Blue Dream/Jack Herer Grow Journal - First Grow in 2 years Please Give Feedback/Tips!

CourageToGrow · Dec 11, 2011

Hey everyone! I've been inactive here for a while while life happened but I'm living on the best coast now and I got my first new grow in about 2 years so I figured I'd put up a grow journal. This is my first grow in about 30 months but I do have 4 harvests under my belt. However, this is a throw it together grow as of right now. Got a few pics for now and I'll post more information soon. Please share any knowledge of the strains for now and I'll post more info as it come.

Strains:
1 Blue Dream
1 Jack Herer

250watt HPS light

dirtycows · Dec 12, 2011

I would use MH light for veging and HPS for flowering, but looks good

CourageToGrow · Dec 15, 2011

Yea, I'd like to but at the moment I don't have funds for another light.

I did add two more plants though. Both are clones I picked up, one is afghan kush and one is aliendawg (alien technology X chem dawg). Grow is about a week old now. Took some more pictures to update it as well as show off the recent additions. Anyone with any knowledge of the strains and tips for growing them please share. So far no real issues to report thankfully. The Blue dream didn't look great a day after moving it to a bigger container, but she recovered fine after some time.

Jack Herer

Blue Dream

Aliendawg

Afghan Kush

Peace and Happy Growing!

CourageToGrow · Dec 16, 2011

Also, I recently picked up green crack and MTF, pictures to follow, but those will be in veg for a while in a seperate grow. I plan on cloning each of these plants and turning the clones into mothers. When I do clone I will share the process.

Peace

mak · Dec 16, 2011

you got some good strains in here,i need to pick up some green crack myself

CourageToGrow · Dec 16, 2011

Yea, surprisingly, I've never tried green crack, but when I had the chance to grab a clone i took advantage. If your cali I know where to find it. Plants started to expand a bit over the past day. Ill post some more pictures of my 4 in veg soon. Can't wait to clone and flower!

PJ Diaz · Dec 16, 2011

I just harvested a Jack Herer this week myself, and have a clone from it going now. I also have a small Afghan Kush clone going now as well.

CourageToGrow · Dec 17, 2011

Diaz - how long did u flower for, howd it turn out? I've never grown jack before. Also, how did you grow it as well as your afghan clone. Just looking for any tips really, never grown any of these strains.

CourageToGrow · Dec 20, 2011

More picture updates! Afghan Kush and Aliendawg are now a full week under my light and Blue Dream and Jack Herer are 12 days. Growth is looking good on everything. Had some heat issues but seem to be fixed now with it a little cooler at my place. Probably going to veg for another 2 weeks then take clones, then start to flower them about 3 weeks from now.

Afghan Kush

Blue Dream

Aliendawg

Jack Herer

CourageToGrow · Dec 27, 2011

So I cloned my plants last night. pictures are below. Ended up taking one of each and two of afghan kush. The clones are sitting under an 80w cfl with an MTF clone and a Green Crack clone for my next grow, ill post some pics of that set up soon and the clones under their hood. Going to veg them for about another week and then throw them into flower, figure that should give me some smoke for 420 by the time its cured!

If you guys are more interested in the details of the cloning set up I got let me know!

Peace and Happy Growing

PICTURES:
Aliendog and Jack

Aliendog

Cloning Site and Cloning

Jack Herer Cloning Site and Cloning

Blue Dream

Afghan Kush

Back under the light and some of the clones in the cloner.

More Pictures to Follow!

CourageToGrow · Dec 27, 2011

Pics of the clones in their veg area and the MTF and Green Crack
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Green Crack (left) MTF (right)
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Roflicer · Dec 27, 2011

Are you training those?

CourageToGrow · Dec 27, 2011

I'm not training them, on two of them I took the clones from the top for height reasons. The alien dog and Jack Herer where getting a bit large for the space considering I still need to flower them. The other plants had clones taken from the lower branches.

mrcokeandcrown · Dec 27, 2011

Man if I could get my hands on a real MTF Cut I would prolly
Need a box of cleanx an a new pair of pants. I've grown a real cut
Of ATF from a buddy who brought if from Ak an it was SO FUCKIN
DANK. I shoulda kept it. But ima dumb ass.

CourageToGrow · Dec 28, 2011

Yea man, I'm excited about growing that one. The MTF is in veg right now, but it is doing beautifully, lots of growth for only being about 2 weeks old. Planning on flowering it starting around mid march to april 1st depending on when I have the room for it and its big enough. I'm pretty sure this is legit but I did get it as a clone so I won't know for sure until I flower it and smoke it I suppose. However, I will be taking a clone of it before I flower it, cause if it is legit then FUCK YEAH lol. I'll post pics of that grow after these girls are done.

CourageToGrow · Dec 31, 2011

Switching to Flower for New Years!!! Pictures to follow as they develop . . .

CourageToGrow · Jan 3, 2012

Finally Pictures before flower! Hoping to get at least 150grams off these 4 babies. Started them on 12/12 last night, cant wait to be posting pics of buds in a few weeks. All my clones are doing well now (no pics though this time), finally starting to get some roots after a week.

Peace and Love

CourageToGrow · Jan 9, 2012

Hey, so I am officially one week into flowering these 4. Starting to see bud sites form. Just started them on the standard fox farm nutes (Tiger Bloom, Big Bloom, Grow Big).

3 days ago noticed some spider mites on my Blue Dream.

I treated them with neem oil (i used 1 and 1/2 tablespoons neem, 1/3 teaspoon dish soap, 1 gallon water) treated them 5 times a day for two days and wiped down every single leaf by hand twice a day for 3 days. Treated with neem oil twice today and seems to have killed them off. My grow room was a little warm (around 7

so I dropped the temp a bit which helped obviously since mites like it 80+.

Some damage can be seen on the leaves from the mites/neem but nothing the plants souldnt recover from since its early in flower right?

Still hoping to get around 150grams off these 4 plants. Now Pictures!

Afghan Kush

Blue Dream

Aliendawg

Jack Herer

CourageToGrow · Jan 20, 2012

3 Weeks Flower: 1 Jack Herer, 1 Blue Dream, 1 Afghan Kush, 1 Aliendog

1 Week Flower: 1 MTF, 1 Green Crack

Hoping to get at least 8oz from the 6, any guesses?

Pictures: