Brightlight's Strain Fest: Organics & LED

[4Dutchess]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

About the same here on the illegal growing so yeah I'm not going to change anything. Just bitching out loud as all the medical growers around here are doing. I gave up on the big outdoor plants....too much work at harvest & less need since moving inside. Remember my friend I'm 70.



Com'on man...I rely on you all to pipe in to help keep this sleepy journal going. Goes for everyone....chime in, sound off....anytime.



The details of new legalization aren't the best, but I changed to yes vote at last minute out of general principle....no way in hell our plant should ever be anything but legal. My way around it is to just keep doing what I do. The outdoor bans are so stupid. As much as I love indoor growing, weed is supposed to be grown outside! Trump's Atty. Gen. says, "good people don't use marijuana." Hard to believe in 2016.



I'm past needing an excuse to buy more seeds, but when one comes along.....fine! Have you started up again? Waiting for it.




Since I added a veg tent, I'm able to double the number of grows. Maybe use your "extra" light in new veg tent unless it goes back into flower tent? My outdoor Cali 91 was better than either of the 2 indoor versions. Like NCW said....look at some non branching indicas....totem pole types & don't do anything to grow out the laterals or any shaping. Bud support can be avoided via how you feed them...get the stems thick & stout....Si & Ca help a lot. Mentioning seed banks here is taboo unless they are sponsors. I've used Seedsman...a sponsor w/ great customer service but higher prices. My favorites are....1. rhymes with "dude" & 2. "FS" are the 1st initials of the 2 names. Even this cryptic info may be stricken.

Thanks Brightlight. No room for another tent. My laundry room grow is a make shift veg. area. Dont know what Si is but guessing the Ca is calcium?? No way I can guess the seed banks. Thanks though. So Brightlight you think two 600w HPS in my 5x9 is plenty? No need to add the 3rd 600w?? The two work! I cant see the 3rd one raising my bill too much more. Thanks!!

 

[brightlight]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

Man you are old.......... JK my friend. Here I'm having trouble and I'm only 56. I can only hope I still can move afew pots around at 60.
And them outdoor grows are alot more work than people know. You can always throw some autos out there. I know I have afew seeds stock piled from the freebies I've found. I've been saying I'm going to downsize for afew years. But pot grows to alotted space. And spreads into every pot I own it seems. GL and Keepem Green

Hahahaha you're right NCW! Really not much good about getting old. Glad I'm still into pot & feel well enough to keep growing. When I depended on annual outdoor grow, it had to carry me through the year. Now with indoor supply I still love outdoor growing but scaling it back. Smaller soft pots, fewer big girls in the ground. As supply dwindled recently w/o a 2016 outdoor grow...the remaining 2015 outdoor Chem 91, White Master, & Lost Coast OG were still jars I'd reach for often....more than some fresher indoor strains.

Im trying to decide on my next run. To get the Dark Heart clones I want I have to get 18. I love C.dog and wonder if theirs is close to the cdog I had for 3yrs and lost. 8 plants fit great in my 5x9 and Im thinking 8 cdogs scrogged. I was looking a PVC at Home depot and Im thinking make two racks side by side. Yes Wood, Ive thought once you Scrogg your not moving nothing. Better hope no bugs after. I figure once the plants are at the scrogg height, spray them good for bugs and put the scrogg net on top and hope for the best. I figure if I do get the 18 Cdog clones I will have lots! Some for the tent, some for the yard, some for another laundry grow and a Cdog mother. I can pull clones for more later on. Dark Hearts S.diesel is a great clone so far for me. I love C.dog!! I think I just love all great smelling weed!! What fun!!! Time to get stoned! Morning all! Wood, how do you tie your buds up??????

Thanks Brightlight. No room for another tent. My laundry room grow is a make shift veg. area. Dont know what Si is but guessing the Ca is calcium?? No way I can guess the seed banks. Thanks though. So Brightlight you think two 600w HPS in my 5x9 is plenty? No need to add the 3rd 600w?? The two work! I cant see the 3rd one raising my bill too much more. Thanks!!

Don't you want more variety? So much fire out there. But if it's Chem you want...try the CC Chem 91, which is still the gold standard of what I've grown. Have a CC Boss Hogg going now, which is Chem 4 & also DinaChem, which is all Chem but a mix of them. Lots of crosses but not that many pure ones. Some bogus stuff too...won't mention the breeder whose Chem 4 is listed as Chem x Green Crack. Com'on...why would they list it as Chem 4 when they admit it's a cross. Not as much strain talk/info on 420 as other places, but we do try to keep it going here.

