The Phantom
Member
Greetings,
I will be starting this journal on my grow that has been in progress for a few months already while I’ve been establishing my setup. This grow all started with a free 8th of Cherry Cookies from a local dispensary on 4/20 two years ago as a giveaway. The smoke was mediocre at best and had a very peppery taste. My assumptions are that this was a giveaway due to the loose fluffy buds and not-so-cherry flavor it was advertised to have. I’m assuming some of the other buds from this plant we’re probably better quality but we’re probably bought and not given away like the less quality I received. In the free bag of smoke I found a single seed. I stored away the seed for the last two years until this winter I stuck it in some soil on a wim along with an Animal Cookies seed I had found in some premo bud this fall. The Animal Cookies seed turned out to not be viable, which didn’t surprise me since it looked only partially developed, small and pale white.
The Cherry Cookies plant has been growing healthy all winter and spring just potted in a house plant pot and normal potting mix. It is under just some plain regular lights and a small fan. I water it with a cup or two of water every third day along with some general plant food mixed in once or twice a month. I topped “her” and have taken 4 clones. The clones are showing healthy roots, 2”+ in my cloning box now. I just gave them their first tiny dose of nutes last night and they responded well. I intend to flip my “mother“ plant in the few days to follow since I have finally received my new LED lighting. This would allow me to find out the sex of my clones.
If it turns out to be male thus making my clones male, I will abandon my clones but continue to grow out the potted plant to harvest pollen. The plant has shown strong growing genetics, borderline invincible to death by grower error, that would be great to hold onto down the road.
If does turn out to be female I will finish the grow on her in this journal along with the (4) clones. She, the mother plant, will remain in soil and the clones will move to my RDWC setup. My RDWC setup is made for 4 flowering plants in a 4.5’x4.5’ tent with (2) 240W 3000/3500k LED lights w/ ir & uv and an RDWC setup consisting of (4) 27 gallon grow buckets and a 27 gallon reservoir (might upgrade to 55 gallon) and an 800 gph water pump, no air pump just engineering. I use Mega Crop for my nutrients and am using straight softened city tap water at a pH of 7.6, no r/o or leaving out water overnight for chlorine. I pH down to 5.8 using my trusty pH/EC/TDS/co meter once my nutes have been added.
I have an order from Seedsman arriving on Saturday but will not be able to start any until August once out-of-state family have come and gone. At which point this will get fun, I will have (3) of my grow setups in operation to grow 12 very nice trees just in time for Xmas.
“You are going to get spoiled!”
I will be starting this journal on my grow that has been in progress for a few months already while I’ve been establishing my setup. This grow all started with a free 8th of Cherry Cookies from a local dispensary on 4/20 two years ago as a giveaway. The smoke was mediocre at best and had a very peppery taste. My assumptions are that this was a giveaway due to the loose fluffy buds and not-so-cherry flavor it was advertised to have. I’m assuming some of the other buds from this plant we’re probably better quality but we’re probably bought and not given away like the less quality I received. In the free bag of smoke I found a single seed. I stored away the seed for the last two years until this winter I stuck it in some soil on a wim along with an Animal Cookies seed I had found in some premo bud this fall. The Animal Cookies seed turned out to not be viable, which didn’t surprise me since it looked only partially developed, small and pale white.
The Cherry Cookies plant has been growing healthy all winter and spring just potted in a house plant pot and normal potting mix. It is under just some plain regular lights and a small fan. I water it with a cup or two of water every third day along with some general plant food mixed in once or twice a month. I topped “her” and have taken 4 clones. The clones are showing healthy roots, 2”+ in my cloning box now. I just gave them their first tiny dose of nutes last night and they responded well. I intend to flip my “mother“ plant in the few days to follow since I have finally received my new LED lighting. This would allow me to find out the sex of my clones.
If it turns out to be male thus making my clones male, I will abandon my clones but continue to grow out the potted plant to harvest pollen. The plant has shown strong growing genetics, borderline invincible to death by grower error, that would be great to hold onto down the road.
If does turn out to be female I will finish the grow on her in this journal along with the (4) clones. She, the mother plant, will remain in soil and the clones will move to my RDWC setup. My RDWC setup is made for 4 flowering plants in a 4.5’x4.5’ tent with (2) 240W 3000/3500k LED lights w/ ir & uv and an RDWC setup consisting of (4) 27 gallon grow buckets and a 27 gallon reservoir (might upgrade to 55 gallon) and an 800 gph water pump, no air pump just engineering. I use Mega Crop for my nutrients and am using straight softened city tap water at a pH of 7.6, no r/o or leaving out water overnight for chlorine. I pH down to 5.8 using my trusty pH/EC/TDS/co meter once my nutes have been added.
I have an order from Seedsman arriving on Saturday but will not be able to start any until August once out-of-state family have come and gone. At which point this will get fun, I will have (3) of my grow setups in operation to grow 12 very nice trees just in time for Xmas.
“You are going to get spoiled!”