"Connoisseur's Choice ~ Epic Multi Journal from the Seed Freaks"

[Dizzle Frost]

northern lights x blueberry

one of my pers favs!

 

[smokeymcpotz]

Jus wanna add a few...

 

[hellraizer30]

Very nice smokey rep for that shit!!

 

[THESkunkMunkie]

Damn Smokey, bringing in the fire I see mate. What strain/s is that?? Very nice work my friend

 

[Dizzle Frost]

thats some nice lookin gear right there to Smokey

 

[Crash666]

Here's some pineapple express porn. I'll try and get some shots of my setup here soon.

 

[smokeymcpotz]

Damn Smokey, bringing in the fire I see mate. What strain/s is that?? Very nice work my friend

All grape god... feels like foreva since ive grown anything else seriously. Im lookin tho!

 

[gudkarma]

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1) kush nugz from an old mom cut & thrown into flower. coco.

2 & 3 ) mad shack nug (white widow/herijuana x sannies shack)

4) gudkarma's daily drama. kicked it. i gutted. then fixed. i threw away the decorative plastic in case i need to dig-in one more time. she continues to dehuey though. working great & saved myself some $. i want to take a moment & thank my dad for teaching me to be a real man.

5) old moms working their MILFy magic

6 & 7) northern lights blue : overferted : nug session ; shit is a bomb yielder though & my next run is gonna great! i snatched a few early nugs & im quite happy to keep this this in the rotation. tastey brohams! & VERY stoney. & cheap good beans. w/ this delicious seed strain i'd say pleased.

eight) e$kobar's :still sexing the lavander haze


all my stuff ready to get the chop, in about 10 days, isnt that pleasing to me.

ph issues.
thrips on the preceding tray... week 1-3 & 4-6 touch.
maptio learning curve... especially regarding calcium & ph !
scorching them very early with 800w of lumens. what was i thinking ! & 7 weeks later just figuring the optimal distance for the lights.
and obvious over feeding.

all issues corrected & moving forward.

from 8 cuts rooted & off to flower (in one gallon containers of mapito) i estimate 1/4 pound of dry product.

that's 8 cuts.

i know i can do better but not bad for the first time
gud will be throwing down with mapito again soon & with hennepdesk's sage.

for now, and until i get the lab tweaked, i switched back to hydroton ...a medium & nute schedule i know very well ...and it gives me more time to focus on locking in my coco skills.

all my new stuff in the MILFy flower area is looking quite sweet. i hope to keep it that way.

i also switched back to maxigro/maxibloom an old familiar stand by... which i had in my nute stash... and had about 6% cal which is nice.

my basic hydro nute mix for mid flower is : maxibloom, potas. silicate, enzyme, bacto, endo & liquid karma : 750ppm : ph 5.5 to 5.8 !!!!! never a blip higher.

for early flower : remove maxibloom & substitute maxigrow

for late flower : maxibloom, p/k booster i use beastie blooms by foxfarm, enzyme, bacto, endo : about 900 to 950ppm.

week 7 through 8 i just run ph fresh water & a dash of cha ching (foxfarm) : about 200 ppm

for coco i keep it @ about 500ppm and substitute botanicare coco cns17 and about 5.8 to 6.0 ph.


i'm gonna lock this shit down or burn mad electric$ trying.

 

[gudkarma]

here ya go bluejean.

rooted from flower.

two strains taken at different times in flower one early, one fairly late.

pic #2 you can see how the stem goes from smooth to white and bumpy (barely).

 

[Bluejeans]

here ya go bluejean.

rooted from flower.

two strains taken at different times in flower one early, one fairly late.

pic #2 you can see how the stem goes from smooth to white and bumpy (barely).

Interesting... as much as I've read and researched, that whole idea is new to me. Alice wakes up in about an hour and I'm gonna give this a shot. I LOVE experimentation! You do realize that my Alice is 2 days into week 6 of flowering...she's quite advanced.

 

[Crash666]

More porn...

 

[Bluejeans]

...Alice wakes up in about an hour and I'm gonna give this a shot. I LOVE experimentation!