Sorry...Si is Silica & you're correct, Ca is calcium. Light sound good to me but never too much light. My 520w flower LED sounded good 3 yrs. ago but is pretty paltry by today's lights & watts levels growers putting in nowadays. The electricity costs of a 1000w HPS was a little steep for me at the time.

 

[4Dutchess]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

I have some decisions to make and the hunt is on. I saw a little bit of the "Grow Mendo dope from seed" and....WOW!! Yes I love Cdog and would like enough to vend to a collective plus some smoke. The 18 plants required to preorder what you want sucks. I might check out their grow class and get more clone info. Maybe seeds.
Brightlight, how do you like Dark Hearts C.dog4?

 

[4Dutchess]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

I found CC! Thanks!

 

[Radogast]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

Thanks Brightlight. No room for another tent. My laundry room grow is a make shift veg. area. Dont know what Si is but guessing the Ca is calcium?? No way I can guess the seed banks. Thanks though. So Brightlight you think two 600w HPS in my 5x9 is plenty? No need to add the 3rd 600w?? The two work! I cant see the 3rd one raising my bill too much more. Thanks!!

600W will show on your electric bill.


This is what my first grow looks like on my electric bill. :

Seeds planted in March with 2x 216w T5 CFL.
I added 2x 600w HPS (flowering) in May.
House air conditioning started in late June.
Harvest in mid July. (back down to 2x 216w T5 CFL + 2x 300W LED)

The drop after the peak is basically shutting down either 600W or 900W (depending on how much draw actually happed with 3x100W LEDs at 110 - I think they only draw 150W at 110.)

The comparison lines are other folks whole house electric usage.

 

[4Dutchess]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

Thanks Radogast. First tent run for me and Im learning. I try to be as cost effective as I can. Harvest soon and Im excited!
Brightlight, when I bred seeds I bred Blue dream, Train wreck, Chem dog, Blue Berry clones and a couple others with a B.dream/OG kush male. And the Blue dream would be back bred. I grew some in the yard grow and tent this year and Im just starting to see what I bred kinda. Ive got most of the seeds marked and I should see what I got before buying more. Everything has been good so far and the ones of the next thread post are great and would be good for a SOG and SCROGG. The Seeds I grew this year have me excited to grow more of my own. Next year I dont want more than 10-12 plants in the yard. Id like to keep it at 6 but that wont happen. Im excited to grow more of my seeds marked Blue Dream! I have nothing set up for my Jan. tent run so 18 c.dog clones it will be for next tent run. If I do buy seeds I will get the dankiest indica and I wrote down your recommendations. Thanks Brightlight!

 

[bobrown14]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

Hey there BL whats happening?? Looks like your indoor garden is looking mighty fine... all healthy and green and flowers very nice.

I love to talk strain gear... I'm super into Chemdawg and all here genetically related family. Been on a growing spree of sorts with them and now back to Chemdawg .. .it's real weird I even grew a few Chemdawg Autos... if thats even possible right?

Anyways I just harvested the auto ChemD plants 2 weeks ago and they were in a jar.. didn't hardly get more than a 1/2 zip dried from 2 plants ... figured meh.. not a total waste of time but the buds went into the jar and kinda just all stuck together like they were covered in candy. Did the usual burping after a few days and they were still all stuck together. I'm talking stuck like I could hold them all in the air no jar they still stuck together and they were totally dry. Anyway... getting to the point, test smoke last night best weed I've ever had. I couldn't believe it.

I love Chemdawg..... I keep going back to it and it's my go smoke to pretty much every day! Sometimes I try different strains but I keep coming back to it.

I found CC! Thanks!

Hey there 4D - what's CC? Is that a seed vendor?? I'm always looking for good quality seeds.

 

[CareStaker]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

BL.

Dropped the first old stock SSSDH Reg seed, and she is in Veg. It's immature and a climber, so looks to be male. If so, I'll be hitting every green thing I have with it. I could shake some into the wind when I do.

At present, my #1 keeper is the Silver Haze pheno of ECSDH - my best to date from seed. If I recall, you also got some from that same drop. Just wanted to let you know that there is crazy sativa fire in there. Effect pulls and lasts like a landrace, but is more multifaceted, exciting, and broad. The haze infuse from the SSSDH, isn't too floaty or dreamy, and it gets a bit more sparkle from the east coast clone backcross. There's a clone leaning pheno in that drop too - I had it and lost it, but will find it again. Figured I'd keep you posted in case you decide to drop some, or shop some lol.

