Mixed Bouquet: A Little of Everything!

OK, The first week of vegetation is here. So 5 of the 6 seeds sprouted from the rooter cubes. The Barney's Farm Watermelon Zkittles did not pop ground and after 3 days I soaked a new one and now have a small spout. It kind of stinks its close to a week behind the rest but glad to have all 6 onboard for the grow. Once the seeds sprouted from cubes after a day or two I transplanted into 3 gallon fabric pots with Fox Farm Ocean Forest. I hear mixed opinions about transplanting. When I put these cubes in medium they have few of any roots exposed yet. I am doing it early on purpose just in case and benign coco rooters help with how hot Fox Farm soil is with seedlings. I initially used the clear cups they soaked in as humidity domes and once a little taller switch to larger domes. I will keep these on for a week or so until they are sturdier. I have two plants not in this journal in tent in finals days of flower so I don't want to bump up my humidity in tent too much and using domes to help compensate. I go in daily and using a large squirt bottle, spray around the plant trying to put more water away from center of plants for their roots to grow out and seek water. I will be giving water only for first 3 weeks. My well water usually reads in around 6.5 or so. I don't PH the water until I start using nutrients around week 4. I will start watering whole pots in about a week or so instead of using bottle. I plan to top all of them around day 18. I will use tomato clips around that time to start some LST and get them growing out not up. I am not after monsters here. I want 6 well formed plants with goal of 2-3 oz yield per plant so I am going to be lollipopping, LST and defoliation in effort to get a nice manageable tent. My first documented grow here I had only 3 plants in same size tent in 5 gallon pots and it was a jungle. So reducing pot size and increasing my LST skills will be needed to make this one work. Well anyway, we are off and I am excited that all 6 are above ground now. If you are wondering about weird light schedule, I am having heat issues and by 10 am my tent is +85. With two plants in late flower, I kill lights at 10 and can't get away with lights back on till 6. I prefer a 20/4 if heat wasn't an issue. As soon as those two flowering plants are pulled, the light schedule will increase as vegging plants can handle the heat better. Thanks for following along!

Week 2 starting off pretty stout for the original 5 strains. I took off the humidity domes on first 5, and installed one on the WZ. The Barney's Watermelon Zkittles though a week behind, seemed to have a rough start on top of that. But I am hoping next week I can look back and see it now looks like these other ones did this week. I started off first week using spray bottle and creating a soak ring around the sprouts pretty much daily. But last watering today I did a larger full pot water and that's what I will do for now on. Instead of a little bit every day I am switching over to a every other day for now and eventually when watering to run off a every 3 or 4 days. I will likely top all of these but the Watermelon Zkittles next week. We will see them how they do. Not long after I will start to install the plant bends and wiring down some branches but this week is just relaxing with water only. Though timer is set to have lights go off at 10 am and on at 6 pm to combat heat, I have had several cooler days where I manually turned lights back on for entire day or at least until peak of day to get closer to my desired light schedule. I am using a inline fan for supply that is at set speed. I plan take my AC Infinity T4 that I am using for exhaust and replacing it with a T6. I will then put the T4 on intake and connect both to same 67 controller so I can more effectively use auto mode. Right now I have to set inline fan to set speed and default fan speed on exhaust high enough to maintain negative pressure but with a 6" on exhaust and 4" on supply with variable speed will be the key and I think that might take care of my heat issue. Still haven't ordered the stuff so it probably wouldn't be implemented until week 3 or 4 but hope to have heat issue solved by flower.

Week 3 underway and it still holds true. Week 3 to 6 is amazing to me. I have a Wyze camera in tent and every time you open app it has still of last time you pulled up feed and when you first hit play for live feed you have that jump from older plant photo to current and its explosive growth even in same day. I love it!! I went ahead and topped the first 5 plants earlier in week. Today I topped the Watermelon Zkittles and performed LST on the first 5 using tomato bends. I also did some defoliation. They look beat up today and in this weeks pictures but they of course will bounce back stronger than ever. The MSG Strawberry Cough was topped with all the rest but for some reason only one of two shoots has grown so still got one top lol so well see if I can maximize with some LST. So heat has been an issue this week. I had it up to mid 90s in tent. So I decided to take action. I changed out my AC Infinity T4 with a T6. I then took a inline booster fan I was using for intake and put my T4. I planned to run both off one controller. I tried two T4 on same controller before and because there is more resistance in sucking through filter than blowing air unobstructed the tent blew up like a balloon and I had to use separate controllers. So I thought a T6 pulling through filter and T4 unobstructed would even out but I was wrong lol. If my T6 cranks up to 10 it sucks in tent to point I am surprised poles aren't bending!! So I have my T4 set to 10 for supply and my T6 min fan speed set to 4. This maintains negative pressure and dropped my temps substantially. In addition I purchased some R-30 insulation I plan to put in space then put up reflective insulation afterwards and think a combination of these changes should help my issues. Today is first full day with new set up and weather is much cooler, I skipped the lights being off today trying to make up for lost time. I will start using nutrients next week. Thanks for following along.

