My Current Grow - Harvest Photos

[Elevator Man]

Awesome interventions folks - keep 'em coming! The Thais definitely look fairly consistent to me BH - that looks exactly like one of my phenos. When Lougrew gets some posted, we can all make some comparisons - I think we've got a line here all right. Given how well the MG combined with Flo, I think it's more than worth an attempt at a cross. I need to get another final run of Flos done, as the need for a new male is becoming imperative!

On the Goldfinger front, I'm officially beginning the F2 parent cycle, with a little help from some friends. This cross is special...

 

[Guest]

I am pretty certai nthat the tall lanky one is male and the two shorter ones female, I tend to have a sixth sense for these things and I expect them to show sex any day now, they looks ready to. I am thinking that there has been some indica pollution of this line at some point as the two females are obviously different phenos and the mroe developed one looks like a hybrid to me, I might be wrong, but it looks like it has a lil bit of indica in it, it's very like the Thai Hybrids I've grown before - Thai-tanic and Kulu Seed's Thai, and not at all like the Thais I had a couple of years ago that I grew from seed I got in Amsterdam from a bag of Thai weed, those were a lot lankier and the leaves were really thin and droopy, these ones are suspicious robust looking, the male has a structure more like what I associate with a pure Thai grown under lights.

Time will tell, the difference between pure Thai genes and 80% Thai genes with a lil bti of indica could be the difference between properly maturing indoors and not flowering properly, so I'm not that fussed if she is pure or not to be honest as long as she smokes good!

I too eagerly await Lougrew's Thai grow as a Thai will always express more fully outdoors under the full sun and Lou has a certain way of making us all feel like our grows are tiny and inadequate with his grow shows so bring it on Lou! We wanna see some Thai alligator tails in the sunshine!

 

[Guest]

HEY boy's!!!!!!!!!

Haha just jumped in an seen the talks!
Well GOOD NEWS KIDS,they LOOK THAI LIKE!!!!!!!!!
ANOTHER THING,they ALL LOOK EVEN STEVEN!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks El,you boy's WILL SEE the thai SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks BH,you sir do fine work and the pics show it!!!!!!!!!

 

[Elevator Man]

27. Cocoa Kush, pheno#3 - 56 days.

27. Cocoa Kush, pheno#3 - 56 days.

Here's the first Cocoa Kush, and a spectacular-looking specimen to be sure. The yield, sadly, is very low on this plant - I think it's just the expression of this phenotype, as all three CKs have had identical (and very friendly!) conditions. I assumed with the super-thick stems that giant buds were on the cards, but not on this one! The resin coverage is high though, and extends along many of the shade leaves around the buds. The trichomes are very small compared to the other two phenos, giving the plant a 'frozen' appearance.

The aroma is very sweet and fruity - again, nothing like the other two phenos, which makes me think this one may be an anomaly for the strain. It's somewhere between sweet grape, blueberry and grapefruit, and reminds me a little of one of my Grape Krush phenos - however, it's a very surreal fruitiness that's not quite the same as usual, but I can't put my finger on what it is yet.

I can give a little more info when it's fully dried, but here's some photos before I chopped it:

 

[Elevator Man]

28. Cocoa Kush, pheno#1 - 65 days

28. Cocoa Kush, pheno#1 - 65 days

Structurally, this is the most uneven of the three Cocoa Kush phenos - very ragged leaves, and uneven buds - a 'roughed-up' look the the whole plant really. However, undeformed leaves were just beginning to grow out when the plant went into flower, and the clone I have is now growing out good leaves, so I think this is a trait that will grow out. The bud stems all finish the same length, giving the plant a flat-topped look, and I believe that physically at least, this pheno is very close to the Bluberry Sativa on the front cover of DJ Short's book, apart from the green stems.

Resin coverage is very high indeed, and as usual is dry to the touch - not sticky at all. The smell is a quite extreme mix of earthy, dark spice - coffee, liquorice, aniseed and fennel maybe, mixed with a pungent berry in the background - smells really interesting like some weird old-fashioned herbal cough medicine...

The buds are hard, and don't look like they'll shrivel much. Trimming is extremely fast and easy due to shortage of leaves. Incidentally, in daylight, the leaves are a very dark chocolate/purple color, but it's very difficult to capture - the camera CCDs definitely prefer purple to chocolate. But it's still lip-smackingly delicious, and I can't wait until this one is dry...

 

[Elevator Man]

29. Cocoa Kush, pheno#2 - 65 days

29. Cocoa Kush, pheno#2 - 65 days

This Cocoa Kush pheno is physically the most exciting of the three to me - like a beefed-up Flo, or a slimline 'Original' Blueberry. Very dark purple stems right from the onset of flowering, and very unusual upward-pointing sativa leaves around the top buds - these didn't grow up to the light, but form like this at the junction with the stem, giving it a slightly 'devilish' look.

The plant overall is much more regular than the other phenos, with less leaf deformity, and a more classic structure overall. The stems are hollow throughout. Buds are regular in shape, and very hard and purple - like the pheno#1, resin coverage is very high. This plant smells slightly more toward the fruit specturm, but only slightly - a very spicy blackcurrant and liquorice combo, like my Flo incross, but with a darker, earthier background - very mysterious.

Given this was from seed, the yield looks to be pretty good for a small plant - grown from a bushy clone, I think this pheno could be really spectacular, and have serious bag-appeal. The true test is smoking in a week or so, but for now, take a look at this beauty...

