Benni's garden 2.0

BenoitV1984 · Feb 18, 2023

Greetings,

Have got some Ace Gear growing for a while and finally took the time to transplant them in 11l fabric pots and move them in the main space (Homebox Q100 with 2 SANlight EVO-3 100).

Soil is a mix of Biocanna, worm casting, lava powder, mycorrhizae and BAC buffer tabs. I watered them with BAC Root Stimulator, sannies bacto and Biotabs Orgatrex. I'll be giving them CalMag once a week as well since I'm growing under LED's.

The plan is to top them tomorrow and then keep 8 secondary branches per plant before flipping to 11/13.

Oaxaca x Panama (lost the previous mom so that's another one than previous grows)

Golden Tiger x Panama (first version of the release)

Zamaldelica (Zamal/Thai pheno)

Purple A5 Haze

Golden Tiger x A5

Oaxaca x A5

Honduras x A5

Amnesia Haze x Panama

Purple Pakistani Haze (previous mom got lost as well)

Have a nice wk

Benni

orangina · Feb 19, 2023

Ohh wow what a nice line up! I'll be following this one. :lurk:

The setup sounds also very promising. Are they all clones or are some of them seed plants? I have one Honudras x A5haze in flower and it's a stretchy beast.

BenoitV1984 · Feb 19, 2023

All clones and I feel they will be all quite stretchy indeed

. Not that I mind anyway, got 170cm height clearance or so (using inline filter and EC inline fan out of the tent) and those SANlight got crazy light penetration (1040 µmol/s together).

BenoitV1984 · Feb 19, 2023

So let's LST those girls. I planned to keep four branches then top said branches after two nodes for 8 total (vineyard goblet style) but maybe I just let them fill the net, cut their apex and flip to flowering, will see how they progress.

Nevermind the damaged leaves, had to spray insecticide/acaricide a couple times. Will do so again a couple time before flipping as well as water with nematodes for sciarids (biocanna isn't vapour sterilized) to hopefully get a flowering without pests like last time...

BenoitV1984 · Mar 5, 2023

More pruning and 2 weeks later, and it's already a freaking mess

Photo-period has been lowered this week from 18/6 to 15/9, 13/11 and then finally 11/13 tonight. I'll probably go down 10/14 later down the road.

Some strains seem to show some sign of overfeeding. That soil mix might be a bit too rich. I'll only give them water, root/bloom stimulator and maybe some Regulator despite the silicon from the worm-casting.

Oaxaca x Panama

Golden Tiger x Panama

Zamaldelica

Purple A5 Haze

Golden Tiger x A5

Oaxaca x A5

Honduras x A5

Amnesia Haze x Panama

Purple Pakistani Haze

Cheers,
Benni

BenoitV1984 · Mar 15, 2023

Morning,

10 days into 11/13, it is becoming quite a jungle now. They are starting to define bud sites. The plants seem healthy so far. No bites marks on the leaves, that's what I'm fearing the most. I really hope not to get a spider mites invasion like last time. I have some fungus gnats but I have some nematodes in the fridge, just waiting for a Honduras x A5 clone to root so I can treat everything in one go (flowering and mother's tent).

Oaxaca x Panama

Golden Tiger x Panama

Zamaldelica

Purple A5 Haze

Golden Tiger x A5

Oaxaca x A5

Honduras x A5

Amnesia Haze x Panama

Purple Pakistani Haze

Green81 · Mar 15, 2023

Nice line-up, Ace do have some incredible genetics. Hope the pest stay away for a perfect flower.

G81

BenoitV1984 · Mar 15, 2023

They do indeed

. I haven't grown anything but Ace Seeds the last 5 years: Zamaldelica, Snow Moon, Malawi x PCK, Panama x PCK, Tikal, Orient Express, Panama x Malawi, Killer A5, Oaxaca x Panama, Purple Pakistani Haze, Green Haze x Malawi, Oaxaca x A5, Kali China, Nepal Annapurna x Nepal Mist, Nepal Mist x Nepal Annapurna, Mountain Gold, Zacateca Tribute, Purple Satellite. I also grew Bangi Haze and Nepal Jam outdoor like 15-20 years ago. I must say I have never been disappointed. I lost a whole lots of them though. Only Zamaldelica, Killer A5, Oaxaca x A5 and Panama x Malawi ultimately made it through the police busting and the rough months after that. Well I have a shitload of seeds so there is that...

