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Blue Skyscraper: Straight to the Top (An Ice Cream x Blue Satellite 2.2 Hybrid)

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Cannabis maestro Tonygreen has graciously allowed me to do a test grow on his new strain. Here's the background, in his own words:

Tonygreen said:
The Ice Cream mom was a very dank smelling producer with loads of crystals, ...a "hand-grenade pheno" that makes giant bugs the size of a huge fist.

The male was a Blue Satellite 2.2 that showed no hermie under stress and is frosty as fuck, you can see his sisters getting bloomed in my thread.

As far as chemotype, the IC is a very special buzz, very trance like and dank, very meditative, creative, a very unique buzz from all who smoke her.

The Blue Satellite has no ceiling and is very relaxing in her own right.

I call her Blue Skyscraper!

The ideal representation in my mind would be that pheno, hand grenade, colored and frosted up by the Blue Satellite.

There will be a very vanilla pheno in there somewhere,...but you may find some berry undertones or phenos as well. Should be candy!
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Here's a few links to some of Tony's work:Breeding Down My Lines with Tonygreen &Tonys Tent or The Escape From The Closet of DOOM
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I'll be using LC's Mix for the seedlings:
BurnOne said:
LC's Mix is great for any stage of growth. You can germ seeds in it, grow mothers in it, root clones in it as well as veg and flower in it.

LC’s Soiless Mix #1:

5 parts Canadian Sphagnum Peat or Coir or Pro-Moss
3 parts perlite
2 parts worm castings or mushroom compost or home made compost
Powdered (NOT PELLETED) dolomite lime @ 2 tablespoons per gallon or 1 cup per cubic foot of the soiless mix.

Now for the plants organic food source

Choose one of these organic plant food recipes to add to LC's Soiless Mix.

RECIPE #1

If you want to use organic nutrients like Blood meal, Bone meal and Kelp meal...

1 tablespoon Blood meal per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of soil mix
2 tablespoons Bone meal per gallon or 1 cup per cubic foot of soil mix
1-tablespoon kelp meal per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of soil mix
or Maxicrop 1-0-4 powdered kelp extract as directed
(OPTIONAL) 1 tablespoon per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of Jersey Greensand to supplement the K (potasium) in the Kelp Meal and seaweed extract.

Mix all the dry nutrients into the soiless mix well and wet it, but don't soak it. Use Liquid Karma and water @ 1 tbs./gal. Stir and mix it a few times a week for a week or two so the bacteria can get oxygen and break down the nutrients and make it available. And don't let the mix dry out, keep it moist and add water as needed. It'll also have time to get the humic acids in the Liquid Karma going and the dolomite lime will be better able to adjust the pH of a peat based mixture too.

With this recipe, all you need to do is add plain water until harvest.

When I'm working with seeds, I punch a hole in the bottom of 16 ounce cups and fill them with plain LC's Mix. Lightly wet the mix in the cups and germinate one seed in each cup. At the same time I mix enough LC's mix along with the blood/bone/kelp to fill all the 3 gallon flower pots I'm going to use for the grow. After about two weeks, the seedlings and the blood/bone/kelp mix are ready. I transplant the seedlings into the 3 gallon pots and just add water until harvest.
When you go to flower and pull up the males, save the mix in the pots. It is ready to be used again immediately. Just remove the root ball and transplant another seedling into it.

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I deviated in this recipe by omitting the lime, since I have none. Ditto for Jersey greensand. I used homemade compost and locally made EWC, and kelp meal. It sat on top of the shed for a month. I watered it and administered compost tea leftovers when it wasn't being rained on. It's my first time trying it and I'm really happy with it so far.

I popped 6 out of 11 of these lovely mottled, silvery seeds on Tuesday, July 2. After a 24 hour soak in a shot glass of pHed water, 4 were opening, so I planted those 4 in peat pots on July 3 and the final 2 on July 4.

Had 3 helmet heads, but the only thing holding the seedhalves was gravity!

They're all up today and looking very vibrant! Nice work, Tony!!! :tiphat:

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Thanks for the thread! You put on a great show, should be an awesome ride!
 
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Wow nice genetics! I am happy for you. Sounds like a great cross best of luck bro! Will be watching peace sdd
 
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Wow nice genetics! 1
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Ya I know, huh? Tony rocks!

And it really shows in the seedlings. All of 6 are up and stretching to 1-2" except for one who's taking it's time growing a stem. I might've overwatered it so I'm just gonna leave it alone :comfort: They're all a vibrant blue-green and getting their first true leaves...
 
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That little one is probably an indica pheno I had one but it turned out male, I used his pollen to make f2s to find more of those!
 
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They've been up about a week and getting pretty dry, so they got their first light feeding (Maxicrop Liquid Seaweed). Here's the champs so far:

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Tonygreen said:
Is that the little one in the back? NICE. :D
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Yes and he is finally taking the elevator up from the basement...:)

Volga Budmen said:
looking good man!
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Thanks! I'm glad they're looking good because I forgot I was using this organic soil mix that you're just supposed to water. I went ahead and fertilized them the other day with an EWC tea and was afraid it might be too much. But they loved it! Gotten a couple foliar feeds too. New phone, tryin' out the camera.

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Looks good man, can't wait till they start throwing leave sets, Im watchin the little guy! Hope its a girl, I had one just like that but he was a boy, he stunk the most too with a very sharp scent compared to the others. Keep on keepin on OKD!
 
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excellent! I have young seedlings in organic soil and they are in need of something, nice and stocky yet with brown rectangular flecks on the leaves like already deficient in something! I may try some tea too. thanks!
 
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Tonygreen said:
...can't wait till they start throwing leave sets...
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I think they're startin'.....

Volga Budmen said:
excellent! I have young seedlings in organic soil and they are in need of something, nice and stocky yet with brown rectangular flecks on the leaves like already deficient in something! I may try some tea too. thanks!
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Hey VB mine are looking pretty good. They took the switch to MH quite well! I just listened to an interview with Reeferman (Free Weed #20) and he swears by foilar feeding. He does it as often as every other day and said a comparison test will show the difference. So I've been foliar feeding more often, lately with an EWC compost tea with some fish fertilizer added. I water it down alot.
So you might try that...I'd like to see some pics. I have a Kandy Kush that has a weird deficiency too.

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Those weren't the Kandy Kush's, btw. Blue Skyscraper #1 is in the lead, closely followed by 2, 3, 4 and 5. BS#6 isn't too sure what it's up to yet...its cotyledon leaves are yellowing, but so are the ones on the others.

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All and all they're very vibrant and vigorous. I expect I'll be transplanting them very soon. They can't wait to get out of the peat pots...they're dry every day!

Nice work on these babies, tonygreen!
 
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Looking great man, should be uppotting soon, hang in there with the little fella might have been shocked a bit harder by the feed then the other guys.
 
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