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Okay, y'all. I know I said I wasn't going to do another full-on grow log, but I'm still not working and have nothing but time.... It seemed kinda silly of me to be like,"Pssshhhh.... Grow logs are too much work..." So here we are.
Since I've been growing nothing but Bodhi the last few runs, I decided to mix it up this round and throw in a couple stains from different seed companies. The Tangerine Kush seeds were freebies and I've been curious about them since I received them. The only strains I've smoked from them before are their Starkiller (LOVED that one) and their Ghost Train Haze (wasn't impressed with that one at all). I like tangerines and I like (some) Kushes, so hopefully I'll dig this hybrid. Here's the description from Rare Dankness:
"Dank Tangerine flavor and smell on this beautiful hybrid. Get that sweet, fruity tangerine flavor on the inhale and that kushy/spicy experience on the exhale. She gives a great soaring high, with exceptional flavor. She is a little stretchy, medium yielder, with denser structure red haired buds. One of the BEST tasting OG’s around." I've read online that this one has it all, with the exception of a relatively short-lived high. Guess I'll find out if that's true or not.
The KOS El Jefe Thai is a strain I bought a while back, maybe two years ago. It's one that I've been itching to get at since I got them in the mail, but I wanted to make sure I kind of knew what I was doing before I popped them, just because they're not around anymore and if they turn out as well as I think they will, I wanna be able to keep them around. In case y'all don't know, KOS (Kingdom Organic Seeds) is that dude The Rev from "Skunk Magazine." Yeah, I read "Skunk" mag occasionally, so what? Haha! I like that mag and The Rev, for the most part, although I do think that a lot of his methods are a little, uh.... I dunno. Overly-complicated? His soil mix is a little redundant for sure and his teas are a joke, but I really enjoy his enthusiasm and it seems like he truly believes in his hybrids, genuinely cares about cannabis and the growing community at-large and isn't out to make a quick buck. He's the reason I got into organic growing in the first place, so I'm not gonna talk shit about him.
Anyway, here's his description of the El Jefe Thai: "As I understand it the original Durban Thai Highflyer (DTHF) was made using the Thai as the male, so the Durban resin qualities should be at least fairly pronounced in this hybrid. Durban Poison is one of my favorite sativas ever – and she is 'ancient' enough I believe to dominate this cross for the greater part with the Thai. All the colors of the Thai and the Durban Poison were expressed by the DTHF f2 mother of this hybrid so extremely good chances these offspring El Jefe Thai (or perhaps half of them) will have very purple calyxes and/or pink/purple pistils; very pretty!
The mother smelled strongly of lemons and blonde hashish, and the intense acrid smells of the father Bubble n Squeak should really pronounce these exotic sativa flavors and smells as well. A big, gooey, and large yielding sativa dominant with notable South African and South East Asian expressions should be the ticket here; plus I'm thinking purple purple purple, but maybe not – great odds though IMHO. Should be ultra soaring, very motivational and inspiring.
Flowering times should be around 10 weeks, but I can’t be completely sure where that one will end up. The mommy and daddy both were very happy and healthy in my garden, and I chose the Bubble n Squeak pheno that I thought looked more capable outdoors as the paternal breeder. So the structures of these plants should be quite sturdy and large. Hopefully the small stretching trait will be dominant, and it should be as it came from the male and it is a structural element; great odds.
Genetics: Durban Thai Highflyer F2 (Purple Thai Pheno) SOG Bubble n Squeak F1"
Sounds like a good cross to me.
I don't think we even need to get into why I'm growing the Bodhi gear. I've loved everything I've grown from him so far. I did grow one of his Clusterfunks about a year ago, but I lost it in a drying mishap and never got to sample it, so I'm pretty excited about this one. These are the original Clusterfunk seeds (91 Chem JB x 88G13HP), btw, and not the newer ones. The difference between the older ones and the newer ones are that the female used in the original was the Chemdog 91 JB, as opposed to the real 91 Chem. As far as I can tell from what I've found online, the Chem JB is more Sour Diesel-ish, while the 91 Chem is just that: 91 Chem. Whatever... I remember really liking the way the one CF I grew out last year turned out, as far as appearances, smell and yield are concerned, so I expect this one to be no different. Watch, now it'll turn out completely different haha!
