Cascadian's Continuing Grow Journal 600 Watt 5X5

Yeah, definitely crowded in there. I am just flowering some of these out of curiosity, they are the first seeds I have intentionally bred. Curious what characteristics show up. 9 of these plants are "regular" seeds and could be male so the herd will be thinned within a week or so roughly. Today I transplanted 1 Remedy clone that was fully rooted and 1 SourTsu3 clone that had one root that had mad it to the edge of the cup. I think they should adjust and flower just fine. Took 1 C99 and 1 Pineapple Kush clone out of the dome today. I was tempted to throw them into the tent but will give them a day or 3 to root better, they are about 5 days old. This will be a bit of an experiment too as I am not sure they will make the transition to flower after barely being rooted. It's ok if I lose one or both though (still have the mother) and will learn more about the adaptability of the plants either way.

Also forgot in the last post that I added some molasses with the neem and mosquito dunk drench.

Lookin forward to seeing how that c-99 turns out Cas, if it's anything like what i've smoked in the past you're in for a real treat....

Totally agree can't wait, the top shelf C99 I have had is my favorite smoke of all time...

Last night I put one Pineapple Kush and one C99 clone in the tent, so today is day one of flower for them. They are only 6 days old since they were put in the rapid rooters so it is kind of a test, not sure if they can simultaneously finish rooting and start flowering but I left them outside the dome night before last under a hot CFL and they didn't wilt so I am betting they will pull through. They are in about 1.5 liters of soil so just looking to see how they grow, and get maybe 1/2 oz each if all goes well.

C99:


Pineapple Kush:

At least they're still alive thats a good sign. Looking forward to watching that kush grow.

Cascadian! Looking awesome man! Congrats on the germination rate on your homemade seeds! That's gotta be an awesome feeling.
I am so super jealous you got a cut of the sour tsu, that is hands down my favorite medicinal strain.Keep up the great work, subbed.

Jake

Thanks Jake, glad to see here bro. It was nice to see the seeds turn out so healthy. The plants are all looking great too, the jilly bean cross is looking really strong but I suspect it is a male. Curious how the harlequin x sweet n' sour will turn out, wish I had the sourtsu to breed for the last run. I do have some pollen from the sweet n' sour male leftover but not sure if I want any "regular" pollen/seeds in the tent for the outdoor seed run.

Have you smoked any of the sage n' sour yet?

thanks, sorry I've been such a stranger I've been hanging out a lot at Shabong.com, its a Colorado forum.

Youve got your hands full brother! I wouldnt cross that tsunami unless it was with another equally fantastic strain, just my opinion, as a sour tsu addict

The harlequin sweet n sour cross has potential to be some awesome medicine, i look forward to that smoke report!! Will you cull the jb if its male?

My grow grinded to a halt, my landlord said we were being evicted cause of my dogs so I set up Sage n Sour at another location that got way to cold. The poor girl hermied at 9 weeks. Chopped, cured, smoked. Nothing to write home about almost all the trichs were clear and i had maybe 25% dead pistils. She needed at least 3 more weeks. I am so thankful that i gave cuttings of it to one of my best buddies, he is growing one out that is just stupid in his scrog setup, and is planning to keep the genes in his mom room.

Anyways, we didn't get evicted so it was just a needless tradgedy. I just got laid off, so i'm searching for work like crazy so we can still move as planned- however, its not all bad, i have a small seed collection that is ever growing. My next run will include: cold creek kush, tai dye kush, white rhino, og kush x genisis 1:12, sour diesel, columbian gold and lemon diesel. I will also be getting clones of lemon bubble skunk, my sage n sour, and platinum bubba kush. The wife got an upped plant count when she renewed her medical card and i plan to get my caregiver license asap, so we are set to grow our dream garden, as soon as the stars line up again and we have some funds rolling in.

Sorry for ranting about myself, but i rarely vent so your thread just happened to be the lucky venue. Heres a pic of the sns right at harvest and then cured

Also i forgot to say, i too, am very interested to watch the pineapple and c99 experiment.

Doing crazy things in your corner of the country lol

No problem man, any comments or posts are welcome. Sorry to hear about the landlord scare, but at least you still have the genetics. Amazing bean collection you have going. Haven't even heard of some of them but they sound nice.

Yeah, on this grow I am going to cull any males. All these seeds need to be female for outdoor. I could use clones but these will also be used in a vacation location where I have to start from seed. The only dads will be an Amnesia Auto and Holland's Hope that I am using colloidal silver on. The Amnesia is making better progress toward pollen by far. I am actually hoping to get some males though, I need to thin the herd...

Last I looked it appeared the C99 and Pineapple Kush were rooting and not wilting (I am away for the weekend). I am also curious how they respond and especially if they might herm and how big they end up getting. I also think a C99 x Holland's Hope might be a solid plant for the outdoors in Washington.

One experiment I forgot to put in the mix is a hempy bucket. Oh well, leaves something for next time.

I am giving away 2 clones tomorrow to someone who needs to grow their own medicine.
Hurts a little to give these away, they are really doing well. Should give this person a great start though, and they are taking up space.

