Juniper's Vernal Follies 2015

[juniper]

Hello Farmers. I'm juniper. I live in Colorado.
This is a 100% medical grow for personal use.
Please, do feel free to question or comment.

5 gallon hempy-buckets, 2 in veg., 2 in flower. Perpetual harvest.
Three parts perlite, one part vermiculite.
Advanced LED XML 150 for veg.
600 HPS for flower.
GH Maxi series adjusted w/ silica (no additives)

Because this grow is for my medicine, I endeavor to keep everything
as simple, efficient, and cost effective as reasonably possible.

Banana Kush, seen here, was put into its bucket today:


I am very optimistic for this clone so far. It grows aggressively fast and has
responded very well to training. Perfect inter-nodal length.
Thin, saw-blade sativa leaves, but hybrid in structure and coloration.
This is likely the orgnkid cut, as its lineage was listed as "OG kush x Banana".

This is the Lemon G x Space Queen:

I've been a little rough with pruning lately but she does grow rather slowly
with strangely bullate leaves. Somewhat vine-like, responding fairly well
to training. I have a feeling this plant will be weird in some way.

These are the Pandora's Box x Trainwreck plants:

There were 3, but the red toothpick plant showed stamenate flowers today.
Just in time, that 2 gallon nursery pot was getting cramped. I hope yellow
toothpick, the plant on the left, turns out female. It has a more hybrid
structure than the squat-indica blue toothpick. We'll see within a day or two.

This is the Albert Walker Bx1, aka "Delbert Walker":

Sunday will be a week in flower. It's a nice plant but it has been discontinued
and will not be mothered. Unique aroma when the stems are rubbed so it
should be interesting to see how the flowers turn out.

This is the Tahoe Alien x Indiana Bubblegum aka "Osage Orange":

Classic kush-type plant, see previous journal for pictures. Produces an average
yield of nice frosty flowers but has been discontinued for further runs. Sunday
will be day three of flower.

 

[north knect]

Lookin good man..it amazes me how many people are mainlining their plants nowadays but with a med grow and limited numbers it is a smart choice to get the most out of her..keep on keepin on pal. NK

 

[juniper]

Thanks man! And yeah, plant limit laws are unnecessary, at best.

But if Johnny Law says I can grow, I just have to keep plant limits, I ain't gonna look a gift horse
in the mouth.

Although, to be fair, I personally have limited numbers so I can water fewer buckets per day.

 

[Harp]

I'm with you on this one. I too grow for personal use. I'm still tryna collect a decent stable of stains I enjoy.
Much karma

 

[juniper]

I've been trying to stock the stable too...now, I have a better idea of what plant(s) would suit my needs.

What strains have you liked so far, Harp?

 

[Harp]

I have yet to find a keeper. I did find an ogk but I beat myself up for not taking a cut. I've ran a couple strains but none that left me at awe. I've got a nice collection of seeds, I'm sure I'll find a keeper in those genos.

What's strains do you like? Or would like?

 

[juniper]

My Apollo 13 cut is great with a 45-50 day finish, but it grows too lanky, with a mediocre yield.
If the Banana Kush turns out how I think it will, it'll replace the Apollo 13.

As far as stuff I've liked, I am enthralled with the flavor and smell of the Golden Goat clone, but the 75
day flower time keeps me from growing it. I actually remember a music festival in 2008 where some
kid from Colorado the next campsite over had a bunch of Golden Goat. When I sampled it again in
2014, it was the same lemon-lime dankness. Green Dot Labs Golden Goat shatter is simply to die for.

I've also got 25 [Stardawg x ('91 Chem x Tres Dawg)] beans I'll be pheno-hunting through next run.
There's gotta be at least one or two funky female keepers in there.

 

[Harp]

My Apollo 13 cut is great with a 45-50 day finish, but it grows too lanky, with a mediocre yield.
If the Banana Kush turns out how I think it will, it'll replace the Apollo 13.

As far as stuff I've liked, I am enthralled with the flavor and smell of the Golden Goat clone, but the 75
day flower time keeps me from growing it. I actually remember a music festival in 2008 where some
kid from Colorado the next campsite over had a bunch of Golden Goat. When I sampled it again in
2014, it was the same lemon-lime dankness. Green Dot Labs Golden Goat shatter is simply to die for.

I've also got 25 [Stardawg x ('91 Chem x Tres Dawg)] beans I'll be pheno-hunting through next run.
There's gotta be at least one or two funky female keepers in there.

Golden goat!! Damn. I tried that in 2k13. My boss gave me a 1/4 of that. I will never forget the goat. True fire for sure. Definitely that stardawg cross is gonna be some fire..

I got some banners revenge I'm looking forward to.

 

[juniper]

Banner's Revenge sounds fire...I hope you get a purple Banner pheno!

 

[juniper]

Yellow Toothpick has displayed pistillate flowers:


Her brothers were culled. She was pruned, lightly defoliated and
placed back into the 24/0 cycle. I can't wait to flower her out next run.

The Prayer Tower just hit curing jars, a darn shame it couldn't get the
extra week it needed to bulk up, but PM won't be an issue anymore, and there's
always the next cycle to think about.

