Let me preface this thread by saying these guys missed a perfectly good oppurtunity to name this strain “Killa Gorilla” but oh well haha
I been shitting up the Serious Seeds thread with my grow so figured I’d just start a journal to dump it in.
The 6 seeds came in a very elaborate and fancy packaging with collector coin, brochure, stickers etc with seeds sealed inside a glass vial inside a bamboo tube engraved with breeder name and seal. Most elaborate seed breeder packaging I’ve seen.
I popped all 6 seeds. 1 (the biggest in this pic) popped overnight, the next 2 popped within 24 hours and the last 3 popped within 5 days. The last 3 to pop have been spindly, slower and generally not as vigorous or hardy as the 3 more vigorous ones.
I grew the 6 plants under a 600W HPS on a flood & drain table feeding H&G classic lineup with CALMAG, Great White and Mammoth P. EC has been kept pretty much about 1.8 the whole way through
I topped them twice, first time at the 4th node and then again at the 4th node on the subsequent branches after that.
I did 2 very heavy leaf strippings during this veg period, stripping them back to just tips to promote side branching which was succesful. The KG’s were very responsive to stripping and topping.
Once my flower tent was harvested I moved them in to 6x 50L pots of coco:perlite and mashed them down under some netting. They were a little more brittle in the stems than I’m used to and I lost a couple of main branches to snapping, and lost a few off-shoots to just kinking and dying. So in future I will be a little more gentle. I also nuked the fuck out of them with azadirachtin and 2 applications of miterid, so the roots probably copped it a fair bit in the first week after trainsplant. Nonetheless they bounced back well from the scrogging and the abundance of lateral branches were happy to fill out the net.
I’m running the plants under 2x 680w ProGrow E LED lights that have been dialled back to about 388W from some rough as guts calculations… I’ve had a bit of trouble with these lightds in the past just running them at 100% without realising it was too much light, so hopefully this run is good till my light meter gets here.
The 2 slowest phenos are down the end right-hand-side of the tent have been quite spindly from the get go and are quite slow. I just dialled in my VPD and have ordered and Apogee HQ-500 PAR meter to get my lights right. I got a humidifer and since the other day have had humidty at 65% and temps around 27-28°C.
4 of the phenos are loving life and are very lush, almost no leaf tips burnt which is a first for me. They’ve responded very well to training and love to shoot up new nodes when the branches are trained through the netting. I’ve been very vigilant clearing fan leaves away from all new growth so it’s looking pretty good so far.
The two slower ones are a little sadder and spindly and a little burnt here or there so obviously are just way more prevcious about life. but I’ll still give them a chance and run them again in case it’s amazing weed.
I’ve still cloned all of them in case one of the sad pheno’s surprises me. I’ll run them again to choose my keeper.
I just flipped the tent to flower today so I am in week 1 flower.
The pedigree of this strain is pretty good, and has great reviews as far as potency and smell goes. I’ll give this a couple of runs, find a keeper and setup another flower tent to run keepers in so I can move on and hunt through some other strains I have.
The other strains I’m dying to run that I’ve got seeds of are:
Tony Green’s GG#4 RIL
Thugpug Garlic Breath 2.0
HSO Gorilla Breath (ran this before it’s fucking amazing)
IHG PKBR, Slurricane #7 and Platinum Garlic
DVG Grandpa’s Breath
Mendo Breath S1 from someone here
Clearwater Creamsicle #4
Peanut Butter Breath S1 from BiF
I’ve popped some Exotic Mr Nasty (Grease Monkey x GMO) that I’m gonna try find a male to collect some pollen and breed from, too. Maybe cross it with the Killer Glue.
My next power bill should be much, much lower.
