California Outdoor: TK Haze, Cheese 'n Chong, SSSTN

[alvin88]

I've been lagging on starting this journal but here we go.

I have:
6 TK Haze (Triangle Kush x SSSDH)
4 Cheese n Chong (UK Cheese x Casey Jones)
1 SSSTN (Thai x Neville x SSSDH)

All started on my birthday March 7 inside, then brought outside in 1gallon pots April 1, and then to their final 400gal homes on May 1.

For nutrients they have only been top dressed with Nutririch chicken manure pellets and Dr Earth BioLive, and compost tea every 2 weeks. I will add more Nutririch as needed and supplement with bat guano during flower. Probably feed some fish emulsion over the next month of major growth.

These are the biggest healthiest plants I've ever grown!! Most of them are 5-6 feet tall. One Cheese n Chong is already reaching 8ft. The old timers around here have a saying "For 10lb plants, head high by 4th of July"

Start with the TK Hazes. 5 of them have what looks like to me, a more TK or SD leaning leaf and structure. Darker, more webbed fan leaves and branches that want to grow straight up rather than out sideways.

However this one pictured is taller, thinner, paler, makes me think it's more Haze leaning.

 

[alvin88]

Cheese n Chong

This one right here is by far the biggest and most vigorous in the garden. 8' tall and almost as wide. Personally I think its the TrainWreck half in the Casey Jones shining through.

The other 3

 

[alvin88]

Finally the SSSTN. This one is very branchy and wide. And doesn't have the narrowest leaves in the garden like I thought it might. Super interested in this one.

And the garden shot. I removed 2 trees that had really overgrown the space, it gets full sun now! Except that one plant in the back corner but I can't fix that. Honestly the plants will probably be overgrown into eachother by mid August haha

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Holy Mother of Ganja, dude.
These trees are going to be epic!
They look in perfect health.

 

[alvin88]

30 day difference here. Explosive growth!! And that oak tree is trying to make a comeback!

 

[ojd]

30 day difference here. Explosive growth!! And that oak tree is trying to make a comeback!
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Wow what lovely bushes and strains , going to be fun to watch, 30 day difference looks amazing .

I dream 1 day of growing outdoor bushes like yours , indoor only for me due to laws.

Thanks for starting a thread , we will all enjoy watching the show

 

[Specimen]

Any update?

 

[alvin88]

I've been super busy at my job this year (commercial farm) but I will take plenty of pictures during and after harvest! Sorry for the lack of progress pics!

The big news though is....the lone SSSTN is the pearl pheno!! She is a 12ft tall monster that I'm guessing will need another 45-60 days. I have no idea really though. Definitely was hoping for an earlier finishing, bigger yielding plant...but I am mega excited to try (and have a huge stash of) some extreme sativa

 

[Maria Sanchez]

12' pearl pheno SSSTN!! OMG!
From that first pic, a little distance, looks like a stand of bamboos.
These pics need to be shown when people talk about pearl phenos in the future, haha!

 

[alvin88]

@ojd any tips on a harvest date for that SSSTN?

For reference l will be harvesting the Cheese n Chong this week, and the TK Haze looks like it wants 2-3 weeks more.

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Can you judge harvest time by the overall condition of the calyxes and trichomes?
When the oldest calyxes are degrading faster than new calyxes are coming out, and most of the calyxes are still in good condition with milky/white heads?
She'll probably just keep putting out new pistils forever, but have to watch for the condition of the older ones and overall quality.
That's what I used to do for some very crazy long flowering plants I had a long time ago.
Just my 2c worth.
Sure OJD will be able to give you some much better advice.

 

[ojd]

@ojd any tips on a harvest date for that SSSTN?

For reference l will be harvesting the Cheese n Chong this week, and the TK Haze looks like it wants 2-3 weeks more. View attachment 19083918

So the wildest rare Pearl pheno is going to need the full run to give the goods , looking like December harvest if your season goes that long ? As this the wildest ( Pearl) pheno we run from the SSSTN.

