Twenty20 Mendocino Genetics: Girl Crush & Avenue of the Giants

I'm so STOKED at the new strains I got from this breeder. The genetics he used are just AMAZING sounding, and I cant WAIT to see what happens in this tent. You can even get a catalogue from this breeder, which showcases ALL his strains for sale right now, with great photos. I'm more excited about this grow than I am about my London Bridge, and thats sayin something!
I got an 10pk of feminized seeds, of each of these strains: (8 are in photos. I had already taken 2ea out to grow. hence the journal. )
Girl Crush - ( Biscotti x Bad Girl)
Avenue of the Giants - Great Success x (Sour Strawburried x Testarosa)
and its supposed to be his gassiest, most strawburriest strain he has ever smoked. I get all tingly thinking about it!
Here's the catalogue, if you want to check it out. You can request a free one from the breeder.

I copied this from my Onenote notebook, because I thought it would be nice to keep the entire feeding schedule on one page, just in case anyone was really interested in exactly what I was feeding my plants. I think its annoying to have to sift through many pages to be able to write things down. sometimes you miss things, or get it out of order. If there is ANY sort of anomaly, or a one-time feeding/treatment, I will put it on the corresponding page. Any illnesses, any training/defoliation, or any re-potting/moving, will also go on an individual page. Every plant is different, and they will uptake differently, so I was not as exact with the vegetative as I was with the flowering. Strain depends a lot on how things do especially in the first month or two. These babies are all uniform, beautifully stacked, and VERY hungry. I have high hopes for my girls here.

Also, I wanted to mention that I give a bi-monthly treatment of Green Cleaner, as a preventative for powdery mildew and any pests. It seems to work wonderfully. I don't have trouble often. I use a powered atomizer, and mix 3.5ml per liter of filtered water. Yes, the actual name of the brand is Green Cleaner. it is branded as a miticide, but is also used in a weak mix as a PM treatment/preventative. It is OMRI listed, and is supposed to be OK up to day of harvest, though I do not go anywhere near that long with it.


For ALL of my nutrients, I follow the guidelines on the package for dosing. I mix my feed by the gallon, so i can have a more accurate feed, and so i can keep shaking as i go, and things don't sink to the bottom. Some of these nutrients can be heavy, or hard to mix - ESPECIALLY THE SILICA! it doesnt say this on the package, i do not believe, but to properly get the silica to dissolve, you need to first put about 1/2 to 1 cup of water in a gallon jug, then put in the silica. shake the CRUD out of it, till it looks foamy even though its just water (you know, so shook up there are bubbles everywhere) it's HARD to break down, and if you put it in a full gallon that already has other chemicals in it, then its going to make it harder to break it down consistently. After you shake it to pieces, you can fill the gallon up with water, shake again, and proceed. I like to start with about a half a gallon of water, and add one nutrient at a time, shaking well and adding a little bit more water each time until the gallon is full. When i use cal-mag, I ALWAYS add it first, and shake it up really well before I add anything else.
cal mag is pretty uniform no matter where you are getting it, I think. Its all up to what you like. I've used several brands over the years, though I have stuck with the Sensi line for a long time now. They seem to do great, and 'if it ain't broke don't fix it', right? lol. The Trinity comes from Roots Organics, and the Recharge comes from Realgrowers. the recharge is a myco soil treatment, and the trinity is a superfood boost. They make a great combo, with cal-mag, for re-potting/cuttings/moving to prevent/mitigate stress .Any questions, post them to this page. Thanks for reading!

So far these little babies are amazing. I can tell within a couple of weeks with these, as well as i could The Spice.
They are at their second week here, and you can already tell the strains apart, in my mind. The ones with
the yellow tags on the left side of the photo below this are both Girl Crush. The two next to them, on the right side of the photo below, are Avenue of Giants. They are 10-14 days old about now, and they are moving along quite well. the giants in particular are hungry girls. They are the ones in orange tags. They have needed to be staked for a little while. It's not something I usually have to do when they are this age. For the first week or so I will support sometimes, but usually by now they are starting to get some strength. these ARE, but i think they are going to be tall girls, and the cups were limiting, so I just transplanted them and we will see how they do. I gave them my usual cal-mag/trinity/recharge transplant mix, which seems to do me well to prevent shock. they tend to explode after I do this, so we will see at the next update, eh? There are two more in this photo, but the one on the bottom left is a Trainwreck, and it has some sort of defect clearly visible in the photos. I had to put her out of her misery. Looked like the poor thing was in pain. twisted, crumpled leaves, just ugh. NOT SAME BREEDER as the rest of these babies. The one on the bottom RIGHT is a strain called MMXX, of which i have one other, that is about d21, and seems to be just BEAUTIFUL. You can see her next. Her little sister is right here on the bottom R, and II think you can tell they are sisters. I spend a lot of time staring at these plants though, so i feel like i know them well.

