My 2023 Perpetual Grow - Organic, Partial SIP

Wooohooo, time for my weekly update, and it just so happens to be 420! Happy 420 everybody!

First up this week, I have planted a new strain (for me) into soil this morning, Quebec Blue seed #1, and am feeling very optimistic. The seed cracked open quickly and exhibited nice growth over the first 48 hours.

Secondly, we have the Ghost Train Haze seed #1 after 21 full days veg coming along very nicely. There is nice internode spacing, as it seems for quad-lining I want a more stretchy plant, so the buds are spaced out better. She will begin training very soon so we will see how it goes.
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Lastly is the OG Kush seed #16 after 49 full days flowering. This plant is small in stature, but the buds are looking great. The red hairs are really starting to show on the smaller buds, but not on the big ones. This one still has quite a ways to go after 7 weeks flowering.
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Alright, up first this week is the newest addition, the Quebec Blue seed #1 on day 7 of veg that I sprouted last week, after many failed attempts at sprouting some Blueberry Kush x AK47 seeds. This one came up right away and is growing out nicely for a small seedling.
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Next up is the Ghost Train Haze seed #1 after 28 full days vegging. She is now in training. This one isn't growing quite as fast as I would hope, but still not bad.
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Lastly is the OG Kush seed #16 after 8 full weeks flowering. Starting to really show some red hairs and a bit of purple on all the leaves. Not a lot of smell as is usual with this strain, but the end product tends to be very nice with large trichomes everywhere.
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Not a lot to report this week other than some nice growth and training for the new plants, things have been so easy.

First up is the Quebec Blue seed #1 on day 14 of veg. This one is growing very short and wide, with short internode spacing. I am pretty happy with the progression so far. I will top today or tomorrow in prep for quad-lining.
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Secondly we have the Ghost Train Haze seed #1 after 35 full days in veg. This plant is showing its 'sativa' like traits, with wide internode spacing and some vigorous growth. I continue to think the stretchy plants are better suited to quad-lining. This one will be ready for flowering in a week or two.
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Lastly is the OG Kush seed #16 after 63 full days flowering starting to show off her purple colors with a good percentage of red hairs showing as well. This is day 7 of a drought session, and the SIP is almost empty, meaning I'll have to keep a good eye on her over the next week to see when she starts showing symptoms of drought. Then I will water lightly with plain water until flowering is complete.
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Exciting times! Relatively lots going on this week as the plants mature, take up more water and require training. As usual, the vegging plants are being fed Alaskan Fish Fertilizer via top-watering, and the flowering plant is being fed Botanicare Pure Blend Pro at the recommended levels via light top-watering and direct fill of the SIP. All plants are in a custom compost/soil mix, in 5-gallon SIP containers. My VPD for flowering is right on the money during the dark period, and a bit dry during the day. I prefer to have things slightly drier during the days than generally recommended to prevent mold and fungus etc. The light used for flower is a Vipar XS2500 250W, and in veg I use one or two off-brand 100w panels depending on the stage of growth.

Up first this week is the Quebec Blue seed #1 on day 21 of veg. This one seems to be coming along really nicely. I started training this past week at around day 15, and the leaves are still getting bigger. This one is about ready for more water and I will slowly start topping up the SIP over the next week via top-watering.
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Up next is the Ghost Train Haze seed #1 after 42 full days vegging. The side branches are starting to consume a lot of energy no matter how hard I train them and try to keep them in check, but the main branches are still growing strong. This plant is starting to use up a lot of water and I'll probably give another week before putting into 12/12. Very excited to see how stretchy this plant will be in the first weeks of flowering. Training has been easy, this plant is taking to it very well with the main 4 branches almost completely horizontal.
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Lastly is the OG Kush seed #16 after 70 full days flowering. The purpling is really starting to show on the fan leaves and buds. The trichs are popping and coating the buds in every direction. A small plant, but the result should be very nice! I just finished a drought which took about 12 days. It was probably a day or two too long, but I didn't have a chance to water it towards the end, so kind of a hard drought. The smell is a bit stronger now, you can tell there is a difference after droughting.
Now I will continue to feed her plain water until she is almost ready, then I will again let her dry out/drought before harvest. This helps the plant to appear 'finished' and use up a lot of the nutrients etc in the leaves. Then I will hang the whole plant for 10-12 days usually, depending on humidity & temp, and put the buds into a large bowl with a thick cloth over top for a final slow dry before jarring. This is IMHO the most important part of a grow, since all your hard work can be undone by crappy drying & curing techniques. Re-hydrating and drying cannabis through burping etc. seems to kill the terpenes, so I try for a nice slow consistent drying period.
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Saturday! Time for another update:

I'm still testing my no defoliation until flower technique, and so far it seems to be paying off. The challenge I seem to be having quad-lining is that the inner branches will take over from the main branches unless they are trained, topped etc. and keeping most of the leaves in tact helps to keep them in check until flowering time.

