At the end of the summer I was lucky enough to be gifted some pretty high-grade cannabis seeds, they were all from the same Jack Herer mother, she was a 14 week beast chosen specifically for structure, crossed with pollen from three different Indica dads, among them blueberry and hindu kush genes, targeting that 14 week flower time.
The seeds were sprouted, it took an overnight soak an 3 days to do it, and out of 25 initial seeds, we got 22 seedlings. These were divided into two lots; 'A' and 'B.
The A were the ones we suspected as being hindu kush and blueberry fathered and the B was another fast indica which we were seeking to isolate from the other two.
The A had traits such as: all were tall, branchy, with two main types of phenos, one was a columnar, and one was a sprawler.
'A' flower time ranged from a few being ready at 8-9 weeks, and some could have went 12-14, as would be expected considering mother.
B traits were that they were even taller, and the buds were huge, pineapple shaped beasts. Two phenos again, one of them leafy and big with serious resin production, serious serious resin that would shut the scissors down, and the other a branchy monster with giant buds and serious resin.
B flower time was slightly shorter than 'A', as the B dad was a pure indica, but faster than the Kush, which is an 8 week plant.
Smells- 'A' trays smelled like Haze dominant smells all, catpiss, mango, sweet and sour, bud crystals were extreme.
'B' tray is more of a 'classic' smell, weedy and rich, pine and skunk and fruit-funk, the resin was about the best (worst, that shit got everywhere.....have you ever got resin in your eyes? omg) I have seen, extremely gummy.
OK, so on to details-
Grow style- Hydroponic, rockwool, flood and drain style, 4 x 4 trays w/ reservoirs (40 gallon) rockwool cubes go into slabs. I am changing to cocotek and myco fungi after one more rockwool grow.
Total light was 5000 watts, 4 HPS HOrtilux and 1 MH Blue spectrum
Flood time was once daily in veg and twice daily peak at flower
The seedlings were planted and grown for 6 weeks when one showed sex, a male, it was summarily executed by strait razor.
We cloned everything as soon as pre-flowers showed on the females, and then another male showed and got terminated. Both of these males was in the 'B' side
At this time, if I remember, we had 20 plants alive and thriving, all female....well.....we thought.....a late, hazy male showed up (B again, we didnt get any males from the 10 'A' plants) and actually was able to release a flower of pollen, he was super short and way under the by-this-point huge canopy
(he was a straggler that one of the other partners wanted to try to keep alive...lesson learned; be ruthless and kill everything that isnt great)
so....we used GH 3-part series nutrients and no additives during flower. At first we used the directions to guide us as to how much plant food to use...I quickly noticed symptomology of over-fertilization. So I talked the others into a trip to the hydro store and we got an EC-ppm-ph pen......the ec was so high the meter couldn't read it when we made ferts by GH directions.
There was a bit of confusion here because another grower runs a lot of popular strains in his op, and uses insanely high amounts of ferts like I described.....his plants make it too.....however, most of them are pure or mostly pure indicas, and he told me himself that the clones were perpetuated in his circle 'because they were tough', in his words.
This is the local guru.
So...I told the senoir partner that we were going to kill our plants if we didnt alter this......we found with the pens help that these plants were verrry sativa in their feeding habits, they liked about 500 ppm, NOT the 1600+ which was derived when following GH directions TO THE LETTER. For once, I will spare you all the industry rant. Just this one time.
In flower they took up to 1000 ppm briefly, but were happy at 900 for most times.
The medium needed to be flushed frequently, which we did w/ 10% solution. Every single time we flushed them we noticed an improvement. On my personal grow at a smaller non-com scale, I would flush every other day.
We had several little problems, most of them minor, these guys use open reservoirs and deal with evaporative losses screwing with the ec/ppm/ph....they were allowing algae to grow on the blocks.....the usual.
We harvested Xmas day and they are drying now, we hope to sample something soon.
more as I get it
The seeds were sprouted, it took an overnight soak an 3 days to do it, and out of 25 initial seeds, we got 22 seedlings. These were divided into two lots; 'A' and 'B.
The A were the ones we suspected as being hindu kush and blueberry fathered and the B was another fast indica which we were seeking to isolate from the other two.
The A had traits such as: all were tall, branchy, with two main types of phenos, one was a columnar, and one was a sprawler.
'A' flower time ranged from a few being ready at 8-9 weeks, and some could have went 12-14, as would be expected considering mother.
B traits were that they were even taller, and the buds were huge, pineapple shaped beasts. Two phenos again, one of them leafy and big with serious resin production, serious serious resin that would shut the scissors down, and the other a branchy monster with giant buds and serious resin.
B flower time was slightly shorter than 'A', as the B dad was a pure indica, but faster than the Kush, which is an 8 week plant.
Smells- 'A' trays smelled like Haze dominant smells all, catpiss, mango, sweet and sour, bud crystals were extreme.
'B' tray is more of a 'classic' smell, weedy and rich, pine and skunk and fruit-funk, the resin was about the best (worst, that shit got everywhere.....have you ever got resin in your eyes? omg) I have seen, extremely gummy.
OK, so on to details-
Grow style- Hydroponic, rockwool, flood and drain style, 4 x 4 trays w/ reservoirs (40 gallon) rockwool cubes go into slabs. I am changing to cocotek and myco fungi after one more rockwool grow.
Total light was 5000 watts, 4 HPS HOrtilux and 1 MH Blue spectrum
Flood time was once daily in veg and twice daily peak at flower
The seedlings were planted and grown for 6 weeks when one showed sex, a male, it was summarily executed by strait razor.
We cloned everything as soon as pre-flowers showed on the females, and then another male showed and got terminated. Both of these males was in the 'B' side
At this time, if I remember, we had 20 plants alive and thriving, all female....well.....we thought.....a late, hazy male showed up (B again, we didnt get any males from the 10 'A' plants) and actually was able to release a flower of pollen, he was super short and way under the by-this-point huge canopy
(he was a straggler that one of the other partners wanted to try to keep alive...lesson learned; be ruthless and kill everything that isnt great)
so....we used GH 3-part series nutrients and no additives during flower. At first we used the directions to guide us as to how much plant food to use...I quickly noticed symptomology of over-fertilization. So I talked the others into a trip to the hydro store and we got an EC-ppm-ph pen......the ec was so high the meter couldn't read it when we made ferts by GH directions.
There was a bit of confusion here because another grower runs a lot of popular strains in his op, and uses insanely high amounts of ferts like I described.....his plants make it too.....however, most of them are pure or mostly pure indicas, and he told me himself that the clones were perpetuated in his circle 'because they were tough', in his words.
This is the local guru.
So...I told the senoir partner that we were going to kill our plants if we didnt alter this......we found with the pens help that these plants were verrry sativa in their feeding habits, they liked about 500 ppm, NOT the 1600+ which was derived when following GH directions TO THE LETTER. For once, I will spare you all the industry rant. Just this one time.
In flower they took up to 1000 ppm briefly, but were happy at 900 for most times.
The medium needed to be flushed frequently, which we did w/ 10% solution. Every single time we flushed them we noticed an improvement. On my personal grow at a smaller non-com scale, I would flush every other day.
We had several little problems, most of them minor, these guys use open reservoirs and deal with evaporative losses screwing with the ec/ppm/ph....they were allowing algae to grow on the blocks.....the usual.
We harvested Xmas day and they are drying now, we hope to sample something soon.
more as I get it
