1st grow in 25 years - CKS autoflowers!

THE PLAN: =========================================================== GENETICS 7 x White Widow Feminized Autoflower - Crop King Seeds 7 x Early Miss Feminized Autoflower - Crop King Seeds Best 4 (maybe 5) of each will stay in tent and others will be moved outdoors to finish. ============================================================ MEDIA 5 gal fabric pots Soil Mix - Fox Farms Happy Frog (6 cu ft) - Fox Farms Ocean Forest (1.5 cu ft) - Fox Farms Coco Loco (2 cu ft) ---thoroughly blended 65% Fox Farms Happy Frog 15% Fox Farms Ocean Forest 20% Fox Farms Coco Loco ============================================================ NUTRIENTS VEGETATIVE - Fox Farms Grow Big - Fox Farms Big Bloom - General Hydroponics CALiMAGic - Advanced Nutrients Bud Candy FLOWERING - Fox Farms Grow Big - Fox Farms Big Bloom - Fox Farms Tiger Bloom - General Hydroponics CALiMAGic - Advanced Nutrients Bud Candy - Fox Farms Cha Ching - Fox Farms Bush Doctor Sledgehammer - Fox Farms Bush Doctor Boomerang ============================================================ ENVIRONMENT 20 sq ft (5' x 4' x 6.5' grow tent) Primary light: Morsen 2000w full spectrum LED with 4 cooling fans Supplemental lights: 4 x 50w (PAR38) blue and white spectrum (25 x 2w 440nm + 10000k [2:1]) LEDs mounted in clip-on in corners of tent 4 x 54w (PAR38) deep red spectrum (18 x 3w 660nm) LEDs suspended from tent ceiling for flowering Ventilation: Exhaust fan: 6" 440cfm inline duct fan through carbon filter scrubber mounted near top of tent with no ducting Intake fan: 6" 240 cfm booster fan sprayed with rubberized coating paint to deaden vibration inserted into tent sleeve at bottom/ connected with flexible duct over A/C vent with thermostat on 70 degrees Timer: 2.5 hours off - timer shuts off primary light and exhaust + intake fans (cold air continues to slowly flow via A/C) - supplemental lights stay on while primary light and ventilation are off (no rest for my bitches!) - 7" clip on fan remains on for circulation - this allows Exhale CO2 to build up to about 1400 ppm for an hour or so without overheating the tent interior 21.5 hours on - timer turns on primary light and intake + exhaust fans - 7" clip on fan remains on for circulation - supplemental lights remain on ========================================================== PROGRESS THUS FAR: 7 x White Widow Feminized Autoflower - Crop King Seeds - all 7 germinated successfully, but I think my soil mix was a bit too hot because only one of the seedlings found their way to the light (CKS is sending replacements at no charge..woohoo!) The lone survivor seems very hearty. UPDATE: Another WW finally emerged 3 days later, so in all, out of 7 germinated, I have two survivors..one of which is a beast. 7 x Early Miss Feminized Autoflower - Crop King Seeds 6 germinated successfully, but 1 suffered tap root damage when removing from paper towel 1 of them is a real runt, and another had trouble shedding the shell and fell behind, but the rest show real promise! UPDATE: the runt curled up really weird and died, so I've just got 4 healthy EM's UPDATE 7/2/2018: started 3 Candy Cane AF's from Crop King Seeds today. Still waiting on WW replacements from CKS. ============================================== I've decided to just use the current lighting I have for vegging and early flowering and add a couple of Cree COB CXB3590's to pump up the intensity for the final 6 weeks or so.. Lumen total: 46,383 14,883 - primary burple light 12,000 - cob cree #1 12,000 - cob cree #2 7,500 - 4 x 54w deep red Par 38's Thoughts?

--FRIDAY I mixed up a 1/3 strength batch of nutes plus a little bud candy to start up their high-carb diet and douched the bigger bitches pretty well. I gave a splash to the little girls too. I also mixed up a 1/3 strength batch of grow big and started foliar feeding everybody but the seedling.. I alternate foliar feeding with spring water misting a few times a day in total. --SATURDAY was a dry day. Only foliar feeding, and spring water for the seedling. all the girls loved their Friday dose...little gals notably bigger as seen in the photos. Tomorrow I increase to half strength nutes for the big girls and maybe the smaller ones if they look ready and continue my misting regimen. Tracking my package from Crop King..can't wait to get 3 more WW wet and max out my space! --SUNDAY the girls got some PH'd water and a couple of foliar feedings and a spring water misting. --MONDAY I received a package from Crop King Seeds! However, it wasn't my replacement White Widow AFs, but rather the Candy Cane AFs.that I ordered the same day...doh! Being the impatient fucker that I am, I put 3 CC's into a glass of spring water rather than wait on the WW's to arrive. The other plants already have such a head start that I didn't want to wait another minute to get the rest of the crop started. So, I've only got 2 WW's this go-round....c'est la vie. With any luck all three CC's will germinate and grow to specimen plants. I also mixed up a 1-gallon batch of 1/2 strength nutes and fed everybody...even the mystery seedling. DId a nutrient misting and lowered my lights about 2 inches and added a 100w (equiv) cool white CFL and 120w cool white LED to the mix. They and the 3 x 50w blue/white Par38s remain on when the primary light and ventilation fans turn off for a couple hours of CO2 "bathing" PPM's get up to about 1200 by the end of the 2 hours. and temps climb to about 87 before the ventilation and primary light kicks back on. I might increase the "night phase" to 3 hours once there's a lot more vegetation in the tent so as to really dose them with C02. The mystery seedling overstretched immediately and has not been impressive at all....we'll see...It's getting super-dosed with blues and whites, so maybe... TUESDAY: dry day....foliar feedings only. Dropped the 3 CC's into wet paper towel...fingers crossed. WEDNESDAY (July 4th): All 3 CC's popped! 2 had 3/4" tap roots, so they got planted. The other will get planted in the morning. Having learned my lesson from the WW's that didn't make it to the light of day, I created a mix of 60% vermiculite + 30% perlite and 10% happy frog and created "pockets" for my new seedlings in the center of 5 g pots. I mixed up a 1-gallon batch of 1/2 strength nutes and fed everybody. Mystery seedling is still pathetic..

