how does it take to nutes? is it a heay feeder? does it clone well? when does it show preflowers? i would like to try to get a mothe rplant of this strain and would like to know the best way to go about it. i grow in soil organically.

need some advice from people who have grown this strain

Im growing it now from a cutting from a buddy of mine.My pheno is 16 weeks and is on a moderate feed ##Ive not been growing it long but hes been growing mist for over a year now.Im flowing one plant and kept one for a mother

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You better trane that Kali she triples in size.Ive got mine bent around the planter in a circle and shes loveing it

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I never have a problem with nutes, I underfeed if anything. Never a nute burn, no deficiencies. I don't do anything special, just Fox Farm solubles and additives during flower. Easy resilient plant.

I feed 1/2 tsp of FF Beastie Bloomz per watering, I halved the usual amounts and feed every watering rather than skip a watering.

It clones easy and fast, 3-7 days in a bubbler depending on how good of a cutting I take.

Preflowers. It was so long ago, I got only 1 female of 4 seeds ... I remember getting the 3 males first (of course) and thinking "Oh fuck ...". Honestly I can't remember, I'd be guessing.

Heed MTM's advice on height, I had clones that went from 1.5" to ~36". She's got legs.

In hydro the buds are more spread out, more sativa like, and so crusted with trichomes that they look like they'd snap if you bent them. In soilless it's more compact, you have to watch for mold in the summer with a large single cola. I got a 18 week pheno that I've got down to 15-16 weeks, it's so good I don't mind the wait. I think I would have been dissapointed with the shorter flowering indica pheno.

So for picking a mother: label all plants; take a clone from each plant and label; flower out the plants taking notes on growing; cure for 4 weeks; see which high you like and forget about everything else and keep that mother, toss the others.

Some Kali Mist pics for fun. The three tall single colas in the back right are the 3 clones that stretched from 1.5" to ~36"




Kali Mist soilless cola.



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The two Kali Mist together outside the cage. The 4 cola was vegged in promix to 14" and ended up 38". Very dense buds. The single cola is the DWC, fluffy buds but crusty with trichs, from 5" in veg to 47". On the 4 cola plant, the stem in the middle - you can see the dark green bamboo stick I used as a splint. The colas are dense and heavy and two of the stems almost snapped.



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The plant on the left is a Kali Mist grown CCOB.






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Characteristic effect report - Kali Mist - Serious Seeds

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thanks hobbes, so do you think i should flower at 10-12 inches? and take clones label them and hope one of the plants im flowering is a female, then vegone of the clones from the female plant out as the mother? how mant seeds should i strat out with 4? or should i do more?

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I assume that you're growing soilless, like Pro Mix or Scotts. Are you using 5 gallon buckets? Are you doing more than one strain or will you have room to veg all 11 beans?

If I had the room to veg all of the plants:

1. I'd store two or three beans for emergency and germ the rest, labeling each plant.
2. I'd veg them until I got ~3" over the 3rd node, then top. The cutting should have 2"+ of stem below 2 nodes of leaves.
3. Let the mothers continue to veg. A single top should be fine, if you want them to stretch less in flower top them a second time. Pick up some tomato cages to keep the stems upright without having to tie up.
4. Root the cuttings, veg to 4 nodes, put in flower in a 2 or 3 gallon bucket. Even in soilless you're going to get a 2' - 3' plant.
5. Sex the clones, keep the mothers for the females, toss the males, take a clone from each female mother in veg. Flower out the female budcicles, you'll get a taste of bud long before the mothers are ready for harvest.
6. Keep a notebook with growing notes on each plant, date in flower, date harvested, yield, how it takes nutes, high quality and potency, etc.
7. Use your favorite high for a mother.

I use BOGs tripple bucket transplant system (20 oz cup, 6" pot, 5 gallon bucket) so a few plants vegging in 6" pots don't take up too much room, and the plants from seed are vegged before they're ready for flower.

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wow those are beautiful kali mists! im also curious as to how they taste when smoked. is it a good smoke/high?

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As they cure the smell grows into strong spice, it hits you every time you open the jar. Vaproizing KM gives you a tastes of spice, amazing. The high is like an up opiate, bliss. It's high cuts through other stones and moods, very potent. My favorite strain.

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+rep hobbes for that very nice smoke report i will try to grow kali mist soon

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