Hello 420 Magazine and Happy New Year!
Welcome to my 2017 grow journal!
Our plants are getting ready for another trip around the Sun. 
Some are almost ready to harvest from the winter grow. We have the vegetative mother clones on 18/6 in the DP90 tent under 115 W of CFL (2700/5500 K mix), in contrast, we have the current winter grow with the Swiss Cheese furthest in the lead and closest to harvest. Not long behind is the Underdawg and Jack Dawg. The Sour Diesel Dawgs are just beginning to form centralized flower heads and are just getting going.
So far, it's one of the best winter grows I've had, I've taken a different approach than I normally do, I normally leave them in the white outdoor grow tent (row cover based) to keep warm, but when I do that, they usually get hit hard by the storms and cold weather. Lately, I've been taking them inside the garage at night to keep them a little bit warmer and drier, though it still drops down into the high 40s at night. Nonetheless, they are progressing pretty well because they get more direct Sun during the day, something that was inhibited by the regular outdoor tent. Buds always come out a lot skimpier and odd during the winter, but this time they seem to be coming in a bit more normal. We had some El Nina activity (hotter and drier during the winter times), with hot Santa Ana winds giving then a mid-time surge in energy. They did seem to enjoy the extra energy.
A brief recap on the strains going, these have been clones of clones of clones, and so on..
1) Jack Dawg (Jack Herer x NYCD x Chemdawg '91) = JD
2) Underdawg (Special Unknown #1 x NYCD x Chemdawg '91) = UD
3) Swiss Cheese (Swiss Miss x Skunk #1 pheno) = SC
4) Sour Diesel Dawg (Sour Diesel x NYCD x Chemdawg '91) = SDD
Soil being used: Dr. Earth's Pot-O-Gold
Cloning method: Sphagnum peat moss, Clonex rooting gel and mycorrhizae powder added to the medium, under plastic dome with constant spraying
Nutrient fertilization: Dr. Earth LIFE and Flower Girl, and Doggett & Simpson Growology
Plant protection: Azamax (general purpose) and Sierra Natural Science sprays
Bud washing method: SNS-311 diluted into several gallons of cool water, with a rinsing bucket
Drying method: 4 tier drying rack
JD
UD
SC flower top, smelling really good as normal, very fruity/skunky/piney
SDDs just starting to put out pistils finally, must have transformed into a sativa dom. expression
Group getting in the last bit of reflected Sun coming in for the day
Into the DP90, the generational mother clones, still waiting for the little UD twig to survive, she's been stagnating heavily, hoping she makes it. The other plants are growing great. But, if the struggling UD twig dies, then I'll have lost this phenotype. Learned my lesson not to take such small clones, especially for the UD.
JDs
SDD
SCs
Veg group
I'll grow the veggies as much as I can to fill up the tent, then take clones again and release another winter crop, or an early spring crop. The clones of those future clones will be the Spring grow, and the clones of those, the Summer, and so on..
Aloha
blessings to you for the new year
- Swiss Cheese, it smells extra sweet this time around
