Bodhi TK x Iraq testers, led and organic soil grow

Well time for another journal of some Bodhi testers. This is starting a bit later as I wanted them to get some legs on them. I put down 7 seeds using the paper towel method in a sandwich bag on a router. All 7 had tails within 48 hrs.
These are grown in dirt. A bit about the mix I use is recycled soil along with promix hp. Amendments would be comparable to a Coot style. I tweak it a bit to buffer the soil to be a bit more acidic.
I use bridgelux gen 2 strips in 4k and 3.5k for veg. In flower they will be under two 3.5k and one 4k 304 qb panel. I have recently found that running the 240H 2100B driver at or near full power is way too much so I will start with the pot at around half.
So here we go. Backtracking to when these began life 9-5-19. Thank you Bodhi family for the opportunity to grow these!

A couple weeks after hitting the dirt on 9-19.

Subbed . Can I get background on the Iraq? Thanks

Joedank said:

Subbed . Can I get background on the Iraq? Thanks

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I could be off but I think I read somewhere that the Iraq was from the same line Strayfox uses in his crosses. The pics and descriptions I have seen of his Iraq crosses look outstanding.

Another week or so along and they were fed a ewc kelp tea with biosis microbials added at the end. They were topped once a few days back.

Just about caught up here. Pics from today 10-20. They grew a ton and are about to be transplanted. It looks like 3 males for sure and 4 females. One of the females might be male, we shall see. I attempt to sex them before that final transplant as there is no sense in transplanting a male that is getting the chop anyways. Here they are prior to transplant.
First the males. I chopped one of the boys before thinking about documenting them first. Honestly they all share similar structure to the ladies in height and structure.

And the ladies.

Here we are all transplanted and hoping that all these really are ladies. #2 in the back right was always a bit runty and is still a bit shorter. 3 and 5 on the left have some promising stank. A bit skunky and acrid on a stem rub. They will get a couple weeks to chill in their new shoes and then on to flower. The soil used in the transplant is mostly recycled soil re amended with glacial rock dust, crab meal, a bit of gypsum and kelp meal.

I wish there was more to say about adjusting this or that but with good organic soil there isn't much to do but water. And in the veg space I am only running about 100 watts of bridgelux strips which isn't too much or too little. Hopefully I didn't jinx it by saying that but outside of a bit of leaf canoeing right after transplant things are going pretty well. It has been a long road getting there though between soil and lighting. There was a period where I was giving my tiny grows way too much light. 3 qb 304's in the flower space were toasting the leaves pretty good. Since dialing it back half way all has been well. I also lightened my soil mix a bit too. Just keep tweaking things and learning!
Once I get the lethal jack x goji out of there I can start the flowering of these lovely ladies. I am starting to notice some pretty big differences in structure as you can see. One is pretty lanky and the runty one is healthy but pretty stocky with the others being somewhere in the middle. Also starting to get a bit loud now with musky, skunky scents. Need to hurry it up though as they grew a few inches in the last week!

Its been a good 15 days since the last update but they went to flower pretty quick after the last post. Soooo can anyone say streeeetch?! There are two pheno's that I can see clearly. One pheno is real tall, not lanky though. In fact the two tall girls are real chonkers. Thick massive branches with tight nodes at the top. The other two are of a shorter pheno that still stretched a bit. I think @reallybigjesusfreak mentioned TK having some stretch but it surprised me a bit. I usually do the 2 months of veg that Bodhi used to recommend on testers. And the stank, its there. As soon as the flower nodes started setting the smell when opening the tent was in my face. I have to say I am getting really excited about these!
Here are a few pics of them now a couple weeks since 12/12. There are two that really stand out with some serious stank when you brush up against them. 1 is of the shorter pheno and the other is a tall girl.

Nice! this one was on my list too, they look super happy! taggin along for this one

HamNEggs said:

Its been a good 15 days since the last update but they went to flower pretty quick after the last post. Soooo can anyone say streeeetch?! There are two pheno's that I can see clearly. One pheno is real tall, not lanky though. In fact the two tall girls are real chonkers. Thick massive branches with tight nodes at the top. The other two are of a shorter pheno that still stretched a bit. I think @reallybigjesusfreak mentioned TK having some stretch but it surprised me a bit. I usually do the 2 months of veg that Bodhi used to recommend on testers. And the stank, its there. As soon as the flower nodes started setting the smell when opening the tent was in my face. I have to say I am getting really excited about these!
Here are a few pics of them now a couple weeks since 12/12. There are two that really stand out with some serious stank when you brush up against them. 1 is of the shorter pheno and the other is a tall girl. View attachment 4421720View attachment 4421721View attachment 4421722View attachment 4421723

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Nah wasnt me doggy, I’ve never grown TK, only mango niche x Iraqi, and that plant stayed pretty compact. I would guess Iraqi doesn’t stretch a ton based on its region but that’s purely my speculation based on experience. I’d like to do more research. Either way, I’ll try to find the old report and see if there’s any info that may help you. Plants are looking happy and healthy tho!

