Left Hand Seeds Employee Journal - BlackDak + Black/Blue Lebanese

They’re shockingly dense - the shortest one in the tent I just chopped had ~15 branches on a 12" plant so internodes were less than 1" apart. It was crazy how much was buried in there.

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Day 84 BD harvest, Day 22 Leb Veg

Pepper pheno found on two plants, very obvious in your face almost cayenne smell. Thankfully it’s on my favorite plant.

I harvested 3 additional plants last night, bringing my total to 6 in the drying tent.

Though short these plants were so dense they dropped some appreciable amounts of flower.

I still haven’t chopped this biggest guy, still has some time left on it.

This is my “chosen one” that has the pepper pheno - awesome yielder, great root mass.

Some misc shots of the other plants I cut down - I call these “triangle pheno” due to the shape of the flowers, I got one pepper pheno in one of these.

Lebs are taking off, they probably need to go into flower soon but I have a massive clean-up task ahead of me in the flower tent with its EF system.

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Looking good! Boy, those harvested plants look like the top was taken off of a six footer and stuck in a vase LOL. Impressive size buds for such small plants. Looking forward to a smoke report. Great job

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Thank you! It is mind blowing - 4-5" diameter mains with 6-8" of height. One of them succumbed to budrot sadly (and unsurprisingly) but I was able to salvage the rest of the plant no problem.

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Started trimming by just doing one of the tiny short kush leaners - these were both around 12” tall. Total dwarf plants.

Very gassy.

Despite their small stature I got 48 grams and around 100 seeds off a single branch pollination. I’m impressed.

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Lebanese mix veg day 28

Happy plants make for a happy grower.

These plants are so fast. Got some coloring I’ve never seen in vegetative state plants before.

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Wow, these look super. Great to hear that you and @lefthandseeds are still looking for those pepper phenos.
Lefthand, would there be similar girls to be found in the Lowdak fems you handed out.

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I finally chopped the last huge black domina pheno plant. I now have 6 plants that are going to keep me in trim jail for hours.

This is easily the biggest top I’ve ever pulled down, it took me over an hour just to get all the fans off this single plant.

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Damn, nice big old cola man!! :+1::sunglasses::sunglasses:

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Lebanese veg day 34

I’ve been letting the veg run long, because I’m just too busy with life, and I have 9’ of height to let them rip - do your worst!

I cleaned all of the hydroton from the last grow today; filled a massive tub up with all of the last grow’s hydroton, blasted it with a massive amount of chlorine, and hand sifted out all of the previous grow’s root matter. It was a lot of work but I saved over 10 gallons of hydroton for the next grow. Just feels gross to me to throw out hydroton, really happy I was able to reclaim so much.

I still have to clean the flower tent pots by hand, then run a heavy chlorine cycle to de-bacteria the main flower ebb and flow setup just to make 100% sure it’s ready for more plants.

Here’s the crew waiting for flower.

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I put my used hydroton in a 5 gal bucket, then take it to the bathtub and fill a big pot strainer with it and run it under the faucet and swirl it all around to get all the dirt and roots off, then put into a clean 5 gal bucket, makes for quick easy work

:love_you_gesture::love_you_gesture::love_you_gesture:

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Leb Mix Flower Day 1

:call_me_hand: YO OG! :call_me_hand:

Shew, what a beast it was getting everyone into the flower tent.

I ripped one plant’s root ball clean in half de-potting it, really made me sad.

Everyone’s on 20k light using the 100% power method tent is really warm.

1.4 EC on Jack’s 321, using a .5g/gal dash of fertilome now to up the P since @lefthandseeds found these are generally deficient there.

Long veg got some of them pretty big.

The whole gang

Right side with my rigged up DWC bucket, this is just to get more plants to sex so I can try for all females and hand males off for the breeding project to @lefthandseeds.

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Score!! Pretty fat haul for $100- got 12 seeds per pack which is my preferred count to pop.

I’m really interested in all these heirlooms exotic alchemy is doing. I think one of them will be my next run.

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Actual Leb flower day 1

Yo! Lefty advised me I might want to veg in the main tent some more to avoid transplant stress and let them get some roots back so I did that for a week.

Everybody’s looking pretty good!

redneck dwc plants perked up a lot!

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Nice score! I totally missed out on both those. Mango Biche and Grape Ape Tranq for freebies, can’t beat that either. I love soaknbeans!

Everything’s looking good! Looks like they recovered quite well. I hope for smooth sailing for ya from here on out :wink::+1:

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Leb Mix Flower Day 13

I go on a 7 day vacation and everything just explodes - like ridiculous never seen before growth rates. I opened up my tent after coming back and legit yelled “HOLY SHIT!”

Scroll up to compare the plants that were 20" or so, and are now over 4 feet. WTF!

Turns out I had 3 males in here, so those had to go. I setup a tall guy for pollen collection, but it’s in a mixed state where some sacs are dropping and some are too immature, I tried an OGers trick of sticking some branches in a jar of water to see if I can get them to drop.

Having said that, these are easily the fastest plants I’ve witnessed in general - internet, or in person - the tall ones put on over 2 feet of growth in 7 DAYS! :exploding_head:

The group shot before I pulled males out - they were legit already busting pollen at 14 days!

Here’s a snap of the male (in back in this pic) I’m trying to get pollen off of - over 4 feet in height in only 14 days of flower, branchy, awesome. I hope I score some.

Tent right side, 3 plants - one of medium height which looks killer, one a little shorter, and behind them a total runt I defoliated a ton because it had these massive fans blocking all growth. I don’t have much faith in the runt, it looks like total ass under fans that were over 8" in length.

Tent left side - GIGANTIC female here looks SO good - very tall, very long branches and internodes, she’s my goddess. I hope I can get her pollinated. Once again she put that height on in 2 weeks, just nuts. The one on the back left is also really healthy but a squatter.

Peace, my OG homies.

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Looks incredible my friend 2 ft in a week wow

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It is quite the growth spurt! Sweet! Big plants make for big buds. Snipping off part of the male plant and putting it in water will definitely get you some pollen as long as some of the pollen sacs were getting ready to open when you put it in there. Another trick I have used if I’m not ready for pollen, is just to pull all the male flowers off the plant, which will buy you a week or two before you have pollen spilling again.

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Lebanese Mix Flower Day 23

:peace_symbol: and :heart: to you OG!

I’m surprised almost daily at the speed these plants possess. They look like 40 day plants at this point but are legitimately only 23 days since flip.

I got a few plants off @lefthandseeds which he had in veg, that all turned out to be female, and they did fine even with a highly ramped flower feed. Kind of him because now all my growing spots are full with 8/8 females.

I pollinated the three of my favorite lebs pictured here - two branches on each, one branch received Black x Blue Leb “Tall” pollen, and the other got Black x Blue Leb “Medium” pollen. I’ve noticed pistils on all of them are turning and seem to have taken! w00t! Going to have a lot of seeds.

6’ or so on the Black Lebanese x Blue Hemp Lebanese

Beautiful medium height but branched out version here, probably 3.5’ or so.

Another medium pheno also looking nice.

Have a great day all!

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The 2nd photo “Medium sized” is :heart_eyes:BEAUTIFUL.
I hear Lambsbread is a great strain.

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