Another week in the books. Temps have substantially improved. I haven't installed insulation yet as I haven't had to worry about temps at all. Newly installed intake and exhaust set up fixed the issue. I watered late last week with some Fish shit and cal mag. First time including any nutrients. I will mix up half dose of everything next week. I just watered water only today. After that watering with Fish shit and Cal mag all 6 showed some signs of over watering and went a full 6 days till I watered again which was day before yesterday (Thursday). Today, Saturday, I had to water again as majority were getting dry. I would say all 6 are in pre-flower. By next week I will be switching over to flower week as far as diary is concerned. The Strawberry Cough blew up and wants to be a big girl. I had to add more plant bends and within a day she was still standing taller. I had to push my two non diary day 65 plants in one gallons up against wall and will need to harvest on early side to make room. All the others are doing great as well. The BF Watermelon Zkittles being week behind doesn't do it justice next to bigger siblings but still doing great. Sorry for just group photo, I didn't have time to take individual photos. Next week I will take them out one at a time and defoliate and do some more LST.

Week 5 is underway and all the plants are doing great. They were all becoming big bushes, I took them out for one last LST / Defoliation session. I defoliate as needed throughout the grow but usually only get them out for LST around week 3 and week 6. So I took these out one by one and took everything from half way down off the plant, buds, leaves, etc pretty much lollipopping them. Then I defoliated in the center of each some to help with airflow in this over packed tent. More on that later :p I then installed plant bends to separate the branches some and try to get them growing away from each other but to be honest, I got more real estate up than I do out so I will not be doing anything else this grow to stop them from stretching. I made the mistake of doing this LST with some of them dry and in need of watering. So a couple branches, already pretty thick broke when installing clips. I have faith as early in as it is and as health that this wouldn't be a problem. They are all still attached, just gave way I guess. My first grow I had branches taped up, had to super crop late in flower, etc.. and quality and yields were great. So I am not too worried about this go but I will not be doing any more LST from this point forward. They all got beat cut and beat up, I put them back in tent and gave them all their first full feeding. I say full but I go half amount on nutes. I actually did this with 4 of the 6 that needed it but the Skunk and Double Grape were still damp so I have to feed those two today. Giving them all same treatment and watering/feeding times would be a mistake IMO even though convenient. So I will take the extra effort on these ones. The 5 day forecast in my area is all in 90s and the space where the tent is as of time of writing this (1 pm Thursday) its 102 degrees in there. So insulation install needs to happen. But I am not too keen on going into 102 deg space to do all this physical work lol. In the words of Orphan Annie, Tomorrow, Tomorrow lol Some side notes. The stock on the Creme de la Chem is impressively thick, The Fruit Punch is already starting to smell of citrus. I am calling this week 1 of flower week 5 of grow but the Strawberry Cough is exploding with bud growth. The Skunk #1 is first rerun I've done as far as growing a strain again. I did a bonsai with it and it was only a 11 gram haul but favorite bud I have smoked in a long time. So it was no brainier to do a bigger one asap. When I had out all 6 plants on floor, my dog when straight to #1 Skunk and wouldn't stop smelling and burying her face in plant lol That it for this week! Thanks for checking us out!

