The heat of summer has faded, time to get things fired back up. These seeds went into ground on Eclipse Day 8/21. Psyched about this strain, cross of GSC and Dynasty’s proprietary blueberry strain “Oregon Huckleberry”.
The seeds are advertised as 11-per-pack, but they sent 13. 10 of 13 successfully germinated (direct seeding into soil). Also my first use of the full-spectrum Hortiled light for veg, so far so good, they seem to like it. It’s got a dimmer, I’m somewhat confused about the proper brightness level, so I ordered a cheap light meter to check it.
update on the babies! The first couple weeks are so SLOW…not much happens but they’re finally starting to look like real plants. Excellent aroma, when you rub a leaf and sniff, there’s already an overwhelming candy-fruit dank odor. I culled one diploid-freak seedling and it looks like there’s one runt so I’ll transplant 8 of 10 seedlings.
hopefully I won’t kill them, I changed a few things in my mix but it seems OK so far. I used Fafard FOF10 (peat w/ 20% perlite) as the base soil. I added perlite & vermiculite to about 23% perlite 8% vermiculite total. Also make it 1/3rd Coast of Maine Bar Harbor soil which is about 50% compost/aged bark. For nutes I’ve added COM Lobster Meal, Espoma blood meal, DTE Seabird guano, some alfalfa & kelp meal. Also 3% worm castings, a touch of dolomite lime & langbeinite.
with the fan blowing the soil dries out in 4 days. It took 3 waterings w/ Gnatrol to finish off my fungus gnat buddies. as they grow they’ll take the water faster, when they need water every 1.5 - 2 days it’s time to transplant.
the boring part is almost over, 7 plants are left, I culled 2 more for being runty, growing much slower than the others, I only need 4 females and want to make seeds of the vigorous ones.
Early indications are 6 females and 1 male. I’ve already topped the females showing a preflower w/ pistil. One of the females has massively long internodes, 2-3 inches, not sure it will fit in my tent, I’ll probably send 1-2 females to a friend. It’s tempting to run them all but I want to start another strain and stay under the 12 plant legal limit.
btw “Bar Harbor” soil absolutely sucked, something is wrong, I suspect the aged bark was suffocating the roots, went back to about 17% pure compost w/ peat/perlite and they’re much happier. The lone male is looking really good, lower right in the pic, he’s off to the 12/12 “male shack” for a couple weeks.
yes. Coast of Maine’s products are high quality, but the Bar Harbor is not good match for cannabis, the aged bark is better for plants that like wet soil. It works great when I blend it with native soil in raised beds.
I actually used “Penobscot Blend” as the compost in this batch. It’s got a shorter list of ingredients, 75% blueberry/salmon compost, 25% peat. COM says all of their compost products are loaded with active fungal & bacterial components of living soil, no added myco supplements are necessary.
Looking good, probably not a yielder, nothing but fire top shelf nugs though. Is this your first time running it? I’ve been thinking about picking it up myself. I’ve been impressed with their Blue Magoo BX2, but same deal, not a big yield, but top shelf all the way.
I was thinkinng of trying Blue Heron or Blue Magoo also! I got these and one pack of Huckleberry X Afghan. Hopefully yield will be OK, not sure if I vegged them long enough, never grown it before.
The male seems vigorous, the females are only at day 5-6. They’re definitely cool-looking plants, dark bluish/green leaves and reddish colored petioles. The male has green petioles, maybe it takes after GSC more.
Yes that Blue Heron looks very similar to my Blue Magoo. I would definitely recommend the Blue Magoo to anyone interested in it. Wasn’t trying to jinx your yield brother. I’m sure the huckleberry phenos will yield more than the GSC phenos. Best of luck, and happy growing.
grabbed a couple quick photos of the 4x4 - the 3 topped females are only 1 week into flower - the single cola one is at 2.5 weeks, the leaves seem to turn dark blue green as it moves into the 2nd week of flower. Already some purple tint & trichomes showing up.
Looking great! I’m a Dynasty vendor for professor p and have the phbc but have yet to run em. Saved a pack for myself actually. I’ll have to pop those sometime, bet the huckleberry adds some weight to the GSC
Looks great man! What size pots are you finishing veg in?
thanks, these have gone into 3.7 and 4.9 gallon containers, except for the one single cola in a 2.7. It was so tall I figured I better flower it immediately, I vegged the others for another 11 days.
There were vegged enough to go into 3.7 gallon containers, but when I had problems with my mix I figured I’d give the bigger ones 4.9 to make up for it, seems OK so far, I’m only watering the big ones every 3.5 days.
Yeah, it is pretty dense… just used some to repot a begonia.
Coast of Maine’s products are high quality, but the Bar Harbor is not good match for cannabis, the aged bark is better for plants that like wet soil. It works great when I blend it with native soil in raised beds.
