Bitchen + CSI Durban Diary

Good Morning, OGers! :metal:

I’m pretty excited about this new run of plants cookin in the 2x2. We have a Bob Bitchen Chernobyl, a Bob Bitchen Fireballs freebie, and a Humboldt CSI Durban Poison.

Durban has generally been one of my favorite strains, and I grew a ILGM Durban a while back that kinda ruined Durban for me, it was a pretty bland plant. I hear great things about CSI gear, so I finally have some to try.

Chernobyl S1 from Bob Bitchen I’ve grown a few times before, and it quickly became one of my favorite strains overall. Such a bright lime/tennis ball vibe that I absolutely LOVE. INSANE frost.

Fireballs (Fire Alien Kush x Cherry Puff) is a breeder favorite, Bob said it’s been his top smoke for about 10 years. That’s VERY promising.


The VF x BBM (Vanilla Frosting x Blueberry Muffin) damped off, so it’s out.

Newest pic as of today:

These will all get sent to the flower tent in about 5-6 weeks. The Chernobyl should be an absolute BEAST by then.

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Very nice.
I have been eyeing that Durban from CSI. I can’t wait to see how yours turn out.
Please keep us posted.

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Good luck on this run @RookieBuds. I hope you have an easy smooth productive run with a humongous beautiful harvest! I’ll be here to cheer you on!!!

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… so your saying I could be drinking and smoking fireball at the same time? Hmmmmmmmm.

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Nice to see a durban poison grow, i love it personally. Look forward to seeing what pops up for you. Unfortunately you probably picked
a bad seed co to get a good durban from. Hard to find a good one in seed these days. Im betting csi used that colorado durban clone. Im positive youll have a much better plant with csi.

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Oh man, I’m real excited for this one. It’ll be the first Durban grow I see.

Best of luck.

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I’m a wee bit bummed about the “Blueberry Frosting” not coming through, but this is still a KILLER little variety of plants highly worthy of a Diary :+1: :+1:

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I grew an autoflower version of Durban Poison from ILGM and thats when I knew Autos are not my kind of plant to grow! I am waiting on my second order from CSI and cannot wait to see what shows up in it. I am not sure how many of those Durban seeds you have from CSI but if you wish to trade any other CSI seeds I have I would gladly do so!

I currently have some CSI Hawaiin Lites F2 growing now and about to start flowering maybe in the next week. Trying to seperate the boys and girls first :wink:

Looking forward to watching this journal you have going.

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Everything is now in the 1s and 2s. Chernobyl is in a 2gal, Fireballs and Durban in 1gals

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So far so good man, everything looks nice and healthy.

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Thanks, yeah I’m really happy with the overall vigor of each plant :ok_hand:

Vigorous plants make everything easier. They tend to grow themselves. Slow ones give me way more issues with overwatering etc. Look forward to seeing your progress.


I moved things around, and boosted the two 1gal pots with drip trays taped to 2gal pots :+1:

Keeping the Chernobyl trained, will start training the Fireballs soon as the branches stretch out a bit

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Nothing interesting to speak of this week. It’s getting crowded in here though.

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Repotted the Fireballs from 1gal to 2gal, and took her to school/LST :+1:

The Chernobyl is gonna be a BEAST come flower time. I might top a couple of the longer branches soon

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It’s getting bushy in here!


The solo cup has a Double Grapes autoflower in it

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I had to break these plants up and put a couple in the flower tent a little sooner than planned. No big deal, they’ll all be together again in 5-10 more days :+1:


I gave the flower tent a quick wipedown & moved over the Chernobyl and Fireballs. There’s still one plant finishing flower from a previous run & I just didn’t have anywhere to put it yet.


The CSI Durban is looking really nice & will probably fo so much better with more space to spread out now. It’ll get transplanted and moved to flower in 5-10 days. *The tan pot has an autoflower tagging along for this run, which i will likely have to flower under 12/12 but should be fine.

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Hellyeah, all set now :metal:

I left the auto in the 2x2 for now

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Everything is doing pretty well so far. Smooth sailing, mostly

The Durban is a bit lighter green than before, so I increased its runoff a bit & gave a slightly lower pH feed, nothing drastic like 6.1 instead of my usual 6.3-6.4.


Fireballs has these BIG FAT leaves & that excites me.


This is the biggest Chernobyl I’ve grown from this pack of beans but looks really standard otherwise.

The auto has this neat mutated leaf, check this out



Two of the leaf fingers are fused!

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