Blackberry Kush/Strawberry Cough 4000w Grow Journal

lordj said:

Cali, plants lookin' good... don't ya just love coco? Might want to start flowering on the bigger ones. Don't want them to get too big. I flowered my Blueberry and Mango when they were barely 3 weeks old:

www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/303691-blueberry-mango-coco-2.html

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Thanks man I checked yours out, pretty sweet. How many plants did u have total? Were they just under the one 400 watt + CFLs? Impressive tops. Did u top any of them at all? This is my first coco run but so far I like it a lot! Most of my friends do coco so it was a no brainer. Next run i may try happyfrog soil some of the best buds I've ever seen come out of that.

Luckily the strawberry's aren't going too crazy, i'll be going to 12/12 in a week or less if all goes well.

Normajean1 said:

my mazars leaves are doing the same thing as well and i cant stop it. only on the lower leaves though.

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Sucks! It seems to have stunted the plants growth whatevers wrong with it because it's the shorest strawberry cough i have. However it looks like its got 8 tops in a perfect bush, pretty sweet besides the yellowing. I'm pretty sure no more leaves have turned yellow just a few fans on the bottom. Either way I'm sure it'll be fine I havent been able to figure out what it could be yet.

Big update today. Got 8 Mr. Nice guy clones to replace the 8 failed blackberry kush clones. The room now has a total of 56 plants!

20 Strawberry Cough
18 Blackberry Kush (6 of them suck and are in smaller 1.5 Gal pots, growing solely for smoke)
8 Mr. Nice Guy (G13xHashplant)
4 The Purps
5 OG Kush
1 Headband Seed ( SEX TBA )

56 TOTAL! Hopefully.

We needed to hurry things along to ensure the strawberry coughs don't get too out of control. Now the other tray finally looks complete 1 more week for all the plants to recover from topping/transplants etc and we'll be hitting 750 watts for one day, then 1000 watts 12/12!! Can't wait to start flowering. I'll probably put up the screen in a few days.

So here's pics of how the room looks after the work for today!

Damn dude. 56 plants fucking awesome.

MY EYESS ARE GLUED TO YOUR THREAD!

Just curious Do You Have A Goal Of the amount you want to harvest?

passthatsh!t23 said:

Damn dude. 56 plants fucking awesome.

MY EYESS ARE GLUED TO YOUR THREAD!

Just curious Do You Have A Goal Of the amount you want to harvest?

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Lol thanks bro, at least someones interested. Mostly this is just for my personal enjoyment but comments make it fun. My goal is 4-5 pounds total. That would be awesome, pay off everything and some for sure. Most likely pay for my 2nd room also. Anything over 4 though and I'll be very happy. This is my first run personally but I'm getting help here and there, pretty big jump start. 5 pounds would OWN

Goals:
Strawberry Cough - 2.5 LBS at least
Blackberry Kush - 1 LB at least
The Purp - 1/2 LB
OG Kush - 1/2 LB
Mr. Nice Guy - 1/2 LB at least

So I guess I'm having high hopes for 5 LBS! Wish me luck

You will prob need to top the hell out of those cough girls to keep them at a reasonable height next to the kush plants especially if you are supercropping....that or build a dedicated flowering room. The cough gets super tall and bushy quickly with no training or prunning at all. I veg my cough for 4 weeks max and 8 plants bust out a 20sq' screen no problem and i still fill a contractor size garbage bag with excess that doesnt hit the screen at day 10 of the stretch. Yeah you can pull some weight off those girls.....24 girls, 3k watts, 93 days, 5 pounds easy.

Goodluck man!
5 pounds would be a very very nice harvest!

575tothe406 said:

You will prob need to top the hell out of those cough girls to keep them at a reasonable height next to the kush plants especially if you are supercropping....that or build a dedicated flowering room. The cough gets super tall and bushy quickly with no training or prunning at all. I veg my cough for 4 weeks max and 8 plants bust out a 20sq' screen no problem and i still fill a contractor size garbage bag with excess that doesnt hit the screen at day 10 of the stretch. Yeah you can pull some weight off those girls.....24 girls, 3k watts, 93 days, 5 pounds easy.

