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

[Short Bus]

A little late this week, but life happens. Today I transplanted 5 GDPs into 1 gallon bags and moved em into the flower room, making a total of 3 rounds of plants in there. As 5 plants is a few less than usual, I used the extra space for the 2 GDPs that have been in there a while. So all the GDPs are in the center row, with the older, taller plants to the sides. I restocked the veg area with newly planted clones. A little more variety in this batch than I'd like, but it was just that kind of week. Next I cloned a bunch of OG and Blue Cheese and set em in the tray and cloner. All in a days work.

Veg room before.

Roots during the transplant.

A few of the clones that moved in today. The one with the uber-roots is the first OG to pop roots in the tray.

GDPs on the move.

New clones. There's new ones in the cloner as well, but no pics of those.

So we're now at week 4 for round 1, week 2 for round 2, and day 1 for round 3, with new plants in veg and in the clone chamber. I like that. CLone chamber... makes me feel all mad scienist and shit.

 

[Short Bus]

Now for the fun stuff. The 2 week plants have their little baby nugs, like these here...

And the 4 week girls, showing some real nice development...
Blue Cheese

Super Skunk

Jack the Ripper

GDPs

 

[djruiner]

*sticks out hands...pleading for a gdp clone....i got an 1/8th of that a few days ago...first weed ive had in a long time that got me high off a pea size amount.sucks you cant get this in seed form...after some research found that its a clone only strain.in cali might be easy as cake to get a clone of it...id have a better chance of having a truck driven by midgets,filled with kush, show up at my door and unload it then finding a clone of that here

 

[Short Bus]

Yeah, it sucks that some stuff just can't be had as seed. Kinda crazy that we're all out here growing little genetic replicas of one particular plant some dude grew. I'd love to see a pic of the original GDP. It'd be like seeing a queen alien laying eggs.

 

[Short Bus]

The latest bag of Blue Dream had a monster cola nug in it, so I figured I'd share.

Mmmmm...

 

[djruiner]

Yeah, it sucks that some stuff just can't be had as seed. Kinda crazy that we're all out here growing little genetic replicas of one particular plant some dude grew. I'd love to see a pic of the original GDP. It'd be like seeing a queen alien laying eggs.

indeed

 

[Short Bus]

Had to drag my girls out for a little photo op today. I started giving them Bloombastic on top of the Fox Farm stuff last week, and dropped the Big Bloom as I really can't see what the point of it is.

Here's the Blue Cheese.

And the Super Skunk. This is a 6 week strain on paper, but I'm gonna play it by eyeball.

Jack The Ripper, stinks like Lemon Pledge. Drools...

Casey Jones

Grandaddy Purps 1 and 2.

I'm liking what I'm seeing.

 

[Short Bus]

Here's the veg room. From now on, I'm keeping the veg girls in 1/2 gallon bags and upsizing em when they move. Way too crowded for the little ones.

The GDPs in the cloner have shown roots, and look good for having only been in there a week or so.

The OG Kush continues to sit there stubbornly refusing to root. I was lucky someone pointed out this was normal for this strain. So far, I've rooted 4 of them, 2 in the cloner and 2 in the tray, all with fat healthy roots in a pretty normal time frame. No idea what the variable is here since they all come from the same mom. Anyway, here's the tray clones:

I also cracked a couple of beans, and threw a few more in rockwool. Not real invested in these, just doing a little trial run before spending any real $ on good seeds. Got my eye on some Querkle... Here's the sprouts.

3 weeks till harvest #1. I'm getting pretty psyched about that. Not much else to report here at the moment. Looking at a nute change in the near future, I'll post on it if I go that way. SMoke on folks, and maybe lemme know you're there once in a while.

 

[Short Bus]

My Blue Cheese had BALLS. Fucking pissed. Damage report to follow.

 

[Short Bus]

Cuz it grows nuts and pollinates your whole damn room when you're not paying attention. I noticed a seed pod on the BC the night that last post went up, and when I started looking thru the branches for plant nads, a set fell right on my hand. So I chopped the sack-tucking POS plant and checked the damage. Casey got hit the worst, having pretty loose bud structure and being right next to the hermie. My Jack the Ripper has a few pods on it, but nothing I can't pick out during trim time. The Suunk and GDPs look pretty good, although they've got a pod or 2 as well. What sucks is that I won't know the full extent of damage for a couple weeks since seeds are still forming, and I have a whole other row of plants that'll probably be beaned up too. I read a journal a while back where the grower had fem Blue Cheese seeds go herm on him at about the same point. I figured since I had club clones, that kind of thing probably wouldn't be an issue. That'll learn me. Just run a search for Blue Cheese Herm and see how many hits you get. So anyway, I cut the hermie and harvested it 3 weeks early. Didn't get much, as it's early and the plants been busy growing seeds instead of nugs. Also had to kill 5 vegging Blue Cheese plants (lame!) and 10 newly rooted clones. Here's a few pics of the whole stupid experience.
Cannabis cojones:

Premie nugs.