Week 6 went pretty smooth. My intake was 4" that was running at 10 constantly and my 6" exhaust maintained negative pressure at 4. I couldn't allow it to go to 10 as it would just crunch tent. I was struggling with 90 degree weather all week and +100 in my space where tent is. So I ordered and installed a AC Infinity 6" for intake. I can now run them on same controller at same speed with min fan speed of 4 and auto up to 10. Works perfect and holds slight negative pressure. I watched the tent temp drop from 90 down to 85 when i sealed up tent for first time with both fans in place. In fact no matter how hot it gets in space, the 2 6" fans take care of it. I am going to insulate space today to further help issue. All the plants are doing really great. The only things to note is that I was trying to spread out the #1 Skunk because its still tight and close budded and full of leaves. I ended up spitting stock right down the center. I immediately zip tied it back together and I am sure it will be fine. My Fruit punch has me a little bit scared. As you can the other 5 are in full bloom but the Fruit Punch still appears to be in pre-flower. I hope it auto flowers lol. 43 Days is pretty far in for auto to not be in full blown flower. Fingers crossed! Otherwise, I am watering every 2-4 days when dry. Feeding every other watering and just Fish shit in Cal mag in off watering. They all look great with no signs of deficiencies.

Week 7 and my temp problem are now permanently solved having insulated the space along with two T6. The plants are all doing well. I have been continuing alternating between fish shit / cal mag to feeding 1/2 strength nutrients. I defoliated and lollipop-ed some more this week and probably for last time minus any random leaves getting plucked. I was really worried about the Fruit Punch flowering after posting last weeks blog. This beast just starting to go into full flower here close to day 50!! She had many tops and will end up stretching some more I imagine as well. 4 of the other 5's buds are starting to mature and the 6th, the Watermelon Zkittles a week behind and looking great as well but buds more in cotton ball phase. I swear that my Strawberry cough has a unique strawberry smell I have never smelt before. The Seedsman #1 Skunk is the runt of the litter but it does have several fairly even tops and should provide decent yield. Leaves are a pain with how this one is structured but hoping maybe it stretches some more and buds extend further beyond the foliage. The Creme de la Chem is slightly smaller than the late blooming Fruit Punch but is stoutest biggest budding plant. The CDLC, the Double Grape and the Strawberry Cough are the exact plant structure I really strive for. The Watermelon Zkittles is on track, a week behind but looking great. She may be a little more sparsely structured than those two but each strain is different. No plans but more of the same right now. I am going with a 20-22 hour a day schedule now that I got heat under control. Timers set to 18/6 but usually turn on early to do work. That is one thing I really like about autos is not worrying about light schedule, light leaks, etc.. I will continue to alternate and eventually have to split these off into different feeding regiments as 3 of the 6 of these will finish weeks before the others and need a flush sooner. But I am still a couple weeks away from worrying about that. I start to think of flush around day 60-65 depending on how fast they are growing. Today June 4th is Day 49 for 5 of the 6, Day 43 for Watermelon Zskittles. I was off a day on photo label last week.

Week 8: Everything is going great. I didn't plan on taking them all out again till they got chopped, but decided to get them out one at a time today and give them a good thorough defoliation, peeled off any undergrowth and water and feed them all. Temps remain completely under control and no longer an issue, even in 90 degree weather here. I've continued to alternate between feeding and just water, cal mag and fish shit. The only plant of the 6 to show any deficiencies was the #1 Skunk. Every leaf on leaf chart looks same to me lol. I upped today's feeding to 3/4 strength instead of half strength. If I had to guess, I would say that this is the last feeding for the Creme de la Chem, Strawberry Couch and the Double Grape. Those three will likely all fall in the 70-80 day harvest range and those three are at day 58. Not 100% on the #1 Skunk or not, it may get one more feeding, along with the Watermelon Skittles. The Fruit Punch? Well there is a chance I will be smoking cured Creme de la Chem before that one gets chopped lol. It will continue to get fed for a while as buds still very under developed. Today's defoliation was barely anything for a couple plants like the Watermelon Zkittles. A few big fan leaves blocked bud sites, but the Skunk needed thinned out badly and I took a good 20 minutes to go around the outside them come in from over top to really get in there and try to make some airflow and better light penetration. These are definitely drinking at different rates but in order to not be mixing up stuff daily, I feed them all on the same day and the couple that still had some weight to them just get less. I think these will all meet and exceed my 2 ounce goal per plant and 5 of the 6 after topping and training have conformed to the types of plants I really want to grow with the space I have. Thats 6-8 tops on a short compact plant. The Fruit Punch went off the reservations waiting till day 50 to start flower and is acting like this is a 3 plant grow not a 6. But shoving it in corner and putting short Skunk plant by it on bucket to raise up canopy along with raising one side of my TSL2000 and lowering other side towards shorter plants appears to be working great. Its great to be thinking about the flush. Having plants out, I did check trichomes on a couple just for the fun of it and mainly clear so got couple weeks or more for most of these.

