Mandala Seeds Hashberry and Beyond the Brain Grow

[yankeegreen]

Thanks Puff, appreciate the kind words. I have been very impressed by the BTB colas so far and should be a good yield. Now that I know I have plenty of headroom I will veg them longer next time and top less aggressively. Agree completely on the Hashberry. I have her right in front of one of the fans so she gets hit hard and rotating her every couple days. I've looked but there really is nowhere to prune as she is almost all bud! I guess that's something of a good problem but I'll definitely have to watch her closely in the last few weeks here as the buds bulk up!

 

[eastcoastmo]

Thanks EC. The BTBs aren't super tall but have great bud structure and lots of trichs at this stage of the game. Probably going to need to stake the mains soon!

Iiixcillint smithers, never a bad thing having to stake them up means you some heavy buds!!

 

[yankeegreen]

Iiixcillint smithers, never a bad thing having to stake them up means you some heavy buds!!

Right on brother!

 

[yankeegreen]

Ok, got an update on the Hashberry from the first run. She is going into her last couple weeks of flower and is starting to really bulk up and is oozing resin under the canopy, not to mention the frost spreading on top!



Hey, how'd that last one sneak in there? Ok, full disclosure. I strategically pruned two small branches from the way bottom of "The Bush" to open up some air flow. As you can see from the side shots it's a twisted, gooey jungle in there. Getting a little concerned about her becoming susceptible to mold even though the flower room is in the range of ~68-74F and 50-63% rh. She is in front of an oscillating fan and I am thinking about throwing in another 6" fan to blow right up her skirt. Anyway, this personal sacrifice means I will have a little early smoke in a few days to sample!

 

[eastcoastmo]

Yankee that looks dank as fuck She'll give you some knockout smoke!!

 

[yankeegreen]

Thought I'd throw out an update on where i'm at with producing potential Mums for the Hashberry & Beyond the Brain strains. I took multiple cuttings from all the plants for both runs and binned the males clones once they were properly sexed. For the first run, that left cuttings for 2 BTBs (one short, one tall) but none for the HB (The Bush). For the second run, I got cuttings for 1 BTB and 3 HBs (at least two, maybe three phenos). Once rooted and allowed to grow a bit I took the healthiest most vigorous one as the candidate Mum and transplanted to a 3" square pot. The plan is to whittle these down to a single HB & BTB Mum once I harvest dry, cure and had time to decide which ones are best overall considering size, health throughout lifespan, flower time, yield, taste and of course, high.

So here's what I've got to date for the BTBs and HBs



Extra clones that I may be vegging soon



One special cutting is showing a rare 3 leaf-per-node structure

 

[KushCanuck]

Took me a while to navigate over Yankee, haha, but I made it and looks great over here. HB has always intruiged me, you train to keep it so short or short veg? Looks wicked brother, frosty and lovely. I`ll be subbed in the corner with y`all :bigjoint

KC

 

[yankeegreen]

Took me a while to navigate over Yankee, haha, but I made it and looks great over here. HB has always intruiged me, you train to keep it so short or short veg? Looks wicked brother, frosty and lovely. I`ll be subbed in the corner with y`all :bigjoint

KC

Plenty of room on this bus, KC - welcome. The hashberry - better known as "The Bush" is a bit of a freak. She was the only female out of the first five regular seeds. She vegged for ~ 5 weeks, topped once and was the same height she is now when she went into flower! Didn't grow a lick vertical! She is incredibly dense and I had to open her up a tad by pruning off two tiny branches on the bottom, and have a small 6" fan blowing directly up her stem for the last couple weeks til harvest. I have three other HBs in flower now with at least two different phenos, two of which were untopped and 3-4x as tall and a third which I attempted to mainline but gave up vertical growth after the initial top and train.

Hashberry pseudo-smoke teaser:
On a side note, I sampled her last night by smoking half a bowl of ~3 weeks premature bud. I started with one good pull and the smoke was still noticeably green, but very smooth - not as heavy as I was expecting. Started with a clear, heady high for about 10-15 mins, then the body stone began to take over, starting at the chest and radiating outward. After about 30 mins I was in a peaceful dreamy place and decided to take another pull off of the pipe. Soon after that the couch-lock kicked in and I was blissfully content to ride it out. Initial read is tremendous on this strain/pheno and hopeful it will only improve to harvest - though it could be a real narco high if I let it go too long!

 

[puffdatchronic]

Awsome yankee, real happy for you ,that sounds killer.

 

[brewer7]

Looking awesome Yankee!

 

[yankeegreen]

Looking awesome Yankee!

Awsome yankee, real happy for you ,that sounds killer.

Thanks guys! You've both pulled in some nice harvests, only hope to come close!

 

[eastcoastmo]

God damn, why can't i give rep yet!! Grrr!

 

[yankeegreen]

Apologies but I am about a half week behind on my update. Had most of the BTBs and HBs out for a feeding and overall inspection last night so I snapped some pics of them all.

