Doc Bud's High Brix Q&A With Pictures

[Graytail]

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THIS ^!!! Is there a list, of sorts, of strains that have proven to thrive exceptionally well in High Brix? I've seen some general references (to landrace sativa strains) and seen some grows that look(ed) insane, but I would very much trust any input from the High Brix clan around here to make a short-list of some of them. Not just some of those rare, hard-to-get types, but even more common ones that have simply shown good promise.

I can recommend Green House's Silver Lemon Haze. I've grown it in mineralized soil and HB, and even revegged one from one soil to the other. In High Brix soil, it was more potent, and as Doc termed it, more gentle. It's still a metallic zippy disorienting high, but its edges are tempered. And the terpenes are more defined and individual in HB, of course.

It's not an heirloom strain, but it's easy to grow - very well behaved - and it's still one of the more potent strains out of the 20+ I've grown.

 

[Capn Kush]

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Doc, I've invested so many hours pouring over your contributions. I don't think I've even put a dent in it yet, but I'm convinced you have the HB approach nailed down. I'm on my first grow and tired of struggling. Could you PM me so I can get started on ordering a kit, please? Thanks for being so forthcoming with all of this information, by the way.

 

[Duggan]

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I grew heirloom tomatoes in HB soil, (yes, following the instructions )this summer. .they were started in mineralized soil by a local farmer. He sells the plants in mid Spring, and the tomatoes through summer. Almost 30 varieties of heirlooms! I grew 4 of them. I needed more of the tomatoes I was growing for a summer bash, so I bought from him the very tomatoes the same varieties I had purchased earlier in the season. His were great; mine? Awesome! Friends couldnt believe the plants in 7, 10 and 15 (1)gal pots, grew over 8, 9 ft tall! They were amazing Colors, smells, size, flavor, texture, all enhanced. Told friends about HB. Piqued a few interests' to look into it.
...The plants also had the HB Glow(tm pending...)
The other herbs i grew in HB soil; thyme, oregano, cilantro, chives, parsley, bee balm, rosemary, purple basil, lemon basil, mint, peppermint, were the best I had to date. Amazing what M,M,&M can do to plants.

I wonder Doc, how do mushrooms/ truffles fare in HB soil?

Hey Zig....holy crap bro!....you got a regular herb garden goin on there,i'm impressed, I drink all those herbal teas your growin there...awesome dude! How do you consume all those herbs bro? just wonderin eh!Mornin BTW!

 

[Doc Bud]

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Doc, I've invested so many hours pouring over your contributions. I don't think I've even put a dent in it yet, but I'm convinced you have the HB approach nailed down. I'm on my first grow and tired of struggling. Could you PM me so I can get started on ordering a kit, please? Thanks for being so forthcoming with all of this information, by the way.

Got it?

 

[DrZiggy]

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Duggan, good morning! I use them when I cook, and dry and freeze them for fall, winter use. Cilantro, and a few others I use fresh year round. All Herbs rock! just made a smoked salmon goat cheese quiche( yes, real men eat quiche) with dill, thyme, parsley, shallot
I keep bees and they love all the herbs, especially bee balm, but I noticed recently they dont visit the MMJ much, especially when shes blooming.

 

[Thebulldog]

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When you think of cannabis strains, think of heirloom tomatos. The really delicious ones you get from gardens and high end restaurants are almost always heirlooms, grown organically, etc. The "Early Girl" and "Beefsteak" hybrids are designed to travel well and contain a lot of water. It's hard to get them high brix, they are used to growing in a sterile field with 20-20-20 broadcast and a yearly trace element application.

They grow well, but not great in High Brix soil. Same with the massively hybridized cannabis strains that really do well in hydro. They were designed to be potent, pungent, and heavy yielders in a high salt environment.

The strains that do really well in High Brix soil are on another level when compared to the salt lovers. Different type of smell, strong, gentle.

Look for strains that do well in High Brix and grow the hell out of them.

I wonder what would happen if you took a tomato, put it in a mason jar and evacuated the oxygen and put it in a refrigerator ?
Hmmmmmm food for thought !
Have a good 1
B.D.

 

[Doc Bud]

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I wonder what would happen if you took a tomato, put it in a mason jar and evacuated the oxygen and put it in a refrigerator ?
Hmmmmmm food for thought !
Have a good 1
B.D.

Why put it in the fridge? Put it in the pantry. It's called canning!

FWIW, I have a friend who grows in greenhouses in Norcal and he stores his dried and cured buds in mylar.....removes the oxygen. He says if you open that bag a year later the buds are as fresh as the day they went in the bag.

