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A few years ago I was offered 10 original regular beans of Sensi Seeds Jack Herer from a good friend (sealed package). 😍
Regulars.... so I didn't feel so much to grow them, and kept hem in the fridge 😔 But last year I opened the package and started growing. 👽
6 plants turn out to be females😋, 3 were male😥, one seed did not germinate 😡 Later I made a final selection of 3 females and 1 male.
I added some photos of these 3 selected female plants at the end of their bloom.
*Plant #2. My favourite. I called her the 'Bedrocan Cut', because she smells exactly the same as the Dutch farmacist-cannabis : a gentle fresh presence of little white flowers, the smell of lemon-mint, mixed with a spicy herby pepper smell , She is definitely the most Sativa/haze-like : typical foxtail buds, difficult to manicure, low yield, but such a incredible taste and high.
*Plant #1 My fastest flowering Jack. Definitely the most Indica influenced : sweet, early and no foxtail bud,
*Plant #3 is situated somewhere between #1 and #2.
I took some clones of these mothers, which I kept in my clone library during last winter 💤. These clones grew into motherplants and this spring I cut some clones. These clones are the ones who will be the starring players of this diary.
I started some weeks ago with htis grow, but I had no time before making a diary. 😖 But now I did, and I hope you will enjoy this diary ! 😁
After one week in the 1 liter pots in the glasshouse, I replanted the ladies in their new and finale pots and placed them in my tent (120x120cm) with 600 watt HPS lamp.
They will need some days to adapt...
16 plants X 14 liter Plagron All mix
The 3 Jack Herer variaties :
4X Green = plant #1
8X Pink = plant #2
4X Blue = plant #3
The plans grew to fast, they almost doubled in size in one week. They would definitely reach the lamp. So there was no other option, I decided to bend the main stem. I used two sticks to keep the plant down. A few plants (#2's were hard to bent) got unwillingly supercropped, but no fatal damage was done....😇
And Jack Herer being a sativa, it can cope with some bending. Althought I don't like bending so much indoors, because it stresses the plant to much, specially indoors.
Now they go back from 90cm to 70cm and this will give the side branches a boost.
3 weeks of flowering.
Flowers are developping really fast now.
The bending has resulted in an enormous grow of the side branches. The main top on the other hand, now in almost vertical position, beause of my daily bending it down, stopped growing.
It looks more an more as a SCROG -grow. The side branches are not so strong. Maybe they'll need some support in the future, when the buds get heavy.
4th week flowering has finished.
The plants have so much branches because of the bending, that flowers are popping up everywhere. The main buds on the photos have to share the light with tens of side branches who are bravely reaching to the light.
I took the plants outside for a quick photoshoot. They can enjoy a bit of natural sunlight, fresh air and some space. Because of the bending and all the side branches, it looks a bit crowdy in the tent, so they rally enjoy the space they get outside.
The main colas are back in vertical positon competing with the side branches.
5 weeks of flowering.
The flat SCROG view had changed a lot The branches have grown fiercly and some of them are striking above 'ground' level. The tent is really packed with ranches and small sativa buds. I had to place extra sticks, because the branches are to weak to stand alone. I use 4 small fans, but that is not enough to give them strong branches. I removed some yellowish leaves.
I removed the toplayer of soil and replaced it with enriched Palgron All-Mix puffed up with 20 gr bone meal and 20 gr potash per plant (organic farming 👍)
6 week flowering
I like to take the ladies out for some fresh air and a photo shoot.
Now you can clearly see the difference between the 3 varieties:
#1 is already thinking about making resins and filling up the buds. A bit less new flowers than the other two varieties.
#2 is still in full time flowering-mode, not many leaves, her white buds are still very fluffy, but so nice smelling and so pure and innocent looking
#3 has many leaves and is very thirsty, some of het white hairs are already turning orange/brown, but she still makes new flowers.
7th week of flowering.
The plants are doing well. I was hoping for some bigger buds, but it looks this Alga Bloom has some problems to keep up with the pace the plants are developing new flowers. There are a lot of flowers, spread across the plant, but the buds are still fluffy
I hope I can get them going for at least 2 more weeks , so the harvest will be bigger ...
8 weeks flowering !
On the pictures everything looks OK, but the buds are not dense enough (specially the #2 plants). This could have different reasons ;
1. The plants doesn't look 100% healthy. Since the last three week plants have spots on their leaves, and under the leaves are some small eggs (under microscope). But alle these weeks I did not see any crawling insect. Two times I sprayed water with a half-pressure on the underside of the leaves, although I don't like to spray water beyond 3 weeks of flowering
2. Deficiency of certain nutrients . But I doubt it because they got fresh Palgron All Mix and the other nutrients.
3. The bending of the main cola, which stresses the plants and made them weaker. Also the flowers are spread now over many branches. The branches are weak, so I had to use a lot of plastic sticks to support the branches.
I hope I can keep the plants going for another one - or even better- two weeks....
#1 is ready to harvest. Incredible ripe, rockhard buds, Sweet smell. Trichomes well developed.
#2 feathered fluffy bud, Incredible haze smell. Not ripe yet.
#3 in between # 1 and #2, but tends to be more like #2. The smell is the least delicious of the three.
Oyziphar
