O.G. Kush from 3 seedhouses

First week, sprouting seedlings from the seeds. This round i will grow 16 OG-Kush plants from 3 different seed houses. OG is my personal favorite! 9 plants from Hempire Seeds (NL) 4 plants from Royal Queen Seeds (NL) 3 plants from Hy-Seeds (NL) I started sprouting on 09-24-2018 and on 09-27-2018 i had 16 nice seedlings wich i planted into the 6 liter pots. I create a pocket of seedmix-soil centre top into wich the seedings are planted, then they get 300ml tap water. Then the soil is covered for a few days with foil, preventing the soil from drying to fast.

Not much to ad, some seedlings find it difficult to lose the seed-cases. Normally i help with it, but that is always a risk in damaging the fragile little buggers! I figured, in nature they have to do it on there own also... Sprouting the seeds to seedlings, i always use the 100% foolprove-coffeefilter/ziplockbag method. If there is any life left in a seed it will sprout this way. If they are old seeds you can scar them with sanding paper in the inside of a jar, and rolling the seeds in them a few times to make the cases absorb water more easy. Did not have to use that this time though. When i plant the seedlings from the coffeefilter into their pots, i leave the level of soil somewhere between 10 and 15cm lower, so i can ad soil while they grow to support themself. This way i dont need support.

This week i started on monday Oktober 8 with switching to 12/12. The first serie of pictures is from that day. The second serie of pictures is from sunday Oktober 14. The little plants are growing now for 3 weeks. I noticed the 4 seedlings from Royal Queen Seeds stay behind, but they will have there grow-spurt much later, and then catch up. On the 14th they also got 300ml each with half the ammount of the nutrients stated above. I don't give water every day because it will get me these pesky little flies (we call them "varenrouwmug").

The seeds from Hempire and Hy-Seeds seem to be similar, the plants are growing in the same manner. The 4 little plants from RQS are way behind, but i said they will catch up eventualy. See in week 7! This week i filled-up the pots with soil, and gave them only a portion plain tapwater (300ml). Further on i will give 2 nutrient solutions followed up with 1 tapwater, each with 2 or 3 days between them. End of this week 5 Hempire plants already show the first signs of flowering, later on they seem to be almost 2 weeks ahead of the rest.

This week i consider the first week of flowering, all plants but the RQS show signs of flowering. I removed my growlight and mounted the flowerlight. This week i was so buzy that i did not take any pictures. Sorry! Remember that this round i am not only using my leftover OG Kush seeds, but also i am using the last nutrients. So, i do know i am using hydroponic flowering nutrients, currently there is no money for new.Next round i wil stock up on Mills substrate and nutrients!

Week two of flowering. This week the plants got 1x nutrient solution and 1x tap water. End of the week i added some more soil to suport the ever growing plants. Also i did re-arrange the plants inside the tent, i placed the 4 RQS plants front middle on a piece of foam, so the cannope is more even. Also i started with lollipopping, i always spread this over a period of a few weeks, to reduce stress ont the plants.

Not really much to comment this week.No really!

This week i’d continue with lollipopping from the bottom up. My flowering light is an Scroggmaster 360 above the cannopy, below i have an additional set of Scroggmaster LED-bars, with deep-penetrating lensen to beef up production on the lower branches. With the removal of several branches, i now can direct this light upwards without LED-burning any leaves.I am almost there with lollipopping now, next week maybe a few branches.

This week 5 plants stretched against the lamp, so i supercropped them a bit..Also i removed some more branches. This time i made some overall photo's, This weekend i will try to make some photo's with the light switched off, and place some light in front of the tent. Also i will use my photo-camera instead of my crappy chinese smartphone. You will behold my plants in full glory that way! 😏😏 I notice them branching out horizontaly now, my tent is getting nice and full right now. So far so good! End of 9th week, this ends week 5 of flowering: For the photos this time i'd turned of all lights, and i’d hang them in the top off my tent. I used an external light and my normal photocamera instead of my smartphone. Again a great moment to rearange the plants to allow them get light from a different angle for while. Yesterday i noticed the leaves becomming less dark green. So they each got a shot off extra grow nutrients. Today they looked healthy and happy again. Notice that most off the 9 plants from Hempire (6/9) are still ahead of the rest. Maybe i am going to have a bit off an early harvest for hem. But it is going to take past Christmas at least, So for now there good. You can see on the closeups they’re nice and resinous allready!