First off happy turkey day!
All the stretching is done. Easily doubled in size, I had to snip the tops from a couple mains. It pained me to do so but with it just being me its fine. I don't care much about quantity. If these make it to production I would say trimming and bondage is a must. Truly if I could go back I would have been way more aggressive about trimming and training. These require it.
So that out of the way I have only added a little bit of cal mag every other watering. The ladies seem pretty ok and not overly sensitive to mildy hot soil. Frost is starting to kick in on the nodes. They still have that good skunky smell, a little bud squeeze gives off a floral sweet scent. This is the same on all 4. Here are some pics of where we are.

Small update. Kind of in that phase where the flowers are set and starting to put on some frost. The smells are changing as flowering progresses. Still have a nice sour skunk smell from afar but man get up on those flowers and its like pungent dead something. Lots of nose hair curling sour musk. The flowers are sweet now, lite floral scent to the touch. I gave them one normal dose of cal mag but other than that just water. This week they will get a nutrient tea as its usually about when I do.
The flowers are looking stellar for not being too far along. As you can see the frost on these is real. Definitely more quality over quantity. By my count this is about 6 weeks since flip and these took about a couple weeks to flower set and stretch lasted a good 3 weeks.

Small update with some pics. Sour notes that I detect are stronger now. It interests me that the same sour smell is also tied to the skunk smell. Pretty cool to see how the smell can mature and change to something new but also be similar if that makes sense. A little burnt plastic and sweet smells are buried in these if you touch the resin heads. I really like how these are turning out. The taller girls are a bit more nute sensitive but have some nice colors. I have been adding a small amount of cal-mag every other watering.

Yellowing on larger fans started a week or so ago and some trimming of the bad ones has taken place. I don't do that much trimming unless it impedes light, air flow or the leaves are just plain dead. Just posting these to give an idea of the general structure of the 4 females I am growing. 2 ultra stretchers and two shorter girls. In terms of development they still are pushing fresh pistils though most of the trichomes are moving toward cloudy. Solid rock hard compact flowers. I think they need another 2 weeks or so which will put them at about 8 weeks since flower set, 10 or so weeks from flip. We will see?
I hope these smoke and are as awesome as they smell. In this first pic is one of the tall girls. A bud squeeze is kinda like a musky, sour pine muffin. All that in one flower, quite complex. The other tall lady is similar without the sweet back end. The two shorter females are skunky, acrid and sour with a little sweet back end to them. So without any more delay!

Close up flower shots.

While all of ladies are frosty this one should have been cloned. After fishing around to take a couple pictures (excuse the ugly phone camera) I have noted this one has some floral, sweet scent. It is a deep sweet smell, like flowers and brown sugar. Pretty cool!

Well #2 got the chop tonight. She was showing cloudy which is where I like them. Also I was starting to find a few aphids. Those little fuckers showed up on my last grow and they proved to be a tough pest to get rid of. I just don't like spraying soap or anything near the flowers after a certain point. I will harvest and get some pics up as I go. So here we are with #2 at 10 weeks from flip. My favorite of the bunch. She has the oily, sour, sugar stench with loads of frost.

Warning these won't be pretty. This is #3, one of the lanky ones. If this plant had been aggressively trained or pruned I think it would do fine. As a result she stretched like mad. Early on there had been a few aphids which thought were knocked out with soaps. A few must have survived on her to the point that in the last week there were spots with a few colonies of them. All her material went to the freezer for bubble later. She has similar flower structure, a bit smaller with similar smell of oil, slightly sour and skunky. I forgot to mention this is one of the two that grew into the lights. The end result was that anywhere near the lights she was producing fresh pistils all the way till the end. She did have a nanner or two but with the stress I am not surprised. Luckily they showed up at the end.

This is #5. Same stretchy pheno. I bent some of her branches and snipped a few tops to keep her from growing into the lights but she just kept on going. Like I said before I think being more diligent about this would have probably improved the outcome. I do think this plant could go longer but just over 10 weeks has her with cloudy trichs on most of the flower. Only the parts that are too close to the lights seem to keep pushing new pistils. Smell is that heavy oil, deep funky socks.