Thanks for popping in. This is my third round growing blue power. I missed it when it first came out and was happy to score a pack. It’s a great strain. A bit slow to veg but fairly quick flowering and excellent smoke.
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Ive smoked it a few times and was always top notch, definetly a good one to have in the arsenal… I pinched a lower bud on my lush ghash last night and it is smelling radical like artificial watermelon right now.
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Woah that’s exciting to hear! I’m still too early and not getting much smell.
Feel free to use this thread as your own, post as many pics and updates of that Lush Hash that you want. Together we are stronger.
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Today is day 27 flowering for #1 and #2. Please welcome to the tent plant #3, she is now at 14 days. I am glad to see that #3 is going to be a squatter pheno like #2. I don’t think I could handle another monster like #1. It seems #1 is getting a little yellow on the branches closest to the light. I’m just going to let it ride and see how she does.
I’ve been growing a lot of quick flowering strains recently, and these lush hash plants seem to flowering much slower in comparison. Fine with me though, I’ve got all summer.
Finally starting to get some smells and resin production. Watermelon was mentioned above, and sure enough I’m getting a melon scent as well. Still a bit early but unripe melons is a good fit.
EDIT: Ignore the 3 little plants in the bottom right corner. That’s a sampler pack in a 7 gallon (Black Cherry Soda, La S.A.G.E, and Heavy Grapefruit)
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I’m a tester for the blue lotus x omg but only some seeds were viable. two other showed male traits and i have one female thT started preflowering this week. have at least ia better then not having none
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Thanks @schmarmpit, ur girls are looking nice and healthy👍 this girl is about week 7 from flip so prolly 3 more to go.
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Looking great! Nice and frosty!
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Hey fella didn’t you post in the Bohdi thread that the Lush X Strawberry milk tasted like blue jolly ranchers or am I no where close. Just curious if so how did the flavors change as it cured?
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It cured to be a really nice smooth berry up front with a grapey must back end.
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Oh man that sounds nice. One flavor I have yet to find is grape.
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Today is day 34 flower for the first two ladies. This past week I dealt with thrips. Luckily the infestation was noticed early and one treatment of spinosad seems to have stopped everything. Will spray again in a couple days to be sure.
The plants are starting to bulk up a bit and the smells are just heavenly. I’m having a hard time nailing down the scents, and they are quickly evolving. Melons, cool ranch Doritos, cucumber maybe. ??? It’s a pleasure to sniff. I love the structure of the two shorter phenos, and they are stacking and putting on frost much quicker than the big girl as well.
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Looking great in there. The tall one has an interesting vibe. Looks like she’ll be a lil foxy in the long run! The back right has a lot of the HP influence, with obvious HP leaves. Hope you’re making F2! 
Stay up on IPM against those thrips in your whole grow or they’ll wreck you, veg and flower. The spinosad and good cleaning of everything should keep them at bay, but you’ll have to keep up on the IPM since you want to eradicate and not just beat them back. A good friend let his guard down against thrips after beating them back initially with spinosad. They eventually exploded and made him do a full reset.
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Thanks for the advice. My rooms are typically very clean and I rarely have pest issues. This year I foolishly used some pots from outside plants without deep cleaning them, and there they were crawling around one day. I will definitely be keeping up on them.
I only grow veggies outside, and have never had the pleasure of growing cannabis in it’s natural element. But I give mad props to all those who do so and manage to keep a clean, bug free plant. Just seems like such a daunting task to me. Indoors just seems so much more easy to manage as far as dust/pests/mold,etc.
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Sounds like you got it squarely handled but I figured I’d ask: you sure they’re thrips? I do see a few spots on your leaves but it’s too low res for me to 100% ID. I’ve found they’re pretty easy if you’re a clean freak. 
Pests come in a lot from my outdoor garden too. It’s pretty hard to avoid them getting in houseplants and the indoor garden too, especially reusing soil. I just try to keep up on the IPM religiously every week until the 2nd week of flower, seems to handle most of them including spider mites and aphids that cover everything outdoors here in CO.
What do you use for regular IPM?
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Oh jeez, I thought you might ask that directly. Haha, no I have no IPM plan. I had to research what it even was. My basic routine is to vacuum and wipe down the tents after each run. I’ve never needed to do much more than that. I’ve dealt with spider mites once but that was a different location over 10 years ago. Sub standard environment.
After researching, I’m positive it’s thrips. Silver streaking on the leaves, frass speckles, and the Itty bitty larvae crawling around on the leaves. They were pretty much localized on the front left plant, mostly on the fan leaves touching the tent wall surfaces. I maybe saw one flying but maybe not. I’m in there all the time so I’m pretty on the ball when I see it.
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Those are beauties, what an interesting looking strain. Weed that smells like cool ranch Doritos is pretty much every stoners dream haha
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Cool man, hope they’re gone gone ASAP. Might want to put up a few sticky traps, too. And get a regular IPM routine. Or not. 
Here’s the homemade IPM recipe I use weekly on inside and outside gardens, in case you care. Has worked for spider mites & aphids so far. I use it through the 2nd week of flower (until pom pom budlets are forming):
Organic IPM spray (per 16oz) See bottom notes if you have russets.
16oz sprayer bottle
1/2 teaspoon organic horticultural neem oil
1/4 teaspoon organic rosemary oil
1/4 teaspoon organic peppermint oil
1/4 teaspoon organic rose oil or lavender oil (optional)
1/2 teaspoon cayenne powder (optional, only use if super finely ground or it’ll clog your sprayer)
1 teaspoon Dr. Bronner’s peppermint castille soap (must be castille soap)
Add all ingredients to the empty bottle. Fill halfway to the top of the spray with water, then screw nozzle on and shake well to mix. Fill the rest of the way with water, shake again, and use.
Spray the whole plant, top to bottom, under leaves, until it’s dripping. Spray the top of the soil, too, although this will impact beneficials as well.
You can spray this thru the first week of flower, but not after you see females crown or “pom pom.”
Shake well every few sprays to make sure it stays emulsified.
Don’t let it run out or the last few sprays will be so much oil they’ll burn your plants.
Refill with the same recipe when you get down to the last few mm of spray.
Adjust the recipe to fit your size sprayer. 1 liter is approximately double this recipe.
NOTE You can add wettable sulfur and cinnamon oil to this mix in their recommended solutions if you have broadmites (russets), but that will kill the beneficials soil mites, fungal colony in the soil, and nematodes, so do not spray it on the soil.
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This is fantastic info, thanks @nube!
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The essential oils definitely work. I’ve also found they don’t like oregano oils.
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Hey @schmarmpit, hope ur girls are doing well. Im at about the 8 wk mark, its hard to get a good pic under grow lights but im lovin the looks of this one.
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