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In the beginning (First Grow)

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Indoor
Room Type
LST
weeks Technique
Soil
Grow medium
Strain
00seeds2 - 00 KUSH
Afghan Kush Ryder
World of Seeds
Growing it
Easy
Resistance
Strong
Afghan Kush Ryder blend of two complimenting strains to produce a fast easy growing plant with a high THC content. It's smaller size make this a great strain for a smaller grow setup. Odor was about average during the grow intensifying in the last three weeks (Your room/house will smell) Expect to harvest medium to high density, flavorful, super sticky buds around 70-75 days. Has great bag appeal with a classic spicy sweet Afghani odor which intensifies while curing. Harvest Report-I took the front left (FL) (49.36 grams dry) and front right (FR) (40.82 grams dry) down at day 73 they were mostly milky/ cloudy with close to 10% amber or starting to darken. I took the the left rear (LR) (44.01 grams dry) and right rear (RR) (37.89 grams dry) down at 75 days. They were mostly milky/cloudy with some half cloudy on the outer newer growth with a few clear and sporadic ambers. I used a 40x led lighted jewelers loupe which worked perfectly for seeing the trichomes. I trimmed as much as possible while still attached to branches. Then removed the buds and tipped off any leaves that were discolored or weren't entirely covered in trichomes. Drying took about 5- 6 days at 45- 50% humidity removing smaller buds to jars first, then followed by med, then larger last. Used digital humidity gauges in each jar opening them up to reduce humidity at least a few times a day as needed to keep humidity under 65% then was able to stabilized them to 62% after 4 days in the jars. Tried to dry the biggest buds whole but were drying unevenly so I wound up trimming them into smaller buds to finish drying. I wound up with almost 37 grams dry of quality trim off the buds which was turned into 6 grams of hash oil which was not included in final weight. Gave the best buds a tighter trim for my own head stash jar and sampling with some friends. Will do a long cure for at least 8 weeks for the best of the best bud the rest will be consumed as needed while curing.๐Ÿ˜Š
The Outcome
Week 11
Harvest
What's on the scales?
172.08
gram
ounce
Bud dry weight
Harvested
4
Number of plants harvested
Grow Room
0.43
mยฒ
ftยฒ
Grow Room size
400.19
g / mยฒ
43.02
g / plant
9.3
plant / mยฒ
Tastes like
Earthy
Flowery
Woody
Feels like
0% Sativa 100% Indica

