The Short Bus Beginners Mixed Bag Perpetual Harvest Journal: JTR, GDP, and many more

Pulling em in a week. Started flushing on Friday, same day the cat was "helping." Here's a few bud pics. After I pull these next weekend, I'll start posting pics of the next round as they come into maturity.

Remaining Super Skunk








GDPs








Jack the Ripper

I'm tryin to give you rep but it says i need to wait longer before i can again...but DAMN man that skunk looks dank! as do all the others, but damn...

Thanks homes, it's the thought that counts.
I'm psyched on the Super Skunk. The tops are mostly what I'm smoking right now and it's dank. Next week I'll put up some pics of the Sour Grape I have, it's just wrong. 5 1/2 weeks into 12/12 with an 8 inch cola, sugar coated and smelling like grape Pez. It's an amazing strain.

WOW!!! Very nice SB

Thank you my friend, I try.

I pulled my Ripper and the 2 GDPs yesterday. I think the Ripper could have used another week to really ripen up, but I'm on a schedule. Having a ripening tent would be handy, I think. Hm. Anyway, everything's cut, trimmed and hung up to dry. Looks like about 4 1/2 zips, all told. Gonna have to wait till it all dries to confirm that, but I've been working harvests since the mid-90's, so I'm pretty confident there. Not bad, but not good enough. Gonna be doing some experimentation around here to determine the best way to capitalize on my limited space. Here's a few pics from the harvest.





















So this round started with 6 plants. 2 GDPs, 1 each Super Skunk, Casey Jones, Blue Cheese, and Jack the Ripper. Blue Cheese grew nuts and knocked up my whole flower room. I literally threw it and its vermin offspring off a cliff in the woods. Fuck Blue Cheese. Note:even Subcool says this strain is no good. See thread "TGA By Others" in Subcool's Old School Organics section of the forums. CJ got so heavily seeded that I just pulled it early. Even preemy, it tasted deiselicious so I revegged the bottom for a mom plant. Super Skunk owns. It just does. Short, stout, hardy, and tasty when done. I can't recommend this 50/50 hybrid strain enough. JtR outproduced everything by a damn site. I got about an oz off the Super, I'm thinking 1.5 off the 2 GDPs, and fully 2 zips off the Ripper. You've seen the pics if you've read this far in. That plant grew like a bouquet of cola nugs. Pretty much every branch had one of those giant spearheads on the end. Haven't smoked any Jack yet, but the scissor hash last night was kicking my ass. Got a full gram of scissor just trimming the one plant. So there's the first final strain review. I'm planting, cloning, and moving girls today. Update to follow. Oh yeah, and btw, please feel fre to post in here if you have questions or comments, provided that it's positive or constructive in nature. Burn one!

Here's the next set of plants set to be pulled in 2 weeks or so. Spent most of today rotating and transplanting, keeping ther cycle going. I started a little science experiment today. I put 15 plants into the flower chamber, with the intention of running 6 crop circle plants against 6 sea of green style plants to see which method yields better in small containers. More to follow when I take some pics. In the mean time, these are my next harvest.

Sour Grape








Mendo Purps






Assted Jack the Rippers






The total count is four JtRs, 1 each Sour Grape and Mendo.

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pure genius and all morning ive been thinking of a new "warm" germ place for my easy ryder babbies/beans and i read this thread..now nice and warm with a cup cover for darkness...

Works great, as long as you don't drip water into the power supply taking the lid off the clone tray... like me. Really did the trick tho.

Nice harvest SB! Those flowers really look like some chronic for sure
Good work man, next time I bet you'll pull off even better numbers

and I bet those GPD and Super Skunk are some NASTY stanky buds

Thanks mang. The Ripper's actually my favorite smoke out of the batch, but all of it's dank. And free! Aw yeah...

Ahh JtR. Of course! Though I've never personally smoked it I've certainly heard rave reviews

It's nice. Not so much because of the flavor or smell (Lemon Pledge, in a good way), but the actual high is just chiiillll. The most relaxing weed ever. Lovin it. How's that Chocolope?

they look yummy!!

dude the cocolope is one of the tastiest fruitiest buds I've had the pleasure of smoking and growing. Same level as the GDP for sure but its fruity rather than grapey - HOLY SHIT

jesus of Cannabis said:

they look yummy!!

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Oh hellz yeah! Lemony Ripper, Grapety Grape, Skunkity Skunkness... I feel like the Trix Rabbit in this piece! How was that OG? I just threw some in the flower room a week ago.

KingIV20 said:

dude the cocolope is one of the tastiest fruitiest buds I've had the pleasure of smoking and growing. Same level as the GDP for sure but its fruity rather than grapey - HOLY SHIT

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Yeah, I believe it. I'd love to have a mama plant for that stuff. It looks so prime! Might have to throw that on my genetic wish list. I'm looking to get some Querkle seeds soon here, after that, who knows? Might go on the hunt for Chocolope...

The Crop Circle is a technique I picked up in this awesome thread right here:

https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/360125-new-growers-needed-grow-lab.html

Do yourself a favor and check that out, it outlines a brilliant grow room set-up, one aspect of which is Crop Circle of Bud. Crop Circling means tying your plant down around the rim of it's container just before throwing it into 12/12. This turns every branch on the plant into a cola. Here's a couple plants I'v had growing this way for about 2 1/2 weeks.







Easy to do and so far it looks good. Check the original thread for more details.

I'm doing a little revamping of my methods lately and I wanted to solidify the changes here, in my trusty RIU journal. First, I switched from Fox Farms nutes to General Hydro for greater control over feeding ratios and I'm real happy so far, particularly in the flower chamber. I don't personally think much of the nute debates, I went with what gave me the greatest functional control and access to info at a low cost. Here's what I feed with nowadays.



I'm also trying to increase output, so I'm trying the CC technique, and also running a side by side comparison of CC and SOG. The last 2 trays I put into flower were 1 of each, 1 tray circled and 1 tray of short SOG plants, all in 1/2 gal grow bags, all cloned from the same mom, all getting identical food. I also have 2 trays of CC's in 1 gal bags at about 3 weeks now. See above. Here's a little how-to on the CC thing, but I still recommend the original thread linked in the post above this one.

I poke 4 holes in the bag and stick bread ties in them.


Then I just gently and patiently bend and tie down.






If the end of the stem doesn't reach a tie I use shishkebab skewers to brace them in place.


And you get this.


When the plant goes into flower, all the stretch happens to the braches, which then become colas as the flowering period progresses. So far all my CC plants are looking very promising.

I'm also making changes to my veg system. I want to increase root development prior to putting them into flower. I've taken a bunch of plastic cups and soda bottles and turned them into air-pruning pots by punching holes all through them. Now any roots circling the pots head back into the soil to avoid drying out. I have 8 ounce cups and 1 liter botles, and the plants will spend 2 weeks in each, cup then bottle, before going into flower in 1/2 gallon bags. I'm thinking this will help to bulk up root mass and limit the height of plants in veg. So far so good. Bud update to follow.