EDIT - pics replaced with a better specimen:

 

[Alex-F]

Spectacular

I especially like this one, nice photo with the greenish background to all that purple

 

[CC Rider]

oh boyyyyy!!! nice plants elevater.....real beauties...im sure the taste and high will make up for the low yeild!

 

[abirdintheair]

nice cocoa kushes EM

 

[Elevator Man]

Thanks everyone - I'm just trying a barely-dry bud now of the #2, and it tastes quite like one of my purple Flo, but a little more hashy. There's definitely a kick to it, even at this stage. They're not bad-yielding really from seed - the clones are insanely bushy already, and I think I could get much higher weights next time around - and there will definitely be a next time for these.

 

[Elevator Man]

30 + 31. Vanilluna, phenos #2 and #4 - 52 days.

30 + 31. Vanilluna, phenos #2 and #4 - 52 days.

These two Vanilluna phenos were the fastest and lowest-yielding of the batch - both expressing the 'kush' structure to the max - consequently they don't have much of a top bud on each stalk, and not much below either, but they smell divine - very rich fruit and the musky cream background. Most of my phenos are closer to blueberry in smell than the vanilla/honey/melon description, but they all have different signatures - however, these two are almost identical in every way.

Both finished almost black, both in top leaves and buds - the buds resemble little lumps of coal. Calyxes are very large and swollen, and again, fully replicate the 'kush' look - anyone who's grown OG Kush would recognise the nug structure on these, especially in the top third of the plant - lower down they revert more to to the typical blue family shape. Resin coverage is superb, and will hopefully help make up for the lack of actual bud...

Pheno#2:








Pheno#4:

 

[norcalkell]

yummy!!

 

[Elevator Man]

32. Vanilluna, pheno #3 - 55 days.

32. Vanilluna, pheno #3 - 55 days.

This Vanilluna is another of what I call the 'fan' phenos, which I've had before in other DJ Short strains - Cocoa Kush and Flo. When topped into four, the stems rotate out of their normal opposing positions, and adopt the same longditudinal axis - very weird, and results in a totally 'flat' plant. It also refuses to branch further. However, I suspect it would fit into a SOG system very well. I clipped off many of the upright shade leaves this time, to allow a better look at the subject matter. It's also a low-yielder, though better than the two previous - the very kush structure of these phenos means large buds are almost impossible.

That said, it's one of the most beautiful plants I've ever grown, with an aroma to match - similar super-fruity blueberry/melon, but this one also has a wickedly dark, spicy background missing in the other two, and similar to the OG Kush I've grown - liquorice and coffee - that kind of thing. It's so delectable that I've decided to attempt to reveg this plant, having no clones - should be a fun experiment, as it's structure may resist! But I've left all the bottom buds intact, and many bottom shade leaves, so we'll see.

Although the top buds are small, they're very hard and frosty, like before. The lower buds however are much better developed, suprisingly, as this plant was squashed against the side of the cabinet for much of it's flower-period. They too resemble the OG Kush nugs - very hard and spiky, due to the oversize calyxes. Overall, the average bud size of the whole plants is quite respectable and consistent - and coupled with the hardness, and resin coverage, should be quite exciting when dried.

Until then, here's some drool-material. If only I could include the smell...

 

[sneakinman13]

some funkkkk..
but wow those things arent even close to filling outt...
looks dank but for the price those plants should be the size of a bus...

none the less i bet its some kill and you will enjoy very much...
take it easy

 

[CC Rider]

dammmmmmnnnnnn!!! that is a TASTY lookin plant ya got there elvator!

 

[Elevator Man]

but wow those things arent even close to filling outt...
looks dank but for the price those plants should be the size of a bus...

No, they're not big, but they're totally kush in structure, so I wouldn't expect the buds to join up. They're not much smaller in size than the ones I got on the OG Kush, to be honest, and with far less stretch in the stems, though that does mean it's hard to LST them for more budsites.
The last pheno is the biggest by far, and will be double the yield at least of these three when it's chopped next week sometime - and there's one more 'inbetween' plant to chop in the morning.

 

[AinSophAur]

I notice you keep quite a lot of popcorn/undergrowth in a lot of your pictures. Do you keep them on for seeds and if not have you tried removing them in early flower for more top growth? Have you had any mold issues at all?

 

[Elevator Man]

Yeah, I would normally remove lower branches, but I didn't want to touch these, as they were test grown for DJ Short, and I thought it best to leave them 'as is' so folks could see exactly what they do. Some of these have no 'lower branches' anyway...

I do often pollenate lower buds if I have viable pollen - I find they produce better seeds out of the main light. And I never have mold in this place - much too dry and well-extracted for that. The cabinet acts like a chimmney, and I worked out there's a full air-change every ten seconds...

I hope no-one minds too much, but I've decided to skip photographing pheno #5. I'm really busy right now, and don't have the time, but it's basically so similar to #2 and #4 that it wouldn't make much difference anyway - just a little less purple, but other than that, another tough little kush plant.

Pheno #1 is the one to watch for, and that will be at least another week - very different indeed.

 

[DoobieDuck]

No Time

No Time

I hope no-one minds too much, but I've decided to skip photographing pheno #5.

I mind.......like how much time can it take to get a couple photos of a marijuana plant...dude? Just kidding friend...keep up the excelent work...oh yes..I know how much time...DD

 

[ticktickbong]

You are a bussy man. Compliments boss! I dont know how guys get around all the names of crosses and remembering them... It confuckulates my head ;-) What is the ultamate taste that you have grown?