[Kalyx]

Hello everyone,

Getting my second seasonal grow log started. Im hoping to improve on my summer grow as I continue to get my new set up all dialed in. Due to being very busy I was unable to get this log properly started when the seeds were popped. Luckily for all that want to tag along this show is going to start with all my girls already flowering. That being said I have taken very few pictures throughout this grow and some of these girls have next to no photo documentation yet. I will provide the pictures of what I do have and a summary of the grow up to this point. Within the week I will provide a current update with photos of the girls as they are currently.

The Strains

3x Purple Gummer - Earthman Technologies
1x Sunshine DayDream - Bodhi Seeds
1x Headbanger - Karma Genetics
1x SSSDH x Jack - Karma Genetics
1x Skywalker Kush - Reserva Privada

This log will only focus on the later 4 strains. I am running a different diary for my test grow of the Purple Gummer - Earthman Technologies for those that wish to follow the progress with those girls.


The Equipment

Plants will be flowered in a 5x5x7 tent.
Light is a 1000w HPS with reflector.
Using a carbon filter for odor control.
Soil is FoxFarm Ocean Forrest with added perlite, vermiculite and earthworm castings.
Nutrients being used are FoxFarm Big Bloom, Kangaroots Root Drench and Microbe Brew.


The Rundown

7/28 - Beans were dropped in shot glasses to start germination. I started out with 1x Sunshine Daydream, 1x Synergy, 1x Headbanger, 1x SSSDH x Jack, 1x Biker Kush v2.0 and 1x Skywalker Kush. All 6 seeds cracked open inside of 24 hours and were placed into solo cups filled with FFOF with added perlite.

8/3 - By this time all seeds have sprouted above ground, this is being counted as the official Day 1 of the grow.


Day 1 - Biker Kush v2.0 - Headbanger - SSSDH x Jack




Day 1 - Skywalker Kush




8/10 - Day 7 - Synergy - Sunshine Daydream




Now fast forward sometime to around week 2 all of my seedlings are starting to have problems. The issue looks to be over-watering but that is just not the case. End up discovering the PH from the tap water is horribly off all of the sudden and its hurting all of my young plants badly. The issue was also starting to show some effects on my flowering plants as well. I fixed the PH of the tap water I was using and started mixing in FF Kangaroots and MircrobeBrew with their water. All of the plants had recovered from this with in a week of fixing the PH and using the root drench. All the plants had been damaged pretty good, growth stunted or stalled on all of them and had been set back some time.


9/17 Day 14 - Headbanger - Biker Kush v2.0



You can see the damage done to them and the Karma plants pictured above were actually the least effected by the PH problem. After recovering all the plants really started to explode with growth, displaying a lot of vigor.


9/30 Day 27 - All plants were transplanted at this time into 3gal and 5gal pots. I had wanted to run all of them in 5gal but was unable to. Only running the Headbanger and Skywalker Kush in the 5gal and the other girls are in 3's. All of them really exploded after being transplanted minus the Biker Kush v2.0, she never recovered sadly.

I had such high hope for her out of the 3 Karma plants I had and was lucky enough to have 3 for 3 females. For a couple of weeks I thought it was just shock and she was droopy. Her transplant went very smoothly and I'm really not sure what happened. I thought that maybe the light was poisoning her that she was maybe just sensitive to that. I moved her into the corner of the veg room out from under the light, at first she seemed like she was starting to perk up. Her fan leaves have been constantly droppy, then yellowing and dying. Her main shoot was growing for awhile but seems to have stopped. Im thinking of trying to clone the top shoot and seeing if I can save her that way, not sure she will make it.




Update continues on the next post.

[Kalyx]

Update Continued

9/13 - Day 42 I topped all of the plants outside of the stressed Biker Kush on 9/6. The following week on 9/13 I started to do some added training on the plants. Plants in 3gal pots where thrown into the flowering tent to begin that phase. The Headbanger and Skywalker Kush will not start flowering now as I plan to do more training with them over then next couple of weeks. I really want them to be able to take advantage of their 5 gal pots better.

I was able to sex all plants at this point as well. I did really well with my female to male ratios on this grow and ended up with more females than expected.

Earthman Technologies - Started 5x Purple Gummers seeds and lost one during veg that was fried by my T5 when I had a fan go out. Of the 4 remaining plants I was blessed to be left with 3 females and 1 male. Since these plants are being test grown for Earthman I didn't want to keep the male around as a pollen source so he was cut down.

