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Greetings growmies 🤙🏻
Here is another sea of green style wave of clones. The strain was purchased by user BudXs in the Year 2000 (check him out and send him a few likes). I was sent a seed and had a grow (see: OG Kush 2020 (I)). These are regular clones from that seed.
I don’t know anything beyond the above information, in terms of genetics. My first grow produced some bananas on top of some buds, not great. So it has to greatly perform.
I transplanted these tiny clones a few weeks ago into containers bottom filled with BX Pro Mix, and side filled with a mixture of 10 parts BX Pro Mix: 5 parts worm castings: 1 part Fox Farms Happy Frog Soil. This is day 64.
My lights are a 300 actual watt full spectrum LED and a smaller 50 watt pod of the same construction.
So far just water. These clones are really struggling to produce normal growth, not worried, happens all the time with clones. Visually, looking mutated haha.
Day 71 for these four OG Kush ‘98s. Their parent has been chopped and is drying. Most of them are starting to grow more vigorously. I have been really pushing them to dry out. Your eyes aren’t deceiving you, that last one is basically shriveled. I totally missed how much it had dried. I watered it and have checked since photos, and its normal. It took me a second to even realize which one it was. Lots of funky growth going on. This isn’t too abnormal for clones, I’ve seen it before.
Day 79 for these four OG Kush ‘98 clones - a lineage from BudXs. I transplanted this week, sprayed everyone down in case of pests, and defoliated. I bottom filled with just BX Pro Mix, and then side filled with a mix that was 40 parts BX Pro Mix: 5 Fox Farms Happy Frog: 5 worm castings: 1 ASB Greenworld Sheep Manure Compost: 1 ASB Greenworld Black Earth: 1 ETI Greenhouse Gold Seafood Compost: 1 Blood and Bonemeal pellets: 1 Green Gaia mineralized phosphate (guano): 1 pulverized egg shells. Late updating as I’ve been in side conversation all day!
Day 86 for these four OG Kush ‘98. Adjusted to the soil amendment and springing up. Things have cleared out a bit and there is more room to spread in veg. Just giving water with the soil amended.
Day 93 for these four OG Kush ‘98 clones. This week was a solid maintenance week, and I finally got around to defoliating and stripping much of the vegetation with these ones. I don’t plan on cloning. I also switched veg. tents, so that was also a bonus. Plants are now under two 300 actual watt full spectrum LEDs.
Day 100 four these four sea of green OG Kush ‘98 clones. I had given 24-8-16 All Purpose Miracle Grow with Plant Prod MJ Spike (CalMag) earlier this week. Now I’m just allowing it to clear as I prepare for flower this week. No clones, just stripping veg. as we go. Missed one stem shot, I know BudXs loves the gratuitous girth gauging.
Day 107 for these four OG Kush ‘98 clones, oldschool genetics courtesy of BudXs. One week of flower complete, about six weeks to go. Space and opportunity came on Monday to put these four into flower, usually I am putting plants in on a Thursday and having a bit more than a week for update; this is two days after a week for update. So its not quite a full seven days. These clones shot straight up and are already showing - beware, their mother hermied and made bananas and pollen. I’m ready to pull these suckers if needed. Walk on the wild side. I left them for some of the week and then top dressed with worm castings, blood and bone meal, and Gaia Green mineralized phosphate (guano). My lighting for flower is a 600 watt Vivosun HPS setup. My flower tent is a bit bigger at 6’ x 4’ hung mylar. Big shout out to BudXs and Hellishjam for the support and encouragement. Give them some likes.
Day 114 for these four OG Kush clones. Two weeks of flowering complete, five weeks to go. Major stretch, I’m watching for any unwanted pollen sacs based on my experience. First flowering feeding upcoming next. So far just watching the stretch and watering the top dress through.
Day 121 for the four OG Kush clones. Three weeks of flowering complete, four weeks to go. The mites are still here and much more powerful. They spread across the tent almost overnight, and onto these ones all the same. Ladybugs arrived mid week, but these things take time. They feed in their immediate, and have to have time to feed and lay their own respective eggs. The waiting is brutal. I fed this week, 0-10-10 Alaska Morbloom, with a popsicle stick dip of blackstrap molasses, and Plan Prod MJ Spike (CalMag). Obviously, I don’t want to be in there right now, and I did not notice some of these clones get dried out, BADLY. So you can notice some major droop in the photos, in addition to the pests. Oi 🤦♂️🏻
Day 128 for the four OG Kush ‘98. Four weeks of flowering complete, three weeks to go. The pest wave hasn’t improved much. Overall, OG Kush was getting the mites later and so the progression is delayed. Other parts of my tent improved and I moved some plants outside. The ladies have been munching away but the cat and mouse of populations leaves this in pretty bad shape still. I am really copping out with photos this week, just one general shot and mostly copy and paste description. Sorry not sorry. Midweek, i expect to move the OG Kush outside to get picked apart for at least a week or two. I did give some 0-50-30 Fox Farms Beastie Bloomz (and blackstrap molasses and Plant Prod MJ Spike (CalMag)), but it will be water here on out. The food is likely a waste just given the plant condition.