Positive effects

Happy
Relaxed

Negative effects

Dry mouth
Nutrients
Good stuff very affordable. ๐Ÿ˜‰Very straight forward products.
Using this line of nutes definitely worked well. Seeing that I have a small grow it was worth it for me. I was trying to keep it simple but feel the line up I used was adequate without getting the entire AN line. Voodoo and Piranha definitely improved the density of the feeder roots in my air pots. Seems like this nute line lacks a lot of micro's and seems a bit heavy on the nitrogen during bloom. I have their Cal/Mag product but did't use it because of fear that the 4-0-0 "may" have led to nute burn when used with the Sensi-bloom part A along with the rest during peak bloom. Instead I used Epsom salt to supplement Mg. when needed. I would like to see a bit more phosphorus around week 6-7 for auto blooms which it lacks. I will have to supplement this with a different product line on my next grow. The higher Potassium seemed spot on during the bloom phase. I will tweak my feeding schedule a bit next time.
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Philindicus Philindicus
5 years ago
World of Seeds Afghan Kush Ryder, first thing I noticed is there aren't nearly enough grow diaries on this strain which in my opinion is a shame. "In the beginning" was a reference to Afghan Kush being one of the original land race strains which has led to many phenomenal strains which we know and love today. It seemed like a great strain for a first time grower like myself due to it's smaller easier to manage size and branch structure. It also seemed to be a very forgiving strain easily handling my occasional over watering/under watering and very tolerant of my inexperience using LEDS regarding light intensity. I believe too high of a light intensity too early prevented the two front plants from stretching properly. Also due to the main light being a veg/bloom light the spectrum contributed to the buds being leafier. (Note to self, buy an led bloom light next grow) Oddly the slow poke seed LR/left rear that I was going to toss produced top shelf buds with excellent weight, density, smell and stickyist of the sticky icky. This plant was directly under the red bloom booster light. I was also dealing with a low runoff ph which may have affected the roots ability to use the nutes in the soil, but they pulled through this issue very well once corrected.I was a bit hesitant to start fertilizing too early (Worried about nute burn) and actually think a slightly earlier and higher ppm feeding schedule could actually tweak more weight out of each plant. The smallest plant was a mere 12" tall and about 12" around which put out 49 grams of frosty bud.The tallest topped out at 21" and 14" around. At some point I will definitely grow this strain again. Since I'm a bit old school growing up in the late 70's and early 80's the smell and taste brought back some great memories of burning similar bud which some old/current friends truly appreciated me growing and smoking this strain with them. I received a lot of compliments about my smoke even with very little cure time and a great trim job topped it off nicely. Think I nailed it for harvest timing. The less amber bud had a nice even high not racy,not sleepy but relaxing yet functional started by slowly creeping through the top/back of your head then spilling over to your upper body ending up with a nice slow flow through the extremities. Lasted full blast 2 hours tapering down over another 1-2 hours off three deep hits held in properly. Using the more amber bud with a nice AKR hash oil smear on 1/2 my rolling paper for the second test joint definitely put it over the top a high you can't describe in words but with laughter and smiles. Good times. Happy growing๐Ÿ˜Š0
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ribadow420
ribadow420week 11
cool diary, awsome plants, enjoy your smoke! :)
Philindicus
Philindicus
@ribadow420, Thank you glad you enjoyed the diary.
Philindicus
Philindicusweek 8
Depends on what the trichomes look like. If there's a nice mix. I'm going for 95% cloudy/ milky /5% turning amber. Even after harvest they will still ripen a few more days. I'm sure some will still be half cloudy also. I'll look specifically at both the older trichomes deep inside the buds and the older bud growth. Some of the newer bud growth near the end can fake you out a bit. I'm using a lighted 40x jewelers loupe from amazon it work perfect.
Med_in_Tropic
Med_in_Tropicweek 11
Truely beautiful work all the way through trimming and drying. The nuggets looks so perfect, Patience and passionate. I can learn from your diary but can never hope achieve this level of meticulous care.
Philindicus
Philindicus
@Med_in_Tropic, Thanks This is whats great about this site we have access to all this great info. We learn from each other. All your grows are coming along well looking forward to seeing a harvest from you in a few weeks.
Pinkstoner
Pinkstonerweek 2
Hi your plants look good, I am a first time grower I tried to grow before and my plants died. Now I have a better understanding of what is takes. Now question I bought advanced nutrients micro grow and bloom when should I start using micro?
CRiSPrGrow
CRiSPrGrow
@Pinkstoner, can never start too early with micro
jessevasquez94
jessevasquez94week 11
damn ! very nice man!
Med_in_Tropic
Med_in_Tropicweek 3
Thank you for detailing your set up. I need to learn these.
Med_in_Tropic
Med_in_Tropic
@Philindicus, Thai police is prosecuting weed with a vengeance. So I am learning these techniques. For example, we canโ€™t host sow weed directly in the ground and hang them up in the shed after all is done. I think the most difficult of us is the techniques on caring for seedlings and vegging. Most people here never pay attention to grow light and light hours. We are used to having sun and rain. I am still on my first grow and I look for setup details that I can learn from.
Philindicus
Philindicus
@Med_in_Tropic, Your welcome. Interesting, doesn't weed grow wild in Thailand. I believe a lot of people use the leaves in soups and stuff.
GreenISR
GreenISRweek 3
to bad we cant see ...
Philindicus
Philindicus
@GreenISR,I have more weeks to add with better photo's coming soon. Promise.
Momgrowsthechronic
Momgrowsthechronicweek 11
Excellent grow, excellent journaling and excellent results! Well done! ๐Ÿ‘Œ Will be following you in future grows as I like ur style and u seem to have the green magic touch.
ragnardanneskjold
ragnardanneskjoldweek 11
Thanks for sharing with such detail, lots to learn so its greatly appreciated. Going through your weeks, trying to see what i can do to help grow my own ladies :)
Budcoin
Budcoinweek 11
Great looking buds bro, soooo much resin dogg! Impressive! Cant wait to follow the bloody skunkus
Med_in_Tropic
Med_in_Tropicweek 8
?? Would you harvest all at once or just the main cola's first ??
CRiSPrGrow
CRiSPrGrowweek 8
nice results so far !