LatteBroker
Active Member
Hey everyone, hope all is well with you and yours. I don't have the time to keep a detailed journal, but I did want to post a few pics of where I'm at right now, and also ask for some expert insight on one of the strains I'm currently growing.
This is my 4th grow, so I'm not a rookie, but I'm certainly no expert. There's been a lot of trial and error so far, but at least I've learned from the errors. What I do know is this: Nothing beats a big fat bowl of your own homegrown. Flat out, there's something incredibly gratifying about growing your own medicine. What a fantastic hobby.
I'm using a 600W digital ballast, with an air cooled hood that vents through a carbon filter into my attic. I turned the guest room closet into a greenhouse. I've been using a digilux bulb, and probably need to get another one for the next grow. Any bulb recommendations? The digilux are expensive as hell, so I'm thinking about the hortilux. Growing in 3.4 gallon air pots, with FFOF soil, and a smorgasbord of different nutes that I've picked up over the last year. Some of the stuff I got for free, so I've been mixing and matching brands. If anyone has any questions on the specific nutes, let me know and I'll break down my mix. One interesting nute I sprang for was the Yellow Bottle Ooze, which is used from weeks 4-6, and apparently messes with the plants growth hormones. Honestly, the verdict is still out on this stuff...this is the second grow I've used it on, and I'm not sure I can tell a difference. Anyone else used the Yellow Bottle line? If I noticed a major difference I'd buy the Phat, but I'm not sure I want to give them another $75 unless I can hear some positive testimonials from people that have used it.
I'm currently growing Chocolope, Dinafem Cheese, Paradise Seeds Delahaze, and Cali Connection Buddha Tahoe. We're at day 51 of 12/12.
Here's some pics:
Group shot, minus the Buddha Tahoe. From l to r, cheese, delahaze, chocolope.
Group shot, without the flash. I veg'd them for 3.5 weeks from seed, using CFL's. Topped them all once, and did some pretty extensive LST. All 3 of these plants responded well to training.
The 3 photos above is Chocolope. Lovely plant, with a smell that's really been developing over the past week. It does have a coffee/chocolate smell to it. It's been easy to grow, responded well to nutes, and the buds are really starting to fill out now. It's probably got another 2-3 weeks to go. Probably take her close to day 70. Can't wait to smoke this bud.
The 2 photos above are Delahaze. I'd heard and seen some great things about this strain online, with just some flat out massive buds being grown by numerous people. I had to give it a go, and so far it's living up to the hype. The buds are really starting to pack on the weight, and they're looking noticeably larger by the day. Plus, the buds are rock hard. It's been another easy plant to grow. If the smoke is as good as the reviews, this will probably be one that I grow again. I'm probably looking at taking this one to 9, maybe 10 weeks.
The 3 photos above are the Dinafem Cheese. Got this seed as a freebie a while back from Attitude, read some solid reviews on it, so decided to give her a go. I'm glad I did. Of these 3 strains, this will probably be the smallest yielder, but it looks like it's going to be dank as fuck. Very frosty, with rock hard buds. Very sticky (actually, all 3 of these strains are frosty and sticky). Has a unique smell, like a fruity pungent smell. This one's been easy to grow, hasn't given me any problems. I'm thinking that this one will be the first one to get chopped, possibly in 2 weeks. As you can see, it's covered in golf ball sized round buds.
That brings us to the last strain I've got growing, the Cali Connection Buddha Tahoe. This plant has been a royal pain in my ass. Things were looking great at first - I've never seen fan leaves as large as this plant had (emphasis on HAD, past tense). After switching to 12/12, everything went to shit. The enormous fan leaves started to yellow, and then just fell off. The rest of the leaves curled up like you see in the picture...I've tried a few different fixes, and none of them have worked. From what I can tell, the curled leaves are a response to too much moisture in the plant, or possibly heat stress. I'm pretty sure it's not heat stress, since the canopy sits at ~75-78 degrees. You can put your hand up against the glass on the reflector and it's barely hot to the touch. I have noticed that this plant requires MUCH less water than the others...I use weight of the pot to determine when to water, and this plant's pot stays heavy for much much longer. There shouldn't be any drainage issues, since I'm using air pots, and even added perlite to the FFOF. I've heavily backed off of the nutes with this one, and have been precisely PH'ing both the waterings and the feedings at ~6.5. That said, the buds are very frosty, and look dank dank dank, but they're just underdeveloped.
Does anyone else have experience with the Buddha Tahoe, or know what's up with the leaves curling like they are? I was so stoked when I got the pheno with the enormous leaves, since I'd read great things about it, but now...not so much. Definitely the lowest yielding plant of the 4 that I'm growing, and it seems more sensitive than my ex girlfriend, which is saying A LOT.
Okay, that's where we're at. I'll try to post some additional pics as we close in on the harvest, as well as a smoke report when that time comes. If you have any comments, advice, questions, please don't hesitate to chime in. I've learned pretty much everything I know about growing from these forums, so thanks to all of the experienced growers who take time to teach.
