BLACK RASPBERRY KUSH by Wicked Pissah

Begin week 1 2/27 Transplant day Transplanted with a mix of: *Silica Blast *Hydroguard *Liquid Karma All should have 1st set of permanent leaves tomorrow, making 2/28 Day 1. Humidity domes on. DAY 2 (2/29) She is standing tall and looking good. Removed humidity dome. Start MC feed schedule: MegaCrop @ 211g/gal Sweet Candy CalMag Recharge

DAY 8 Doing well and looking good. 24oz feed in outermost area to wet medium for microbes and mykos. MC @2g/gal SC @1g/gal CalMag 65% 75° VPD 9.5 Light 20/4 14,000 lux

DAY 15 Been feeding MC, SC, Calmag, @ ph adjusted 6.0 and allowing generous 1-2 days between feedings. Supplementing weekly with Recharge. Black Raspberry Kush is looking healthy and vigorous. She has 3 good nodes and the 4th is developing now. Shes on echedule to top. Temp: 74-76° Rh: 60% VPD: 10.5 (adj for leaf temp) DAY 19 She is healthy and will be ready to top on day 21.

DAY 22 After topping yesterday, BRK has not slowed a bit. Her daily height since 1 day prior to topping: 10", 11", 12"

DAY 29 She has 12 branches now competing to be the tallest. Her lowest are reaching way out and up. The tips are starting to flower everywhere. She has a very open and symmetrical shape, with minimal leafy growth. DAY 32 Pulled each plant for individual maintenance. Removed any lower leaves that were unhealthy or blocking airflow. Thes are all looking quite healthy. BRK is healthy, with a tall, open structure. She already has a leaf to flower ratio/structure that will be a pleasure to trim. DAY 35 She's a big girl with a nice open shape. Her leaves have a different curvy-ness to their shape that adds to the beauty of the flowers. She's grown 10+ inches this week!

Begin Week 6 STRAIN DETAILS: Black Raspberry Kush - Wicked Pissah Seeds Genetics: Dutch Passion BlackBerry x Sour Raspberry Kush Cycle time: (80-90d) Size: medium-large Yield: moderate (100+g) 20:3% (thc:cbd) DAY 41 She's a beast, and @80 days... 6 more weeks...things could get pretty crazy. She has such beautiful curves and structure. Her buds are the fattest in the tent already...with all that time left on her internal clock.

Begin week 7 DAY 46 Been doing daily 28-35oz+ feedings for most of the past 2 weeks. Did a complete mid-grow flush of all: 1gal w/Clearex 1gal plain water 1qt/base feed w/Recharge & Mammoth Maybe with microbes this flush was a mistake? Time will tell. Switched monkey fan to high and left tent door open to help with evaporation. Rh 57%.

DAY 53 BRK is just such a beautiful plant with fat purple-hued flowers. She is far ahead of others sharing the tent. Her buds are fat and quite dense and continue to pack on mass. At 80/90 days for this strain... 4 additional weeks to continue fattening should be impressive.

Begin week 9 She continues to stand out from the crowd. Her leaves are thickening and suffering from Calmag issues, but her buds are large and beautiful and rock hard with a hint of purple. There are still beautiful flowers forming and a fair amount of thick white pistils. DAY 62 Been struggling with some thickening and yellowing leaves. Have suspected P or Mg deficiency. The symptoms seem improve with lower ph feed and supplementing Epsom salts. Recent feedings have been <6.0ph. Everyone got an out of tent inspection, trim and mini-flush...feed 1gal MC only with good runoff. Runoff ph was 7.0. Most of the thick, dry, deficient leaves are on the 4AMs and BRK, and... surprisingly, wthere weren't too many. Will continue feeding with reduced ph (5.6-6.0) nutrients. Switching Bloom nutes to Hydroplex for increased P ratio. Beautiful buds everywhere. DAY 63 After the mini-flush pots are heavy, but everyone looks rough. Gave everyone 2tsp Epsom in 24oz water. Neglected to ph nutrient water. Several hours later, everyone looks much happier and less yellowed. Lowered fan and increased speed to aid in transpiration to dry the pots. Re-discovered BACK-BUILDING. Back-building is the practice of topping individual buds a tiny amount which causes buds to swell as they respond in a way similar to how plants respond to topping. Had done a side by side with this technique on a single plant in the past and was able to see the results. This technique removes almost nothing but stimulates growth signals. It works. Performed this technique on 80-90% of this crop. This could be especially helpful on lower minor buds.

Begin week 10 DAY 67 She doesn't seem to be gaining much weight (visually), but she does still have healthy clusters of white pistils and has always be4len kind of hard and chonky-dense. Trying to hold of harvesting her before the stated maturity window. Another two weeks might be pushing it. DAY 70 CHOP She has fox tailing, big heavy buds. There are sterile "nanners" within many of the foxtail heads. No seeds here or on any others sharing the tent.

She had to be chopped 10 days before the earliest estimate of 80/90 days. The small foxtails all over had sterile nanners that detracted from her appeal. May have been grower error, but this was the first ever to foxtail and nanner and the only of 5 in this tent to do so. The "Black" of her heritage results in a dark color that I'm not a fan of. The clusters of tiny white nanners contrast against the very dark bud and make it unattractive. When researching "nanners" I found many photos with these similar small foxtails. I believe this to be genetic. A good cure may change my opinion. We'll see. GROW STATS: 365w/avg (250w/veg + 480w/flower) 5 plants in 4x4: BRK - 108g 4AM(1) - 86g 4AM(2) - 99g FOG - 112g DG - 163g TOTAL YIELD: 568g 1.56g/w 35.5g/sf EDIT: After 8+ weeks in the jars, these are quite dense and beautiful. The buds are dark with orange swirls of dried pistils. The smell and taste is strong pine.