Hard to believe that it's week 3 already! Excellent progress as can be seen in the photos. SATURDAY: I mixed up a 2 gallon batch of nutrients and gave them a fairly thorough douching.....the alkalinity of my tap water has suddenly started climbing for the past few days..odd...takes almost double the PH down to adjust it now.. I reset the timer today and played with it for a while. It seems I had somehow put it into a random "vacation mode"..problem solved. I bought a 40w Sansi daylight grow bulb and a 15w Sansi blurple bulb from Amazon that I've got in reflectors just above the two new CC's (hopefully 3 by morning) They are getting juicy light from them as well as peripheral blues/whites and big blurple... Gotta try to catch them up... I plan to order a pair of Cree COB CXB3590's this coming week. I'm hoping that will help to put some good par values into the darkest two corners. I'll just have to rotate the girls until I can afford another couple CXB3590s. I'm still not certain that I won't just go ahead and spend a little more and start procuring LED strip panels instead of the COBs. The principle reason being the reduced temperatures, but also because of the much more even distribution of light. Whether I go with the COBs or strip panels, it will be good to be able to adjust the lamp distances independently since I'm likely to have such an uneven canopy for awhile. Thoughts? SUNDAY: I observed some brown spotting on the older fan leaves on WW#1, EM#1 and the Mystery Seedling. Obvious signs of major PH fluctuation. I feel sure I must've forgotten to adjust the most recent plain water day..doh! And what's worse is that it's coming out of the tap at frickin' 8.2 right now!!! It's.usually 7.0 or 7.2 at the highest. I let them dry out today and tomorrow will douche them thoroughly with properly PH'd water, then let them dry out for a day before resuming nutes. I'm considering saving up for a RO system. Does anybody have any recommendations on one that can produce enough to keep 8-10 thirsty girls satisfied at a time..plus a few trays of ice cubes a week? I dedicated the new 40w daylight sansi bulb with a 10" reflector to CC#1 at about 18" and the new 15w blurple sansi in a 10" reflector at about 12" to CC#2...they are also getting good peripheral lighting. Still no sign of the 3rd CC..losing hope. I'll probably just roll with 8 in the tent + the mystery seedling until it's relegated to the great outdoors. From what I read, FIMing usually causes quite a bit of spread, so the extra space will probably be handy anyway. MONDAY: Still no CC #3.....2 will do. I douched the girls with tap water that had absolutely been adjusted to 6.0. I also mixed in a couple tsp of CaliMagic, but nothing else. Sprayed everybody down with spring water a few times. I think they still love me. I pulled the trigger and ordered a couple of CXB3590's off of ebay. Should be here in plenty of time for flowering. I ordered another COB daylight grow bulb today. It uses a 100w epistar bridgelux chip(running at 50%) so it's only about 40% of the lumens of a CXB3590, but it's 3500k temp and just $52, so I'll probably get another few to have as backups in case anything craps out mid-flower and to fill in any spots I have in the garden with poor PPFD. I ordered some photographic filters so that I can tape them over my cell phone camera lens and erase the blurple hue in my photos without killing the lights. I do, however, like the ambience of my moonlite garden photos...but alas, vegging is but another couple weeks..then we'll have a 660nm Martian nighttime ;-) I also ordered a second Exhale 365 bag for my tent. I'm hoping to increase the daytime PPMs a bit despite my killer ventilation, and maybe even push 1400 during their no-ventilation 3 hour blue/white light "nighttime". The WooZoo M15U compact oscillating fan came in today...love it. Small footprint and powerful! I really MUST stop spending money on these bitches until they start putting out! TUESDAY: Mixed up and PH'd a 2 gallon batch of 1/3 strength nutes and douched everybody since I won't be around til late tomorrow. Did a little rearranging and raised the lights about an inch. The CC toddlers are looking happy and healthy. Mystery seedling has mostly recovered from his/her transplant. A friend gave me 3 Pineapple Express beans today, but he wasn't sure if it was auto or photo. I'll drop them in water tomorrow, sprout them, and if all goes well I'll grow them to a foot or so in 2 qt pots, space permitting, then transplant them to 10g pots and move them outdoors. EM #1, EM#2, and WW#1 have incredible lower branching..not even gonna bother with FIMing them..their lowers are seriously competing with the main colas. True believer in pumping the blues during veg. Thought about FIMing EM#3, but the bitch has already started flowering...she's so damn short...she could stretch by 400% and still be under 2 feet...?!? (wtf?) So, I'll either FIM WW#2 or EM#4 or maybe both of them...tomorrow's the big day.. WEDNESDAY: Growing autoflowers is so damn cool...EM#1, EM#2, EM#3, and WW#1...all flowering at exactly 1 month from seed! EM#3 actually started flowering yesterday and put on over an inch in upward growth overnight. Well, I popped my cherry today and FIM'd EM#4...pretty sure I did it right...we'll see. Gonna leave it at that this time around, and if it goes well I'll be less timid next crop. I let the girls dry out today, but did foliar feedings a few times. I gave the Candy Cane girls some 1/3 strength grow big too..fingers crossed that I didn't jump the gun, but I'm anxious to get them big enough to justify occupying some prime garden real estate. The new 100w epistar bridgelux COB LED and Exhale CO2 bag came in today and I added them to the mix. Build quality is somewhat lacking on the bulb, but I'm very impressed with the light it produces. Just in time really because the extra par and 3500k spectrum light on the newly flowering girls should really tickle their fancy and buy me some time while I wait on DHL to deliver the new Cree CXB3590's. I'm gonna order another one tonight so it will be here by the weekend...for $52, they are a steal. I guess I'll switch out a couple of the supplemental 440nm blues for 660nm reds over the flowering girls....boy, time really flies with autoflower varieties... THURSDAY: The slight wilt I observed on EM#2 yesterday turned out to be a case of wind-burn..evidently the new fan is a little too intense for the proximity I had it in..damnit...today all new growth is badly twisted! I fixed the fan and moved her into a less breezy space, but I'm worried because all her new growth is so phuktup. I split up 3 gallons of 6.0 ph'd water between the girls and did some spring water misting today. EM#4 is shocked today after her haircut..hopefully she perks up tomorrow. The two CC babies continue to spread their wings, but they've got a long way to go. FRIDAY: I took some new photos today while the blurple light was off. Spring water misting only today except for the CC's..they got watered. EM#1 is starting to stretch a little and is budding up nicely..gave her one of the 54w 660nm bulbs today. WW#1 - ditto EM#2 snapped out of her windburn shock and is back to 95% perfection today! EM#3 is full-on flowering now but hasn't begun to stretch. EM#4 is looking a little less shocked from her haircut. WW#2, has overtaken EM#4 in height and looking good. Both CC babies are still growing nicely. Mystery Seedling still hasn't fully recovered from the transplant, but is doing better. The 3 Pineapple Express seeds sunk yesterday and have been in a wet paper towel for 12 hours..still no germination. If they pop, I'll start a separate diary for them.

