Humbleservantoftheplant
Active Member
Hello, all!
I've been growing for a couple of years now, and I've gotten a TON of advice from rollitup and similar sites out there. Without these sites, so many of us medical patients and hobby growers would be absolutely clueless as to how to grow our own. So, let me begin this, my first grow journal EVER, now that I am experienced enough to not post and look like a total effing NEWB, by lighting up a fat joint of my homegrown, and thanking all of those that came before me, all of those that will come in time, and all who follow the light, the love, the blessing that is this BEAUTIFUL HEALING PLANT!!
Now that that's out of the way, Welcome to my Grow Journal!!
Here are the details:
Nutrient Line:
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The method:
I've been growing for a couple of years now, and I've gotten a TON of advice from rollitup and similar sites out there. Without these sites, so many of us medical patients and hobby growers would be absolutely clueless as to how to grow our own. So, let me begin this, my first grow journal EVER, now that I am experienced enough to not post and look like a total effing NEWB, by lighting up a fat joint of my homegrown, and thanking all of those that came before me, all of those that will come in time, and all who follow the light, the love, the blessing that is this BEAUTIFUL HEALING PLANT!!
Now that that's out of the way, Welcome to my Grow Journal!!
Here are the details:
- One plant (Orange Crush)
- in a 15 gallon organic soil pot
- under a single 1000W HPS Ushio HiLux OptiRed bulb, powered by
- magnetic ballast
- in a 6" Sun Systems rectangular, air cooled reflector
- cooled by a 6" 440cfm fan
- inside of a 4x4 Secret Jardin grow tent
- using all organic nutrients
- Roots Organic base, mixed in a 3:1 ratio with
- Fox Farms Ocean Forest
- Plus about 3 cups of worm castings mixed evenly throughout the bottom 2/3 of the soil
Nutrient Line:
- Normally, I build a living, organic soil, and give the plants nothing but water and some mycorrhizae for the first two months. They slow digest all the nutrients in the soil, working their way into the worm castings in the lower level of the roots. At about two months of vegging, the plant is ready to go into flower.
- At this point, I top dress the soil with another 2 cups of worm castings, and begin using mild flowering nutrients for the first two weeks of 12/12. The worm castings give the plants enough Nitrogen to get through the stretch and they always make the leaves turn a nice glossy green right before the buds set in!
- In the past, I have used Advanced, House and Gaarden, Dutch Master, and Green Planet nutrients.
- As I have gone more and more organic, I have gotten away from using these products, and I now use only "sugars" as Subby would call them, like Bud Candy. I also really like Green Planet's "Massive" product. Amazing stuff. They say it is organic, as does Advanced regarding Bud Candy. As such, I have still dabbled in them.
- However, for this grow I am using Nectar for the God's full line.
- I got the amazing cut from a brother of mine (a friend who is really a dear brother) who grows for a dispensary here in Colorado. I got the nutrients, also for free, from the same friend, via another friend who owns a hydroponic business. You gotta love the generosity of stoners, eh?
- Nectar for the Gods used to be Harvest Moon, who used to be the brains behind Roots Organics, supposedly, before they got into a big fight and Roots became Aurora. Long story. Anyway, the nutrients are top quality, I got them for free, and I'm loving them so far.
- This strain, Orange Crush, is a clone-only cut that came to Colorado from Oregon in 2009, via that same awesome brother of mine. (I swear, dude is always hooking it up!)
- It made its way out here in a WalMart bag in a backpack, on a bus.
- Only 9 people in America are growing it currently, all of us friends of friends or family members.
- I say this not to be a dick, or because I'm an elitist, or because I think I'm better than you or my shit don't stink, but because I recognize what a RARE gem I have come across!! And this is, without doubt, my favorite strain of all time. Now, I realize that that's a lot to say. In over 6 years of smoking, on multiple continents and in multiple countries and states, I cannot recall a better high, or a better taste.
- It produces rock hard nugs that literally "tink" when they hit the glass bottom of the jar. You could slingshot these things at an elk and kill it. The rock that David used to kill Goliath with? It wasn't even a rock. It was a fully cured Orange Crush bud. I shit you not.
- These rock hard buds are also purple. Like, Rick James in a purple pimp coat Purple. Purpler than Barney purple. Purpler than Wesley Snipe's black ass at midnight. I'm talking PURPLE, straight through to the core. This color sets on in about week 4, and gets more and more intense until the whole plant finishes purple, leaves and all, at about 70 days.
- These rock hard, purple buds are also COVERED in trichomes.
- And lastly, they smell from across the room, have flaming orange hairs, and taste like orange peels when you burn them. Honestly, can it get any better?
View attachment 2043306View attachment 2043308View attachment 2043309The method:
- In order to SCROG this one plant, and make it worth my while in a 4X4 space, I wanted to make sure it filled up the tent as much as possible.
- I started by growing the plant straight up, and topping it by pinching out the apical node of every branch until I had 6 main tops on a bush, with one top being slightly dominant still. This is where you see the plant in the first picture.
- From here, I went down to about 12" from the top of the soil, and pinched each branch to help her bend over. The Crush has such a fat stalk on her that I actually had to take pliers to two stalks to get her to lay at 90 degrees. I went gentle on her, but I had a mission to accomplish!
- A couple of bowls later, and I had bent every main branch over.
- I then put a screen on top of her, and gently lifted each branch and wove the screen over/under/over/under down the branch, and then tied it to the corner.
- I did this until all four corners were tied down, and the room was filled 4 feet by 4 feet with a canopy of branches.
- I then flipped her into 12/12 that night, and let her go!
- These pictures go up to week 2. More are soon to follow. If I can find pictures of previous harvests or any purple bud shots, I'll upload them as well!
We're out here in Colorado and don't have as much knowledge on the politics of Oregon companies. What I've heard is through a couple Oregon friends, and basically the word was that Roots had been started by some cats who then had a disagreement, and one dude changed the name and kept Roots, while another dude went off and made Harvest Moon. Really, it's all kind of irrelevant, though. It's top quality organic nutrients, and they were all free. 
