cali connection blackwater...boo!

RedMan420 said:

I do grow for a living and when you grow for a living you setup a testing room .

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Yep. When your income depends on it you test out every strain before trying it in your main room. Not just for the sake of weeding out bad genetics, but to see how the plant behaves and see what other strains would be compatible to grow in the same room. Anyone who's throwing untested genetics into a $20k crop isn't going to last long.

fuck! I just read this entire thread hoping to find some reviews for blackwater.

fail....

Anyone have any pics? Can anyone tell me what kind of yields to expect (grams per watt)? Slow vegger/fast vegger? Potency?

I have four females 5 weeks into flower...4 phenos ...one pheno blows,grows like a male ...one pheno. Looks great ...the other two are ok...will post a couple pix n review in this thread in 4 weeks.

Dan..I got 2 keepers,rock buds,vegged medium speed,about 3 weeks,purple pheno is medium to tall,other is medium height..tastes and smells like spicey fruit so far,yeild I will know tomorro after final weigh,but won't be accurate due to seeds I suppose...nice plant so far but the male from the fem seeds has me wary about this strain,still gonna grow it oujt one more time before I make a decision..

This strain takes about 11 weeks to finish so don't count them out yet, especially the really lanky male lookin ones, that was the best pheno i got in the bunch, reallly sati dom.

rory420420 said:

Dan..I got 2 keepers,rock buds,vegged medium speed,about 3 weeks,purple pheno is medium to tall,other is medium height..tastes and smells like spicey fruit so far,yeild I will know tomorro after final weigh,but won't be accurate due to seeds I suppose...nice plant so far but the male from the fem seeds has me wary about this strain,still gonna grow it oujt one more time before I make a decision..

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Yeah! Please let me know how the yield goes.

Also, anyone know how it is potency wise?

Dan,potency gonna be a 7-8 out of ten..maybe a 9 after the cure..the purple pheno is delicious,the other wstill not tried..the purple had a slight coffee taste to it! It was just a lil bud that broke off the main stem..we just cut the main cila out and reveged her buds and all..and I took a clone..hope the other pheno is just as stony..I like the quality of a sativa dom but need a steady fast finish..on the other side of things I now have seeds to playwith..(blackwahterxblackwater)..and another bonus is the freebie I got of g13 lab purple haze is the DANK.And a couple nice purple phenos of sharksbreath and sleeskunk from dna...sry,off subject,but it was clone day and I was excited at looking at the drying harvest
But the puple blackwater pheno..gonna be good,doesn't look like it'll be a huge producer,but quality for sure..watch for hermies,etc..just my experience so...can't give a total dry weight cuz it still hanging..we got wet weather right now and humidity is a bitch....

Yea I let it go 11 weeks..I might be off a few days...the first look of basically salt crusted buds on the purple looked like a winter wonderland under the scope..extra enhanced by the white light..

I ran Blackwater last year in my 3x3 experiment tent with a few other things. I got them as janky cuts that took a little to get going and basically went straight into flower. Awesome smoke, super stony...very grapey but OG strength. Light purple. Better yield than regular og's so I would say average, nothing huge.

Blue widow was the best over all, so I didn't keep BW around. I would like to try it again cause it was so good to smoke. Would love to see if you get some going dan.

tags420 said:

I ran Blackwater last year in my 3x3 experiment tent with a few other things. I got them as janky cuts that took a little to get going and basically went straight into flower. Awesome smoke, super stony...very grapey but OG strength. Light purple. Better yield than regular og's so I would say average, nothing huge.

Blue widow was the best over all, so I didn't keep BW around. I would like to try it again cause it was so good to smoke. Would love to see if you get some going dan.

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The reason I'm asking here is because a friend of mine offered me a cutting of blackwater in a trade that he says is a very heavy yielder and that it nearly keeps up with blue dream. Think it's possible?

Dream is hard to keep up with... but could happen...you would just have to find the pheno if it exist. I had cuts from an unknown source, but have always wondered what I could stumble on in a couple packs of regs and did it full scale. I can see it doing better than when I grew it, but dream like yield is questionable. Definitely worth a try... can't be worse than all the cookies you went through.

Possible, I have one pheno that likes to be topped n tied...it is a bush...growing very similar to my jtr ...it should out yield the other three combined or close to it.

tags420 said:

can't be worse than all the cookies you went through.

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Lol. Indeed. All that running around and then didn't end up with a pheno I want to run hydro.

Oh well, at least I got a phenomenal pheno to run outdoors.

I'll give it a run. If it yields anything like what he claims it does it sounds like a keeper.

He's a pretty legit source, but I am still skeptical of his claims on this strain. Doesn't sound like too many other people ended up with phenos like he describes.

He rates the yield 9, flavor 8, potency 8-9, color 7, density 10

If so that's a beast of a pheno and I want it. I'm going to make the trade. Giving up Kushman's strawberry Cough in exchange.

Dan I say the purple/black pheno I got is great,and any apprehension I have is from the meal/hermie seeds and the way anyone negative dealt with my problem..I'm def revegging and cloned it in flowering,I hope it'll survive,that will be another testament to this strain,you can get a clone to unless your supplier has a bad clone,you're straight..I'm not sure it will yeild as big as you've been told but should under the right care ber a decent medium yeilder..I've got another run before my true verdict is out...

I ran a pack of Blackwater about 2 years ago. Found the best female, cloned and grew it out 2 more cycles. It never reached the level of a "keeper." Nice, but not exceptional. Nothing like the online description, lankier and lacking density. The only "keeper" I've had from Cali Connection is a Chem Valley #1 that is a powerful Indica looking, short, squat plant with almost no internode space and a diesel fuel odor.

Bigsky,I got a nice keeper..rock buds,a lil tall but not lanky..plus the black/purplecolore astounds me..id only grow out c.c. gear again if I got clones or had a few months downtime too grow out from seed again,but just their seeds..I could not again put my balls on the line with fems seeds in general,but with c.c.'s rep,and my experience,never again..but that being said I think I got some fire and trying to keep it.

The blackwater #2 is also gonna be a keeper..very sour kushy smell with a cherry note...and although everything is seeded,including other strains...everything looks sparkly!!! Nice potent harvest,not as heavy as id like..but most important I got.some sugar buds and a purple monster..looks like the reveg is working(new hairs on the remaining buds),plus the olther pheno is sugar coated also..and if anyone likes blackwater,they will def. like g13s purple haze...just as crystally,and a decent yeilder...

Yeah I'd never run a bunch of untested clones as my main crop. And not only hope they wouldn't herm, but that they would even be any good to smoke if they weren't herms... That's ameature hour, if you would do something dumb like that, I'd have to say you get what you deserve.

And you know of course one breeders seeds aren't going to herm anymore then another breeders seeds more or less. I mean why would they? Most all the seeds are all being made in a similar fashion, aren't they?... There are some exceptions I suppose, but what I said generally holds true I think.

And you keep hearing people say things like I'm galled with this guys breeding practices. Well, how is that when you don't really even know what they are for sure. And all the money these breeders make etc.

The consumer keeps equating, some seeds that they themselves made by mistake, as growers, like the fellow that started this thread. About how easy it is to make seeds etc. and the breeder should be ashamed etc.

Well, I'd say no! There's a big difference in just having your timeing down with pollinating at a specific time and a specifiec plant etc. As opposed to some random pollen you didn't want making some seeds all over for you. Not even mentioning the bigger part of actually marketing your product etc.