Bodhi Seeds - Was a very small run with Bodhis genetics this round just popped 2 seeds in total, 1 Synergy and my one and only Sunshine Daydream bean at the time. I had a lot riding on the SSDD as its a special strain for me I hadn't had the chance to grow her. I have had 4 separate Sunshine Daydream orders get snatched by customs. Thanks to good friends and persistence I have recently been able to get a hold of more SSDD seeds. I was more than happy to see the Sunshine Daydream was a girl and sadly the Synergy was a male. I had initially wanted to keep him around for a pollen source. After letting him continue to grow for a few weeks I was just not impressed with his vigor, growth structure and node spacing after topping so he was tossed on 9/27

Karma Genetics - Got really lucky with the 3 Karma seeds I popped ended up with 3 females. Sadly the Biker Kush that I had the highest hopes for and was the most excited about has really had a rough go. She is still barely hanging on this point and I plan to try and clone her top shoot this weekend and try to save her.

Reserva Privada - Just planted one Skywalker Kush seed and it was a fem seed so I knew she would be a female. Always a little nervous about fem seeds so I will make sure to keep a close eye on her so she doesn't herm on me.


Headbanger and SSSDH x Jack being mauled I mean trained




Sunshine Daydream right before flower.



Im in love with this girls structure, tight node spacing, branching and her leafs.




9/28 - Sunshine Daydream - she is 2 weeks into flower, she is a really pretty girl.




9/28 - Headbanger - She has finished her training and starting her second day of flower along with the Skywalker Kush. The two of these girls look nearly identical after training with leaves, node spacing and overall structure. Both of them have tight node spacing, think stems with strong branching. They do look very similar to my Goji Og plants during veg from my previous grow. I expect they will start to stretch a lot and take on more of the Og plant structure in flowering, anticipating them to be stretching around 300%.




I will provide an update and much better photo documentation of all the girls in this grow at the end of this coming weekend. For the plants that have been flowering the past few weeks, I expect their stretching should start slowing down greatly. While those slow down on their stretch I really expect the Headbanger and Skywalker Kush to start taking off the next couple of weeks. I will also plan to update the status of the Biker Kush and whether or not she will survive.

[Useful Idiot]

Looking good over here K. Well except for the Biker. Hopefully it will come around.

[GRIMS]

I'm subbed. I like how organized your info is! Makes it a pleasant and easy read. Plants look good.

GRIMS

[Gardening Angel]

Hey kalyx

Thanks for the update

You seem to have things under control now looking forward to the next update

I hope your keeping well

Thanks
GA

[Kalyx]

@Useful Idiot - Hey buddy thanks for stopping by sadly its not looking like the Biker is going to pull through, everything else is doing great though. Have to take the bad with the good.

@GRIMS - Glad you like the set up of my logs still new to running these, Im used to scribbling notes in a note pad. Welcome to the party though, I think these girls will put on quite a nice show.

@Gardening Angel - Hey GA, thanks for dropping in, things are under control now and everything is looking and smelling really nice. I have had a number of setbacks for this grow more than I would like but its a happy tent right now.


Update 10/12

Girls are looking good and happy and all have flowering well underway. The girls are anywhere from 15 days to 29 days in flower. I was thrown a curve ball since the previous update that I wasn't expecting. Instead of 7 females in flower I only have 6, unfortunately I wrongly sexed my Headbanger plant as a female. In fairness to myself she threw out a few white hairs at her nodes, I have never seen a male do this. Last week when going to inspect her I noticed she/he was growing male flowers. He is not a hermie there are no female flowers on the plant and other than the few white hairs that showed before flowering he has only grown balls.

Might as well make the best of the situation, I will be collecting his pollen for use in the future. He is really an amazing plant, lots of vigor, extremely bushy very strong branching and great side branching. He has very close node spacing and the smell he gives off is the best part, its extremely loud on a stem rub of a burnt rubber, sour, og, greasy funk. I have moved him far from the flowering tent to collect his pollen. Im not positive if I will use him on this run but I'm considering dusting a few branches on the SSSDH x Jack and Skywalker Kush. The later is only 2 weeks into flower and has yet to really get started forming buds. The sssdh x jack is 4 weeks in but looks like only 2 weeks in. Guessing she is going to take at least another 7-8 weeks to finish. The other girls are a little farther along and not sure if there would be enough time for the seeds to mature before harvest.

Really sad that He turned out to be a male, it was my favorite plant in terms of structure but I figure his pollen may be more beneficial to me in the long run than flowers.

Headbanger - Its a boy!





Skywalker Kush - Day 7 - 10/5

Really liking this girl so far she has picked up an incredible lemon pinesol og funk aroma. She is a nice little bushy beast as well and and requiring a lot of training and tying down to keep her in control. Hoping that she will settle down on her stretching in the next week most likely will go on for another 2 weeks though. She has stretched a lot in the first 2 weeks of flower. I was thinking she would go about 300% but with the way she has gone Im thinking she may stretch more than that.




