Hi guys, and welcome to my latest journal. Thanks for stopping by. As always, questions and comments and side talk and posting your own pics to support a point and ALL of that is welcome here. If you are growing any of the same strains especially I encourage you to jump in and even promote your own journal here. It’s not about competition I just think it’s more interesting for the followers. So please, have at it!! We libs like to be inclusive and hopefully promote and environment for learning, fun and positivity. Lol.
So for this grow we are working with all photoperiod plants outside and one auto in the 3x3. I tire of posting all the early veg and sprout stuff, so I’m going to bypass that. The fun doesn’t start until the training begins. So that’s where we will join each plant of the grow. It’s also a staggered grow. The idea is to harvest three or four plants from the grow with a two week lag time between each plant. The goal is to be done and jarred with one and then pretty quickly do it again. And again. I want to avoid an out of control trim situation since I’m one dude working with high yielding plants. Each plant takes a long time.
That all said, I will be able to give you guys the skinny one plant at a time and hopefully focus a bit more on each. I’ve experimented enough with various training styles that each of these will employ different methods, and all of which should produce significant yield from relatively small plants. I’d like to keep them to about 6’ max.
Our first entry is the Mandarin Zkittlez from Ethos. I’ve become Ethos’ biggest fan. Their genetics in my opinion are always top of the line.
Here’s what Ethos advertises the Mandarin Zkittlez to look like.
California Black Roze x Mandarin Sunset.
If I get buds that look like that I’m going to be one happy guy. The Ethos description is inadequate in my opinion, but here is a link to what Hytiva has to say about the strain:
Basically it should be a gorgeous and tasty indica leaning hybrid that should work well on pain. The relatively low (21% in their test plant) thc is sort of irrelevant to me when it comes to indicas. I don’t know if I’m especially sensitive to them but they knock me out. I can barely smoke the last one I grew, the Forbidden Runtz from the previous journal. So that thc level will hit hard.
I stopped counting veg days. I will put each plant to flower pretty much when they begin to start showing alternating nodes. I will count days in flower. As long as the plant is mature enough for flower outside it goes.
This Mandarin Zkittlez began in a half gallon of my coco blend, which I got from @Bill284, a man I joyfully call Sensei. It is a pot layered with coco, perlite, bokashi, frass, and activated (in my case) with Fox Farms Microbe Brew and mycorrhizae. When she filled that pot she got uppotted to her final 7 gallon pot of the same coco blend. She is getting fed @Prescption Blend nutrients, another product for which I gladly bow down. For my money they are the best, most consistently right on as is, but still flexible, nute system on the market. They mix super easy and take anything organic as additives, as well as gladly accepting experimental additives such as Kelp Me Kelp You, Wholly Mackerel, MSA, or whatever. My CalMag is Humboldt’s Secret CalMag plus Iron @ 2 - 0 - 0.
This girl is getting my straight up Sombrero training, and that’s where we join her today. I have topped her above node number 4 and established a nice lower ring with the lower nodes. She’s in the 5x5 under 20/4 at around 700 ppfd, 80 degrees, and 65-70% RH.
So here’s our first pictures for this journal! This shows you the top, the bottom, the whole plant, and some fun extreme training bends, as well as the pain in the ass huge 9-point fan leaves.
Next up is a Tropicanna Banana from Barney’s Farm. She’s a sprout in a half gallon pot right now.
Thanks again for your interest and input. I can’t do this without you guys. Please don’t be offended if I forgot to tag you, I’m old.
Let’s have a fun ride.
So for this grow we are working with all photoperiod plants outside and one auto in the 3x3. I tire of posting all the early veg and sprout stuff, so I’m going to bypass that. The fun doesn’t start until the training begins. So that’s where we will join each plant of the grow. It’s also a staggered grow. The idea is to harvest three or four plants from the grow with a two week lag time between each plant. The goal is to be done and jarred with one and then pretty quickly do it again. And again. I want to avoid an out of control trim situation since I’m one dude working with high yielding plants. Each plant takes a long time.
That all said, I will be able to give you guys the skinny one plant at a time and hopefully focus a bit more on each. I’ve experimented enough with various training styles that each of these will employ different methods, and all of which should produce significant yield from relatively small plants. I’d like to keep them to about 6’ max.
Our first entry is the Mandarin Zkittlez from Ethos. I’ve become Ethos’ biggest fan. Their genetics in my opinion are always top of the line.
Here’s what Ethos advertises the Mandarin Zkittlez to look like.
California Black Roze x Mandarin Sunset.
If I get buds that look like that I’m going to be one happy guy. The Ethos description is inadequate in my opinion, but here is a link to what Hytiva has to say about the strain:
Mandarin Z Strain - Hybrid Cannabis Video, CBD, THC, Terpenes : Hytiva
Mandarin Z is an Indica dominant cannabis strain whose lineage stems from crossing the genetics of the hybrid strains Mandarin Sunset and California Black Rose....
www.hytiva.com
Basically it should be a gorgeous and tasty indica leaning hybrid that should work well on pain. The relatively low (21% in their test plant) thc is sort of irrelevant to me when it comes to indicas. I don’t know if I’m especially sensitive to them but they knock me out. I can barely smoke the last one I grew, the Forbidden Runtz from the previous journal. So that thc level will hit hard.
I stopped counting veg days. I will put each plant to flower pretty much when they begin to start showing alternating nodes. I will count days in flower. As long as the plant is mature enough for flower outside it goes.
This Mandarin Zkittlez began in a half gallon of my coco blend, which I got from @Bill284, a man I joyfully call Sensei. It is a pot layered with coco, perlite, bokashi, frass, and activated (in my case) with Fox Farms Microbe Brew and mycorrhizae. When she filled that pot she got uppotted to her final 7 gallon pot of the same coco blend. She is getting fed @Prescption Blend nutrients, another product for which I gladly bow down. For my money they are the best, most consistently right on as is, but still flexible, nute system on the market. They mix super easy and take anything organic as additives, as well as gladly accepting experimental additives such as Kelp Me Kelp You, Wholly Mackerel, MSA, or whatever. My CalMag is Humboldt’s Secret CalMag plus Iron @ 2 - 0 - 0.
This girl is getting my straight up Sombrero training, and that’s where we join her today. I have topped her above node number 4 and established a nice lower ring with the lower nodes. She’s in the 5x5 under 20/4 at around 700 ppfd, 80 degrees, and 65-70% RH.
So here’s our first pictures for this journal! This shows you the top, the bottom, the whole plant, and some fun extreme training bends, as well as the pain in the ass huge 9-point fan leaves.
Next up is a Tropicanna Banana from Barney’s Farm. She’s a sprout in a half gallon pot right now.
Thanks again for your interest and input. I can’t do this without you guys. Please don’t be offended if I forgot to tag you, I’m old.
Let’s have a fun ride.
