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Smoothie A

Northern_Ent

889

4y ago

x16Fast Buds

Soil

Custom

Perlite

Custom

Other

Custom

Outdoor

Room Type

LST

weeks 6

Defoliation

weeks 6

19 L

Pot Size

1.51 L

Watering

Start at Harvest

1/3

Northern_Ent Started seeds by soaking overnight in water with a pinch of soluble kelp extract at 24C. Seeds rolled in mycorhyzae and then planted directly into Solo cups containing a starting soil that is light on nutrients. Under fluorescent lights at 24C and RH of 65%. April 22: seedlings are too tall too fast and some are toppling over. Whoops. Skip the kelp extract during the seed soak. Raised soil level in attempt to salvage. Update: have since determined that the well water here is not good for starting seeds. Much better luck using distilled water.

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Used method

Glass Of Water

Germination Method

1/2

18 hrs

Light Schedule

23 °C

Day Air Temp

60 %

Air Humidity

23 °C

Night Air Temp

Northern_Ent I used a pinch of kelp extract when doing a 12 h soak before planting in soil and that was a mistake. Too much growth hormone (gibberelin) caused the germinated plants to stretch like crazy. Managed to stabilize them without losing too many. Had raised soil level in cups as far as I could, and I transplanted 8 into final 5 gallon containers even though it’s a bit early for that. Rather nerve wracking but I think they’re good now. Skip the kelp extract when soaking good seeds. Days are nice enough here now but overnight temps are still too low to leave them out.

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18 hrs

Light Schedule

23 °C

Day Air Temp

60 %

Air Humidity

23 °C

Night Air Temp

Nutrients 4

LAB lactic acid bacteria

20 mll

Apple cider vinegar

0.5 mll

FPJ - Dandelion Greens

2 mll

Northern_Ent May 3: planted out six more into 3 gallon bags. May 4: the six planted out yesterday don’t look good. I’m still having cation balance problems due to excess sodium in the well water. They might also be stressed if the soil is too rich so I’ll have to figure that out. Had added gypsum, Epsom salts and azomite to the soil for those six and I may have over done it. We’ll see. May 6: the six plants in the 3 gallon bags are badly burned. This is due to a combination of too much sodium in the water, and too much potassium from the barley sprouts. It’s possible to burn even with organic nutes. Oh well, still learning, and this why I’m trying these techniques on the early plants. Lights out foliar (LAB, FPJ, vinegar, silicate, soap). May 9: the potted ones are surviving but badly nutrient burned. Hopefully they’ll grow out of it.

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18 hrs

Light Schedule

23 °C

Day Air Temp

6.5

60 %

Air Humidity

10 °C

Night Air Temp

Nutrients 4

LAB lactic acid bacteria

20 mll

Apple cider vinegar

0.5 mll

FPJ - Dandelion Greens

1 mll

Northern_Ent May 11: afternoon foliar spray using Epsom salts, vinegar, soap and soluble kelp extract. May 13: concluded most of my grow problems were due to excess sodium in well water. So I broke down and drove an hour from the farm to the nearest hydro shop and bought some Cal-Mag as my water hardener has been delayed. May 15: some still looking nutrient burned, but things are improving now that excess sodium has been confirmed as the main problem. May 17: some are finally looking healthy and the poor ones are improving so things are looking up, except for the weather which is cold and rainy for next four days. There’s even a chance of some snow, and this is about 3 days after it was 25 C. Spring in Alberta.

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10 cm

Height

18 hrs

Light Schedule

12 °C

Day Air Temp

6.5

700 PPM

TDS

60 %

Air Humidity

21 °C

Solution Temp

10 °C

Night Air Temp

0.68 L

Watering Volume

Nutrients 6

LAB lactic acid bacteria

20 mll

Apple cider vinegar

0.5 mll

FPJ - Dandelion Greens

1 mll

Northern_Ent May 18: Looking somewhat better after the excess sodium in the well water nightmare. Start of 3 days very cool weather. May 19: 0 C last night and rainy. Foliar spray at 11 am. May 20: 0 C again overnight. Foliar spray at 7 pm followed by warmed water at 9:30 before covering for night. Very cool this week. Some plants are still small for their age because of the cold but things should improve here soon. May 21: cold again overnight but plants look good. May 22: weed FPJ at 1 mL/L. May 23: LAB only foliar at 20 mL/L.