 

[brightlight]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

I have some decisions to make and the hunt is on. I saw a little bit of the "Grow Mendo dope from seed" and....WOW!! Yes I love Cdog and would like enough to vend to a collective plus some smoke. The 18 plants required to preorder what you want sucks. I might check out their grow class and get more clone info. Maybe seeds.
Brightlight, how do you like Dark Hearts C.dog4?

It'd been many years since I bought any commercial clones, but back when Dark Heart was one of the better clone farms. No knowledge about its Chem 4. A few other higher level producers that I know are still around include Queen Bee, House of David, Medicinal Organics, & Midnight Farms. Greatest risk is pest infestestation from store bought clones. Could even be clean when delivered, but infested at dispensary. Even the highest priced seeds wouldn't cost you more than the premium clones nowadays. Quarantine & dip them if you still go w/ clones. Just be careful if you start buying seeds, you don't get addicted like some of us do.

Hey there BL whats happening?? Looks like your indoor garden is looking mighty fine... all healthy and green and flowers very nice.

I love to talk strain gear... I'm super into Chemdawg and all here genetically related family. Been on a growing spree of sorts with them and now back to Chemdawg .. .it's real weird I even grew a few Chemdawg Autos... if thats even possible right?

Anyways I just harvested the auto ChemD plants 2 weeks ago and they were in a jar.. didn't hardly get more than a 1/2 zip dried from 2 plants ... figured meh.. not a total waste of time but the buds went into the jar and kinda just all stuck together like they were covered in candy. Did the usual burping after a few days and they were still all stuck together. I'm talking stuck like I could hold them all in the air no jar they still stuck together and they were totally dry. Anyway... getting to the point, test smoke last night best weed I've ever had. I couldn't believe it.

I love Chemdawg..... I keep going back to it and it's my go smoke to pretty much every day! Sometimes I try different strains but I keep coming back to it.

Hey there 4D - what's CC? Is that a seed vendor?? I'm always looking for good quality seeds.

Those autos surprised me too....especially the yield. Good to hear you're getting the potency considering the ruderalis content in autos. Maybe they've become mostly photos w/ minimal ruderalis to rebuild potency? IDK much about them yet. When you say...best you've ever had, I pay attn. having seen your photos.

One thing we all generally have is plenty of selection, but interesting how we always gravitate to some jars again & again over other strains. "CC" is shorthand for Cali Connnection. He has wild rep but imo stellar gear.....his 91 is impressive. Have one of his Chem 4 strains in veg now, Boss Hogg, which is pure Chem 4 incross. My pheno is showing far greater indica tendencies that the 91's of his that I've grown. The 91's seem pretty stable & have consistently displayed more of its sativa side. This Loud Headband I have going, which is a 91 x SFV, hasn't yet been lit up but in late flower is looking fine. More impressive than the DinaFem DinaChem also in late bloom. But the tale of the vaporizer remains to be told.

BL.

Dropped the first old stock SSSDH Reg seed, and she is in Veg. It's immature and a climber, so looks to be male. If so, I'll be hitting every green thing I have with it. I could shake some into the wind when I do.

At present, my #1 keeper is the Silver Haze pheno of ECSDH - my best to date from seed. If I recall, you also got some from that same drop. Just wanted to let you know that there is crazy sativa fire in there. Effect pulls and lasts like a landrace, but is more multifaceted, exciting, and broad. The haze infuse from the SSSDH, isn't too floaty or dreamy, and it gets a bit more sparkle from the east coast clone backcross. There's a clone leaning pheno in that drop too - I had it and lost it, but will find it again. Figured I'd keep you posted in case you decide to drop some, or shop some lol.

Good info & description of your ECSDH! After the Loud Headband turned out to be a 91 instead of a selfed ECSD, I substituted an ECSDH in current veg group over a straight SSSDH. It was a gifted seed from a top level grower w/ knowledge & experience w/ ECSD. Indoors I've been surprised that both the SSSDH & the ECSDH have started out as squat even branched mushroom shaped plants. Still short & squat at less than a ft. tall but w/ 10 nodes already. Will get a pic up very soon. The last SSSDH stretched out, but it never did grow like the pack of reg SSSDH I grew outdoors, which were almost all tall sativa leaners. To help get you excited, I'll can honestly say that the indoor fem SSSDH I grew earlier this year ranks with the finest plants I've ever grown....such a great smoke. Such a great strain!

