ChinookKing
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Beautiful. Looking forward to seeing the different flower phenos.
Bringing out the blueberries
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iStruggle
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Blueberry plants are looking killer, very frosty! It even looks like a blueberry, similar look to the DC x Blueberry, glad it carried thorugh. Love the purple calyxes on purple leaves background, looks like a blueberry fruit! Mine even have a smell similar to blueberry! What is the smell like on those?
Hey! Thanks!
When they first started giving off the smell its was your general generic sweet/fruity smells.
Over the past couple weeks theyve started really smelling like berries, with one giving off a cheesy note as well
We’ve had some very cold temperatures for this time of year and its really showing in the leaves. Got so cold a couple of nights i thought they were done for. Warmed back up but i think that stopped the bulk right in its tracks. Theyre very dense but only one plant giving off significant size
This is only my second grow, but it seems to me that F5’s dont really do the best outdoors, if some more experienced growers would give their opinion that would be appreciated. They just dont seem to have the vigor, and are much more finnicky when it comes to feeding, and are much more sensitive to the environment. Probably the hardest plants ive ever grown, but like i said, im fairly new to growing in general. Learning as i go. With that said im very excited to be harvesting soon, im thinking a couple of weeks
Tynehead Tom
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few weeks to go here for the blueberries in the great white north.
HSC Blueberry Muffin clone
and my own work..... Coastal Blueberry
HSC Blueberry Muffin clone
and my own work..... Coastal Blueberry
Wuachuma
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Looks like a pretty good grow to me.
I don't think they would have bulked up much more without the cold. In fact, I love growing BB lines in colder and wetter climates as it keeps the monoterpenes around that make BB special.
BB and family are some of the toughest lines to grow, no doubt. Wild jungle sativa's are sensitive, but their vigor allows for even drastic hiccups. BB, however, claws with too much N, develops leaf spots with too much or too little P. She likes pH to be stable and doesn't like big swings in anything. A princess demanding to be pampered. But, she rewards like few other lines out there.
I think BB lines got a lot of bad rep back in the day because most people tried to grow her like NL or Skunk and overfed and generally neglected her sensitive needs. But connoisseurs and competent growers often list BB or her family in their Top 5
One lil trick I've learned is to water less but more often when any chill is coming. Water holds the cold in the roots and the plant will usually prefer to be a lil dry than have cold, wet feet.
I agree BB demands more attention than a Skunk who grow almost herself but I've seen many competent growers struggling with their BB despite giving the best care possible. I think there was something strange with this seed line, I don't know what caused the high numbers of mutants but they there wether you took good care of the plants or not.
Tynehead Tom
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The Coastal Blueberry I am growing doesn't suffer the same demands nor does it grow mutants. Just strrong healthy robust and very hardy in the late season as I am experiencing now here at 52N at 3000ft elevation in the great white north 
These "grow themselves" ....... My plants are in a simple home made soil recipe taken from the old archives of tom hill posts on the original overgrow. I recycle and ammend it every season. I don't feed them anything but water from my well. I don't foilar spray or top dress..... just water, good soil and sunshine..... and the plants grow themselves. Best part is, these plants grow wonderful true blueberry in aroma and taste. Genetics began generations ago as Fraser Valley Blueberry Hashplant x Dr Atomic Northern Lights and are BX1 F3 seed lot.
These are all from a 20 seed pop that gave me 11 ladies to play with
These "grow themselves" ....... My plants are in a simple home made soil recipe taken from the old archives of tom hill posts on the original overgrow. I recycle and ammend it every season. I don't feed them anything but water from my well. I don't foilar spray or top dress..... just water, good soil and sunshine..... and the plants grow themselves. Best part is, these plants grow wonderful true blueberry in aroma and taste. Genetics began generations ago as Fraser Valley Blueberry Hashplant x Dr Atomic Northern Lights and are BX1 F3 seed lot.
These are all from a 20 seed pop that gave me 11 ladies to play with
I'm sure you did some work to get to this point of easiness to work with, I remember seeing many abominations in the grow diaries with BB in the 00's. Your plant here is looking healthy as a workhorse, she has some wonderful looking pistils, looking like a flame almost. I have not a lot of experience with BB but the few plants I've grown had a very strong berry smell mixed with many nuances, very enjoyable aromas and high. I understand why so many people love this genetic, there is some incredible individuals to find.The Coastal Blueberry I am growing doesn't suffer the same demands nor does it grow mutants. Just strrong healthy robust and very hardy in the late season as I am experiencing now here at 52N at 3000ft elevation in the great white north
These "grow themselves" ....... My plants are in a simple home made soil recipe taken from the old archives of tom hill posts on the original overgrow. I recycle and ammend it every season. I don't feed them anything but water from my well. I don't foilar spray or top dress..... just water, good soil and sunshine..... and the plants grow themselves. Best part is, these plants grow wonderful true blueberry in aroma and taste. Genetics began generations ago as Fraser Valley Blueberry Hashplant x Dr Atomic Northern Lights and are BX1 F3 seed lot.
These are all from a 20 seed pop that gave me 11 ladies to play with
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Tynehead Tom
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I originally got this line from former Icmag member Rykus .... back in 2018 or 2019?
The fraser valley blueberry has been around a long time...... basically from the 90's and some believe it evolved separate from the DJ lines. DNA testing might prove that out or not. Dr Atomic's Blueberry Northern Lights was very well received by growers back in the early 2000's. Rykus bred the two together down on the Sunshine Coast , British Columbia and worked the line to the first backcross to the fraser valley blueberry and then passed them to me to work with up here at 52N where I stuggle to find good plants that will survive past the end of September here. Usually I do light dep for my greenhouse crop but this year I took the gamble and filled the greenhouse with Blueberry trees
You germinate the seeds straight in the ground? I have never seen this done yet, you don't lose too much of them to critters or animals this way?Deep Chunk x Blueberry
When do you expect to harvest them? It must bet get cold pretty early where you live so you need really strong genetics to be able to thrive and flower fast enough. I hope all will be good for you this year. In my country this year the outdoor growers had a very wet summer and autumn, the yield this year for the 100% outdoor growers won't be very good if they can harvest something. With a greenhouse it's a different storyof course but it's also a lot of work to keep the plants happy;I originally got this line from former Icmag member Rykus .... back in 2018 or 2019?
The fraser valley blueberry has been around a long time...... basically from the 90's and some believe it evolved separate from the DJ lines. DNA testing might prove that out or not. Dr Atomic's Blueberry Northern Lights was very well received by growers back in the early 2000's. Rykus bred the two together down on the Sunshine Coast , British Columbia and worked the line to the first backcross to the fraser valley blueberry and then passed them to me to work with up here at 52N where I stuggle to find good plants that will survive past the end of September here. Usually I do light dep for my greenhouse crop but this year I took the gamble and filled the greenhouse with Blueberry trees
Tynehead Tom
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I figure they have about 3 weeks left......
I'm just praying the real cold weather holds off till closer to end of october.
Getting chilly here though and well under 10C at night. Todays started out nice but it's only 14C and overcast.... rain expected. My greenhouse is more of a cold frame and is unheated so will be a gamble.
I'm just praying the real cold weather holds off till closer to end of october.
Getting chilly here though and well under 10C at night. Todays started out nice but it's only 14C and overcast.... rain expected. My greenhouse is more of a cold frame and is unheated so will be a gamble.
