Satori, Hashberry, and Clinic Trash

So here's my journal, I guess. Where to start...? Oh, equipment. Right. Here goes:

400w Switchable ballast
Eye Hortilux Blue and Super HPS bulbs.
Happy frog soil
Panda film
good nutes
and all the necessary documents to make it too expensive to prosecute.

So at the plate right now we have the clinic trash; A cinnamon girl (who is growing at an outstanding rate) which is a mystery cross betwixt a Jack Herer and somehting else. God knows what... And on the left side of the grow is my second plant, a Sour Apple. It's a cross between NY Sour Diesel and Pineapple Kush.
I got these two as clones from the club so we'll see how they turn out. I got a thrid, an s15 hash plant, but put it outside to get resinous all year and ginormous as fuck before i hash her sweet little ass. (no pics of that one)

On deck in the seed tray are
10 hashberry's
10 Satori's
5 Bonus seeds (safari mix)

I ordered through a company called Mandala Seeds. The seeds delivered to the US west cost from a seconday distributor in England in under 7 days. Their service is excellent, they get my endorsement.

The Battle Plan is to germ em, sex em, separate the strongest males to my male room, take the best of the females, mother em and clone em.
I'm going to run a couple of each strain out doors as well so I can have a fuckload of hash for the holidays.

** .... I'll put pics up as soon as I can unfuck the error I keep getting trying to upload.

The pics of the bigger ones are obviously older. I threw some pics of em as rooting clones to show how well they're doing.

Enjoy:



** I also don't care if people post here. I encourage the comments.

Ok, so I've decided that I hate heating mats. Damn thing has my seeds to friggin hot today. Hope I don't get a bunch of males....

Looking good. Im growing safari mix and satori right now. Check out my sig

Hells yeah. I'll sub your thread and we can compare notes.

Hey there, nice journal!

I'm growing a hashberry right now - AWESOME plant. Fucking enormous branches and buds.

You MUST top and fim this strain, it does so damn well on it, no joke. You will not regret it!

Good luck!

-Rich

I FIM'd my cinnamon girl last week. Fucking amazing. She had 2 small lower branches when I fim'd her, now she has 3 main. Sick, bro. Just sick.

So some sprouts came up with surprising results:

Germination score card, thus far:

Hashberry - 9 of 10
Satori - 9 of 10
Safari - 5 of 6


And that's only 7 days in!

hightyde27 said:

So some sprouts came up with surprising results:

Germination score card, thus far:

Hashberry - 9 of 10
Satori - 9 of 10
Safari - 5 of 6


And that's only 7 days in!

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Awwessomme man!

Glad to hear you did well with the fimming!

Looking forward to see these girls get bigger and bigger.... and bigger! lol

Peace bro, happy farming!

-Rich

Thanks, Rich. I really have no idea how big they're gonna get. It's only a 400w bulb. I'm
really curious about how well the super HPS bulb is gonna do.

hightyde27 said:

Thanks, Rich. I really have no idea how big they're gonna get. It's only a 400w bulb. I'm
really curious about how well the super HPS bulb is gonna do.

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So how is your bitch doing? lol!

HPS Bulbs are awesome - no need to worry, mate!

By the way - make sure you drop by on Saturday, the ak47 is gonna get chopped chopped chopped...!

Happy farming bro - keep me posted

-Rich

They're doing great. Found some spider mites but took care of em with some neem oil. I'm in the third week of flower and they're doing well. I'll throw up some more pics this afternoon.
Glad to hear your AK is coming down. I've never smoked any but hear it'd bomb.

hightyde27 said:

They're doing great. Found some spider mites but took care of em with some neem oil. I'm in the third week of flower and they're doing well. I'll throw up some more pics this afternoon.
Glad to hear your AK is coming down. I've never smoked any but hear it'd bomb.

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Great - I've never heard of people getting of mites that easily, so congrats

Looking forward to pics of the girls! I imagine they've been growing like mad the past 3 weeks eh?


Not to hijack your thread, but I took a look at my White Russian earlier today - she looks ready for chopping!

That bitch is going doooown on Saturday lol


Peace

-Rich

It's my first battle with the mites so they're still susceptible to my sprays. A couple of generations from now those mites'll be resistant and I'll have to kick it up to a more powerful insecticide.
I use organics now, but as friend of mine is fond of saying, "Everyone's organic, till they panic."

Update:
The seedlings are now doing very well, some with more than five sets of leaves.

