I had been reading on this site, over the past few years of DP changing it's strain of blueberry. It made me almost sad because having kids awhile back..I had to say bye bye to my pretty '08 DP blueberry (and Burmese strawberry kush!!!) ladies and stick to growing produce only for sale do to the wifey's objections (and real lack of time). If your passion is in the allure, taste and odor of blueberry, DP HAD IT!
I couldn't take it anymore and opportunity knocked for a spot to grow...I had to see for myself how bad this strain had gotten.
That all said...I started my project in August from the non-auto femmes a buddy had just started. He got only 60 - 70 gram yields per plant and that was much less than I had gotten from my last dp blueberry run (lightest 119gm on a midget with only 3 branches and one 147gm upside down cherry shaped hedge.
I could see immediately in the clones the "mutant" leaf crinckles as described in many of the posts I had read about the new strain. It was extremely different from the old do strain but not all the leaves? 3/4 looked like the original leaves of my old blueberry with deep purple and blue stems to the fan leaves. But something was different?
Let the experimenting and fun begin! I didn't want to waste my time and I get so emotionally attached to my plants that I've never really done a half ass grow job ever. I wanted to flip my light on 12 SO BAD as soon as she got 2 ft tall after about 4 weeks 24hr t5 8x4ft. I was keeping the humidity pretty steady at about 65%, 20ml cns17/5ml cal mag/pH down (6.3 is what I had in my notes for dp blueberry) in 1/2 fox farm ocean,1/8 perlite,1/8 wormcast manure from growing power (hey Will Allen!)
It had been SO long since my last grow..I was hyping terribly to see some buds pop! I had all my personal notes saying the opposite of many of the current posts about DP blueberry:
HARD TO GROW: Not as far as my notes said. I wrote a comparison in 2008 too the strawberry Kush I was growing and the Kush was like a Diva! She would get pissed at everything..too much water.. Not enough water..too far from the light... Too close to the light... Nutrient burn! Big but... Those Kush girls gave over 500gm one plant (5ft tall in my 8x8x4 tent and took 90 days from flip!!!)
I didn't let my anxiousness get the better of me. I only had one plant, and it had these unknown to me mutant leaves (at least 3 out of 4) so better safe than sorry. Turned dp blueberry at 2ft and turned into 4 different clones. Here is where shit gets really weird.
Over the next 4 weeks I got a crazy idea... Lets try some stuff I hadn't done since childhood. Reverse stress treatment involving a more greenhouse type environment and aggressive feeding regiment. I kept the humidity at 80% day 65% night and heavy on the co2 at 85-90deg f day 75deg night. 40ml cns17grow in 7 gallon fabric pots of that soil mix listed above. I used upside down crates to elivate and drain into seed tray below.. Watering everyday!!! (it's a no no so don't try that at home.. Can go hellishly wrong)
Guess what... NO ALIEN LEAVES!! WTF!!! Is it the cal mag? Jungle temps? CO2? Overwatering? I've only taken botany in college and truly couldn't tell you why do these are all purely guesses.
So I have 4 clones.. Non-aliens lol... But growing very differently! I have one to my buddy who gave me his so he can try his hand at a better yield and put my three ladies on 12/12 January 7th. The leaves had gotten almost a dark blue green just like the old dp I grew. 2 I would have sworn came off my old plants from '08 just bustling with nodes I named Belinda and Bertha the blueberry twins due to their uniformity in appearance.. But one that is completely different, twice as tall as the others but more stretching between nodes? And way less nodes after flip? She's still putty.. But so tall I had to call her Tina!
So Berlinda, Bertha and Tina have been transitioned from 20ml cns17/10ml cal mag per gallon/20ml advanced nutes bio bloom one week.. Next same with PK boosting nutes added and nector. All the girls exploded with lil flowers on day 14 everywhere!!! I swapt in the 3000 t5s (still 5 7200 as well) and fed every other day. Plenty of air movement in my tent I should mention.
Day 16 I gave a severe flush with just water and let the ladies dry out overnight. I also switched my temps down 10 degrees and humidity down to 60%. The next day I tore every...i mean every...i mean every fan leaf off.. Any purple stem leaf off and any leaf that had half inch or more stem to it... Let me explain....
I had these ladies so busy after typing 4 times during growth stage.. They were screaming to take there clothes off um! The leaves are SO deep green I knew she could take it! I then tires her down in reverse...lil flowers 2 in from lights... Big flowers 4 in away. 40ml bloom/2 tbs mollaases/12ml pk/10ml cal mag.
Ha ha...buds overnight.. Just like before! It's the same stand dp had back in '08 but my guy just "alienated" her when he started the see somehow. But I got her back!!! She looks identical to before (except Tina she looks a lil like a Tai I grew years ago so tall?) But so many REAL quality bud formation like before.
So I took some pics before defoliation and at day 18 - 19 after removing some clones and labeling them. It's day 23 I pulled over 100 clones from the three, and I'll be switching to my 600 watt over these ladies and moving 3 new cousins back in from that 4th I gave away (did you forget about her???)
I'll post picks of the three girls on day 23 with the new ladies tomorrow!