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Top's First ICMAG grow

Hey guys, let me preface this by saying I've been growing for about a year up until this point, but I never had any decent genetics. Up until this point I've just worked on trial growing with bagseed, and the results have been great for me. I befriended a great person, an anonomous ICmager, and it was through this friendship that I was unexpectedly given some beans of great quality. I was given 10 beans each of Chemdog D x Sour Diesel IBL, and Strawberry Diesel v3. I just want to say a special thanks to that wonderful friend, and I hope all is well. More importantly I wish that person all the best in world and without their help I couldn't have imagined getting my hands on strains such as these.

Ok now to the grow. I've really enjoyed the results I've gotten from organic soil growing, and with a lack of space and money I've elected to continue to use organics for this grow. The soil mix I'm using is about 40% Shellfish compost, 40% potting soil, and 20% perlite/vaccuumlite mix. For the nutes, I'm using Metanaturals 16-0-0, Meta's bloom formula, Biobizz's Fish-mix, and biobizz's al-g-mic. My setup is such that I have 3 boxes. 1 box is purely for flowering and it has a 400 watt hps setup. The second box is a combination mother/clone box and it's setup like an armoir with 3 100 watt equiv cfls. The last box is a tent that I've converted into a veg chamber with 5 100 watt equiv. cfls.

I ended up with three keepers from the first batch of seedlings, and I kept the two outstanding looking females as mothers. After I got the mothers I sent the next batch of plants through to flower including both strains, while leaving one ccdx sd ibl to veg longer along with three plants of unknown origin(I refer to them as Green Steam). I also took two clones from each mother, and they're in the cloning chamber hopefully going to root soon.




Here's my setup...



This is the mother/clone box. Clones on top, mothers on the bottom...



The Strawberry Diesel is on the left, and the ccd x sd ibl is on the right...


Better look at the strawberry diesel...


Some fat ass leaves on this girl...



She's a little stretched, but here's the ccd x sd ibl mom...



Clones under the humidity dome...


the tent...


CCD x sd ibl fatty bombatty leaves...


the flowering box. Sorry for the hps glare...


Interesting side note: Two of the ccd x sd ibl beans were mutants, and grew two main stems which was weird. Anyone else see this trait? This pic shows the canopy of one of the mutants...one stem is definitely larger but I found this growth pattern odd.


This mutant has what looks to be like the crinkled leaf syndrome. Very odd indeed but if she's a female I'm keeping her around.


Well that's what's going down in my grow op, and I figured I'd share it with you guys. I'm actually leaving the country for a few months so I won't be able to update with pics until harvest, but I'll keep you posted on how everything is. I know words don't show the beautiful progression of a plant's life, but this is a start I guess. Again, a very special thanks to a great friend who has really helped me out here.
 
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Bigtimer7

Hey man! Ive had mutated leaves before and usally when shes in flower she will get out of it. Its never effected buds or nothin so I see no prob. Anyways great grow man and keep postin ppl will tune in. If not ill be here :)
 
Thanks brotha. It's weird because it's not just the leaves that are mutated, but from the start the plant was a mutant. At first it grew as a small ball of leaves, but now it's ended up with two main stalks. I've heard stories that these mutants sometimes turn into great smoke, so if she's a female im definitely keeping her.
 
Thanks man. I appreciate the kind words. Does anyone have experience growing the ccd x sd ibl from seed, and are there any tips/special phenotypes I should look out for from your experiences?
 
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WeldFlash420

Looks great, just make SURE you have no light leaks or you'll have to watch closely for herms. I'm sure this will turn out to be some killer smoke for ya bro. Shine on.
 
What's good weld? thanks for stopping by. I'll have to watch it in my flowering box because I think I might have a coule leaks. Would you attribute that to sensitive genetics or what? maybe it's not as stable as other strains...who knows but thanks for the tip.
 
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Bigtimer7

yea usally the mutants start from seed as mutants and they try to grow out of it and become normal, but yea the smoke in my experience has been the same and its stil fire. Great job and enjoy the beauties of growin! Peace bro
 
bigtimer-good to hear the smoke was just as good because that was my overall concern.

connoisseur- hey man thanks for stopping by. Like I said I was lucky to be gifted such amazing genetics, but now that I have them you can bet they'll be around for quite a while in my garden.
 
Update: I got three females out of my flowering box including two strawberry diesels that I'm keeping in there, and the crinkle leafed CCD x SD IBL mutant. I'm going to reveg the mutant and cut some clones from it. Also, the clones have rooted and were placed in solo cups. I'm going to leave them to veg in those for a couple weeks before transplanting into 1 gallon pots. I love growing. It's gotta be one of the best past times ever. Sucks I can't be with my plants but I'll be there to harvest them which should be nice. I also love having females other than my mothers to send through before the clones so that I get a nice yeild before my cycle of clones begins.
 
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It's a great thing to reep the rewards off of one's hard work. I don't care what anyone says, smoking the shit youve grown yourself has a special feel to it that only the grower can describe.
 

DoobieDuck

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Top...thanks for stopping by my grow...you have a nice thing going here...very healthy...DD
 

DIGITALHIPPY

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nice start!
never dealt with mutants, so i dont know.
but i do know what happy plants look like!
and im seeing them here!
when are you flowering?
 
hey digital, thanks for the kind words. I've sent another ccd x sd ibl in to flower yesterday, and I have two strawberry diesels flowering as we speak. Unfortunately I found out that my clones aren't looking too good at the moment, so I'm having 4 more cut and hopefully rooted in the next couple weeks. Also, the three "green steams" as I call them will be flowered in a week or so.
 
i have found some really great stuff in mutants...dont underestimate them...they can kick some ass....great looking grow....peace
TopoftheTree said:
Thanks brotha. It's weird because it's not just the leaves that are mutated, but from the start the plant was a mutant. At first it grew as a small ball of leaves, but now it's ended up with two main stalks. I've heard stories that these mutants sometimes turn into great smoke, so if she's a female im definitely keeping her.
 
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