Week 9 is upon me and not too much to report. It has been pretty smooth sailing. I am going to start checking trichomes on the Double Grape, CDLC and Strawberry Cough more frequently and those 3 are now are officially in flush period. The Skunk and Watermelon Zkittles probably a week behind them and then the Fruit Punch will likely by my first +100 day auto. But we shall see, she is just starting to stack. I went to check soil moisture today and while many of them are still damp, the Fruit Punch was bone dry and drinking much more than the rest due to size and phase of life its in. Still going to feed the Fruit Punch for awhile and the Watermelon Zkittles and #1 Skunk will likely get one more feeding. The Skunk is pretty much only one of the 6 that shows any kind of deficiency in the leaves going back a week. The rest are visually doing spectacular. Sorry for just one group photo, I will try to do better next week. MID WEEK UPDATE: OK, After original post I was in tent messing around with adjusting a fan and it fell and about smashed off a branch of the Watermelon Zkittles. It wasn't a full clean break so I zip tied it up to another branch to keep her in the light. Today is Thursday the 24th, I will be harvesting the Creme de la Chem, Double Grape and Strawberry Cough tomorrow on day 70 from sprout. I have all cloudy with mixed % of amber on all 3. They seem ripe and I want this litter to get picked at max THC potential not CBG couch lock on all. I will reevaluate the Skunk tomorrow as well. It has some amber but I see some clear in the under developed lowers and may let her go a few days longer. She is the only one really fading as she is eating her leaves up. The others have slightly faded but nothing drastic. I may not have flushed early enough for a 70 day harvest. I was aiming for 75-80 but I am not just going to let them go for no reason. The trichomes are telling me they are ready and I listen. I will reevaluate them one by one tomorrow before yanking. The Barneys is only a week behind literately and physically so I anticipate a July 4th weekend harvest on that one and not sure about the Fruit Punch. Its got a while!

I have harvested the Creme de la Chem and the Strawberry Cough both on day 70 from sprout. The other 4 will continue one. I suspend my plants upside down in a lawn bag for about 10 days then I will dry trim and place in a brown bag to sweat for 2-4 more days. Then I will weigh and put into a Grove bag for curing. After about 4-6 weeks, I will give full smoke report. But I will update before cure begins with stats. UPDATE: July 4th: After 10 days upside down, this one trimmed up to 65.5 grams which exceeds my 2 ounce per plant goal. She was super sticky and was hard to trim. Now a month to cure and I will return with final review and smoke report. Final Review: I knew this was going to be a favorite because I really like the chem terp. This plant grew like a dream, took all the canopy space I could provide her and gave me some gorgeous buds. I rolled up several joints from about 10 different strains and I would get excited when I would pull one of these out of the box. To me it kind of tastes like cream soda to me. Thats best I can explain it. It is also very potent with nice high! I am glad I got a 7 pack and not a smaller one, I will grow this one again.

I have harvested the Creme de la Chem and the Strawberry Cough both on day 70 from sprout. The other 4 will continue one. I suspend my plants upside down in a lawn bag for about 10 days then I will dry trim and place in a brown bag to sweat for 2-4 more days. Then I will weigh and put into a Grove bag for curing. After about 4-6 weeks, I will give full smoke report. But I will update before cure begins with stats. UPDATE: July 4th: After 10 days upside down, this one trimmed up to 74 grams which exceeds my 2 ounce per plant goal. Now a month to cure and I will return with final review and smoke report. Final Smoke Report: This one has been curing for over 21 days and will continue on in Grove bags for awhile longer but bud is good and smokeable and I have rolled a dozen joints of this one and have been smoking on it. It is very potent, good calming high and I find myself in good giggly mood. I love the smell, the taste, I even like the smell of my fingers after I smoke it. I need to try to get more of these seeds as I want to grow again and again.

