Kandy Kush, Tangie, and Aurora closet grow. 600 watt HPS

Hust17 said:

Mmmmm mmmmm mmmm! Very healthy and thick, holy! How long until you flower her?

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Not entirely sure because she’s on her own as far as growth stage. I planted that one bean in early November and nothing else for another month. I’m either going to flower her with the next crop as soon as I can get a clone just so I know how she performs, or I might flower her along with my snake oil and ice cream punch that I started in early December for a shot at a bigger haul of good stuff. Just haven’t made up my mind yet. I like doing grow journals for everything I flower so keep an eye on the grow journals page

Renfro said:

I had another cut of Kandy Kush that I grew, it was nice but it didn't have the lemon and pine flavor. It yielded well but not insane like the cut I had before. I ran that cut for a few years.

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Ya the clone only Kandy Kush is the bomb. I wish I would of cloned her, but I will next time I get my hands on one. She did stretch like a bitch, but was one of my favorites for sure.

Edit: So it was actually from a DNA genetics seed originally, but I bought it as a clone from a dispensary and they picked a winner for sure.

TerrapinBlazin said:

Well I just cut down a few nuggets off the indica dominant kandy kush. I mainlined and scrogged this one and she sure put out a ton of nice little branches. I was gonna wait until this weekend to chop that one and the aurora but she was looking nice and ripe. Swelled up good last week and all the pistils have turned and the trichomes are nice and cloudy. I think you can chop this pheno at 7 weeks. I’m kinda bummed I didn’t take another couple clones because this pheno is now history. The other pheno is frostier but the buds aren’t as fat.
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I chopped my Kandy around day 70. These could fatten up a bit if you let them.

PadawanWarrior said:

I chopped my Kandy around day 70. These could fatten up a bit if you let them.

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Yeah she is a 70 - 72 days strain for me usually, either pheno I had.

Renfro said:

Yeah she is a 70 - 72 days strain for me usually, either pheno I had.

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I waited a week with both phenos after the last pistils turned orange. Trichomes were starting to get amber and I’m pretty sure they were done growing.

Here’s the other pheno after the second trim. I’m not very impressed with the yield or bud structure but she is extremely frosty. So I chopped this one down at day 58 because she was not throwing out any new pistils and there was a scattering of amber trichomes, mostly cloudy, and very few clear. My big tangie on the other hand is still full of yellow pistils and today is day 61. My harvesting procedure is to start checking trichomes once the pistils all turn orange and to chop when the trichomes are at my preferred mostly cloudy. Since the majority of my bud gets squished into rosin I’m not about letting them go long and start smelling funky just for the chance of a little more weight.


Not thrilled with the yield or bud structure but I could have done a few things differently. I think I spread her out too much and I also think this pheno will benefit from a much longer veg time so I expect the clones to do better. I’m not going to final or cure this one. I’m going to let her dry in the tray until the morning, throw the bud in a jar with a 67 gram humidity pack and a hygrometer, and squish it all as soon as it hits 62%. I haven’t yet decided whether to retire this pheno after the clones are done. It will depend on whether I can get her to produce bigger buds. I’m not even talking about flowering time, but rather the fact that a lot of lower buds stayed extremely small. I like my smaller nugs to be dense and grape sized, but these were larfy and marble sized. Definitely the pheno and not the conditions in the closet because of how much better the other phenos are doing. I’ll post some pics of exactly what I mean momentarily.

Here are pics of the lower buds on the white widow, big tangie, and aurora in that order.



Now compare that with a handful of buds from the same spots on the kandy kush. These plants were all trained and pruned exactly the same way, fed the same way, and grown under the same light.



I’ve always been of the mind, with everything I’ve ever grown, that as a cultivator you can only do so much. Of course you want to provide ideal conditions for your plant so she isn’t fighting an uphill battle, but on the other hand you don’t want to treat your plants like spoiled children and do everything for them.

My favorite dead song is Let it Grow. In three verses, John Barlow illustrates the meaning of life and the higher power that flows through it all better than any philosopher or preacher. I like to let things grow, and not make them grow. Nature is doing all the work and we’re just helping her along. Rather than trying to make what we have do exactly what we want, it’s better to find phenos willing to do that on their own.

What shall we say, shall we call it by a name
As well to count the angels dancing on a pin
Water bright as the sky from which it came
And the name is on the earth that takes it in
We will not speak but stand inside the rain
And listen to the thunder shouting “I am, I am, I am”

Bad news today, my friends. I was looking closely at the big purple tangie and I spotted quite a few ‘nanners. The weird part is that they’re all coming out of calyxes instead of the little artichokes that you see on male plants. Don’t know what caused it, but I’m sure switching from HPS to LED halfway through didn’t help. I was also not as diligent as I should have been about closing the closet door after the lights go off. I have a feeling that next time she’ll do a little better since my technique continues to improve. Sucks I was gonna wait at least 10 more days but no thank you.

The interesting part is that none of my other buds got pollinated and there are no seeds in the one that started to herm. Hopefully that pollen was sterile. I found some opened and dried up ‘nanners down lower and nothing that I’ve harvested so far got seeded.

So I decided that the other two plants were ready too. I needed to make room in my tent so everything is hanging up now. The indicas were perfect. I was planning on chopping those two over the weekend but having to chop the tangie made me decide to just get it all done tonight. The white widow and aurora look fucking choice. Like perfect.

Anyway I scrubbed everything down in there, lowered my light and turned the power down, and set the timer to 18/6. I’m letting the bigger plants veg in there for a couple weeks before I flip them. The blue dream is currently in there too but she may go back in the tent if I decide she’s too small.

So now I’m second guessing myself. I did a lot of reading around about the late flower nanners and it’s probably nothing to worry about. I was reading that when a plant reaches maturity without being pollinated she’ll throw some nanners as a last ditch effort to reproduce. I wanted to let her go at least 70 days but now I’m wondering if the nanners were a sign she was ready to come down. The buds sure were swollen even if a lot of pistils were still yellow.

I also read that these nanners can be removed with tweezers, and that this sounds a lot like that “rodelization” process people talk about. I’m less worried about it now and think this was probably a survival attempt. Next time I’m not even going to worry about it. By the time these nanners start forming everything else is pretty much done. I don’t think anything could possibly get seeded.

TerrapinBlazin said:

Yeah I like OG and I like trainwreck. It’s a pretty common strain where I live and it’s consistently some of the best shit out here. Huge yields too. I’ve got 3 seeds left but both of these phenos look good so far.

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I still daydream about Reserva Privada's Kandy Kush from pre-2016. The stink from it was unreal. Let me know how yours turns out...