The Official 2012 Beer Cup Challange

[Infinitesimal]

Infinitesimal,

I've not had the pleasure of growing either one of those strains, I've read though that both are slow in veg... and I imagine the x would give some hybrid vigor to the offspring... Is that true?

Sour bubble is definitely one of the most slowly vegetating Lines Ive experienced.

Romulan is now considered old school by many and is roughly a 40/60 I/S ( colombian X Korean, as Ive always heard it); even though it has an Indica dominant growth pattern, its far from the slowest veggers that Ive experienced... but Ive only grown it from a cutting so I can't speak to the vigor of Romulan in seed form, although I am popping some older Next Gen Romulan beans right now just for fun

Sour Bubble is very much Inbred (in a good way of course ) and likely is the reason for the slow growth... that and the Indica predominance. So out crossing it, especially to strains with Sativa genetics in them should in general result in more vigorous plants.

and so far it has been reported in testing, that the plants are vigorous... hopefully you will begin to see grow threads on them and the other two Sour Bubble hybrid strains The China Syndrome and Sour Purple shortly.

EDIT: I try and reserve the term "hybrid vigor", for pure Sativa X Pure Indica Hybrids but it always helps to introduce fresh genes into highly Line bred or BX'd strains for the purpose of vigor and resistance... as a wider diversity of genes promotes higher survival and "thrival" rates ( yeah, thats right I just invented a new word )

Thrival Rate: the percentage at which individuals of a particular Genotype thrive under specific environmental conditions..LOL...




hope that helps,
Peace
Infi

man, i guess someone beat me to thrival but it has nothing to do with thrival rates so... LOL

 

[Toes.]

Nice, Infi.

There should be some real nice plants in that mix.

 

[#1cheesebuds]

heres an update on mine. Im bout to harvest them.

 

[apep]

Infintesimal, grew Romulan from seeds back in 02. Nothing slow about it, grew normally.

Also grew Romulan x Chemo, now that was a slow vegger, took a full month longer than the Romulans wich were started at the same time to go into flower.

Both were total couchlock. Romulan is one of my all time favorite!

Those M Theory seeds available anywhere?

 

[Infinitesimal]

Those M Theory seeds available anywhere?

thanks,
yes, the server fund @ the bay

Peace,
Infi

 

[trichrider]

WAIT...WHAT?

WAIT...WHAT?

heres an update on mine. Im bout to harvest them.

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BRO! oops caplock. hey those are like a damned alarm clock ringing loud and i'm in REM sleep trying to screw the waittress' at the bar.
i really need to wake up and get busy.
awesome work...

 

[gtgio]

A few of my beercup babies! There are many more but they'll have to wait for later.

They're in rockwool-stuffed cups, and I hand water them by dunking in a bucket once per day.


tall can for size reference

Madness (single fem seed)


Bright Moments #6



Secret Recipe (CSG)
The only fem out of all 8 seeds I popped...She looks like a keeper to me! The yieldiest of all ~16 females so far.

 

[John Deere]

I had a bit of a computer problem so I was MIA for about a week. Still having some weirdness but slowly getting it figured out. Anyway...

Here's the girls, in flower for a week now. I'm going to take some cuttings off the one with the unusual growth in the yellow cup and probably some off the one on the right, too. I like the structure of both--lots of branches.

Guess I need to reset my date stamp, too. I just took the pix today.

 

[delic]

Still ticking over in my little getto cab. The tall one is about an inch from the T8, but I think the stretch has stopped, phew. Both are budding up nicely, I quite supprised since they are under veg T5s and a couple of bloom cfls.
Anyway here's a pic, looking a little dropy as I was away last nigh so they have been in a water tub.

I'm away for a few days this week, so hope my watering pixie does ok

Keep those beer cup baby buds pictures coming peeps, things are looking good in this thread

-delic

 

[exploziv]

My 9th update (29-07-2012 - End of week 9 - After 16 days of flowering.)

