Blue Star OG pheno hunt, PPK style

[greyfader]

we are at 5 weeks and one day of flowering. i have eliminated one more from the hunt so we are down to the final 7. i eliminated this one because of the stretch. it was by far the most extreme stretcher maybe 3-3.5x.

long internodes at 5-6" and this was under intense 5000k light.

the rest are much more moderate maybe 2-2.5x. i can live with that indoors and have always gotten my best yields with hybrids showing some stretch. internodal length 3-4" is common but tightens up at the terminals.

some noticeable differences in flower shape but not a whole lot yet. josh@bluestarseedco says that, depending on pheno, this plant finishes between 60-70 days so we still have 4-5 weeks to go.

the nugs are hard and dense on most but some are a little more loose and airy, again not by a huge margin yet.

i'm getting some distinct smells and i am taking notes. i'm not great at pinning down flavors but i can pick out the strongest smells ok.

i'm not real proud of the canopy but considering that the ec was over 3 for several weeks and the ph was around 5.0 and the growth was very uneven with 12 different phenos it's not as bad as it could have been.

the PPK system functioned even when i couldn't.

they are all sticky and stanky!

 

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Yesterday was the end of week 7 of flowering. I cut a top flower from each of the 7 phenos I've still got copies of. Mostly just to do a fast dry and get a preliminary idea of taste, terps, and high.

None look close to being done yet 2-3 more weeks maybe a little more on one or two of them.

I took a few pics to have a close-up look at trich development.

Some buds are dense and compact while others are more airy at this point but it's too early to tell how they will finish.

I'm looking for one that is capable of producing some weight and it's looking like numbers 3,6, and 11 are the most promising.

 

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today is 8 weeks 2 days of flowering.

just a few pics of the canopy today. it's a mess but i'm getting close to the end and will harvest all 12.

of the 7 i took samples from last week two of them, #6 and #12 are extremely potent and have the best taste and smell so far. the potency of these two is remarkable because they were taken at week 7 of a 9-10 week plant.

it's still to early to judge so i'm keeping copies of all of them for now.

i will take another sample set soon. it's been 9 days since the first samples were taken.

i still have not removed any solution from the system.

i am feeding water only right now.

the third pic is interesting because it shows where i topped the branches.

 

[doober]

Thanks for your nice updates greyfader. Great stuff going on in your garden (as always) ! Do you know where Josh sourced the Triangle Kush from ?

 

[greyfader]

Thanks for your nice updates greyfader. Great stuff going on in your garden (as always) ! Do you know where Josh sourced the Triangle Kush from ?

no, i do not. but, maybe i can find out.

i get a weird physical reaction to extremely potent weed. i know it sounds funny but i get a numbness in the middle of my cheeks. very few plants have caused this reaction but two of these phenos caused it at only 7 weeks.

as you can see from the pics they have at least a week to go from now.

 

[Josh Blue]

no, i do not. but, maybe i can find out.

i get a weird physical reaction to extremely potent weed. i know it sounds funny but i get a numbness in the middle of my cheeks. very few plants have caused this reaction but two of these phenos caused it at only 7 weeks.

as you can see from the pics they have at least a week to go from now.

Interesting reaction. Ive had a few blue star lines give mouth numbing effects.

 

[Josh Blue]

Thanks for your nice updates greyfader. Great stuff going on in your garden (as always) ! Do you know where Josh sourced the Triangle Kush from ?

I got it from my buddy stoney917, who recently passed on too damn early.

 

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today marks 72 days of flowering. at 9 weeks i took another set of test flowers, dried and smoked them with my wife. we decided that #6 is the winner. it has a nice citrus fuel taste up front with a floral perfume back. very pleasant and smooth taste and smoke.

but the real story of this one is the potency. #6 and #4 both have great potency with #6 being the most potent. all the other phenos had good potency. but these 2 are about as potent as it gets.

i use a pipe with a small bowl to test with. it is about the same size as a thimble. 2 small hits and i got an invigorating, stimulating, focused high that lasted for several hours. it has a great pain-relieving effect as well.

#6 also produces well-shaped, dense flowers and produced well.

i am going to do a run with it immediately as soon as i get these plants down and change the pool configuration to one plant each. i want to see how big they can get.

some are almost done and a few will be done by the end of the week. i'm seeing a lot of opaque trichs now.

please remember, when looking at these pics, that few of them are terminal flowers. because of medical issues i had to veg them longer than i wanted and had to trim the entire canopy back like a hedge to keep them out of the lights.

these plants went into the system on april 9 and today is july 30 so this is 15 weeks these plants have been in the system. during this period absolutely no solution was removed and no changeouts occurred. this growth was accomplished using solution input only.

this is a closed-loop, recirculating system.

also, this grow was done using an 8-hour flowering period with 16 hours of darkness.

i delivered an average of 1200 umols of light for 8 hours which produced an average daily light integral of about 35 moles per day.

just a few pics of flowers at random and then the winner, #6. i will start taking them down one at a time now.

 

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#6

 

[doober]

Glad you got to the finish line with these beautiful and potent winners greyfader !