Kitty,
Rather than post a bunch of my pics on your thread, here's a link to a page on my thread with a buttload of bubba pics. Posts 508 and 510 have some good ones. So, your spell worked. I couldn't control myself:
https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/407048-20-000-watt-medical-grow-17.html
Our Bubba is a Pre-98. 99% of the "Bubbas" we now see in Cali are a poor imitation. Helper D and I visit at least 3 collectives a week to buy a couple grams of their Bubba and their "best shit". It's a great ego boost for us. We have only tried one Bubba out of a hundred or so that was in the same league as ours. I'm not trying to brag. Hell, I didn't breed the fucker. I'm lucky enough to have a very close friend that grows on a massive scale and scours the state for special cuts. His grow room always has 4 or 5 new test cuts blooming for sampling. He's been doing this for 20 years and never grows from seed. Out of the thousands of cuts he's tried, he only grows 3 strains in production. This Bubba is one of them. The Tahoe OG x Chemdog cut that we just got from him proved to be better than his old OG, so the old OG was tossed and the Tahoe Og x Chemdog was rolled into production. Even though he's growing 3 killer strains, he never stops searching for one better.
Yes the Bubba is prone to PM and Mites. But, if you can get those under control...which you can...the payoff is great. It's the best yielding true top shelf plant I've ever grown. We have found that Spectracide with Insect Control is the best way to eliminate the PM and the mites. We spray twice in veg and once week 3 of bloom. We tried to deal with the PM and Mites without chemical sprays and lost the a whole crop...10 Lbs in the trash (which is why I didn't post here for 2 months...depression) Our particular cut is probably not the best choice for you Granola Heads out there. The other problem with this Bubba is that it grows WAY faster and Way bigger and yields WAY more when the bloom room is 60% RH...as opposed to the 40% we used to run. This is why chemical PM control and insane air movement is almost mandatory. For those of you who can grow it to its potential without chemicals, my hat is off to you! I have a feeling with Kitty's experience she could pull it off.
I agree that the Tahoe x Chemdog will probably not be a big yielder. But the whole state has gone OG crazy. The best OG's seem to consistantly command the best prices from the collectives we deal with. I'm not sure they are that much more powerful than the Bubba, but the flavor is second to none. My friends method for getting the best yield from the OG is to grow 4 plants per sq ft and remove the large side branches. With a sealed room and CO2 he's still only getting about 1 Lb per 1000 watt light, with each light servicing a 4' x 4' area. With that plant density the Bubbas yield about 1.5 Lbs per 1000 watts. And, of course, there's dozens of very good strains out there that will yield 2 Lbs+/light with that settup. Unfortunately, most collectives pay very little for those. Nuff said.
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