A Forrest in a Closet - Sleestack Winter

[The Pet]

Hello everyone. I have lurked here for a very long time and have learned very much from nearly every post that I have researched. I would like to share my current crop. It is my third time doing so.

Here are the details of the grow:

Strain: Sleestack (heavy sativa)
Veg: seven weeks under 6x65w CFL
Flower: 68-70 days under 450w HPS
Medium: Organic soil (local nursery blend with castings added)
Nutrients: Fox Farm trio

My grow closet is approximately 36" x 36" x 9'

I germinated nine seeds. All nine sprouted. This is them at 14 days from seed, 10 days under CFL's.

13 days:

 

[The Pet]

19 days:

21 days:

24 days:

Topped them at 28 days:

29 days and 9/9 rooted clones:

 

[The Pet]

35 days:

42 days:

After flowering I was very fortunate that 5/9 of my plants were very healthy females.

7 days of flowering:

 

[The Pet]

18 days of flowering:

 

[The Pet]

26 days into flowering and a little nute burn on the lanky guy on the left.

29 days:

 

[The Pet]

33 days:

 

[blackosprey]

some good looking stuff there.

 

[The Pet]

That brings us to today.

36 days and some time to relax now that the weekend is here.

Sleestack takes out to almost 68-70 days so I'm half way. Pure sativas are such a tease.

These colas really fattened up and enlarged over the last two days.

ENHANCE

ENHANCE

 

[The Pet]

I've just got one more from today:

Thanks again for taking the time to look at my little project

 

[FRIENDinDEED]

nice plants and setup man, KISS done right! i dig it, peace and happy growing

 

[The Pet]

Today is day forty of flowering. I had to raise the stakes, so to speak, because the buds were getting so heavy that the stems could no longer support them.

The trichome development over the last week has been pretty great. Also the pistils are increasingly turning orange but as you can see the overwhelming majority are still very young.

This is one of two cocacola bottle sized colas on a slightly more immature plant. You can see the lack of trichome development and that much of the bud isn't filled out. After another week or two though they should be looking great. It seems that two of my five plants are going to be ready for harvest before the other three. I guess I'm just going to have to play it by ear.

The next generation arrived via parcel today. 5x Greenhouse Seeds Super Lemon Haze, a free feminized cheese, and a free feminized white widow. I've heard that cheese is pretty legit so I hope it works out.

I still have another 28-30 days for the more mature plants. These guys are taking forever

 

[wildgrow]

Those are juicy lookin colas. Great job. Did you make your reflector? cheers

 

[The Pet]

I sure did. I didn't have easy access to a professional housing so I manufactured one myself from a thin steel file box that had ventilation slats on the sides. That made installing the socket very easy. This way almost no light is directed upwards and the light stays cool. I installed a small chain in the center for raising and lowering and the ballast is mounted well out of reach of any water or plants near the very top of the grow room. It is an efficient setup for my small space.

Thanks for your question and kind feedback.

 

[MOneYMiKe]

nice D.I.Y..you seem to be a sponge bro....love what cha did w/cfl's.........haven't seen much of sleekstack...thanks

 

[The Pet]

Thanks for coming by, friend

I threw double nutes and double molasses at them today. With my last grow I did the recommended nutes every other watering per the Fox Farm guide with half of my plants and doubled the nutes with the other half. While the plants with double nutes had some nute burn in the leaves the buds were much larger and flavor/smokability wasn't affected. I've never used molasses and I don't know if it's BS or not but it hasn't hurt them so far so no worries. I also bought some half-gallon snap lid jars today for curing. They're a little larger than a canning jar so I just need to be patient and pay attention.

 

[guest3871]

I haven't seen much of the sleestack either?
I am interested in seeing how these turn out.

I thought they were supposed to be sativa dominant but stay short?

 

[growingcrazy]

Thanks for coming by, friend

I threw double nutes and double molasses at them today. With my last grow I did the recommended nutes every other watering per the Fox Farm guide with half of my plants and doubled the nutes with the other half. While the plants with double nutes had some nute burn in the leaves the buds were much larger and flavor/smokability wasn't affected. I've never used molasses and I don't know if it's BS or not but it hasn't hurt them so far so no worries. I also bought some half-gallon snap lid jars today for curing. They're a little larger than a canning jar so I just need to be patient and pay attention.

Plants are looking great! The waiting is the hardest part!

From my experience with running sleestack, the more sativa pheno that you got the clawed leaves on in your earlier post, that will be the best smoke. I found one that did the same and was fantastic!

If you run that pheno again just dial the nutes down a bit and your set!

Keep up the good work!

 

[Hüsker Dü]

Really nice grow. Thanks for sharing.
Looking forward to see the final result

The next generation arrived via parcel today. 5x Greenhouse Seeds Super Lemon Haze, a free feminized cheese, and a free feminized white widow. I've heard that cheese is pretty legit so I hope it works out.

I got the same free fem. Cheese. It´s one week in veg.


HD

 

[The Pet]

Hey there friends. Quick update at 49 days (seven weeks) of flowering.

I trimmed back the fan leaves on this cola to see what impact it has on the final weeks of flowering.

This is the other cola from the same plant that I left "natural." My goal is to see if there are any differences between each in the final product.

Can you say sticky? This still has at least two to three weeks.

Growingcrazy, this is the plant with leaves that "clawed up" from what I think was over-nutrient burn. However, it has the stickiest buds of any of the five plants. Good god.

At this point I'm going to start chopping them at different times and dates based on when they seem to be done. There's no reason to do a mass harvest because each plant is at a different developmental stage now.

dr. corndog - Most of the plants are very reasonable at five feet or under. Two of them went totally apeshit though. Genetics are funny like that

 

[wildgrow]

'Happy little trees'