 

[4Dutchess]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

I love Chem dog too!!!! It probably will be seeds no clones when purchased, that is if these clones I just pulled dont make it. I figure run them next tent grow and buy seeds for spring out door C.Dog. If they dont make it probably the 18 CD4 from Dark heart. If I do get the 18 I will have plenty to mess with and to have and clone. So its a win win either way! What Fun! Thanks Brightlight!
Great day people!!

 

[brightlight]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

Happy Holidays
It's going to be a holiday season harvest. Here are a few recent pictures.

3 Christmas Chemdogs

Dinachem

Headband

Luther Dogman x Trainwreck
LD has Chem 4 genetics. A pretty girl. Delicate & snowy.

Dedoverde Haze
An 80% sativa w/ indica style buds & bushy growth. Its fat, thick milky stigmas are a little unique.

Dead Banana

Gelato 41 x Dosido
IHG now calls her Dolato & Dolato 41. Connoisseur genetics. A rare cookie strain. Early tester blew my brains out....even with my tolerances.

Double Purple Doja x Dosido
My 1 gallon special.

DPD x Dosido Bud
Same bud that was accidentally snipped off last wk. 1st picture is "wet" bud. Last 2 pictures are same bud dried.

Wishing all of you a happy, safe, & high holiday season.

 

[Dusty Kiefers]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

Beautiful plants my good sir , and that bud is dreamy.
Im hoping to get my mitts on some dinachem.
How would you recomend. Highly some what or not at all.
I have tested the o.g. from my recent run , and im really liking dinafem.
This is the third strain of theirs and I can dig it brother.
Happy holidays, and hugs from the kiefers.

 

[brightlight]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

Beautiful plants my good sir , and that bud is dreamy.
Im hoping to get my mitts on some dinachem.
How would you recomend. Highly some what or not at all.
I have tested the o.g. from my recent run , and im really liking dinafem.
This is the third strain of theirs and I can dig it brother.
Happy holidays, and hugs from the kiefers.

DK....my 1st DinaChem so unable to say much yet. Can tell you this....good overall structure & growth of laterals, which I like since I don't top. Pretty good bud development & size, solid but not as heavy as closest counterpart in this grow, the Headband from Loud (a 91 hit w/ SFV male). Smells floral most of the way, which isn't what I usually get from Chems. Later she shows the expected lemon fuel, pinesol smells. Early tester between DC & HB had HB clearly stronger. But it was an early test so not much weight should be put on it.

Seed was a promo I've held on to for several years. But genetics wise DinaChem is a clear keeper. All Chemdog, no OG in it. Dinafem used Top Dawg's line, which you probably know has all of the pure original Chemdogs. On genetics alone, I bought a 3 pack of DinaChem while the current one was growing. I trust & value the genetics even though I haven't really tested it yet. I plan to grow several more unless this one just falls on her face from a potency standpoint. I don't think she will. I'm sure you will grow her very nicely.

 

[4Dutchess]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

Im going to start a selective harvest in my tent starting today!!!! Thanks for all your help Brightlight! Great day!! Oh, Im thinking of getting some great chem strain from CC! Thanks Brightlight!!

 

[420Brother]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

looking ripe there old bud

im glad that i had sometime to kill so i can visit your crib

i always get good vibes off your garden my friend, excellent job as always

 

[NorCaliwood]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

Now that's pretty.... Fantastic job there my friend............. Looks like some tasty shit. I like the looks of the Dead Banana and the Headband. Great grow,,, Keepem Green

 

[bobrown14]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

Hey there BL - those plants look fantastic.... love the look of that "test" bud there... that looks yummy. I swear I could almost smell it thru my computer screen.

Good job buddy!

 

[Hozona]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

Nice BL!! I remember BID taking BITE out of one that was loaded with resin...not good, said it tasted a lot worse than it smelled. Merry Christmas

 

[Duggan]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

A very good morning to ya Bright. I know ,...i know...i don't make it around here often enough ...i know bud. Anyhow you are doing a wonderful job and are having great success...cheers to ya my brotha! have a fantastic Christmas and a nice break with your people. Wishing you the best....

 

[NorCaliwood]

re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED

Hopefully you took a main cola down early,,,, just to be sure you had plenty of dry weed to smoke for the holidays.... You couldn't have timed it better. Looks like you got some frosty shit for Christmas... Congrats,,,, and Keepem Green