Canada Guy
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You got some nice looking ladies! I hope I can grow outdoors this year.
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Swiss Cheese seems to have a well deserved reputation for big yields - if that's what your SC is, what is it like to smoke?
I haven't smoked, per se, in years, but I do vaporize the flowers. SC is a remarkable strain due to its ease of growing, high yields, and high quality flowers. The reason I got it was due to fungus resistance genes. I've never had it mold on me, even throughout dense coastal fogs. It was bred at high altitude, but I'm growing it at sea level.
I've had it finish in as fast as 42-45 days due to the indica pheno, and been taking clones of clones of clones for years. Still has a lot of vigor after so many generations.
The final flowers come out very skunky and lemon/piney as well as sweet. There's definitely a reason to why I keep growing it. In part its the yields, in part its because the flowers are what I like. NW will tell you stories about growing like 12 footers of these, it's the type of plant if you were to grow a monster then you could probably harvest like 3 pounds per plant type of thing.
Congrats my friend.. That main cola on the SC looks pretty good sized.. Going to be getting to warm for them purples huh? Looks good Enjoy and Keepem Green
Congrats on your harvest. It's always a good day
So my current projects, now that we can move beyond the Spring harvest (which I may add was great, the SC is so very potent and the JD batch is also really good, overall very happy with everything).
- planted some seedlings to just grow naturally, I peek at them every once n awhile and spray azamax. They're growing really slow. They endured the storm last few nights, but Sun came out and they're loving it. Various UD chem pheno seeds, but I think there may be some different pheno of the pheno (sub pheno). Also some OG seedlings, (but they showed sex and started to flower, I hope they go back to leaf growth) which were once clone and only and then made into seeds.
In Dr. Earth's Pot-o-Gold
Looking good RL....they'll probably launch after you put them out into the sunlight, right? After a few blistering near 100 days up north, we're back to very cool, breezy days.
Hello 420 Magazine and Happy New Year!
Welcome to my 2017 grow journal! Our plants are getting ready for another trip around the Sun.
Some are almost ready to harvest from the winter grow. We have the vegetative mother clones on 18/6 in the DP90 tent under 115 W of CFL (2700/5500 K mix), in contrast, we have the current winter grow with the Swiss Cheese furthest in the lead and closest to harvest. Not long behind is the Underdawg and Jack Dawg. The Sour Diesel Dawgs are just beginning to form centralized flower heads and are just getting going.
So far, it's one of the best winter grows I've had, I've taken a different approach than I normally do, I normally leave them in the white outdoor grow tent (row cover based) to keep warm, but when I do that, they usually get hit hard by the storms and cold weather. Lately, I've been taking them inside the garage at night to keep them a little bit warmer and drier, though it still drops down into the high 40s at night. Nonetheless, they are progressing pretty well because they get more direct Sun during the day, something that was inhibited by the regular outdoor tent. Buds always come out a lot skimpier and odd during the winter, but this time they seem to be coming in a bit more normal. We had some El Nina activity (hotter and drier during the winter times), with hot Santa Ana winds giving then a mid-time surge in energy. They did seem to enjoy the extra energy.
A brief recap on the strains going, these have been clones of clones of clones, and so on..
1) Jack Dawg (Jack Herer x NYCD x Chemdawg '91) = JD
2) Underdawg (Special Unknown #1 x NYCD x Chemdawg '91) = UD
3) Swiss Cheese (Swiss Miss x Skunk #1 pheno) = SC
4) Sour Diesel Dawg (Sour Diesel x NYCD x Chemdawg '91) = SDD
Soil being used: Dr. Earth's Pot-O-Gold
Cloning method: Sphagnum peat moss, Clonex rooting gel and mycorrhizae powder added to the medium, under plastic dome with constant spraying
Nutrient fertilization: Dr. Earth LIFE and Flower Girl, and Doggett & Simpson Growology
Plant protection: Azamax (general purpose) and Sierra Natural Science sprays
Bud washing method: SNS-311 diluted into several gallons of cool water, with a rinsing bucket
Drying method: 4 tier drying rack
JD
UD
SC flower top, smelling really good as normal, very fruity/skunky/piney
SDDs just starting to put out pistils finally, must have transformed into a sativa dom. expression
Group getting in the last bit of reflected Sun coming in for the day
Into the DP90, the generational mother clones, still waiting for the little UD twig to survive, she's been stagnating heavily, hoping she makes it. The other plants are growing great. But, if the struggling UD twig dies, then I'll have lost this phenotype. Learned my lesson not to take such small clones, especially for the UD.
JDs
SDD
SCs
Veg group
I'll grow the veggies as much as I can to fill up the tent, then take clones again and release another winter crop, or an early spring crop. The clones of those future clones will be the Spring grow, and the clones of those, the Summer, and so on..
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