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1/17

10 cm

Height

18 hrs

Light Schedule

12 °C

Day Air Temp

6.5

700 PPM

TDS

60 %

Air Humidity

21 °C

Solution Temp

10 °C

Night Air Temp

0.68 L

Watering Volume

Nutrients 1

LAB lactic acid bacteria

20 mll

Northern_Ent May 23: LAB only foliar. May 25: LAB only foliar in afternoon. May 26: poked holes in soil using a pencil. Four or five holes to get oxygen closer to roots. Did this for all plants that had been flushed or overwatered. May 28: cold nights seem to have slowed and/or dwarfed the plants that were at the perimeter (I.e. the coldest ones). Hopefully they recover.

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1/17

40.64 cm

Height

18 hrs

Light Schedule

18 °C

Day Air Temp

6.5

700 PPM

TDS

60 %

Air Humidity

21 °C

Solution Temp

10 °C

Night Air Temp

0.68 L

Watering Volume

Nutrients 3

LAB lactic acid bacteria

20 mll

Alaska Fish Fertilizer

6 mll

MEGA CROP

0.7 mll

Northern_Ent June 4: topped a few of the bigger plants that hadn’t yet started flowering and started tying taller plants down. Tallest Smoothie is a male and has been set aside for now. Apparently 1% of feminized seeds will come out male so this likely isn’t a big deal. June 5: LAB silicate and soap foliar spray this afternoon. June 6: watered with Mega Crop in afternoon and foliar spray (LAB silicate and soap) at end of day. June 8: Fish fertilizer foliar for N in afternoon and LAB foliar at dusk. Removed single fan leaf from each plant that was blocking buds.

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Used techniques

LST

Technique

Defoliation

Technique

1/18

40.64 cm

Height

18 hrs

Light Schedule

18 °C

Day Air Temp

6.5

700 PPM

TDS

60 %

Air Humidity

21 °C

Solution Temp

10 °C

Night Air Temp

0.98 L

Watering Volume

Nutrients 4

LAB lactic acid bacteria

15 mll

Alaska Fish Fertilizer

4 mll

FPJ - nettles

0.5 mll

Northern_Ent June 11: watered with Calnesium and full foliar at dusk (LAB, silicate, soap, fish, vinegar, and last of cannabis tops FPJ). Fish fertilizer raises the TDS so usual mix in 2L runs 1700 ppm which is likely too high so diluted further ending up at 1250 ppm which should be okay. Reduced concentrations by a third. June 16: watered some plants with barley sprouts with solids going onto soil as a top dressing. Full foliar at dusk.

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40.64 cm

Height

18 hrs

Light Schedule

22 °C

Day Air Temp

6.5

700 PPM

TDS

60 %

Air Humidity

21 °C

Solution Temp

11 °C

Night Air Temp

0.98 L

Watering Volume

Nutrients 4

LAB lactic acid bacteria

15 mll

Alaska Fish Fertilizer

4 mll

FPJ - cannabis tops

0.5 mll

Northern_Ent June 20 and 22: full foliar at dusk. One plant was hermied so it was culled.

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1/17

45.72 cm

Height

18 hrs

Light Schedule

32 °C

Day Air Temp

6.5

700 PPM

TDS

60 %

Air Humidity

21 °C

Solution Temp

15 °C

Night Air Temp

1.51 L

Watering Volume

Nutrients 6

LAB lactic acid bacteria

15 mll

Alaska Fish Fertilizer

4 mll

FFJ - watermelon strawberry and banana

1 mll

Northern_Ent June 25: heat wave started…will be at least five days above 32 C. June 30: 37 C yesterday today and tomorrow. Heat is taking a toll on the smaller smoothies but the bigger ones are seemingly fine.