First up this week its the Quebec Blue seed #1 on day 28 of veg and stretching out nicely, with big leaves/looking healthy. This plant was given less light in the initial stages of veg than I usually provide, partly because I wanted it to stretch, and the next plant up was taking most of the light.
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Second up is the Ghost Train Haze seed #1 after 49 days of veg, day 1 of flowering, after some light defoliation starting over the past few days. This plant really popped out branches all over the place. The side branches are growing new branches, and the main branches are still dominant going into flower. When defoliating, this plant already has really nice smells going on, and I'm hoping the flowers have a similar smell. Things are looking good for this one heading into 12/12. As mentioned above the final pic is that of last week vs this week after defoliation.
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Lastly we have the OG Kush after 77 full days of flowering. The purples have come out nicely, and I'm just waiting for this one to ripen up and finish now. The water consumption is very minimal, and there is nothing left to do except wait. I'm guessing one or two more weeks should do the trick, putting this one at 12-13 weeks flowering and just over 18-19 weeks of growth altogether. The buds look sick, I can't wait!
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And finally a shot of the flowering area under the Vipar XS2500. You can see the GTH is still little, but the flowering stretch will tell how big of a plant this one will be.
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CannabisMan420 said:
Saturday! Time for another update:

I'm still testing my no defoliation until flower technique, and so far it seems to be paying off. The challenge I seem to be having quad-lining is that the inner branches will take over from the main branches unless they are trained, topped etc. and keeping most of the leaves in tact helps to keep them in check until flowering time.

First up this week its the Quebec Blue seed #1 on day 28 of veg and stretching out nicely, with big leaves/looking healthy. This plant was given less light in the initial stages of veg than I usually provide, partly because I wanted it to stretch, and the next plant up was taking most of the light.
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Second up is the Ghost Train Haze seed #1 after 49 days of veg, day 1 of flowering, after some light defoliation starting over the past few days. This plant really popped out branches all over the place. The side branches are growing new branches, and the main branches are still dominant going into flower. When defoliating, this plant already has really nice smells going on, and I'm hoping the flowers have a similar smell. Things are looking good for this one heading into 12/12. As mentioned above the final pic is that of last week vs this week after defoliation.
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Lastly we have the OG Kush after 77 full days of flowering. The purples have come out nicely, and I'm just waiting for this one to ripen up and finish now. The water consumption is very minimal, and there is nothing left to do except wait. I'm guessing one or two more weeks should do the trick, putting this one at 12-13 weeks flowering and just over 18-19 weeks of growth altogether. The buds look sick, I can't wait!
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And finally a shot of the flowering area under the Vipar XS2500. You can see the GTH is still little, but the flowering stretch will tell how big of a plant this one will be.
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Plants look great the OGK looks real tasty
 
@con Thanks for following along! I have a feeling this year will be even better than last, with these new strains plus the good old OG Kush. Am super proud of how the Ghost Train Haze is turning out, can't wait to see it stretch! Wish I would have learned this stuff earlier in my growing journey.
 
I find it more rewarding to see each grow get better each time but you really have some gorgeous plants
 
I usually don't update in the middle of the week but there has been a slight modification in hardware. I just got some new poles that keep the sides of the tent from being sucked in by the exhaust fan. The fan creates enough of a vacuum that the sides come in a few inches, taking away precious growing space. Now I've got them installed I have a true 4x4 tent, with plenty of room to stretch out this Ghost Train Haze plant as it gets into flowering!
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It seemed a bit expensive for some poles, but its much better and cleaner than trying to DIY something. It really makes a difference too! It measures 48.5" pole to pole.

This is after a bit of defoliation of the GTH. Wondering if I should do more?
This plant measures slightly bigger branch-to-branch than the OG Kush, which means if it stretches out nicely over the next 2 or 3 weeks, it should be a fairly big plant. Either way, I will have a ton of surface area taking up light from the LED panel, with a ton of top-quality buds. Fingers crossed!
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Me and the plants are really having some fun on this stage of the grow, things are good.
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Big healthy plants! For anybody new thats just joining this is a pretty simple organic soil grow in SIP buckets, with all the plants being quad-lined and grown in similar conditions. The hope is that I can find some really nice strains and compare my grows against each other due to the similarity in conditions.