SATURDAY: We're now into week 4 for my biggest 4 girls and they are all flowering. I still have two plants and the Mystery seedling, (and two baby CC's) that are vegetative. I mixed up a 2g batch of nutes for the bloomers and a 2g batch for the growers and soaked them well. Still misting with spring water a few times per day to try and counteract the dried out/twisted growth resulting from windburn. I added the second new 100w epistar bridgelux COB light and did a little rearranging. The girls are loving it. The FIM'd EM is starting to look a little less stressed, and the Mystery Seedling is actually growing now. Got the tracking number for the 2 new Cree CXB3590's...10 days away. SUNDAY: I ph'd 2 gal of water + calmag and gave everybody a drink. Rearranged again...baby CC's have pole position now. Just 1 of the Pineapple Express seeds popped so far and it got planted in a 4gal pot. If it emerges, it will get a diary of it's own. Photo session tomorrow! MONDAY: CC's showed a little sensitivity to light, so I raised the blurple light about a 2 inches. EM#3 is bushy as hell..her damaged new growth isn't as twisted today..she's growing, and starting to flower. Watered the CC's and spring water misted everybody else...nutes tomorrow. Added new photos! TUESDAY: I mixed up a 2 gal batch of nutes for my growers and a 2.5 gal batch of nutes for my bloomers and douched them thoroughly. I took everybody out of the tent and dId a little lower leaf defoliation, and then rearranged everybody. with optimal light. Damn, they are looking good! WEDNESDAY: Today was a busy gardening day. Got the 2 new Cree CXB3590's in!! I emptied the tent and removed all lights and started over with new ratcheting rope hangers for everything. See my final lighting diagram for flowering in the photos. I'd like to get an Apogee meter, but can't afford it now. 2600 watts in a 20 sq ft area is 130w per square foot. Based on this formula and the presence of two Exhale bags in the tent, I think I'll have some bigass buds. Right? Surprisingly, adding the two CBX3590's and removing all but one of the blue/whites in the tent has reduced my daytime temps to 79 degrees from about 87-89! Good heatsinks on those things. Another of the Pineapple Express seeds germinated and was planted today! I wish I knew if it's feminized or autoflowering, but at least I know how the female gene donor looked, tasted, and how well it worked for a bad mood. I removed them from the tent and set them up with the 40w Sansi bulb and a blue/white in an adjacent space. Will start a separate diary for them later. I think I'm gonna try to keep them in the tent for as long as possible before subjecting them to 105 degree days outside. Maybe they will start flowering before then and tell me whether they are worth the effort or not..kinda doubt I'll have the necessary space for them in the tent for more than a couple of weeks. Did another little photo sesh...my girls love to pose ;-) THURSDAY: Issues with the cold air supply caused 91-93 degree temps for a few hours too long and both the FIM'd plant (EM#4) and the windburn victim (EM#2) were wilted as hell. Everybody was dry, but those two looked sickly. I mixed up 6 gallons of Boomerang + CalMag Ph'd to 6.0 and really douched everybody good..especially the sick girls. FRIDAY: Everybody is happy and healthy looking. Boomerang is great for stressed plants! Temps still too high, but upper 80's will do for now. Improvements in ducting are imminent. PE#2 emerged and sits beside her sister in a space adjacent to the tent.

SATURDAY: Today the girls are fully 2 inches taller than yesterday! They weren't completely dry, but I was anxious to hit them with nutrients again. I mixed up a 2 gal batch of grow nutes and a 2.5 gal batch of flower nutes, ph'd to 6 and watered them slowly, a cup at a time. There was very little runoff. I'll let them go dry for two days with the exception of foliar feedings and spring water misting. The plants with the extra 660nm deep reds on them are really popping stigmas like crazy, so I ordered a couple of 700nm red supplemental LEDs which I'll add later in the week. I'll be dosing them with both of the deep red spectra (660nm + 700nm), and I plan to add 2 x 12w par38 730nm far-red LEDs by week 8 if I can get temperatures stabilized. I took and uploaded some new photos. I ordered some various lenses for my cell phone so that I can take better photos next week. SUNDAY: OMG. SO. MUCH. NEW. GROWTH! Made a direct connection of the A/C vent register to the air intake fan duct, so now all cold air to the room is being forced through the tent and exhausted back into the room, slightly warmer but free of odors. Already seeing an improvement, but will wait til tomorrow to see if it held throughout the day. EM#3's lower branches are catching up with the main and really budding up nicely. She's in the lead. EM#2, the one that got so badly windburned will be a real producer. She's by far the bushiest plant I've ever grown indoors. EM#1 has stretched a little more than I hoped, but there's still time for her main cola to develop well. EM#4 well, I guess I FIMFIM'ed on my first attempt at a FIM procedure. In 2 days, this plant's main cola has grown about 5 inches..no quadrupular main as anticipated...however, I must've still really triggered auxin production because ALL of the lower branches are skyrocketing to the level of the main. I LOVE the WW#1 structure...multiple bud sites, short and really compact spacing of internodes, and her footprint in the tent is minimal. Her little sister is about a week behind but seems to be of the same phenotype. Yay! Both Candy Cane are still getting supplemental blues and their lower branches are growing like crazy...they are catching their rhythm now.. I hope to get them off of their stools by the end of the week. Mystery Plant shows real promise, but no sign of flowering. She may be a photoperiod variety, (and maybe male), but it's def got good genes. The two gift PE's are still doing their thing, and the third seed fiiiinally cracked open...maybe tomorrow? MONDAY: 3rd PE sprout seemed stuck, so i helped split it's hull a little...leaving it alone til tomorrow. (fingers crossed) Rearranged everybody again and I Installed a nannycam (sensicam) today, so new pics added are with tent closed...pretty cool keeping an eye on them from anywhere, at any time. With the new sensicam I observed that the negative pressure in the tent caused the walls to collapse much more than I thought. I remedied the situation by adding some bungee cords from pole to pole which gained me about 2-3 inches in depth, all the way around. My new medium-room-size ionizer/carbon filter came in...just in time I think...these bitches are a bit funky smelling...but in a good way. 😍 TUESDAY: No news is good news. Watered with ph'd water, 1tsp/g Boomerang, and 2tsp/g of Calmag..just a little drinky-winky (4g) Officially gave up on PE#3 sprouting, but #1 and #2 are doing okay...