re: Icemud's Intelligent Gro 2 LED Grow With V-Scrog - Going for 1lb & Beyond!
Hey everyone!!
Hope you all had a great weekend!!!
Today would make day 73 of Flowering, and the Black Cherry Cola's were harvested last night/today.
We had some extremely dry conditions over the past 3-4 days here in Socal, humidity down to 10-25% so drying of my mystery kushes went slightly faster than hoped for, but I was able to raise the drying room humidity quite significantly by putting wet rags hanging in the drying room as well. This worked amazing and I was able to keep the humidity around 50%.
So the Mystery Kush I believe is definitely a Bubba x OG or something with bubba in it, the smell and earthy taste give it away, plus the bud structure is just like my pre98's I grew a few grows ago.... I'm not a huge bubba fan, so I most likely will be culling this strain after this grow is all said and done with, and after I can sample the overall product. I did take a clone which is rooted and vegging now, but I have other strains I much would rather use in its space, so most likely this will be the last run of my Mystery OG/bubba. I also don't like having genetics I don't know the strain so it bothers me to keep somthing that is not my favorite, and doesnt' have a family tree
So I weighed the 3 Mystery Kush's that I ran, and jarred them for curing. Here are the weights so far...
Mystery Kush 1: 44.4g
Mystery Kush 2: 58.5g
Mystery Kush 3: 64.4g
Total so far...168.8g
So looking back at my last grow running the Mystery Kush's (different grow style) I only got 1oz per plant... on average this grow with the exact same strain I got about 2oz per plant which is quite a significant increase for only adding 1/3 more light
not shabby
The Mystery Kush/Bubba nugs look very large, but don't weigh a lot as it is more of an airy strain (like bubba) and unlike OG kush. So for those huge nugs you saw me chop down, they shrunk significantly and the weight actually was under what I would have visually guessed. Either way the buds are coated with trichomes, smell amazing, and I quick dried a few samples and tried it and even with no drying time or cure, the buds were very very smooth, very sweet and earthy tasting, and packed a very intense cerebral high
only to get better over the next 3 week cure
Its going to be really close as far as hitting the 1lb mark. I have only 1x hit over 1lb out of my tent I believe, so its been a challenge to get my yield numbers up. Obviously I am not a hydro farmer which typically makes for much larger yields, and I also don't use chemical fertz whiich typically take longer to be available for the plant so again I think I'm at a disadvantage in that aspect as far as huge yields, however I know my quality is amazing
so not the biggest concern but definitely a personal grudge I hold with my grow area to produce over 1lb
lol
So the Black Cherry Cola's came down last night. They were ready to go and really starting to turn purple. I found it very odd that a majority of the buds that were in the direct light under the LED's, had one side that was really purple, and the underside away from the lights was bright green. My guess is that the plant built up anthocyanins to help shield from maybe the UV so the tops turned more purple, but not for certain... either way they look amazingly beautiful
and smell great! The buds are also rock hard and extremely dense so I think that these 2 plant may even top the total yield of my 3 mystery kush's significantly
After trimmed the BCC were washed in a 2 part wash and hung to dry. Thankfully the humidity in the area has come back to normal so these will be dry probably by next weekend and ready for jars
My Harlequin I am going to give a few more days under the lights. She is ready, but I think giving an extra 2-3 days with all 3 Intelligent Gro lights on her might even induce more trichomes and maybe a little swell on the lower buds...
Probably coming down tues or wednesday.
So here are the photos for the 2 Black Cherry Cola's being harvested.
Plant 1: