Bench - Pressed For Space grow

[bench warmer]

5 Sour Power/Biker Kush & 6 StarBud Sister/Biker Kush seeds were germinated 3 weeks ago.
They were just transplanted from Solo cups to 1 gallon pots and set under a 1K SolarMax Gold bulb (dialed down to 750W).

 

[dank.frank]

Off to a good start it seems...looking forward to the seeing the results from the colab...

You know first hand that Biker male makes some great cannabis.



dank.Frank

 

[bench warmer]

Yessiree! Biker Kush on it's own is the tastiest strain I've tried so far.

Hortilab OR Karma x anything = FIRE

The collaboration couldn't be more promising imho.

Here's proof that crossing their gear is a GREAT thing.

Sour Power x Ghostrider OG v2

She turned out stellar.

 

[bench warmer]

Hortilab x Karma co-op 4 weeks of veg update: Sorry for the picture quality.

Germination rates:
5/6 Sour Power x Biker Kush
5/6 Starbud Sister x Biker Kush

They all appear to be very happy. That's making me feel good.

The other plants pictured are Carolina Blue/Digitalberry x Flo & Cannatonic x Flo.

 

[Karma G]

They look nicely shaped, and looks like your own a great start.

 

[bench warmer]

Hey Karma
Yeah, the Sour Power/Biker Kush are incredibly tightly noded.
I'll raise the light to get a little stretch on them soon.
I've grown both, your Biker Kush and Hortilab's Sour Power before.
They both turned out great, so I'm confident these will be spectacular in flower.

 

[SourDank]

Everything in here is lookin dank as hell bench warmer. Love all the variety you got, especially those stank bros wares. And that sour power x ghost rider is no slouch either lol, looks like it's some power dank for sure. Keep em comin brother

 

[bench warmer]

Thanks SourDank.

You can't go wrong with Stank Bros gear.

Someday soon I have to pop more of those gems.

Grom really tastes great and she packs a punch too.

I'm really looking forward to flowering out the Karma Genetics/Hortilab testers.

They are looking to be world class top shelf plants even though they're still in veg.

 

[bench warmer]

Sour Power x Biker Kush are in the back. Starbud Sister x Biker Kush in the front.

Sour Power x Biker Kush

Starbud Sister x Biker Kush

4 Carolina Blue/Digitalberry x Flo on the left
3 Cannatonic x Flo in the middle row.
2 King Kush back right
2 Blockhead front right..

For shits & giggles, I tried germinating a couple Grapefruit/Mango x Purple Haze seeds (jojorizo).

Only one germinated and it went into a jiffy 7 and then into a 1 gallon pot of the same medium.

 

[bench warmer]

FLIPPED ON JULY 1ST

FLIPPED ON JULY 1ST

I culled all males from this crop. Just not enough room this time.
3 Sour Power x Biker Kush, 2 (both) Blockhead OP's, and 1 CBDB x Flow were males.

The remaining girls are all looking very good & will be in tomato cages soon.

The 2 tallest plants at the back in this pic are the Sour Power x Biker Kush girls.

The other tall plants are Starbud Sister x Biker Kush EXCEPT FOR the tall plants in one gallon containers; those are the Flo crosses.

The shortest plants (barely visible in the foreground) are King Kush and G/M x Purple Haze.

Thanks for stopping in.

 

[Karma G]

And then the fun starts

 

[bench warmer]

SBS x BK

SP x BK - these are giving off a wonderfully sweet smell. Loving it!

 

[Bmac1]

Little late to the party here but Ill pull up a seat.

 

[bench warmer]

love it

 

[Critter]

Dont know how I missed the great thread with lots of variety! Sub'd

 

[dank.frank]

you're going to clean up the lower parts of the plants, right?? Maybe not pull the fan leaves, but certainly pinch out the bud sites below a certain point, right???



dank.Frank

 

[bench warmer]

Thanks DF. I knew there was something I needed to do to get the results I've seen others getting. I probably need to be more aggressive with the pinching.

 

[dank.frank]

You figure no bud sites lower than 15-18" from the base as a general rule...

And then I try to keep the sweet spot of the flowers no deeper than 3ft of canopy on 1k's


dank.Frank

 

[bench warmer]

Thanks for the mentoring Frank.
Gotta admit today is the first time I've done such a thorough cleaning up of lower growth so far.
Not sure how the plants feel about it but I'm feeling a bit stressed out by it myself.. Sympathy pains?
If the girls survive the experience I'll post up an updated pic soon.

 

[dank.frank]

You may suffer yields by like a 1/4oz - but what you do get will be MUCH higher quality.

Really, you're only taking off the larf. Some people strip the plant completely - but I tend to think of the leaves as photocells...the power plants of photosynthesis...thus the reason I suggest pinching of the budsites on the secondary growth below a certain point and leaving the fan leaves. I like to thin things out in veg, a week before final transplant - and then again in flower - about 3wks in, once I see how things are starting to shape up. I've never made many extracts or concentrates - so the sugar trim has always covered my needs - I've always needed my flowers to fill up the jars - and there is no room for the larf.

I know I have a good example of this:

I pulled the fans at harvest, but you can see where I had pinched all the lower budsites in these two pics rather well.

I think I try to keep about a 3-3.5' canopy - the light doesn't really penetrate enough past that point for me. That means depending on the plant, the lower 15"-18"-24" of the plant gets pinched out...



dank.Frank