Week 10 concludes week 6 of flowering, officially 3 weeks to go... But i guess that’s not going to happen. From 9 plants from Hempire there are 5 ahead of the rest. You can see on the pictures that 3 of them are up for an early harvest. Next weeks they need to gain weight though. As for the 3 plants from Hy-Seeds, they are pretty much same as the rest of the Hempire plants. RQS really is a bit slower, it’s amazing to see the ammount of white hairs on them. I think they are going to grow into 4 huge buds! You can see in the picture with lights on, there are 2 lower LED’s, they really help with giving enough light to the lower buds. I’d gave them all some extra grow-nutrients because the leaves were getting lighter again. Soon i expect to see the first signs of autum, or at least with the five plants that are already ahead of the rest. I also notice on the growdiaries website that we're all playing the waiting game most of the time. But it is always nice to see progression between the weeks. And i will tweak everything to get the best possible outcome. We will see next week!

End off week 11, concluding week 7 off flowering: Hi(gh) Guys! Thanks for viewing my weekly update (i hope again?)! The girls are doing great. I have to come back on a previous statement, i said that 3 girls are ahead of the rest and up for an early harvest, although that is both true, actually there straight on schedule, and i think the rest is behind. The manual on this strain says they need 9 weeks and flowering week 7 is now concluded. They start to gain weight all three and the stems are beginning to bend. This upcoming week they will get their last nutrients, but week 9 they will only get water, so i can flush properly for the upcoming week and a half. End of week 9 they will be terminated, because my vaporizer is idle for too long already! As for the rest, they will need at least 2 or 3 weeks longer, because everywhere i look i see loads of white hairs, and i’m seeing forward to show you some off my biggest nugs ever! This is my first time on this website and i’m having a lot of fun. Earlier i'd grow my best round ever with 9 Gorilla Glue #4 ladieboys, what nice buds did they produce. But i guess the OG is going to be at least as close. That’s good for me because this is my favorite strain. Please leave a comment, and like my post. My account needs a little more love! Please come and see for another update next week. (p.s. sorry for that shakie video, I was sitting on top of an little pebble with my knee, but I liked the video anyway…)

New update for week 12, concluding week 8 of flowering: Hi(gh) Folks! Thanks everyone for your input on my second grow question. I’m going for HighTV’s answer, the SOG with 9x4 main buds. Very nice to get everyone’s input on this, appreciate it! So another week done! They got their last nutrients Tuesday and on Thursday the 5 early ladies from Hempire got their first round of plain acidulated water. I flushed them a bit on Friday and Saturday to. Now they can dry out for a couple of days. I will flush them for the upcoming week and let them dry out before harvest next weekend. Im counting on them to swell up even further during this week. As for the rest of the 4 plants from Hempire, 4 from Royal Queen Seeds and 3 from Hy-Seeds, I will treat them as if this is another week 8, and they will get another dose of Flowering nutrients and PK. Then next week I will start to flush them also. I will have 2 full weeks to flush and let them dry out until my planned harvest on Saturday 5 January. I’m not even sure that will be early enough for the 4 RQS’s since they look like they have even more bud-growing to do, before they can start swelling! I will keep an eye on that. The 5 tall ladies, 2 from Hempire and 3 from Hy-Seeds show the nice thick Kushy buds i’m craving for, can’t wait to see the becoming nice and heavy! On the photos you see the slight diverence between the pheno’s, the left 2 plants grew the popcorn-buds on a stem, and the right ones have nice thick popcornbuds against the stem’s. The other to remaining Hempire plants also show these, apart from the early ladies offcourse. The early birds show a little stretching buds and nice purple colours. So next week will see the early ladies harvested, I hope? Look out for my next update and don’t forget to like! Thanks and see you!

Week 13, concluding week 9 of flowering, Kush, you know what they say? Kush is like a gentle touch, or a warm brush along your spine, that's why im into this strain, it's my favorite! (did i already say that?) I'm all with that shit! Boy, this was a busy week. I'm all stocked-up for new grow projects after this one with Mills nutrients and DNA/Mills soil with cork. So that won't do harm to my results i guess! Also the 5 plants from Hempire, the early ladies are no more! Actualy, all the photo's up to the look into my brown dryingbag are those plants. So their's that, now i owe you the first harvest report, but you have to wait, you know how it goes! Call my bag the sneak peek. The photos this time are to much to use comments, but i'd group the pics per plant. And i'd commented on the Hy-Seeds and RQS. The detailphotos are all the Hempire plants, 9 off them in total. The harvested 5, compared to the rest of the plants seem to me somewhat off. The 11 plants left behind are all what i expect of a good OG Kush, but these just seem different. They where quick, and that's to my idea partly effecting the yield. I could have waited another week, but i need new meds! The plants remaining will get a proper period to flush and dry-out. The 3 plants from Hy-Seeds are at the same place as the rest of the Hempires. The RQS are maybe one or two weeks behind. I will make detailed pictures from them both next week. I hope you enjoy my pictures, please like them or leave your comment's! All have a merry Christmas!

