[Mr.Chocolate]

Hello Everyone

Thanks for joining my grow. These seeds were purchased directly from GU (Breeder). I've been looking forward to getting some of his beans under lights so let's get started. Just remember, let's keep this thread positive and full of good energy and hopefully we can all learn from the things I did right and what I did wrong.

Company: Greenpoint Seeds
Seeds: Elephant Stomper X Star Dawg
Seed Info: Via GU's website-
"Elephant Stomper stays low, provides extreme branching with almost no visible main cola. She provides a little color and lip-smackingly sweet flavor. Elephant Stomper adds weight and an intense concord marmalade flavor to the Star Dawg while retaining the resin profile and the potency of the Chemdog star-child.
Star Dawg is the culmination of years of inbreeding and working the Chemdog line by breeding legend, Top Dawg Seeds. Packs retail for $200 and are auction off at nearly $1,000 for just a few seeds. This Star Dawg male is from the 2011-2012 batch that produced such phenos as the Kate Uptown pheno and other super colorful phenos."
System: Deep Water Culture.
Nutrients: Cutting Edge Nutrients + Compost Tea
Lighting: Led (sorry keeping the details on these private.
Co2: 1000-1200 from Veg to Harvest

Objective: To document my Elephant Stomper x Star Dawg seed growing experience while providing HONEST and informative informative so that you the consumer can know what to expect from these seeds along with learning from what I did right and wrong.

Smoke Report: The smoke report will not be done by myself, but rather by my patients. There are a handful of very brutally honest patients that I have who are jaded and expect the best from me. Simply, if they say it's good, then it's GOOD. These are the type of smokers that can break down the smell, taste and potency. I also believe it's important to have an independent review of your product, for obvious reasons.

Lab Testing: If any lab testing is done I'll post any results on this thread.

What I expect from you: Let's keep this thread positive and on track. Feel free to request any additional info in my weekly updates.

[Mr.Chocolate]

Time: Week 1 of Seedling
Room Temp: Approx 75F
Growing Media: Rockwool
Nutrients: None only compost tea.

I should point out that after years of using organic root plugs, such as root riot, this is my first time using rockwool cubes to germinate seeds in over 5 years, and some mistakes were made early due to this.

After soaking my rockwool in compost tea for approx. 2 hours I planted the seeds directly into the cubes about 1/2 inch from the surface. After about 3 days 9 of the 10 seeds have sprouted, however after tearing into the cube that had not sprouted I found that the seed DID germinate however, therefore 100% germination, but I had not removed enough water from the cube and the seedling drowned soon after.

I began to wait for the lower leaves of the seedlings to yellow slightly before adding a 1/10 nutrient solution + compost tea as feed. After about day 7 I began adding this solution.

Pic: Sorry, forgot to take a pic of this.

[Mr.Chocolate]

Time: Week 2 of Seedling
Room Temp: Approx 75F
Growing Media: Rockwool
Nutrients: 1/10 nutrient solution of cutting edge nutrients + compost tea

The plants are growing very well and are on track to be placed in the veg room buckets.

Pic #1: These are approximately 14+ from seed. I had not been taking a detailed journal up to this point so the exact date is lost. You can also see some of my Spiderbite X Monster Cookie seedlings also from Greenpoint Seeds to the right. Note: You can see some yellowing in the leaves which I typically wait for until I start adding synthetic nutrients.

[Mr.Chocolate]

Time: Week 2 of veg Day 8
Room Temp: 82 F day 72 F night
Water Temp: 64-67
Nutrients: approx 800 ppm of Cutting Edge Nutrients + Compost Tea

Notes:
-Due to limited veg room space I chose 8 of 9 plants to transfer into the hydro veg room.

-About 8 days into veg and things are looking great. GU's (breeder) description was pretty accurate, in that these plants love to stay bushy and most don't have a defined primary cola.

-These plants were topped once and the majority of them progressed to be very busy from that point on. I think the ones with a more defined primary stalk are likely to be Star Dawg dominate.

-Things are rolling along great and the root mass is becoming well established. I'll take pic of the root mass in the future until flowering. I expect explosive growth to hit by the end of the week, which is typical in this type of system, in my experience.


Plant #1


Plant #2


Plant #3

Plant #4


Plant #5


Plant #6


Plant #7


Plant #8
Ops, neglected to take this pic. Note: This was the smallest of the group.

Cool I run some GP gear myself. I'm subbed!

[Mr.Chocolate]

Originally Posted by WeetisPotPie

Cool I run some GP gear myself. I'm subbed!

Thanks. I'll be making a post by the end of the week regarding my Aspen Yeti X Polar Bear tester pack. Also have about 3x other strains from Greenpoint just planted and will be starting by the end of the month. Thanks for the sub.

[Mr.Chocolate]

I've have my Monday update coming up in the next 2-3 hours. I intend to keep this thing running until I post a smoke report and perhaps some lab info.

[Mr.Chocolate]

Time: Week 2 of veg Day 15

Nutrients: Approx 800 ppm. Cutting Edge + Compost Tea
Foliage Spray: Compost tea twice a week
Co2: 1000-1200 ppm

Room Temp: 82 F day 72 F night
Water Temp: 64-68
Nutrients: approx 800 ppm of Cutting Edge Nutrients + Compost Tea

Journal: Plants have begun to really take off. I topped the main colas of each plant and continued applying compost tea as foliage spray. I had messaged GU about commercially viable plants and he had mentioned this Elephant Stompper as one of them, and he looks to be correct. The next row over I have a cut of the clone only Blue Dream and several of these Elephant Stomper X Stardawgs have already overtaken them in size overall size. Starting next week I'm going to begin rubbing the stems to see if I can begin to pick up their scent. I'm already picking up a sweet floral berry smell when working nearby them.

Next week I flip them to flowering.

Personal Notes: Happy comes to mind when describing thee . They've remained low but bushy and I'm hoping to find some Potent grape tasting bud along with some big yields from this plant. 1 more week until flowering so we'll begin to find out shortly. I've been running some bluedream lately, however they just get too gigantic during flowering and I had to constantly deal with stalks breaking from the weight, which is a good problem to have but 8+ feet tall plants indoors with no room to work with is a headache. I'm hoping this pans out to be a great commercial alternative with potency and taste.

Note Regarding Pics: About an hour earlier I sprayed these plants with a compost tea mix which left, what looks like, a dirty water stain on the leafs and buckets. The pink and purple light you can slightly see are from a nearby row of lights that had not shutoff yet for the night. The timers are slightly staggered by several minutes to prevent the circuits from overloading.



Plant #1

Plant #2

Plant #3

Plant #4

Plant #5

Plant #6

Plant #7

Plant #8

[Triggle]

I'm in! Good luck!

[jdogg1337]

Looking great! I'm interested in these as well! I popped 4 seeds of this same strain and have been outdoors this season. I got two males and 2 females. One female is tall and the other is much shorter, same size as the males. I can't wait to flower them and I bet you cannot wait as well