Photoperiod The Pheno Hunt Begins Bubblelicious @ Nirvana seeds 2017

[kovert420]

Intro

So far I have done just fine with fem seeds and the occasional clone that finds its way to me, but now I am in a place where I can get down to some pheno hunting and find exactly what it is I’m looking for.

My chosen stain was Bubblelicious after smoking it way back in the late 90’s, I still remember that distinct pink bubblegum flavour and smell. Every now and then some bubblegum does pop up but it's mostly poor quality compared to what I produce. That's not to say the growers don’t know what they are doing but these guys are just cash croppers so quality is always second to quantity. What I’m looking for is something different, something just a little bit special and I invite you along for the ride.

What lead me to choose Bubblelicious by Nirvana seeds over the other bubblegum strains?
Well a few years back I decided to try my hand at some auto’s since I got them free with an order, knowing very little about auto at the time (and still not really up to speed with them) I just threw a few in the vegging tent and away they went. Now one of these amazing LITTLE ladies (you see the emphasis on little), was in fact an auto version of Bubblelicious by Nirvana seeds. when it was all cured I sampled it and all the memories of the Bubblelicious I had smoked back in the 90’s came rushing back. Now here the catch remember how I said LITTLE, well after a few days I was out of Bubblelicious and that was the end of that. I had run the autos on 24 hours based on the little information I had gathered and didn’t really spend any time caring for them but that's another story altogether.

Well anyway that's how we ended up here so without further ado lets move on to the set up.


Setup

I will be running the seedlings under T5 for the first few weeks then they will be moved under a couple of Mars Hydro LED’s for the rest of the veg period.

Due to the number of these I am running I don’t think I will be taking any clones and plan to reveg the original seedlings after flowering them out. It’s not idea but saves me holding on to a high number of plants while I’m finding that keeper. Once reveged I will sample the final product and select the best few mothers take clones and flower them out to find my queen.

When we move to flower they will be under some 315w CDM’s how many is yet to be worked out all depends how many males we find along the way. Now I’m not looking to start a breeding project as I am happy to leave that to the guys with more experience in that field so any males will be culled at first sight.

Not 100% sure on whether I will be using pots or buckets still waiting on my last experiment to finish (pots vs hempy’s using soil as the medium).


Potting The Seeds

So we start with 30x regular Bubblelicious @ Nirvana seeds. I would normally take extra special care at this point to try to hit that 100% germ rate but given the nature of the hunt i’m not looking for the runts and only the strongest will survive. Bearing that in mind the seeds got labelled, thrown down into some dirt, watered and left to their own devices.


Not really much to see but figured I should start as I mean to go on so here are the first picture.

I will update when the first beans sprout.

look forward to going on this adventure with you guys who knows what we will find.

@912GreenSkell

 

[islandgrower]

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[iWumbo]

Awesome good luck on your pheno hunt . Once you find the trait your after do you plan on making clones. If u find that delicious bubble gum flavor take 2 clone turn one male from tsmist or colloidal silver spray and make a fem seed of it

 

[kovert420]

Awesome good luck on your pheno hunt . Once you find the trait your after do you plan on making clones. If u find that delicious bubble gum flavor take 2 clone turn one male from tsmist or colloidal silver spray and make a fem seed of it

Cheers dude still not 100% sure what I am going to do with the males yet, If I can dedicate a separate area for them I would be tempted to collect the pollen and save it for a later date, but to be fair that would be moving into the breeding territory and I don't think I'm ready for that just yet. For now I am just trying to find myself a mother with the right traits.

 

[kovert420]

Looks like [HASHTAG]#06[/HASHTAG] is the first one to pop its head up to say hello, followed closely by [HASHTAG]#04[/HASHTAG], then [HASHTAG]#23[/HASHTAG] and even though you can’t really see it in the pic [HASHTAG]#12[/HASHTAG] has just about broke the dirt to.

T5 Is now on 24/7 for the next 2 weeks or so then will be moving them under a MarsHydro running the GLR to get them to show sex.

