Thunder Grown Greenhouse Diary

[Thunder Grown]

Been a busy past week, harvested a couple plants and after giving them a bud wash, they are drying.

I transplanted my two Pure African sativa autos from Green Smoke Room after three weeks in the veg tent into the greenhouse and didn't seem to see any slowing of growth.

My Alien OG from Green Smoke Room is trying it's best to become a Christmas tree, just a super wide plant.

Trump's Cookie Jar auto by President seeds still chugging along taking it's time.

Dosidos auto by Barneys Farm looking good, want to start another properly soon.

Three new autos a few days old, Purple Merkel by President Seeds, Black Cream auto by Sweet Seeds, and Lavender Best by bulk seedbank.

I started these seeds out soaking in a cup of distilled water for around a day and then just putting the seed into a popcorn bucket with half seedling mix in the top and organics matter living soil in the bottom half.  I like these popcorn buckets as they are tall and easy to cut drainage holes into and when you want to transplant you can just cut it off easily without disturbing the roots.  The seedlings all came up after two days and were given some explogro to help the roots.  They will be transplanted into the greenhouse after three weeks into Organics Matter living soil. Light in Veg tent is a Liontree 100W LED double barrel advanced.

[Thunder Grown]

Started some new seeds, Dosidos auto from Barney's Farm, Northern Berry Gold from Green Smoke Room, and a Glueberry OG auto from Dutch passion(the Glueberry OG I harvested previously had a wonderfully strong berry/coffee liqueur smell, will be nice to see what it's like fully cured). The Purple Merkel, Lavender Best and Black Cream auto are around a week old now.

This Alien OG from Green Smoke room has a wonderful fruity smell.

The Pure African sativa's stretched quite a bit.

The Trumps Cookie Jar auto seems to be getting a bit of frost and a little bit chunkier.

Took a tester nug from the recently harvested and dried Sweet N Sour Mephisto, took a few hit's from my lotus vaporizer and it was a very nice strong relaxing euphoric head high, definitely gonna have to ration this one as I keep craving for more.  Now to wait patiently for it to cure.

 

 

[Thunder Grown]

With the constant rain recently, I had a PM problem so everything was just cut down and disinfected.  I installed a proper extraction fan last weekend and moved some autos inside to test the performance with the current rain this week, so far the humidity has been much more stable, just need to worry about load shedding I guess.

Northern Berry Gold by GSR looking good.

Glueberry OG, loved the smell on the last one so I hope this also delivers.

This Dosidos came out really short, looks pretty though.

In the veg tent, I have three Lost Coast Lemons by Humboldt Seed Company I got as freebies.  I also soaked three Sakura by Bodhi, one WiFi #43 x Do-si-dos fem by Motherland Genetics, and one Alien OG auto at the start of the week.  So far a Sakura and the WiFi have sprouted.

[Thunder Grown]

I wanted some Ace seeds so I ordered international from OAseeds since they offered courier delivery, got them last week and they shipped quite fast after the order went through with excellent stealth packaging.  Also got Ortega from Mr Nice and Vitamin C from Gold Leaf Seeds, the rest of the seeds were freebies.  Gonna be a lot of fun going through these seeds.

I soaked an Orient Express fem last weekend and it popped up today just fine.  Seedlings all looking good, once some of the autos in the greenhouse are close to done I'll probably start some Ortega and maybe Congo.

 

The greenhouse seems to be doing fine with the new extraction fan, still stable and no signs of PM despite the constant rain.  One of the circulation fans stopped working after load shedding so I still need to replace that.  It's quite hard to take nice pictures when it's always cloudy though.  Lost Coast Lemons doing good, but no sign of sex yet.

The Northern Berry Gold is looking good, hope the lack of sun doesn't hamper it too bad.

Glueberry coming along nicely.

Hope the weather is less depressing in the future.

[Stinger96]

Really nice setup you have there sir... and some real beans. Definately following along as I am now starting my outdoor grow space.. Must be finished by the weekend... The Cape doctor is battering the girls now Daily..

Nicely done there..

[Bakstein420]

On 2/9/2021 at 2:00 PM, Thunder Grown said:

 

Got yourself some awesome beans bru, really keen to see what you do with them.

For interest sake, where did you get Mephisto from? 

Edited February 11, 2021 by Bakstein420

[Thunder Grown]

On 2/11/2021 at 6:12 PM, Bakstein420 said:

Got yourself some awesome beans bru, really keen to see what you do with them.

For interest sake, where did you get Mephisto from? 

I got most of the Mephisto's from their international site, but I don't recommend it since the shipping on that was the worst with sapo.

[Prom]

Ace Seeds  veeeery nice! I had a very nice chat with one of their head breeders last year. They were working on some Malawi stuff  gave me a bit the idea to look closer into the African Landraces.. we are not done here "yet"  

Please diary some.. very curious how those Ace seeds perform.

[Thunder Grown]

On 2/13/2021 at 8:27 AM, Prom said:

Ace Seeds  veeeery nice! I had a very nice chat with one of their head breeders last year. They were working on some Malawi stuff  gave me a bit the idea to look closer into the African Landraces.. we are not done here "yet"  

Please diary some.. very curious how those Ace seeds perform.

I will definitely try to diary more as space allows, for now I have the Orient Express going.

