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i herd someone ask about pre 98 bubba? pre 98 is prolly the dankest pheno of it.
Any bubbakushers out there?
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mared juwan
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For flush I mostly use only plain water. I tested out GH Floranectar (regular version, not pineapple) one time and it definitely did something. I used it throughout flower, including for the flushing phase, on a strain I had already grown before and the difference in taste was quite noticeable. More of a sweet red grape taste. That's cool I guess if you want your bud to taste like grapes but I'm not really a fruity weed kind of guy. Skunky, hashy, musty, coffee, kushy - these are the smells I go for. I was hoping the floranectar would intensify the natural flavor of the bud but it just added a sweet grape flavor. It's not bad, I occasionally use it when I've grown a strain a few times already and I'm just wondering "what would this bud taste like if I added red grape flavor to the mix?" But usually the first time growing out new genetics I don't use any sweetener just to see what the "true" flavor of the bud is.
But I don't think you waited too long to flush. Just looking at your few pics I can tell that the yellowing of the leaves is occuring at the right time to be replaced by purple. That's perfect. If you had waited too long to flush your leaves would still be very green with the purple hard to see. You can actually influence the colors of you buds in this way. My Bubba Kush is pretty colorful but another strain I have makes works of art with it's leaves lol. I will attach three pics from three different grows of this same strain which is BC Roadkill. Notice the difference in color I was able to achieve by varying my nute level and flush time. All these are clones of the same mother so genetically identical but you will notice the first is very brown and dark with autumn colors, the second is more tropical with lavender and pastel hues, and the third is vividly colorful with bright reds and purples. The final pic is the bud from the vividly colorful plant. This is darkest purple bud I have grown yet. So you see my point is that the combinations of plant health, nute fluctuation, and the natural color genetics in the plant are endless and there is a huge range in possibilities for how any one plant can turn out. My Bubba Kush pics illustrate this point too but not as well as the Roakill. Each grow they look a little different depending on how I treated them, again all clones from the same mother plant.
You're gonna want to top or fim or LST Bubba Kush every time. Get as many different "main" stalks as you can as opposed to one single stalk. If you're doing single stalks you need like 50 plants to get a decent yield lol. Most other strains I don't like this strategy because the different stalks begin to compete with eachother and I feel I can get better yields with single large colas (providing plants are spaced correctly). But Bubba is different, you're not gonna get large colas. I don't do anything fancy, that's pretty plain to see. 1 gallon grow bags with coco and/or spaghnum moss and perlite, handwater, and let them do their thing. Tie up branches with string when they start to lean from bud weight. That's it
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aeviaanah
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i have a bubba kush plant i am growing organically to compare taste and high to. that is interesting, having different colors depending on what is done during the grow. i have to experiment with that next time. isnt the amount of thc produced by a plant controlled mainly by genetics...and when topping you are getting more nugs but lowering overall potency of each nug? i heard this somewhere...not sure to what extent it matters.
what exactly are grow bags? bags you grow in..lol. what are the advantages to these?
check these pictures out. these two growing strangely were taken from the scrog plant early in flower. they have been on there own for 4-5 weeks. i think they are confused with wether they should be flowering or vegging. they have been on 18/6 since i clipped em. what you think is happening here?
also, i just found one seed and one seed only on my scrog plant. what is this all about?
stay with me through harvest man, i appreciate your input.
what exactly are grow bags? bags you grow in..lol. what are the advantages to these?
check these pictures out. these two growing strangely were taken from the scrog plant early in flower. they have been on there own for 4-5 weeks. i think they are confused with wether they should be flowering or vegging. they have been on 18/6 since i clipped em. what you think is happening here?
also, i just found one seed and one seed only on my scrog plant. what is this all about?
stay with me through harvest man, i appreciate your input.
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mared juwan
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Oh yea I forgot to say last time that the shinyness of your leaves has nothing to do with chemical or organic nutes but rather that the plant has enough potatssium. It's a good thing, when I see shiny leaves that is a sign of healthiness to me.
That topping lowering potency thing sounds like total BS to me. I've grown topped and untopped clones of the same strain and there was no noticeable difference in potency. It's not like the plant has some "total" THC content that it must divide between the buds. THC is produced in each bud as a separate entity. They all share the same root system but that will affect bud size more than potency. The bud will grow as big as its individual nutrient and light supply allows. Potency will be the same. It will not somehow trade potency for more bud growth, that's apples and oranges.
The grow bags are simply pots made of strong plastic sheeting. Not thick and sturdy like the pot material but thin and flexible like a bag. Instead of putting my coco/soil/whatever in hard-sided pots I use these grow bags that cost $2 for twenty of them. The mass of the soil filling up the bag causes it to keep its shape. I don't really get why people buy pots really. I reuse my bags for multiple grows and they cost ten cents a piece.
