Classics & Kush

Hello my comrades in horticulture and welcome to my latest adventures in marijuana cultivation! I first grew cannabis over 20 years ago, throwing some seed I'd collected from shitty weed in to a small clearing in the remotest woodlands I could find armed only with my bicycle and the type of can do attitude that only ignorance can bring you. I still don't know what happened to those seeds as I never went back. I like to think there is a secret population of marijuana in the homelands I have left far behind me. Since then, I have grown many times, though I have had frequent and occassionally long breaks between. In that time I have developed a certain approach to growning; traditionally I have grown monocultures - 1 to 3 plants (either clones of a single mother or seeds from the same batch), big pots, long vegetation phase, lots of training. I've also (mostly) kept it to myself and rarely engaged with growing communities. But I'm on GD now, and I've been browsing all these damn diaries on this site and I've seen people employing their preferred methods which I have not used before and it's begun to lubricate some of the gears in my mind, encouraged me to realise how narrow my culivation experience really is and most importantly, instilled within me the desire to... experiment. SO! This time things are different, I will be growing twice as many plants compared to my standard maximum (3) in small pots with a short vegetation phase and minimal training. I might not even perform apical cuts on them. I guess this is a SoG-lite. My last grow took 18 weeks, 14 of those were flowering. This time I want to complete the entire cycle in 15 weeks. With this in mind I set out to pick 6 seeds, looking at the seeds I already had plus a small budget for new seeds. Sorry ACE, your crazy sativas are out for this grow - I want a fast turn around! I have some free OG Kush seeds from Phoenix Seeds, perhaps the most well known strain I'm aware of and as I looked at my other options I decided I wanted to grow a selection of "classics" but also a section of kush-related strains. On the evening of the 21st November, I planted the following 6 seeds: 1x OG Kush (freebies) 1x White Widow (freebies) 1x Northern Lights (actually paid money!) 1x Critical Kush (freebies) 1x Peyote Critical (freebies) 1x Dos Si Dos #33 (final seed I bought ~ 12 months ago) On the morning of 23rd November (~36 hours later), all 6 seeds have broken ground. I really have no idea why folks use other methods of germination (unless the seed stock is old/badly stored). These plants have evolved for millions of years to successfully germinate in slightly warm, damp soil - I have only every had 1 seed not germinate for me, because it was about 8 years old and had been kept in a baggie on a shelf for about that long. STRAIN DATA OG Kush (Phoenix Seeds) Again, Phoenix claim their genetics are from the original. This time we can add the testimony of @sativaman who wrote a positive review of this strain from Phoenix. OG Kush is a legendary hybrid strain, so I hope this is an authentic offering. https://en.seedfinder.eu/strain-info/OG_Kush/Phoenix_Seeds/ White Widow (Phoenix Seeds) Yet more original genetics claimed here, with another strongly indica variety. It's also another one of those names that absoutely everyone has heard - definately had people try to sell me white widow back in the day, who knows if it ever was or not... https://en.seedfinder.eu/strain-info/White_Widow/Phoenix_Seeds/ Northern Lights (Phoenix Seeds) Phoenix claim their northern lights is from the original genetic line. Is it? I don't know. Will I be able to tell? Absolutely not! Northern Lights is a mostly indica plant, probably from Afghanistan originally. https://en.seedfinder.eu/strain-info/Northern_Lights/Phoenix_Seeds/ Critical Kush (Barney's Farm) Barney's version of OG Kush crossed with critical mass - itself a cross of Afghan indica and skunk #1. https://en.seedfinder.eu/strain-info/Critical_Kush/Barneys_Farm/ Peyote Critical (Barney's Farm) Critical Kush crossed with Peyote Purple, which itself traces it's parentage back to Northern Lights and OG Kush. https://en.seedfinder.eu/strain-info/Peyote_Critical/Barneys_Farm/ Dos Si Dos #33 (Barney's Farm) My 2nd attempt with this strain, I don't think I did a great job last time. I hope I can do better this time around, this strain has plenty of buzz words in its genetic makeup (chewdawg, og kush, gcs, gelato etc) - so it should be AMAZING right? ;) https://en.seedfinder.eu/strain-info/Dos_Si_Dos_33/Barneys_Farm/