Indoor Teetee's 2021 Monster Hunt

[Teetee]

Back again!
I've posted this one up the correct way this time @WildBill so hopefully you won't have to fiddle with your VPN to see this update in all it's glory (cough...)

Here they are yesterday on day 53...

You'd be forgiven for thinking that's a single plant there, a MASSIVE Blackberry Kush.... but there's actually three plants!

See if you can spot them all!!!

If you peek over on the right side, behind the monster BBK, there's a Night Queen....

....and If I hold my camera up among the lights and point down, you can see how wide the NQ is.....

You can see the rear right side upright pole in the top right edge of the photo, and the left side floor pole in the bottom left of the pic, so she pretty much takes up the whole width at the back.

Lots of Night Queen bud coming my way!

Her leaves indicate just how damn hot it is in there, so I've cleared out a lot of vegetation inside and under the canopy, and used a couple of yoyo's to pull her out a bit and make use of some space that suddenly became available in the back half of the tent.

So where's the third plant????

"Hang on" I hear you say. "What about the Colorado Cookie that was in the back there last time???"

You made that CC look positively perfect with your defoliation. At least to me, it looks like a nice, round, densely filled in bush. Proper topiary.

Cheers mate, but I came to the conclusion that she was a photoperiod plant and she had to go.

Here she is on the left the day before (day 52), with the NQ on the right....

Without that pesky she monster BBK in the way, you can see a sizable NQ in flower on the right, and the still vegging CC on the left.

Here's the CC on her own...

Lots of fairly healthy (excuse the mild heat stress) tops all bursting with new leaves....

But it's day 52 and no flowers?

Not again!!!! Must be a photoperiod, and this time I just don't have the space to give her a tent of her own to let her finish off on 12/12.
So without any further ado, I chopped her down in about 5 minutes and compressed her into a paper bag to dispose of later on. That's the white paper bag in the bottom left corner of the first pic of today's post..... the elusive third plant.

So just the Night Queen and the Blackberry Kush.
Only two strains this run then, but together they pretty much fill the tent, so I'm hoping for a good 30 ounces in the end.

Here's that BBK again...

She's like a Christmas tree!!!
With lights off you can see that there's lots of bud developing...

There's so much of her that to get any closer, I'll have to show you the top half first.....

Then the bottom half....

She's just a bit more than 1.35m tall and there's at least twenty or more side branches that have stretched up alongside the main cola, all loading up with flowers. @DutchPassionTony Will this be another 20 plus ouncer?????

The NQ is about a metre in height, quite a good size under normal circumstances, and the tent's 1.2m deep and wide, and 2m high.
The lights for the BBK are at max height, so it's chock a block in there as usual, just with 2 instead of my normal 4 plants!

Don't forget, it's only day 53 (!), so I expect them to go for another 4-5 weeks. Again, I've used a few Yoyo's on the BBK to pull her out and make use of any spare space.

They are on an EC 0.8 pH5.8 mix with PK13/14 for a few days, and I've been giving them a good feed twice daily.
They take a good 9-10 Litres each per watering, the relentless 35+°C heat and their sheer size must be making them thirsty AF.

Thanks for joining me in my monster hunt, more next week!

 

[hope2grow]

Back again!
I've posted this one up the correct way this time @WildBill so hopefully you won't have to fiddle with your VPN to see this update in all it's glory (cough...)

Here they are yesterday on day 53...
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You'd be forgiven for thinking that's a single plant there, a MASSIVE Blackberry Kush.... but there's actually three plants!

See if you can spot them all!!!

If you peek over on the right side, behind the monster BBK, there's a Night Queen....
View attachment 1416287

....and If I hold my camera up among the lights and point down, you can see how wide the NQ is.....
View attachment 1416288

You can see the rear right side upright pole in the top right edge of the photo, and the left side floor pole in the bottom left of the pic, so she pretty much takes up the whole width at the back.

Lots of Night Queen bud coming my way!

Her leaves indicate just how damn hot it is in there, so I've cleared out a lot of vegetation inside and under the canopy, and used a couple of yoyo's to pull her out a bit and make use of some space that suddenly became available in the back half of the tent.

So where's the third plant????

"Hang on" I hear you say. "What about the Colorado Cookie that was in the back there last time???"

Cheers mate, but I came to the conclusion that she was a photoperiod plant and she had to go.

