400w Querkle Grow

AzCannaMan said:

Yeah your 4x4x3 plant is an insane fucking beast! If it didnt yield then WTF? Almost makes me not even want to flower mine, i just hrvested a strain which i got 8oz of nugs & 5oz of popcorn & trim off 6 plants. Under 1,000 I might add. Im shooting for 2Ps a light, not half of 1. 1 is me considering i did shitty... 1/2 is a damn travesty. Seems like the Querkle might be a waste of time if its just a big popcorn machine lol

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Yeah that's how it's looking. Sub says a large bush or scrog is the way to go on this one... so we'll see how this harvest does compared to the last. I'm also looking forward to seeing the results of BlazinL's harvest under the 1k. I will admit that my plant is a bit large for a 400, but I've harvested other strains that were smaller than the last couple querkles but yielded twice as much (and those were my first plants and they looked like shit by harvest time!)

I actually have been to michigan, Lake Saint Clair to be exact. the Gf's unlce has a boat in a marina there. We went for 4th of july 2 years ago and saw muskamoot bay, Which was a giant shit show.lol. everybody was drunk as hell and its was 10am on monday morning. Also got to visit a island that was in Canada. had a great time there. fishing was pretty good to. Saw the plant a few days ago and i think it will be ready wednesday. heads were cloudy with maybe 5 heads that were amber. Still has no smell and nugs are quite small. I pulled a branch down and the top nug has shrunk quite alot, look like a side nug. ill post pics in my next post

Nice. How many days of flower? (I think you said you start counting at flower response, not switch to 12/12, right?)
If I remember, you were a week ahead of me... seems a bit early to me to be harvesting. I was actually thinking of letting mine go maybe another week longer this time. I don't remember when I saw flower response, but I'm probably going to let it go to a full 10 weeks from starting 12/12 (which will be 3 weeks from today). Seems like a long time, but I harvested my last crop at a little over 9 weeks and it was just starting to get a couple amber trichs.
But then with your's being that purple it's probably stronger on the indica side so maybe is ready a bit earlier than my pheno.

its at 7 weeks flowering right now. im guessing that the trichs will amber up over the next week. my friends took 8 weeks to finish, but he also decides to chop his plant depending on hair color.lol. so it might be a little longer too

BlazinL said:

its at 7 weeks flowering right now. im guessing that the trichs will amber up over the next week. my friends took 8 weeks to finish, but he also decides to chop his plant depending on hair color.lol. so it might be a little longer too

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Blazinl I think its interesting sub says the yield is "Med to Heavy mostly due to bud density" but those buds dont look hella tight. They do look hella nice tho, how long have they been drying? Sub say it's an 8 week strain...

blazin nice stuff, ima let me dog out and post my pics.

pyste, you might be right. I took mine down at 8 weeks exact and i think it may have been a bit early. 9-10 for our "non-purple" pheno may be better

for reference I have 50 watts a square foot, 16 plants in a 5x5. So they are crowded as all hell.

The pile is minus a half o, hash is from Querkle and Special Queen. Went for quality on the hash this time. If you guys could look and help me rate/compare my hash thatd be awesome.

Great pics guys! Looking good and thank you so much for sharing your results. I'm looking forward to harvest weights once everything is dry.
Rock, how was your buds to popcorn ratio? Did yours seem to have a lot of popcorn too? The hash looks great btw.

BlazinL said:

its at 7 weeks flowering right now. im guessing that the trichs will amber up over the next week. my friends took 8 weeks to finish, but he also decides to chop his plant depending on hair color.lol. so it might be a little longer too

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Ok I am probably 7-10 days behind you then. Those buds look pretty nice compared to mine. I'm sure the 1k helps a lot with that. I'm probably only going to flower a couple more smaller clones when I'm done with this one. I just don't think this strain is right for my setup.
He goes by hair color? I guess if you really knew your strain real well you could do that but otherwise it seems like a weird thing to base it on.

AzCannaMan said:

Blazinl I think its interesting sub says the yield is "Med to Heavy mostly due to bud density" but those buds dont look hella tight. They do look nice tho, how long have they been drying? Sub say it's an 8 week strain...

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Honestly there's so much contradictory stuff he says about the strain. In other places (his own site) he lists it as a 60-70 day strain (~8.5-10wk)... but I don't know if in one case he is measuring from flower response and in the other from the 12/12 switch. I haven't seen where he called it med to heavy due to bud density, but my buds really weren't what I'd call dense either.

haha. thats what i thought, he doesnt know the strain either. it was his first time flowering it out. that how he decides to pull all his stuff. i tried tellin him to get a microscope, but he didnt look to worried to me so i left it alone. that bud was still completely wet, with a new hair cut. It has been drying for 3 days and has definitely lost half of its size. that nug is also a TOP nug and look how tiny it is. even if a strain produced nugs that were cement hard i dont think that they should consider it a heavy medium yielder. It should be a low producer with rock hard nugs, thats all. and exaclty opposite, you could have giant forearm nugs that produce well but the quality sucks. so a big yielder with shitty quality. i think they really need to watch how they put there words together, because it can be confusing. i havent seen one querkle nug that is nice and tight and hard. they always have been airy, small. Querkle definitley has the frost down but everything else sucks. the plant never got a fruity smell. smells like wet hay