But he grows 250 to 300 pounds a year and he holds pounds in storage for months at a time so his whole crop doesn't get sold when everyone else's does and the prices are lowest. I don't grow on anything remotely close to the scale he does, so I don't bother with it. My stuff is gone before it's harvested.

Removing the oxygen will basically put the buds in "stasis." No more curing or oxidation will take place....it's basically a food storage technique.

 

[Duggan]

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Duggan, good morning! I use them when I cook, and dry and freeze them for fall, winter use. Cilantro, and a few others I use fresh year round. All Herbs rock! just made a smoked salmon goat cheese quiche( yes, real men eat quiche) with dill, thyme, parsley, shallot
I keep bees and they love all the herbs, especially bee balm, but I noticed recently they dont visit the MMJ much, especially when shes blooming.

Zig....sounds like you've done your fair share of food prep.You and Curso are the resident chef's ,i guess. Good to know bro!Still waiting for my MB2, so i'm sure i'l have a question or two for ya when it arrives .Have a great day Zig and "gang".

 

[Governmentchz]

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I can recommend Green House's Silver Lemon Haze. I've grown it in mineralized soil and HB, and even revegged one from one soil to the other. In High Brix soil, it was more potent, and as Doc termed it, more gentle. It's still a metallic zippy disorienting high, but its edges are tempered. And the terpenes are more defined and individual in HB, of course.

It's not an heirloom strain, but it's easy to grow - very well behaved - and it's still one of the more potent strains out of the 20+ I've grown.

That's a nugget Graytail. Thanks for that. Another good mostly-sativa that's obtainable and grown by a hb grower.

 

[Conradino23]

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Governmentchz, I cannot really speak from HighBrix stance, but I'm 90% sure that if you get Green Crack, another excellent sativa-dominant strain, it will flourish in that kind of soil. To be really honest I enjoyed it more than SLH, although I still have to check the one I grew myself

 

[Doc Bud]

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I thought I'd say a couple things about clones, show some pics, and also for those who aren't following the LED journal, some pics of what that place looks like.

The clones on the left are 2 days since being cut. They've already grown some leaf. The one's on the right have roots and have grown a set or two of healthy leaves, while under the clone dome.

My cloning methods are "adequate." I really should be cloning in dirt, but I find I can pay very little attention to my clones and get 99% success.

I take stiff stems from low on the plant, cut everything off except the apical bract and growing tip, and cut the only fan leaf in half. Dip it in Clonex and quickly stab it into a Rapid Rooter and put it in the tray. They get sprayed twice a week with 1/2 strength DeStress.

Quick rooting. Healthy leaves, quick to take to soil on transplanting. They need no "hardening off" period at all. They go straight under the T5 the moment I put them in dirt.

The plants:

 

[Capn Kush]

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Got it?

Got it, thanks Doc.

 

[Governmentchz]

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I swear you must be psychic Doc. I had briefly scanned through these few threads just this morning looking for a tutorial on "recommended practice" for cloning before I asked for one. This is so helpful. One question though, how do you hydrate the rapid rooters during the process and do you use any roots!?

 

[Doc Bud]

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I swear you must be psychic Doc. I had briefly scanned through these few threads just this morning looking for a tutorial on "recommended practice" for cloning before I asked for one. This is so helpful. One question though, how do you hydrate the rapid rooters during the process and do you use any roots!?

Sometimes, if the plugs are dry I squeeze 'em while holding them under water and let them sit for a few minutes. Mostly, they come out of the bag with the right moisture and I let the dome hydrate them by putting water in the tray when it drys out.

I do not use Roots! If and when I go that direction, I'll go in soil, not plugs. I toss a lot of perfectly good clones in the trash every month, and this way I'm not using product I don't need to use.

 

[Governmentchz]

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Thanks for that reply Doc. One more question regarding clones and transitioning from non-High Brix to High Brix. Is there anything you might do differently if the clones are not hb clones in preparation for transition?

I ask because this pheno of 8 ball kush I have in this hempy bucket is the one that I was hoping for and I'd like to keep her going and intend to transition completely to hb once she run her route. I have 2 woody stems on her that would/should make good clones (the two lowest branches that usually struggle finding enough light at some point, so instead of helping them out by moving them around and using them for hash anyway, I'd like to have them contribute a bit more and use them to perpetuate the strain for now.

Thanks as always.

 

[Doc Bud]

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Thanks for that reply Doc. One more question regarding clones and transitioning from non-High Brix to High Brix. Is there anything you might do differently if the clones are not hb clones in preparation for transition?

