Grow 2 getting close - I'll try to start grow 3 at the start so it's actually a diary :P

[thatguy2001]

After vegging the girls for a couple of months, packed into a 4x8 tent, I moved them to the flower room on June 17th and put them into new 25 gallon pots filled with fresh Roots Original soil.
They are all under 680-780 true watt, full spectrum lights.
This is really a strain test run, with an assortment of plants acquired from clones from a variety of sources. 10 strains in all, there are 9 2*4 platforms, holding a total of 17 plants.
Due to the heat, even in a well-insulated room and with low heat LEDs, I had to run the lights from 9pm until 9am during flower with a 12000 btu portable AC vented out to a CAN filter.

This is when first transplanted. - I did rearrange some of them based on height and expected growth later in the season)

With the plants being so overgrown to start with, I had some issues getting the scrog nets properly placed. It may have worked well, except that I was only able to veg them for one week before the flip, due to having to have them all finish by September 9. I really wanted them to have longer to acclimate to the new pots and grow into the nets.

Chocolate Hashberry July 11

Big MAC July 11

Mob Boss July 11 - solo plant between lights, not scrogged (big mistake).

Dream Queen July 11

Indiana Bubblegum in the back, Blood Orange Tangie in the front July 11

Headband Haze July 11

Black Chocolate Cheesecake July 11

Blue Dream July 11

Polynesian Cookie Haze July 11 (sorry about the blur)

 

[thatguy2001]

125 MB video tour of the girls - July 17
*Polynesian Cookie Haze

 

[thatguy2001]

Chocolate Hashberry August 10

Big Mac Aug 10

Mob Boss - Pulled up everywhere I can - this one wanted to creep along the ground and I hadn't started with a scrog net to help support it. :(

Blood Orange Tangie in the front, Indiana Bubblegum in the back 8/10

Polynesian Cookie Haze 8/10

Blue Dream

Dark Chocolate Cheesecake - never really grew after flipping - most branches didn't reach the net and fell - 8/10

Headband Haze - I can't pull leaves fast enough to allow light down. 8/10

 

[thatguy2001]

Photos from August 21 - Start of week 9

Chocolate Hashberry - This one has 3 scrog net layers and it still goes 9 inches above the top one. I'm having to tie these to the net to keep them from falling over

Big MAC

Mob Boss

Dream Queen - looks like crap - never responded to Cal-Mag - Not sure what it's not happy about, but everyone around her is happy

Indiana Bubblegum and Blood Orange Tangie

Polynesian Cookie Haze

Blue Dream

Dark Chocolate Cheesecake was pulled on day 55 - more than halfway through the estimated harvest range - Probably going to all get processed because it's pretty 'meh'

Headband Haze

 

[thatguy2001]

Last dump of the night (2 posts due to size) - Today's pictures

HH

Blue Dream

Poly Cookie Haze - will probably pull tomorrow - most buds have 30% amber trichs.

Blood Orange Tangie and Indiana Bubblegum

Dream Queen

 

[thatguy2001]

Today's dump - part 2

Mob Boss

Big MAC

Chocolate Hashberry

 

[thatguy2001]

Polynesian Cookie Haze
Massive amount of huge tops

Big Mac tops. I removed these to allow the light to be lowered and give the lower tips a fighting chance. These stretched way too much.

 

[chemistry]

Nice cola's.

 

[smokedareefer]

Nice room

 

[thatguy2001]

Nice room

Thanks, I took an old dilapidated wood shed and tore it down to the studs before rebuilding it into a working unit with power and water. It cost my way more than I expected, but I'm happy with the results.

Speaking of results...
Growing such a variety and having to pull them on September 8th created some challenges. I found that many of the strains just did not pull together enough and ended up producing lots of little buds. I know - I needed to thin those guys out hardcore, but it was a test of sorts (and a lesson to the wife who got mad at me for lollypopping last time.
Since I had one of this plant, two of these, etc, I figured I'd throw out some results as 'per plant'.

Strain	Total bud weight/plant g	A's g	Littles g
Polynesian Cookie Haze	135	125	11
Mob Boss	119	103	16
Indiana Bubblegum	112	95	17
Blue Dream	123	88	35
Blood Orange Tangie	98	75	23
Big MAC	110*	54.5*	56
Dream Queen	99	52	47
Headband Haze	74	41	33
Chocolate Hashberry	67	30	37
Black Cherry Cheesecake	81	20	61

*I know I had a much better yield on the Big Mac, but I had a gallon jar of cola stems on my counter when I went on vacation and the person taking care of my garden smoked half of it before I returned. "about 7 grams" is what he said. lol. oh well, I'm willing to pay that for a plant sitter, but I wish I could have trim and weighed it first.

Final Thoughts:

I don't know what the hell happened with the BBC - those plants grew so healthy and happy - and they looked like they had lots of large colas, but when everything was dry, there was hardly anything there, and what there was were all so little they couldn't be trimmed.

Mob Boss was the shocker to me - it was not given any adequate light - just sat between the lights and never got anywhere near the PAR required for growing, but in it's viney, wild ways, it put out some good size, dense buds. If I ever ran it again, I would love to try training it onto a SCRoG net and see how it could do. As it was, I was just pulling the vines up as best I could throughout the grow.

Headband Haze is just such a mess with its massive amount of leaf and growth - It's really like each plant wants to grow a little jungle - I've grown it twice and regretted it at trim time twice. The finished product is nice, but it's so much work and so disappointing how much waste there is at the end.

The Poly Cookie Haze was a big winner in that it has a nice finished product with good flavor and punch, it yielded great, and it was literally a no hassle plant - It was easy to maintain and with a 92% big/little ratio, bucking and trimming was a breeze.