Intro
I have been out of the growing game for a year or two, but have run out of meds and my ADD is taking its toll. I miss the whole aspect of growing and have retaken the plunge. Reading Doc's thread has me eager to get back into my old roots of living soil and High Brix seems like it is a great fit for me. I had previously switched to ebb flow hydro but have always missed the beauty of an old fashioned soil grow. So I ordered one of Doc's kits and started cooking it on the 10th of October. It will be ready on the 10th of November though I will end up cooking it a bit longer than that. My plan is to hold a hunger games of sorts using my old nutrients that ends with six winners from three strains. The lucky girls will be chosen for High Brix and their daughter clones planted in 10 gallon fabric pots of Doc's HB soil. Currently growing 3 strains and a few random bagseed. All seeds are regular non-feminized seeds so it will be fun culling the males and looking for the true gems in the bunch!
I soaked 26 seeds in moist paper towels for 12 hours then planted directly into the soil mix. TGA Agent Orange 10/10 germinated, Dynasty Huckleberry Kush V3 11/11 germinated, Alphakronik Mad hatter 5/5 germinated. Perfect score! But wow I have my work cut out for me. Here is a list of the strains:
TGA Agent Orange
Orange Velvet x Jack the Ripper
Agent Orange is a very good producer with extremely resinous large dense buds. The smell is amazing with hints of oranges, lemons and the smell of a whiskey sour cocktail. The strain contains pigments that have the ability to turn maroon and purple with cool nights. The buzz is up and motivating and will make you smile. The strain is a very heavy producer yielding large flat topped colas with very dense heavy buds. It does very well outdoors reaching over 10 feet in northern California. Indoors it can be topped and produce full canopies and heavy colas.
Phenotypes: Two main variations - one short and thick and one taller and more resinous
Height: Very tall block head colas
Yield: Very heavy but all during the last weeks of flowering. A heavy producer
Indoor and Outdoor
Best way to grow: Top and train into a bush
Harvest: 55-65 days
Sat/Ind: 50/50
Hybrid: Local Orange Skunk x Jacks Cleaner x Space Queen
High Type: Strong and tasty leaves with an orange after taste and an almost trippy high
Taste: A cross between oranges and sour mix. It even makes the bong water smell like oranges!
Dynasty Huckleberry Kush V3
Landrace,F1,F2, Selfed,Polyhybrid etc
Stable F1
Lineage: Oregon Afghani x Huckleberry 2014
Parental Information:
Mom- The mother of this strain is an Oregon Afghani clone that's been around since the early 80s... Pure Kush in appearance and smell, but the Oregon Afghani has been around well before the "kush" label became predominant in the cannabis scene. High CBD make this strain very useful for medical users.
Dad- The father is a select male chosen out of the Huckleberry 2014 gene pool. The huckleberry 2014 is basically a huckleberry backcross, using an old Dj short's BB clone in the mix. Huckleberry 2012=huckleberry 2011/(Dj short BB x Huckleberry 2007... This line has shown great medicinal value and a fast maturation period. This same father has been used in the crater lake V5 and more.
Indica/Sativa % Indica Dominant
Bloom Length: 8-9 week
# of Phenotypes? 3 main phenos
Describe each phenotype expression:
**Huckleberry Kush is another potent medical masterpiece!! After 4 years of work put into this line, we are happy to introduce the Huckleberry Kush Version-3. By far the smelliest and our favorite of all the versions.
Pheno#1 (30%) is leaning more towards Huckleberry and will display a "whiter" appearance. Hairs will tend to be more spindly on this pheno. a bit more sweet/sour huckleberry smell/taste than the others.
Pheno #2 (40%) 50/50 between both parents. Good yield, great sweet/sour smells and lots of trichomes makes this an easy choice for a keeper.
Pheno#3 (30%) is leaning towards the Oregon Afghani but is still dominated by the father... The tops will be a bit more "blunt" and the hairs will be standing on end in straight lines... a bit more earthy kush smell/taste but the huckleberry essence cuts thru in almost every plant..
All other phenos observed were slight variations of the above descriptions.