I ask because this pheno of 8 ball kush I have in this hempy bucket is the one that I was hoping for and I'd like to keep her going and intend to transition completely to hb once she run her route. I have 2 woody stems on her that would/should make good clones (the two lowest branches that usually struggle finding enough light at some point, so instead of helping them out by moving them around and using them for hash anyway, I'd like to have them contribute a bit more and use them to perpetuate the strain for now.

Thanks as always.

Clone it, and don't worry about it! Once the cutting roots, treat it like any other cutting. It won't be as healthy as a HB clone, but it will grow and the roots will colonize. Nothing to worry about.

 

[sir grow alot]

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Beautiful plants DOC!!!

You never disappoint here.

I just wanted to give my .02$ on cloning since getting into good ol HB growing.

I too have always done rapid rooters and dome with 98% success and had no problems with it but recently just started going with the straight to HB soil method to avoid the cost of buying the rooters and keeping domes watered daily or EOD. now I wont go back. im getting 100% success and water once at time of cutting and transplanting the clone, then don't again for close to 10+ days after they have already started putting new growth for a few days by that time.

I also will plant 2-3 per 1 gal pot if I only need one clone to root and cut the 1-2 that get out done by the other. I do this to ensure success with one of the 3 but don't have to use extra pots/soil or rapid rooters. this is how I have found best for my budget and situation.

Doc do you remember what days in flower you gave these girls their first Cat drench?? I gave my last cat drench on day 18 after pistil set yesterday....

 

[Doc Bud]

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Beautiful plants DOC!!!

You never disappoint here.

I just wanted to give my .02$ on cloning since getting into good ol HB growing.

I too have always done rapid rooters and dome with 98% success and had no problems with it but recently just started going with the straight to HB soil method to avoid the cost of buying the rooters and keeping domes watered daily or EOD. now I wont go back. im getting 100% success and water once at time of cutting and transplanting the clone, then don't again for close to 10+ days after they have already started putting new growth for a few days by that time.

I also will plant 2-3 per 1 gal pot if I only need one clone to root and cut the 1-2 that get out done by the other. I do this to ensure success with one of the 3 but don't have to use extra pots/soil or rapid rooters. this is how I have found best for my budget and situation.

Doc do you remember what days in flower you gave these girls their first Cat drench?? I gave my last cat drench on day 18 after pistil set yesterday....

Great news on your cloning. Where are you putting your cuttings? Veg light? Dome?

I don't remember what exact day I gave the drench....I go off a calender where I mark off weeks and I start examining the plant at week 4 to see if it's ready. Is this exact science? NO! Personal preference is what it's all about.....except that almost everyone prefers the resin production that takes place after the Cat Drench.

FWIW, my best bud ever got fed ONLY cat drench....Willie Nelson. I wouldn't grow any other plant that way, as I was desperately trying to tame the damn thing. It's hairy and ugly, but it's all I smoke now.

So this timing of drenches is WIDE OPEN! There are principles that we should follow, IE playing growth off reproduction by alternating drenches, but the timing on them is based on grower's artistic ability----or in my case trial and error.

 

[sir grow alot]

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Great news on your cloning. Where are you putting your cuttings? Veg light? Dome?

I don't remember what exact day I gave the drench....I go off a calender where I mark off weeks and I start examining the plant at week 4 to see if it's ready. Is this exact science? NO! Personal preference is what it's all about.....except that almost everyone prefers the resin production that takes place after the Cat Drench.

FWIW, my best bud ever got fed ONLY cat drench....Willie Nelson. I wouldn't grow any other plant that way, as I was desperately trying to tame the damn thing. It's hairy and ugly, but it's all I smoke now.

So this timing of drenches is WIDE OPEN! There are principles that we should follow, IE playing growth off reproduction by alternating drenches, but the timing on them is based on grower's artistic ability----or in my case trial and error.

Thanks for the response

The cuttings just go un covered under the LED I have for vegging plants, I quit using domes as well. I just follow your lead and spray them with half strength De-stress x2 a week.

In this case ill continue to play with the timing. im gonna start waiting a little longer into flower for the next few. im also gonna give a couple more cat drenches through out the life of this SNS I have going since its a 10 week flower to see how she responds.

That Big Hairy Willie Nelson you grew on C drench was INSANE!! I can only imagine how that monster tastes! great job with that one

 

[DrZiggy]

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Doc, I just read your post on SGA's thread re: new drench stability
Maybe you can combine certain drench ingredients together in separate bottle from another set of ingredients in their own bottle, to be mixed as needed by grower, to avoid the instability issue?