All stage grow log w/ lots of pics

harris i was reading in another thread about cutting off all fan leaves, when i was about 10days from harvest i cut all the fingers from the leaves leaving just enough leaf to still take in light.

i noticed doing this made my main cola soar in wieght and fattened right up, i would try it out on one plant and see what happens and if you like it just do it that way towards the end.

another nice trick is when they are 1-2 weeks into flower chop off everything not getting light(mostly the whole bottom of the plant including small grow shoots) and she will take off like a rocket.

the root system is enough to support what was already there and by taking away a good 30% of useless plant matter she now has more energy into making buds on the tops rather than making whispy crap on the centers to the stem.

food for thought!

your plants look great by the way flush them out while you have time.

All I have to say is :thumbsup:. :)

wow these last few days the girls have just packed on Tric's and size. It's amazing. It's like i could take a Calyx pop it on a ring and ask Dutch lover to marry me. (it's that crystaly)

So we last fed on the 16th, which was 8 days ago. We've only been giving them pHed water and i gave them a semi flush (just over watered them all by about 1 L) i'll do that again today.

What is the least amount of time between last feeding and harvest? As well, Can i tell if they've used up a lot of the stored nutes by the lack of fan leafs. or how the yellowing is progressing

no need to hurry when your at the finish line, give her about 5 more days of just water then let her dry out and start to wilt just a tad then chop her :)

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Originally Posted by brookerosebud

i was going to suggest that you breed, if you have good genetics. i've got my f1's started and having a blast!

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Wow, I just was re-reading some posts and it just occurred to me that â??f1â?� isnâ??t your strain. Itâ??s your first cross. Wow, that only took 2 weeks. Anyways what did you cross and what traits are you breeding for?

Have you looked into how particular traits are transmitted in cannabis.
Such as bud size, potency, leaf type (sativa/indica), smell and so on

I would like to know about the type of dominance for each as well as the number of genes controlling each. I really donâ??t want to have to figure it out through breeding as that will take quite a while. I have a book on cannabis breeding, I guess itâ??s probably in there.

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Originally Posted by brookerosebud

males can be a good thing too...:D that sounded bad...

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I have a humorous book on Cannabis. One wonderful quote from it

â??when growing cannabis males only take up space once fertilization occurs.
This shows that mother nature is consistent if nothing else.

that is hilarious! I'm going to use it as my signature!!!!!!!! I've loved reading the log. Bree

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Originally Posted by harris7

Anyways what did you cross and what traits are you breeding for?

Have you looked into how particular traits are transmitted in cannabis.
Such as bud size, potency, leaf type (sativa/indica), smell and so on

I would like to know about the type of dominance for each as well as the number of genes controlling each. I really donâ??t want to have to figure it out through breeding as that will take quite a while. I have a book on cannabis breeding, I guess itâ??s probably in there.

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I am curious about the same things. When you cross...how do you know which traits will be passed along and so on...

Makes for an interesting topic of discussion...I'm sure there's a thread out there about it. I'll have to find it.


The Fog :rastasmoke:

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Originally Posted by TheGreenFog

I am curious about the same things. When you cross...how do you know which traits will be passed along and so on...

Makes for an interesting topic of discussion...I'm sure there's a thread out there about it. I'll have to find it.


The Fog :rastasmoke:

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Well â??traitsâ?� are called phenotypes. Which have very interesting relationships to genotypes.

One phenotype can be caused by two different genotypes.

Say leaf shape Indica leafs or sativa leafs.
The alleles for indiac are I and Sativa S
So in Cannabis there are three possibilities
II or IS or SS
Now lets assume indica is the dominant allele
So if the I is dominant then a plant with:
II or IS will have indica leafs
And only the plant with SS will have sativa leafs.

It gets a lot more complex than this, but welcome to the field of genetics.
Itâ??s what Iâ??m currently studying in school.

The problem for me is that several kinds of relationships can exist between alleles
Sometimes when you have two (IS) both express and you get a half way look
Thatâ??s call co-dominance.

My problem is that I need to know the relationships between dominance and each trait when I breed for it. And to find out what it is myself takes like 3 generations of breeding.
Which I donâ??t want to do.