Below the both of them, on the right hand side bottom, is a strain called MMXX. I have two of them, but they are a week-ten days apart. The one in the photo on the right is the other MMXX. it is BEAUTIFUL, as you can see. very clean looking. its hard to describe, but i bet most of you know what i am talking about. Shes even. neat. healthy looking. (the one behind her is a 'The Spice' and she is not part of this journal. this is the last round of photos with them all together like this, because they just got transplanted out of their baby cups, and you can see the glass table I kept them on behind them. I only put them back in here after I transplanted to get the photos.
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Below are my little lovelies, they have grown quite nicely with their sisters, the girl crush. I am growing several strains by this breeder at this time, and each strain is distinct in its shape, yet each is true to itself too. all of the Avenue of Giants look like AOG, all of the Girl Crush looks like itself. You can tell a lot of care has been taken with each of them, and that they had something specific in mind when they were making each one of these strains. it shows in how they are growing that they are something special. So far in the grow the AOG has been a gem. needing nothing special, eating like a champ on her normal feed schedule (posted on pg 1) under viparspectra quantum boards, 2 small ones. I am in the process of setting up a new area for them, and they, along with several of their sisters and cousins, are going to have full use of my large boards, the 2000s, and we are going to see what they can do. As I write this, they are actually about to go into flower in the next few days, the last of the twenty20 strains to do so, and then we will REALLY see what they've got. Now, I unfortunately have to condense the vegetative state somewhat.Ithere hasn't really ben too much happening right now. they were smaller until not oo long ago, so it was hard to show structure, and shape, all that. So I am going to just do a contrast/compare. Below are her 45 day photos, and her photos just taken tonight, so you can see how large she has grown. I think it gets the message across clearer, in any case. and aren't we all more interested in what happens AFTER this point, anyways? From flowering on, i will do weekly updates, so y'all don't miss a thing. A lot happened here, that has nothing to do with growing so i wont bore you with it, but it has eating a lot of my time. ThinkShe is growing in potter's Gold, mixes 70/30 with coco (heavy to the soil side). When the 45 day photos were taken, they were all in 2 gallon round pots, but the day i took these photos, I readied them for transplant, to 5 gallons each. As of right now, each one of them has had a little while in their pots, and they have just EXPLODED with growth. So much so that im comfortable in flowering her out now, to see what she's about. I have plenty of cuts, don't worry, you guys! when i know whats up with her, I may just make a monster out of her, see just how big the giant can get. This isn't about making a huge plant, though. this is about seeing what i've got in her. There are two to choose from. It hasnt been until the end of veg that I can really tell the difference between the two plants without looking at the labels.

Here are her 45-day photos. Both of them are so uniform they could be clones.




and here below you can see her as she is now. I just took this photo before i posted this, to get the best idea of how big the change 30 days can make. Yet, it hasnt changed everything. Even upgrading her to a 5 gallon pot, one of my lucky pots, she still is essentially just a larger version of the smaller plant on the rt.in the above photo. underneath the lower leaves you can see the same upside-down cone of branches that stretch very little for how big she is. That may change in flower, but somehow i dont think it will too much. her sister is even smaller than her, but is essentially the same plant. I do minimal trimming/training with the first round of any strain, and so these may end up looking a little shaggy from time to time. I like to see what im working with before i cut it off. little AOG

big AOG

Sorry its a little short, but we all know the part we are ALL really interested in is only just begun, so i will be more considerate of everyone's curiosity from this point forward, and will dedicate more time to editing out these photos to give you all the show you deserve. I have a feeling this breeder isn't going to disappoint. I've not had the slightest hiccup since they ALL begain. not even during transplanting nor moving them to a different room. they take it all in stride.

so here we have the girl crush, a companion to the AOG, and a cery pretty lady in her own right. They are right on pace with each other for time in veg, so im glad i kept them together in the one cense. I will not waste a lot of time here reiterating the things i just said in the previous entry, with the AOG. They are both in the same soil mix, under the same lights, and they are all in the same size pots. for a little while, one of the girl crushes was in a pot that was just a touch bigger, and a touch shorter, but it was essentially the same amt. of gallons. As with the AOG, I took photos the day before I up-potted to the bigger pots, and so at the botton you see them in their little pots, from before i know whether or not to be too excited over them. But boy, oh boy, are these ladies hot. tall, slender, and with a more open structure than the AOG, I think these girls would benifit from a little more training next time. I dont like to do it a lot the first time around because then i may not reallt understand what the shape of the plant is as it grows, and yada yada.
Below are two of the plants, from before they were repotted, in their weird-shaped little pots. But they have always been under either the large, or smaller quantum boards. I've been giving them the best of my lights the entire time, even in veg. they started out quite short, but now they are one of the tallest in their age group. certainly the tallest out of twenty20's strains I've got in my closet I think i may grid these girls out next time. I've got a feeling im going to end up with some long colas with not too many secondaries on these girls. they're going to have some stretch to the,m, too. they've gained over a foot in the past 3 wks. until then they were about the same size as the AOG, though they already had their own structure and coloring. they have this dark reddish tinge to the base of the leaves, almost purplish, and a bluer-green instead of a yellow-green to the leaves. plus, the spacing is a bit more open. i expect that to increase too, when i put her into flower. As soon as the room move is done, i'm flowering out all my twenty20s. I made an entire new room with tile flooring, a completely open space, and am setting up racks for veg lights along one side, and flower tents along the other. I'll show you all when its done.
Day 45

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