5 G's, Purple Lui, Royal Kush, other nice stuff in the northwest

[therevverend]

Been meaning to start a thread all year to show my grow but never got around to it. Figure I may as well start now.
Here's a 5 G's Blue. I took this picture to show how wide leaved it is for a nine foot tall plant. For a five strain hybrid it must have an interesting combination of genes. Fine breeding by Ganja Rebel.
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Here is a P1 I started mid April. It hasn't caught up to the March monsters but the smell is incredible. I can't say enough about the P line. They are from a grower in Mendocino impossible to say what the genetics are. He gets pounds per plant easily gets them 15 feet or taller.

As you can see this is a stunted runt only four feet tall. I say the smell is incredible it is the fruitiest sweet strain I have ever smelled in veg. A P4 male last year smelled like Hawaiian Punch, reeked from five feet away. I've also seen skunky versions, beautiful long golden skunky colas there is a lot in this line.
The breeding is simple and superb. The guy takes his biggest heaviest plants and crosses them together year after year. I believe people make breeding too complicated. If you grow from killer seed the results will be killer plants. If your girls are big and healthy no reason the males would be bad for breeding.
As an outdoor grower I'm not going through four packs of seeds to find one keeper clone. Every seed better be good or I wasted my money. I can't afford to spend six months growing a plant to find it was scrag.
I get most of my strains from other outdoor growers although I can't resist buying a few packs every year to try stuff that looks interesting. The main problem is the plants don't get as big and tend to mold.
The big exception is Ganja Rebel's gear. They've been a workhorse the last couple years. Here's a 5 G's Yellow.

Last year it finished a bit late for my tastes after the Blue and the Purple. It is less of a recessive type then the Blue or Purple has a more "normal" wide branching tendency rather than the tall upright of the blurple.
I'd still call it a wide leaf hash plant. I'd love to run it indoors in a sea of green the results could be impressive. here it is about 7.5 feet tall.
This is getting long so I'll include one more picture. This is a Candyland clone. It is only 2 feet tall. I think it is very cute.

You can see the broccoli plant in front of it is almost as tall.
I have a friend who causes me problems because he doesn't understand plant counts. My state has a limit on how many plants I can grow for medical purposes.
He says he can get these amazing strains but it is May and I'm already maxed out. So I tell him to bring 2 or 3 and I can use them to replace males. Instead he brings me thirty and I have to find homes for them all.
They are awesome strains and there are worse problems to have but it makes a lot of work for me. Of course he knows by July he can come take as many cuts as he wants and it keeps a wider gene pool for him to choose from. Can't really complain too much and it keeps things like they should be. I get free cuts and he can come take as many free cuts as he wants from my clones and seedlings.

 

[Bradley_Danks]

Awesome grow and interesting strains!

What latitude are u at?

Do any of those ganja rebel strains finish in September?

 

[therevverend]

I'm at 47 N. The 5 G's Blue and Purple finish in late September to Oct 1. The 5 G's Yellow is later more like Oct 10.
Here's the 5 G's Blue turning purple. From a few days ago.

My favorite strain so far this year is from an old grower friend in Mendocino. It's called Early Spear. Reminds me of the stuff I grew 20 years ago that finished Sept 20-27. Just before mold time up here. Fat chunky frosty colas.

I only had a few seeds, screwed up and cut the male a day or two early before it made pollen. At least I gave it some Lui and 5 G's pollen.
Here's a Lui x Early Girl. The Early is a Mendocino early type from the same guy who bred Early Spear. Should be done in a week or two.

Here's a pure bred original Lui. It is a little later than the early girl cross.

The only benefit of our cold crappy weather is the beautiful lavender colors coming out. One more 80 degree day today than misty cloudy and possibly rainy weather for a week. I will be watching Early Spear and Lui crosses closely for mold. I hate taking stuff down too soon but if it's close and a rain storm blows in I won't have any choice.
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[dickcorn]

I grew 5 g blue red and purple last year. The purple had one of the most unique coat your mouth and throat flavor I've ever experienced. Sweet, old lady perfume, candy all mixed up. Hard to describe but good. The blue was very vigorous but just ok for smoke quality. The red was my favorite. Sour red koolaid flavor and a real face slapping high. His blue dreamx5gs was awesome, and possibly the most vigorous plant I've ever grown. Grown some his other gear and have like a dozen more packs on deck, a seriously underrated breeder. Wish he would sell on the bay again. Glad your doing him some justice with pics from your grows.

 

[stonedbuddha]

Looks really nice! The purp in the buds is awesome.

 

[The Revolution]

What is the 5gs cut? Ive heard it was a renamed variety, just cant recall which one

 

[therevverend]

5 Gs are bred by out of Humboldt, Ganja Rebel Seeds. He might still have a few up for sale on Seedbay otherwise I think there's a dispensary in Garberville that has them.
It's a five way cross I'm sure there's more info on his thread at Seedbay breeders. I agree that the purple has awesome candy flavors. The yellow is finishes later and was strong hashy.

 

[therevverend]

This year is turning into a tough one, light rain this morning. Cool temperatures all week with a few rainy days thrown in. Checking things this afternoon the north side of the flowers were still wet at one this afternoon.
Makes it hard for me because I may have to cut the Early Spear early.

