[Grow Report] TGA's "Qush" finished

Hello everyone, Hafstep here,
still new on these forums, RIU specifically, so this is my first grow thread from my last grow over the winter. I've been an avid TGA fan for awhile, since sub was over at BBay and love the gear. i love JTR, Cheesequake, JCII, and others, but this might be my favorite yet.
I aquired these last 4/20/12 on the Attitude promotion of buy a 10-pack and get a free 5-pack of Qush, as that was the release date. I was up early in the morning to jump on that one. You could also buy 2 5-packs, and for multiple reasons: wanting to try a few new lines, knowing TGA's gear always has great germ rates, and female:male ratios, and always keepers; so I opted for the 2 5-packs and got Ace of Spades, as I wanted Plushberry but there were only 10-packs, and I got Cheesequake. Both real tasty, both finicky, but great.

So the Qush was really great, and I highly reccomend it to anyone looking for a decent med strain w/out couchlock, any TGA fan, or anyone looking for a decent representation of Bubba in seed form, as I've had a few different %50 hybrid's of pre-98 Bubba, and this is def my favorite so far. The next best was Dynasty's "Caramel Candy Kush", and I got an orange creamscicle pheno from that, literally tasted like nothing but that, but it had a low cieling, good effects, but low cieling, and didnt end up running it twice to be sure, and that was the best of 3, only keeper worthy. These Qush's all were.

So, for those whom don't know the lineage of these, they are:
Qush = (pre-98 Bubba x Space Queen)

pre-98 Bubba is an Afghani indica-dom clone only w/ classic Afghani terpenes and effects.

Space Queen is by Brother's Grimm and is made of the Romulan clone-only hit with their Cindy99 male. The male used in the Qush cross is an F1 dubbed "space dude" or "the dude". Definitely one of the best proven males Ive seen from any breeder.

So, more about the grow.

These were from seed, in a grow of all seed, ending with about 35-30 females under a total of 1400 watts. It was run w/ 2 Hortulix BLUE 400W MH's on each side of a Hortilux Super HPS 600W.

They were grown organically in a custom soil mix.

They were vegged in FoxFarms Hapy Frog soil w/ worm castings and perlite.

In flower, the soil mix was basically 1:1 Foxfarm's Happy Frog and Ocean Forest potting soils, amended with worm castings, a good amount, coco coir, perlite, a little GH Rare Earth and Azomite.

They were fed with base nutes of AN's Iguana Juice Grow and Bloom, along with some supplements and also AACTs.

They were germed in paper towels in ziplocks with municiple tap water (for Ca, Mg, clorine, cloramine) and a little hydrogen peroxide. This is all for a few reasons. The clorine, cloramine and peroxide all protect against the seeds rotting from mould and will kill most bacteria or any microbes unwanted that made it in the bags. Tap water also has Ca and Mg in decent levels, and tap roots need Ca to grow, so it helps. They prefer to wake into at least a slight amount of available minerals opposed to say RO or distilled water, which I use RO water for actually growing. Also, the peroxide helps against any rot by breaking down into O2 and H2O and chemically making more oxygen available to the seed which promotes healthy root growth, gerination in the first place, and helps prevent anaerobic bacteria from being able to take any hold.
They were sown into 16oz party cups in just Happy frog and perlite, and were let to veg in those for 3-4 weeks, and then into 1-gal poly bags of the veg mix for another 1.5 mnths, then into 3-gal ploy bags 1.5-2 wks prior to bloom for finishing as their final containers, and planted in the flowering mix. You want your root system to take holfd of its new home before initiating bloom so it has gotten used to it's new environment and to make sure there was no transplant shock when you're about to change the light cycle and force the plants into flowering which doesn't happen in nature, heh.

So, without further au due, some pics of these beauties.
Hope you all enjoy and if you haven't already, give this badass strain a try.
So, here you go...


About 2 weeks before initiating bloom, right before 3-gal x-plants

Qush#, Qush#4 , Qush#5.
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Day 20 flower

Qush#1 , Qush#4 , Qush#5 .


Qush#1 , Qush#5, <- correct #s -> Qush#4


Day 41 Flower


Qush#1 , Qush#1 , Qush#4 , Qush#4 .