Day 135 for the OG Kush ‘98 clones. Five weeks of flowering, two weeks to go. The mite plants went outside this week to get beat around by rain and picked clean. Some of these buds aren’t too bad looking. However, not sure they will finish properly at this point in the summer. We’ll see if we can save some flower. If I do harvest the buds will be getting a good scrubbing.
Day 141 for the OG Kush clones. Six weeks of flowering, one week to go. These things have already been wrecked, but I would harvest after this week anyway as they will eventually revert outside. What a load of pitiful formally mited mess, ahh well.
Day 146 for the four OG Kush ‘98 clones. What a mite marathon. Time is now closing, these four are sitting in my garage waiting for harvest. Good thing, rain outside and extreme humidity. I used the flash to hide the mess of my garage and increase picture contrast. I won’t say it ... but it could be worse. Right? Bugman for the win.
This is OG Kush ‘98 which is a specifically selected and preserved straight from the heart of Hogtown, the 6ix, the home of the Leafs. I received these genes in personalized postage from a classy individual and proceeded to grow a big smelly banana. I would not be deterred by smell or by the monstrosity, and cloned it four times producing four little OG Kushlets. Wow, did these babies like to grow.
After hitting a world record in straight stalk shooting I threw them out into the harsh real world for their first job - as mite bait.
My hopes and interest in their growth rate and sheer skyscraping quickly dwindled as I realized I had a bad mite infestation in my flower tent which was rolling over my plants like a tidal wave soaked in deadly blue green algae. The mites were happily on everything, thank you so much, sir, for the lush green fan leaves.
I hired some ladybugs (too late) to establish some rule and order, they brought the population down to a manageable level. After this I still had some weeks to go, OG Kush had plenty of white pistils popping and still was alive and asking to grow. I threw the four outside into the Canadian Maritime summer climate where downpours, heat, and predators dispersed the last of the spider mites. Just the silk and the damaged fan leaves left.
The final work was a thorough bud wash (described below).
The result was similar in smell and flavour to the original OG Kush ‘98 mother. This is consistent through growing to vape, a very strong perfume smell. I’m not sure how else to describe it, the “fragrant” button seems a perfect fit. Personally, I can’t stand this aroma/flavour. Black Rhino is another strain I grew early that also had this same smell, I’m not a fan. Where these four differ from their mothers is that they had better vegging conditions, and overall an improved process, so they revealed a glimmer of hope that there are other flavours with better (OG Kush) plants and with cure. I ended up with more than expected and so the biggest buds had time to show their full flavour profile within the limits of mite and wash. If I were to put it on a hundred point scale, I found like 5-10 % fuel like aroma, that take-your-breath-away sharp whiff of sour. Maybe, just maybe, thats what it should be with different phenotype or better grower.
As stated I did get more than I expected. While the plants came into the wave later this is not necessarily to advantage, having mites attacking the fan leaves while the main bulk is grown usually hinders yield more than if it was perpetually dealing with mites. So I will get a bit emotional and teary for my little OG Kushlets who provided me with a much needed bounty of medicine that sustained me for an appreciated amount of time. I stated I hated the flavour but I was grateful to have jars of the perfume as the rest of my strains were consumed. So, here, I can’t cast my children out, they did exactly as I asked. Like finally seeing them in the spotlight on stage at a spelling bee and them successfully spelling “ Tetrahydrocannabinol.” 😭
The bag appeal was low, the bud texture was stringy and delicate. Orange pistils flaked off constantly. Density was average which isn’t surprising as it got little light in the outdoor period.
How in the world do you rank that experience? Can you consider nostalgia and clutch in the grow experience? I think not. The growth was impressive but the reality is the flavour is god awful. The effects are sativa leaning, just a muddling overall stone and confuse, nothing notable. The reliability is real. I consider this strain like a companion, a partner to help tackle a global pandemic, but to send on its own respective path at conclusion. Yes, its sad, but I’m happy for the time I’ve spent together as our steps become divergent.
Its clear there is much here and so as I sat in a cloud of vape as my guitar gently weeped, pondering
how to do this justice, and everything revealed itself - grow and my affinity for the strain summarized in video. 🇨🇦
[Note: I laughed outloud at the irony and opposite nature of the episode title in this particular opening, so I left it.]
As stated, some extra washing was necessary after having mites crawling on everything, sullying everything with eggs. After the time outside I put OG Kush through a three part wash process to make sure it was consumable. This is an extra step in front of the typical two part process which all harvests undergo.
1 - the first container is about 20Liters of water mixed with 1 cup hydrogen peroxide, 3 tablespoons of baking soda and 3 tablespoons of lemon juice concentrate. I don’t normally do this one as it really scrubs the bud, you will get some flavour loss, but worth it in the case of pests. I tossed all the bud and fan leaves and let everything soak as I wet trimmed.
2 - a container of water mixed with 3 tablespoons of baking soda, 3
tablespoons of lemon juice concentrate.
3 - the last step is a pure water rinse. I then hang to dry as normal.
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