Larry Bird Kush (aka Gelato 33) Zamnesia

Week 1, concluding the first week of vegetating (germinating): Hi(gh) guys! Back with a brand new project, growing the Larry Bird Kush (aka. Gelato 33) from Zamnesia Seeds on soil. This strain’s history on GD consists of 2 projects by MissJokerSmoker growing one plant, and Stephandjo growing another two plants respectively to nice results, kudos too you both! By the looks of the diaries from both growers, this strain tends to grow long stretchy branches with large internode spacing. I’m going to take it as a challenge to prevent it from stretching too much and keep the internode spacing small. That way the plant will be more efficiently at delivering nutrients to the buds, and grow thicker buds. Previous grows I’d chose to grow following the ‘V8’ topping technique, because both ‘Bruce Banner’ as ‘Honey Cream’ tend to grow more bushy plants. This time I’m going to choose the ‘Candelabrum’, which is more topping-heavy, to redirect the lateral growth into hopefully a nice evenly canopy shaped like a candlestick-holder. I’m going to try to work with the branches growing from 7 fingered fan-leaves. My previous experiences learned me branches from 1, 3 or 5 fingered leave stay too thin, so I’m going to lose these, what means that the plants will end up having probably somewhat longer main stems. At least this time I think it’s not possible to grow an ‘Upperdecker’ grow on top, so the tent is entirely available for the Larry Birds. Last two grows also, the upperdecker’s stayed underneath the blue growing light while the other plants switched to 12/12 standing underneath the flowering light. I first thought staying underneath blue light longer effected the total length of the cycle, but on that I must recur. What I’d find the blue lights do effect is the bud structure and internode spacing, and that’s exactly what I’m going to use this grow to my benefit. Growing the previous ‘Bruce Banner’-strain, won me the ‘diary of the month May’ contest, which included an Green Buzz Liquids Professional starter-kit containing every product in their line of bio-organic nutrients. Although my previous Mills nutrients line also partially uses bio-organic nutrients, I wanted to try a fully bio-organic system for a while. Now I’m happy I can also discover the differences, thanks G.B.L!! Growing bio-organic also means I’d have to use a different kind of soil, since the D.N.A./Mills soil contains mineral nutrients and that destroys the soil-life. Out of three options I’d chose the most cost-effective bio-organic soil from Biobizz, the All-Mix. And a layer of Plagron clay pebbles 8-16mm on the bottom of the pots. Since previous grows I’d had practically no problems germinating the seeds, I’d chose to pop exactly 9 seeds this time for the nine 11L pots. Offcourse one seed didn’t make it, I’d try to save it but R.I.P. (that didn’t work!). Actually, given the topping technique I chose to use for the first time, I think the extra space to the other 8 plants is actually welcome, so I’d chose to go on with 8 plants. Since I’d started to grow back in 2015, I’d wanted to make a data-sheet on which I could write down my findings and help me plan (and not forget!) certain que points during the plants cycle. When I’d started on G.D. I updated the format to the G.D. diary structure, and when I came into contact with Green Buzz Liquids again updated it to their professional growing schedule. Now, I want to share it with you guys. I think it helps keeping overview during the cycle and gives means to look back into history other than the G.D. diaries. I’d actually prefilled allot of thing for this cycle, but I’ll also have a close watch putting them into practice and make changes as I see necessary. There is space to fill-in every day readings, and it helps me great timing my grows and keeping track of everything. This first week of the grow I’ll always talk you guys trough my chosen strategy, and share the preparations (see the photo’s for that). I find it useful to share my knowledge with you guys because without marijuana I myself probably currently wasn’t alive anymore because of my mental illnesses, and I find it important to be available to everyone who needs it. Use it to your advantage, but also please like my diary! I see a lot of people visiting but it seems that pushing that button is a bit of a problem! Please feel free to push like and also follow me during this new project, I’m looking forward to see you back and check on the Larry Bird’s progress next week!