The Remedy
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Sour Tsunami #3

Good lord man, thats gonna be a great bumper harvest! i must have missed the outdoor tidbit when i speed read the thread to try and catch up with ya, i apologize. I will re read when the little man and the woman arent around to allow me full concentration lol

No problem Jake, I have been researching a lot on outdoor considerations in the NW. I know from first hand experience how real the mold risk is.

Not sure why I haven't tried to dig up any pics before. I have seen enough people called out on "pics or it didn't happen" pretty often on RIU.

Most of the outdoor growing I have done was before digital cameras were common/cheap. I know I have some pics somewhere of my earliest outdoor grows but not sure where.

I did do a joint grow with someone else back in 2008, we took turns hiking in to tend to them. These were Texada Timewarp purchased in Vancouver BC.

This plant was about 9' tall, we lost most of the main cola to mold in late September. I think there were about 4 plants at this location, there was another location as well but not sure where those pics are. The other spot was wetter, slugs were the main problem there as well as mold.
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Some other plants and garden shots.


It's better to get a crop of decent smoke to harvest than lose primo smoke right at the end, or not let it finish.
That is why I went with Holland's Hope and Autos...

Update on the current grow.
Day 12 of flower. The JillyBean ended up being a male, none of the others have showed sex yet. I actually decided to clone it for the hell of it. I really liked it's structure and it was smelly for a male. I might just plant it somewhere near where I live and collect pollen from it assuming it isn't culled by someone.

The Amnesia Auto is forming pollen sacs, the HH is not even close to forming them.
Amnesia



The C99 and Pineapple Kush clones are hanging on but not showing signs of flowering or growing yet. (day 5 of flower for them)
Pineapple Kush


The Critical Plus 2 is stretching like crazy (tall plant on right). It was supposed to be the more squat bushy strain I think I may have gotten a bad pheno but I will give it some time. The Amnesia and Haze 2 are doing well and starting to form pistils.


Not a great shot of the JillyBean, but she is starting to put a lot of leaf mass back on. Her leaves are going to be sacrificed to the MJ gods again in a couple days...


Amnesia on the left, Haze 2 upper right, HH lower right, smaller Amnesia top middle, SourT3 lower left, my crosses and gifted seeds in the middle.


Also, a friend gave me a few HH clones that came from another breeder. 2 of them are in the tent as well.
I figure diversity of genetics is probably a good idea for the HH crosses.

Hey Cas, J and DC were talking bout low temps and it got me to thinking for you outdoor grow, a HH x blueberry auto strain would be pretty bad ass..

That is a good idea, any plant that can withstand low temps would work really well. It could be planted earlier and/or at higher elevation. I know of good spots at high elevation but wouldn't plant there due to the temps. I am planning on crossing the auto to the HH. It will take another cross to isolate the auto gene but a HH auto x Blueberry auto might be a real winner in the NW. They could also be planted late season in high numbers (to account for lower yield/smaller plants) and avoid the risk of rippers/detection etc. Looks like I have one more strain on my wish list for next winter. Thanks

Cascadian said:

That is a good idea, any plant that can withstand low temps would work really well. It could be planted earlier and/or at higher elevation. I know of good spots at high elevation but wouldn't plant there due to the temps. I am planning on crossing the auto to the HH. It will take another cross to isolate the auto gene but a HH auto x Blueberry auto might be a real winner in the NW. They could also be planted late season in high numbers (to account for lower yield/smaller plants) and avoid the risk of rippers/detection etc. Looks like I have one more strain on my wish list for next winter. Thanks

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Haha my pleasure

Forgot to mention that I switched to 12/12 from 13/11 a couple days ago. Checked on the plants tonight and the Amnesia Auto is about ready to produce pollen so moved it to the dudes only room. The HH is finally looking like it will also produce pollen pretty soon. None of the other plants from regular seeds are showing sex yet making me think that JillyBean male is definitely a possible keeper.

Something screwed up the attachments in post 53 above, not sure if anybody can even see them.

Nope I can't see em either...sounds like things are moving right along. Really looking forward to seeing the c 99, as well as everything else you have going. Thanks for the rep Cas, for being thrown up I think it's going to work pretty slick. The temp was at 73.5 when I was down there havin a smoke, I do have a kerosene heater going too so I'm sure that helps. With just one very weak feeding of DynaGro and a day and a half of cmh the girls have really perked up, I'm thinkin a few more days of veggin under the big light to get the ladies stabilized and bam!! hit them wenches with 12 hrs dark And I'll be off to the races....

Damn, thanks for letting me know the pics don't show (I can see them if I click them). The site had a sort of crash after I posted, I really hope riu irons out the issues soon.

Looks like you have a great space to grow in J. Looking forward to seeing your grow develop.

I will try to repost the images tomorrow...

So, it looks like I am going to lose some clones/genetics. The top layer of soil in the solo cups I rooted these in did not have perlite (I had run out). They seem to be dieing from the inside out, the fan leaves look ok. They were fine and looking healthy then, IDK what happened. I had something similar happen on the last grow, I think the fungus gnats might have spread something to them. I hit all the clones and plants in veg with mosquito dunk water and neem mixed this morning. Also, hung an extra sticky trap. Not pictured is the SNSW5 which is certainly going to die, hope these can pull through but not very confident. These are JH, JTRxPurUrk, and Harlequin. A buddy has the JH clone so I will be able to keep those genetics.






I was able to fix the attachments in post 53.