What your clones are doing is completely normal. Even if you flowered the mother for only a couple days before you took the cutting it will grow funny at first. It is revegging. They will grow single sectioned leaves just like a seedling which will give way to three sectioned leaves, then five, and etc up to the regular nine. Sometimes they skip straight from one or three up to seven or nine. If you want to see some really trippy shit you should flower a plant for like two weeks and then take a cutting. The leaves not only grow single-sectioned at first but also all curly and twisty... very weird alien looking growth. But they always sort themselves out in the end. Just give it a few days.
When you say you found a seed, do mean in the bud of the flowering Bubba Kush? Yikes. The only way you could be producing seeds is from asexual reproduction. In other words your female buds want pollen so bad this late in flower they are producing male pollen sacs themselves in attempts to perpetuate their genes. This is a trait controlled just like any trait through the genetic tendencies of the plant. Some strains are more prone to doing this than others. I've grown a few strains like this and it sucks but it's part of the game. But I imagine the Bubba Kush from the dispensary should be pretty stable in this regard. I would just chalk it up to first grow stress (environmental stresses can dramatically increase the probability that your plants will pollinate themselves if they possess the trait). Inspect your plants very VERY carefully for the banana looking thing in the pic below. Hopefully there is only one or two. People recommend picking them off with tweezers but that seems like the worst thing you can do. If you break those sacs you are releasing pollen everywhere. If there is only one or two I just leave it and carefully monitor the plants for any more. If there are more than a few I would chop your plants down immediately.
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aeviaanah
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i topped two of my clones last night, im curious to see the results. where can i find these grow bags? soil stays in em pretty well eh?
have you tried flushing more than a week? do you think 2 weeks is overkill? what is your take on this?
thanks for the info on the clones...do you harvest a single plant all at once or do you harvest say top nugs first and let the smaller ones fill in for a week or so?
yes, the seed was found on my flowering bubba kush! just one ive inspected for more numerous times, i just got done looking for the bananas and didnt see any. why do you say this really sucks. if its only a couple seeds, whats the harm? i can see it being a problem if the whole plan diverts its energy into seed production, maybe you know something i dont?
this seed should be a feminized seed correct?
have you tried flushing more than a week? do you think 2 weeks is overkill? what is your take on this?
thanks for the info on the clones...do you harvest a single plant all at once or do you harvest say top nugs first and let the smaller ones fill in for a week or so?
yes, the seed was found on my flowering bubba kush! just one ive inspected for more numerous times, i just got done looking for the bananas and didnt see any. why do you say this really sucks. if its only a couple seeds, whats the harm? i can see it being a problem if the whole plan diverts its energy into seed production, maybe you know something i dont?
this seed should be a feminized seed correct?
aeviaanah
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i just noticed hundreds of these little guys...they seem to be staying off the plant, but are crawling everywhere else...cords, soil, around pots. does anyone have any idea what this may be, i have done a little research and havent seen a picture of it yet. a couple things: light colored and semi transparent, 6 legged, and a small number of hair growing evenly around its body...all seem to share the same characteristics..(size, color, shape). large oval shaped bodies with small heads (which are a little darker)
recognize these anyone?
recognize these anyone?
mared juwan
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Nah man, that guy is a piece of work. No security risk, don't worry about that. I noticed he is starting to sell Green House Seeds. I emailed him saying I had a whole bunch more pics of several of those Green House strains. I just asked if on my next order (on which I told him I planned to spend over $300) maybe he could throw in a free pack of Cannacopia or Beanho seeds. These cost $35 a pack, that's all I wanted - a small token for my contribution. I figured all the pictures I sent him were at least worth that especially since I was offering to give him even more. He writes me back saying I should talk to the breeders. He doesn't feel he should have to pay for pics of someone else's strains
I never got rude with him but my response was "So you really don't think the pictures on your site help your sales?" He replied that he knew they did without a doubt but he expects the breeders to provide the pics to sell their seeds. So I told him I guess he wouldn't mind taking mine down if that's the case. What a douche. He knows I've already spent over $1000 there and planned to spend more and he couldn't cough up a $35 dollar pack of beans in exchange for all my pics which make his site so much better? I won't be ordering from there anymore. I mean how the hell am I supposed to "talk to the breeders?" He was basically telling me to fuck off.
mared juwan
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Grow bags should be available at any hydro store right next to the pots.
2 weeks is fine for flush. For strains you are growing for the first time you are pretty much guessing when the right time to flush is. I've flushed for nearly 3 weeks before because I guessed wrong. It's OK you just know for next time you could have kept feeding that much longer.
I always chop my plants entirely down. I run perpetual so when plants get chopped there are always new ones to replace them.
