This is my 2nd grow of The Church from Green House Seeds. When I first started growing five years ago, something attracted me to this strain. Maybe it was due to the success of Arjan’s marketing – with his blatant self-promotion and his Strain Hunter vids on YT. Yes, I understand the controversy of his seed giveaways but he did take us to some really cool growing places around the world with the videos. Anyways, I bought a pack of seeds from our friends @The_Vault_Cannabis_Seeds and I grew out two of them in my second grow.
I started that grow as a sponsored grow on a site elsewhere and it went sideways. The LED light that I was supposed to review was too large, too inefficient and far, far too hot for my tent. It was already old technology but it was their premier model and I guess that is why they gave it to me with the unspoken agreement that they expected a good review for their dollars. With sky-rocketing air temps, the 90 liters of water circulating in my udwc was far too high, so I was feeding it frozen water bottles to try to get it under 70F. In fact, it was this grow that taught me that a full hydro system needed RO water and a chiller to run smoothly. While you may get away without them in a bucket grow, a full-on hydro system needs them or you will spin in circles forever chasing problems. It was an intense grow that just wasn’t working despite good health from the plants. I bit the bullet and sent the $2K light back, which killed the sponsored review and my relationship with the site. I had been chaffing against the autocratic owner already but this was a full hard stop and he banned me the next day. I resumed the grow with my smaller personal LED light (a Mars Hydro btw), but the calamity was not over yet. My system sprung a Uniseal leak while I was away for a week working a convention in Vegas. This was my second trip to LV since legalization and I stayed so baked that aside from our work at the convention hall, I didn’t set foot in a casino or even go on the strip. But then after more than 3 dozen trips to Vegas over 40 years, there wasn’t much new to see and the house that I rented had a great pool area and bar-b-que and I knew where the best butcher in town was. My idyll was shattered when my wife called in a panic with water just about spilling out of the tent’s door. I told her to quickly unplug all of the plumbing and bail. So, with the flood averted and the hydro system nearly empty, the roots of my 7 week old plants sipped the tiny bit of stale water left in the bins until I could get back. After five days, I returned and the next day I bought some cloth pots, some coco and perlite and I replanted the two plants – with their 12” of stiffened roots – and converted to coco mid-grow.
The stiff roots . . .
Proving the amazing resilience of the cannabis plant, they barely missed a beat and my grow maintenance plummeted to about 10% of what I had been doing. It certainly sold me on coco growing. In the end, I got 8 ½ oz from the two plants, so I was very pleased, especially considering the grow conditions. The smoke was very good – even though my cure kind of sucked since I was still learning - and I made some very nice bubble hash with the final few jars.
A few weeks before the chop . . .
Shout out to @Ananas_Comosus for his outdoor Church grow that reminded me that I still had some seeds . . .
Next up . . . on with the grow . . .
I started that grow as a sponsored grow on a site elsewhere and it went sideways. The LED light that I was supposed to review was too large, too inefficient and far, far too hot for my tent. It was already old technology but it was their premier model and I guess that is why they gave it to me with the unspoken agreement that they expected a good review for their dollars. With sky-rocketing air temps, the 90 liters of water circulating in my udwc was far too high, so I was feeding it frozen water bottles to try to get it under 70F. In fact, it was this grow that taught me that a full hydro system needed RO water and a chiller to run smoothly. While you may get away without them in a bucket grow, a full-on hydro system needs them or you will spin in circles forever chasing problems. It was an intense grow that just wasn’t working despite good health from the plants. I bit the bullet and sent the $2K light back, which killed the sponsored review and my relationship with the site. I had been chaffing against the autocratic owner already but this was a full hard stop and he banned me the next day. I resumed the grow with my smaller personal LED light (a Mars Hydro btw), but the calamity was not over yet. My system sprung a Uniseal leak while I was away for a week working a convention in Vegas. This was my second trip to LV since legalization and I stayed so baked that aside from our work at the convention hall, I didn’t set foot in a casino or even go on the strip. But then after more than 3 dozen trips to Vegas over 40 years, there wasn’t much new to see and the house that I rented had a great pool area and bar-b-que and I knew where the best butcher in town was. My idyll was shattered when my wife called in a panic with water just about spilling out of the tent’s door. I told her to quickly unplug all of the plumbing and bail. So, with the flood averted and the hydro system nearly empty, the roots of my 7 week old plants sipped the tiny bit of stale water left in the bins until I could get back. After five days, I returned and the next day I bought some cloth pots, some coco and perlite and I replanted the two plants – with their 12” of stiffened roots – and converted to coco mid-grow.
The stiff roots . . .
Proving the amazing resilience of the cannabis plant, they barely missed a beat and my grow maintenance plummeted to about 10% of what I had been doing. It certainly sold me on coco growing. In the end, I got 8 ½ oz from the two plants, so I was very pleased, especially considering the grow conditions. The smoke was very good – even though my cure kind of sucked since I was still learning - and I made some very nice bubble hash with the final few jars.
A few weeks before the chop . . .
Shout out to @Ananas_Comosus for his outdoor Church grow that reminded me that I still had some seeds . . .
Next up . . . on with the grow . . .
