Guerrilla Diesel Ryder in South Carolina (and a few Automatic Blueberry)
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Dr. Yo
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[HR][/HR] Went out to water today, and setup a new grow (Larry OG Kush/Chernobyl/etc...I'll be starting a grow thread for that for sure!). Lots of hauling dirt the last few days...exhausting work in 100 degree heat, with heat indexes in the 110 degrees F range.
Well the Diesel is here, in full effect! Actually nice looking buds...could easily fool someone that they were an auto-flowering strain. Looks like AK-47 plants; golf-ball sized nuggets everywhere, with few leaves which is a huge bonus. Plants look so healthy too; I can tell the Fox Farm nutes I've been adding are doing their thing.
No more nute feeding for the next 2 weeks; plain water and a slight flushing...and then no water those last few days until harvest.
I've grown 4 or 5 auto strains, and one uniform truth about them was their leafy buds. Very undesirable.
These Diesel Ryder look almost NYC Diesel-like with their sparse leaf production. It's gonna be a super easy harvest, from a leaf-clipping standpoint, although there are a lotta sugar-coated leaves close to the buds that I'll be saving for bubblehash.
JointDoctor really hit a home-run with this creation...if I were wearing a hat, I'd take that hat off for him out of respect right now.
Completely sold on it....glad I have hundreds of seeds, because as soon as this harvest is completed, I'm gonna plant another round of Diesel Ryder...should take me right up until the end of September...when the OG Kushes, Chernobyl, and additional fem singles are finished.
I took a few buds for inspection (just 2 lower popcorn nugs that weren't gonna be much anyway....hate messing with the main buds to test), and I used the standard 30x lighted magnification tool (found at most Radio Shacks for about $12 or so...see attachment) to look at the trichrome production.
So far, I'd say about 25% cloudy 15% amber, and 60% clear-to-cloudy trich-heads.
Really nice stalks; one plant is outpacing the other in trich-production.
Kinda cool to see the difference under magnification, because with your naked eye, they both look the same. It's like a forest of trich-heads in one sample...gettin' stacked together.
I'm aiming for 2 more weeks to pull these. I'll probably pull them all at once, except for 2 or 3 Diesel Ryder (and the 2 Auto Blueberry) that are just slightly behind the others, so I'll give those 2 or 3 (and the Auto Blueberry) another week or so to develop fully, so probably 15 DR's pulled in two weeks.
The buds are looking so colorful; reds/oranges...and sticky. I brushed up against a few of them while watering, and boy did my arm smell like Diesel! It was strong smelling.
That's a big relief, that they have that distinct fruity/Diesel smell...was hoping it would be this pronounced.
Can't wait to fire up some of this Diesel...I've got a good feeling about it
Well the Diesel is here, in full effect! Actually nice looking buds...could easily fool someone that they were an auto-flowering strain. Looks like AK-47 plants; golf-ball sized nuggets everywhere, with few leaves which is a huge bonus. Plants look so healthy too; I can tell the Fox Farm nutes I've been adding are doing their thing.
No more nute feeding for the next 2 weeks; plain water and a slight flushing...and then no water those last few days until harvest.
I've grown 4 or 5 auto strains, and one uniform truth about them was their leafy buds. Very undesirable.
These Diesel Ryder look almost NYC Diesel-like with their sparse leaf production. It's gonna be a super easy harvest, from a leaf-clipping standpoint, although there are a lotta sugar-coated leaves close to the buds that I'll be saving for bubblehash.
JointDoctor really hit a home-run with this creation...if I were wearing a hat, I'd take that hat off for him out of respect right now.
Completely sold on it....glad I have hundreds of seeds, because as soon as this harvest is completed, I'm gonna plant another round of Diesel Ryder...should take me right up until the end of September...when the OG Kushes, Chernobyl, and additional fem singles are finished.
I took a few buds for inspection (just 2 lower popcorn nugs that weren't gonna be much anyway....hate messing with the main buds to test), and I used the standard 30x lighted magnification tool (found at most Radio Shacks for about $12 or so...see attachment) to look at the trichrome production.
So far, I'd say about 25% cloudy 15% amber, and 60% clear-to-cloudy trich-heads.