Okay, I'm responding to my own post but I am so jazzed that I may have a viable cut of Alice. She is so small that I actually had difficulty selecting a single cut, but I found one and followed instructions to the letter. Now, at almost 24 hours later, the cut is still standing pretty strong and not showing any visible signs of distress.. I lifted the dome and touched her leaves to see if she felt wilty, and she did a little bit, but not too bad really. I was impressed. I've named her Alicina.

Alice was obviously trained and trimmed to be extremely small. I don't know what her growing conditions or location was before she came to me, but I suspect something like a speaker case because she was so little. Even now at 6.5 weeks of flowering, she is still only about 9" tall. I often wondered what her potential would have been if she had been allowed to get bigger. Now I'll get a chance to see with Alicina because I've got plenty of space for her to get much larger than her mom did.

I'm feeling pretty good about this!

Meanwhile, my Vanilla Kush and Red Cherry Berry are growing like ... well... weeds! They are both standing tall and strong with a lot of strength in the stems. The first set of real leaves are starting to sprout from the singles and the roots are running like gangbusters. The VK taproot is about 8" below the net pot (I swear it grew 6" over night!!!) and the RCB has 1" roots sticking out of about 5 places in the bottom, but no really long taproot showing like the VK.

I try to get some pics up this evening...

 

[Bluejeans]

Well with a little help from my friends, I've taken a clone from Alice and have begun rooting it. It is my very first ever clone and I'm really excited. The first picture is of the cut just after putting it in the rockwool. The second is 33 hours later. The second post doesn't really do it justice because it is looking almost exactly the same as when it was cut.



And these are my two seeds, Red Cherry Berry and Vanilla Kush. They were placed in the rockwool 9 days ago.

 

[Bluejeans]

You do realize that my Alice is 2 days into week 6 of flowering...she's quite advanced.

Here's a pic of most of the base of Alice. You can see I didn't have much to choose from to even take a clone. I might have gotten the only stem with a couple of inches on it that wasn't one of the main few.

 

[gudkarma]

4 cuts were grown in mapito.

rooted & right into flower. simple sauce w/o much drama.

= real close to 3 dry zips & change <=== my estimation from the great shrinking game (experience from years of watching my shit dry up).

nearly one DRY zip per cut... i did say nearly.

BUT im working on my goal : one dry zip per cut in flower. 16 cuts down at any one time & harvesting every three weeks.

one elbow dry & ready for care (ahem, flip) every month.

average grow & show is one month veg & two flower, yes?
& gud should be taking 3 elbows from only 1600w of light in that time.

huh?

first time in mapito & real close. watch me now!

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northern lights blue. taken 7 to 10 days early.

i left the blueberry leaning cuts on the table as they look to go a full 8.5... but the nugs are outstanding super dense spear heads on those.
^ are mine

shown are the nugs from the NL leaning phenos, they run about 50 to 57 days depending on your flow.
^ are for the flip

one more week would have been better, but i just couldn't wait

finger prints removed on the nug shot ...cause ...well ...fuck the police.

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: northern lights blue , delicious seeds :

great yield. not a heavy feeder. not fickle. fast finish. lovely odor. good stoney smoke. fairly frosty. yummy taste. cheap beans with 100% germ rate. fast rooting. good in veg. responds to lst, fim, supercrop. does well in soil, coco, hydroton, and rockwool <===yes i did them all

B+ for the snobs who dont grow

gud gives it an A- for the entire experience

& if you check my sig : you CAN NOT taste the color blue.

 

[Bluejeans]

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This little gal is real trooper, just like her Mom. I sure as heck wish I knew what strain she was because she's gotta be the hardiest thing out there. 70 hours after being removed from Mom, Alicina is still standing tall and firm with absolutely zero signs of fatigue or wilting. I couldn't help myself...I cracked open the rockwool to see how the stem was doing and I'm pleased to report little nubs all up and down the bottom half of the stem. That little gal is gonna make it!

