Holy Grail 1.x an introduction

Verite

My little pony.. my little pony

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #1

I have worked on this strain for the past few years and its easliy the most rerequested strain I run thru the room. Its a cross of Brothers Grimms C99 to some old Federations Mikado I have kept going. [ if someone else has already done this cross to you'll have to pardon the name.]

While its hard to generally improve on C99 I was experimenting with making it a more potent medicinal quality smoke. The Mikado I have I find is beyond that and for most purposes is kinda on the too strong side. The cross however is a beautiful mix of the two resulting in some easy to grow top notch smoke that smells great, yields comparable to C99, and is highly uniform.

The plant starts developing a light smell around dime size puff buds around 21 days into flower. Scents vary from the piney Mikado side to the fruity smells of the C99. As the plants develope those scents start to range and vary a bit like being around bulk candy bins. The scents seem to be oddly familiar like something from childhood you just quite cant pinpoint.

Theres more to say but lets get on to the pics. Heres a slew of Grail babies getting a nice start looking as uniform as can be.

 

Verite

My little pony.. my little pony

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #2

Heres the progression of the initial 27 Grail babies. They'll usually show small preflowers on the top internodes [ only where the branch meets the stalk] around 6-9 inches tall making sexing a breeze long before needing to flower. So I ended up with 15 females out of 27 plants and transplanted 14 into 5 gallon buckets while saving one female for a friends outdoor garden.

I like my females to have a nice established rootbase in their last bucket before going into flower. This makes for zero transplant stress during flower times. I also waited until I was sure I had the best male of the remaining 12 to seed this batch. The small square pot is the selected male. Everything still looking pretty uniform.

 

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Active member

• Jun 14, 2006

• #3

Wow,

Great thread opener Verite! I will be watching these for sure.

Looking awesome Funny Man! lol

Keep the Peace

 

Verite

My little pony.. my little pony

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #4

As the progress continues we find the ladies around day 18 into flower out of an expected 55-60 days on plants around 32-36" tall so far with a wee bit of height left to go.

 

bartender187

Bakin in da Sun

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #5

damn verite, i didnt know you were peeping tom, leave those girls alone, i think they are filmin a porno : P

 

G

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #6

Very Nice

Mo,

 

Verite

My little pony.. my little pony

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #7

Thanks, heres an update of the lone female outside. We decided that with the plant being already over five feet this early in the season that we would tie it down sideways after the photo session.

 

G

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #8

thats a very nice lookin line ya have there bro, cheers to you.

CBF

 

B

baccas125

• Jun 14, 2006

• #9

Ya c99 is like bacon its good with anything. Looks like there doing good nice and healthy looking verite!!

 

Mr GreenJeans

Sat Cat

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #10

Verite!
Sweet looking strain man! Sogalicious! Fantastic pics too - thanks!

 

zamalito

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #11

That's great verite! I take it those are the f1's and you're making f2 parental selections from that group? Do you have any pics of the parents? I'm also curious about what brand and pheno of c99 you're using. Thanks for sharing the pics. Looking good!

 

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Cheeba

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #12

Oh nice I'm sticking around for this

 

m.steelers

Enlightened

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #13

Nice structure V - Well organized too, looks clean.

 

jaykush

dirty black hands

ICMag Donor

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #14

you got everything well organized and planned, should be a great cross.

do you keep a log book?

 

Sleepy

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #15

very nice

love the uniformity!

 

R

Raque

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #16

Holy Grail?

This is bullshit, I expect buds to instantly form on anything named holy grail.

 

G

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #17

Raque said:

Holy Grail?

This is bullshit, I expect buds to instantly form on anything named holy grail.

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i dont think hes namin it Holy Grail, lol. hes like workin towards it, Right?

thad be insane, lol

CBF

 

Wacky Tobacky

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #18

oh so your quisp huh.... lol
i knew i saw those photos before

 

mean mr.mustard

I Pass Satellites

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #19

Nice structure for a sog.. I bet it'll be nice for tokin too Looks all neat and tidy Verite... I'll be watchin!!

 

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• Jun 14, 2006

• #20

I thought people might get up-in-arms over the name. I, for one, don't find it presumptuous or offensive in the slightest.

Especially since I've been enjoying some of Verite's HG buds for a few weeks now and have been thoroughly impressed. The smell is extremely unique and I won't even attempt to identify it. Very pleasant with a rank bite to it.

The high has that excellent, clear Cindy hightype but with a little bit of sinister thrown in there. It has an evil edge to it, but not enough to put you into paranoia territory-- Just enough to make it interesting.

The potency is excellent... personally, I can share a bowl with a friend and I'm GOOD for a few hours. Like way good.

For the record, I don't know Verite but was sent a nice sample from a friend of his, so my opinion of this smoke is pretty much non-biased. I was very pleasantly surprised by the end product. In fact, I was blown away.

Excellent work, V. I'd say you DID manage to improve on the C99, while taking nothing away from it. Congratulations.

.c.