McBudz - Twilight, Great White Shark, Master Kush - 2009

[McBudz]

DP Twilight:

A beautiful purple variety with high yields and an Afghan taste. Heavy buds and high. 100% Indica.

Flowering period: 7 - 8 weeks
Harvest time outdoor: end of Sept., 1st week of Oct.



GHS Great White Shark:

T OF Awards:
1st prize Bio HTCC 1997

Pedigree:
Super Skunk, Brazilian
and South Indian.

Strength:
Seductive stoned feeling
that has the strength of
jaws.... red eyes and soft knees!
THC: 14.0%
CBD: 1.7%
CBN: 0.6%

Flowering time:
Indoor: will be ready in 50
days with a yield of 500 to
800 gr/sqm.
Outdoor: finishes in the
Northern emisphere by
end September, while in
the Southern hemisphere
it will be ready by
March/April.



DP Master Kush:

A F1 cross between two different Hindu-kush strains. Yield is high. Excellent taste and strong high. One of our favorites. Flowering period: 8 - 9 weeks Harvest time outdoor: last week of Oct.




All seeds were bought as FEM seeds. I have sprouted one of each. I plan to bring them to flower in soil and clone each one 3-4 weeks into flower. Hopefully by then I will have the ebb & gro system up and running. And the clones will go into the hydro.

To prepare for the ebb & gro system's 55 gallon res I have upgraded my RO filter to a high volume Merlin Garden Pro System. I have not determined hoy many of the 12 sites I can use in my current grow tent. 8 -10 is my best guess as of now.

I have also purchased a continuous monitoring ph/ec/ppm/temp meter. Gro-Check by Hanna.

FOr the soil aspect I will use Fox Farms Ocean Forest with 1 gallon per 1.8cuft of FF Big/Chunky Perlite added. Also 1 cup of pulverized dolomitic lime.

I currently have plants in my flower room at 27 days. So these will veg until I have room in my tent. 4 plants should be done flowering in about 5 weeks.

The soil plants will be in 5 gallon pots.

Equipment:

T5 2ft x 6 bulb

2 x 600 watt Lumatek / Hortilux Super HPS 600 bulbs

2 x 400 watt Lumatek / Hortilux Blue MH 400 bulbs (may or may not get used)

449 CFM vortex fan

2 x Arctic Sun Air Cooled reflectors

Secret Jardin Dark Room DR150W grow hut.

Foothill Filters 6 x 24 Active Carbon filter

Pending: CAP Ebb & Gro Hydro system

The top of my grow tent averages low to mid 80'sF

RH 30-50% this time of year.

Soil Nutrients: (based on nute program I use for current WW grow. Will tweak as needed/ if needed for the different Strains)

During veg I use

Age Old Grow 15ml per gallon every other watering
1 tsp epsom salt per gallon every watering
1 TBS Big Bloom every watering
pH down to 6.7 (soil tend to drop it to 6.3-6.4)

During flower I use:

Tiger Bloom 9ml per Gal every watering
Grow Big 3ml per gal week 1,3-5
Cal-Mag+ 5ml per Gal every watering
Green Stay 5ml per liter foliar spray twice a week
pH up to 6.7 (soil tend to drop it to 6.3-6.4)



Hydro Nutrients: TBD


Let the fun begin

[Brnz36]

that sounds excellent. definitely want to keep an eye on this one.

[flyfishinrock]

nice, looking forward to this one McBudz! Have you used Dutch Passion beans befor? I was looking at a 40 pack for $100 not fem'd though.

[riverrat]

Nice pic of strains I am currently growing the Great white shark. I seen you were growing this strain thought I would shoot you some pics of my Great white sharks at 24 days of flowering. Sorry about the quality I had to take a photo with one hand and reflect the light hood with the other hand. They are looking and smelling so tasty so here is a little weed porn for yall. And by the way the two on the left are the white sharks the one on the right is ghs BIG BANG.

[PHATBLUNT420]

consider me subscribed!!
good luck. which i doubt u need. (;

[curlybud]

Come on McBudz let's see some pics of the little ones!!

[McBudz]

Originally Posted by flyfishinrock

nice, looking forward to this one McBudz! Have you used Dutch Passion beans befor? I was looking at a 40 pack for $100 not fem'd though.

Never used DP before. So far so good. 1 twilight did not crack though for whatever reason. Oh well.

Originally Posted by PHATBLUNT420

consider me subscribed!!
good luck. which i doubt u need. (;

Thanks!

Originally Posted by curlybud

Come on McBudz let's see some pics of the little ones!!

Just got in from work. I'll put some up later.

Originally Posted by riverrat

Nice pic of strains I am currently growing the Great white shark. I seen you were growing this strain thought I would shoot you some pics of my Great white sharks at 24 days of flowering. Sorry about the quality I had to take a photo with one hand and reflect the light hood with the other hand. They are looking and smelling so tasty so here is a little weed porn for yall. And by the way the two on the left are the white sharks the one on the right is ghs BIG BANG.

Thanks for the pic. Now I really can't wait for that GWS to flower. Those plants look really good. Your about 5 days behind my current WW's

[riverrat]

Originally Posted by McBudz

Never used DP before. So far so good. 1 twilight did not crack though for whatever reason. Oh well.



Thanks!





Just got in from work. I'll put some up later.





Thanks for the pic. Now I really can't wait for that GWS to flower. Those plants look really good. Your about 5 days behind my current WW's

I will have to check out your WW to see how they compare... Keep rockin and growin. Do you have current pics up?

[McBudz]

Originally Posted by riverrat

I will have to check out your WW to see how they compare... Keep rockin and growin. Do you have current pics up?

Within a few days they are current. Some new ones will go up later.

[McBudz]

Seedlings. twilight germed a bit before the other 2 thats why its a wee bit bigger.

Left the tungsten light filter on so they look a bit blue under the floro's.

[Harry Red]

Nice selection of strains, McBudz. It the kinds of strains I look at on the seed sites and think, "I'd like to grow that"

I'm looking forward to this one.



Harry

[four20friend]

great pick on the strains.I look forward to your smoke report.

[McBudz]

Some baby pics..


Twilight





GWS



MK

[flyfishinrock]

Looking good McBuddy. I have a ques. for ya; when you LST off the side how do you keep them from tipping over when the become larger? Do you kind-of zig-zag the LST back and forth to distribute the weight or do you trim to keep a good balance, or..........?

[McBudz]

I am not too far from topping. Once I top then I will manage each seperate branch and basically LST outwards in a dartboard or spider web fashion. I just balance on feel and sight. If I see a bare spot in the tangled mess I pull the next highest branch that way. Until I top I will manage the main stem around the rim of the pot in a spiral fashion. But I doubt I need to look that far ahead since topping will happen in the next week or so for the twilight. She's getting nice tight node stacks. I am going to wait for 6-7 good nodes on this one.

Here is a good example for my WW clone grow. You can see the branches almost making a big cross. I actually grabbed them a few at a time here and tied em down at the 4 pints of the compass so to say. This was very early in flowering. Shortly after this I cut the strings and really spread the branches out as evenly as possible in the dartboard / wheel spoke fashion.


You really want to train them early on before the branches stiffen up. During the early veg and the initial bloom stretch the branches are nice and flexible and take well to being manipulated.