Blue Cheese, PPP, Thai SS...Jerry's Second Grow

[Jerry Garcia]

Well guys and girls, the day of reckoning has come and I harvested my beauties. Blue Cheeses A and B along with PPP, Sr. all received the chop yesterday...well, they mostly received the chop anyway. I left much of the lower popcorn buds in hopes that maybe they would bulk up a bit before I harvest them.

Anyway, I gave the buds a good trim and have hung them in their drying box (which is actually the box my air-cooled reflector came in, so I'm getting the most out of that purchase!). Manicuring these girls took somewhere in the neighborhood of 6 hours, with some help from my girlfriend. We did take a couple breaks to smoke the scissor hash (the functionality of the scissors became jeopardized, so we had to clean them off...let me just say it was the best tasting bowl I've smoked in my life ).

One final group shot before the chop.

PPP, nice and colorful.

Blue Cheese A.

Blue Cheese B

One cola from BCB

PPP main stalk

The bigger of the two BCA colas...

Hanging to dry in the box...

They all hang in 3 rows...BCB in the back, PPP in the middle and BCA in the front.

After a couple days in here I'll move them to some brown paper bags for a bit and then on to jars...

No pics of the veg room again...I'll do it sometime...

 

[hemphopper]

Jerry my Man !! How sweet to see! I used binder clips to hang too, the good people at Staples do have something for everybody. I know you are going to enjoy the bounty. It is amazing how long trimming can take.

 

[theloadeddragon]

Now there is a good few ounces of Dank Smoke.... +rep..... I like..... smoke report a must.... I really want to compare how your PP is compared to how my PP turned out

 

[dawnish]

Looking good! Nice trim work!

 

[warisnottheanswer]

hell yea jerry! great lookin buds +rep cure well and enjoy!

 

[SnowWhite]

looking very nice Jerry. If a little early maybe? they look like they had more to give you mate, given another week or two. But still very, very nice and you'll have some great smoke. Enjoy man!

 

[Jerry Garcia]

Thanks for the replies everyone.

Snow: I maybe could have left them going for another week or two, but the trichs were about 20% amber and I didn't really want to let them get much more than that. I believe I harvested right around 60 days...

Additionally, I've got some extenuating circumstances in my life that played a part in when I harvested. No need to get into much detail, but suffice it to say this was my best harvest window and the trichs agreed. I've got clones of everyone, so I can always grow them out again and let them finish up for another week or so.

Regardless, I'm happy with the results. I'll be even more happy in a month when I can smoke this shit!

 

[SnowWhite]

Thanks for the replies everyone.

Snow: I maybe could have left them going for another week or two, but the trichs were about 20% amber and I didn't really want to let them get much more than that. I believe I harvested right around 60 days...

Additionally, I've got some extenuating circumstances in my life that played a part in when I harvested. No need to get into much detail, but suffice it to say this was my best harvest window and the trichs agreed. I've got clones of everyone, so I can always grow them out again and let them finish up for another week or so.

Regardless, I'm happy with the results. I'll be even more happy in a month when I can smoke this shit!

yeah man, I wasn't dissing you for it or anything. Just an observation I guess. But I understand everyones grows and needs/requirements are all different and you gotta do what you gotta do. You should be very happy though, they do look awesome and it will taste great in a month.

 

[theloadeddragon]

some STRAINS will throw out white pistils forever....... my Purple Power did...... was throwing out white pistils, flowering, in May when I got it...... never stopped all the way through harvest about two weeks ago.... that's about 5 months

 

[Jerry Garcia]

Snowy...no worries mate, I wasn't taking offense or anything.

TLD...both generations of PPP clones began pushing out preflowers WAY before I switched to flowering (one is still in veg and has been popping preflowers left and right). I'm sure if I had left it a little longer it would have bulked up a little more, but whatever. The next generation is going in there soon.

I know I've been slacking on the veg room pics, but they are coming, I promise. If I don't get them up by 2pm today I'll do it for sure when they wake up at 8.

 

[Jerry Garcia]

So I finally had a few minutes this morning to grab some veg pics. I've decided to limit my vegging plants to 8 total, as that is the number of black pots I can fit in a single potting tray. And, I can fit 8 white pots in my flower room, so it just works out. As a result, I went ahead and moved the untopped Blue Cheese A clone over to flower yesterday, giving me 3 plants currently in flower.

We'll start with an in-situ shot. They are much happier in the black pots than those little cups...

Here are the 4 newest members of the family.

Another view.

Here's the LSD, growing 4 strong main cola's.

Next, the OG Kush. She's been wonky since day 1, but still growing...if you can call it that. I'm going to start a new OG seed whenever I get to the next round...hopefully this was just a mutant.

Blue Widow. A very hearty plant, nice node spacing and a thick stalk. Gonna be taking a clone or two of this girl for sure.

The Chiesel. Not as strong as the Blue widow, but doing well nonetheless. Should be a fun strain!

Next, the clones.

One of the Fimmed Blue Cheese B. This particular strain is proving very sensitive to nutrients...even organics...

