Doc Bud's High Brix Organix Kit - ACE Congo & Purple Haze Thai

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Strains:
ACE Congo (2 fem beans) - Bangi Congo x (Congo #3 x Purple Chitral Kush)
ACE Purple Haze Thai (3 reg beans) - Old Timer's Haze Purple Pheno x Meao Thai male, selected to F3

Containers/Medium:
1.5 Gallon square pots filled with Doc Bud's High Brix soil. This is a mix of his mineral amendments, proprietary root inoculant, EWC, and ProMix HP. This is an exact formula, if you google "Doc Bud's High Brix" you'll get his thread on 420 magazine that goes into detail of the process. He is very specific about the recipe as this mixture is designed/specially blended by an agricultural laboratory that specializes in premium home gardening.

Once I have sexed the PurpleHazeThai (PHT), my goal is to have 1 really nice female specimen...based on space limitations I may have to cull a female, but I ended up with 25 beans of this strain instead of the 10 I thought I'd get (long story) so it's cool if I have to trash a weak fem...really want a top specimen here since this plant will own my tent for about a year (14-20 weeks flowering :no: ).

The two congos are both feminized, so I'm expecting to get one plant from 2 beans. If I end up with 2 good seedlings, I may cull one or just keep all 3 plants in smaller pots. With this kit, you really need to maximize your pot size. I have four 5g smart pots and one 10g smart pot. I'd like the congo to go into the larger 10g pot, but I'm in a 2x2 tent, so space is at a SUPER premium!!! Anyway, this will shape up once I have viable seedlings at sexing age.

Nutrients:
Foliars and root drenches...the backbone of this kit is an organic repertoire of foliar sprays combined with mineral rich nutrient drenches and soil recharges. Everything and only the items from Doc's kit will be used.

Lighting/ventilation:
A ludicrous Can-Max fan pulling through a charcoal filter in a 2x2x6' tent. Lighting is a 270w Blackstar Chrome, I also have a 240 BS Flower model I can throw in there for supp. lighting once temps in my area drop down and I can keep my grow space below 80* during the heat of the day.

Plan:
Congo comes down at about day 75, bud wash, hang to dry, goal is to pull 4oz of finished bud from however many plants I get. I don't usually set yield goals, but I really plan to do this correctly and have the setup to make that a reality.

PHT has no set plan, there are 14 week phenos and 22 week phenos, and those reports are total bunk because everyone evaluates sativa ripeness differently, so one person's 14 week pheno might be the same plant someone else takes down at 22. Bottom line, play it by ear, and hopefully only have 1 plant so I can keep tabs on it. This is my first pure sativa landrace-ish variety, so there will be a LOT of learning and mistake making here. LST/supercropping/topping will be the name of the game.

If the sexing of these plants works out, I'll have 1 congo in the 10g smartpot, and 1 PHT in a 5g smartpot. If need be, I can keep a 3rd plant in either a 5g smartpot or just leave it in the 1.5g starter pot and see how it goes.

Anyway, super baked writing this. Just wanted to let you guys know I dropped 5 beans tonight and dialed up my lighting to 18/6. Should be about 35 days of veg, so I plan to flip on October 29th, harvest the Congo on the 14th of January, and start looking for the Thai about 4 weeks after that, probably mid February. That's flexible, but should keep me honest down the road.

Q's?

 

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one of the Congo's is going to break ground today, can see a cotyledon starting to uncurl from beneath the top of the soil. For records purposes it's the front left pot (when I inevitably forget which plants are which)

 

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Excellent bro! I'll be stopping by to watch the fun!

 

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Lost a Congo...she grew a tap root but didn't open up and release cotyledons, just withered and the root dried off. Pulled that bean out and dropped a DJ Short Azure Haze (reg) in behind her. As of this morning, I have 3 PHT's up and running and 1 Congo up and running. They're all just opening their seed leaves, and I'm not happy with the way the Congo looks comparatively speaking, slightly wrinkly leaf pattern, she may get culled if she looks mutated or "wrong". Goal is still to try to end up with 1 or 2 nice female plants that make it to flower, so I used the reg DJ Short bean knowing there's probably a 40/60 chance I'll actually keep her...space being at a premium, AND considering it's a more indica dominant variety by far, so should be finishing earlier than the congo by a week or two and faster than the haze by a couple months.

 

[Tavosvo]

Show us your setup brother!

 

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Full tent, the back left corner pot without a seedling is the just-germinating Azure Haze:

This is the feminized Congo, already showing her Purple Chitral Kush influence!


A backed-out shot of my blackstar 270 Chrome

The next 3 are all Purple Haze x Meao Thai (reg). Nothing applied yet, just misting the top of the promix to keep things moist...nothing on the leaves, probably going to hit them with 1/2 strength Stress in about 4-5 days since these look a little bit more "finicky" than the Congo.

 

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Did a light misting of full strength Stress last night throughout the tent. Going to see if I get a response from the autos in coco using the Stress as well...

 

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15 days since the first plant broke soil. The Azure Haze broke soil on the 4th, so she's about 8 days of veg, really nothing to show so she was excluded.

Congo, showing her Purple Chitral Kush side! SOOOOOO excited about this plant, absolutely stoked on her!

Purple haze x Thai (in no particular order)




try to see if you can check out the lower internodes of the haze plants...I think spraying them with stress has caused some funky growth patterns and branching. Some of the bottom nodes are just blowing up way more than I would have ever expected/experienced from a sativa dom. That being said, never grown a basically pure landrace strain either, lol.

I applied Stress 3 times this week, 75% strength made with distilled water, being VERY sparing since they are still super young and delicate. I have watered thoroughly once since germination and suspect they'll be feeling dryish tomorrow morning. I'm going to keep on with plain RO water for the next two waterings (total of 3), then apply a shot of Transplant water and see how they respond. Light Stress throughout, basically 36 hours between administration.

Once I see the 5th node emerging (and if things look healthy!) I'll start adding the weekly Brix foliar, alternating energy/transplant root drenches, basically going full bore. I want to have really bushy little plants that I can flip to 12/12 in these pots, sex, let them get some stretch going, then pot the keepers up to 5g or 10g smart/air pots. Basically I want them to stretch in a 1.5g pot, stop stretching, then blossom fully in the larger space-efficient pots with room for root growth. This is a trick I've read about on another forum in the sub-forum dedicated to ACE genetics...developed for the indoor landrace enthusiast!

 

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I am with you on this one L&S, I have kept up with his grows at other places better left unsaid and am happy to see someone else do this! have you used this before or is it your first go around?

 

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First go round.

Stress is pure fucking magic. Grew an entire new node in 18 hours, i.e. there were 3 nodes plus the start of some leaves for the 4th last night. There are now 4 + tips. Absolutely insane. Going to try to document with photos how quickly it works, next time I spray in a few days.