Weak. However, this is a perpetual op and I'll be back to sensi in a month, so it's not as bad as it'd be for someone who'd have to start over at veg. A little shuffling this Sat should get things back to some kind of normal.

 

[Short Bus]

The BC was covered in bananas. They were fall ing out of it the whole time I trimmed, and again when I destemmed. Lesson learned, the hard way, but that's the way I learn. The thing yielded 11 grams of shitty-tasting hermie weed. Probly just gonna hash the whole thing. I also cut my Casey Jones cuz it was covered with seeds. Wrecked. Tastes delicious tho, I'm really impressed. Pure diesel taste and real stony for 5 1/2 weeks. I went over the rest and picked out the beans with sharp tip pruning scissors as well as I could. I hear seeds soak up nutrients while they form and shut down bud production, so I want em GONE. Making seeds out of that expensive ass Bloombastic crap is unacceptable. So here's a question for anyone reading this... Are the seeds worthless because of the hermie "father?" Or should I grow em out? There's a few mature ones.

 

[Short Bus]

After a lot of swearing and bitching, I started telling myself that if I push my remaining girls and make good use of the new free space, I can make up the loss of the 2 plants. They were definitely my lowest yielding plants anyhow, and their row was vey crowded.
Think good things and good things will happen. Here's the survivors.

Super Skunk

GDPs

Jack the Ripper

Also moved the latest round in there from veg, so I'm finally up to a full house. Finally all this patience is going to start paying off.

 

[djruiner]

you can send me the gdp's...ill take good care of them for ya muhahahaha

 

[Short Bus]

It's that time again... and it's starting to be real work. I moved 4 Supers and 2 Jack the Rippers into flower this time. The 2 Jacks are standing in for the 5 Blue Cheeses I put down the insinkerator this past week. Rrrrr. Anyway, 6 plants in, making it a full house as mentioned above. It's a beautiful thing. Harvests every 2 weeks from here on out.
I'm doing something new in the veg room. I gathered a bunch of little pots from around the house and I've been starting clones in those instead of going straight to grow bags. That way I can see which clones are stronger and select those for transplant. Today I went thru the recycling and grabbed some water and soda bottles and turned em into more litle pots, which are more space efficient. So here's the little ones.

Pre-transplant.

I picked out 4 OG Kush and 2 Mendos and moved em into 1/2 gallon grow bags. Been waiting to run the OG. Takes forever to root, but patience once again pays off. Heat helps.

Then I picked out some more clones to replace the transplants. I had a cloner full of GDP and a few OGs with roots in the tray.

Then I took some Super Skunk clones to fill the cloner and replace all the Blue Cheese clones I got rid of (those things are hardy, one popped roots in the trash) from the ones I was moving into flower, and some OGs to fill the tray. Bout 3 hours in at this point. I also added a row of mother plants to my veg area upstairs. So far there's a one each GDP, Sour Grape, JtR, and Casey Jones, plus OG mom downstairs under a CFL. So here's the final results.

Clone area

Veg area

Flower area

Until next time.

 

[Short Bus]

you can send me the gdp's...ill take good care of them for ya muhahahaha

Oh yeah, I know you would.

 

[KingIV20]

looking real good man. that GDP is some real chronic. you got quite the line up of plants on your hands, haha

 

[Short Bus]

Thanks man. It's been a juggling act, but it'll be worth it real soon. I love being able to ponder my smoke for the night. Makes me want one of those smoking jackets to blaze in, like Hef rocks. And a dope study to sit in. Or a grotto. No bunnies tho, the wife'd knock em out. I'm way too high for this early.

 

[KingIV20]

Thanks man. It's been a juggling act, but it'll be worth it real soon. I love being able to ponder my smoke for the night. Makes me want one of those smoking jackets to blaze in, like Hef rocks. And a dope study to sit in. Or a grotto. No bunnies tho, the wife'd knock em out. I'm way too high for this early.

hahahaah nice

 

[Short Bus]

As the Super's a 6 week strain, I took the ripe tops about a week back and left the bottom of the plant to finish up with my 8 week strains. The drying went quick (it's been hot around here) and it's been curing for 3 days now. Great smoke. The taste is less skunky and more floral than I expected, but still very distinct and pleasant. More importantly, it's mad stony. Sticks to the bag when I take it anywhere. Here's a few pics.

 

[Short Bus]

Started flushing the big girls this week. I also discovered that Cheryl Tiggs eats weed plants. Specifically, she likes the sugar leaves on my GDPs, as seen in these surveilance photos...

It was cute the first couple times. She wasn't taking no for an answer tho. Had to shut myself in.