Glue Auto by Fastbuds in a hempy

Update - Sunday 11th July All seems to be going well. Some of the seeds I shoved in the cubes too deep and didn’t want to wait for them to push their way up. When I peeked inside I could see the seed had split and so I cut some of the top of the cube off and removed the corner of the cube I had stuck in.

UPDATE - SUNDAY 18TH JULY All is going well so far. Having a humidistat connected to the humidifier makes things so much easier and speedier. No more messing around trying to get the perfect humidity. I noticed, as soon as I installed that, things started growing a lot quicker. I need to refill the hempies with slightly higher and different concentrations of the nutes and bang it in my drip reservoir.

UPDATE - SUNDAY 25th July I was thinking yesterday how when I started growing I was getting tiny amounts of bud to supplement what I was buying and used to get real jealous or envious of people who had excess amounts of medicine around because of growing your own kind of takes the value out of it. In the eyes of the law of my country I am breaking the misuse of drugs act by possessing and cultivating cannabis. On the other hand, I have a constant supply of really nice weed and I’m constantly getting different flavours even within the same batch (some strains more than others). I guess I’m just trying to say if you have just started and want to learn, it’s not that hard. It’s gone from me pulling less than an oz of a plant to way more than two per plant. Hopefully even more with the right timing for transplant and topping etc. I fimmed by gorilla glue plant in the wrong plant so it’ll have two annoying sets of leaves above where the main colas split. I can get rid of it later it just takes way more time for it to start growing from the side branches. Then I can tie them down and probably top again. I dunno. I usually leave it to having 4 mainlines sticking out and then I tend to get branching from then once they are tied down. The auto water time is 13s every 3h. Tbh I thought this would be too much for them but they are taking it fine. Either that or I’m just REALLY slowly filling both res’ in the hempies. I figured a more constant irrigation technique would be interesting to try out against the soil pots that get watered like once a week if that once they are big. Tbh so far so soil grow seems to be ahead in terms of speed and also looks way healthier. That’s why I’m doing two hempies and two soil grows. The thing I love about soil is you can get so much more shit in there for the microbes fo feed on without having to flush it all through again before it goes nasty! It’s just not really worth it, I just water over some biosys once a week. Actually that’s exactly what this plant needs at the mo I think. Right I’m going to update the rest of my diaries, make a new one, then refill my irrigation res (otherwise known as an old paint bucket!) as shown above

Again, something fucked up. Think I got a little cocky!

Update - 9th August All is going ok in the grow, I was a little worried about the hempy systems with the auto watererer but iv found a work around for that now so it’s fine.

Update - All is good in the hood as they say. This plant has a really weird structure where I fimm'd it wrong and it took ages to recover and then grew weirdly so I just tied the whole thing down and then the branches that grew off of it.

Update - 26th August Again, same as the others really. Seem to be doing really well with the lower popcorn buds removed and small branches removed to let in more light. That’s about it really… Regards RR

Update - same as the other plants really. Short, squat, mainlines and doing real nice!

Update - Again it’s been a couple of weeks so am going to use same pictures in week 10 as I missed a week

Update Ok so all it coming along A LOT SLOWER than all my other plants. It’s really quite annoying. All my other plants are basically ready so I think I’m going to have to do some shifty shifting. I think I’m going to swap the gorilla glue and the mimosa cake so that I can harvest and hang in the tent for the f it at week or so. Not entirely sure when I’ll do this but I think that makes the most sense. It will have an impact on the gorilla glue I would imagine as it won’t be under the 300 light but if I do the other plants soon I can then move it back before it finishes flowering as it’s going so slow and will only slow down with slightly less light.

Update Loving it to be honest. This is a huge plant for what I’m used to growing. It was massively stunted as well at the beginning. I totally forgot and was perusing the early weeks of my diary. She seems to have recovered lol. Definitely the most sativa plant I have personally grown. Very wide intermodal spacing and thin leaves. I miss heavy indica’s but it’s ok because next run is all heavy indica’s so it should be good!

Update - week 12 This is definitely the longest growing strain iv ever grown for an auto. Its still developing and is nowhere near where the Mimosa cake is even though its a week younger. Oh well, hopefully the effects will live up to the name. I have also ordered my AutoPot system now. I got a 4 plant one but if I need to expand can buy more. It wouldnt really be scalable as the cost wouldnt really be worth it but for my 1x2x2m tent it should be fine and dandy. Will probably stagger the layout and then put 2 or 3 gal fabric pots in between to create a SOG sort of thing. Lots of littler plant rather than monstors. I am still going to drill holes all around the rim of the autopots so that I can still do my tying down. Or actually more likely I will buy some more trellis net, however, i am slightly afraid if I do that I will not be able to access the grow! Oh yeah, I also started flushing this glue today as its getting to a stage where it is developing now. It will finish up in the next 2 weeks. I would start more plants but annoyingly I need to completely empty the room in order to put the new tent in. then I can go from there.

This grow was a triumph. I conquered all the plants I grew really. The fresh growing buds were all also so beautifully colourful. I don’t quite know how all of FastBuds flowers have been so beautifully selected for colours but they are a delight to grow! Also this grow will always be the one that allowed me to form a small business relationship with devil press due to the fact I really like and support their products for home rosin collection. I have been using the DP9 manual press today and although I got some beautiful mimosa cake shatter and some lovely gooey straw-nana. I just wrapped them up in a small ball inside a small wrap of grease proof parchment paper and a tiiiny glass single serving jam jar, in the freezer. I love it, this light has just boosted terp profiles from the last run with the old lights. I will be comparing the DP9 to the DS2000. This, I think, is a pneumatic press that is compact and neat. It also means I can apply much more pressure without having to apply much more physical pressure! Hey does anyone know where the dry weight section has gone and the taste icon you select like it tastes like: fuel, pine etc. Have the site moderators changed it so we don’t have the dry weight of our buds and a taste section and an effects section?