The Fuzz is also from Bodhi, using the same 91 Chem JB mother as the Clusterfunk crossed with High and Lonesome's Appalachia male. Everything I've grown from Bodhi that utilized the Appalachia male has turned out fire and yielded really well, so I hope this one does, too. I don't know what I was thinking growing two strains with the same genetics, though. I had shitty germination rates this time (totally my fault; I let the soil dry out way too much when I sowed the seeds and only got 50% germ rates, so The Fuzz seeds were planted eight days after the other strains), but I typically like to keep everything different, with different parents on both the female and male sides of the hybrids in any given grow. In any event, it should be cool to see how the Clusterfunk and The Fuzz's compare to each other, since Bodhi used the same female for each strain but different males. There's a pretty good grow log on icmag of The Fuzz that was posted by Kalyx, in case y'all just can't wait to see how my log turns out and have to know RIGHT NOW haha.
All of the seeds besides The Fuzz were sown on February 25 and all were above ground March 1. On March 4, I planted The Fuzz seeds and all were above ground by March 9. I say,"All." What I meant was all of the ones that actually popped were above ground by then. Like I said, I fucked up and let the soil dry out way too much, so I only got 50% germ rates on all of them except the Fuzz seeds, which were 100%. It was just really, really dry in LA around that time and the soil was drying out completely between the time I went to bed and the time I woke up.
Here's a pic of them a couple weeks into it:
I gotta say, the El Jefe Thais were the most bizarre-looking seedlings I've ever seen. They didn't even really look like cannabis until about their third or fourth set of leaves. Here's a close-up of one of them:
When they first started out, I was thinking,"The Rev is a fucking HACK! I can't believe I fell for his tricks!" haha, but they look great now. In fact, one of them is my favorite plant in the garden.
Alright, so this post is getting a little long. I'm gonna come back in a minute with pics of every plant (I know that's all y'all care about), right after I seal up my grow room and smoke a bowl and a cigarette. In the meantime, enjoy this pic of Bodhi's Mountain Temple from my last grow that I'm gonna blaze right now!
Since I've been growing nothing but Bodhi the last few runs, I decided to mix it up this round and throw in a couple stains from different seed companies. The Tangerine Kush seeds were freebies and I've been curious about them since I received them. The only strains I've smoked from them before are their Starkiller (LOVED that one) and their Ghost Train Haze (wasn't impressed with that one at all). I like tangerines and I like (some) Kushes, so hopefully I'll dig this hybrid. Here's the description from Rare Dankness:
"Dank Tangerine flavor and smell on this beautiful hybrid. Get that sweet, fruity tangerine flavor on the inhale and that kushy/spicy experience on the exhale. She gives a great soaring high, with exceptional flavor. She is a little stretchy, medium yielder, with denser structure red haired buds. One of the BEST tasting OG’s around." I've read online that this one has it all, with the exception of a relatively short-lived high. Guess I'll find out if that's true or not.
The KOS El Jefe Thai is a strain I bought a while back, maybe two years ago. It's one that I've been itching to get at since I got them in the mail, but I wanted to make sure I kind of knew what I was doing before I popped them, just because they're not around anymore and if they turn out as well as I think they will, I wanna be able to keep them around. In case y'all don't know, KOS (Kingdom Organic Seeds) is that dude The Rev from "Skunk Magazine." Yeah, I read "Skunk" mag occasionally, so what? Haha! I like that mag and The Rev, for the most part, although I do think that a lot of his methods are a little, uh.... I dunno. Overly-complicated? His soil mix is a little redundant for sure and his teas are a joke, but I really enjoy his enthusiasm and it seems like he truly believes in his hybrids, genuinely cares about cannabis and the growing community at-large and isn't out to make a quick buck. He's the reason I got into organic growing in the first place, so I'm not gonna talk shit about him.
