TheFertilizer
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Well, I had to start over, and I wanted to wait until I actually had some established clones and stuff before starting up this journal.
This is Blackberry Kush. It's from a bagseed, but I'm pretty sure of the pedigree because the last time I grew Blackberry Kush it was also from bagseed, and it looks just like the same plant. It's a great strain, I sometimes worry about working with bagseed of a strain that seems to go hermie a lot, but so far it's been a great one to work with. It's heavy on Afghani genetics, but there's some dispute about the exact lineage, but it's definitely an indica dominant. I have been harvesting it at 9 weeks into flower and like the result. I did a little review on it in the strain review section.
Anyway, the thing is, I really like the taste and the bud structure, plus it makes great concentrates. I have looked around for seeds online but it seems like a clone-only specimen ( except with it self-pollinates ) and so I want to hang on to it. That being said, I have some other genetics I'd really like to try, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do to preserve the strain but I am pretty sold on using collidal silver to make some feminized seeds.
Well, first things first, and I just barely got these clones established. I planted them in clear cups, sleeved in blue ones, that way I could keep an eye on the root development. Today they were reaching the bottoms so I popped them into one gallon containers of Fox Farms Happy Frog.
One of them I don't think is going to make it, and I'm actually going to need to cull some out anyway, but for now they're all in their 1 gallon homes for now. Eventually I need to end up with 6 total, and I'm going to keep the mother alive, but I'm not sure what I want to do with her.
Basically my options are...
1. Put the mother in a corner under some 85W florescent and veg it out while the clones finish up and just keep taking cuts off it as needed
or
2. Flower the mother and put the clones under the florescent so that way I get some medicine before a full veg/bloom cycle
Each option has their draw backs, with 1 being the obvious that I have to wait longer to harvest, and I'm almost out of meds, so that's a big factor against it. On the other hand, if I flower the mother out and then the clones as well, then I'm going to have to take more clones at some point before I flower, or try to do it after they've flowered... I haven't had very much success with the second.
Anyway, for the mean time I accidentally let the mother develop a magnesium deficiency, so I need to let her recover anyway. She's going to be 3 months old in two days, and hasn't even rooted into the 7 gallon pot, so I figure I should give her some more veg time anyway. Plus I just did some FIM'ing and topping on her branches... She's had quite the life.
I WAS training her to be kind of a mainline/manifold setup...
The rest of the plants around her were Platinum Girl Scout Cookies, still not really sure what happened to them, you can follow that in my other journal. Anyway, I decided on culling them and using all these branches off the Blackberry Kush to start over.
I think this picture says it all... It was like the one healthy plant in an oasis of dying ones. It had the same treatment as the others too, but like last time this Blackberry Kush always stayed strong. I'm not really too prideful to admit I'd like to keep a strain that's hard to kill around.
In the next couple weeks I'm also going to be getting a second tent. I'm not sure what size, thinking about another 4x4 since I have the room. I'm probably going to try to find a nicer light so that it can be a veg/nursery tent though. So in the meantime, I'm just basically letting these grow.
I also ended up toping and FIM'ing the tops on the mother too. So now there are two branches with two growing tops, and two with three growing tops. I think it will be cool to see what that looks like while flowering. Kind of hard to see the 3 new tops on the FIMs. I think doing them all at once probably stressed her out, so I'm expecting her to start growing more in the next week or two now that she's got new tops going.
Anyway, that's all for now. Still wondering if I want to get a 4x4 tent or something smaller. I remember the one I have was a real pain to put together, and I can't imagine it would be easier with another one already in the room...
Leaving this last one up just to see how much she improves by my next update...

This is Blackberry Kush. It's from a bagseed, but I'm pretty sure of the pedigree because the last time I grew Blackberry Kush it was also from bagseed, and it looks just like the same plant. It's a great strain, I sometimes worry about working with bagseed of a strain that seems to go hermie a lot, but so far it's been a great one to work with. It's heavy on Afghani genetics, but there's some dispute about the exact lineage, but it's definitely an indica dominant. I have been harvesting it at 9 weeks into flower and like the result. I did a little review on it in the strain review section.
Anyway, the thing is, I really like the taste and the bud structure, plus it makes great concentrates. I have looked around for seeds online but it seems like a clone-only specimen ( except with it self-pollinates ) and so I want to hang on to it. That being said, I have some other genetics I'd really like to try, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do to preserve the strain but I am pretty sold on using collidal silver to make some feminized seeds.
Well, first things first, and I just barely got these clones established. I planted them in clear cups, sleeved in blue ones, that way I could keep an eye on the root development. Today they were reaching the bottoms so I popped them into one gallon containers of Fox Farms Happy Frog.

One of them I don't think is going to make it, and I'm actually going to need to cull some out anyway, but for now they're all in their 1 gallon homes for now. Eventually I need to end up with 6 total, and I'm going to keep the mother alive, but I'm not sure what I want to do with her.
Basically my options are...
1. Put the mother in a corner under some 85W florescent and veg it out while the clones finish up and just keep taking cuts off it as needed
or
2. Flower the mother and put the clones under the florescent so that way I get some medicine before a full veg/bloom cycle
Each option has their draw backs, with 1 being the obvious that I have to wait longer to harvest, and I'm almost out of meds, so that's a big factor against it. On the other hand, if I flower the mother out and then the clones as well, then I'm going to have to take more clones at some point before I flower, or try to do it after they've flowered... I haven't had very much success with the second.
Anyway, for the mean time I accidentally let the mother develop a magnesium deficiency, so I need to let her recover anyway. She's going to be 3 months old in two days, and hasn't even rooted into the 7 gallon pot, so I figure I should give her some more veg time anyway. Plus I just did some FIM'ing and topping on her branches... She's had quite the life.
I WAS training her to be kind of a mainline/manifold setup...



The rest of the plants around her were Platinum Girl Scout Cookies, still not really sure what happened to them, you can follow that in my other journal. Anyway, I decided on culling them and using all these branches off the Blackberry Kush to start over.
I think this picture says it all... It was like the one healthy plant in an oasis of dying ones. It had the same treatment as the others too, but like last time this Blackberry Kush always stayed strong. I'm not really too prideful to admit I'd like to keep a strain that's hard to kill around.

In the next couple weeks I'm also going to be getting a second tent. I'm not sure what size, thinking about another 4x4 since I have the room. I'm probably going to try to find a nicer light so that it can be a veg/nursery tent though. So in the meantime, I'm just basically letting these grow.
I also ended up toping and FIM'ing the tops on the mother too. So now there are two branches with two growing tops, and two with three growing tops. I think it will be cool to see what that looks like while flowering. Kind of hard to see the 3 new tops on the FIMs. I think doing them all at once probably stressed her out, so I'm expecting her to start growing more in the next week or two now that she's got new tops going.




Anyway, that's all for now. Still wondering if I want to get a 4x4 tent or something smaller. I remember the one I have was a real pain to put together, and I can't imagine it would be easier with another one already in the room...
Leaving this last one up just to see how much she improves by my next update...