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Unfortunately I've given them a bit too much N since they had an deficiency when they were little, and my plants got N poisoning (there's a first for everything .. lol)
They flowered way too slow, and yesterday got my first signs of "nitrogen claw". Plain water for them next couple of waterings, and no N containing nutrient after that, except if they'll show a need for it later on. Hope they'll recover well and flower in time. I'm at least an week behind with the flowering. But at least I got good luck with the fem/male ration. (5/7 are females)

A2 = Aurora Indica x (White Rhino (purple pheno) x Skunk#1 BX1)
B71 & B31= selected White Rhino (purple pheno) x Skunk#1 BX1 crosses
R3= Original White Rhino (purple pheno) mum x (high yelding cross)

Normally I would have culled R3_1, but since we got to flowering, I'll leave her to see what comes out of it. I was after at least 3 girls, and got 3 looking good, 1 looking good enaugh and a runt one. I'm happy with all except the fact that I overdosed them on N and delayed flowering.

We got:
A2_1 - female
A2_2 - female
B31_1 - female
B31_2 - male (gone at update 9)
B71_1 - female
R3_1 - female
R3_2 - male (gone at update 8)

Good luck everyone!

edit: just now i saw that i posted a pic (yeah, same pic..) under 2 different names. probably was too high when resizing and uploading. will fix that as soon as I can. lol! fixed.

 

[Pinball Wizard]

week #5 (12/12)

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[wildgrow]

week #5 (12/12)

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Damn dude, those are looking sweet. How tall you recken they are?

To everyone else -

Sooo... the next bcc... October 1st? cheers

 

[apep]

Thanks Infinitesimal, grabbed 2 packs, cant wait.

OK so heres my weekly update. The pee worked and I stopped my N problem.

 

[gtgio]

Tons and tons of greasy beercup babies over in my thread here! Would appreciate any critique / tips.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=5236317

 

[LouDog420]

Woowee, nice looking flowers all!

Had a bit of stress testing since this beer cup is mainly a seed run for me... Had to toss 2 of the females... So we're left with just a male and female in beer cups over here. The repots are still doing well too

casey f2 female. very slow out of the gate, as she was shaded by the other plants... Now she's getting a chance to shine and should pick it up. Pencil since I almost snapped her stem, ooops

and the studly stud! casey man meat, doing his thing

Good vibes all!

 

[aerokrafter]

Beer Cup Ladies





17 days in bloom and they are bitching about their digs already. I adjusted the tea back out and the tops have greened nicely.

-AK

 

[Dave Coulier]

Day 31 Update

Day 31 Update

Here is my CLS NL Update. She's 31 days into flower now. Got quite awhile to go.

 

[benjuanman]

All you guys BCC girls and boys are looking great. The thrips fucked me girls badly, so lost my 2 BCC girls and my 400w room (wk2 12/12). Sux but now I now what they are and the tell tale signs, I have learnt from this so will be even more vigilant. Still checking in this thread regualrly so peace out guys.

 

[hempfield]

All you guys BCC girls and boys are looking great. The thrips fucked me girls badly, so lost my 2 BCC girls and my 400w room (wk2 12/12). Sux but now I now what they are and the tell tale signs, I have learnt from this so will be even more vigilant. Still checking in this thread regualrly so peace out guys.

Why did you said that you lost the plants ? I had a thrips invasion on my last grow right after I flipped to 12/12 but I manage to go till the end and I had a very nice harvest.

I decided to go organic and I used a blend of garlic, cinnamon, neem oil, hot peppers and brewed tobacco tea to fight against thrips. I noticed that they do not like the resin, but just big juicy fan leaves.

The smell of that tea was awful and I had to use goggles and a mouth mask during the spraying , but it was effective.

 

[benjuanman]

I didn't lose them as such but culled them myself. I thought it was a mg- so was giving them epsom salts for a couple of weeks and and basically just weakened them to such a point that it was no point in trying to nurse them back. So cut my losses and have moved on cause just 1 plant would land me in gaol here in Oz. Wasn't worth it to me so tossed them and replaced them with some healthy new clones. Ordered spme spinosad from the US and should be here next week or so.