#1 is a mutant though...odd leaves.. WEDNESDAY: All my CKS babies are flowering now! 2 x White Widow 2 x Candy Cane 4 x Early Miss Mystery seedling is gonna be some killa dilla. Not sure wtf it is..but it's veeeerrry Kush-y in appearance. I hope it's a girl, but it's either not an AF, or it's a late-blooming AF...perving out and staring at it's private parts all day..😳 Spun everybody around and did the dosey-do. They aren't totally dry yet, so I'll wait to water and fertilize tomorrow. I ordered and received some various liquid soluble Fox Farms nutrients for flowering. I'll start the ones that have been flowering a week on Open Sesame tomorrow along with the normal regimen and start the youngsters on Tiger Bloom. EM#2, the windburn victim, a.k.a. Bush Bitch, appears to be a different phenotype than the other 3 EM's. She's flowering well now, but has very leafy flowers as opposed to the others which are only really producing pistils and stretching. The White Widow sisters are damn near identical in structure, as are the Candy Cane twins. I'm freezing gallon and 2-gallon jugs of water and putting in the tent at night to try and get my temps down to the lower 70's...tonights the big test. THURSDAY: Bush Bitch (EM#3) HATES the heat..she's the only one showing signs of stress from it. EM#1 has been showing signs of phosphorus deficiency, but I know she's been getting plenty. I suppose it's because I've been watering with 6.0 ph'd water and that cannabis actually prefers 6.2-7.0 for efficient P intake. Test failed...timers didn't work right and ice blocks made no difference...so.... Re-worked my timer schedules some more. This is my new lighting schedule: Always on - 4 x Miracle LED's (12w) for flowering in corners (700nm) "Sunset" 1:30 am ON ---- 2 x deep red Par38 bulbs (660nm) - overhead 1:45 am OFF ---- 2 x Bridgelux COBs + 1 Cree COB 2:00 am OFF ---- big blurple + 1 Cree COB + Intake + Exhaust "Dawn" 5:45 am ON ---- 2 x Bridgelux COBs + 1 Cree COB 6:00 am OFF ---- 2 x deep red Par38 bulbs (660nm) - overhead 6:00 am ON ---- big blurple + 1 Cree COB + Intake + Exhaust Emptied the tent and improved wiring. Mixed up 6 gals of nutes at ph 6.2 and douched everybody. Added Open Sesame to the regimen. Adding ice blocks to the tent again tonight. I tried my hand at super-cropping today. EM#4, the FIM failure's main cola was growing to ridiculous heights and making it difficult to keep even light on the canopy. I know she was too far along really, but I saw no choice other than topping or supercropping. It seemed to go perfectly..no split in the skin and she's now tied down to a 90 degree angle. FRIDAY: Temps held last night..ventilation issues repaired again. High was 83. Hoping for even lower temps tonight with reduced lighting and more ice blocks. The Phosphorous deficiency seen on EM#1 continues despite adjusting ph a little higher for the past couple of douches. Ugly leaves with necrotic spots. I will raise the Ph a little more tomorrow when I water. EM#4, the Failed FIM recipient and recent super-crop victim, appears not to have been affected at all. Despite being tied down to horizontal, the end of the main cola has turned back upward and continues to pack on the pistils. She's my dark horse candidate for high yield.

SATURDAY: misted with spring water, rotated, and ogled... SUNDAY: Had a small catastrophe last night...a temporary pole i had keeping the tent from collapsing fell and knocked the fan off it's perch...broke off a branch on WW#2 😤 and kinda fucktup EM#2 a little..did some makeshift splinting and prayed...later that evening..still no signs of wilting. Mixed up 7 gal of 1/2 strength nutes, including Boomerang, and douched everybody really well. Misted them with a half gallon of spring water over the course of the day. Still no preflowers on the Mystery Plant(Kushpialidocious)..guess I'll have to take it outside to get it to flower. PE#1 is growing well..PE#2 is still alive but yet to hit her stride. WIll start a diary for them now that they've proven to be livers as opposed to diers. MONDAY: All triage attempts seemed to have been successful after yesterday's calamity...splints holding and no signs of stress on either plant (whew!) Buds fattening. EM#3 (a.k.a. Bush Bitch) is like 95% Sativa ....so very different from the others. Thin leaves, slower to flower, classic Sativa shape. She takes up the space of 3 plants and was never even topped. It wouldn't be so bad if I could move her outside to finish, but she's extremely sensitive to heat ...doh! This is the first Sativa I've ever grown that can't handle mid/high eighties...ridiculous. Not sure what I'm gonna do with her...it's still 100+ degree days for another month where I live. Totally impressed with the Candy Canes..wonderful structure for tight spaces. White Widows, too. TUESDAY: All is well. Emptied the tent a little and did a photoshoot...misted abundantly with spring water as a reward. Ordered another 660nm deep red Par38 bulb, and if temps hold, will order one more the following week. That should give me pretty good coverage. The 3rd timer now controls the overhead deep reds exclusively. To mitigate the higher temps in the "daytime" phase, I've just got them on for 1 hour, every 4 hours, and again for 4.5 hours during their "nighttime" phase. WEDNESDAY: Picked up all the pots and they were all pretty dry. I mixed up 7 gallons of ph'd water, calmag, bud candy, and little boomerang and soaked them well. Installed the 3rd par38 660nm deep red bulb today...watching temps tonight to see if I can get away with adding another THURSDAY: Temps stayed below 80 (79) with the 3rd par38 red bulb..ordering another. Spun everybody around and misted with spring water. It's like all these bitches ever do is lay around and sunbathe. They keep this shit up for several more weeks and I swear I'm gonna kill them all! ;-)