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50.8 cm

Height

18 hrs

Light Schedule

30 °C

Day Air Temp

6.5

700 PPM

TDS

60 %

Air Humidity

21 °C

Solution Temp

15 °C

Night Air Temp

1.51 L

Watering Volume

Nutrients 6

LAB lactic acid bacteria

25 mll

Alaska Fish Fertilizer

2 mll

FFJ - watermelon strawberry and banana

1 mll

Northern_Ent July 2: heat wave is winding down but still 33 C today. Plants showing some signs of heat stress. Trying to provide some shade and misting.

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50.8 cm

Height

16 hrs

Light Schedule

21 °C

Day Air Temp

6.5

850 PPM

TDS

60 %

Air Humidity

21 °C

Solution Temp

13 °C

Night Air Temp

18.93 L

Pot Size

1.51 L

Watering Volume

Nutrients 6

LAB lactic acid bacteria

30 mll

Alaska Fish Fertilizer

2 mll

FFJ - watermelon strawberry and banana

1 mll

Northern_Ent Showing signs of heat stress. July 13: buds are starting to glisten and glitter in the sunlight. July 20: second round of Smoothies have not recovered from cold in mid-May. Most of these plants were culled in early June and the remaining ones are stunted. All the May 1 start plants are smaller than they should be. Moral of the story is that it’s likely best to wait until about May 21 (May long weekend here in Canada) to start outdoor autos even if it feels like summer because there will definitely be cold nights.

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1/19

50.8 cm

Height

16 hrs

Light Schedule

21 °C

Day Air Temp

6.5

850 PPM

TDS

60 %

Air Humidity

21 °C

Solution Temp

13 °C

Night Air Temp

18.93 L

Pot Size

1.51 L

Watering Volume

Nutrients 6

LAB lactic acid bacteria

30 mll

Alaska Fish Fertilizer

4 mll

FFJ - watermelon strawberry and banana

1 mll

Northern_Ent It’s been a tough outdoor season but the first of the Smoothies are almost ready. Couple more weeks I think. Leaf tips are scorched due to the record heat wave in late June and early July.

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50.8 cm

Height

16 hrs

Light Schedule

26 °C

Day Air Temp

6.3

850 PPM

TDS

60 %

Air Humidity

21 °C

Solution Temp

13 °C

Night Air Temp

18.93 L

Pot Size

1.51 L

Watering Volume

Nutrients 6

LAB lactic acid bacteria

30 mll

Alaska Fish Fertilizer

4 mll

FFJ - watermelon strawberry and banana

1 mll

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50.8 cm

Height

16 hrs

Light Schedule

26 °C

Day Air Temp

6.3

850 PPM

TDS

60 %

Air Humidity

21 °C

Solution Temp

13 °C

Night Air Temp

18.93 L

Pot Size

1.51 L

Watering Volume

Nutrients 6

LAB lactic acid bacteria

30 mll

Alaska Fish Fertilizer

4 mll

FFJ - watermelon strawberry and banana

1 mll

Northern_Ent Aug 4: these are still visibly putting on weight so maybe another week. Aug 7: included pics of what was supposed to be “Smoothie B” diary but that batch of plants was badly damaged by cold weather in mid-May. The cold was worse than the historic heat waves we’ve had since then, but you can also see obvious heat stress. 2021 has been a tough year. Aug 9: harvest started.

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Happy Harvest Day!

Smoothie Auto Fast Buds

6/10

Rated

This strain is just okay mostly because it’s not suitable for outdoor growing. There were a few different phenotypes and alll of them were overly sensitive to the temperature extremes (five nights near 0 C in mid-May and then three days at 37 C in late June). Most of these plants were obviously severely stunted by the cold and many were culled and replaced. The heat waves also caused a lot of distress for these plants compared to other strains that did fine. Some of that is due to the smaller 3 gallon pots that don’t do much to insulate the roots from the temperature extremes. Fast Buds doesn’t really recommend Smoothie for outdoor but I thought all of their strains would be good outside due to the ruderalis genetics. Unfortunately that was not the case and these Smoothies were an almost total bust. There were some decent yielders but the average yield was likely only 25-30 grams per plant which is far too low. A second batch of Smoothies were started in June (Late Smoothie diary) but those are also not that great. I won’t be trying Smoothie again as a commercial crop.