In around 5-6 weeks I will have some space in the flower room as my Stardawg should be finished. I have no journal on the Stardawg, did want to get one going but it was all a bit rushed as I was running out of smoke. I also have a Sour Kosher, Green Crack, Honey Banana & Fruity Chronic Juice in veg. This is what I was supposed to be flowering now but they needed a bit more time. I was planning to flower them straight after the Stardawg is finished, depending on how many ladies we find in the Bubblicious I might have enough space to flower them both at the same time. I just got a little excited when my Bubblicious arrived that I popped them all didn’t really think the rest through but we will figure it out along the way.

Now I’m not going to spend too much time posting about the Stardawg but I do figure its worth posting a little about it so why not post it here. So here's a bit of info, I was running out of smoke fast and knew my other stuff in veg wasn’t going to be ready to flower, so I took 25ish clones from my Stardawg mother and rooted them. Now after having previous success using hempy buckets in the past and knowing I had little time to veg I potted 10 Stardawg in 5L hempy’s and another 10 in the same 5L buckets with holes drilled in the bottom just like a normal pot. Since my last run in coco I have removed all chemical nutes from the grow room and am sticking to organic where ever possible, so I figured lets see what hempy’s are like with dirt. I love a good side by side and found lots of questions about soil hempy’s but very little solid information so figure why not.

Ok enough of the rambling, I did say I wasn’t going to get into this too much so time for a quick pic this is on day 30 the 2 trays on the left are the soil hempy’s and the 2 trays on the right are the pots. I have 3x 315 CDM’s covering them 2x Agro’s and 1x Daylight in the middle.

 

[kovert420]

Well just a quick update as not much has happened yet but 72 hours later and we have 30 out of 30, most popped up within 24 hours of the first ones, had a few stragglers that took 72 hours but 100% germination rate so who’s complaining. A few of them did need a little help removing the seed and the membrane holding the pod leave together.

 

[kovert420]

Aight guys so I’ve moved the Bubblelicious to a new location for a while as I has having some issues with temperature (not with the Bubblelicious but with the StarDawg). I say issues as I like to keep my max temp around 27, the T5 was raising the room temp by 1-2 degrees the plants didn’t really seem to mind but 28 is the max I like them to hit with 27 making me happy. When I set up my extract I set it up based on 2x 315w and temps where rock solid @ 25 since adding another 315w I could really do with making some adjustments to my extract but that will have to wait a little while.

Once the Bubblelicious has rooted out the cups they are in they will be moved to 100% soil hempy’s made from 2L bottles. Heres a few pics of the how the Bubblelicious are looking at the minute. We have one that seems to be struggling but we will give it time. I have had quite a few seedlings that have a hard time breaking the shell and they often end up stunted, if this does happen I will take a clone and run it at some point after the rest of the Bubblelicious as the clones from stunted mothers tend to do just fine.

Ok back to business so today the StarDawg is on day 37 and its time for a haircut. So I went in lopped off a tiny bit from all the main tops to stop fox tailing and make the buds grow back down and fill out a bit more, I can’t say for sure if this does in fact increase yields but it defiantly gives you a more attractive bud at the end.

And a quick pic of the StarDawg because why not lol.

 

[stepside]

Nice.. real nice. I haven't grown the photo Bubblicious. I'll be poking around in here if you don't mind.
You got my interest.. I had a real sweet auto Bubblicious from Nirvana.. I'll show you if you don't mind

 

[dankstyle J]

Good luck with your pheno hunt ,really is quite fun ,grew out many unique phenotypes I wish I had the space to cut clones and preserve the terped out winners of the past ,someday,wishing you luck with your quest beautiful start.

 

[kovert420]

Nice.. real nice. I haven't grown the photo Bubblicious. I'll be poking around in here if you don't mind.
You got my interest.. I had a real sweet auto Bubblicious from Nirvana.. I'll show you if you don't mind

Post away buddy would look to see it, did do an auto Bubblicious myself a while back but don't have any pictures unfortunately.

Good luck with your pheno hunt ,really is quite fun ,grew out many unique phenotypes I wish I had the space to cut clones and preserve the terped out winners of the past ,someday,wishing you luck with your quest beautiful start.

If you don't have space to keep clones why not reveg if you find a good one?