Sowahh grow diary

[kro-magnon]

The pollination went well, I've used some pollen from the 2 Sowahh males I had in a different grow space. I've made seeds with a few of my clones and the SOWAHH#3, I've already collected seeds from the clones and I'm waiting for the SOWAHH to finish to get the last ones; I've only pollinated a small bud on each plant I wanted with a very small brush, as I had 2 pretty big males I had a lot of pollen but I didn't keep what I didn't use.
If you can isolate the males from the females it's pretty easy to make a few seeds, you decide how many buds you pollinate, a small bud on the lower part of the plant can give +/-30/50 seeds, enough for my own use. if you want more you can pollinate a whole branch or a few branches and you'll quickly make hundreds or thousands of seeds.
I will certainly make more seeds with my clones and some of the males coming from the SOWAHH seeds I made, I will pollinate a whole branch on the 3 girls so it will make a few hundreds from each, enough to play and share;

 

[kro-magnon]

That looks really good, buds might get bigger with some more heat to them, looks like the old Bubba Chunk. Low yield high quality. Really great diesel thread, and that one puts on a good show too!

This plant was under the LED and a HPS dimmed at 250w so she had some comfortable temps during her cycle, I will see in the coming run in summer if more heat make her bigger but I'm not sure. If I had enough space I'd keep her, that's a plant who deliver a very good quality smoke but I'm limited and I have the 3 Sowahh and a Black Cherry Punch I want to keep. After 3 runs with a freebee I didn't expect to be so good I won't mind letting her go and another greater plant get her spot.

 

[I Care]

Thats kinda cool that you get that variety and just kinda decided for yourself what your going to do based on the plants performance. I remember that stuff being highly desirable, it was always gone when I went back for more. Having stuff that kinda quality is like running a monopoly. Personal option, nothing compares to the lung from those little purple plants, I saw those kinda of strains fade away cause the odor was so strong to be growing in the suburbs and it was replaced with less tasty varieties by the 2010s. Obviously your not worried about the odor with the Sowahh

 

[kro-magnon]

In veg the next run is getting ready, the roster is:
-2 Sowahh#1 they are in ´ 7L pots but will go in 20 or 30L fo flowering
-1 Sowahh#2 will go in 30L pot
-1 Sowahh #3 in 30L pot
-1 Black Cherry Punch 1 in 20L pot
-1 Purple Kush in 20L pot
And I keep 1 Sowahh-#1 and #3 as mothers. I have to clone the #2 to keep her alive, I have only one growing same thing for the BCP.

 

[kro-magnon]

I know why the Sowahh-#2 has some tops not as big as her sisters have,it’s because her lower buds are heavier. She s producing bigger buds lower on the branches the other have huge tops and quickly it becomes small buds not very dense. When Isquizz the lower buds of #1 and #3 they have very little density but the #2 the buds are dense all the way.

 

[kro-magnon]

This is some pics of the clones from S#1 and S#2, the greener is the 2 it seems she likes my conditions more than her sisters . If I can clone her easily she might be my keeper, it’s a bit early to make a decision like this but I have a swetspot for this one

 

[kro-magnon]

Update Day 77 Harvest
It’s finally time to cut those plants, it was a hell of a ride to get there berween seeds loss and power cuts in veg for 5 days and the difficukties to find the correct feeding this sessuon was chalenging. But despite the the troubles I ´m pretty happy with the result, the 3 SOWAHH are impresive with their huge apex and long colas, their smells are a variation on the same main thème, maybe the#2 has somerhing different a more acid tone mixed with skunky gazoline.
Here are pics of the SOWAHH #2

 

[kro-magnon]

Sorry for small sized pic I ´m on my phone
Here is the SOWAHH #3

 

[kro-magnon]

I don’t know how much they will yield but they have some serious buds so it should be good. So far I have a little preference for the #2 because in veg she is the prettiest and biggest of the clones, even the seed plant was greener than the other, it seems she is more adapted to my grow conditions than her sisters who struggled more with nutrient intake and Lightning. The problem is I have only one clone of the Sowahh2 so I have to take some soon and hope they root easily, the other have multiple clones so I can keep one in veg as a mother and flower the others.
Now the harvest is done for the first run I have to repor all the clones who will go in flower in their final pots, I think I will reuse the soil of this run and add some dry amendments like guano and worms castings, I have to check if the brand of guano I buy don’t have too much N in it to not ruin the Diesel potential.
If all goes well I will start the flowering of the clones in 3/4 days, I will update this thread to showcase this run.

 

[kro-magnon]

This is the Sowahh1 at harvest

 

[kro-magnon]

I need some help with my Sowahh1, as you can see in the veg pic above she has some taco leaves and I would like to stop her from doing that but I don’t know exactly what cause it. I tried to search but as too often people have all a different idea of the cause. From the 3 different Sowahh only one of them do this ,the 3 clones ofS1, if someone could help me solving this problem I’d be very happy.

