Well it's been a while, just forgot about this thread, but anyway, I ended up vegging my IB's for, believe it or not, until the middle of April, or about THREE MONTHS, lol. After weeding out the runts, I ended up with four Incredible Bulks, a couple of Money Makers and a Bubba's Gift - the BG was the smallest while the IB's were huge, and not very impressed with the MM's.
I vegged them in 5 gal buckets, kept the BG and MM's in the same buckets and transplanted the IB's to 10 gal containers, but they were so tall I decided to lay them on their sides (also due to the 10 gal containers being too short, forgot to measure before transplanting, lol). Here's some pics ;?D
These is from early February, the pic in the middle is of the IB's and the last pic is from April just before moving them to the flowering room.
Unfortunately, I mostly took videos of the in between periods, but I do have some pics after the transplanting. They look a little shocky, especially considering that some of the root ball wouldn't fit, even laying down in the short 10gal. Oh yeah, I forgot but in the middle pic you see a bucket to the right which held a FB Girlscout Cookie Auto, wasn't at all impressed with the results, decent yield for an auto, but fluffy buds and not very reminiscent of GC imo.
In the last pic, if you compare the far 10 gal to the closest one, the far one was my first attempt, and as you can see a LOT of the root ball wouldn't fit that way, lol. So in the nearest one you'll see one container nested inside another, and what I did was to cut the bottom out of one and that allowed the whole root mass to sit below the surface. Next go round, I'll veg in 3 gal containers and no more than 8 weeks of veg too ;?).
Later, closer to harvest, I was down to four IB's, one BG and one MM. So just six plants nearly filled up an area that I normally fit up to 14-16 "regular" sized girls. The total time in flower was at least 10 weeks, lost track of the exact date I switched to flower, but it seemed like 11 by the time I got done with the flush.
Oh yeah, on closer look I forgot there's a tall lanky thing in the first pic on the right, that was an Afghan I was trying to find an outdoor "guerilla grow" location, but ended up chopping it when nothing was available (it was a freebie and I didn't like the looks of it at all). Wish I had more bud pics, I should see if there's a way I can get stills from the videos I took ;?)
Unfortunately, don't have any pics of the chop, it was a LOT of work, I just got buried. Ended up with just shy of 3 pounds, 2 of which were from the IB's alone.
PROS: As for a smoke report, loved the high and flavor of the IB, potent, nice mellow stone and will put you to sleep at bedtime (I use it in place of sleep meds). The scent wasn't as strong as I was hoping for but still a decent terpene profile. BIG CON: The buds were WAY dense, the densest I've grown, and even with a big dehumidifier going 24-7 at the end, while flushing for 10 days, the humidity spiked above 60% a few times and mold set in on several of the biggest buds, ended up losing at least a couple of ounces of dried bud. That is a problem I hate dealing with, so until I decide to spring for a commercial dehumidifier, I'm probably going to pass on growing this again.
The BG also had a nice strong high, more crystals (that's the bud in the far right pic above) and a better scent/flavor profile, berry-like with some citrus, but not a big producer all things considered. Didn't find much to recommend the MM, not a bad strain, just not up to what I'm looking for, and a little too lanky with smaller buds.