Anyway, here's his description of the El Jefe Thai: "As I understand it the original Durban Thai Highflyer (DTHF) was made using the Thai as the male, so the Durban resin qualities should be at least fairly pronounced in this hybrid. Durban Poison is one of my favorite sativas ever – and she is 'ancient' enough I believe to dominate this cross for the greater part with the Thai. All the colors of the Thai and the Durban Poison were expressed by the DTHF f2 mother of this hybrid so extremely good chances these offspring El Jefe Thai (or perhaps half of them) will have very purple calyxes and/or pink/purple pistils; very pretty!
The mother smelled strongly of lemons and blonde hashish, and the intense acrid smells of the father Bubble n Squeak should really pronounce these exotic sativa flavors and smells as well. A big, gooey, and large yielding sativa dominant with notable South African and South East Asian expressions should be the ticket here; plus I'm thinking purple purple purple, but maybe not – great odds though IMHO. Should be ultra soaring, very motivational and inspiring.
Flowering times should be around 10 weeks, but I can’t be completely sure where that one will end up. The mommy and daddy both were very happy and healthy in my garden, and I chose the Bubble n Squeak pheno that I thought looked more capable outdoors as the paternal breeder. So the structures of these plants should be quite sturdy and large. Hopefully the small stretching trait will be dominant, and it should be as it came from the male and it is a structural element; great odds.
Genetics: Durban Thai Highflyer F2 (Purple Thai Pheno) SOG Bubble n Squeak F1"
Sounds like a good cross to me.
I don't think we even need to get into why I'm growing the Bodhi gear. I've loved everything I've grown from him so far. I did grow one of his Clusterfunks about a year ago, but I lost it in a drying mishap and never got to sample it, so I'm pretty excited about this one. These are the original Clusterfunk seeds (91 Chem JB x 88G13HP), btw, and not the newer ones. The difference between the older ones and the newer ones are that the female used in the original was the Chemdog 91 JB, as opposed to the real 91 Chem. As far as I can tell from what I've found online, the Chem JB is more Sour Diesel-ish, while the 91 Chem is just that: 91 Chem. Whatever... I remember really liking the way the one CF I grew out last year turned out, as far as appearances, smell and yield are concerned, so I expect this one to be no different. Watch, now it'll turn out completely different haha!
The Fuzz is also from Bodhi, using the same 91 Chem JB mother as the Clusterfunk crossed with High and Lonesome's Appalachia male. Everything I've grown from Bodhi that utilized the Appalachia male has turned out fire and yielded really well, so I hope this one does, too. I don't know what I was thinking growing two strains with the same genetics, though. I had shitty germination rates this time (totally my fault; I let the soil dry out way too much when I sowed the seeds and only got 50% germ rates, so The Fuzz seeds were planted eight days after the other strains), but I typically like to keep everything different, with different parents on both the female and male sides of the hybrids in any given grow. In any event, it should be cool to see how the Clusterfunk and The Fuzz's compare to each other, since Bodhi used the same female for each strain but different males. There's a pretty good grow log on icmag of The Fuzz that was posted by Kalyx, in case y'all just can't wait to see how my log turns out and have to know RIGHT NOW haha.
All of the seeds besides The Fuzz were sown on February 25 and all were above ground March 1. On March 4, I planted The Fuzz seeds and all were above ground by March 9. I say,"All." What I meant was all of the ones that actually popped were above ground by then. Like I said, I fucked up and let the soil dry out way too much, so I only got 50% germ rates on all of them except the Fuzz seeds, which were 100%. It was just really, really dry in LA around that time and the soil was drying out completely between the time I went to bed and the time I woke up.
Here's a pic of them a couple weeks into it:
I gotta say, the El Jefe Thais were the most bizarre-looking seedlings I've ever seen. They didn't even really look like cannabis until about their third or fourth set of leaves. Here's a close-up of one of them:
When they first started out, I was thinking,"The Rev is a fucking HACK! I can't believe I fell for his tricks!" haha, but they look great now. In fact, one of them is my favorite plant in the garden.
Alright, so this post is getting a little long. I'm gonna come back in a minute with pics of every plant (I know that's all y'all care about), right after I seal up my grow room and smoke a bowl and a cigarette. In the meantime, enjoy this pic of Bodhi's Mountain Temple from my last grow that I'm gonna blaze right now!