Really nice stalks; one plant is outpacing the other in trich-production.
Kinda cool to see the difference under magnification, because with your naked eye, they both look the same. It's like a forest of trich-heads in one sample...gettin' stacked together.
I'm aiming for 2 more weeks to pull these. I'll probably pull them all at once, except for 2 or 3 Diesel Ryder (and the 2 Auto Blueberry) that are just slightly behind the others, so I'll give those 2 or 3 (and the Auto Blueberry) another week or so to develop fully, so probably 15 DR's pulled in two weeks.
The buds are looking so colorful; reds/oranges...and sticky. I brushed up against a few of them while watering, and boy did my arm smell like Diesel! It was strong smelling.
That's a big relief, that they have that distinct fruity/Diesel smell...was hoping it would be this pronounced.
Can't wait to fire up some of this Diesel...I've got a good feeling about it
GodsPredeces0r
Well-Known Member
Did you plant them directly in those pots from seed outdoors ?
I tryed growing auto flower varietys compared to regular photoperiod varietys, and the auto flower ones Seem to get stunted from the Sun im thinking.
Have you had any issused with too much sun, or when first starting them off ?
I tryed growing auto flower varietys compared to regular photoperiod varietys, and the auto flower ones Seem to get stunted from the Sun im thinking.
Have you had any issused with too much sun, or when first starting them off ?
Dr. Yo
Active Member
Ah, no, haven't had issues with getting too much sun.
The more sun the merrier. Now if your plants are being subjected to 100+ degree heat for weeks on end, that would possibly stunt your plants, but realize of course that any plant labeled 'auto' is going to be short and stout, for the most part.
Yes, planted these directly in the 5-gallon buckets or 2.5 gallon pots from seed (the only way you can grow autoflowering plants...there's no clones for auto plants).
Transplanting takes at least a week or two for the plants to adjust from the shock of being transplanted, so that adds more time until harvest. Not a fan of transplanting autoflowering plants.
Dr. Yo
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People smarter than me have said there's a window between 2-4 weeks into flowering, when you start to see pistil clusters, not just a few hairs, forming. That's when you should pollinate.
It's sometimes tough to isolate a male out in nature (unless you have two unrelated plots with the same strain growing in each) without pollinating all your females. I would recommend harvesting the pollen as soon as you can, as the males are usually mature and releasing pollen well before the female pistil clusters are mature enough to make decent seed with.
Refrigerate pollen in some wax paper or glass jar to preserve it for several weeks until the females are ready to pollinate, and keep the pollen in the dark.
Once you do pollinate your female, use a clean paintbrush, and just fleck the paintbrush loaded with pollen over the entire plant. If pollinating a specific area, put a bag over the branch you wanna pollinate, and fleck the paintbrush in the bag, to release the billions of pollen spores on an awaiting female pistil cluster(s).
There are other ways to pollinate, but that's one way that I've found works.
Once you pollinate, it takes anywhere between 4 to 6 weeks for the seeds to be fully mature (for the most part). They should be brown, speckled/tiger-striped seeds, although lots of sativa dominate strains make seeds that are just plain brown/light brown in color.
Let them dry for a week at room temperature, and then do the roll test between your fingers, with a decent amount of pressure. If they crack, even once, toss 'em. They're either immature or damaged in some way, and won't likely even germinate.
If they pass the roll test after drying for a week, bag 'em/jar 'em, maybe put in a few silca packets to keep things dry, and store in a cool, very dark place.
Good luck!
PS: Forgot to answer your question about how pollinating effects potency.
In a word: yes.
Once the female pistils are pollinated, the plant shifts into 'seed-making mode', and from that point until it's death, will focus most of it's energy into making seeds.
Now that's not to say you can't have good seeded weed, because you can. In fact, you can have GREAT seeded weed that's kind as hell...it's all about genetics, imo. If you have great genetics to start with, even after a successful pollination, you should have some decent smoke or if anything, great material to make bubble hash.
Dr. Yo
Active Member
Well it's gonna be sad to see these ladies get chopped down. They've handled some tropical-rainforest type humidity, not to mention bouts of 106/107 degree heat, animals, and a slight breakout of powdery mildew (that thankfully stopped after removing the infected leaves).