Third generation PPP clone. This plant just rocks! Except it wants to flower all the time...just VEG for pete's sake.

Fimmed Blue Cheese A clone. The untopped clone is in flower. I'm probably going to let this phenotype go by the wayside and keep BCB. The yield for this plant just isn't comparable to that of BCB, and so far the quality appears the same. I'll make a final judgment after the original buds are cured.

Finally, the last Blue Cheese B clone. Much bigger, but a little curly...as I said, these are a sensitive pheno, but the yield is better than BCA.

That's it. Unfortunately, both tops I was trying to clone failed. Not sure why...except cloning from established tops is always more difficult than cloning from the lowest possible branches. I'm not worried about it though...I don't really care to keep this particular OG pheno (I have 5 other seeds) and I'll get a clone of the LSD when I'm ready.

As for the Thai Super Skunk...she is really starting to fatten up the buds. So much so that the supercropped branch can no longer support it's own weight. Even with stakes it hangs almost as low as the pot! I'm not thinking this strain will take the full 14 weeks though...it's been about 10 so far. I gave her what will possibly be her last feeding this morning...I'll check the trichs in the next few days and get a better grip of where she is exactly in her maturation.

 

[SnowWhite]

very nice mate....good healthy stock you got there!

 

[hemphopper]

Nice Jerry! The LSD, did you do the Uncle Ben's technique for 4 main colas?? Looking very good!

Have Fun,

 

[Jerry Garcia]

Nice Jerry! The LSD, did you do the Uncle Ben's technique for 4 main colas?? Looking very good!

Have Fun,

Yes, I believe I topped above the second true node as Uncle Ben indicates in his thread. I've tried a couple other times and the results weren't anywhere near as uniform as this. I'm very happy with the way it turned out.

 

[naorb]

hey man hope all is going well.
everything seems great by u... hows the thai going

 

[warisnottheanswer]

yeeeea! the next generation of dankness!

 

[Jerry Garcia]

Naorb...things are going swimmingly I suppose. Getting the itch to move some plants back into the flower room though. The Thai Super Skunk seems to be the only thing limiting my plans. The buds are so heavy now they are causing problems. I'll get some pics up tonight when they awaken.

war...the next generation of dankness is indeed upon us. T-minus very soon until some plants get moved to flower and the fun begins again!

 

[hemphopper]

Hi Jerry,
This thread has been a real inspiration to me. I'm really impressed by your use of space. My wife says no more plants for a while as I grew enough last go round that we'll be high for a long time, LOL. However I gotta plan the next grow. Would you when you have a chance tell me the dimensions of the pots you use. I did my whole grow in 3 gallon grow bags from beginning to end. I'm thinking that vegging in smaller pots and then transplanting to larger for flower might be better than what I did. My apologies for asking if you already layed this out but I'd like to know as you are really getting a lot out of your space. Also, how much square footage do you light up with your 400 HPS? I haven't gotten one yet but I'm looking at doing so for next grow. Thanks for sharing with us all!

H

 

[Jerry Garcia]

Hi Jerry,
This thread has been a real inspiration to me. I'm really impressed by your use of space. My wife says no more plants for a while as I grew enough last go round that we'll be high for a long time, LOL. However I gotta plan the next grow. Would you when you have a chance tell me the dimensions of the pots you use. I did my whole grow in 3 gallon grow bags from beginning to end. I'm thinking that vegging in smaller pots and then transplanting to larger for flower might be better than what I did. My apologies for asking if you already layed this out but I'd like to know as you are really getting a lot out of your space. Also, how much square footage do you light up with your 400 HPS? I haven't gotten one yet but I'm looking at doing so for next grow. Thanks for sharing with us all!

H

Well HH, to start I only use square pots, as they maximize my limited available space (except for the 24oz solo cups I use to germinate/clone...for these I like the 24oz clear variety because they are considerably deeper than the red plastic 16oz beer cups). The black pots I use are 5" square at the top and 6" deep. I like them because I can fit 8 into my potting tray and put the tray directly on top of my $10 thrift store bookshelf that is my veg area.

The flowering pots I use are 7" square at the top and 9" deep. Again, I like these because I can fit 8 perfectly into my flower room. And I don't really have the room for larger plants (larger pots=larger plants, or so they say...) so these work fine. They do make a slightly larger version of the white pots, something like 8 or 9" square on top and probably a little deeper. If you've got the space and the desire to grow some monsters, go for it.

As far as square footage with my HPS...the flower room is 30" deep (2.5') and 17" wide (1.42'), which comes out to a little over 3.5 feet square. Way less than I wish I had. I totally recommend getting yourself an HPS! That fluoro setup you've got should work great for vegging.

The biggest difference for me though is having a separate veg (and clone) and flower space. It really opens up your options and makes a perpetual grow (without auto's) possible.

So HH I hope that all helps. Never to early to start planning your next (perpetual) grow!

 

[theloadeddragon]

pot size does not necessarily determine plant size...... had 4' bushy plants in 1 gal pots