Here's a little mini update for you all: we put Hog into flower 8 days ago, and it has grown 6 inches since then!!! We are proud of the big gal, but a little annoyed that she will be hog-ging the grow space (pun intended lol)!!

Pics to follow later.

Here are some pics of the fattened buds!!

[attachment=o115255][attachment=o115256][attachment=o115257] These are taken from 2 different plants, both the Dutch Treat strain.:jointsmile:

So I thought it was time for an update.

The Multi-plant pot is doing very well as well I believe that we have worked out our system for growing.

The first pic is to highlight how small the internodes can be when using the T5.
The second is the 5 gallon pot with two plants in it
The third is the LST method we are using. Which I recommend
The forth is a plant which we are moving from the T5 to the MH

This method is working so well for us, i feel the need to share:

The method we really like is, growing a plant under the T5 to the size of pic 4
(ideally with the internodes of pic 1)
We then top the plant and make a clone of that. Let the plant recover
Then we transplant the lil guy into a big 5 gallon pot but we donâ??t keep it in the center.
We plant her right up against a the side of the pot, so that we can bend her over and sheâ??ll wont invade other plants space.
Since she was topped her side shoots should take off.
Finally, bend the plants main stalk over so that it is horizontal. And tie all the large side shoots out to the edges of the pot.

Weâ??ve found that the plant hardly stalls itâ??s growth during topping/LSTing

there'll be alot of dutch action going on at your pad trhis week ;)

your buds look nice n dense

happy trimming :jointsmile:

YA were pretty excited. WE acctualy put 2 plants into their "darkness cycle" b4 harvest. We put em in about 20 hours ago, and going to keep them there for about 30 hours. Then, Snip, snip. Mmmmmm

first harvest,, very excited. It's not the biggest ones though they need a few more days.

WE only chopped two smaller plants. the other two are for some reason way behind in maturity. Odd.

So we copped one dutch treat and one Champ.

Im hoping for 3-4 oz from both of them, but we'll see.

any guesses?


ps- the pic with the buds on the news papers. champ. is the left column and dutch T the right.

ive been keepin close to this thread since you started. So badass to see you pulled those fire kolas man. Looks like 3 ozs wet atleast ,hope to see some more grows from you. Get some nug shots when they dry,and the smoke report of course. Later -kb

hey if your getting rid of some of those clones ill gladly take them and pay for them. please hit me back up so we can talk

oh wait nvm fuck u live in canada. damn sorry about that

I have no idea how much it is but it looks awesome. Congrats! :jointsmile:

how come you didn't cut off the fan leaves? Looks sweeet though man, I can't wait to see what it turned out like. Wow that treat fuckin sure plumped out. I read some of the stuff you posted earlier and I'd agree that 3-4 king kolas is better than little side shoot butter buds. I'm thinkin for our big girls we're gonna focus on just massive clumped up branches and avoid the little flowers on teh bottom. Congrats on your first harvest, when do you think you'll pull the other two ladies?

nice thread. lots of good info throughout. keep it up.

sorry for being away, out internet is down. so i have to go to cafe's to check email.

This is a nice small harvest, the next two plants will be 2-3 times as much, as there just fucking huge. i'm excited.

we oven dried some of the small popcorn buds and gave em a try last night. And were quite happy. A very interesting high, Sativa yet indica. WE mixed both of the buds together. yumm

ok Harris7 definitely didn't seem excited enough in that post! I personally thought the weed was amazing! I got sooooo high. It had a pretty strong body high (strangely mainly affecting the lower half of the body), but a clear head high- it didn't make me pass out like most body highs do. Anyways, I am totally looking forward to the rest of our harvesting- I want to smoke more of our shit!!!!!!:jointsmile:

Harris7 finished building that 'second floor' in the growroom today, the one he mentioned earlier. We are also going to put our biggest plant into darkness tonight, and harvest after the 24hr period has elapsed. We are harvesting her a little bit earlier than we wanted to, but we cut nutes too early and her yellowing is getting pretty bad. I'm sure she will still have a great high, mainly sativa.

