Blueberry by FastBuds in AutoPot

Ok so I did have some bug problems. I think it was either root aphids or fungus gnats. Don’t know exactly what but they were a free gift when I desperately bought some soil to add to the coco from a local DIY shop…cheers mate! So obviously I’m not reusing my mediA, it all got bagged up straight away and sealed then put in the big bin for my block of flats. Obviously with no evidence it came from me. Seperate bin bag for all of that stuff. I can’t really speak of the disease resistance because I basically infested EVERYTHING with annoying drunk looking flying little bastards! They didn’t really stand a chance… HOWEVER, having said that, this last blueberry plant I grew is definitely the biggest plant I have ever grown. It’s meant to be very indica and it’s actually grown waaay bigger than a lot of the 50:50 hybrids and even the sativa dom strains. It was a beast. I obviously had two different pheno’s of each plant I grew. The structure, intermodal distance and even terpene profiles were pretty different considering it was the same strain. I am actually very glad about it because I LOVE to vape some strange. I don’t really know why I did two of the each strain tbh. It’s probably coz I was able to double my space so I have more coming. I think the combination of double light, double space, AutoPot system (then the plant can eat and drink on their terms) and the fact I planted straight into the final pot. I underestimated how much shock autos get from transplanting. It obviously can be done but it’s pointless and I always ended up with way smaller plants. Again this could be to do with the light increase tho. It smells Devine, of course but the small blueberry plant smells and smokes WAAAY different. The bigger one that seems to have reached it’s full genetic potential is way sweeter and deserty. The first, smaller one is much more skunky and musky. This is all pre cure though. It smells a lot different to how it smokes atm. I was using gloves to harvest and then used my phone with them on, not thinking and now I have gloopy oil all over my iPhone lol. Kind of defeated the point of using gloves but oh well. I will keep adding info into this section as I continue to weigh and generally think about how the grow went and what might help others. I would definitely say to others, if they are growing using less than reccomended light specs, do all you can to update your lights and get up to the recommended minimum PAR. it really did change everything. I noticed this time with adequate light, they turned out way more ‘leggy’ with big buds from like halfway up the stems. I do think that lollipopping is quite importing when you get in early flower and the stretch stage but it’s next to impossible to even get into the room when it’s filled up. I’m not awaiting my two Afghan kush plants and my one small smoothie plant to finish and then I can clean everything out, bleach everything and get going again this time with coco only. I will not Improvise last minute with outdoor gardeners shit this time. It has surprised me how efficient the AutoPot system is. The plants in there grew SO MUCH BIGGER than the plant in pots that are double the size. They must just love the fact they can drink whenever they want rather than me forcing it upon them. UPDATE: Minutes later I have actually weighed the wet plants. Obviously I harvested the plants at diff times so I simply weighed each stem as I removed the fan leaves and wrote down the weight. It is an all time high for me (sorry about the punn) so I am super happy at the weight of the blueberry plants. I will admit that like 75% of the weight , if not more, was made by the huge second plant that is hanging now. Update - it’s all dry and curing now. Beautiful buds. Amazing rosin. What more can I say?! The dry weight box dissapesred again when I came back to fill it in. Anyway… Dry bud was 177g. Iv also used about 1.5oz I would say coz I made tincture and pressed a few grams of rosin. I also had a big box of b grade buds which I primarily used for squishing and tincture so when I actually came to weigh it it had shrunk dramatically lol. It now weighs about an ounce. I do also have 49g of trim and popcorn buds to use. Probably buy some dry ice soon and make keif then press said kief in my press. That’s the plan… Really happy with what I got and iv still more to come so it is all good