SATURDAY: Today I mixed up 5g of nutes for my bloomers and douched them. I'll let them dry completely for 2-3 days, then flush them a bit with a little boomerang and calmag. I ordered a Gorilla lite-Line High CFM kit last week and received it today...fits my tent poles perfectly. This really works to keep the tent walls from collapsing in too far, and I was able to use one pole to rig a shelf to put the fan. That freed up a good bit more floor space. Yesterday, I ordered a 4 x 4 Vivosun tent and inline fan, and a 1500w (5 x 300w COBs)..this tent will be for vegging autos to put into the flowering tent as others are harvested, as well as a place to veg photos that I encounter before they are moved outdoors. I'll probably end up ordering another of the same lights, but for now I have a few supplemental lights I can use...blues and daylights. I'll drop a few WW's or CC's as soon as that stuff arrives so they are big enough to occupy flowering tent space in a few weeks. SUNDAY: I spun everybody around and misted with spring water a couple times throughout the day and formulated my plan for ventilation of the new tent which should be here Tuesday. I plan to hook the exhaust from my 4' x 5' tent as fresh air intake in the top of my 4' x 4'. By doing so, all that good CO2 that is exhausted from the flowering tent will rain down over the veg tent inhabitants before being exhausted from the bottom of the tent. I don't think heat will be a problem in the new tent with so much less light, so I'm optimistic that it will work just fine. I may even route the exhausted veg tent air back into the bottom of the flower tent, giving the girls another shot at the CO2 enriched air....we'll see... MONDAY: Got the room ready for the new tent which will arrive tomorrow, misted, rearranged, and whispered sweet nothings to all the girls. Tried out my new macro lens...need practice.. TUESDAY: Mixed up 7.5 gallons of nutes for the bloomers...ceased open sesame and began beastie bloomz. Assembled my new 4' x 4' Vivosun tent and set up its ventilation and lights. I implemented my idea of exhausting the semi-cool/CO2-rich air from my flowering tent into the top of the veg tent. Only needed 5' of flex duct, so it's got great airflow..no need for another intake fan...yay! Tomorrow I'll get the 6" x 6" x 6" 'Y' duct and connect my 6" booster fan to it. The booster fan will still be sticking into the flower tent, drawing 70 degree a/c air into the tent via direct flex duct connection, but will now be mixed with the exhausted air from the veg tent. I'm probably gonna keep the ventilation in both tents running once I've got a fully closed-loop system. The only reason I was shutting down the ventilation was so that CO2 would build up for 4 hours, but even if it gets exhausted from the flower tent, whatever the veg tent inhabitants don't consume will find it's way back to the flower tent in under a minute...and so on, and so on.. I spent a while putting together a lighting schedule that will allow me to decrease temperatures while still keeping optimal color spectrums and maintaining good light intensity. Had to empty the tent so I could get to everything...what a pain! --------------------------------------------------- FLOWERING TENT Timer #1 --- exhaust, intake (digital timer) on - 6:15am off - 2:15am Timer #2 -- primary blurple light (manual timer) on - 6:30am off - 10:30am on - 11:30am off - 3:30pm on - 4:30pm off - 6:00pm on - 6:30pm off - 8:30pm on - 9:30pm off - 2:00am Timer #3 -- all 4 daylight cobs (manual timer + power strip) on - 6:00am off - 12:00pm on - 12:30pm off - 6:00pm on - 6:30pm off - 2:00am Timer #4 -- all 4 overhead reds, sub-canopy tubes, side strip lights (manual timer + power strip) on - 1:00am off - 6:30am on - 10:30am off - 11:30am on - 3:30pm off - 4:30pm on - 8:30pm off - 9:30pm Timer #5 -- all 4 miracle LED (flowering) in corners, corner, daylight supplemental (manual timer + power strip) on - 6:00am off - 10:30am on - 11:30am off - 3:30pm on - 4:30pm off - 8:30pm on - 9:30pm off - 2:00am ---------------------------------------------- VEGETATIVE TENT Timer #1 --- primary light and exhaust (manual timer + 3-way splitter) on - 6:00am off - 2:00am Timer #2 --- blue supplementals (manual timer + power strip) on - 2:00am off - 6:00am on - 10:00am off - 2:00pm on - 4:00pm off - 8:00pm Watching temps closely.... ------------------------------------------ WEDNESDAY: My new lighting schedule seems to be working..high was 87 today, and it dropped into the upper 70's last night...schweet! I'm pretty confident that when I get my ducting in on Friday and have the closed-loop ventilation for the two tents completed, that it will drop the temp even further and I'll not be wasting so much precious CO2...and then I can ADD MORE LIGHTS and begin with renewed heat mitigation efforts!!! I'm really wanting to pump up the deep reds and maybe far reds during their 4-hour "nighttime" ...maybe more low-wattage sub-canopy tube lights, too. I guess that the girls really loved the Beastie Bloomz...much fattening happening... It was so nice being able to move Kushpialidocious into the new veg tent...more space, better canopy penetration. THURSDAY: Spun everybody around and misted with spring water..soil still moist. Temps held pretty much...86-87 all day..i changed the overhead light timer a bit so it kicks on a half hour earlier and as a result temp climbed to 89-90 for about 15 minutes, but quickly dropped to 85 when the 4 COBs turned off... when the big blurple and 4 miracle leds in the corners ( + the extra 40w daylight supplemental in my darkest corner) turned off 15 minutes later, it quickly dropped to 79.....15 minutes later...74...15 minutes later...72!!! "By Jove, I think he's got it!" I might actually be able to harvest these fuckers with all terpenes intact.👍 On second thought.😎..I'm gonna dial back the reds a half hour again (and maybe the 4 COBs), because I'm going to try switching out the 40w Sansi bulb for my extra 100w Bridgelux/Epistar 3500k COB light. (MORE POWER!) I really don't think it gets very much, if any, hotter than the Sansi 40w. I'm really hoping to keep it below 90 at all times and as close to 70 as possible at night (red zone).. new temperature test will be tomorrow. It will also be the first run with the closed-loop ventilation system in place...all ventilation will remain on at all times in both tents, and based on my rudimentary calculations, my 2 x 6" inline fans and the 6" duct booster can move enough air to circulate through both tents about 240 times per hour. I figured that like this: The 3 fans move 1,010 cfm. The two grow spaces total 252 cu ft (4 x 5 and 4 x 4) There is just over 12 feet of ducting involved in the loop, which is about 6 additional cubic feet. Correct me if I'm wrong...I'm not an HVAC guy.. The A/C kicks on, on average, every 12 minutes, so there will be a regular supply of cool fresh air injected into the mix as well. My hopes are high! (and so am I) One other interesting thing is that the addition of the 4-5 gallons of frozen water in jugs makes the substrate temp stay in the lower 70's all day long..I'm hoping the roots at least get the signal that "Winter is coming." FRIDAY: Well, shit. My closed-loop ventilation system didn't work quite right...evidently, I should have studied up on calculus. Rather than the negative pressure in both tents that I expected, both tents swole up like they were snakebit..(positive pressure?)