Super Tai X (Ice Cool X Cream Caramel)

NEW JOURNAL TIME!!! Aight, so this will be my second consecutive grow in a hot minute. I feel like i worked the kinks out. Now its time to kill it. Going SOG for this grow. Planning on 3 strains, 3 plants each. 9 pots in a 4x4. 3 gallon, fabric. Taller orientation pots over wider. FoxFarm Coco Loco. Using generic LEDs as of now, but i plan to fill the tent with SpiderFarmer 2000s in the very near future. This is a sneak peak. I will be popping the beans soon and adding photos respectively. As always, stay safe and happy growing:) Wow wow wow. Turns out my last "autos" had some photos in it. This delayed my next grow, but they are now well on their way.

Today is day 9 from seed. The front three/left girls are the cream mandarin. So far, they are all taking off. I really really need to get the new lights i was planning on getting. In the meantime, the girls are doing great. I will add more photos this week.

Well, looks like two of the girls have already showed their sex on day 17! So far, they are girls!!! After some fan-leaf tucking on the oldest girls, my hands smell tropical and orange-y. I can tell this one is going to get STANKY. The rate of growth is really shocking me. They are taking off! I will be ordering some Spiderfarmer SF2000s by the time they flower. Smoooooooth sailing! Eazy peazy! Never even gone over 150 PPM yet!

These girls are LOVING the LST!!! I can already see the benefits of tucking fan leaves, since these ladies have been clearly aiming their energy towards side branches that Ive exposed day after day. All three have shown their sex at this point-I have three healthy ladies!! All the girls have white 'hairs' on their main stalk, no bulges in this tent allowed!!! Just recently started some foliar feeding of FoxFarm FlowersKiss, with seemingly great results. In just a few days I will be receiving my NEW LIGHTS!!!! They are a quantum board type growlight. I was originally planning on buying a pair of SpiderFarmer SF2000s for my 4x4, but found some different lights recently that caught my eye. They supposedly use the same samsung diodes and meanwell driver, just in a more spread out organization of the diodes. I will be rocking a clean 400W draw from the lights in the 4x4, which is really low and efficient. Update 10/12 Well. Two of the three ladies are now in preflower on day 24! Looks like next week will be the beginning of flower! Update 10/15 All 9 girls in the tent have started preflowering, which is a great sign. These girls are developing a tropical citrus nose so far, not overly loud.

---10/18/20--- Today is technically Day 30 from seed, although the pics are from last night, D29. So far the ladies are developing nicely! All three are still in preflower. Two of the three ladies are very tall and stretchy with less side branches, while one is a tad shorter and wider with her growth. All three ladies smell AMAZING!!! Like a skunky, slightly tropical orange. Tucking these ladies daily is a JOY! They leave my hands smelling like heaven. This round, I am deciding to ride the fine line of underwatering these ladies, since I feel my last batch was overwatered early on and stunted. I am also deciding to NOT snip fan leaves right now. I will still defoliate the lower areas in a few weeks here, but I am deciding to keep stress to a minimum. They are getting HUNGRY and THIRSTY though, as I will need to increase watering volume and PPMs to give these ladies what they need. They are really starting to grow! Thanks for following along ;) ---10/20/20--- These ladies are definitely stretching out and getting taller by the day. I have recently upped their nutes to keep up with how hungry they are with their growth! These are definitely sativas with how they are developing! Although they do have some yellowing out near the bottom from being underfed, they seem very happy.