Skywalker Kush - Day 15 - 10/12

As you can see still having to tie her down, was really able to get her opened up nicely should allow the light to penetrate deep into her canopy. She looks like she will be a very nice yielder just need to keep her height under control before she out grows all the other plants.





SSSDH x Jack - Day 15 - 10/5


This girl is a soldier no doubt about it, thought I was about to lose her or half of her if I was lucky, due to me being a little overly aggressive with training. She has been getting trained and tied down through veg and the start of flowering like a few of my other plants. I know that she is going to be a big stretcher so I have wanted to train to keep her height in check. This problem happened sometime between 10/3 - 10/5 not sure when exactly but noticed it on 10/5 right before taking the picture below. The 2 main shoots where she had been topped had split down the middle of her main stem. The split was about 3 inches in length and straight down the middle. In the picture you can see that she was tied together using string. When I noticed this I thought for sure that I would lose one of if not both of her tops and be left with only the lower branches. I didn't want to use an adhesive thinking the chemicals in the tape/glue would cause more harm than good. I was also worried about her possibly getting infected but there have been no negative effects. This girl doesn't even seem to be bothered or slowed down by this happening. None of her leaves drooped and nothing has died. Bud development has progressed a lot the past week and is doing so equally on both tops.




Update continues on the next post.

[Kalyx]

Update Continued 10/12


SSSDH x Jack - Flower Day 29 - 10/12

She isn't really getting frosty yet moving along slowly to start flowering but the past week has had the most progression for her. She isn't smelling too strong yet but does have a hint of limes to her smell. While she is still stretching a bit the speed of her stretching has slowed some over the last week, by looks of things she will probably keep stretching for another week or two. Right now she has stretched about 250% Im thinking she will finish between 300-400%. She does have some nice main branches not too much in terms of secondary branching but is producing a good number of bud sites.




Sunshine Daydream - Flower Day 29 - 10/12

This girl Im absolutely in love with, she is working hard to meet the lofty expectations I have for this plant. She is just over 4 weeks flowering now and has progressed along the fastest of any of the plants. She is really filling in nicely and thickening up well, starting to get quite top heavy. Im actually planning on getting her tied up to some stakes this weekend. She is starting to flop around quite a bit so looking to give her a helping hand with support. She has the strongest stink of any of the plants, she reeks of a strong skunky and creamy funk. The frost this girl is putting on for 4 weeks of flower is nothing short of impressive. She is so covered the blurry picture I have is doing her no justice in displaying her frost but you can get the idea. She has all but stopped with her stretching and as expected stretched the least of all the plants. A tad hard to get and exact figure with the training and opening her up but she looks to have stretched about 150-200%. Her structure is very impressive and orderly, very bushy, great branching, incredibly tight node spacing. By the looks of things her buds will put on some good weight and will be a nice size. She is absolutely loaded with bud sites all over and appear like they will stack nicely.





A little blurry I will get better pictures for the next update but you can see her sugar leaves are just coated in crystals.




Sneak Peek into the Next Round

Just wanted to post this quickly to show some not all of the magic that will be grown in my Winter Log.

Bodhi Seeds - SkunkVA x Snow Lotus (testers) - 8 days old - 10-12




More updates coming soon.

[Kalyx]

Update 10/19


Things are coming along very well in the garden over the past week. All flowering plants were fed Big Bloom, Kangaroots and Microbe brew over the weekend. The amount of Big Bloom used was increased a little bit, none of the plants have shown any signs of burning. All of them seem pretty hearty and not showing a lot of sensitivities. For now this update will just be on the Sunshine Daydream as Im still in the process of organizing and uploading pictures. I was finally able to upgrade to a new camera this weekend which is really helping increase the quality of the photos I have been taking. Its taking me some tinkering and has been a bit of the pain to get these photos uploaded onto my albums. So in the meantime while I work out technical difficulties enjoy the SSDD.


Sunshine DayDream - Flower Day 36


Absolutely in love with this little bushy girl in all aspects. To start she has great structure, incredible branching and very tight node spacing. Just one topping and a tiny bit of training in she turned into a beautiful squat bush with a pretty even canopy. She is absolutely loaded with bud sites everywhere and is stacking pretty nicely on her main tops. I love the dark green leaves she has that just contrast with the white frost thats coating everywhere on her buds. She is covered with a bunch of golf ball like flowers that just keep getting bigger and bigger. Really hoping that her flowers dont stop growing and swelling anytime soon. She has more frost than any of the other plants being grown right now and is also the strongest smelling. She is a stinker and at first you get a very strong skunky and kushy aroma to her, get in for a closer smell or a stem rub and you get a really buttery skunk aroma.





