Comparative Grow – Seedstockers | The Vault
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JimmiP
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Everything is going good in the hoop house known as, "Parts Unknown!". The first Sherbet plant has been supercropped so many times it's just getting ridiculous. Each time I crack the main she stands it back up by morning. So it's time to tie her down. 
You may notice the cuttings in the foreground. I had to remove those when she was set in the planter. So I just shoved a few in the soil and they rooted. So I will scoop them out and save the clones.
The second is cooperating a little more when it comes to the supercropping. She still tries to stand back up too. But it is slower to right itself and the lower branches are beefing up. The trellising isn't in yet, but will be soon. After it's in, I will have a little better control over the growth.
Please excuse the straw bale in the photo. We have more vegetables going in and just left the bale in for those.
And here's a shot of the Quick Flowering THC that I won last year from the great folks from The Vault!
I have to say this plant is way more impressive than I thought it would be. Thanks for the seeds!
And speaking of free seeds from The Vault, last year I started a second Passion Fruit plant for the previous comparative grow. At harvest time though, I had more pot than I could get trimed so I never bothered flowering her. I insisted decided to torture it and see how bad a plant could be treated and then brought back. It got to over six feet tall in a 1.7 gallon plastic pot and has had spider mites, been allowed to get way too dry,and was down to just a few barely green leaves. Here she is now
She got planted deep and I even braided some of her main branches just for fun.
Since I showed the other four and I'm allowed five here's one of our own creations, The Big Green Bastard.
You may notice the cuttings in the foreground. I had to remove those when she was set in the planter. So I just shoved a few in the soil and they rooted. So I will scoop them out and save the clones.
The second is cooperating a little more when it comes to the supercropping. She still tries to stand back up too. But it is slower to right itself and the lower branches are beefing up. The trellising isn't in yet, but will be soon. After it's in, I will have a little better control over the growth.
Please excuse the straw bale in the photo. We have more vegetables going in and just left the bale in for those.
And here's a shot of the Quick Flowering THC that I won last year from the great folks from The Vault!
I have to say this plant is way more impressive than I thought it would be. Thanks for the seeds!
And speaking of free seeds from The Vault, last year I started a second Passion Fruit plant for the previous comparative grow. At harvest time though, I had more pot than I could get trimed so I never bothered flowering her. I insisted decided to torture it and see how bad a plant could be treated and then brought back. It got to over six feet tall in a 1.7 gallon plastic pot and has had spider mites, been allowed to get way too dry,and was down to just a few barely green leaves. Here she is now
She got planted deep and I even braided some of her main branches just for fun.
Since I showed the other four and I'm allowed five here's one of our own creations, The Big Green Bastard.
SpawnOfVader
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So for everyone that's already harvested- how are you feeling about it?
Mine's still sitting at 61 RH and 5 months into the cure it's SMOOTH... some fruitiness but not as much as I would have guessed based on the crazy overpowering mango smell it had when it was growing. Down to my last ~1/3 lb or so.
Nice and sticky.... definitely a solid body high without being a straight up couch lock.
Mine's still sitting at 61 RH and 5 months into the cure it's SMOOTH... some fruitiness but not as much as I would have guessed based on the crazy overpowering mango smell it had when it was growing. Down to my last ~1/3 lb or so.
Nice and sticky.... definitely a solid body high without being a straight up couch lock.
JimmiP
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Getting bigger and starting to flower pretty strongly. I wish they could've held out a little longer and grew some more. There hasn't even been any noticeable stretch, just a rapid fattening of everything. But they still have some more time to go and definitely are going to have some nice buds.. 
We'll see what happens in the end.
We'll see what happens in the end.
JimmiP
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Well , I take back that remark about them not having a noticeable stretch.
I was finally getting around to trellising the sides and spreading them out more yesterday when I took the last picture. This morning when I opened the door there was a very noticeable difference in one of them And a slight difference in the other. So.the stretching seems to have begun.
I will get some new pics tomorrow or the next day. Woo-hoo! It's getting packed inside of there.
I was finally getting around to trellising the sides and spreading them out more yesterday when I took the last picture. This morning when I opened the door there was a very noticeable difference in one of them And a slight difference in the other. So.the stretching seems to have begun.
I will get some new pics tomorrow or the next day. Woo-hoo! It's getting packed inside of there.
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JimmiP
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Errrggggg! I hate admitting this but bud rot has entered the equation... i've had to remove several nice buds including the top of the first one in the door. And what really sucks is that I have been treating these plants their entire lives. I have upped my game and added a biological called Cease to my IPM and am hoping for the best.
Looking back through the thread I see I'm not the only one. And I send my condolences out to anyone else that had issues. At least I caught it early enough to do some good.
I just removed the effected areas and put them all into a strong bath of potassium bicarbonate to get rid of any remaining spores. It should make for an interesting smelling fire in the backyard tonight...
Looking back through the thread I see I'm not the only one. And I send my condolences out to anyone else that had issues. At least I caught it early enough to do some good.
I just removed the effected areas and put them all into a strong bath of potassium bicarbonate to get rid of any remaining spores. It should make for an interesting smelling fire in the backyard tonight...
JimmiP
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Well today is not going well for the two Sherbet plants. I walked in and it was worse. It was in every branch. So to protect the other plants that just started flowering, the Sherbet had to go.
I sprayed them with alcohol, cut them and washed them in a strong potassium bicarbonate bath. Then h2o2. Then water and hung them up to dry in the breeze.
Anything salvageable will either be dried or frozen for hash. The rest is campfire bound.
I have a few clones left and may fire one off indoors soon... Now to go spray cease fungicide on the other 3 again.
It's been fun.
Good luck friends!
I sprayed them with alcohol, cut them and washed them in a strong potassium bicarbonate bath. Then h2o2. Then water and hung them up to dry in the breeze.
Anything salvageable will either be dried or frozen for hash. The rest is campfire bound.
I have a few clones left and may fire one off indoors soon... Now to go spray cease fungicide on the other 3 again.
It's been fun.
Good luck friends!
JimmiP
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But wait!!! Remember the small branches I pruned when dropping the first plant in the planter? Well I never did get them transferred out of there. And they are still doing alright, lol! They took quite a beating from all the alcohol I used to kill spores before cutting the large plant but survived and have no botrytis... 
Lol, who woulda thunk it?
Lol, who woulda thunk it?
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TurboTokes
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I had great success with my Sherberts outdoors, I believe I still have one seed left in the fridge
JimmiP
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That's sweet! I should also note that my harvest from the two outdoor Sherbet plants was better than I thought it would be. After getting rid of any infected bud there was still a considerable amount of great stuff left. So it was still a good run for them. They came down a few weeks before I would have liked but the smoke is still great!
I have three seeds left that I will grow indoors, in a vertical trellis, eventually.
Thanks again to everyone who participated in this comparative grow. These things are a lot of fun. Also thanks to the good people at The Vault Cannabis Seed Store for putting these things on! You people are awesome!