1000 Watt Sativa Tent 2014

[recent guest]

Bear Riot great thread, love good sativa .Been thinkin bout trying some ace gear I still got a SLH that I love but wanna try some old timers haze cept for the long flowering time I got a tent I could use ,anyways keep up good work really enjoy watching them fill out..Bud

Thanks Buddler, I am a huge fan of Ace and Cannabiogen, not just for their great strains but also in large part because they seem like and have demonstrated themselves to be really stand up guys...they have a presence on here and are very helpful with answering questions. They are accommodating of issues as well, say, for example, you get 10/10 males, they will work with you. I can't say the same for other vendors.

The Haze is something that I was timid to try in a tent, but following the advice on the Oldtimer's Haze thread, I was able to eyeball her size and flower at the right time for her to not overgrow the space (fingers crossed with ten plus weeks to go, of course). My tent is 8 feet tall, minus 1.5 feet for pots and about two feet for the light...so with those numbers I decided to flower her after she had four nodes and was about 18 inches tall.

Dubi and Charlie Garcia have recommended to keep her in a very small (4 inch) pot for the first six-eight weeks of flowering and then repot and let her finish, which is basically what I have done, but with larger pots.

Looking lovely no sign of stress/mites whatsoever.

Thanks for the kind words dstark...I wish that were the case but I can be a pretty selective photographer. In the last posted photo you can see a bit of Neem, but the lower leaves of the Destroyer x Chocolope and the Panama are riddled with white spots. Its not terrible, probably about 20% damage, nothing to worry about if this round of Neem is effective.

 

[Buddler]

Bear, Good advice appreciate it ,ya really got to figure out the stretch and headroom on these ,vertical bulbs will help. I also would love to find some good Thai to tinker with. Thanks and keep rocking the haze Bud...

 

[recent guest]

Some photos from the tent this afternoon:

Destroyer x Malawi: Shooting upwards still, I think she has added 120% to her vegetative size. I love the look of this plant. She is a sexy girl to be sure.

Little flowers starting to show up!

The Destroyer x Chocolope is starting to flower in earnest (corner):

Panama top, not quite adjusted to flowering yet.

 

[budelight]

Bear,

Im really supprised at how little surface area her leaves take up, and still she is capable of shooting up big and tall. Quite the amazing genetics if you ask me. Penetration must be great with this strain and lower wattage grows (like mine).

Thanks for sharing the wonderful photos of her - keep em coming!

Till next time,
BeL

 

[recent guest]

Bear,

Im really supprised at how little surface area her leaves take up, and still she is capable of shooting up big and tall. Quite the amazing genetics if you ask me. Penetration must be great with this strain and lower wattage grows (like mine).

Thanks for sharing the wonderful photos of her - keep em coming!

Till next time,
BeL

Might as well throw another photo in, this one shows her more fully. Its hard to get a picture because penetration is so great. Almost all the bud sites have direct light.

 

[budelight]

Looks like the destroyer (or two) in the front middle with the OTH in the far left. M I rite?

 

[recent guest]

Looks like the destroyer (or two) in the front middle with the OTH in the far left. M I rite?

Thats right. Oldtimer's Haze is in the far left corner, Destroyer x Chocolope #1 in the far left, Destroyer x Chocolope #2 in the front right, Destroyer x Malawi in the center, and Panama on the left.

The Oldtimer's Haze didn't like the Neep application and her leaves burned and curled a bit afterward, and some of the finer leaves have not recovered. She is starting to become more and more leggy, and her sparse foxtail structure to the buds is becoming more evident. She is showing how slowly she flowers, all the other strains have either caught up to her or passed her in terms of flower maturity. Oldtimer's Haze was flowered December 1st, and the rest of the strains a full 8 weeks later on February 1st - 3rd.



Destroyer x Chocolope #1, she is the fastest flowering and seems to be producing larger flowers than the rest. Crystals have been evident for three days now.



Destroyer x Malawi has stopped stretching upwards and is now bulking up her flowers. Some resin is apparent and they look like they will be frosty foxtails.

 

[mr. gt]

...forgot to tag... lurking on..

 

[recent guest]

Flowering along:

 

[mr. gt]

everything looks great man. a bit jealous myself.. I love how long some of those pistols look.

 

[dstark]

What a quality what a treat

 

[recent guest]

What a quality what a treat

everything looks great man. a bit jealous myself.. I love how long some of those pistols look.