I chopped the sour apple three days ago and it's drying. I had to pull it and flush early due to a losing battle with mites. She was stunted all to hell and the trichs were already cloudy, so I pulled her. She's an excellent candidate for hash, IMO.
The Cinnamon girl is going off. Resistant to mites and mold, she's very easy to grow and shows lots of big ass cola's for a measly 400 watts. A very lemony fragrance is left on m y hands after handling. She's half Jack Herer and something else, the breeder wouldn't say. EXCELLENT fucking plant, tho.
The s15 hash plant i threw outside is flowering! I have about 7 hours of direct sunlight and perfect temps/humidity outside. So I hit her with some bloom juice last week and she took off. I dosed her again this morning.
Looks like my light schedule here is perfect for inducing flowering. Awesome. I think I'll try vegging them in the green house under the Super Blue MH and throw them outside once they're ready. My greenhouse is very open so the change won't be that drastic.

Here's some with the lights off. The stringy little things that look like drying dog dhit on a stick is the sour apple. Lame huh? what a weak ass plant...
The cinnamon girl has baking soda on the leaves to increase alkalinity to kill mold. She doesn't have much so a friend suggested i try baking soda. Shit works yo.
I also changed from neem oil, cause I'm in flowering, to Safe Brand 3in1. It's organic and can be used on produce up to the day of harvest. It's also fantastic at killing mites. It leaves the fan leaves a bit waxy but they quickly go back.

The third is of the Sour apple before I chopped her and the fourth is cinnamon girl a couple of weeks ago.

Plants look good bro. I want that HPS light! How much was that? I have the MH that you're using and it was $125 at the grow store I go to. Luckily they threw it in with the ballast. But that HPS looks sick, good luck and happy growing.

It should be about the same, 120 bucks or so. Well worth it tho. The enhanced spectrum makes the bulb perform like a 600.

Hey guys.
So now we have some seedlings turning into vegetative plants and some issues with temperature and humidity. Some pests as well but I like to triage critical problems first, so I'll attack the soil issue head on by solving the first two problems.

With a shop light.
Cuz I'm ghetto, that's why. Now be quiet and pay attention.
The shop light is a $10 job at the local hardware store and it does two important things:
1: Gets hot as hell*
2: radiates alot of it's heat in the form of light.
The second helps keep mold at bay(a common problems with low temperatures and high humidity) and the first is obvious. Moving on.

My pests are your run of the mill white fly's and aphids. No mites yet, let us pray that God will smite my mites with something truly cool. I have some insecticidal soaps, neem and Safer brand 3in1. Both you can reference in Mr. Cervantes' "Indoor/outdoor Medical Growers [Manual]" on pg 346. Of which I will be using in my own vain attempts to hold at bay the forces of nature...which is why I'm going to:

Grow outside. Yup. I said it. I'm going outdoor. Whilst you fuckers play aquarium and pool boy with your plants I'm goin the other way. But for now...
MH indoors to vegg

* I use the heat from the light, from a safe distance (duh...), to gently warm the outside of the soil containers. My plants are showing the early signs of "dampening off". A nightmare scenario where the soil gets too moist for too long, in a damp, cool environment, and the plants can't transpirate enough to get rid of all the moisture. It sucks, and once a problem, the plant may not recover. Think plant pnuemonia.

Which is further complicated by the fact that I have pests moving in. Damn. Now I have to wait till the plants are stable before I can spray em.
Paradox, anyone?
Bad but not catastrphoic, if handled right. But i'm fuckin retarded, so we'll see.
I rolled the soil gently in the containers by softly squeezing the outsides to create air spaces in the soil, aerating it. Then I turned the heat up on the containers a little bit to facilitate evaporation and and lowered the humidity around the plant, causing them to start transperating. Let us all pray that this works.
!

Sweet. Only had to throw out two plants. Poor little buggers. Had to kill a male. Super pissed about that one, it was strong as hell. Oh well...
I also transplanted into bigger pots and started on some terra-vegga. Good stuff for vegging. They took right to the new pots a couple of days ago.
Two of em I had staked up in the other containers to hold em up, now, in the bigger pots, they hold up on their own. Hell, they're stiff as shit.

Turns out, what I thought was dampening off was actually plant characteristics common to Afghan strains... that's kinda badass. So now I have
Indica's, sativa's, african's, and now afghan plants. Fuckin sweet.