First up this week is the Quebec Blue seed #1 on day 35 of veg, spreading and branching out nicely. This one seems to have good internode spacing so far, with long side branches coming out everywhere. I will have to do some more training to keep the side branches in check, but this is how she looks currently.
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Next up is I think my best job so far of training a low, wide plant that takes up a lot of surface area. The whole theory here is to create a thick canopy at the ideal distance from the grow light that takes up as much surface area as possible. This way the plant focuses all its energy on the top buds, and all the buds produced are of very similar quality and consistency.
This Ghost Train Haze seed #1 plant is shown after 7 full days of 12/12 light cycles. It hasn't really stretched as much as I had hoped, rather bushed out quite a bit instead. The canopy has turned out nice and relatively even and there are boatloads of bud sites. I've never grown this strain before so not sure what to expect here, but hoping for the best from this plant!
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Lastly is the OGK seed #16 after 84 days / 12 weeks flowering and she is pretty much ready. I'm going to finish a bit of a drought I usually do at the end of flower and harvest her sometime this upcoming week. The drought seems to do a bunch of things: Dries out the plant more in prep for the chop, helps it to 'look finished', and can increase potency and cannabinoid content. I've already done one main drought during late flower, but also do it right at the end. This one has some interesting colors. From a distance, the buds don't look ready, but thats just the trichomes, not white hairs.
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Thats my story for the week, not sure if anybody actually reads this stuff, but as usual any advice, questions, suggestions etc are welcome! I am always learning and trying to achieve better things in my grows.
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Plants are looking great & have no suggestions but keep doing what you are doing, the OKG looks good
 
OK, up again first is the Quebec Blue seed #1 on day 42 of veg. As suggested, I will let this one veg longer than my standard 50-day veg cycle in hopes of getting a bigger yield. I've been trying for a 1lb plant for a while, and figure its time to step up my game with this one. It has good internode spacing and seems to be branching nicely so far. It will require a fair bit of training on the secondary branches, just to keep them in check and down low while the main branches keep growing.
This is the first time I've grown this strain, so not quite sure what to expect. I'm still testing out the no-defoliation until flower technique as well, trying to keep the inner branching down while I grow the main 4 branches.
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Next is the Ghost Train Haze seed #1, 63 days total, 14 days flowering and for what is supposed to be a more 'sativa' like plant this one didn't stretch much at all in 12/12. (80% Sativa / 20% Indica) It was popping out pre-flowers everywhere in advance, and only took 11 days for full-on flowers to show. That is pretty early in the flowering stage, so I figure this one should mature that much faster as well. I managed to stretch her out ok, so this is another small plant with a lot of surface area.
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Finally I will mention the OG Kush seed #16 which was chopped earlier in the week after 88 days or 12.5 weeks flowering. With the current conditions in my drying area this one should take anywhere from 10-14 days or more to dry, then I will trim and put into a bowl with a thick cloth over top for final drying before putting into jars. This is my typical preferred way of drying, slow and steady.

Up next is another Gelato seed #8 since this one can produce a very nice plant with strong 'sativa' characteristics, which is exactly what I want for quad-lining. Just hoping for no nanners this time.
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Just another quick update, after a 5-month cure the OG Kush #15 has officially been busted out for sampling. Overall it doesn't have a great smell, but is coated in rich amber trichomes, is an exceptionally smooth smoke, and provides a mellow stone. Could have been problems with my dry/cure but overall I have to be satisfied with this result.

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Wish I could share!
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Has it been a week already?

First up is the new Gelato seed #8 on day 2 out of soil. Hoping for the more 'sativa' version of this plant.
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Second up is the Quebec Blue on day 49 of veg. I would typically start flowering this plant right now, according to my schedule, but I am going for a bigger yield with this plant. She hasn't grown outwards a lot over the past week, all the inner branches seem to be taking up a lot of energy, but I am training them the best I can. Still testing the "no defoliation until flower" thing as can be seen, but I did take off 2 large leaves in the middle.
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Lastly is the Ghost Train Haze after 21 days flowering. This plant is already showing the very first red hairs after only 3 weeks of 12/12. The buds have grown substantially but still not much stretch, about 1-inch over the past week maybe, and that should be it for the flowering stretch. Large flowers already for this early, but not something to complain about.
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All in all things are great, I have 3 plants growing, 1 hanging and almost ready to trim, and the SIPs continue to do their magic, keeping me from having to water every single day.

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Wooohooo Harvest/Trim Day!!!

So I managed to pull 135g or 4.76 Ounces of top buds from this little OG Kush seed #16 plant! All in all it has a nice light, sweet smell to it, mostly smells like crystals, and looks like fire. It smokes pretty good for this early in the drying stage, but I didn't try much, so will do a separate smoke report once it cures a little.
You can see there is a nice mix of clear, cloudy and amber trichomes.
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