Here she is on the left the day before (day 52), with the NQ on the right....
View attachment 1416295

Without that pesky she monster BBK in the way, you can see a sizable NQ in flower on the right, and the still vegging CC on the left.

Here's the CC on her own...
View attachment 1416296

Lots of fairly healthy (excuse the mild heat stress) tops all bursting with new leaves....
View attachment 1416297

But it's day 52 and no flowers?

Not again!!!! Must be a photoperiod, and this time I just don't have the space to give her a tent of her own to let her finish off on 12/12.
So without any further ado, I chopped her down in about 5 minutes and compressed her into a paper bag to dispose of later on. That's the white paper bag in the bottom left corner of the first pic of today's post..... the elusive third plant.

So just the Night Queen and the Blackberry Kush.
Only two strains this run then, but together they pretty much fill the tent, so I'm hoping for a good 30 ounces in the end.

Here's that BBK again...
View attachment 1416306

She's like a Christmas tree!!!
With lights off you can see that there's lots of bud developing...
View attachment 1416307

There's so much of her that to get any closer, I'll have to show you the top half first.....
View attachment 1416308
Then the bottom half....
View attachment 1416309

She's just a bit more than 1.35m tall and there's at least twenty or more side branches that have stretched up alongside the main cola, all loading up with flowers. @DutchPassionTony Will this be another 20 plus ouncer?????

The NQ is about a metre in height, quite a good size under normal circumstances, and the tent's 1.2m deep and wide, and 2m high.
The lights for the BBK are at max height, so it's chock a block in there as usual, just with 2 instead of my normal 4 plants!

Don't forget, it's only day 53 (!), so I expect them to go for another 4-5 weeks. Again, I've used a few Yoyo's on the BBK to pull her out and make use of any spare space.

They are on an EC 0.8 pH5.8 mix with PK13/14 for a few days, and I've been giving them a good feed twice daily.
They take a good 9-10 Litres each per watering, the relentless 35+°C heat and their sheer size must be making them thirsty AF.

Thanks for joining me in my monster hunt, more next week!

Ooooooooo.. it's gettin excitin in there now brother.. fkn photoperiods your 2 remaining girls are shaping up to be huge as usual.. gonna be another monster haul :smoking: great work m8

 

[Bob's Auto's]

Yeah brother. Shame to hear about the photo in the tent indeed.
But it looks like this just might work out for you, giving you all the space you need for that massive Night Queen ♥
She's next on my list, so I'm following this thread like a

 

[WildBill]

Damn nice update Teetee!!!

 

[Teetee]

Day 68 update, and they are approaching their advertised finish time of 70 days.

As my grows tend to be a bit bigger, they go for an extra couple of weeks, and to be honest I can't wait till this one is finally done.

Last time I showed you 2 reasonably healthy plants in mid bloom. I was having to water them twice daily giving 10L each, which for 25L airpots is pretty much a full load.
Since then I have not been able to feed them any more than once a day.

With temps up in the 35°C (95°F) plus region in there, it hasn't been an easy task managing these two huge plants and there's been at least 4 occasions where I've opened the tent to see them with all their leaves hanging down all dried out.

The first time it happened, it must have been around 30 hours since the last feed, and they went from green one day, to droopy the next, and brown the following day.

The enormous BBK in particular, lost a lot of leaves last week, and the NQ was hidden out of view squeezed into the back of the tent getting very hot and sweaty.

Here's the view as you open the tent....


It's all Blackberry Kush, but I've trimmed a bit off her lower areas, and you can just about see the Night Queen's pot behind.

Here's another shot from a higher angle and you can see plenty of long candy canes all the way through the BBK...


The tip of the main cola's a bit burned but the rest is solid bud....


Here's a closer look at the main stem....


Here she is underneath, and you can see where all those stems came from....


The Night Queen has been neglected somewhat, so after chopping out a bit of the BBK's undergrowth and using a few yoyos to open her out a bit, I decided to move the NQ out of the back right corner, and give her all of the back part of the tent.

She was super bushy inside, and being cramped up meant she was getting way too hot.
Despite having a fan directly on her, air circulation was virtually non existent, and there was a lot of straggly stems developing that just weren't getting any light, so I had to tunnel my way in under the BBK's yoyos and branches on the right, and pop up under my fan and filter, and trim out a load of vegetation.

