lassenoutdoor18
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Welp, ICmag used to be my go-to spot to post my grow logs and to share with other outdoor cultivators. I felt like the outdoor growing threads had a really solid community, sad to see it as a ghost town now. It seems since the ICmag "facelift" nobody uses the forums there anymore. They got rid of the friend system, they really kinda botched their whole community with that overhaul. Though often times I feel like writing out these grow diaries are sometimes just as much for me as it is for all the people I want to share/show the process with. So I'll start continue my grow logs from there to here.
A little growers history for my timeline: from 2010 to 2018 I ran a Black Cherry Soda hybrid from the bay area called "Cream" that ended up being such a damn crowd pleaser that I mothered/re-mothered clones of her for almost a decade. Everyone loved it, everyone wanted to buy it.
And during these times I had a buyer who was taking 5-10-15lbs of this cream like they where free hotcakes. When I first started growing my original endeavor was, "I don't wana pay these ridiculous prices for this plant I love smoking and enjoying." Then about 2-3 years in I realized how much extra bud I was getting and the product was good enough to sell with ease, so I started monocropping the Cream strain with quantity and selling in mind. By 2019 the clones where so genetically diminished that in some cases I would have random plants reveg, hermie, or be incredibly stunted in plant size no matter how much I vegged them.
Around 2018-2019 my buyer who would take 5-10lbs at a time was no longer taking weight like that, and I was pretty fucking tired of smoking this hybrid for almost a decade. So in 2019 I open pollinated my stunted cream plants with a Kandy Kush Male, and then ran the seeds in 2020. The Cream x Kandy Kush seeds where fucking genetic power houses. 8/16 where female, and the 8 females where all magnificent, each in their own phenotypical archetype. After only 3 months of veg most of them ended up in the 10-12ft range with an average of 2 lbs dried harvest. And that's leaving a ton of popcorn and smaller bud on the plants that I was just not able to harvest in time because I'm solo harvesting/trimming/hanging/bagging. I only went for the big nugs and still ended up with way more than I can smoke in a year.
After seeing the genetic reminder of what a new generation of f1 seeds can provide, I was reminded to go back and just grow what I want not with profit in mind. I'm now growing with quality and preference in mind for my own smoking needs rather than cultivating heavy #'s for some $$.
If you are interested in seeing my gardens progression over the years, and if you are interested in seeing that cream strain get hybridized and grown into giant monsters:
Also my insta link for pics: https://www.instagram.com/kush_of_the_giants/
2021 - Manzanita Patch
I have long been a fan of Tom Hill's Strains, his Pine Tar Kush, Deep Chunk, Cripple Creek, and xmas 79bud filtered through Shasta County and blew away our little stoner circle. Ever since then I have been mildly hunting his genetics and strains. In 2016 I got to run a Trainwreck x Salmon Creek Big Bud cross called Caboose. And when I saw PTK up for grabs on Nspecta's site in 2020 I JUMPED all over the opportunity. When I ordered the seeds I asked Caleb if he had any hidden stock of Tom's Deep Chunk and he hooked me up with a 2016 reproduction of Tom's 2003 DC stock.
I picked up the following in the fall of 2020 from CSI Humboldt:
Pine Tar Kush - Regular seeds
Deep Chunk - Regular seeds
Living Dead Girl - Fem
Lemon Party - Fem
As well as a couple freebie packs
All in All I ended up sprouting the following:
4x Deep Chunk (unknown sex)
4x Pine Tar Kush (unknown sex)
2x Purple Indica Fallen Soldier (feminized)
3x Lemon Party S1 (feminized)
1x Lemon Party Fallen Soldier (feminized)
3x Living Dead Girl (feminized)
I lost two Pine Tar Kush plants, and a single Deep Chunk plant due to extreme heat and too much chicken shit top dressing about a week after transplant. Everything else took and started to blast off in their 65 gallon pots. Going to post some older photos to catch the dairy up to date. (I will label the plants in the photos on my next post where I show what they currently look like)
A little growers history for my timeline: from 2010 to 2018 I ran a Black Cherry Soda hybrid from the bay area called "Cream" that ended up being such a damn crowd pleaser that I mothered/re-mothered clones of her for almost a decade. Everyone loved it, everyone wanted to buy it.
And during these times I had a buyer who was taking 5-10-15lbs of this cream like they where free hotcakes. When I first started growing my original endeavor was, "I don't wana pay these ridiculous prices for this plant I love smoking and enjoying." Then about 2-3 years in I realized how much extra bud I was getting and the product was good enough to sell with ease, so I started monocropping the Cream strain with quantity and selling in mind. By 2019 the clones where so genetically diminished that in some cases I would have random plants reveg, hermie, or be incredibly stunted in plant size no matter how much I vegged them.
Around 2018-2019 my buyer who would take 5-10lbs at a time was no longer taking weight like that, and I was pretty fucking tired of smoking this hybrid for almost a decade. So in 2019 I open pollinated my stunted cream plants with a Kandy Kush Male, and then ran the seeds in 2020. The Cream x Kandy Kush seeds where fucking genetic power houses. 8/16 where female, and the 8 females where all magnificent, each in their own phenotypical archetype. After only 3 months of veg most of them ended up in the 10-12ft range with an average of 2 lbs dried harvest. And that's leaving a ton of popcorn and smaller bud on the plants that I was just not able to harvest in time because I'm solo harvesting/trimming/hanging/bagging. I only went for the big nugs and still ended up with way more than I can smoke in a year.
After seeing the genetic reminder of what a new generation of f1 seeds can provide, I was reminded to go back and just grow what I want not with profit in mind. I'm now growing with quality and preference in mind for my own smoking needs rather than cultivating heavy #'s for some $$.
If you are interested in seeing my gardens progression over the years, and if you are interested in seeing that cream strain get hybridized and grown into giant monsters:
The Manzinita Patch - Cream
Year : 2015 First and Foremost: Hope everyone stays safe this year, hope everyone has healthy roots ^_^ 10 plants among the manzanita this year. Genetics = Cream All clones where cut from the same mom They where put outside on mothers-day The plants where 16-20 inches tall Had a small...
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2021 - Manzanita Patch
I have long been a fan of Tom Hill's Strains, his Pine Tar Kush, Deep Chunk, Cripple Creek, and xmas 79bud filtered through Shasta County and blew away our little stoner circle. Ever since then I have been mildly hunting his genetics and strains. In 2016 I got to run a Trainwreck x Salmon Creek Big Bud cross called Caboose. And when I saw PTK up for grabs on Nspecta's site in 2020 I JUMPED all over the opportunity. When I ordered the seeds I asked Caleb if he had any hidden stock of Tom's Deep Chunk and he hooked me up with a 2016 reproduction of Tom's 2003 DC stock.
I picked up the following in the fall of 2020 from CSI Humboldt:
Pine Tar Kush - Regular seeds
Deep Chunk - Regular seeds
Living Dead Girl - Fem
Lemon Party - Fem
As well as a couple freebie packs
All in All I ended up sprouting the following:
4x Deep Chunk (unknown sex)
4x Pine Tar Kush (unknown sex)
2x Purple Indica Fallen Soldier (feminized)
3x Lemon Party S1 (feminized)
1x Lemon Party Fallen Soldier (feminized)
3x Living Dead Girl (feminized)
I lost two Pine Tar Kush plants, and a single Deep Chunk plant due to extreme heat and too much chicken shit top dressing about a week after transplant. Everything else took and started to blast off in their 65 gallon pots. Going to post some older photos to catch the dairy up to date. (I will label the plants in the photos on my next post where I show what they currently look like)