 

Everything looking good in the veg tent so far, probably going to have to transplant some of them soon.   Of the Lost Coast Lemons two seem to be males, I took a cutting from the bottom of the female just to try it out.  Ordering some more proper cloning stuff as well.  Will also try to harvest some pollen from the males.

Northern Blueberry Gold seems to be healthy, hope it bulks up more soon.

Glueberry OG looking really nice in the sun.

I wish the dosidos auto wasn't a complete runt, gonna take it out and maybe just leave it in the veg tent since it smells so good.

[Thunder Grown]

Unfortunately the Lost Coast lemons got the chop, the female was throwing balls.  Transplanted most of the veg tent into the greenhouse, only the Orient Express left going now.  Might be getting some testers next week to run that have priority.

Orient Express is going well so far.

Northern Berry Gold was looking nice in the sun, started leaning from the weight so I need to add some support.

Loving the leaves on the Sakura.

Alien OG going alright.

Will be nice to have more more plants in the greenhouse, hope everything stays stable.

[Thunder Grown]

Last weekend I went to the hydrobiz stash and dash thing since it was nearby, cannaclone was giving away free clones to everyone who showed up at the end.  I got 3 Crescendo clones by Ethos and 1 Dirty Banana by In House. Very nice people, but it was kinda funny that someone called them to complain while we were waiting that most of the rasta bricks you had to find to win a prize were found by people who showed up early. 

Transplanted the Orient into the greenhouse, I'm loving this plant so far just super healthy and vigorous looking.

Northern Berry Gold auto still going fine, hopefully will be able to harvest in a few weeks with no problems showing up.

There was a little PM on a few leaves of the Glueberry OG auto which was worrying, think it might have been from when the power went out for a whole day as they had to replace a cable and it was raining.  Been thinking of also switching the greenhouse to positive pressure.

The Sakura's are looking good, pretty sure the one on the right is male.  Decided to try out some tomato cages for support. Very vigorous growth from the Sakura's, quite impressed and I really hope I get a nice cherry pheno.

[Thunder Grown]

I thought the White Afghan Skunk should have popped already, so I did some digging and voila.

[Thunder Grown]

The clones and the White Afghan Skunk seem to be doing well.

The Sakura male, I have one female sakura as the other seemed to have hermed from heat stress probably so I chopped it.  I'll try and store some pollen and maybe let it go to town on one of the crescendo clones.

Norther Berry Gold doing good, PM seems under control but still watching out for it. 

Prepped for the tester seeds, hope all goes well on that end.

[Thunder Grown]

Since the testers largely failed to germinate, only got 1 seed to show a taproot so far, I think that batch of seeds got damaged in international shipping.  Hopefully the survivor will be a female and sprout properly. 

To replace them, I've soaked and planted 3 seeds of Congo by Ace Seeds, 3 seeds of Ortega by Mr. Nice, and 3 seeds of Headbanger by Karma Genetics.

White Afghan Skunk still going nicely, should be joined by some companions soon.

This should be the Ace Orient Express, also showing no problems.

I cut down the Glueberry Og a bit early and gave it a budwash last week, saw some PM on the leaves again and just decided to cut it down as the constant load-shedding at the worst times has not been helping.  The Northern Berry Gold will come down tomorrow probably, showing amber in the buds.

Alien OG starting to frost up.

Really like the structure of the Sakura, nice and compact.

 

[Thunder Grown]

The Northern Berry Gold has been chopped, bud washed, and is currently drying.  Tried a tester nug of the Glueberry Og and it had nice heavy effects, for some reason it tasted like a Watermelon Jolly Rancher on the exhale from a vape to me, hope it keeps that taste after the cure.

The three Congo, three Ortega, and two headbanger have sprouted properly.  I dug around the last headbanger and it has a long tail so I nudged it more to the surface and I just hope it takes.  The tester seed that survived seems to have decided to disappear, I dug around and couldn't find it at all, which makes no sense but whatever.

Just need to transplant the White Afghan Skunk to a bigger pot soon.

[Thunder Grown]

White Afghan Skunk has been put in a new home and the Congo, Ortega, and headbanger seem to be doing fine, final headbanger popped and is in the small pot in the back.  I also popped an Uber by Cannarado Genetics just in case.  Ortega definitely showing its Indica heritage.

I love looking at the Orient Express, very nice growth with little issues.  It started out with thick leaves but the latest leaves are really thin. Hope some of the Sakura pollen got to it.

The clones seem to be doing alright, while the Alien OG is having issues.  It seem really susceptible to WPM and seems to have fox-tailed.  Going to be applying some double nickel to hopefully solve some issues.

The Sakura is looking really good, seems like a perfect strain for small spaces.  Definitely seems to have been seeded by the Sakura male, so hope all goes well with that.

Had an order placed for some AK Bean Brains seeds from America, I will be really happy if those seeds get shipped here with no issue.

[Thunder Grown]

Cut down the Alien OG a while ago and the rest of the plants have had very little issues with WPM since.

Veg tent doing well, gonna be moving the White Afghan Skunk into the greenhouse soon.

Quite impressed with the Orient Express, filled out to a nice size and had little issues with some of the troubling conditions.  The constant rain seems to have stopped and it should be able to be harvested in a few weeks.

The Crescendo clones and Dirty Banana seem to be doing just fine.

The Sakura looking quite frosty, read that the Pre-98 bubba needs a lot of Veg time to produce big buds, definitely going to do that next time, but I accomplished my main goal of more seeds.

Edited April 21, 2021 by Thunder Grown