Finally, I used a few yoyos to pull her out a bit either side. If I pull the BBK out of the way, this is how the NQ now looks...


A textbook example of heat stress, but there's hope for her now that I've stretched her out to the sides and cleared out the rubbish.

Here she is from above....


Although she looks a bit grim at first glance, there's a lot of her, and the bud's looking pretty good. These pics were with lights on, but lights off she looks a bit greener.
Here's the main cola with lights off, and you can see plenty going on under all those horrific looking leaves.....


From underneath, again you can see the excellent stem structure and just how much trimming I have done during the course of the grow....


The damage to the lower end of the branch on the bottom right is from my rubbing the watering jug against it every feed.
I kid myself that this kind of mild stress will make her produce more resin!

Same thoughts for the daily near dehydration I put them through.... if I was a cannabis plant and I was sitting in blistering heat and about to die of thirst, I'd gush out that goo the moment I got fed again!

Yeah, right..... I hear you say!
Till the next time!

 

[hope2grow]

Day 68 update, and they are approaching their advertised finish time of 70 days.

As my grows tend to be a bit bigger, they go for an extra couple of weeks, and to be honest I can't wait till this one is finally done.

Last time I showed you 2 reasonably healthy plants in mid bloom. I was having to water them twice daily giving 10L each, which for 25L airpots is pretty much a full load.
Since then I have not been able to feed them any more than once a day.

With temps up in the 35°C (95°F) plus region in there, it hasn't been an easy task managing these two huge plants and there's been at least 4 occasions where I've opened the tent to see them with all their leaves hanging down all dried out.

The first time it happened, it must have been around 30 hours since the last feed, and they went from green one day, to droopy the next, and brown the following day.

The enormous BBK in particular, lost a lot of leaves last week, and the NQ was hidden out of view squeezed into the back of the tent getting very hot and sweaty.

Here's the view as you open the tent....


It's all Blackberry Kush, but I've trimmed a bit off her lower areas, and you can just about see the Night Queen's pot behind.

Here's another shot from a higher angle and you can see plenty of long candy canes all the way through the BBK...


The tip of the main cola's a bit burned but the rest is solid bud....


Here's a closer look at the main stem....


Here she is underneath, and you can see where all those stems came from....


The Night Queen has been neglected somewhat, so after chopping out a bit of the BBK's undergrowth and using a few yoyos to open her out a bit, I decided to move the NQ out of the back right corner, and give her all of the back part of the tent.

She was super bushy inside, and being cramped up meant she was getting way too hot.
Despite having a fan directly on her, air circulation was virtually non existent, and there was a lot of straggly stems developing that just weren't getting any light, so I had to tunnel my way in under the BBK's yoyos and branches on the right, and pop up under my fan and filter, and trim out a load of vegetation.

Finally, I used a few yoyos to pull her out a bit either side. If I pull the BBK out of the way, this is how the NQ now looks...


A textbook example of heat stress, but there's hope for her now that I've stretched her out to the sides and cleared out the rubbish.

Here she is from above....


Although she looks a bit grim at first glance, there's a lot of her, and the bud's looking pretty good. These pics were with lights on, but lights off she looks a bit greener.
Here's the main cola with lights off, and you can see plenty going on under all those horrific looking leaves.....


From underneath, again you can see the excellent stem structure and just how much trimming I have done during the course of the grow....


The damage to the lower end of the branch on the bottom right is from my rubbing the watering jug against it every feed.
I kid myself that this kind of mild stress will make her produce more resin!

Same thoughts for the daily near dehydration I put them through.... if I was a cannabis plant and I was sitting in blistering heat and about to die of thirst, I'd gush out that goo the moment I got fed again!

Yeah, right..... I hear you say!
Till the next time!

Wow m8.. u have a battle on with the heat there all right.. they might not be your prettiest plants ever but they're gonna produce ok.. ton of bud on them as usual.. I'm surprised they made it this far in that sort of sustained heat. Keep fightin the good fight bro.. the finish lines in sight

 

[DCLXVI]

That's strong work friend. Definitely tough keeping up with a lot of plants and the environment isn't doing you any assistance is it? Would a pump and timer system with a small res be an option? Just a 5-gallon bucket and a pond pump could take some stress off ya. Could always float a couple frozen bottles in there to keep it cool-ish.