BlazinL said:

haha. thats what i thought, he doesnt know the strain either. it was his first time flowering it out. that how he decides to pull all his stuff. i tried tellin him to get a microscope, but he didnt look to worried to me so i left it alone. that bud was still completely wet, with a new hair cut. It has been drying for 3 days and has definitely lost half of its size. that nug is also a TOP nug and look how tiny it is. even if a strain produced nugs that were cement hard i dont think that they should consider it a heavy medium yielder. It should be a low producer with rock hard nugs, thats all. and exaclty opposite, you could have giant forearm nugs that produce well but the quality sucks. so a big yielder with shitty quality. i think they really need to watch how they put there words together, because it can be confusing. i havent seen one querkle nug that is nice and tight and hard. they always have been airy, small. Querkle definitley has the frost down but everything else sucks. the plant never got a fruity smell. smells like wet hay

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mines super fruity smelling, but I only got about 6 somewhat dense main cola buds that were purple, the rest were popcorn reg color.
To get a gram a watt, my general goal, 1250w/16plants=78 grams a plant. roughly 2.79 oz a plant, I should get near that with the querkle. I did get lots of popcorn.

I think a screen is crucial with this strain, and an exactly even canopy with the ability to tuck the huge fan leaves under. And youll still get alot of popcorn.

I agree with what you say blaze, what is needed is a balance of a commercial driven yeilding plant with the quality of a conoisuer plant. I think its often give and take.

Yeah I think you're right about a screen. I also think this may be one strain were selective defoliation could be very helpful. IMO this plant simply has too many leaves and they get in the way. I'm going to try a bit more leaf pruning on my next couple clones and see what happens. I've been doing it with a bonzai mom and it helps with keeping the size under control.

Mine smell like plants. I know that's like kind of a stupid thing to say, but I mean like regular plants you find outside that just have that non-distinct plant smell. They don't smell like marijuana to me... even during the cure it was kinda like a fresh cut grass smell.

I planted 4 of my Northern Lights Special seeds today to get some more variety going. I also have 2 new querkle seedlings coming up that sprouted almost a week ago... I planted 3 seeds but only 2 sprouted, I finally dug up the third today to see wtf happened and it was just rotted, it didn't even try to grow. I figure if I'm gonna continue to grow some querkle anyway (for the wife) I might as well see what other phenos I can get and maybe find one I like better.

Latest pics... yesterday was 7 weeks of 12/12:





And the stuff in veg right now along with newly planted NLS seeds in the cups up front:

That is a bushy ass plant! Very Sugar coated and short too. Didnt look like it stretched very much again. Do you notice a bud growth the last week or so of flowering? I was checking out your pictures of the last querkle and it seemed like the nugs were a little bigger at this same time. But you also topped for 4 colas instead of 2 this time. Maybe thats why the colas are smaller?? With my plant as well because the nugs are REALLY tiny. I think this plant might do better left untopped in a SOG.

Yeah the nugs are definitely smaller at this stage than the two cola plants were. But although the buds will be a bit smaller it also seems like I'm going to get a better ratio of buds to popcorn since there's more branches sticking out above the main canopy.
It was actually topped about 3 times throughout veg and one last time about a week into 12/12. That's how I got it to be really wide but not too tall.
SOG probably would be a good idea for this strain. You could also tuck away fan leaves better in that kind of setup.

my newest plan is to throw clones into 2 gallon pots and flower. by keeping the querkle smaller, it should get less huge fan leaves and more light to bud sites (I hope).

I just setup 550 watts in the basement to try this out. 9 plants, a mix of diff ones, about 5 querkle I think, 2 in 2 gallon 3 in 3 gallon, but I kept them super small.

psyte said:

SOG probably would be a good idea for this strain. You could also tuck away fan leaves better in that kind of setup.

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I was thinking scrog there, but yeah SOG is kind of what I'm planning to do on my next one... sort of. I was gonna throw two of those clones in after this big one is done, but they may be too big by then. I may end up pruning them down to smaller plants and then flowering them.
That will also leave me some room in the tent for when the northern lights are ready. I may just stick to smaller plants from here on. The big plant was fun and it's easy taking care of just one plant, but I don't think I have enough light penetration for plants that big.

Yesterday was 8wk of 12/12.
First 5 pics are with HPS lighting. The last 4 are with the light covered so I could show more of their natural color.
The colas are finally putting on a bit more weight. Nothing like I would want but at least it's something. The resin glands are starting to show a hint of clouding so I'd say it has another week or two to go. The lower buds, however, are still looking very immature and are still putting out a lot of fresh new pistils... looks like I may be harvesting the tops and then letting the lower stuff go another week or two. I could see this taking a full 12 weeks before everything is harvested. Ridiculous.
Oh and the last pic is showing the purpling that so far is only showing up on one top and a few other random leaves.

Very nice journal. Very nice setup and plants as well. Subbed.