Van Stank
Plant of the Year: 2018, 2019, 2020 - Member of the Month: Nov 2017 - Plant of the Month: June 2018, Nov 2018, Sept 2019, Nov 2020 - Grow Journal of the Month: Jan 2021
Why another journal?
Well to be honest, the other one has gotten too long and to a degree stale. We are continually trying to get better in our garden and its our hope to improve on the journal as well. We will finish out the flowering girls in the old journal and retire that one. This journal will contain all the new stuff we are running.
What's changed since you went perpetual?
Well quite a bit since we started in the perpetual in 2018. We moved at the end of 2018 and increased our grow size. We got the new tent up and its our flower tent. We converted our 5x5 flower tent into the veg tent. We will continue to use the 2x4 as the seedling and clone area or a breeding tent.
We are still growing in our home made Stank Soil. I have been ramping up the soil production in anticipation of the outdoor season (which will likely include 3 or 4 outdoor girls this year). Our water will continue to be rain water when available and well water when we run out of rain water (which hopefully won't be often).
What sort of strains are you going to be growing Stank?
The focus of the grows switched for this grow. The beginning of this year will be mostly indicas. We have been helping treat my cousin with RSO for his brain cancer and the demand for indicas is greater than the garden could support. So while we help with this, we will be growing more indicas than I generally prefer. I tend to love the sativas for my personal preference, until its bed time.
Well to kick it off, we have sprouted some stuff to kick start us. I have an Afghani #1 from Sensi Seeds (crushing very hard on her early on), a Dark Star from TH Seeds (been stunted due to some fungus gnats that got into the cup) and some Grand Daddy Purp from Scorpio Genetics. The GDP are regs so hoping for at least 1 girl. We also got some new clones in recently that have been up potted to 1 gallon pots and those include Killer A5 Haze from Ace Seeds, and Bubba Hash from Ace.
We will switch to some Hybrids as things progress through the year....which strains, I couldn't tell you. I am not going to commit to anything this far out. Our growing will always be influenced by the needs of family, friends, and personal requirements and you never know what sort of curve ball life is going to throw you.
Ultimately there will be a fairly balanced mix of strains in our garden. I like to have strains to use for any time of day. If a strain fills a time slot, it will stay in the garden until I find something better. We will also continue looking for future stars to add into the breeding stable.
Will you use Nutes Stank?
Nope. As we continue down the soil path, our goal will continue to be to steer away from bottled nutes. Our goal from the beginning is to be able to grow in soil with water only and the occasional compost tea or top dressing. I have smoked enough cannabis grown with synthetic nutes to know I prefer the organic soil grown stuff we grow. I don't mind the work or getting my hands dirty and you can't get any more simple than adding rain water every few days. I don't knock anyone for the growing style they choose, you gotta find what works for you.......and for us thats our soil.
What lights are you growing under?
We are huge supporters of Fluence Bioengineering and their lights. We run their Spydrx Plus in the flower tent on a light rail 4.0. It draws 660 watts from the wall and produces incredibly dense buds with fantastic flavors. The coverage of the light and canopy height are unmatched in my opinion. I run the Spydrx about 6" above the canopy with no leaf burning or ill effects.
In the veg tent we are running a Dwarf Star Perfect Sun (250-260 watts from the wall) and a Viparspectra (280 watts from the wall) but we will be upgrading in here. I say upgrading, but only in the technology....not in wattage. We are actually looking to decrease wattages while increasing efficiency. Hopefully in a couple months, we will replace the veg lights with a veg light from Fluence....pulls about 345 watts from the wall while covering the 5x5 much better than what we are currently running.
We switched the lighting in the clone/seedling tent to the Fluence Razr. We are very pleased with the reduced watts (91 watts covering a 2x4 area) and increased coverage. And like all their products, you can park the lights very close the canopy.
Well to be honest, the other one has gotten too long and to a degree stale. We are continually trying to get better in our garden and its our hope to improve on the journal as well. We will finish out the flowering girls in the old journal and retire that one. This journal will contain all the new stuff we are running.
What's changed since you went perpetual?
Well quite a bit since we started in the perpetual in 2018. We moved at the end of 2018 and increased our grow size. We got the new tent up and its our flower tent. We converted our 5x5 flower tent into the veg tent. We will continue to use the 2x4 as the seedling and clone area or a breeding tent.
We are still growing in our home made Stank Soil. I have been ramping up the soil production in anticipation of the outdoor season (which will likely include 3 or 4 outdoor girls this year). Our water will continue to be rain water when available and well water when we run out of rain water (which hopefully won't be often).
What sort of strains are you going to be growing Stank?
The focus of the grows switched for this grow. The beginning of this year will be mostly indicas. We have been helping treat my cousin with RSO for his brain cancer and the demand for indicas is greater than the garden could support. So while we help with this, we will be growing more indicas than I generally prefer. I tend to love the sativas for my personal preference, until its bed time.
Well to kick it off, we have sprouted some stuff to kick start us. I have an Afghani #1 from Sensi Seeds (crushing very hard on her early on), a Dark Star from TH Seeds (been stunted due to some fungus gnats that got into the cup) and some Grand Daddy Purp from Scorpio Genetics. The GDP are regs so hoping for at least 1 girl. We also got some new clones in recently that have been up potted to 1 gallon pots and those include Killer A5 Haze from Ace Seeds, and Bubba Hash from Ace.
We will switch to some Hybrids as things progress through the year....which strains, I couldn't tell you. I am not going to commit to anything this far out. Our growing will always be influenced by the needs of family, friends, and personal requirements and you never know what sort of curve ball life is going to throw you.
Ultimately there will be a fairly balanced mix of strains in our garden. I like to have strains to use for any time of day. If a strain fills a time slot, it will stay in the garden until I find something better. We will also continue looking for future stars to add into the breeding stable.
Will you use Nutes Stank?
Nope. As we continue down the soil path, our goal will continue to be to steer away from bottled nutes. Our goal from the beginning is to be able to grow in soil with water only and the occasional compost tea or top dressing. I have smoked enough cannabis grown with synthetic nutes to know I prefer the organic soil grown stuff we grow. I don't mind the work or getting my hands dirty and you can't get any more simple than adding rain water every few days. I don't knock anyone for the growing style they choose, you gotta find what works for you.......and for us thats our soil.
What lights are you growing under?
We are huge supporters of Fluence Bioengineering and their lights. We run their Spydrx Plus in the flower tent on a light rail 4.0. It draws 660 watts from the wall and produces incredibly dense buds with fantastic flavors. The coverage of the light and canopy height are unmatched in my opinion. I run the Spydrx about 6" above the canopy with no leaf burning or ill effects.
In the veg tent we are running a Dwarf Star Perfect Sun (250-260 watts from the wall) and a Viparspectra (280 watts from the wall) but we will be upgrading in here. I say upgrading, but only in the technology....not in wattage. We are actually looking to decrease wattages while increasing efficiency. Hopefully in a couple months, we will replace the veg lights with a veg light from Fluence....pulls about 345 watts from the wall while covering the 5x5 much better than what we are currently running.
We switched the lighting in the clone/seedling tent to the Fluence Razr. We are very pleased with the reduced watts (91 watts covering a 2x4 area) and increased coverage. And like all their products, you can park the lights very close the canopy.