Qush#5 , Qush#5


Qush's #1 & #4 finished, 10 weeks

Qush#1 full , Qush#1 cola


Qush#4 full1 , Qush#4 full2 , Qush#4 cola1 , Qush#4 cola2


Somehow I lost my pics of phenos#5 finished, dont ask me how. Anyway, it came out looking like exactly in between phenos 1 and 4, but it wasn't quite as potent or dense as either, and I picked both 1 and 4 as my keeper phenos, #1 being the more Bubba-dom pheno, and pheno #4 I call my purple candy pheno. It still has bubba terpenes in it, its just more sweet and actually has some slight fruity and even slight grape undertones, and slightyly more funky, not skunky though. #1 is more earthy, a little coffee, sweet, thick, slighly musky, a little hashy, and some slight swett fruity undertones, but very slightly. Far more bubba dom w/out the coffee terpene. Earthy and hashy yes, maybe slight lemon, but not really coffee, at least not off the seed run, which this was.
Im currently running both phenos#1 & #4 from clone, and truly organic, no salts whatsoever, and they're coming along quite nice, and I expect they will finish a little earlier. They absolutely could of been taken down at 8.5 wks, 9 would prolly be optimal, but I had other things taking up my time trimming, as the room was like 30 plants finishing at all around a 2 week window, and took about 2.5 weeks to get everything down and trimmed. I hate trimming. But love the hash it makes.
So, again, sorry for no finished pics of pheno#5, but #1s and 4 are the keepers anyway, #5 was a little bit of a Mg hound as was #1 I think, but #4 grew the healthiest as it was directly under the Hortilux BLUE, in a better reflector than the other MH, and no glass taking the UV out of the spectrum, so It came out quite nice. They all did though. #5 was absolutely keeper worthy, just didn't need 3 phenos, and was plenty happy with 1 and 4. This is definitely a strain I would recommend to anyone and eventually plan on getting a full 10-pack or two, and running them to learn the line better, find other phenos, and hopefully finding a decent male for F2s and hybrids. I really wish I kept a male and F2'd these. One of my new alltime favorites, and one of my favorites of my current moms. Can't wait to try both from clone in a TLO grow, and their coming along nicely for this new way Im doing my organics.

Thanks for checking out my grow everyone,

-peace
Halfstep

Heres some dry pics.... this is at about 1.5 months cured


Qush#1 Qush#1 Qush#4


Qush#4 Qush#5 Qush#5


Well, hope you guys all enjoyed the grow report.
Oh, as far as the smoke, it was absolutely great, as I said before it was a nice indica stone, but no couchlock at all. You could smoke it at any time, but it is preferred later in the day and at night.
The smell translates perfectly into flavor, mine did at least, organic and well flushed, 3 weeks of flushing. heh. They came down a week later than planned, but apparently have quite the harvest window.

Id give this strain an overall rating of an 8.4
Id rate the potency at 8.
Smell and taste both at 8.5

This line seems to be very stable as far as phenos and just all aroud stablility, it was taken longer than it should of, and still not a single nanner to my memeory.
It gets my approval %100.
Ill be hitting my 2 moms with a few different strains and making some hybrids this current run but limited numbers, as Im still running for production.
But I plan on hitting these, depending on which pheno, with 'White Lotus' and 'Goji OG' by Bodhi, and 'Devilberry' by Dank Dairy. I have a couple other males Im harvesting pollen from currently but not quite sure If I want to use those also, as I want to work this to more indica dominant hybrids. Hopefully I get lucky.
The one Im looking most forward to is crossing the White Lotus to my bubba pheno.
this would make:
{Qush bubba pheno x [The White x (Afgooey x Blockhead)]}
I think that will make the most indy dom cross of them all.
(Qush#4 x Devilberry) will make the tastiest and prettiest.... I digress.

So, hope you all enjoyed my thread, sorry for the rambling about the projects at the end.
Again, I highly reccomend this strain to anyone. Doesn't have a cieling either. Forgot that, def important.

-peace
Halfstep

Nice report. Was hoping to hear this was a heavy feeling, couchlock indica. Hoping for an indie pheno in my pack. Peace.