Expect the following throughout the gene pool;
**White Strain. covered with trichs, makes it great for hash
**High THC and decent CBD...functional medicine with great pain relief
**Kush "pole plant" structure, minimal branching
**Easy to grow, plants can handle fair amount of stress without harm
**Dense buds, harvest on time or beware of mold!!
**8 week bloom time
**Good for Sog...but not as good for scrog though
Expect these slight variations;
**Smell/taste...... more/less huckleberry/kush depending on pheno
**Stretch ...... between .75-1.25x
**yield ....... some buds will grow "outward" more = more yield
**Veg time... slightly longer veg time required on some plants
Stretch: 0.5-1.25
Resin Profile:Copious Resin
Odour Score:8
Odour Description:sour berries, lavender, coffee, hash oil
Flavour Score:9
Flavour Description:sweet/sour berry, coffee/hash
Potency Score:9
High Type:initial cerebral, deep body stone..
Alphakronik Mad hatter
707 Headband x Gobstopper
Flowering Time : 63-70 days
Indica Sativa% 45/55
Madhatter was made at the request of AKG test grower and friend, Gonzo Farms. After seeing the successes that Gonzo had with the Rawdawg line, they asked us to consider making a new hybrid with another favorite of theirs, Gobstopper. We obliged and what came of the hybrid was nothing short of spectacular. Keeping the majority of the headband structure with stronger branching and thicker stalks, the Madhatter brings forth flavors of Skunk, Fuel, and OG with a soft sweetness that lingers on the tongue long after you stop smoking. The high is noteworthy in that it creeps up on you about 5 minutes after you put the bowl down. Expect yields ranging in the 1-1.5oz/gallon in soil.
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Materials and Methods:
Is it in Veg or Flower stage? Veg stage. On Oct 6th Seeds soaked 12 hours in moist paper towels then planted ¼ inch deep in soil mix and sprouted @4 days after. They were vegged in 1qt soup containers until the 23rd of October @13 days after they popped the soil.
They were then transplanted into 2.5 gallon buckets.
Currently a mix of 25%vermicullite, 25% perlite, and 50% peat in 2 .5 gallon pots. Mix is from a previous run so cannazym added to get rid of old decaying roots.
Size of light? 2 600W HPS for veg, 3 150x3 11 band Led lights being added for flower.
4.5 ftx12ft grow space.
Temperatures @75 with RH of 50%
Is it aircooled? 2 HPS are air cooled
I am using town water left to sit for a day which has a ppm of about 50 to start.
Currently using Holland Secret nutes for the remainder of this grow before switching to Doc's HB soil. Just trying to use what's left and not buy anything new. Hopefully the old nutes won't be degraded too much. Mixing these nutes at 2/3 strength of what is listed. Foliar feeding 2x week with Epsom salts as the seedlings were showing the beginnings of Mg deficiency.
Any Pests ? None so far (crosses fingers)
How often are you watering? Currently every 4 days or so, when the pots are light enough that I know the roots are getting dry.
So come along with me on this magical adventure moving on the yellow Brix road towards the Emerald City. Not High Brix yet but we will have the strains to do so as soon as I start flowering and seeing what's up. Help me decide who moves on to HB greatness!
General Plan is:
1. Grow these plants another several days and take one top clone of each then train the 4 or so resulting branches.
2. Remove the bottom foliage before flower and take more clones, then flip them into 11/13 light /dark to accentuate phenotype.
3. Cull males and pot rooted clones into 1 gallon fabric pots. Toward the end of flowering, repot my six best candidates into Doc's HB soil, and the rest into the last run of old nutes/soil.
What's happened so far:
1. All seeds popped and planted in 1qt containers.
Oct 16
Huckleberry Kush has nice purple underleaves
Agent Orange
Mad hatter
2. Seedlings get bigger in small containers, they don't like the old soil I had on hand so I mix in some peat moss and add some dolomitic lime and start adding cannazym. Transplant to 2.5 gallon pots. Happiness ensues.
Oct 22nd
Oct 26th
Oct 26th Huckleberry Kush #4
Oct 26th Agent Orange #4
Oct27th
Happiness continues and the plants are settling in nicely to their new pots.
Oct 29th Notice anything different...yup two 150x3w LEDs added!
So you are now up to speed, lets see what happens next dear readers. I look forward to the next few weeks. I plan to take top clones in a few days, this will leave four growing branches for each pant which should be plenty considering the numbers. Though the numbers should dwindle once the males start to show! If you notice the plants in smaller containers, these are the three slowest Mad Hatter and some random bagseed that has already been fimmed.
