I used Subcool's Super Soil (Happy Frog Base) recipe for my first grow. Vortex X 2, BCBD The Purps, GHS Trainwreck, Super Lemon Haze X 2, Tangerine Dream X 2. All vegged 18/6 partly with 225 T5 Fluoros and 1 to 2 weeks 1000W HPS (blew my Metal Halide out) total time 59 days, then 12/12.
Just Harvested The Purps and Vortex. Out of 3 Vortex seeds, 2 were female and luckily I got two different phenos. I believe got one "Lemonade" pheno and one deeply resinous super-crystal "Apollo-13" pheno. The lemonade pheno was taken to day 59 and the Apollo-13 pheno at day 62 which was when they both showed 90-100% cloudy trichomes. I grew them in 7 gallon nursery containers and I had to deal with heat stress and overcrowding. I also did some pre-harvest "sampling", lol. Despite that I so far yielded 41.1g of Lemonade and 37g of Apollo-13 dry and held between 61-65 percent RH with a Bovida 65 humidipak. I have about another approximately 14g of the Apollo-13 pheno almost finished drying. So considering 8 plants, I'm pleased for my first try.
So far even less than a week post harvest they are super smooth and slowly gaining flavor and aroma. Both phenos are very potent, but I would say the Apollo-13 pheno is noticibly more potent. Excellent sativa-dominant, great high. The scissor hash is incredible and I plan on making some dry-ice hash with the sugar leaves I kept. The Lemonade pheno makes me extremely horny. I would definitely say it has aphrodisiac qualities.
The Vortex plants were very healthy despite heat stress and overcrowding, they never hermied. The shade leaves have a beautiful rhubarb-coloured stem, but the colas needed support from above as the branches are very flimsy. I topped them twice and got 4 nice sets of upper growth. The lower growth is amazingly substantial and only the lowest branch had popcorn budsites. I'm pleased with the supersoil, but I did feel that I should've went with 3/4 level instead of 1/2 on my Super Lemon Haze and Tangerine Dream. I've been amending with periodic feedings of Bud Candy, FF Cha Ching, FF Big Bloom and Demerara Sugar and Pro-Tekt during heat stress. Other than that, just plain tap water.
Thumbs up for a fairly easy first grow. All organic, smooth and tasty as can be. I have a very high tolerance and I can say that Vortex is one of the most potent strains I've tried thus far and cut right through with just 1 to 3 hits. Also a nice upper-body high- imagine a vortex sucking your mind upward and backward from your shoulders up. Great auditory enhancement and closed-eyed visuals. Kind of stuff that makes you talk to yourself in front of the mirror and super intense permagrin. Very little paranoia.
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