The tall BTB has not fully recovered from her deficiency but it has been halted. At this stage of the game I'm just going to continue with normal feedings and not stress any more over her drama. Most of her fan leaves are yellow/green and all of her sugar leaves are a healthy green. Her two dominant and two secondary colas are continuing to fill out vertically and also adding girth. She has quite a few 2-3 gram size nugs around the middle and a bunch of popcorn buds at the bottom. Initial guess on yield dry is ~2-3 zips.



The shorter BTB is looking fat (phat)! Some of her bottom fan leaves are starting to yellow a bit but most are a dark green. Her indica traits are definitely dominating at this point with long, fat, dense colas and almost no popcorn. One of her two main colas is almost 50% larger than the other. Her two secondary colas are quite a bit smaller followed by a bunch of slightly smaller say 3-5 gram nugs and a few smaller. Initial yield estimate 3+ ozs.



The Hashberry has been focusing energy on the four main colas. They continue to slowly gain vertical height off of the canopy and are incredibly dense and resinous. There are probably another 4-6 full branches under the canopy with equally dense bud. I am guessing she will be ready within the next two weeks so this feeding I gave her only a quarter of her nutrients. I will switch to just water til harvest. Really difficult to get a read on potential yield but I am going to estimate 1.5-2.5 ozs but that is pretty shaky at best.



As far as the next gen, I am very happy with how the BTB is coming along. She is in her 4th/5th week of flower and has shown very little nutrient issues (adjustments made proactively based on experience with the first two), at least none that can't be handled with minor tweaks on next feeding. The extra top of the four main colas is proving to be effective with more even distribution of bud development. So far so good!



The taller of the Hashberrys is a bit of a sickly plant. She grew tall and somewhat spindly and sparse for an indica dom and has not responded well to nutes/nute adjustments. She has a place in the flower room for now, but if she doesn't start producing like her sisters she will be seeing an early retirement to make room for new blood. Her cuttings are showing the same stretchy behavior and will be binned soon.



The medium sized Hashberry - Angel - is my new favorite (don't tell the others). She is filling out very nicely and building a monster main cola starting about half-way down her main stem. Under the canopy she is developing quite a bit of resin and is showing similar density at the top as The Bush, though more open due to her height. With the exception of a few spots on a couple leaves and a couple with a hint of yellow she is a near model plant.



I know that was a long post so thanks for your support and sticking with it!

Cheers

 

[KushCanuck]

Knew you`d be back with a nice update dude, great post! BTB looks icey man, got me thinking ... haha. Thought of adding sugars or silicate at this point for bulkening? Nice job on the stable mate,

KC

 

[yankeegreen]

Knew you`d be back with a nice update dude, great post! BTB looks icey man, got me thinking ... haha. Thought of adding sugars or silicate at this point for bulkening? Nice job on the stable mate,

KC

Next time I'll take the bud pics from the top to reveal they're frosted goodness, but yes they are getting icy! I have been supplementing with molasses for the past couple of weeks and I do think it makes a difference in late flower! Probably some extra silica from the dandelion extract I added to their tea but nothing more than that.

Too bad you're not local - I'd be glad to give you some cuts!

 

[Necron99]

Your grow is looking great Yankeegreen!

I'm really glad to see the BTB. I planted 5 seeds, got 4 males and 1 female and she has only been flowering for a weeks so I am really interested in seeing your harvest results. I'll be keeping an eye on your progress.

 

[yankeegreen]

Your grow is looking great Yankeegreen!

I'm really glad to see the BTB. I planted 5 seeds, got 4 males and 1 female and she has only been flowering for a weeks so I am really interested in seeing your harvest results. I'll be keeping an eye on your progress.

Glad to have you along for the ride necron!

I found the BTBs need a lot more N in the first few weeks of flower than most of the strains I have grown even though the stretch was moderate. Aside from that and a deficiency of Ca/Mg ~6th week it has been a good grow. I kept these girls on the short side (will veg longer and top less aggressively next time) but should still see a pretty big yield. I have a third BTB which is about 3 weeks behind the first two which has definitely benefited from the experience.

Feel free to post/pm any questions you might have along the way and I'll be glad to help out if I can.

 

[yankeegreen]

Well guys the first harvest on my Mandala grow is in the books. I chopped and trimmed The Bush last night at 63 days from first pistils in flower. She finished at 12" tall and 13" wide and yielded six branches (two bottom-most branches pruned over the last two weeks). As expected, the colas are short but incredibly dense and range in wet weight from ~30-70 grams with total wet weight of 258 grams. That should yield ~2 zips - not bad for such a compact plant and based on the quality of the quick dry/cure of the first branch should be some high quality, knock-down smoke!



I'd like to pass the virtual bong around to all you guys who have been sharing this journey. Stay tuned for the BTB harvests over the next couple/few weeks!

 

[KushCanuck]

Excellent Yankee, I`ll puff, puff, pass to that . After your BTB harvest you should have a nice nug pile for yourself mate,

KC

 

[puffdatchronic]

very nice man, I was just starting to think you had been growing them for what seemed like ages.