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Thanks 575. I wish I had a dedicated flowering and vegging room, next run. The coughs are all 2' give or take, they're right at about 4 weeks of vegging right now. I have 20 strawberryies and 4 the purps on a 4x9 tray in 4 Gal pots. The Blackberry Kush is on a completely seperate tray with a totally different screen. That screens going to be a little angled cause I also have these new Mr. Nice Guy beasts on the same tray so it's gona be a lot of fun! 5 different strains to manage, and slightly different nuts for each tray. U got any pics of your runs at all? How many times have u done strawberry cough? I'm interested to hear from people that've grown it before, they're doing amazing it seems like all my lower branches are at the top!

passthatsh!t23 said:

Goodluck man!
5 pounds would be a very very nice harvest!

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Hells yea! Anything 4 and above and I'm super happy. Gonna suck tryin to unload it to the clubs though, u get a better price on the streets! I wish I was doing this East Coast I'd probably make twice as much. I'm mostly excited though to have my personal stash of 5 different kinds! And I'm happy to be able to support the medical community with what will hopefully be some chronic!

Room Update:

Not much to do playin it day by day. Tempted to do a flush today but I'm still debating wether I'm going to feed or flush with the watering today. They're all due! I'll check back after the daily room maintenance.

Stay High Blue Dreamin

Those thousand watters arent playing games.

How many times have i done the cough? I dont know exactly, but alot, its my main crop. im not really into posting pics of my rooms, but maybe....
2' in 4 weeks in hydro? you can easily double that growth rate (and yield) with a little experience. bump up the nutes in those girls esp. the K and Ca/Mg...they're thirsty and can easily handle 1200ppm when by mid veg! They will stretch ALOT for roughly 10 days after the flip, so keep that in mind. When i flip my screens are only 60-70% filled and they fill out with the stretch and i carry out bags of debris i cut out from lower stuff that doesnt hit the screen. 8 plants, 20 sq' of screen, 1k watts, couple pounds easy. let them go for at least 63 days and 68 is nice if youve got the patients....

CaLi4NiA3 said:

Hells yea! Anything 4 and above and I'm super happy. Gonna suck tryin to unload it to the clubs though, u get a better price on the streets! I wish I was doing this East Coast I'd probably make twice as much. I'm mostly excited though to have my personal stash of 5 different kinds! And I'm happy to be able to support the medical community with what will hopefully be some chronic!

Stay High Blue Dreamin

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Yah im on the East Coast Prices are KILLER!

Looks good dude. What is the humidity looking like in your room?

martyhowy said:

Those thousand watters arent playing games.

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Hells yea! They're all set to 600 right now though vegging.

575tothe406 said:

How many times have i done the cough? I dont know exactly, but alot, its my main crop. im not really into posting pics of my rooms, but maybe....
2' in 4 weeks in hydro? you can easily double that growth rate (and yield) with a little experience. bump up the nutes in those girls esp. the K and Ca/Mg...they're thirsty and can easily handle 1200ppm when by mid veg! They will stretch ALOT for roughly 10 days after the flip, so keep that in mind. When i flip my screens are only 60-70% filled and they fill out with the stretch and i carry out bags of debris i cut out from lower stuff that doesnt hit the screen. 8 plants, 20 sq' of screen, 1k watts, couple pounds easy. let them go for at least 63 days and 68 is nice if youve got the patients....

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575 I owe u! I appreciate all the input and help. You helped me realize I've been a pussy and depriving them of nuts. My biggest fear going into this was over fertilizing burning the shit out of them. I watered yesterday though and doubled up the nuts i was doing only like 300 ppm I was expecting just to raise it a lot when I started flowering. Already today I can tell there's some green coming back into the plants. I wasn't too sure what the slight yellowing was due to but obviously just a lack of nuts, and I'm sure I still have a deficiency somewhere cause I'm just using my A&B and Vitamin B1. I have more additives that should fill the cracks but they're all flowering ones.. I should probably pick up some calmag today.

What do u veg under? Lower than 1000 I'm guessing. Before you flip your screen is 60% full? I don't want to set mine up too high or too low, this being my first run I dont know what to expect when i flip to 12/12 in the next couple days.

Anyways once again really appreciate your input as you're the only person I've talked to that has done strawberry c before!

passthatsh!t23 said:

Yah im on the East Coast Prices are KILLER!

