Growing Girls Scout Cookies (low yield?)
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Not sure which photo you are looking. I had pics of my GSC and Sour Diesel. But I know for a fact that my GSC is legit.
It's partly due to my crappy photographs. Since this seems to have provoked far more controversy than I expected, I will post better photos.
Sorry, but both my GSC and Sour Diesel started flowering in late July.
Sorry, but my GSC and Sour Diesel both started flowering in late July. Come October, thar makes it 9 weeks. And this is a photo of the GSC.
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harris hawk
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It's a good producer - BUT there are so many varibiles - genetics. lighting, soil. nutrient use, and the grower !!!!
Cpappa27
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Oh I know I grew up mostly in Maine. I grew many outdoor seasons in Maine. Maine definitely has some good pot and crazy unpredictable weather comes out of here.
Im actually working on getting a true cut of the Burnham Red Eye from someone I know up that way.
Thundercat
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That plant has more than 4 weeks left with out any doubts. Likely 5-6 if it is kept healthy and in a good environment . It doesn’t know or care what week you started counting the flower period or how many weeks you think it is supposed to take to flower. Plants don’t use calendars they react to their environment.
Every plant grows differently in every environment.
I can also definitively say that your yield will be much better if you keep it healthy and harvest once it’s actually ripe.
Budzbuddha
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That plant regardless if GSC or otherwise will not be done “ in two weeks “ - plants do not follow calendars or whatever time of week you put on it.
Plant will be harvested when done completely however long that takes - period.
Considering any plant as a “ low yielder “ is already shooting yourself in the foot. Keep it healthy , happy and it will yield appropriately.
Those flowers have many weeks to go - buds will swell / harden off / mature. Pistils will mature and color off. Calyx will bulk.
That plant needs way more time to become harvest ready - regardless of breeder hype or other nonsense.
So true! So many factors involved. It takes experience to produce a good crop. There is no substitute for experience. I learned alot after three years of growing indoors, but I'm still learning. This is my first outdoor grow, and I've been very lucky. No pests, ideal weather conditions and sun exposure, good soil, and good clones to start with. Its clear that my harvest will be much bigger than I hoped for. After this, I would not go back to indoor growing.
The unpredictable weather is definitely a factor when growing outdoors in Maine. But, as a lifelong Maine resident, I can say that the Maine climate is changing. The last few years have been a drought. However, this Summer has been especially wet, and I know many growers who say that their plants have loved it. My point being that growing in Maine may actually benefit from climate change. Either way, we Mainers know how to grow pot. I am particularly lucky because I live 15 minutes from the Maine Seed Bank in Farmington, which provides a wide and ever changing variety of seeds and clones. My GSC clone came from a GSC mother that was grown from seeds obtained at the Seed Bank, which is enough proof for me that I have a genuine straight up GSC plant.
Tolerance Break
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Uhhhh... GSC is a clone only strain.
Edit: https://en.seedfinder.eu/strain-info/Girl_Scout_Cookies/Clone_Only_Strains/
I totally agree with everything you said. I do not tell my plants when they will be ready. The plant tells me. Once you have a few grows under your belt, it becomes easy to know when a plant is ready. Bearing in mind that some people may want to harvest earlier versus later, depending on what psychoactive effect they may be looking for. I personally prefer earlier versus later (and I only smoke sativa) because I find that harvesting earlier gives me the high I am looking for. I actually do not want my bud to be all that high in THC. So I harvest when the trichomes are 50 percent cloudy. Also, I prefer the taste of buds that are harvested a bit early compared to plants that are taken to the max. I don't really care about yield. With just two nice plants I have a 6 month supply, if not more, and I even give away alot. That's fine for me.
Then why are seed sellers selling GSC seeds? https://www.growerschoiceseeds.com/buy-cannabis-seeds-on-sale/
Fangthane
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So..that's a Sativa GSC?
I do not believe that the two plants I have will take many more weeks until harvest. I do not intend to take them to maximum maturity. When 50 percent of the trichomes have turned cloudy, I will harvest. It is not going to take many weeks for that to happen. Maybe three weeks. That would put me at ten weeks.
Tolerance Break
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Because people buy them.
This is why researching who you're buying seeds from is so important, and understanding why clone only strains can't just be duplicated with selective breeding.
I'm not saying the weed will be bad, but its diginengious to call it real GSC. I can call my DLA 9 in flower Nevils Haze until the cows come home, that doesn't make it so.
Obviously no. I'm growing it for my sister who prefers Indica or Indica Dominant.
compassionateExotic
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GSC is infamous for not finishing early outdoors, good luck if u get it done by end of Oct . Tbh that doesn’t look like GSC but also so many people have fakes or germ a pack of s1/crosses with GSC it’s infamous for fakes or not orginal . GSC is infamous for using in sea of green/unstopped and growing tons of plant count to even make it worthy harvest cause it sucks so bad but also doesn’t like high ppfd/nutes like cherry pie
It seems to me, admittedly based on what information and photographs I could find online, that my plant does have the characteristics of a genuine GSC plant. In particular, the way the buds have formed. Not like any plant I have grown previously, with longer stretches of stem between bud sites. The best way I have been able to describe it is that the buds have formed like golf balls, instead of long colas like with my Sour Diesel. But I'm interested to have input, since I was know that the mother of my clone was grown from GSC seed obtained from the Maine Seed Bank. I have trouble believing that the Seed Bank would mislabel or misidentify their seeds, unless it was a mistake on their part. Another poster here claimed that GSC comes from clones only and that GSC seeds are non existent, although I see at least one online seed seller that is advertising GSC seeds. I admit that I'm confused at this point, except for the fact that the online images of GSC plants in flower that I have seen, seem to match my plant. In particular, the way the buds form like golf balls with rather long stretches between bud sites (hence a reason that GSC might be low yielding). Also, I understood that GSC tends to have purple tones as it matures, which this plant clearly does (as did its mother). In general, it seems to be that identifying a genuine GSC plant is problematic, at best. I can only go by what I know are the origins regarding this particular plant. If it is not a genuine GSC then I will be having a talk with the Maine Seedbank for false advertising.