 

[kro-magnon]

I have all the buds in jars and I ´my very happy with the harvest I got, I have finally got the elusive 1g/w with all the plants
Sowahh1 made just under 100g
Sowahh2 made 80g
Sowahh3 a bit over 65g
Around 245/250g of powerful Disel buds those 3 plants made more than the 6 others who flowered next to them, they made 225/235g together
It makes a total of 470/80g of buds and around 120g of trim and tiny flowers who will be turned into haschich. Really happy with those numbers it’s not the best yield possible with my LEDs but for my imperfect growing conditions it’s a good result.
The next run is still in veg under the big light, the plants needed to take some volume before the switch. I have only 7 females so they have to be able to produce around 60/70g each to do a bit better than the previous run.

 

[kro-magnon]

With all those people looking this thread I was expecting a few answers to help me me with the Sowahh 1 taco leaves problem .

 

[Onboard]

With all those people looking this thread I was expecting a few answers to help me me with the Sowahh 1 taco leaves problem .

This one?
https://www.icmag.com/attachments/83968cb9-77bd-4642-af9a-923e93749c63-jpeg.19009156/

Looks like a Mg issue with the tiger striping.

Are you adding some Epsom or Cal/Mag? Sowahh is hungry for Mg and Cal (like OG:s and chems).

Mg gets locked out at low pH also, so check the pH of the run-off. Especially if you know that there is sufficient minerals in the medium.

I recently started upping the pH of my feed to 6.3-6.8, and I now get much better green colors, with less fertilizer.

 

[kro-magnon]

This one?
https://www.icmag.com/attachments/83968cb9-77bd-4642-af9a-923e93749c63-jpeg.19009156/

Looks like a Mg issue with the tiger striping.

Are you adding some Epsom or Cal/Mag? Sowahh is hungry for Mg and Cal (like OG:s and chems).

Mg gets locked out at low pH also, so check the pH of the run-off. Especially if you know that there is sufficient minerals in the medium.

I recently started upping the pH of my feed to 6.3-6.8, and I now get much better green colors, with less fertilizer.

Yes this Sowahh has this problem, only the #1 the two other phenotypes don’t have this. I add some Cal/Mag but I don’t find the good dose to satisfy this plant

 

[kro-magnon]

This is some full size pics of the 3 SOWAHH day 77

 

[kro-magnon]

The second run of SOWAHH is going well so far, it is day 7 of 11/13 today. The Sowahh#2 is the most beautiful plant out of the 3 different Sowahh females I have flowering. The Sowahh#1 has less taco leaves now, I'm not sure what caused it but for now it's not an issue anymore. Strangely the Sowahh#3 has smaller leaves than her sisters, I have no idea why she looks so small when she has grown in the same conditions than the other plants. I'll take some pictures later today to show how the clones evolve in flower.
I'd like to try some of the seeds I made with the Sowahh pollen, specially the Rocky Melon S1 x Sowahh, I'm sure those seeds will make some excellent buds.

 

[kro-magnon]

A few pictures of my second run with the 3 Sowahh females and a few other, 1 Black Cherry punch, 1 Purple Kush and 1 Agent Orange x AK47

I have 2 Sowahh#1 and they both show signs of yellowing on the older leaves, I really struggle to keep her happy compared to her sisters. They are doing better since I've stopped giving some cal/mag, it might be what was upsetting her. The Sowahh#2 is beautuful, her color is perfect, she has some beautiful leaves and branches, she should be the biggest yielder on this run. The Soawhh#3 is in good health as well but she has smaller leaves than the other plants, I have no idea why. She will make a good yield. The plants are at day 11 of 11/13 on those picture so the stretch is far from over, I've just given them more light with the LED dialed at 75% until they were only at 50%. I'll put the Lumatek at 100% between week 3 and 4 when the plants really start to concentrate on flowering. The 4 Sowahh are in 25L pot of soil with a bit of bat guano from Guano Diff the flowering version, since the plants have been able to feed on this guano their general health improved a lot specially the Sowahh#1. I have some P and K from Aptus in different bottles to feed them what they need. I don't know if I need some sort of N in addition to the guano or I'll buy more guano to add to the soil around week 4/5.

 

[kro-magnon]

The clones are at day 17, they are much faster to start budding compared to the seedlings and the stretch is not as strong specially in 11/13. The 4 Sowahh should still be pretty big, I have to clean the bottom of each plants soon. I'll take some pics when it's done.

 

[kro-magnon]

The clones session of the SOWAHH and friends is almost at 5 weeks of 11/13, the plants are smaller than expected, they had a very limited stretch compared to the seed version, the only plant who grew as much as expected is the SOWAHH#2 sadly the clones I took from her didn't root so it"s the last round for her. The plants are smaller but healthier than the previous grow, I don't give cal/mag on this run and the plants are looking much better. They will soon lack nutrients as I didn't add more guano to the soil at week 4 but I use some P and K in different bottles to feed them now until it's time to stop feedings.
I should have given more veg time under my flowering light because the 100w LED panel I have in the veg space does not make plants able to grow as big as I like and clones are less vigorous than seedlings so they need more veg time to reach the same size seedlings would. The yield won't be as good as the previous run but the quality of the buds should improve because the plants are healthier this time.
I think the Sowahh are more resinous on this run compared to the seed run at the same stage but I don't have pics of the first run at 5 weeks to compare.
I'll take better pics with the light on, those here were taken without sufficient light to make decent pics even with the flash.