So far, only one little section on a top cola on one of the Diesel Ryder has succumbed to bud rot of any sort. It pained me to do it, but I really had to pull at that bud rot on that main cola, just to save the rest of it from rotting).
But other than that, and a few other deficiencies and bug attacks, the buds look plump and thick. You end up with some gooey fingers if you attempt to squeeze a bud, and boy, do they stink like diesel afterwards.
Pretty alright in my book. The trichomes are just caked and glistening on these buds...gonna be some sweet bubblehash coming up too!
I'm debating on whether to pull them next week (week 6 flowering, and the week it's recommended to harvest) or to let them go another week. 7 solid weeks of flowering would more closely replicate a real strains flowering time, and just something about that makes me feel they'll be that much more potent if I wait.
Diesel Ryder is a really smooth high anyway...letting it wait a few more weeks might not only add some more flavor/taste/color, but it'll also give it a more balanced high...where it levels you initially, and yet the duration of the high is mellow and chill.
I dunno. I'll bring out my 30x microscope and take a look at the trich heads next time I go out there.
Right now, about 25% amber, 50% cloudy, and 25% clear trichomes.
Here are some pics:
Plot Overview
Diesel Ryder 1-9
Diesel Ryder 10-18
Random Diesel Ryder Shots
Auto Blueberry
So far, only one little section on a top cola on one of the Diesel Ryder has succumbed to bud rot of any sort. It pained me to do it, but I really had to pull at that bud rot on that main cola, just to save the rest of it from rotting).
But other than that, and a few other deficiencies and bug attacks, the buds look plump and thick. You end up with some gooey fingers if you attempt to squeeze a bud, and boy, do they stink like diesel afterwards.
Pretty alright in my book. The trichomes are just caked and glistening on these buds...gonna be some sweet bubblehash coming up too!
I'm debating on whether to pull them next week (week 6 flowering, and the week it's recommended to harvest) or to let them go another week. 7 solid weeks of flowering would more closely replicate a real strains flowering time, and just something about that makes me feel they'll be that much more potent if I wait.
Diesel Ryder is a really smooth high anyway...letting it wait a few more weeks might not only add some more flavor/taste/color, but it'll also give it a more balanced high...where it levels you initially, and yet the duration of the high is mellow and chill.
I dunno. I'll bring out my 30x microscope and take a look at the trich heads next time I go out there.
Right now, about 25% amber, 50% cloudy, and 25% clear trichomes.
Here are some pics:
Plot Overview
Diesel Ryder 1-9
Diesel Ryder 10-18
Random Diesel Ryder Shots
Auto Blueberry
Dr. Yo
Active Member
An ounce...maybe 2 ounces under perfect conditions. You've gotta remember, these are basically done, from seed, in 60 days.
It would take 6-8 months to get bud from a normal strain outdoors...and Diesel Ryder can take the Pepsi Challenge with most bud...imho.
Dr. Yo
Active Member
Took a look at things today. Under magnification, the trichomes look to be more amber now, lots of cloudy, and a few clear.
The plants look really healthy. We've received a lotta rain this month, so even after I stopped watering them by hand, they've been well watered.
Looks like I'll be harvesting 12-14 of these Diesel Ryder real soon, and the remaining 3-5 Diesel Ryder and the 2 Auto Blueberry will be at least a week later.
Haven't decided on a good day to harvest yet. I'd love to let these sit another week, although I'm not sure at what point they'll become too developed, or should I say, too many amber trichome glands.
My biggest enemy is the moisture levels down here. I've gotta dry these outdoors (sucks), so it's timing the weather patterns (as much as that's possible), to determine which days will be without rain.
I'll be stringing up a tarp, with strings tied up on the inside, so the plants will hang on the strings, while being covered from the elements/sunlight with the tarp.
Doesn't look like it will take many days to dry these out properly; they're not anywhere near the size of regular buds from regular strains. I actually had to dry a Diesel Ryder a little earlier, because the stalk at the base fell apart somehow, and that plant is already dried...despite the horrible dew points and moisture levels outdoors. But that's South Carolina; from the ocean to the mountains.