I have been out of the growing game for a year or two, but have run out of meds and my ADD is taking its toll. I miss the whole aspect of growing and have retaken the plunge. Reading Doc's thread has me eager to get back into my old roots of living soil and High Brix seems like it is a great fit for me. I had previously switched to ebb flow hydro but have always missed the beauty of an old fashioned soil grow. So I ordered one of Doc's kits and started cooking it on the 10th of October. It will be ready on the 10th of November though I will end up cooking it a bit longer than that. My plan is to hold a hunger games of sorts using my old nutrients that ends with six winners from three strains. The lucky girls will be chosen for High Brix and their daughter clones planted in 10 gallon fabric pots of Doc's HB soil. Currently growing 3 strains and a few random bagseed. All seeds are regular non-feminized seeds so it will be fun culling the males and looking for the true gems in the bunch!
I soaked 26 seeds in moist paper towels for 12 hours then planted directly into the soil mix. TGA Agent Orange 10/10 germinated, Dynasty Huckleberry Kush V3 11/11 germinated, Alphakronik Mad hatter 5/5 germinated. Perfect score! But wow I have my work cut out for me. Here is a list of the strains:
TGA Agent Orange
Orange Velvet x Jack the Ripper
Agent Orange is a very good producer with extremely resinous large dense buds. The smell is amazing with hints of oranges, lemons and the smell of a whiskey sour cocktail. The strain contains pigments that have the ability to turn maroon and purple with cool nights. The buzz is up and motivating and will make you smile. The strain is a very heavy producer yielding large flat topped colas with very dense heavy buds. It does very well outdoors reaching over 10 feet in northern California. Indoors it can be topped and produce full canopies and heavy colas.
Phenotypes: Two main variations - one short and thick and one taller and more resinous
Height: Very tall block head colas
Yield: Very heavy but all during the last weeks of flowering. A heavy producer
Indoor and Outdoor
Best way to grow: Top and train into a bush
Harvest: 55-65 days
Sat/Ind: 50/50
Hybrid: Local Orange Skunk x Jacks Cleaner x Space Queen
High Type: Strong and tasty leaves with an orange after taste and an almost trippy high
Taste: A cross between oranges and sour mix. It even makes the bong water smell like oranges!
Dynasty Huckleberry Kush V3
Landrace,F1,F2, Selfed,Polyhybrid etc
Stable F1
Lineage: Oregon Afghani x Huckleberry 2014
Parental Information:
Mom- The mother of this strain is an Oregon Afghani clone that's been around since the early 80s... Pure Kush in appearance and smell, but the Oregon Afghani has been around well before the "kush" label became predominant in the cannabis scene. High CBD make this strain very useful for medical users.
Dad- The father is a select male chosen out of the Huckleberry 2014 gene pool. The huckleberry 2014 is basically a huckleberry backcross, using an old Dj short's BB clone in the mix. Huckleberry 2012=huckleberry 2011/(Dj short BB x Huckleberry 2007... This line has shown great medicinal value and a fast maturation period. This same father has been used in the crater lake V5 and more.
Indica/Sativa % Indica Dominant
Bloom Length: 8-9 week
# of Phenotypes? 3 main phenos
Describe each phenotype expression:
**Huckleberry Kush is another potent medical masterpiece!! After 4 years of work put into this line, we are happy to introduce the Huckleberry Kush Version-3. By far the smelliest and our favorite of all the versions.
Pheno#1 (30%) is leaning more towards Huckleberry and will display a "whiter" appearance. Hairs will tend to be more spindly on this pheno. a bit more sweet/sour huckleberry smell/taste than the others.
Pheno #2 (40%) 50/50 between both parents. Good yield, great sweet/sour smells and lots of trichomes makes this an easy choice for a keeper.
Pheno#3 (30%) is leaning towards the Oregon Afghani but is still dominated by the father... The tops will be a bit more "blunt" and the hairs will be standing on end in straight lines... a bit more earthy kush smell/taste but the huckleberry essence cuts thru in almost every plant..
All other phenos observed were slight variations of the above descriptions.