Anyway, I'm pretty eager to vape those ones running

. I quit tobacco like 3 years ago and smoking a couple months ago, using a Mighty+ now.

Green81 · Mar 15, 2023

Wow that’s a tonne of seeds you be popping

Hope you find some keepers.

G81

Jimi Caliente · Mar 15, 2023

In all that seeds, which ones were the more memorable?

BenoitV1984 · Mar 15, 2023

Green81 said:
Wow that’s a tonne of seeds you be popping
Hope you find some keepers.

G81

Yeah I did but as I said, I lost lots of them to a police raid...

Jimi Caliente said:
In all that seeds, which ones were the more memorable?

- Malawi x PCK: really powerful and super tasty
- Orient Express: Vietnam Black pheno from an Ace Mix, a friend of a friend flowered her for like 16 weeks, the taste was pretty awesome. Very floral... Well pretty much all floral
- Green Haze x Malawi: the first pure Haze hybrid I grew, really strong shit and like wandering down a spices market alley
- Tikal: Strong peach/strawberry aroma, a lots of friends loved it
- Mountain Gold and Zacateca Tribute: Tropical, close to no ceiling strains
- Oaxaca x Panama: Strong lavender smell, creative uplifting high
- Panama x Malawi: A festival of terpenes, one of my favourite strains
- Zamaldelica Zamal/Thai pheno (the same I still have): Very psychedelic. The kind of strains you don't want to smoke before going to bed if you plan to sleep...
- Killer A5: Slighlty like a beginning of Golden Teachers trip when the lights start to lighten the scene. Or maybe it brought some acid/shrooms flashback from couple weeks before that... After all, marakesh butter in smashed potatoes made the floor go wavy, that was unexpected but fun

Jimi Caliente · Mar 15, 2023

BenoitV1984 said:
Panama x Malawi: A festival of terpenes, one of my favourite strains

So good, I've got two in flowering at the moment

Your plant looks perfect, I hope they will vape as they look. I'm quite curious about A5 crosses and how they turn out, I'll be following your thread.

BenoitV1984 · Mar 18, 2023

A5 and Haze crosses got quite stretchy. Nothing surprising but I wonder if I shouldn't have flip sooner... I should know, it's not like it's my first rodeo with Ace's sativas

. Amnesia Haze x Panama seems lost between Purple Pakistani Haze and Honduras x A5... I don't think she will yield very much.

BenoitV1984 · Mar 28, 2023

23 days into flowering, looks like they are done stretching. Flowers are starting to develop. Some leaves are doing some curling downwards but I see no bites mark so hopefully that's not spider mites. Maybe it's the fungus gnats, they got some nematodes this morning so hoefully that will solve the issue.

Oaxaca x Panama

Golden Tiger x Panama

Zamaldelica

Purple A5 Haze

Golden Tiger x A5

Oaxaca x A5

Honduras x A5

Amnesia Haze x Panama

Purple Pakistani Haze

Legalcdn · Mar 28, 2023

What an impressive line up, just WOW.
I hope they provide top shelf quality.

BenoitV1984 · Mar 28, 2023

Thanks man, I sure hope so too

.

Too bad the Amnesia Haze x Panama didn't really break through the canopy. Those A5 and OTH hybrids really stretched a lot. Nothing surprising about that, guess I should have expected it... Well, she's still getting enough light but she didn't get as much bud sites as the other ones.

Legalcdn · Mar 28, 2023

Can you raise the Amnesia Haze x Panama container?

BenoitV1984 · Mar 28, 2023

I don’t think that will be possible considering she is growing through 2 scrog nets. I would just end up breaking branches trying that.

BenoitV1984 · Apr 15, 2023

Flip + 31 days. I definitely over-fertilized them. Zamaldelica, Purple A5 Haze and Honduras x A5 clearly show sign of too much Nitrogen. I hope it's nothing they can't recover from. Probably some leaflet tips burnt because a bit too much PK as well. They are only drinking CalMag (BAC so there is a bit of N), Bloom Stimulator and enzymes producing bacterias at the moment.

By the way, smells are getting incredible in there

. They really seem to like the new LEDs setup. Previous run was also under those SANlight but it was a disaster. I ain't growing organic in coco ever again, that was the stupidest idea in the realm of stupid ideas

Oaxaca x Panama