Thanks you guys. I really like the difference in the pistils too. This photo shows the difference between the haze and the Destroyer x Malawi. The haze is a GREEN haze. Her pistils are green colored, almost like those green orchids that you sometimes see. You can see how the DxM has caught up to the haze in just 22 days.

Here is the main cola on the haze next to the main stem of the Destroyer x Chocolope #2, and the color difference is notable

The Destroyer x Chocolope #1

Haze and Destroyer x Malawi

 

[Gelado`]

Great strains and I think you're going to have some excellent smoke for the summer! I've never grown a pure sativa indoors, but I've been thinking about starting some inside and then moving them outside in October (we get no frost here) so they finish by January/February. I really miss growing sativas!

 

[Tripbudz]

Late but all in. Looking good Bear. I I've got a couple Destroyers in severe bondage right now too! Looks to be a sensational summer!

 

[recent guest]

Late but all in. Looking good Bear. I I've got a couple Destroyers in severe bondage right now too! Looks to be a sensational summer!

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im glad one of them is in this thread! Destroyer is a great smoke. I had to let mine cure for four months before I think it reached its full potential.

Great strains and I think you're going to have some excellent smoke for the summer! I've never grown a pure sativa indoors, but I've been thinking about starting some inside and then moving them outside in October (we get no frost here) so they finish by January/February. I really miss growing sativas!

Thanks! That would be the way to go to get smaller plants. If there were no frost here I would just go start to finish outdoors and release the sativa's monstrous spirit. I have the haze and the Destroyer x Malawi clones in 1 gallon pots right now but I am going to try to get them up to 17 feet tall in my greenhouse, which would be my height limit for sativas, not bad.

 

[curbiechris]

sorry if you answered already, but are you using the traditional 12/12 lighting or something different?

 

[recent guest]

sorry if you answered already, but are you using the traditional 12/12 lighting or something different?

No problem, I dont think I have. Some of my posts on this thread and others refer to the flowering cycle as "12/12" for this particular grow, but that is wrong, the tent has been on 11/13 from the beginning. Sorry about the misinfo.

 

[dstark]

Interesting, explain please!
Also droolsome pictures

 

[LyryC]

I gtg to work but ima catch up on this - awesome man - Sativa grow - what a treat compared to all the lame indica stuff thats flooded the world

 

[recent guest]

Interesting, explain please!
Also droolsome pictures

Thanks, every time I see dstark I think of Iron Man..LOLERBLADES...

The other bit of misinfo that I had put out because of negligence is that the Haze was flowered MIDway through December. Looking at photos she was in the greenhouse under natural winter light hours by the first of December...I usually try to start cycles on easy to remember dates like that...I plant on the first of a month, flower on the first...but the first recognizable flowers came on the haze in the first week of January. So Im not sure how to count that...is that a month of flowering in December even though nothing was showing? If thats the case then, as of today, the Haze is at 12 weeks of flower. When I started this thread, I put the Haze in the tent and the light has been on for 11 hours a day since then, so 11 light and 13 dark hours. Hope that helps.

I gtg to work but ima catch up on this - awesome man - Sativa grow - what a treat compared to all the lame indica stuff thats flooded the world

I should be working too

I really enjoy smoking herb thats not commercial. I used to smoke a lot of 'low quality' imports, 'midis', because they were very cheap and I liked the effects better. The """""higher quality"""""" stuff looked nicer at first glance but just made the rest of the day suck an hour after smoking it, and it was often too wet and never cured...and if I bought high quality 'headies' they were stoney indicas, every time, despite often being really nice looking/smelling. This was when I lived in the southeast, which was the main mistake.

The Chocolope x Destroyer #1 is the most commercial of the plants in this tent, fast flowering with chunky buds and good resin so far. Other than her, the rest is foxfluff...

I have figured out that the Haze prefers filtered light. The tops of the branches that are exposed directly to the light are too sparse, even for a pure sativa. There is less than 1 calyx developing per node in most cases. The branches under or within the canopy that get bright filtered light but not direct 1000 watt blast energy are developing many more calyxes, still very airy foxtail structure but nothing like the scorched tops. Theres not much I can do about that but flower the clone in a more conducive environment (the greenhouse with natural light this summer/fall). I hope you guys will follow that grow when the time comes!