I’m betting that the photos tomorrow are going to be burly, I wanted to give them this today so they have a few days to push hard and photosynthesize with all that foliage before I take half of it away on Sunday. Recharge waterings got me hooked on the way the plants responded so quickly and this stuff is next level.
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Looking good in here.
For teas, I use Southern Ag for the bacillus amyloliquefaciens, EWC for microorganism diversity, and oregonism for the mycos (plus some of grandmas molasses to feed everything while it brews for 36-48 hours).
The southern ag is in place of something like hydroguard for a fraction of the price and order of magnitude higher concentration of active ingredients… Oregonism is cheaper than the alternative great white. Add in some gnatrol after the brew to take care of any fungus gnats if desired.
Figured you might get some ideas. When I do teas, it’s just for the bennies, not for the feed, so you’re mileage may vary depending on the goal.
Good vibes,
LD
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Ooo Gnatrol I forgot that one! Thanks for the kind words @LouDog420 I’m also just going for bennies and root zone oxygen here, no fertilization that’s all in my soils now.
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If any of you potheads need lighters, like me, Bic is having a 30% off coupon (STOCKING) for the next few days on anything under a full tray that’s over $30, with free shipping at $30 that holds when you add the discount. I ended up paying about 75¢ apiece shipped for some Bic Classics:
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The more I think about it, the more I’m appreciating the thoughtfulness of @LouDog420 's choices with the LouDog Sour Chem I’m vegging now. The genetics of that are:
(4SD x Chem DD) x Sour Jack
4SD is Chemdog #4 x Sour Diesel IBL 2007 by Rez
Chem DD is the same but with the Chem D
Sour Jack is Sour Diesel IBL x Jack Herer #22 by Karma
Six parents to LDSC, three of them are Sour Diesel IBLs, two Chem siblings, and a selected Jack Herer in there for some funzies (and probably vigor?). The SD parents are kept on the same (but opposed) sides on each side of the hybrid, with the two SD dads crossed against each other in the LDSC mom. Then a SD mom in the LDSC dad. Symmetry and balance, I like it a lot. It’s the most uncomplicated polyhybrid I’ve ever seen, since it’s sort of the SD genetics folding inward into itself with a Chem and Jack frosting, depending on how dominant the various parents ended up being.
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Dude look up Tupperware smidgens they’re perfect for keeping buds on the go, I use em all the time, integral part of my stoner go kit
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2007 thread by Rezdog:
https://www.icmag.com/threads/sour-diesel-general-information.72698/
One of the things he says that’s interesting in dating old crosses is that as of the 2009 release it was no longer called IBL. Just 2007ish or before.
Best Chem DD grow thread I found:
https://www.icmag.com/threads/simply-a-chem-dd-addicted.207307/
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TBH I’m so cheap I kept every dispo jar, can, and tube during the year I had a medical card before I grew so I just keep digging into there but I might check those out.
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I just looked those up that’s pretty good, they’re like a reusable version of the disposable condiment cups with lids that a friend of mine used to sell weed in.
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For years and years, Rez’s Sour Diesel was considered garbage and not representative of real SD at all. I think it’s interesting how now, all of a sudden, everybody’s referring to it as some sort of “true representation” of Sour Diesel. I don’t know what to make of that.
I’ve grown Karma’s Headbanger, there wasn’t anything Sour Diesel-ish about it. It was awesome weed, just not anything like SD. More OG-ish.
Also pretty interesting that Rez used Soma’s NYCD in his first project, which by all accounts (including Soma’s) was just some bagseed Soma was gifted and grew; Soma just capitalized on the name “Diesel” and called his cross NYCD. I’ve smoked Soma’s NYCD before, it isn’t anything like real Sour Diesel. More “grapefruit-y” and no “Sour” or “Diesel” at all.
Thanks for posting that link, though. I read it years ago, gonna go through it again after I eat dinner.