 

[Rasterman]

The damage to the lower end of the branch on the bottom right is from my rubbing the watering jug against it every feed.
I kid myself that this kind of mild stress will make her produce more resin!

Same thoughts for the daily near dehydration I put them through.... if I was a cannabis plant and I was sitting in blistering heat and about to die of thirst, I'd gush out that goo the moment I got fed again!

Yeah, right..... I hear you say!
Till the next time!

I bet they'll recover completely and push out extra terpenes to protect themselves from the next drought!

 

[Teetee]

Finally I'm DONE!!!

The giant Blackberry Kush came down on 28th Feb, day 77. I'm sure she could have gone on longer, but I didn't want her foxtailing and we were running out of gear. Plus temps were so high (like in the mid to high 30°C's) and it was ultra humid.... life in the Tropics, eh!

During harvesting, I'd normally take a big stem off, manicure it and hang it in a cardboard box.... repeat until completed..... a big plant would take 2-3 days. I'd make a bit of room in the 'smoking' room, get stoned, watch TV etc and take my time about it.

Now we live in the 'burbs, the smell becomes a major issue and I can't sit around for days snipping away in the garage, so this time I just hacked each branch off and hung them immediately, leaves and all.
It took just under an hour to get the BBK down, and the hanging boxes were kept up in the room we smoke in, which has a carbon filter air purifyer running.

I hate manicuring dry stems, all the leaves stand out when fresh, but once dry they contract onto the buds and removing them is a pain in the arse. I've heard that leaving the leaves on slows down the drying process a little, and can result in a more mellow final smoke....

For me, it's just pure procrastination, and so I left them hanging in boxes for over 2 weeks, and then I finally got on with the manicuring.

Here's all the long stems of Blackberry Kush before I jarred it up.....

hang on, there's some more....

here's the complete harvest of BBK filling up the tub!

The Blackberry Kush was very generous, giving me a total of 12.5 ounces (354.5g) of nice looking tight buds... now in jars with 62% Bovedas.
The bud was pretty dry to start off, but I'm noticing now, after 10 days curing, the buds are a lot more 'firm and springy'.
The vaped product is tasty as fuck and hits the spot, as I'd expect from Dutch Passion!

That left the Night Queen, for so long hidden at the back behind the BBK.... now she had the tent to herself, and I was able to open her out and let the light and air in to give her a final push.

Here she is on day 82 back on the 5th March...

Good solid trunk and big long stems each with fat buds at the top.

She was really feeling the heat so 3 days later on day 85 I took her down as well.
Same speedy chop, but this time I hung the stems up in the now vacant tent, lights off with the fans still running.

This lot was more leafy than the BBK, but the buds were a bit chunkier, and the thought of having to manicure all of that meant I let them (over)dry for 19 days (normally I'd dry them for 12-14 days till they get to around 60% RH).

With such crispy dry material, I got a bit lucky/lazy with the manicuring and was able to pluck every leaf out by hand instead of snipping away with clippers, and here's what I harvested.....

plus....

and finally....

The Night Queen delivered 8.9 ounces (252.3g), but I'm sure that would weigh a lot more if it was at 62%.

Anyway, not a bad total haul of 21.4 ounces (606.7g) from 2 plants, especially if you take the sauna like conditions into account.

I'm already thinking about my next grow, but first the tent must come down as we have a house inspection on Friday.
I'll be planting seeds on Weds night so that when she fucks off I can put the tent up again and start immediately.

Given the tropical location, I've decided to go for Banana Blaze, Lemon Kix and Orange Bud, all Dutch Passion Auto's, and I know nothing about them, so should be fun!
Thanks for dropping in, and keep an eye out for my new grow!

 

[hope2grow]

So just over a 10.5oz per plant average then.. meehhh.. bonsai cannabis m8 hahaha.. you never fail to deliver my man.. epic growing as usual.. another 2 big heavy girls to keep your missiz going for a week or 2 great stuff.. the trunk.. and it is a trunk.. on that night queen.. wow.. and all that bud grown with the highest level of stealth hope the house inspection goes ok.. fkn mad for that shit over there aren't they!! They can't inspect houses enough.. must be a fkn army of house inspectors in Oz just hangin about waiting to piss a stealthy grower off anyway.. lookin forward to the next one.. im gonna get my guess in now at a 1KG harvest dry.. winner takes all yea stay safe bro