Expect the following throughout the gene pool;
**White Strain. covered with trichs, makes it great for hash
**High THC and decent CBD...functional medicine with great pain relief
**Kush "pole plant" structure, minimal branching
**Easy to grow, plants can handle fair amount of stress without harm
**Dense buds, harvest on time or beware of mold!!
**8 week bloom time
**Good for Sog...but not as good for scrog though
Expect these slight variations;
**Smell/taste...... more/less huckleberry/kush depending on pheno
**Stretch ...... between .75-1.25x
**yield ....... some buds will grow "outward" more = more yield
**Veg time... slightly longer veg time required on some plants
Stretch: 0.5-1.25
Resin Profile:Copious Resin
Odour Score:8
Odour Description:sour berries, lavender, coffee, hash oil
Flavour Score:9
Flavour Description:sweet/sour berry, coffee/hash
Potency Score:9
High Type:initial cerebral, deep body stone..
Alphakronik Mad hatter
707 Headband x Gobstopper
Flowering Time : 63-70 days
Indica Sativa% 45/55
Madhatter was made at the request of AKG test grower and friend, Gonzo Farms. After seeing the successes that Gonzo had with the Rawdawg line, they asked us to consider making a new hybrid with another favorite of theirs, Gobstopper. We obliged and what came of the hybrid was nothing short of spectacular. Keeping the majority of the headband structure with stronger branching and thicker stalks, the Madhatter brings forth flavors of Skunk, Fuel, and OG with a soft sweetness that lingers on the tongue long after you stop smoking. The high is noteworthy in that it creeps up on you about 5 minutes after you put the bowl down. Expect yields ranging in the 1-1.5oz/gallon in soil.
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Materials and Methods:
Is it in Veg or Flower stage? Veg stage. On Oct 6th Seeds soaked 12 hours in moist paper towels then planted ¼ inch deep in soil mix and sprouted @4 days after. They were vegged in 1qt soup containers until the 23rd of October @13 days after they popped the soil.
They were then transplanted into 2.5 gallon buckets.
Currently a mix of 25%vermicullite, 25% perlite, and 50% peat in 2 .5 gallon pots. Mix is from a previous run so cannazym added to get rid of old decaying roots.
Size of light? 2 600W HPS for veg, 3 150x3 11 band Led lights being added for flower.
4.5 ftx12ft grow space.
Temperatures @75 with RH of 50%
Is it aircooled? 2 HPS are air cooled
I am using town water left to sit for a day which has a ppm of about 50 to start.
Currently using Holland Secret nutes for the remainder of this grow before switching to Doc's HB soil. Just trying to use what's left and not buy anything new. Hopefully the old nutes won't be degraded too much. Mixing these nutes at 2/3 strength of what is listed. Foliar feeding 2x week with Epsom salts as the seedlings were showing the beginnings of Mg deficiency.
Any Pests ? None so far (crosses fingers)
How often are you watering? Currently every 4 days or so, when the pots are light enough that I know the roots are getting dry.
So come along with me on this magical adventure moving on the yellow Brix road towards the Emerald City. Not High Brix yet but we will have the strains to do so as soon as I start flowering and seeing what's up. Help me decide who moves on to HB greatness!
General Plan is:
1. Grow these plants another several days and take one top clone of each then train the 4 or so resulting branches.
2. Remove the bottom foliage before flower and take more clones, then flip them into 11/13 light /dark to accentuate phenotype.
3. Cull males and pot rooted clones into 1 gallon fabric pots. Toward the end of flowering, repot my six best candidates into Doc's HB soil, and the rest into the last run of old nutes/soil.
What's happened so far:
1. All seeds popped and planted in 1qt containers.
Oct 16
Huckleberry Kush has nice purple underleaves
Agent Orange
Mad hatter
2. Seedlings get bigger in small containers, they don't like the old soil I had on hand so I mix in some peat moss and add some dolomitic lime and start adding cannazym. Transplant to 2.5 gallon pots. Happiness ensues.
Oct 22nd
Oct 26th
Oct 26th Huckleberry Kush #4
Oct 26th Agent Orange #4
Oct27th
Happiness continues and the plants are settling in nicely to their new pots.
Oct 29th Notice anything different...yup two 150x3w LEDs added!
So you are now up to speed, lets see what happens next dear readers. I look forward to the next few weeks. I plan to take top clones in a few days, this will leave four growing branches for each pant which should be plenty considering the numbers. Though the numbers should dwindle once the males start to show! If you notice the plants in smaller containers, these are the three slowest Mad Hatter and some random bagseed that has already been fimmed.
Subbed
and on the odd chance I do doze off and start snoring, I am sure Sue or someone will throw something at me to wake me 
That trifol girl, if it smokes well, would be an awesome pheno to perpetuate if you are into main-lining, only 2 cuts and you would have 9 tops 