It does have a heavy feeling but not a couchlock indica. I've been on a search for a really good potent strain for awhile. I really like the Qush, and will continue to run it definitely, but next run I have 3 strains that are killer potent and high CBD strains that are all couchlock supposedly, "Tranquil Elephantizer remix"(ndnguy's '88 G13/HP x Snow Lotus), "Snake Charmer" (Raspberry Diesel x Deep Chunk), and "Bubba Mama" (Old Time Bubba x Yo Mama) = {(pre-98 Bubba x Old Time Moonshine) x [Afgooey x (Green Crack x Tres Dawg)]}, that sounds like a killer combo polyhybrid.

Im gonna be hitting my Qush bubba pheno w/ [The White x (Afgooey x Blockhead)], "White Lotus", I think thats the most indy dom male Im currently flowering, but also gonna hit my purple candy pheno w/ Goji OG (Nepali OG x Snow Lotus), they're both Bodhi strains, same male, different moms.

Qush is definitely a great line and I dont doubt you can find a more potent pheno if you ran a 10 pack.
I def plan on getting more of these as this is my favorite Bubba cross Ive had to date. I di really wanna try Jabba's Stash though, that sounds like the Bubba comes through great, really potent and great yielder, like wands of sparkly bubba buds. Id like to try Mosca's Old Time Bubba strait up also.

Still run em man, you wont be dissapointed. Im quite surprised at the poll, Im wondering what these people have been smoking that they think its not even better than average, I can see not amazing if you have some real killer stuff to compare to, like a dialed in organic Chem '91 stash, or something like that, or if people just prefer sativas, but its good. Its better than a lot of stuff Ive seen come out of dispensaries.

-peace
Halfstep

This is an amazing report bro and This is how to become a TGA tester.
Contact me please via E-mail.

Sub

Some pretty amazing stuff and a great report. Thank you !!

Very nice report. Makes it much easier for us to take a look at the full report when its all on one page. This took some extreme dedication and self control to wait untill the end to post your findings. REP+

My qush

Sprouting, as of yesterday, a 10 pack of these Qush. I am taking pictures of everything right now to do a proper report of my multi strain grow, but I will post my Qush grown in Dioxide's TGA Supersoil here...probably by Christmas I should be smoking. Nice bud shot, dude! Peace.

Halfstep said:

It does have a heavy feeling but not a couchlock indica. I've been on a search for a really good potent strain for awhile. I really like the Qush, and will continue to run it definitely, but next run I have 3 strains that are killer potent and high CBD strains that are all couchlock supposedly, "Tranquil Elephantizer remix"(ndnguy's '88 G13/HP x Snow Lotus), "Snake Charmer" (Raspberry Diesel x Deep Chunk), and "Bubba Mama" (Old Time Bubba x Yo Mama) = {(pre-98 Bubba x Old Time Moonshine) x [Afgooey x (Green Crack x Tres Dawg)]}, that sounds like a killer combo polyhybrid.

Im gonna be hitting my Qush bubba pheno w/ [The White x (Afgooey x Blockhead)], "White Lotus", I think thats the most indy dom male Im currently flowering, but also gonna hit my purple candy pheno w/ Goji OG (Nepali OG x Snow Lotus), they're both Bodhi strains, same male, different moms.

Qush is definitely a great line and I dont doubt you can find a more potent pheno if you ran a 10 pack.
I def plan on getting more of these as this is my favorite Bubba cross Ive had to date. I di really wanna try Jabba's Stash though, that sounds like the Bubba comes through great, really potent and great yielder, like wands of sparkly bubba buds. Id like to try Mosca's Old Time Bubba strait up also.

Still run em man, you wont be dissapointed. Im quite surprised at the poll, Im wondering what these people have been smoking that they think its not even better than average, I can see not amazing if you have some real killer stuff to compare to, like a dialed in organic Chem '91 stash, or something like that, or if people just prefer sativas, but its good. Its better than a lot of stuff Ive seen come out of dispensaries.

-peace
Halfstep

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awesome grow report! ive been eye-ballin Qush lately i mean how can you go wrong with the bubba and space queen...and all your talk about indy dom crosses got me all exited even more because of the Bodhi strains!! much respect

Amazing report indeed thanks a lot!

Just a small correction if I remember right Space Queen is from Vic High... C99 is Bros Grimm.

Great report! My Qush are just sprouting/sprouted

Great work thanks for posting. Im running qush now 1st run with it hope it turn out this good.