Spent 100 days

Ger Veg Flo Har

100 g

Bud wet weight per plant

Plants

Normal

Difficulty

Height

Day air temperature

Air humidity

PPM

Light schedule

Solution temperature

Night air temperature

Pot size

1/5

Northern_Ent These were quite disappointing for an outdoor grow and I won’t be giving them another chance. Some of it is just bad luck timing relative to the weather, and using small pots (I won’t do that again) but I would prefer bigger plants. There are several other Fast Buds strains that do much better outdoor here including Girl Scout Cookies, Gorilla Glue, Pineapple Express, Northern Lights and OG Kush.

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Equipment Reviews

Pro-silicate Grotek

10/10Rated

Calnesium Future Harvest

10/10Rated

MEGA CROP Greenleaf Nutrients

10/10Rated

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pecorinocommentedweek 144y ago

In my experience fastbud seeds are not the best for outdoor. Other seedbank are better

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ThePassionForWeed420commentedweek 04y ago

Buona coltivazione e amico in crescita felice 👏 👏

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homerjgangiacommentedweek 04y ago

Good luck with your grow mate!💪💪

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northernMikecommentedweek 94y ago

Busy, Busy👊, Way to Grow!!!

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Northern_Entcommented4y ago

@northernMike, not that I like being busy but growing is way better than my regular office job. 😎

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northernMikecommented4y ago

@Northern_Ent,I love to smoke the herb that I grow😛, but it's the growing part that is highly addictive😵 as I've come to find out. Just can't wait to put some more beans in the soil😏, espescially with Autos It's always another EXPERIMENT😜. Grow BIG!!!

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Northern_Entcommented4y ago

@northernMike, growing is highly addictive. 😎. Good luck.

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JustGrowWithIt420commentedweek 144y ago

Beautiful harvest growmie!👌 Keep up the great work and enjoy! 👊☮️

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Trixxcommentedweek 134y ago

Looking mighty fine! Good luck 🤙

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Legendaryseedthumbcommentedweek 124y ago

Looks nice i also have 3 smoothie seeds i Will pot ond day! 😃

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Trumptight420commentedweek 44y ago

Wishing you a good grow and great harvest👊

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Cannabeast40commentedweek 44y ago

Good luck with your grow 😀💪🙌

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Lacrimacommentedweek 14y ago

Happy Growing ! 😊💪

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J_diaz420commentedweek 04y ago

Feliz crecimiento bro👍🍀

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Waylatecommentedweek 04y ago

good start good finish

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pecorinocommentedweek 144y ago

In my experience fastbud seeds are not the best for outdoor. Other seedbank are better

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Northern_Entcommented4y ago

@pecorino, I pretty much have to grow autos this far north and I’ve had good success with strains from FB, Auto Seeds, original Sensible, and Crop King. The most promising this year are the Early Version photoperiods from Delicious seeds. Anyway, the point is not all autos are tough enough for outdoor but most of them are.

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pecorinocommented4y ago

@Northern_Ent,for me dutch passion and some strain from royalqueen yielded good, like autohulkberry and autoultimate, the problem for fastbud in my experience was that the vegetative stage was too short for outdoor

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Northern_Entcommented4y ago

@pecorino, I usually top my autos as this helps to prolong the veg phase. Mine usually veg for 6-7 weeks and this is mostly due to the cool nights that slow their metabolism.

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northernMikecommentedweek 104y ago

Supposed to be 35c today plus humidity, pushing 40, YUCK!!! good thing for central air, I keep my house at 72f(20c)approx. the tents in the basement never exceed 24c👍, so I'm thinking the Lambs Breath will stay inside for awhile longer, until this heat dissapates a little, hope all is well and stay cool😎.. Later!!

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