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haha yea what is it 550 an ounce for grade A? So many pounds get shipped over there. If u ever smoke some blackberry kush, it came from here guarenteed lol. The demand for purps over there is crazy! People in SF are shipping pounds out every day. I've haven't paid more than $70 1/4oz in a long time.. or over 250 an O!

whodatnation said:

Looks good dude. What is the humidity looking like in your room?

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Thanks nation! Right now my humidity is sitting at 53% It doesnt usually get higher than 65 or so. When the lights are off though it can go up to 73% about but then I just run my 12" fan for a few minutes and it drops wayy back down. I have to figure out a way to do air changes with the lights off because the temperature doesnt go high enough to kick my main fan on. Might have to set up a timer or somethin I'm trying to avoid buying a Dehu but if I want to do it right.. I probably should

Smokin Leftovers!!! hah - Headband, SourD, Cheese, AK47. Love all that leftover bottom bag popcorn nuggies.

CaLi4NiA3 said:

haha yea what is it 550 an ounce for grade A? So many pounds get shipped over there. If u ever smoke some blackberry kush, it came from here guarenteed lol. The demand for purps over there is crazy! People in SF are shipping pounds out every day. I've haven't paid more than $70 1/4oz in a long time.. or over 250 an O!

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Dude i got some blackberry kush two months ago. It was some blaze. Dude the prices to get grade A is O for $430, $60-65 1/8oz, But for some powerful grade A its $500 for 1 oz. I got a seed from the blackberry kush, but i lost it. Your prices are fucking amazing! I need to come out west!

passthatsh!t23 said:

Dude i got some blackberry kush two months ago. It was some blaze. Dude the prices to get grade A is O for $430, $60-65 1/8oz, But for some powerful grade A its $500 for 1 oz. I got a seed from the blackberry kush, but i lost it. Your prices are fucking amazing! I need to come out west!

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Crazzy prices. It's definitely a different story out here. Definitely wasn't the blackberry from here if it had a seed in it lol I got a crappy picture of the Blackberry Kush grown up here. If you saw the center of high times last month I think it was blackberry kush, and it literally looks identical to this right here, had it been taken professionally lol.

The room is doing pretty well but not perfect. I've got the temp and humidity locked down even though its about 90 degrees today! Can't wait till they can sleep at day and thrive at night. Vegging sucks! A flowering room is so crucial I hope I never have to share the same room again after this.

Anyways I'm trying to get everything perfect before we start to flower. I've got a small mite problem to take care of and deficiencies.

Went to the Hydro store this morning and got the fix to one of my problems! I was a retard for not using any Cal/mg suplements to begin with. Live n learn.


Unfortunately they didnt have any AVID to spray them with so I'll have to deal with that monday.

Everything's been topped since a few days and they're all recovering pretty well. I even topped the seed, it's only at it's 3rd node but he's just along for the ride for fun and I'm experimenting. I want to see how the seed reacts to topping, I can't get over how awesome and symmetrical it is.

No worries mang, cant wait to see your pull. Oh, i veg under 1000's.....no fucking around here!

575tothe406 said:

No worries mang, cant wait to see your pull. Oh, i veg under 1000's.....no fucking around here!

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Daaaamn bro. I'm gonna have to try that next time. I decided to stick with the ballast set to 600 for vegging just cause of the extended time due to fucked up clone deals. I'm guessing you probably do 18/6? Next time I'm gettin all the clones, same time, no bullshit. I'd much rather have two full trays of the strawberry than the other tray with 3 diff strains mixed up. But whatever cant expect everything to be perfect first run.

Keep the tips flowin thanks again

CaLi4NiA3 said:

Daaaamn bro. I'm gonna have to try that next time. I decided to stick with the ballast set to 600 for vegging just cause of the extended time due to fucked up clone deals. I'm guessing you probably do 18/6? Next time I'm gettin all the clones, same time, no bullshit. I'd much rather have two full trays of the strawberry than the other tray with 3 diff strains mixed up. But whatever cant expect everything to be perfect first run.

Keep the tips flowin thanks again

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24/0 veg.
Big girls=big yields.

575tothe406 said:

24/0 veg.

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Idk about 24/0 veg isnt the best way to go all the way through. I would go with the 18/6.
i think that little 6 hour rest period helps a great deal. You can really see so after its first night. plus it save you money if you run a 600W + system.
I used 18/6 and it works fabulously.