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This was my last grow, finished around October of last year. I grow indoors in a closet, so I keep it small. I wanted to grow enough so I could stop growing for a while and have enough bud to keep me stocked for a while. I don't really remember why I chose BF PC but I'm sure their promise of 25% THC was one of the factors, as well as the purported 55-60 day flowering period.
All 5 of the femmed seeds germed very quickly and vigorously, with their shells popping 1 or 2 days after putting them in moist paper towels between 2 plates. I stuck all 5 in peat cups under a homemade moisture tent (I put a baggie over each cup) with a mix of Fox Farms Ocean Forest and some used soil I had (I have heard FFOF can be hot for seedlings) under a normal 2-tube flourescent light fixture. They all broke ground in a timely fashion and when they had their 2nd set of true leaves, I put the peat cups into 3 gallon grow bags filled with FFOF, some lime, a little Mexican bat guano layered in, and some perlite, under a 400W MH light, 18 on, 6 off.
I vegged them until they had alternating nodes, about 2 weeks, then changed the bulb to an HPS (I have a switchable ballast) and the lighting to 12/12. All 5 turned out to be females. I used Blue Mountain Organics nutes, as well as liquid kelp a few times and some Happy Frog 7-4-5 Tomato and Vegetable fertilizer scratched into the soil well into blooming (there are no grow shops within 100 miles of me and this was the only organic fertilizer I could find locally).
So these ladies grew, and grew, and grew. I'm not really limited vertically on growing space, but these plants grew so high, I had to raise my light as far up as it would go. I had started with them sitting on a platform of bricks, and at the end, all the bricks were taken away, plants were sitting on the floor, and at 6 feet tall myself, I had to look up at 4 of the 5 plants.
It seems to me that the Barney's Farm Pineapple Chunk has a couple of different pheno's, though neither pheno I grew matched the 55-60 day flowering period claimed-try double that. The 2 most indica of the plants, (and there was really only 1, with the other having more Sativa and probably needing to have gone a few days longer) went well over 90 days, with the other 3 going almost 16 WEEKS.
I will admit, after harvesting the first 2, I was determined that I was going to keep feeding and watering the other 3 until I got at least half amber trichs. Maybe I could have cut the others a littler sooner, but even so, the wildly varying phenotypes and LONG growth time have soured me a little on Barney's Farm. I've always wanted to try their LSD, but I'm a little skittish now.
So I finally got all 5 tall wenches cut, dried and cured. I have looked at the stickies on grams per watt and lighting, etc., but have to admit I don't really understand it. Math has always been my weak point! I know I should have culled the weakest of the 5 and concentrated on the best 4 under a 400W HID light in a 4X4 space, but I wanted to get maximum yield so I could stop growing for a while, so when all 5 turned out to be girls, I grew them all out.
My final tally was just over 16 oz. dry, which I was pleased with and pleasantly surprised. It was just the amount I was looking for (more, really) to tide me over for quite a while.
As for the smoke, all I can say is, it's good and I like it. It's a head high, with just enough body to suit my needs. The smell is definitely fruity after drying AND while flowering!
I apologize for the rambling review, but I've just had a few bong rips of the very same Pineapple Chunk :bong:
In searching the web, there are others that have had the same experience as I did, but some who were closer to the 60 day flowering period Barney's Farm suggests. Maybe since I grew it they have stablized the phenos a little more, who knows? I probably wouldn't grow it again, due to the height issues and the long flowering time I experienced, but I would give the smoke a B+ or A. Just yesterday, I was hitting a small pipe and got that head rush where, just for a second or two, you forget where you are!
AG
All 5 of the femmed seeds germed very quickly and vigorously, with their shells popping 1 or 2 days after putting them in moist paper towels between 2 plates. I stuck all 5 in peat cups under a homemade moisture tent (I put a baggie over each cup) with a mix of Fox Farms Ocean Forest and some used soil I had (I have heard FFOF can be hot for seedlings) under a normal 2-tube flourescent light fixture. They all broke ground in a timely fashion and when they had their 2nd set of true leaves, I put the peat cups into 3 gallon grow bags filled with FFOF, some lime, a little Mexican bat guano layered in, and some perlite, under a 400W MH light, 18 on, 6 off.
I vegged them until they had alternating nodes, about 2 weeks, then changed the bulb to an HPS (I have a switchable ballast) and the lighting to 12/12. All 5 turned out to be females. I used Blue Mountain Organics nutes, as well as liquid kelp a few times and some Happy Frog 7-4-5 Tomato and Vegetable fertilizer scratched into the soil well into blooming (there are no grow shops within 100 miles of me and this was the only organic fertilizer I could find locally).
So these ladies grew, and grew, and grew. I'm not really limited vertically on growing space, but these plants grew so high, I had to raise my light as far up as it would go. I had started with them sitting on a platform of bricks, and at the end, all the bricks were taken away, plants were sitting on the floor, and at 6 feet tall myself, I had to look up at 4 of the 5 plants.
It seems to me that the Barney's Farm Pineapple Chunk has a couple of different pheno's, though neither pheno I grew matched the 55-60 day flowering period claimed-try double that. The 2 most indica of the plants, (and there was really only 1, with the other having more Sativa and probably needing to have gone a few days longer) went well over 90 days, with the other 3 going almost 16 WEEKS.
I will admit, after harvesting the first 2, I was determined that I was going to keep feeding and watering the other 3 until I got at least half amber trichs. Maybe I could have cut the others a littler sooner, but even so, the wildly varying phenotypes and LONG growth time have soured me a little on Barney's Farm. I've always wanted to try their LSD, but I'm a little skittish now.
So I finally got all 5 tall wenches cut, dried and cured. I have looked at the stickies on grams per watt and lighting, etc., but have to admit I don't really understand it. Math has always been my weak point! I know I should have culled the weakest of the 5 and concentrated on the best 4 under a 400W HID light in a 4X4 space, but I wanted to get maximum yield so I could stop growing for a while, so when all 5 turned out to be girls, I grew them all out.
My final tally was just over 16 oz. dry, which I was pleased with and pleasantly surprised. It was just the amount I was looking for (more, really) to tide me over for quite a while.
As for the smoke, all I can say is, it's good and I like it. It's a head high, with just enough body to suit my needs. The smell is definitely fruity after drying AND while flowering!
I apologize for the rambling review, but I've just had a few bong rips of the very same Pineapple Chunk :bong:
In searching the web, there are others that have had the same experience as I did, but some who were closer to the 60 day flowering period Barney's Farm suggests. Maybe since I grew it they have stablized the phenos a little more, who knows? I probably wouldn't grow it again, due to the height issues and the long flowering time I experienced, but I would give the smoke a B+ or A. Just yesterday, I was hitting a small pipe and got that head rush where, just for a second or two, you forget where you are!
AG
