Bump, a few updates from my last check ins.
First, I bought a house and did a move right at the end of the tent harvest date. One of the last things I did in my old house was trim up the harvest and take it to a friends to dry. As a result, the large outdoor grow i had planned for a bunch of early outdoor varieties at the family farm didnt end up happening.
Second, I was a bit bummed i had no plants going because of the move, and due to renos i only got my tent set up last month. So in May i took 8 black candyland clones from the 2 phenos i liked the best and took them to the farm, planted them along the edge of a garden plot and along the back fence. These would be the moms for my current run and would show how the black candylands would perform without any care and see just how tall they would get, because i couldn’t tell if they just vegged slowly for me as I was adjusting to my new grow methods in the tent or were small stature plants (which i now think is the case.). the ones along the back fence dint get taller than 2 feet but are pretty resinous even compared to the ones in the garden.
The plants did really well for having no water except about 4 waterings of about a gallon of plain well water. really low water requirements. They didn’t get very tall, but stayed leafy as all hell. The plants really remind me of the smaller stature afghans that are now becoming more common on ig as seed sellers from there are going online. smells like lindsay og, a common cash cropper crop in the black market scene here, not quite a classic og, but its got that plus some classic hashy coffee and rotten fruit. not the heaviest high or super strong, but a good B grade plant. they are leafy, branchy but squat, so it just makes bunches of branches that are as wide as the plant is tall. Lots to say if more are interested, i have a theory these afghan style plants are so leafy and squat to help retain thermal mass for the temperature swings you would get in the fall in mountainous afghanistan. I really enjoyed the phenos i saw, though if i pop my other pack, i am hoping to get something more tall and branchy, even just a bit.
The weather here has been very warm, we basically have gone a month over what i expected for these ladies, but the weather is regularly high teens in the day and 5 ish overnight, well within what these plants can handle.
Another update. at the family farm i left some blockhead x johnny blaze from legends sees via beanhoarder. (i love the crosses he does and he is my preferred go to right now) in a bad corner of the garden plot. unlike the black candyland, these guys really suffered from lack of watering. in the amily garden plot, nothing is watered, so some things really struggle. as a result, they stayed small, but i really liked the smell (its like a skunk got beaten to death with pineapples.) and look of these guys, so last week i cut the tops off all the males, mixed the pollen up in a bag and spread it on the preflowers of my current black candyland tent. i dont expect to get more than 20 or 30 seeds, but the idea of a black candyland times a blockhead x johnny blaze was too good to pass up. Its definitely slower flowering, and will not be done by end of season, but the potential for what it can do is blowing me away.
The tent is doing good, theres about 20 plants right now. 19 black candyland and a plant that either a black garlic x jamaican puna via @Oldtimerunderground or a after dinner breath 2.0 by @Geneticsofturpene. i went on a vacation to san diego and my gf kinda murdered some of the plants i had started and mixed up the rest. lol
Congrats on buying a house bro!
I’ve got a bunch of bean hoarder gear I just haven’t got into at all. I really need to start digging into some of these seeds. Blockhead, f13, Johnny Blaze, sweet tooth, c99…all sorts of good shit!
I’m super interested to see how that black garlic does with the puna! I’m testing Congo Creek Haze crossed with mountain Temple right now but I made some crossed to Black candyland that I almost popped first. My hold up was that the MT was a much better high and one of my favorite smokes, whereas the candyland was super sugary, neat aromas but didn’t translate at all into the smoke and the high was just ok.
That cracked me up!! 
Cheers
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Tents getting overgrown. I always do that lol, just jam pack the plants and hope for the best. Down to 19, gave a black candyland away to a friend.
Put milk crates in to raise everything off the floor and help with the air movement down below the canopy.
Midway through week 3. Temps are cold when the lights off. Too cheap to do anything about it, o well
After drying my garden plot clones, i have already seen 5 seeds on the bkack candyland females.
Very proud to bring black candyland kush x (blockhead potent pheno selection x johnny blaze) to the world. Already have a friend wanting to grow out these seeds next summer.
Been searching my ass off for JB. Is that Blockhead cross the one from Beanhoarder?
It sure is. He says he has only 2 packs left on the site, so act fast
lol well I kinda stopped posting here because i got spider mites and was feeding my plants wrong for a while, so its not so pretty in there and I am too embarrassed to post pics. I think i killed the mites down to almost nothing and the feeding issue was fixed. hoping for a pound out of here, but we shall see. definitely packed more than last time, so i am hopeful.
one thing I am proud of is the fact my attempt to pollinate all the preflowers of my plants worked! I’ve got over 50 seeds just from popping off preflower calyxes when i see them during maintenance. and there are surely more. this will be a method i use in the future if i am wanting to do a mass pollination. 50 seeds is a whopping success and theres more to come soon.
lots of learning this go around. always so much to learn when working with this plant. this thread is done, next one will be much more active. link to my new thread.
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