 

[juniper]

I finally have a QWISO process relatively dialled in, both in theory and practice:


Input: 13.90 grams of Prayer Tower lower buds. No shake, no trim. Dry, but uncured.
Buds were frozen inside a mason jar, and rinsed with frozen 91% iso. Gentle swirling
of the jar for 90 seconds, then draining into a secondary mason jar. The flowers were
immediately rinsed again with a small amount of iso for 10 seconds to gather the
remaining product. The washed flower was discarded, no second wash.

The crude extract was filtered with a mesh strainer followed by a secondary filtration with
a standard coffee filter. The solvent was evaporated on a plate, double boiler style, low heat.

Yield: 1.45 grams of the best QWISO I've made to date. The texture is better because of the
lower heat, as is the flavor. It is clearer because the flowers weren't dried and crumbled.
The flavor is somewhat like the prayer tower, almost menthol, earthy, kush.
Total yield 10.4%. Not too shabby.

Suggestions for Improvement: Taking the time to use well-cured product, even if airy, would
boost the flavor, as would using bud from dry-trimmed plants (Prayer Tower was wet trimmed).

Ordering a liter of 99% isopropyl is also a good idea. But it isn't as convenient to source, or as
cost-effective as 91%. People say Safeway stocks it, I'll need to look into that.

Obtaining a series of stainless steel micron screens for filtering is my next purchase. This would
shave time off the process and make a more consistent product.

 

[juniper]

D. Walker @10 days. Just starting to stretch in earnest:

Pistils pushing out of nodes everywhere.

Osage @ 6 days:

Not much happening yet.

 

[juniper]

Prayer Tower has been in jars about a week and is looking pretty decent, in
spite of being harvested a week early:

Earthy-Fruit is the dominant scent profile developing. Another week and it'll be
ready to smoke.

I've dabbled in making edibles many times in the past, but I really applied myself
this time and these Orange-Vanilla sugar cookies w/ orange frosting are the business:

Apparently, orange oil is the dominant flavor in fruity pebbles cereal, because these
taste very similar to that. In the past, I've medicated the frosting, but it makes the
edibles unnecessarily potent and makes the edibles taste too "herbal" and "green".

 

[juniper]

Delbert Walker @ 14 days:

2 weeks in, she's flowering nicely; little golf ball buds setting up. She's stretching more than
anticipated. About 80-90% stretch so far. A smidge unusual for something that forms hedges
in her veg. stage w/ nodes practically on top of each other. I think it'd make a nice SOG plant.

I acquired some concentrate from Green Dot made from the same clone:

Excellent flavor, different than your garden variety indica. Very heavy; feel it behind the eyes after
a dab.

Osage Orange @ 10 days:

Pistils popping out of nodes and stretch has begun.

And in related news:
Both flowering plants were treated with Eagle 20 last night as a prophylactic measure.
Vegetative plants are due for a treatment sometime next week.
The female Yellow Toothpick plant (Pandora's Box x Trainwreck) threw some stamenate flowers
and was culled.
Clones were taken from Banana Kush and Lemon G x Space Queen.
Lemon G x Space Queen will be referred to hereafter as "Cadmium Green".

 

[juniper]

D. Walker @ 17 days:

Almost done stretching, I hope. Stripped a few smaller branches and did a light defoliation.
She isn't too leafy to begin with, though.

Osage @ 13 days:

Stretching a bit, pistils everywhere.
I might yield 3 oz off this plant total.

 

[juniper]

Cadmium Green doing well, displaying her namesake color:

This plant reeks more than any other vegetative plant I've ran. I haven't seen
the finished flowers, but that certainly bodes well! I'm replacing the carbon
filter after the plants currently in flower finish up so it won't be an issue.
I thought she was a slow grower but once she settles in she's pretty average in
speed.

Banana Kush looking healthy:

Did an extensive defoliation a few days ago and she's recovering nicely.

I really like being back in perlite/vermiculite. pH is now stable in the veg.
buckets, so I can water them every other day, if need be.

 

[north knect]

Love ur girls man..looks like there loved lots..great training and technique!! Happy farming :D

 

[juniper]

Osage @ 17 days:

Stretching a bit, about 6 inches shorter than the Walker still.
Hopefully she'll catch up, somewhat. Last run, I harvested
her at 49 days. This run, I'll give her at least 56 days.

D. Walker @ 21 days:

Stretches almost as much as the A13. Looks about done, though.
35 days to go, approximately, assuming an 8 week strain.

 

[Burned Haze]

Man I love your thread , keep on truckin. Subbed !

 

[juniper]

I have two new additions to the collection.

Island Sweet Skunk:

Very sativa phenotype. It needs a little love but one can see
the thin, narrow leaves and chartreuse coloration. 65 days.

Purple Elephant:

I was told this is the "jojo rizo" cut, but I can't verify that.
The gentleman said it took 63 days and yielded well, but it
may not turn purple for me.

Anyone who has any information or experience with the
"Purple Elephant" cut, your input would be appreciated.