..and temperatures in both tents started to rise...no pinche bueno. I'm sure it's my math that's off..., for example, I didn't account for the fact that the flowering tent has a carbon filter which decreases the cfm's considerably, and the intermittent flow of central air is a variable that I am also uncertain how to factor. So....I scrapped the idea until I can achieve truly equivalent intake and exhaust in both tents. HOWEVER...I did discover a trick that I will dub a "heat siphon," which is a definite improvement, but only in the veg tent. When I disconnected the flex duct from the 6" inline fan(exhaust) in the veg tent, I had intended to stub it off for now. I noticed that there was considerable "back-flow" caused by the duct booster intake fan in the flowering tent. So, the duct booster draws air from the a/c register, AND from duct which I've placed in the veg tent immediately above the light. I moved the 6" inline fan in the veg tent to to top of the tent and connected a 3' piece of duct to it that is also placed immediately above the one side of the light, so heat from the veg light is ejected into the room and partially drawn into the flower tent where it is mixed with cool a/c air, carbon scrubbed, and sent to the veg tent raining the unused CO2 down over them at about 85 degrees, which is considerably cooler than the normal tent temp. It's still not perfect.. Because the flowering tent is absorbing some of the heat drawn of the veg tent light, I'm up 3-4 degrees on average in the flowering tent, which is not what I was hoping for at all...it's now hitting 92 degrees in the flowering tent at some points during the day, and hovering at 79-80 at night, so I'm gonna have to revise the lighting schedule again..

SATURDAY 8/11: It's late Friday night..early Saturday morning..might as well start week 8! All systems are 'GO', and it's looking like I'm about 10-14 days away from starting the flush on WW#1 and maybe EM#1. I'm salivating 😍 I just gotta get these temperatures down a bit more.. SUNDAY 8/12: Yesterday I ordered a couple of 15.0 UVB 26w CFL bulbs to suspend over the girls that are the closest to finished..try to get them to ooze some more THC for me. Today I started germinating 7 more White White Autos from CKS and 4 more Candy Cane Autos from CKS. They will also be planted in 5gal fabric pots. They will be grown in the veg tent and moved into the main tent as space becomes available. The current crop will be harvested in waves, so I'll just employ stools for the new arrivals until everybody's been harvested from the current crop and I can lower the light again. MONDAY: I'm really starting to see the effects of the heat stress from this past week. So many dead or dying leaves. Temperatures are staying below 90 at the canopy and closer to 80 at the floor during the day..varying between 83 and 87 for most of the day and climbing to about 89 by sunset. It drops to 78-80 for 5 hours of nighttime. That's a shitload better than the mid to high 90's of last week, but the damage, I'm afraid, has been done.😢 EM#1 and WW#1 aren't gonna have enough vegetation left to do much else and I want to trim away the necrotic shit before it reaches the sugary stuff. There might be enough lower leaves left alive that I can just harvest the main colas and let the lower regions be for another week of swelling and flushing, but if not, they will get one more dose of tiger bloom and cha ching in 2 days, then two days later I will flush them really well and trim off all the dead shit. Let them dry for another day or two and flush them one more time really well and put them in the dark for a day before harvesting. EM#2 still has a good bit of green in her big fan leaves and will probably perk up and show me some more bud development.🙏 EM#3 hates anything above 85 degrees, so I'll probably never make her happy..😟 WW#2 and EM#4 don't seem to have been bothered by the heat near as much.👍 CC#1 and CC#2 don't like the heat at all..but they are killer dwarves and will pull through just fine.👌 I mixed up 7 gallons of ph'd water with calmag, bud candy, big bloom (no nitrogen), and a very heavy dose of boomerang and douched everybody really well. TUESDAY: The crispy girls got a big haircut today. I cut away most of the necrotic stuff on EM#1, EM#2, and WW#1. Buds should stay pretty for another few days...and wow are they pretty! The 3 plants still have enough foliage that I've decided to let them bask under the UVB lights for a day or two between flushes...see if I can't get them to ooze a little more of the good stuff. I moved them into the areas in the garden with less PAR..mainly 660nm reds and the UVBs. I also raised the lights about 2 inches. Pretty sure that EM#4 and WW#2 are within a week of finishing as well. So far, I have 3 new WW and 2 new CC sprouts planted. One WW has emerged thus far. She shall be called "WW#3" unless she earns a nickname. New photos and video clips were taken today. WEDNESDAY: I had a 100% germination success rate with the 7 new WW's and 4 new CC's! They all got planted today, but I ran out of soil (still waiting on Amazon shipment) so I had to plant several of them in smaller pots and will have to transplant them to 5 gal pots when the Happy Frog and Coco Loco arrives. They are in the veg tent for now, but it looks like I'll have plenty of room for them all in the big tent within a week or two. WW#1 and EM#1 got flushed with 6 gallons of ph'd spring water today and will have another day/night to bask in the UVB and deep red lights, then I'll put them in the dark for another day before lovingly hacking them to bits. 😜 EM#2 isn't quite ready yet..various up-close looks at her 14" cola told me that she still has time..probably only about 20-30% cloudy trichromes now, so more Cha Ching for her tomorrow! EM#4 is in a hurry to finish..betting tomorrow will be her last nutrient dose. EM#3 is a slow-poke..maybe two more weeks or more to fully fatten her up. CC#1 is gonna be a quick one for sure..maybe another week or 10 days at most. CC#2 might be 2 more weeks. THURSDAY: Mixed up a 2 gallon batch of early flowering nutes for the CC's and Bush Bitch, 2.5 gallons of late flowering nutes for WW#2, EM#4.. and I decided that EM#2 just isn't ready yet, so she got late flowering nutes as well. The pots on WW#1 and EM#1 were still very heavy, so they were allowed to soak up the reds and UV's for another day to hopefully dry out a little more. FRIDAY: WW#1 and EM#1 are still hoping for a reprieve from the Governor, but it's not looking good for them...their sentences are set to be carried out at dawn. Last night they were stripped down and taken into lights-out solitary confinement to await their execution. They were given no last meal and when asked if they had any final requests, they asked only that they be cremated in a series of small fires spanning a couple of months. 😏