Our northern lights clones that we took about 2 weeks ago have rooted, and look amazing. I think we are getting better and better at cloning, since every time we do it they look nicer and nicer! We also transplanted a shitload of plants two days ago- we put our older NLs clones into 1 litre pots, and we put some plants that were in the 1 litre pots, into 3 gallon ones.

Please post comments, we know there are a ton of people who view this log and we love hearing from you!

WEll tonight the big Snip snip goes down.

Heres some pics of the plant were goin to chop

You lucky bastards! That looks awesomely delicious man. Happy harevesting! :jointsmile:

I wait happily for pics and completion of an awsome grow! The lady that is going down looks exquisite! :jointsmile: Bree

Well were very happy with the quality of the bud, unfortunately the Champagne plant grew a lot of very small buds.

Off the two plants that we copped last week I think we got 2.5 oz which is acceptable as they are the smallest plants.
Heres some pics of the buds we got off them and some pics of the nice harvest from last night

What is unfortunate is that we let our plants get too Nitrogen def. so we probably lost some bud weight and density because of that.

We are seeing amzing results with our current flowering plants, buds growin faster and more trichomes.

We will be harvesting the 4th plant tonight, Dutch treat. Pic attached.

What is unfortunate is that we let our plants get too Nitrogen def. so we probably lost some bud weight and density because of that.

We are seeing amzing results with our current flowering plants, buds growin faster and more trichomes.

We will be harvesting the 4th plant tonight, Dutch treat. Pic attached.

Yum man I had some champagne recently. I have a small nug of it here, that is good stuff. That looks really nice, I cannot wait to see the bigger ones chopped! Congrats guys. :jointsmile:

Hey, thanks for your comments. So we have harvested 4 plants altogether now, the next girl on the chopping block is The Hog (about 3 weeks away) and then it will be Dutch Treat. We love the dutch treat genetics the best so far- the plants are really bushy, quick growing, nice strong stems, clone great, etc etc. We also have 11 Northern Lights clones freshly rooted, so we are gonna give that strain a try again and hope it goes over better than last time!

Today we just bought a new scale, and I picked myself up a cute mini bong! I always wanted a bubbler, but decided that bongs are sturdier and mine is pretty small so its almost the size of a bubbler anyways, lol. I will post some pics later. Ciao for now!

i love all of your pictures
you are some lucky motherfuckers
wish i had somewhere to grow

I've decided i love growing.
a difficult question would be whether i love growing more than i love smoking.

or
do i love growing because i love smoking?

this is something to think about

here are some fun pics

and the pics that i thought i loaded.
everone can now see that i am enjoying the new bud

I will post a nice big grow update tonight. AS we new have every possible stage of growing... going here.
its cool, i wish i could have a class or something.

maybe i'll put an ad in the paper

Well hereâ??s a real update,

We just repotted 3 plants into 3 and 5 gallon pots
Since out vegging clones are too big for the t5 and some others need the space we upped them all to the MH room.

And we found a few thrips and sprayed everyone down

We are also over run with plants:
11 Vegging, only 5 flowering and 8 rooted clones in 4x4 pots

Since we have too many were giving some away to a friendâ?¦ a friend on this board can anyone guess who?

So we are considering upping out flowering capacity for at least one big run though b4 we move into a larger place (polly mid summer)

We are thinking about getting another 600W HPS light as they have the best efficiency
And 1000 watts would be too hot for our space.
Any thoughts?

So far, SO GOOOOODDDD!! :)

i hate f-ing thrips. we still have a few that we spot every now and then, but they don't really do too much damage unless they're eating our baby plants, which has been avoided so far- let's keep our fingers crossed!

great pics harris, that bud looks so tasty! word to the players smokes, even though I quit. :)

I think I like growing and smoking and like each one even more because of the other. It's pretty amazing what they do, and fun to make them do what you want and shit. That is something to think about though.

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I just wanted to update this thread one last time...it's sad, I know.

This thread represented our journey as new growers, which we still are, but are much more experienced now. We have a new log with a focus on our harvests (one ever 10 days), along with some talk about manicuring and techniques, stuff like that. So please drop by, check it out...at least for the mouthwatering bud pics! Yummmm everyone likes those.

See ya around,

Dutchie