So as I mention to people and descriptions online this more rare Pearl pheno( I was calling Gringspoon type pheno) is either going to be a dream come true for those die hard 100% Sativa fans or nightmare for more looking for the 50/50 pheno of Thai Nevil/ SSSDH.
I've never grown or smoked a plant as pure Sativa than the Pearl phenos we found (3 Pearl's from 5 packs) but it weighs surprisingly much more than it looks. ( I'm guessing Resin as never seen a wild thing like this glisten as much) I not grown many landraces so you guys might of , but 1st run was looking like the bin , was a few hairs and no Resin early in flower around 4 weeks ( I dont bin any from Seed I run them all even if looking sparse, long flowering, whatever, they get run 1st time whatever) but later into flower the Resin build up was incredible, stems everything were coated and the most amazing Mint/,Thai like Terp that reminds me of all C Haze heavy phenos ( Pine, Lime,Lemon) but a superior Terpene that was like the Purest Thai like I've ever smelled , taste it to , with nothing else mixed in , the High was the Cleanest ,Clearest High I've ever experienced myself, and was worth all the other things ( small yield, wild growth , etc)

 

[ojd]

I pollinated the Pearl clone with the Chem d Madness Male ( Chem d clone only x NH21 X Mullumbimby Madness Male) if any of you die hard Pearl Chasers want to run and document your grow online for us your welcome to a pack or 2 if you got more room to run both packs at once

 

[alvin88]

I figured it would be a Dec harvest. Decent shot of making it. While I was hoping for a 50/50 pheno, I'm super excited to have a pearl pheno! I wanted to dedicate more of my space to sativas but with only 12 pots it's usually an unwise use of space. Happy accident though!

 

[ojd]

I figured it would be a Dec harvest. Decent shot of making it. While I was hoping for a 50/50 pheno, I'm super excited to have a pearl pheno! I wanted to dedicate more of my space to sativas but with only 12 pots it's usually an unwise use of space. Happy accident though!

Yes I understand, space and plant limits are tough.
Yeah it's a shame you didn't get 1 of the other 50/50 phenos as an outdoor run like that would be amazing , with incredible yields and colas

 

[ojd]

What about the Cheese n Chong and Triangle Kush Haze, how did they do this season outdoor ?

 

[alvin88]

What about the Cheese n Chong and Triangle Kush Haze, how did they do this season outdoor ?

Came out awesome. Cheese n Chong very chunky and stinky, regular finisher. With one outlier that grew even taller than the SSSTN with smaller buds.

TK Haze got one very hazy one that unfortunately suffered from fusarium wilt. But mostly made it to finish, I'll be taking it early this week. The others are mostly TK dominant in structure but have a hazy nose. Really interested to see where they go the next couple weeks.

Would love to give the SSSTN another shot some day!

 

[alvin88]

The difference in 10 days on the pearl pheno has been crazy! Calyxes are swelling and pistils are turning. We have clear weather in the forecast though it will hlbe cooling off, but still just 40s at night, not too bad. She's really sticky and stinky too!

Last week we got some light rain so I took down a TK Haze and a c&c that were ready. The TK is very heavy on that side of the smell, almost no haze.

The c&c was very cheesy, what I refer to as a blue smell.

2liter cola sized cola

With just the light drizzle in the a.m., she was already keeled over!

Tomorrow I will take down most of the others, as much as I can fit in the drying area at least. Obviously the ssstn will keep riding, along with an interesting TK Haze that is very haze in structure but very Tk in smell. I will get a bunch of pics to properly finish out this grow log!

 

[alvin88]

Took down 3 cheese n chongs and 1 tk today.

The Cheese N Chongs were much hungrier than the rest and suffered a little more fade than I'd prefer but I was very busy elsewhere the past month unfortunately. The TK Hazes were much greener, and the 3 I left standing are green enough and look like they want another week.

Everything was just fed off the soil and compost teas, with some liquid fish emulsion every 7-10 days or so.

Autumn Colors

For size reference these are 600 gallon pots that are 7 feet wide!!!

TK Haze

TK Haze

Cheese n Chong

Cheese n Chong

Tk Haze

TkbHaze

The Cheese n Chong reeks of cheese. What I've always called blue cheese (not like the real stuff!) very cheesy and fruity/blueberry. Any differences in phenos were mainly in growth characteristics. They all smell very similar.

The TK Haze I took down last week smells 100% EXACTLY like the old norcal commercial strain SnowCap from the 2000s. Straight throwback and not what I was expecting. That's the plant that suffered from fusarium wilt, or possibly gopher damage, it's hard to tell until I've the pot.

The two TK Haze I took today were TK leaning, very greasy with swollen calyxes, and strail fuel smell. 2 of the remaining are monsters, will be the biggest yielders no doubt. 12' feet tall and full of fist sized nugs. And final TK is smaller, looks like the TKs I harvested today, but smell more hazy like the ones I left standing.

So I will have more garden shots next week and of course dry buds shot too with smoke report

 

[ninox33]

Magnificent Alvin, thanks for adding the sizes. Went from great to outstanding.