PLANTS
So, anyone who followed my previous grow knows that i'm a BIG fan of Sannies Seeds, and have pretty much exclusively grown Sannies strains in the past throughout my growing career.
This grow, is no exception. All the strains i run have either been purchased directly from Sannies website, or have been sent along with an order as freebee's.
For this run, i have not had the luxury of picking which strains to go with. Instead, i have peered into my mother cabinet, and taken cuttings off whatever was inside. It should be noted that the plants in my mother cabinet had been slightly neglected. For this reason they were not in the greatest of health, and thripes were running rampant. I took as many cuts as i could, and waited to see how many would root. The mothers and cuttings were sitting under T5's.
A few weeks down the line and i have potted up the first 18 cuttings to root. This compromised of the following:
x10 Cheeseberry Haze (From Regular Seeds) - Sannies
x1 Santa Maria x Blueberry (Freebee Regular Seeds)
x2 Katsu Kush x Killing Fields (Freebee Regular Seeds)
x5 Kollosus (Feminized Seeds) - Sannies
Now, before i continue, it's important for me to describe the genetics of each.
Cheeseberry Haze - this plant loves to grow HUGE, big inter nodal spacing, big hazey foxytaily buds. Even in veg this plant stretches out and grows pretty big, therefore to veg a Cheeseberry Haze out properly, it must be trained.
Santa Maria x Blueberry - This plant, is probably the best in my current pool of genetics. It's growth is STRONG and FAST, its structure is almost perfect, open, but compact, it loves to be trained, topped, LST'd, super cropped, you name it. Always bounces back strong no matter what you do to her. Very very good yielder and its smoke has people fighting over it. Delicious taste (strong blueberry influence), SUPER STRONG sativa high, puts you in a real good mood for no apparent reason....
Katsu Kush x Killing Fields - This strain has the most insane kush smell factor, only second to Mad Kush by Sannie. A true deep down kush smell, with a very very powerful hard hitting stone.... this plant likes to stretch its limbs, on a par with the Cheeseberry Haze, node spacing probably greater. Similarly, to get the most of of this plant, one must train its branches and open her out, to help her grow outwards instead of straight up as she would untrained. The smell factor of this strain is off the charts, i cannot seem to contain it. In fact anyone who's had some has struggled to lock up the smell, it just has to fill the room/house.
Kollosus - This strain i ran last time, but the plant was very neglected. Therefore i do not have an accurate smoke report of it yet. However, she's a real nice plant structure wise, nice and bushy, relatively fast growing, clones real easy. This was labeled on Sannies website as a commercial strain, with A+++ quality nugs. Although i haven't tasted her properly yet, she filled up my space REAL nice, with a lot of nice sized nugs. Basically if she smoked like she produced, i'd be on to a winner. Time will tell with this one...
As for this grow i would be running a variety of different genetics, it was even more important that usual that i train the plants to maintain a uniform canopy. In the past i have tried many many different ways to train my plants. I have used K'nex to make screens, used fence netting as a screen, chicken wire, lock-able yo-yo's, and elastic netting. I found each method had its pro's and con's.
I found it absolutely essential that should i need to, i could remove a plant from my grow area, to attend to it, treat it if need be, or to harvest it if it finished early and the rest were still going. Using a net, as such, does not allow any plant mobility, as once the branches grow through the netting, that is where they will stay. For this reason i decided to invest in something new this time round, circular plant support trellis. In my head, these were the perfect solution to my problem. I could train each plant individually and open them up nicely, remove any plant i wanted from my growing environment if need be, and re-use the support whenever wherever i wanted.
- The haze's were vegged for the first couple weeks under a 400W metal halide, whilst the rest were sitting under a 400W HPS. After around 2 weeks both bulbs were Metal halides.
- I did not use any circulating air fans for the whole of Veg and the first week of flowering. At this point the canopy had grown so dense that below and above canopy temperatures differed drastically.
- I could also not turn the lights up to 600W without better air circulation, so added 2 8" magnetic motor fans.
- With the fans added, i turned up the wattage of the ballasts to 600W each and the fans kept at 50%. Temperatures sitting at 27C.
- Plants were supercropped in veg to control their growth and help bush out the plants.