---10/24/20--- Well. These ladies are showing classic signs of underfeeding and have slowed down their growth. I think I am having some troubles with the nutes I am mixing together. I have a hunch that some of them are clashing and reacting with each other. To fix this, I decided to order a new line-up of nutrients and stop using my pieced-together regiment. These ladies are going to react nicely to the higher PPMs. Stay tuned! ---10/26/20--- I figured out my nute issue. Turns out my base nutes were having a reaction with my flower booster and organic nutes. I also found out my organic PH buffer was reacting with my nute regiment.... Switched to almost pure FF at a whopping 950 PPM with little nutes and effort. My new nutes are coming in the upcoming days. In the meantime, i can already see the positive response from the heavier feeding. CM² is turning purple?........ WHA....? Oh and these ladies are smelling so FINE. wow. Like a dank, tropical mandarin orange. I do get a deep creaminess at times as well. I am hoping I fixed my nute issues early enough. Regardless, these ladies are filling their space and still LOVING the lights. It feels so good to have a full, happy tent. Added more fans for added upper airflow! ---10/29/20--- MAMA MIA!!! Yo boy pulled a stupid move. I tried training CM² and ended up bending a branch at the base. I quickly stopped applying pressure to that branch once it gave out(bent), so I am thinking it will recover. This girl is already mid-flower and made her side-branches super rigid. Although CM² is the shortest, she has by far the thickest side branches. She also has the most bud developement. This plant has to be a different Pheno than the other two, considering the side and how much quicker this plant is maturing. This girl also grew different than the other two ladies, staying compact with very verticle side branches. In other words, I was trying to gently open this lady up a little. Looks like I was too late to properly LST this one, even though CM² is ironically the only one that needed it. Now that I have been feeding heavier, I can see visible improvement on all three ladies. CM¹ and CM³ have more of a sour, tropical orange smell, while CM² has an interesting creaminess taking over her nose.

---11/2--- This week I decided to focus mainly on CM² since she is the furthest along, making me think she is an indica pheno. Shes only 45 days old but looks very far long in flower. Her nose is a very sharp, sour cream. I am checking the trichomes, and she is looking partly cloudy. She is hardly growing at this point, mainly bulking up a tad more day by day. The other two ladies seem to be in early flower at this point. Oh and I almost forgot to mention.... the branch I bent is actually doing better than the others. She almost.... appreciated it? If it was a break, itd be a different story. She shook it off. ----11/5---- Well. CM² is practically finished. She is now mostly cloudy with amber popping up. She smells so strong and is overpowering the other ladies. I am wondering how many phenos I will end up with of these ladies, considering different plant structure for most of the ladies. CM¹ and CM² had similar structure, although CM² remained small and started flowing almost instantly. CM¹ is taking as long as the others, but gives off a much stronger citrus nose, whereas CM² smells super loud, sour, and creamy. I am counting down the days till I harvest CM²! She is almost finished!! CM¹ does NOT like airflow. She is experiencing wind-burn on the fan leaves that are moving around due to my fans. (After further investigation and looking back, I realized I should have classified this as a Mag deficiency, oops...) My girls are loving the nutes so far!

----Nov9 2020---- It seems this girl is showing signs of overfeeding. I decided to focus mainly on CM² this week since she will be ready for harvest any day here now. Plus, the other ladies are still in early flower, so they are nothing crazy to see lol This short little girl is really starting to have a sour, creamy scent. I believe she will be ready any day here now, although I am finding it hard to believe that a plant would finish from seed to harvest in this short of time. Weird, but not impossible!

Chopped this lady on Nov12, making it Day 55 from seed. Most of the trichomes were cloudy with some amber, so i figured it was time to chop her. She dried for almost 8 full days before I trimmed her and threw it all into jars to cure. I used a cardboard box to increase the humidity closer to 50% whereas its very dry (30%RH) where I am this time of year. I think this actually worked out pretty well. Her buds turned out to be very very dense and chunky!! I cured her for a solid 3 weeks, it seems she needs longer though. Her nose is mostly creamy with notes of mandarin. This girl smells different than the rest. 45 grams from a tiny little gal, not too bad. Not many airy buds at all on this one. I wish I could replicate this pheno and fill a 4x4 tent with at least 16 of them to nicely fill the space. Nutrient wise, I ended up slightly overfeeding this girl, as she was showing beginning signs of nute lockout. I would definitely grow this strain again

----Nov.19---- Heres a quick update pic from the week. CM¹ is almost ready to be harvested. She is developing thick thick, juicy buds, which is surprising considering how skinny her stems are. I will be adding the harvest of CM¹ now! She turned out to be a beaut!

Harvested on Day67, this was a small and fast lady! Her stems were skinnier than most plants Ive grown, although her buds were massive. For how quick and small she is, I was surprised to get 75g dry. I would recommend this strain to anyone. The phenos are a bit random, as well as the size of the plant, but the yields are great and honestly all the phenos are fire.