This has been a great plant. It stayed short and squatty which is what I was after. She looks and smells great. I will come back and update weights at the end of dry and again after cure with smoke report. Thanks for following along. UPDATE 7/8: After 11 days of drying, I trimmed up bud, weighed and will now transition to cure. My normal goal per plant for a tent stuff like this is 2 ounces, this is the first plant I have grown that hasn't hit that goal. She weighed in at 47 grams. Now, while this one was low yielding for me the buds are the frostiest i have ever grown. So I can't wait to smoke. I will not waste one nugget smoking it uncured and will be patient. Back with final smoke report and to close this one out in about 3-4 weeks. Final Smoke Report: This gorgeous little plant had some of the most sugary alien looking gorgeousness. It is sweet smoking bud and much like the CDLC, I find myself at a challenge to finish joint half way in. I got to dig in and give myself a pep talk because I am high AF lol

This plant was the one I was probably most excited about. I ran these seeds once before with a Bonsai and it's bud was magical. The first one had a candy smell entire time and never had any deficiencies. Now the full size rerun and this was the only plant of the 6 to give me any issues. She showed leaf deficiencies early in flower and started to devour its leaves early in flush. I still have high hopes but we will see. I will return and update with dry weight after dry and trim and again after cure. UPDATE 7/8: After 11 days of drying this plant was dry trimmed and weighed. She came in at 60 grams, exceeding my goal of 2 ounces. She will now go into cure for 3-4 weeks and I will report back with final smoke report and review at that time. Final Smoke Report: Sadly this seed was different phenotype than my last micro grow. The buds were not the funnest to trim, the high is OK but taste ranges from not there to vague and not remarkable. I will try last seed and hope for first pheno. This one will get smoked but its more like eating your vegetables than being excited when I pull a preroll of this one.

And then there were two. These two ladies are now getting a chance to spread out some. The Barney's Farm Watermelon Zkittles was a week behind as first seed didn't pop, Well she is looking great but she is not a 70-75 day plant like some of those Mephisto and MSG plants. This one will likely need a couple more weeks to fully mature. Both plants get watered today with recharge and cal mag. I will probably scope the Watermelon Zklittles in 3-4 days when it will be time to feed the Fruit Punch again to see if I am going to start flush or not. The Fruit Punch is still putting out white pistils and has a few weeks to go. I got the ground taken up with some 3 gallon pots and seedlings for next run but the upper territory of tent is pretty empty and light getting good penetrations into these two.

She is upside today July the 4th. She went 73 days from sprout. I probably pulled her earlier than I normally would but she had amber and it is such pretty bud I wanted while it was ripe but not over ripe. I will report back in about 10 days with update of weights, etc. and again a month after that for cure and smoke report. UPDATE: After a 12 day dry, I trimmed up bud. I got 62.5 grams dry of very good looking bud which meets my 2 ounce per plant or more goal. I'm excited to taste this one in about a month. I'm sweating in brown bag for couple days then into a Grove bag for at least a month. Final Smoke Report: This stuff is crazy good! Best fruit tasting strain taste I have grown, I legit taste Zkittles and its so tasty making this a joy when it comes up to smoke. I will grow again and again

And then there was one!!! And she is a mess lol I'm using the sides of tent and about 5 bamboo stakes to keep this sucker upright. Still feeding as she still we weeks to go. This is day 79 so she'll be a +100 day plant if I had to guess but a lot could change in a week. I need to work on giving her better support next time I feed I'll defoliate and do better with supports.

Master Sensei Genetics Fruit Punch (Critical Orange Punch x Critical Orange Punch) Week 12 and not too much has changed. Fall colors are starting to come out in leaves but I am still feeding it so its really this thing is a pig and hungry. I just fed her today which is day 90. Her buds still have plenty of white hairs and be what I would consider middle aged buds lol. She got a couple weeks at least. I am going to have to do a better job staking, I still haven't taken her out and done so but will this week. The entire rest of the grow is in cure, some of them already dried, trimmed and on day 8 of cure which others like the Barney's Farm Watermelon Zkittles that was a week behind went into cure yesterday. I am going to continue to feed, restake and remain patient with this one.

On day 100, at 20% or so amber, I chopped this one and have her upside down for a full 14 day dry. I hand trimmed the others but this one is going in the Trim Bag so I want her good and dry. I will be back to update with weight in 14 days or so and final review after 30-45 day cure and smoke report. UPDATE 8/7: After 14 days of drying, I bucked buds into trim bag and it took some off. Then I started to trim and got sick of that quick lol and started using a silicone brush and it did pretty good for awhile. I left about ounce of popcorn buds left with the trim to make infused oil. I only counted the good bud towards weight. So this one gave me over a QP of good looking bud. She is in a Grove bag now. Smoke report and final review to come in about a month or so.