These 5 plants did'nt add much to the final overall result, they'd even lower my score on this round. Please refer to the other harvest reports for the 'motherload' 😉. One thing was that i was in urgent need of a smoke, and they fill the gap nice untill the rest is good to vape!

Week 14, concluding week 10 of flowering: This week was the first week of flushing, just with acidulated tap water. Also, last week i started taking photos from the trichomes from the Hempire plants, so this week you'll find the trichomes from both Hy-Seeds and Royal Queen Seeds plants. Nice right! I will take a proper period to flush, so next week (15) will be the second week of flushing. That last weekend will be harvest time!

Week 15, concluding week 11 of flowering and the end of this round: Hi(gh) guys! this wil be the last week comment within this round, i hope you enjoyed my diary, and i hope to see you all back at the new round. I'll be signing up for the 'Newbie-of-the-Month' contest, so please come back for the harvests and like this post! So, apart from the 5 early Hempire plants i'd already harvested, the remaining 11 plants will be terminated! When you look at the first two pictures, you see the plant from Hempire i named 'Ugly Duckling', this is a bit off an oddball! The last weeks i noticed that it suffered a bit from heatstress, it started growing a lot of little foxtails and the leave edges where curling up. Upon closer inspection i noticed that it seeded itself! Allover the large mainbud you can see seeds sticking out. The bud is nice and dense (and heavy). The other plants did'nt suffer from heatstress or seeding, so there ok. Oh my Kushness!!! The remaining 10 plants (apart from the 'ugly duckling') as you can see in the pictures are what i would expect from nice O.G. Kush! Last year (2017) my best round where 10 Gorilla Glue #4 plants, which allas! i did'nt weigh back then. My guess is that this round, looking at the 10 remaining plants, i think i did even better! They look great. The 5 early Hempire plants i'd allready harvest to my opinion are not real O.G. Kush! Maybe they got mixed-up within packaging or something but they are something different. And the ugly duckling maybe was a bad seed? That leaves at least 3 Hempire plants from the 9 that did grow into nice O.G. for detailed info on the endproduct please refer to the harvest reports i will be posting next. Thanks for following and suport, and i hope until next round!

Although i'm constantly trying to improve my skills, and i’m aware that there are many points that can be improved. Despite that I’m looking back at one of my best rounds, maybe even the best up until now. As for the question if I would choose Hempire O.G. Kush over Hy-Seeds or Royal Queen Seeds, I think the potention is there and some pheno’s showed nice O.G’s. But the consistency isn’t quite there yet. One major thing was the 5 atypical phenos which could’nt possibly be classified as O.G. As for my first experiences on growdiaries, I’m having a blast here! I really like the interface from this site, really easy to post weekly updates. Also a great community, I’m learning from you guys every day, thanks! Maybe one point to mention is that I find the section on tastes and effects somewhat limited and maybe a little bit cheesy.

In therms of wheight Hy-Seeds is the winner of this round. Nice bulky main buds and also popcornbuds not to be sneezed at! The phenos where very consistent, the development from the comparable 4 Hempire plants was pretty much 1:1, only the R.Q.S. was a little bit slower in developing. And another plusside is the friendly pricing compared to high-grade brands. All in all this was not the first and certainly not the last time growing this brand.

Comparing the 3 O.G. Kush brands to each other, and to pick a winner, than Royal Queen Seeds is my winner! Would final harvest-weight be the only thing, than Hy-Seeds is the winner. And real good quality O.G. Kush by the way! But the taste and effect from R.Q.S. is much more balanced and complex. Really gets a smile upon my face! The buds are not the biggest but nice and dense, even the lower ones. The taste has a nice citrus undertone, and the Pine-bomb and a little fuelly you'd expect with O.G. Kush. Love this! Now everything sits in the C-Vaults together with the Boveda-packs. I guess the weight is gonna be even more when properly cured, since i waited untill they where bonedry. Previously i noticed it would be better to cure from bonedry material with Boveda. Thank's for your support, and i'll hope to see you back next grow! Greetings Budcrack