Her Mom's story: Alice was adopted when she was barely into flower. So she got moved from her home to a temporary spot for 12 hours, then on to my house. Her 12/12 timing got changed during the move, and got adjusted several more times during ther life. She never faltered. She was placed into a spot that was not ideal but she had her light (a 40w CFL = 150w) and that was about it.

Then I got creative and built a bigger light - 8 bulbs of 27w CFL=100w ea 2700k. Then I added ventilation and temp controls to her room. She did well... Then I repotted her...and that was major mistake Part A, major mistake Part B was that I chose MiracleGro potting soil with time release nutes. They were too much for her and now she gets nute burn every time I water her. I've flushed her heartily a couple of times and she enjoys that, but then experiences hot soil issues. Poor gal.

Then, I got my hydro system ready to set up, but Alice was in the spot designed for this system. So she got shifted again...this time to a 36x32 inch box with 2 65w CFL = 300w each. But it got too hot in there after lights out when I closed up the box and her humidity was over 90% nearly every morning. It would dry out during the day, but rise again at night as she got closed into the box. Finally, I got my hands on a PC fan (y'all gotta remember, I'm very new and learning as I go) and wired that into Alice's box and she's been happy as a clam for the past 8-10 days.

So, through all that, I'm sure the yield has suffered tremendously, If I get anything I can smoke, I'll be proud... but future plants for years to come will benefit from the experience I gained with Alice. Now, with Alicina, I can find out more about what Alice's real potential might have been. To have survived at all, she's gotta be a pretty stable cookie!

 

[THESkunkMunkie]

Awesome work gk mate, you've deffo got the right idea for this thread with the grow reports your doin here with us fella. Props & Respect for your continued support in this, and keep on bringing us your insights and reports too my friend, those posts will deffo help people out with deciding on what to grow next for themselves .

Big Thanx to everyone for making this the thread it is becoming, keep on bringing us the dankage!!
I'll have more "Bud Porn" real soon too as I've just harvested and have been snapping plenty of pic's

 

[petedav]

hi nice thread skunk,
im about to start a run but not sure wich 1 to do,
larry og / tahoe og
i need to pic your brain? on a few factors,
oder=smell?
yield?
hermie?
difficulty growing ie lots of nutes or not so mutch?
bugs?
tall/short
easy or hard to clone as
im planing on growing 22 clones at a time?
ive been told you like and know all about thease cali conection og kushes? looking forward for your rep +

 

[THESkunkMunkie]

hi nice thread skunk,
im about to start a run but not sure wich 1 to do,
larry og / tahoe og
i need to pic your brain? on a few factors,
oder=smell?
yield?
hermie?
difficulty growing ie lots of nutes or not so mutch?
bugs?
tall/short
easy or hard to clone as
im planing on growing 22 clones at a time?
ive been told you like and know all about thease cali conection og kushes? looking forward for your rep +

Thanx mate, I'm still to get to Larry myself but Tahoe OG I've had some exp' with and can help you there.
The smell is quite strong and may well be a problem if you haven't got a carbon filter running, your yeild will vary depending on many factors like: wattage of lights, veg time and training you do i.e. LST and/or supercroppin. But the yeild is about good to over average I'd say overall. Herimes & Bugs/pests weren't an issue whatsoever in the Tahoe OG and overall were very stable plants to grow & pretty easy to clone from too. They can take the nutes pretty well once fully established and like many of the og's they do stretch x2/x3 their original veg size but remain very manageable tbh. This is an uber frosty & fun plant to grow and I highly recommend it too, still one of my fav's. Only thing I'd say she needs more than most is extra help with calcium in the feeds as she does have a tendencey to get cal' diff' quite easy. Other than that Tahoe OG doesn't need any special requirements and can be grown by all skill levels of growers too.

 

[THESkunkMunkie]

Grape Stomper X ChemD-OG ~ @ Day#61 (Day#110 total).

Some more Bud Porn for you all to enjoy, this beuity here looking all sunkissed and sparkling is pictured just before harvest...

Thanx for looking
I'll have an update on the BlooGoo later too, 3 females outta 4 .