This is my 4th grow, so I'm not a rookie, but I'm certainly no expert. There's been a lot of trial and error so far, but at least I've learned from the errors. What I do know is this: Nothing beats a big fat bowl of your own homegrown. Flat out, there's something incredibly gratifying about growing your own medicine. What a fantastic hobby.
I'm using a 600W digital ballast, with an air cooled hood that vents through a carbon filter into my attic. I turned the guest room closet into a greenhouse. I've been using a digilux bulb, and probably need to get another one for the next grow. Any bulb recommendations? The digilux are expensive as hell, so I'm thinking about the hortilux. Growing in 3.4 gallon air pots, with FFOF soil, and a smorgasbord of different nutes that I've picked up over the last year. Some of the stuff I got for free, so I've been mixing and matching brands. If anyone has any questions on the specific nutes, let me know and I'll break down my mix. One interesting nute I sprang for was the Yellow Bottle Ooze, which is used from weeks 4-6, and apparently messes with the plants growth hormones. Honestly, the verdict is still out on this stuff...this is the second grow I've used it on, and I'm not sure I can tell a difference. Anyone else used the Yellow Bottle line? If I noticed a major difference I'd buy the Phat, but I'm not sure I want to give them another $75 unless I can hear some positive testimonials from people that have used it.
I'm currently growing Chocolope, Dinafem Cheese, Paradise Seeds Delahaze, and Cali Connection Buddha Tahoe. We're at day 51 of 12/12.
Here's some pics:
Group shot, minus the Buddha Tahoe. From l to r, cheese, delahaze, chocolope.
Group shot, without the flash. I veg'd them for 3.5 weeks from seed, using CFL's. Topped them all once, and did some pretty extensive LST. All 3 of these plants responded well to training.
The 3 photos above is Chocolope. Lovely plant, with a smell that's really been developing over the past week. It does have a coffee/chocolate smell to it. It's been easy to grow, responded well to nutes, and the buds are really starting to fill out now. It's probably got another 2-3 weeks to go. Probably take her close to day 70. Can't wait to smoke this bud.
The 2 photos above are Delahaze. I'd heard and seen some great things about this strain online, with just some flat out massive buds being grown by numerous people. I had to give it a go, and so far it's living up to the hype. The buds are really starting to pack on the weight, and they're looking noticeably larger by the day. Plus, the buds are rock hard. It's been another easy plant to grow. If the smoke is as good as the reviews, this will probably be one that I grow again. I'm probably looking at taking this one to 9, maybe 10 weeks.
The 3 photos above are the Dinafem Cheese. Got this seed as a freebie a while back from Attitude, read some solid reviews on it, so decided to give her a go. I'm glad I did. Of these 3 strains, this will probably be the smallest yielder, but it looks like it's going to be dank as fuck. Very frosty, with rock hard buds. Very sticky (actually, all 3 of these strains are frosty and sticky). Has a unique smell, like a fruity pungent smell. This one's been easy to grow, hasn't given me any problems. I'm thinking that this one will be the first one to get chopped, possibly in 2 weeks. As you can see, it's covered in golf ball sized round buds.
That brings us to the last strain I've got growing, the Cali Connection Buddha Tahoe. This plant has been a royal pain in my ass. Things were looking great at first - I've never seen fan leaves as large as this plant had (emphasis on HAD, past tense). After switching to 12/12, everything went to shit. The enormous fan leaves started to yellow, and then just fell off. The rest of the leaves curled up like you see in the picture...I've tried a few different fixes, and none of them have worked. From what I can tell, the curled leaves are a response to too much moisture in the plant, or possibly heat stress. I'm pretty sure it's not heat stress, since the canopy sits at ~75-78 degrees. You can put your hand up against the glass on the reflector and it's barely hot to the touch. I have noticed that this plant requires MUCH less water than the others...I use weight of the pot to determine when to water, and this plant's pot stays heavy for much much longer. There shouldn't be any drainage issues, since I'm using air pots, and even added perlite to the FFOF. I've heavily backed off of the nutes with this one, and have been precisely PH'ing both the waterings and the feedings at ~6.5. That said, the buds are very frosty, and look dank dank dank, but they're just underdeveloped.
Does anyone else have experience with the Buddha Tahoe, or know what's up with the leaves curling like they are? I was so stoked when I got the pheno with the enormous leaves, since I'd read great things about it, but now...not so much. Definitely the lowest yielding plant of the 4 that I'm growing, and it seems more sensitive than my ex girlfriend, which is saying A LOT.
Okay, that's where we're at. I'll try to post some additional pics as we close in on the harvest, as well as a smoke report when that time comes. If you have any comments, advice, questions, please don't hesitate to chime in. I've learned pretty much everything I know about growing from these forums, so thanks to all of the experienced growers who take time to teach.