The colas are fat and sticky. I've grown this type before and it is mold prone because it's too chunky it takes too long to dry out in cool weather. Glad it is finishing up so fast I doubt I can let it go another week maybe two or three more days. I hate these decisions maybe I'll take part down and leave the rest.
It reminds me of the strains I grew 15 years ago before all the new big yield late finishing diesel types came along in the early 2000's along with legalization and plant limits in NoCal. Now guys can only grow 25 plants so they want bulk, the weather has been so dry no one cares as much about lateness.
I miss the four foot high purple single cola plants that finished in late August. Hell, one year I was smoking one in late July, planted it out in late May. Times change so fast in the ganja world.
Here's a picture of the colas developing. Could really use one more week of 80 degree weather but I say that every year. I hope after this week the temperatures get up above 70 again and it dries out.

Here's another pic of the original purple Lui I hit it with molasses and bloom juice a couple days ago it seems to be frosting up.

Wow compared to the photo I took four days ago in the last photo in my post above it has developed a lot. it shows what molasses and 80 degree temperatures can do!

 

[soserthc1]

Plants look nice ,

I agree a good heathy mother plant and a strong male plant should make good seed
Sounds kinda simple

 

[therevverend]

Yeah people put too much thinking into breeding. Maybe 30 years ago when there was much less information and a lot more bad unknown ganja out there you had to be Luther Burbank to be a successful breeder. Now everything is so good and so potent, I realize as long as I select the strongest I can do fine.
The guy who bred the P line has it down. Glad I have a bunch more of those seeds stored I will be exploring this line for years to come. Dude (P man?) loves his big colas. Check out the early top cola development. This is why I don't like pruning or topping. I like putting all the energy and vigor into the top cola as the plant naturally prefers.
Check out the top cola development in this P1.

Hopefully, if it doesn't mold, that will be a huge cola!
Here's her sister nearby.

She's not as top heavy more balanced but still a nice top. I started them late and left them in containers for a long time so they're only four feet tall. Still I guess they will yield as well as a lot of seven footers.
Here's a Candyland. It's a little clone but looks like good smoke so far.

Here's a Peyote Purple. She's late but starting to come around.

And finally a Royal Kush, ripening up in a hurry.

 

[therevverend]

Here's an update of the P1 pictured above. The nugs are turning out super dense.

A little worried about grey mold on a nug so dense I'll be watching it close.

 

[therevverend]

Harvested most of the two Early Spears yesterday. There was a little mold in the huge top cola but otherwise mold free. Here's a couple shots of what the remaining nugs look like.

Realized my old camera was terrible. These look a lot better.
Here's White Master Kush x Stardawg.

Love those colors.
Here's a 5 G's Blue followed by a Purple Lui x Early. Cool weather makes for great fall colors. Wish you could smell them.

 

[therevverend]

I regenerated a little Peyote Purple. Harvested 80% of it indoors in June then put it outside. It's a little girl but looks so nice.

Here's her big sister. Started from seed in early April she is over seven feet tall.

 

[stonedbuddha]

Still white hairs all over? Do you guys' chop strictly on trichrome cloudiness ratio?

 

[therevverend]

As cool and as wet as it's been, I chop when the mold appears. Kidding, but not really. I could tell the Early Spear was prone to mold because the buds are so big, they take too long to dry out. Once I saw a spot of mold appear in the top cola I took most of it. At least half the hairs had turned. Would of liked to let it go another four days to a week.
The Early Spear is the first to pictures, I figure the other plants in the pictures are still a week or two away. Still way too many white hairs.
If I waited for the trichomes to turn cloudy it would be too late. Half the plant would be molded. I wait for the hairs to change color and the plant to get a 'seasoned' look to it. Sometimes after a storm the hairs will change color but you can tell it's not finished. It's caused by the weather.
The stuff I look for is subtle because I've been growing outside here for a long time. The calyxes swell up, the stem changes color. Once the plant enters senescence and starts to die it is time.
I'll post some more pics of the Early Spear, show some of the signs it's close. But the main factor is the weather forecast. With another wet storm blowing in from the Ocean it's not good to let a plant sit around sopping wet for a couple days.

 

[stonedbuddha]

I hear you there! Thank you for the advice. I did notice some partial browning of hairs after a storm but I knew it wasn't done or ready. I'm entering week 6, and my big sativa ladies are starting to have some of their largest fan leaves senesce, but 99.9% of the plant is green so I haven't worried.

 

[therevverend]

With this nice weather I wish I could have waited on the Early Spear. This is how they look now Ready for harvest.

Might let them go a few more days to finish setting seeds I made but you can see the difference from the photos I took a few days ago. But the mold calls it.
The Royal Kush so frosty. I am really impressed. I found a couple spots of stem rot on a lower branch but otherwise it's finishing great. With this week of good weather I expect everything to finish awesome.

 

[therevverend]

I made a rookie mistake. Put my big top cola from my Early Spear in my drying cabinet. Left it there for a couple days. So when I checked it today I found a marbling of grey mold along the stem.
Instead of losing maybe a gram to mold I've lost 3 or 4 grams. I usually open up big colas and put them in a warm place with lots of air circulation, my room. Get all the damp out of them before I put them away in the cabinet to cure.