SATURDAY: Well....I did it.. I really did it..I killed my best two plants! Sad but very excited. WW#1 is super sticky-icky, but doubly dank and dark. I had too much to do today to take photos and weigh all the parts and pieces, but her main cola, wet, weighed exactly 100g on my triple-beams. EM#1's main cola, wet, was 110g. She has a wonderfully rancid "odor" and will produce a little more than WW#1. I'm betting WW#1 is more whoopass, though. A few of EM#1's secondary colas weighed at least 85g. That's all I bothered to weigh today. I really don't get the point of taking the wet weight.. unless maybe you are just hoping to make a semi-accurate guestimate as to the eventual dry weight? I'd rather just wait the week or two and know how much it really weighs... EM#4 is ripe and ready. I'm gonna flush her tomorrow and let her bask in the UVB's for another day or two, then it's time for her to meet her maker. EM#2 isn't as crystally as I'd like, but she's running out of foliage, so I'm afraid she's not gonna have much more energy. I'd like to dose her with Cha Ching one more time and give her a few more days under the UVB's if possible. WW#2 is ripening well, but still has another week I'm betting. CC#1 - ditto EM#3 (Bush Bitch) - probably 10 days to two weeks CC#2 - ditto I guess I blew it by not starting my next wave of seeds a week or two earlier. I DO NOT like having unoccupied real estate in my main flowering tent. It's like an airline carrying 37 people from New York to L.A. I guess I just couldn't really fathom 9 weeks from seed to drying rack really being a possibility....wow, just wow...GROWING AUTO-FLOWERING VARIETALS IS SO EFFING COOL! Next year, I might shoot for 5 crops.😵 SUNDAY: Today was a busy day. I flushed EM#4 and did some pruning on all the older gals, mixed up 2 gal of late flower nutes for EM#2 and WW#2, then I mixed up 2.5 gal of mid-flowering nutes for EM#3, CC#1, and CC#2, and 1 gal of early flowering nutes for the new arrival to the big tent, "PE#1"..from my other diary. I'm really disappointed in my success rate on the new Candy Cane sprouts. They are either retarded and can't find "up", or they just petered out as soon as they germinated. 1 out of 4 emerged...which totally sux because I only got 2 of the first 3 of them I planted in June to grow...less than 50% success rate. 6 of the 7 new WW's came up and are growing well. So, that's just 7 total seedlings, plus the Pineapple Express girl that will occupy my 4' x 5' tent...stupid, stupid, stupid..I should have expected a shitty germination rate and procured more seeds. I think I'll try FIMing all of them this go-round since they'll have some extra "elbow room" to spread out. MONDAY 8/20: No new sprouts have emerged..😕 EM#4 begged and pleaded for another day in the "sun," so I relented. Last week I bought a little 20w Cree CXA1512 bulb that's 3000k at 93 CRI. Excellent flowering spectrum..very similar light to HPS, but just a fraction of the PAR. What's really cool is that it also registers a good bit of far red spectra, from 730-780nm! I've had that light about 10 inches away, and a 36w 660nm deep red bulb about 12 inches away, and a 12w 700nm/2700k flowering Miracle LED at about 10 inches away, and a 26w 15.0 UVB light about 6 inches away from her big twisted main cola for 24/7 for 3 days now. I alternate 4 on/4 off between the new Cree CXA bulb (far reds) and the 660nm (deep reds) and then all of them on together at "night"....and, of course, they are still getting the normal main lighting as well. Its really swelling up and practically dripping resin. It will become my new standard lighting regimen for "finishing" my ladies. I'll take a few photos before I kill her. TUESDAY: No new sprouts...😟 I harvested EM#4 today. Will yield maybe twice as much as EM#1 dry. Super sticky and super stinky. Kinda peppery odor. I lost my phone last week and my tablet is currently phukt, so no photos... My humidity was a little low and WW#1 and EM#1 were already about 80% dry, so I put them in some bigass jars with some bigass bovedas and am burping them for 10 minutes every 12 hours or so. WEDNESDAY: No new sprouts...😠!@#$% WW#2 and EM#2 are getting blasted with big blurple, 3000k, 3500k, 15.0 UVB, 660nm and 700nm deep reds, and 730nm-780nm far reds ;-) I'm really not seeing many amber trichs at all yet. It's looking like they'll get another few days in the mega-sun and maybe even another late flowering nutrient douche before I start flushing them. CC#1 seems to be in a major hurry..I'm seeing about 50% cloudy trichromes already and wow does she have a pungent aroma. EM#3 still fattening, but she will never be as densely budded as her sisters I'm afraid. Still, with so many flowers, it might produce a decent yield. THURSDAY: No new sprouts...😡!@#$% I flushed EM#2 and WW#2 with 3 gallons each of ph'd spring water and 2 tsp of bud candy per gallon. I'll let them dry out for a few more days under the mega-sun and harvest them if they are ready. If not..another little drinky-winky and off to the 'butcher' the next day or day after. I watered all the other girls with about a half-gallon each of ph'd water. I'll let WW#1 cure for another week before I sample it. When I burp her jars, the odor is like a very sour citrus fruit gone bad... I had a few tiny little branches of EM#1 that I didn't put in the hash trimmings sack, that had dried pretty quickly. I smoked it..no real taste, but I got a major "face high" with perma-grin. It needs to cure for a while. Smells kinda funky, but not very pungent. I need to get started recharging my soil pretty soon. I don't want the UPS driver hating on me but once a year from now on if I can help it. I've already obtained or am waiting on shipment of some really good stuff. This is my ingredients list: bokashi, probiotics, earthworm castings, bone meal, and biochar. I'm also gonna try mixing in some NFTG's One Shot granular fertilizer too. It's got some really good stuff in it. I planned to add my old soil to a big barrel, one pot at a time, and pour the appropriate amount of my magic composting mixture over it, add a quart or two of fresh Happy Frog/Ocean Forest/Coco Loco mix, mix it all up really well, add in another pot of the used soil...repeat....put a lid on the barrel out in the backyard in a sunny spot, and in about month it should be good to go...all the root material should be broken down completely and the microbes, bacteria, and fungi fully colonized. Now, though, I'm shopping for a compost tumbler. I'm thinking that one of those things would save me a lot of back-breaking mixing with the shovel...I'm just too old for that shit. As it is, this tent gardening is hell on my old knees. FRIDAY: WW#2 and EM#2 are gonna both be bigger and better than the #1's...so happy! EM#4 is about half-way dry. Going much slower than the first 2, so I'm optimistic that I'll end up with a better cure. It's such a fine line providing perfect temperatures, humidity, and airflow during the drying phase without also stinking up the whole house...I have the 6" carbon filter/inline fan running at all times in the big tent, a medium-room-size carbon filter/ionizer, an small ozone generator that kicks on for 5 minutes every 25 minutes, and 3 of those ionic fluorescent light bulbs on at all times...and I'm still lighting multiple candles. Started shopping for new genetics...looking at FastBuds and Sweet Seeds stuff for the next run. ....absolutely gorgeous..

