I might not, this is strictly flowering. Although I will be running some seeds literally 12/12 from after maybe a week after sprouting. But more into that later, plenty of time for all that. Also some strains will be ran twice, as filler plants to make up for the space not being used as I usually end up with a few extras from the cloner.

OKAY so the plants in the tent had their first day of 12/12 on April 1st. These pictures start on April 14th, two weeks into flower. And I took snaps of them about every 5-7 days, these plants will finish for the most part on the 31st here in 5 days, I'll stagger the posts every day or two just because, so by the time the next round goes in I'll probably still be posting these plants. So let's introduce the ladies

"Lemon Skunk"
Looks to be a 65-70 flower, not sure about it so it will be getting ran a second time before I lean one way or the other on it. I got this as a clone, the lineage is pretty clear on this plant.
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"Strawberry Blue"
This plant is very indica, single cola plant for sure, very little branching, very nice plant. I got this as a clone. Not sure about the lineage of this, I found one seed company selling these seeds but they claim it to be 75% sativa, that is not this plant, I also found a thread in the Italian server that said they had strawberry blue but I don't read Italian, but it closely resembled the plant I have, I'd like to know though what the lineage is on this, so if you know, please chime in.
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"Cheese"
I got this as a clone. I don't know what this is, but I doubt it's the cheese, now the plant structure says cheese, but that's about it, the smell is far to sweet to be cheese, the bud production falls well short of what a cheese should do, maybe its some form of cheese, but I'm not feeling it, I'm running the mother plant as a filler next round but it's out of here. I had a bunch of extras of these so I ran it in one of the planter box's I made, instead of a single plant.
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Mr.Bill

Member
"Grandaddy Purple x Blueberry"
This is a nice plant, very chronic, very high ceiling, hard to build a tolerance to, flowers in 55-60 days depending on how purple and how mature you want the trichs, decent size very compact buds overall decent yeilder ,the ONLY downside to this plant is it's incredibly slow veg.
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"Purple Elephant"
Now I've looked around at all the "purple elephants" that people are showing, and it ain't this, I did find it on one sight where it is a very rare clone only, now that plant looked like mine, but none on here. This plant veg's very quick, makes huge buds, turns purple right from the beginning, smells chronic, but after this grow it is absolutely necessary to stake each branch from the beginning, it has a real problem supporting it's own weight. If anything this will be a great plant to breed into and with all the beans that are sprouting atm and in the near future I'm sure I can find a suitable male donor for her.
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And of course it wouldn't be complete without a group shot.
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Mr.Bill

Member
4-18

4-18

aussiepurp - Glad to have you check out the thread aussie, I hope it turns out to be at least a decent thread, I'm going to be burning through a ton of strains by the time the new years bell rings. There's going to be lots of stuff going on in here, seeds seeds seeds, a few clone onlys as well as some breeding..

Well 4 days later the plants look about the same. Finished feeding it Open Sesame at this point, and it's a week of molasses feeding before the Beasty Bloomz is started.

Sorry about the pics looking like a crappy phone took the picture, the size limit is redonkulously small.
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I'll post some more pictures tomorrow.:tiphat:
 

Mr.Bill

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4-25

4-25

So by the 25th of april good bud development is under way. Starting watering with Beasty Bloomz and the occasional Tiger Bloom.

"Cheese"
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"GDP x BB"
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"Lemon Skunk"
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Mr.Bill

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5-8

5-8

Rus - thanks, I'll do my best

Devil - It is nice, I ran into a thing at the end of this round but I'll get into that later, it smells extremely of lemon.

Okay I need to explain a thing or two, I didn't trim off the scraggle under the light penetration point until I felt that I could run into problems if I didn't.

Also with this tent the majority of this will be turned into very high quality oil that my buddy makes with this weird pressure looking contraption that reminds me of a still. It will then be turned into liquid for my zmax v3 atomizer cartridges, it does burn them out quicker but worth it.

The only buds that will be actually smoked will be the best top buds to see if they are worth running again.

Well on with the show, this is going to take a few posts

GDP x BB
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Mr.Bill

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5-8

5-8

Purple Elephant
You can really see now that she cannot hold herself up, but believe me it gets much worse, you can also see the "scraggle" that I'm talking about
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Now I don't know why I don't have any shots of the cheese on this date but there will be some next post.
Group shot
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Mr.Bill

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5-13

5-13

BeachBass - Thanks bud

Okay so I must have been mad at the cheese because I just don't have many pictures of it all, probably because it's not the cheese. It's chronic though. I wish I had taken more shots of it, have no fear, I have one more plant of it going through the tent on its way out so I'll pay better attention.


This is just kind of a whatever shot post.

A shot of the Purple Elephant from above.
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Strawberry Blue
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GDP x BB hanging with the Purple Elephant
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I really wish this picture was bigger, it's a nice picture of the Purple Elephant the GDP X BB and the cheese. It also shows well how the the GDP x BB is getting squeezed out by both the Purple Elephant and the cheese.
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And a group shot
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Mr.Bill

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5-18 macros

5-18 macros

Just a few macros of the Purple Elephant today. These pictures will be a little smaller as I won't sacrifice picture quality, sorry, though it seems they have had their quality reduced by default.

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I'll post a few more tomorrow:tiphat:
 

Mr.Bill

Member
5-18

5-18

Or I'll have a long weekend camping and I'll post the rest today.

So yeah a couple of shots of the GDP x BB to finish off last post.

You can see the cheese back left of the focused bud pictured here
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You can see the tips starting to discolor, this is the sign that the GDB (as my buddy calls it) is beginning to put on it's purple, generally speaking this marks two weeks until it's finished
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Later:tiphat:
 

Mr.Bill

Member
Most likely hush it's from DNA but I don't know for sure, I got a clone, but the guy I got it from thinks just about the same of GHS as I do. And thank you for the compliment.
 

Mr.Bill

Member
5-19

5-19

Yeah Ironhead it is if anything very purple, quite a pleasure to watch grow, thank you for the kind comments.

So today we have something a little different, finally received the seeds I ordered, Mandala #1 White Urkle and Phantom Cookies
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And the freebies.
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I've grown the Mandala #1 before and it turned out just lovely, unfortunately I didn't keep it, so I'll be going pheno hunting in the next few grows and just like the phantom cookies they are regular seeds so I'll be doing an open pollination with them. Bad very old pics but you get the idea of the pheno I had of the Mandala #1.
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So this is the pheno I'll be looking for, even if i have to back cross it and throw 100 more beans to find it.
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I threw all of the Phantom Cookies and 3 of the 7 White Urkles. So the upcoming round will be a lot of seed strains, no new clone strains.

It'll be Phantom Cookies(Cherry Pie x Grandaddy Purple), White Urkle feminized(Urkle x The White), Caramelo(Lavender’s finest Indica x Sativa traits from Delicious Seeds) and Red Eyed Bride(from the DJ Legends collection, unkown genetics. I got this strain a looong time ago, like 6 yrs long time ago)

So this next run should be a fun one, looking for winning females, looking for any males, good times. The run after that will most likely be a full seed run with multiple strains. Maybe I'll even send some into the mag to be used as freebies or something. Well I been ramblin long enough, I'm out, Late.
 
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