This tarp setup will be in the forest, with lots of open breezes, yet covered from any planes/helicopters.
There will undoubtedly be a good amount of color fading on these buds, but that's the price you pay for drying buds outdoors. I'm hoping the tarp, and being in the forest, will give it decent protection from fading, and preserve as many of the terpenes as possible.
Here are the pics:
Plot Overview:
Diesel Ryder:
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Automatic Blueberry:
The plants look really healthy. We've received a lotta rain this month, so even after I stopped watering them by hand, they've been well watered.
Looks like I'll be harvesting 12-14 of these Diesel Ryder real soon, and the remaining 3-5 Diesel Ryder and the 2 Auto Blueberry will be at least a week later.
Haven't decided on a good day to harvest yet. I'd love to let these sit another week, although I'm not sure at what point they'll become too developed, or should I say, too many amber trichome glands.
My biggest enemy is the moisture levels down here. I've gotta dry these outdoors (sucks), so it's timing the weather patterns (as much as that's possible), to determine which days will be without rain.
I'll be stringing up a tarp, with strings tied up on the inside, so the plants will hang on the strings, while being covered from the elements/sunlight with the tarp.
Doesn't look like it will take many days to dry these out properly; they're not anywhere near the size of regular buds from regular strains. I actually had to dry a Diesel Ryder a little earlier, because the stalk at the base fell apart somehow, and that plant is already dried...despite the horrible dew points and moisture levels outdoors. But that's South Carolina; from the ocean to the mountains.
This tarp setup will be in the forest, with lots of open breezes, yet covered from any planes/helicopters.
There will undoubtedly be a good amount of color fading on these buds, but that's the price you pay for drying buds outdoors. I'm hoping the tarp, and being in the forest, will give it decent protection from fading, and preserve as many of the terpenes as possible.
Here are the pics:
Plot Overview:
Diesel Ryder:
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Automatic Blueberry:
Growing101
Member
if you give the buckets more space they will grow faster
Dr. Yo
Active Member
I also should correct myself in what should be overall yields.
I would say each plant average would be 3/4 of an ounce after drying/curing, with some closer to 1/2 ounce, and some well over an ounce...but a 3/4 ounce average is what I'm guessing now.
This doesn't count for the Auto Blueberry, which is just crap, and I'm sorry I grew it again this year. It's just a mess, and the buds don't smell anything like Blueberry (although there is a slight floral smell).
The buds on the Auto Blueberry look horrible though, and I'll most likely be making bubble-hash out of both strains.
That sounds good enough for me though...some nice dark indica bubble-hash is about what I was expecting from these Auto Blueberry when I started out.
Was hoping for some nicer buds, but this strain, and this company, "Lowlife Seeds" is garbage in my opinion.
It appears seed banks online have taken notice of this companies weak genetics, with companies like Castle Seeds (an Attitude Seed bank-affilated company) pulling all of LowLife's strains off their site.
I would say each plant average would be 3/4 of an ounce after drying/curing, with some closer to 1/2 ounce, and some well over an ounce...but a 3/4 ounce average is what I'm guessing now.
This doesn't count for the Auto Blueberry, which is just crap, and I'm sorry I grew it again this year. It's just a mess, and the buds don't smell anything like Blueberry (although there is a slight floral smell).
The buds on the Auto Blueberry look horrible though, and I'll most likely be making bubble-hash out of both strains.
That sounds good enough for me though...some nice dark indica bubble-hash is about what I was expecting from these Auto Blueberry when I started out.
Was hoping for some nicer buds, but this strain, and this company, "Lowlife Seeds" is garbage in my opinion.
It appears seed banks online have taken notice of this companies weak genetics, with companies like Castle Seeds (an Attitude Seed bank-affilated company) pulling all of LowLife's strains off their site.
Dr. Yo
Active Member
The buckets are spaced out just fine.
They grew as large as they were going to grow, and I've been moving buckets around weekly to always get better access to light. Not to mention this site is on a slope, so I always have to be careful on how I position each bucket/pot. Storms and high winds will easily knock over either, so careful pot/bucket positioning is crucial.
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