Any seeding will decrease potency potential but if it's only one or two then it should be OK. Still I think it sucks because who wants seeded bud no matter how few seeds there are? There has to be some kind of pollen source somewhere in your grow for that to happen. Is it possible for us to get a picture of this seed? You're sure it's a seed? If it is it should be fem but might have massive instability and herm issues itself. I would just keep cloning the clone you got from the dispensary rather than grow its herm bastard child seed.
I wish I could help more on the bugs. Thankfully I've only had to deal with fungus gnats which don't harm the plants too much. Those are definitely not fungus gnats. That's about all I can tell you. When you harvest those plants get a bottle a neem oil at your hydro store. Dilute with water and spray the whole room down with it. All surfaces. You might want to do it twice. Bugs can ruin a grow quick.
kraykush
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I'm sorry to hear that. However, you should try.....http://www.marijuana-seeds-canada.com/collections/green-house-marijuana-seeds
They have a good selection of seeds at low prices......e.g. $13/per seed for arjan's haze....etc...I ordered some alaskan thunderfuck tundra from them and it came in 2 weeks.
They have a good selection of seeds at low prices......e.g. $13/per seed for arjan's haze....etc...I ordered some alaskan thunderfuck tundra from them and it came in 2 weeks.
jonboy30
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Look like aphids to me...are they still around?
aeviaanah
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jonboy, im thinking they are some type of aphid also...the strange thing is they have hair...i havent seen an aphid with hair, every other characteristic matches tho. yes they are still around, they keep circling the pot rim...i will keep spraying insecticide, i dont like the sound of hundreds of little bugs inside my house..good or not.
mared, attached is a picture of the seed, it is definately a seed. this plant has went though some stress, it wouldnt suprise me if it went hermi a lil. now if it remains only one seed up to harvest, did i lose alot of potency within the entire plant? just the one nug? or not really much at all?
for a first time growing this strain, what would you go by to know when to harvest? trichome color...? swelling of calyx? both? i like the 'up' high so i wasnt going to wait for a 50/50 mix amber to cloudy. maybe 20/90...what do you think?
mared, attached is a picture of the seed, it is definately a seed. this plant has went though some stress, it wouldnt suprise me if it went hermi a lil. now if it remains only one seed up to harvest, did i lose alot of potency within the entire plant? just the one nug? or not really much at all?
for a first time growing this strain, what would you go by to know when to harvest? trichome color...? swelling of calyx? both? i like the 'up' high so i wasnt going to wait for a 50/50 mix amber to cloudy. maybe 20/90...what do you think?
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sampson818
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Pre 98 Bubba Kush is In my Fav 5.
First time I had it I new it was a keeper this strain taste so good its unlike any other
First time I had it I new it was a keeper this strain taste so good its unlike any other
mared juwan
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Yea that is a seed for sure. Just one shouldn't make that much of a difference. For harvest, I would go by the trichomes. All those other signs I listed are just something to pay attention to so in the future you don't have to be constantly inspecting trichomes with a magnifier. Just remember how the plant looks when you get the trichome combination you want and then next time you know when to chop just by looking.
kraykush
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phenotypes, i was just wondering if there's more than one phenotype for the Bubba dc.
The purple pheno is dank!!!
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mared juwan
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Hmmm. I'm not exactly sure how many distinct phenos there are of this strain. At least two. I only grew one female and my pheno is mostly green with only a little purple coloring to the leaves. Your's seems to be a lot more purple in the bud. I grow another strain from this same breeder... my BC Roadkill buds look a lot like your Bubba Kush buds. Very purple. Maybe that's the DC that's responsible for most of the color of these strains. But yea, I like those pics. Looks hella dank.
aeviaanah
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gettin real close to harvest. i got a couple bagseeds germinating, curious to see how they are next grow....no bagseed will beat the bubba tho.
what nutrients does everyone use with the bubba? im curious with the different results. these picture of bubba was grown with a 400 watt hps. they were fed GH maxigrow in veg supplemented with pure vida organics grow for micro nutes. in early stages of flower she was fed GH maxibloom and GH floranectar sweetner for about 4 weeks, then switched to GH koolbloom, humboldt countys own snow storm, and GH floranectar sweetner. She has went through a week of flush so far. Still only a couple amber trichs scattered all over the place...im waiting till i feel its time to harvest, still seems like she needs a couple more days. Im on day 54 which is just under the 8 week mark of going 12/12.
what nutrients does everyone use with the bubba? im curious with the different results. these picture of bubba was grown with a 400 watt hps. they were fed GH maxigrow in veg supplemented with pure vida organics grow for micro nutes. in early stages of flower she was fed GH maxibloom and GH floranectar sweetner for about 4 weeks, then switched to GH koolbloom, humboldt countys own snow storm, and GH floranectar sweetner. She has went through a week of flush so far. Still only a couple amber trichs scattered all over the place...im waiting till i feel its time to harvest, still seems like she needs a couple more days. Im on day 54 which is just under the 8 week mark of going 12/12.
