Winter Wonderland

This is a cross I am testing. I am using a "hempy bucket" style grow. It is a drain to waste system that uses 80% perlite and 20% vermiculite as the grow medium. I will use these solo cups for the first couple weeks and up pot from there. I like to keep my growing simple and fairly inexpensive, I will use General Hydroponics for the entire grow except for the cal-mag. My intentions are to use the 10 week standard feed schedule made for these nutrients unless I run into some major issues.

Starting off week 2 with some issues. I have noticed a lightening of the leaf edges and slight crinkling on the leaves. I have ran into this type of issue in the past and I suspected it to be a root bound issue. This time I am not completely sure. I will up pot by the end of this week and compare. I was busy with the holidays so I put the humidity dome back on before I went and up the size of the growing containers. I think it helped out and you can see that they perked up with the high humidity under the dome. I believe the lighter green edges is a mag deficiency. I will add more cal-mag during next weeks feedings.

Raised up the nutrient level . Dealing with colder temps at the moment.Added a 75w cfl to keep temps up. Noticed the lower leaves are starting to lighten up. I fed them and will watch to see if they bounce back. I will up pot during this week for sure.The young ones looked very sad the last couple of days so I up potted. Once the transplant shock is over for them I will lower my ph from 6 to 5.5. and see if that helps with the yellowing of the leaf edges. I have been watering once a day with the nutes at 5.5 ph after transplant. I ordered a humidifier so I can keep that under better control as it stays way to low for my liking at the moment. The plants look happier 2 days after transplant. I do see signs of some deficiency on older growth.

I added a humidifier this week to the tent to stabilize humidity.This addition is working great at the moment. The plants showed signs of decent growth in there new home early in the week so I decided to top them. After a couple of days from there topping they are starting to take off with growth.I hope I can cut some clones in a couple weeks and than we will head into flower.Growth is in full effect as you can see by the video. Lowering my PH to 5.5 seems to have quelled the cal-mag deficiency I had in the cups.The bounce back from transplant shock was great this week. I was able to top them on schedule and all are reacting well.

All growth on track at the begging of the week so I defoliated the fan leaves and left the growth shoots. Everything took the haircut in stride and now is moving forward and on track for clones to be taken on schedule.The temperature is on the rise at times for a few hours. With the new humidifier installed the plants don't seem to stress with the increase.Plenty of good VEG growth this week. I have already inspected for healthy growth shoots for clones. A few more days and they will get a good trim.

Everything is moving along.Found some slight yellowing inside the leaf cells. I raised the ph to 5.6 and will watch to see if that helps at all. I cut clones mid week.Took 3 off of each plant. I used rockwool and clonex gel and placed inside a humidity dome.We will see how that turns out. Nothing exciting after the clones were taken. Some defoliation to clean up the under canopy. The plants liked the leaf strip and reacted well. This is the last full week of veg. Will flip in a few days

This week begins flowering. All the plants were flushed day before lights went out. I noticed some droopy leaves on a couple and wanted to clear possible salt build up before I start to change the nutrients. This week nutrient schedule is a little lighter than recommended so I can watch for results of the flush and no compound issues. Some pre-flowers have shown on a couple of girls. Both of them were very loud in the nose and sticky on the fingers. The plants are loving the dark period. I have had them on a 24 light schedule up until flower but next run I may go 20 and 4 just to compare. Most the clones taken have roots showing. One pheno which is showing female pre-flowers has some very vigorous root growth on its clones. The plants are drinking more and more. Will up waterings to every other day .

Sex has started to show on most phenos. I have yet to see male parts on any of the five plants. I do have one that has been behind the whole time that has yet to show. I do see 4 girls so far. I have changed from a transition nutrient mix to a stronger flower mix this week. I will wait another week or so before I do a serious leaf strip and trim. Once that is complete I will throw in a trellis net.Well it is the end of the week and I have not seen male flower at all on any one of the five. A perfect 5 for 5 on this batch. I will keep a close eye for random male parts as these are testers. I have one that is by far slower than all the rest, she is short and not very stinky. A couple of the phenos are starting to stretch before the others. Nothing unmanageable at the moment.

The stretch has started. Very manageable since they started flower on the shorter side. Some adjustment to feeding and a good leaf striping mid week. Pheno number 1 has broad leaves and a very tight node spacing compared to the other four. Number 3 has shown to be very vigorous in growth and cloning. Number 2 is the runt and slow but stinks. The others are very similar. The girls got fed after the leaf strip the next day they looked really happy.

This week looks great so far. All the plants seem to take there leaf stripping in stride and have pushed out more frost. The bud sites are exploding with white hairs and the smell is starting to take over. There is definitely orange citrus coming from pheno #3. The #1 pheno leans towards its fathers side and has a mild pine under tone but a very sticky almost sap like stem rub. Everything has been cruising along this week. environment is in check and the plants know it. I will start adding a few bud shots in the upcoming weeks to get a better look at the pheno types.

Been fighting higher humidity lately during lights off. Other than that environment is in check. I am watering every other day most of the week. I am finding fade on the lower leaves which could be to lack of nitrogen but nothing to worry about as the plants are budding fine. I decided to drop cal-mag this week to try and end up at 1 ml per gallon for the last month. I will keep a close eye for mag deficiency. The stretch is about done by the end of this week.

A very stable environment this week. Everything on cruise control with feedings coming in every other day. All plants do have fading leaves on the bottom that eventually fall off and dry up. Outside temps on the rise which should be challenging with out AC. I do like the fact that the humidity is down due to temp and can keep mildew and mold at bay with minimal effort.

Found some issues with reducing the CalMag. A couple phenos stated to fade and show red spotting on lower leaves. I went back up to 2ml of calmag and will see if that helps. The smells coming out of the tent are very pleasant. Very citrus in nature with pine undertones. At the beginning of this week I have noticed hairs are starting to turn brown. The plan is to harvest at Day 70. I will flush with ph water around day 60. I am hoping for some plumping up coming in the next couple weeks as most phenos stayed lighter than expected.

Tent on cruise control this week with one pheno showng fading. Pheno #3 has started to finish before the others so I started flush on 2 of the girls this week. I will continue to feed the other 3 on the 70 day schedule unless something changes. Not overly impressed with bud development of this cross. I think terps and frost is there though. I do have some cuts of pheno #3 and #1 that I plan on running one more time before letting go.

I had a couple phenos in flush at the start of the week. I have ran into some issues with bud rot on pheno #1 and removed some branches to stop the spread. The whole tent is in flush this week and will come down at the end of the week. Most phenos wanted to finish in the 60-65 day range. The terps have really developed into a citrus with hint of orange and do live up to the name "sunny D og" The yeild is average at best. Bud structure was lacking in some respects. I think the frostiness is on point with most phenos. The harvest and smoke report will follow shortly after drying. Overall this was a fun run with a stable strand by a small upcoming breeder. I hope I did him some justice on this run.

This one was a fun grow. I did have some issues pop up during the grow but all in all a complete grow. The plants had a decent yield in the end. The smoke is decent and the orange flavor is there. The high won't knock your socks off but does get you feeling good. I would like to see this strain worked a little more. I think orange could be more consistent from pheno to pheno. I would love to see better bud structure and less leaf to bud ratio.