This was our first go at growing genetics from a licensed producer in a Stealth Box! Bakerstreet by Tweed was sold as an indica, but as you will see throughout this grow journey it posed some challenges for us as a sativa phenotype expression dominated the plants throughout flower. For a variety of reasons we only recommend growing indica and indica-leaning hybrid strains with Stealth Box - you will find them much more manageable! Even facing some pretty big sativa-style overgrowth, we were still able to yield 3.5 oz.
While we wouldn’t endorse this strain for Stealth Box, feel free to send us a message and we’ll point you in the right direction for suitable genetics!
Here our grow begins, with four little plants transplanted into their new home!
Our plants have more than doubled in size in under a week!
Time for topping!
We removed 2-3 nodes from each plant. The smaller plants lost less to give them a chance to catch up.
Here we can see 1 growth tip has multiplied into 2 due to topping the plants.
Here we removed the lowest leaves to improve airflow.
This was a very bushy genetic! we defoliated throughout the whole grow to improve airflow as needed.
Time for some light stress training and more defoliation! We’ve tied the plants down to encourage sideways growth expose more nodes to the light. You can see very clearly here how much extra light can reach the centre of the plants. These plants look super bummed out in this photo, but you’ll see in the next pic how quickly they bounce back!
This pic is less than 12 hours later. As you can see they are once again facing the light and ready to continue growing!
At about a third of the height of the box, we begin flower here.
We’ve inserted a SCROG (screen of green) net to train the plants further and boost our yield!
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As growth tips shoot up, we gently tuck them sideways into the net to expose light to the nodes.
Looking bushy now!
Some nice bud formation getting started! In the wild, the white pistils catch the males’ pollen.
Another look at a flowering bud. The skinny sativa-styled leaves are the first
indication of trouble ahead.
These plants laid down some serious stretch! The buds are small but this plant is HUGE!
\Where we saw fat indica-styled leaves during veg, the plants’ morphology changed throughout flower to display a sativa heritage, seen here as ultra-thin leaves.
Only half way through flower, this strain is pushing the limits of what can fit in the box.
The trichomes now cover the leaves near the buds and cannabinoid production is in full swing.
The stretch in this strain has given it the plants a larger internode spacing than is ideal for a small space.
The mid canopy was quite dense and blocking light to lower leaves. Here you can see a couple stumps where we defoliated to improve light penetration and air flow.
The buds closest to the light are beginning to take heat damage - try and maintain at least 6” of clearance from the LED.
This strain has already more than doubled in size already with several weeks left to go - a big stretch like that is a sativa trait that you’ll want to avoid in your grows.
The lower buds that aren’t taking heat damage are looking great!
Even with defoliating to improve light penetration, the lower canopy is still dying off. This is to be expected with so much growth up top.
Every day the tallest branches are pushing closer to the light. Where a true indica strain would have stopped upward growth by now, Bakerstreet pushes on.
In an attempt to salvage the tallest stalk growing into the light, we tied it down to the SCROG net using string.
The shorter plants that haven’t been exposed to heat damage are looking healthy.
We now find ourselves unable to photograph the whole plant. The tallest in the back has almost tripled in size - you would expect that from a sativa strain more than an indica.
The shortest plants are displaying a tighter internode spacing full of buds.
The tallest plants are trying to go back into veg - where cold temperatures help plants go into flower, being exposed to so much heat by the light has caused these plants to think they have more time for vegging. They won’t be able to finish as well as they could under cooler conditions.
Here we can see the first amber pistils. This means we are working our way toward harvest!
Harvest is close! The pistils of the healthy plants are turning amber and the buds are swelling up.
Looking beautiful!
The buds are chunking out, almost time for the chop!
Harvest day!
Look at those trichomes!
Final Thoughts
In the end, we managed to harvest these plants in spite of any difficulties. The yield was 3.5 oz, which is a fairly middle of the road Stealth Box harvest. Out of the Stealth Box grows we’ve done so far, this strain was far and away the most challenging.
Most modern strains are hybrids - a mixture of indica and sativa. This means that even “indica” plants can take on traits of a sativa from further up in their lineage, which most modern hybrids will have. The mark of a good breeder is taking the time for a process called back-crossing which will stabilize the strain and allow you to have a consistent morphology across every seed (instead of some plants being twice the size of others from the same batch).
At the end of the day, there are very good reasons that we only recommend growing indica or indica-dominant hybrid strains with Stealth Box. The tendency for sativa strains to as much as triple in size during flower can make them quite difficult to manage in a small space. Had we known in advance the morphology this plant would take, we would have flicked them into flower much earlier in anticipation of the growth spurt.
If you’re wondering where to get good, stable genetics that you can count on, send us an email (growmaster@stealth-box.com) or use the chat bar in the bottom left corner. We’re more than happy to point you in the right direction for a successful Stealth Box grow!