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Honestly, I think it has to do with the very legitimate hatred people feel for Rez as a snitch who rolled on the rest of the Chem Fam. I get why Reservoir Seeds would get bashed from then on, and even why people would not want to grow his stuff, be biased against it etc. I think it’s just that as time goes on, the genetics keep showing themselves to be good enough to keep working with, and the memory of Rez fades in the culture. Hell, he’s selling seeds again! It’s crazy that any seed bank would carry them.
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Oh, yeah, for sure.
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Wow check this out, guys! Thanks to a 2017 comment from @Rasputin on ICMAG linking this, here’s the first Sour Diesel mention on the site from 2004 by Rez, this is the oldest post I’ve found showing the SD well, though I’m sure it’s not the first.
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Also super confusing since Rez is the one who tried to rename the NY Sour Diesel cut ECSD to differentiate it from the West Coast Sour Diesel that started being a thing so now it’s all clusterfucked name-wise. And I’m not even clear if he was trying to say the west coast holders of the cut didn’t have the real thing (probably this) because I’ve always understood WCSD to be NY Sour Diesel cut x Frisco OG, which is Hell’s Angels OG x Deadhead OG. It’s a mess
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LOL interesting for sure, hope you’ve got plenty of plant ties on deck. I veg 60-70 and top once and I’m usually pushing the height of my 80" tent with a 18" distance for the light. And I don’t grow hazes! Yet.
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yea! they actually seal really well too, plus people get a good laugh when you break one out and start pulling buds out of it 
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Yeah, we’ll see what happens haha. I’m not too worried about it, my lights are pretty good about keeping plants under control. And it’s only just one Santa Cruz Pure Haze cross now, found male pre-flowers on the other two yesterday. Surprisingly, the Malibu Pure x Lemon Thai is just as tall and lanky as the SCPH cross, I’m actually thinking that that one is gonna be the stretchiest.
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Oh man, dude @minitiger I didn’t get into the Doc D list out of self control and figuring that enough folks here went so deep I’ll be seeing F2s and cuts and so on for a long time. But of everything I didn’t get from that list when I’d read it every month, I think that Malibu PK x Lemon Thai might be the one I should have gotten. I love both of those strains a lot. I’m gonna follow your grow closely, I can’t wait to see how it flowers.
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Day 21 from seed: I watered these guys too much yesterday morning, so I’m waiting for them to dry out a little more before I repot them, hopefully by tonight:
The Cindy Mix is such an incredibly vigorous and nicely structured plant that I took a cut to try and clone in a little jar, I’m going to put a tiny airstone in there connected to a $4 Walmart aquarium pump shortly with the coconut water solution for the world’s cheapest bubbleponics cloner:
Day 19 of flowering in the big tent:
Before some pruning lowers and vining shit off, in time to let them recover before the Sunday Day 21 defoliation:
And after, much better airflow and easier to move and water:
Since I got around to cleaning saucers and elevators today, I took some glamour shots in late stretch of the ladies:
C99: tall main branches reaching into spears, with vining lowers
Cindy Mix: strong branching structure with the spears of the mom, just a perfect plant shape after topping and supercropping. Tallest and widest plant in the tent by far, I’m expecting quite a harvest off this one. Also hungry enough that I might give it a second topdress in a few weeks if I think it needs it to finish chunky. You can really see the indica influence in this, confirming to me that it’s likely a cross with either Bubblegum or Sweet Tooth. The fan leaves are a few times larger than the C99, and the structure is stronger, thicker-stemmed both in diameter and density, and branches sideways more versus vining quickly up.
Smart Move: good stretch out of a bushy veg, good structure if a little tight and the lowers don’t reach up like Cindy
Nigerian Sunshine green pheno x Apollo 11/13 OP: just a lil shorty, like all Apollo it seems, but I got better branching and stretch on this one compared to the Blackwater cross, mostly because I knew this time. Of the four, this one has required some defol since Day 1 to keep it from choking itself
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I grabbed a pack I plan to run eventually here. Will keep ya in mind when I do, I’m sure beans will be made if the plants are stable ^^
Everyone’s looking great in here 
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