She is a bit leafy of a pheno but that really the only thing I could complain about with her. The good thing is her sugar leafs are totally coated with resin. I will be able to find plenty of great uses for those.




Really loving this new camera I picked up. Once I figure out all the bells and whistles I should be able to capture some amazing pictures of my ladies. I wasn't able to get this detail and quality off an iphone camera I had previously been using.




She is over 5 weeks into flower now Im guessing she is going to be at least another 3 weeks more likely 4. She does look much further along than any of the other plants Im growing. I know SSDD is supposed to be a 9 week strain for the most part. Compared to some of my other plants she looks like she might be a faster finishing pheno.




More updates coming shortly, as soon as I can get my pictures uploaded.

[Kalyx]

Update 11/2

Things are going great right now in the flowering tent, its my favorite time of the cycle when buds and smells really start developing. For the most part everything in the tent is exactly at the 50 day mark so just over 7 weeks. The Skywalker Kush is at 36 days sitting 2 weeks behind the others. There have been some ups and downs, changes and surprises with this grow but its looking like things will finish up nicely. I don't quite have the number of plants I had expected with this grow but it has turned into a rather nice and stinky cycle regardless.

There are some nice variations in the stages each of the flowering plants are in. The Sunshine Daydream is the farthest along and looks to be finishing up nicely. The SSSDH x Jack is going to have a longer flowering period but is really starting to frost and swell up, her buds are finally starting to take shape. Then the Skywalker Kush that is two weeks behind looks like she is just getting ready to blow up as her buds start to form and take shape.


Sunshine Daydream - Flower Day 50


Stunning is really the only thing I can think of to describe her, such an amazing all around plant. She has an excellent compact structure, tight node spacing, amazing branching and loaded with bud sites. She is covered with a bunch of beautiful chunky nuggets, she probably is one of the frostiest plants I have ever grown. She has an amazingly smooth buttery funk smell that keeps pulling you back for an extra sniff. She appears to be a fairly fast finishing pheno as well, she has faded a lot over the past week, her fan leaves are turning gold and yellow. At 50 days under the scope she appears to have quite a large amount of cloudy trichs. Im guessing she will be finished in the next 7 to 14 days. She has been getting pure water for the past week and will continue to be flushed until she is ready for harvest.

I could not be more pleased with this plant and the journey I have gone through with this strain. This strain does hold a special sentiment with me and this is the first time being able to grow her. At the time her seed was popped it was the only seed I had and nearly didn't make it on a couple of occasions as a seedling. I had a lot of hope put into this one seed and was not only blessed with a female but an amazing looking pheno at that. Everything about this plant has been awesome and exceeded my lofty expectations. Unfortunately, I was unable to take any cuts of her, it will be difficult trying to get a late clone or revegging her. I will still attempt to save this pheno but Im doubtful I will be able to. I am blessed to have gotten a hold of some more seeds, so I have plenty more amazing plants to find with this amazing cross.


She was a little thirsty before taking these pictures as you can see a little droop to her leaves. She is really starting to display those beautiful fall colors.












Update continues on the next post.

[Kalyx]

Update Continued 11/2


SSSDH x Jack - Flower Day 50


This girl has come a long way the past week and is really becoming a joy to look at and smell. I know she is a longer flowering strain and I expected a slower flowering process. I have been planning for her to be around a 12 week plant give or take and seems like she will fall in that time frame, perhaps a little sooner. She is one impressive plant that has been through a lot of abuse and just keeps shinning through. To the point I thought half of her branches if not the whole plant would die, after the main stem was split down the middle. That didn't even phase or slow her down, there wasn't a single droopy leaf this girl just seems to be happy and keeps chugging along.

She has such a beautiful bud structure thats forming big pointed calyxes, so easy to see the haze influences in her genetics. If you couldn't tell there was haze in her from looking at her, smelling her will leave no doubt in your mind. She blasts you with a pungent piney, lemony, spicey haze funk. Im not getting really any smell of the sour d in her genetics yet but there is plenty of time for her terps to develop. Looking and smelling her really just reminds me of the jack I used to grow back in the day, just with a more organized structure to her. Her growth is all vertical, she has decent branching but they grow vertical as well. The vertical growth is awesome because she takes up so little room the entire plant is basically contained inside the width of her 3gal pot. If I was running just this pheno it would be ridiculous how many of them I could pack inside the tent with the way she grows. On top of that she is really starting to stack nicely and Im thinking she will bless me with some big fat colas.













Update continues in the next post.