SATURDAY 8/25: I prepped WW#2 for slaughter..one more good flush and a haircut. She'll have one more day in the sun, then it's a dark day and the axe. She's got a few resin leaks that I can't quite get a good picture of..looks like a drop of oil oozing out of a calyx. Makes my mouth water... Seedlings are doing well. I transplanted two of them into tall 5 gal pots and they are doing fine. EM#2 will get another nutrient douche along with EM#3 and both Candy Canes tomorrow. I'm thinking that might also be CC#1's last taste of nutes. An interesting thing about CC#2 is that while her trichromes are pretty much all cloudy and/or amber, the majority of her stigmas aren't withered...I haven't seen that before, but I've never really grown any indica genetics before this grow. CC#1 is delightfully redhaired. I jarred up WW#1 into 3 x quart jars, EM#4 into 4 x quart jars, and EM#1 into 4 pint jars (barely). Bought more quart jars later today and will rejar EM#1 tomorrow SUNDAY: I did the harvest report on WW#1, EM#1, and EM#4 today. EM#4 is now is 3 x quart jars. I harvested WW#2 today...yowsa! (see pics) I mixed up a batch of nutes for EM#3, but after a close look at everybody, I decided to start flushing CC#1, CC#2..they are both suddenly ready. 15-20% amber trichromes. They'll get a few more days in the sun before meeting their maker. I flushed EM#2 again. I'm gonna harvest her tomorrow. She's at about 25% amber trichs today! Really oozing the good stuff.. MONDAY: (queue Metallica's 'Harvester of Sorrow'..) WW#2 got the axe today and thoroughly saturated the air with her odoriferous emanations. A wondrous bouquet! The big tent is getting empty, so I rearranged the remaining girls for optimized PAR and spectra. I really need those seedlings and clones to hurry the phuk up. WW#2 is drying nice and slow in the top basket and EM#2 is now right below her in the second basket. CC#1 will be in the basket below them tomorrow...she's ready. CC#2 will also be drying in the next day or two after that. That will leave EM#3 (Bush Bitch) as the last remaining original member of this crop. Besides her, there's the Pineapple Express gift from my other diary and that's it for my bloomers. As I said before, I sure wish I had taken the fine print more seriously and believed that they'd really finish so quickly. I should have started these seedlings at least 2 weeks earlier... TUESDAY: I harvested both CC's today. They couldn't be more ripe. 68 days from seed...impressive. I just wish they had packed on a little more size in the first few weeks so that these super-sugary buds were bigger. This stuff is far more sticky and stiNky than the WW or the EM, but I'll be lucky to get 2 ounces from each of them. When you factor that in with the fact that I only got 3 of 7 to grow (one in current batch of seedlings), the taste/effect will have to be completely off the charts for me to even consider ever ordering any more of them. WEDNESDAY: I recharged 50gals of soil and have it cooking up now I gave Bush Bitch some water and will give her nutes on Friday. THURSDAY: The video I added today is the total harvested bud for this grow, minus EM#3/Bush Bitch...I'm betting she'll be 4 quart jars by herself. From right to left, it's: 3 x 1-quart jars of EM#4, 2 x 1-quart jars of EM#1, the 2 purple lidded 1-quart jars are CC#1, and the tall 2-quart jar between them is CC#2...the two red lidded 1-quart jars are WW#1, the 2.5 gallon jar is WW#2, and the 1.5 gal jar is EM#2. WW#2 was dry and went into 3 x 1-quart jars. She weighed 90g..not too bad. EM#2 is still in the biggest jar with the lid off and some bovedas. CC#1 was about 70% dry so I put it into a big jar with some bovedas and the lid open, branches intact. CC#2 was mostly dry except for her main cola. She went into a big jar after the photo shoot with the lid off and some bovedas. I feel so stupid..I had my diary listed with "published wattage" rather than actual draw wattage. My actual wattage drawn during flowering: 2000w Morsen blurple: 463w 2 x 100w Cree CXB3590: 108w 2 x 100w Citizen Clu048: 108w 4 x 12w Miracle LED: 48w 2 x 36w Higrow Deep Red LED: 48w 2 x 54w ABI Deep Red LED: 52w 3 x 1m strip LED below canopy: 27w 2 x 15.0 26w UVB: 52w 1 x 20w 3000k par38 spot: 20w TOTAL: 926w draw at the wall

WW#1: Opening the jar stinks up the whole house...kinda like if you had a basket full of lemons, limes, and oranges...and left them in the trunk of your car for a week of 100 degree weather...very sour/funky. Only one week of cure so far, so can't give a full review on taste, but it's pungent and kinda tastes like it smells...sour and funky with a hint of fresh cut oak (or is it mahogany??) I've gotten a little bit noseblind to the pungency, and now I'm saying that an upclose sniff of a bud smells kinda like a mix of the funky rotten citrus fruit I mentioned before, but doused with a little turpentine. Short/stocky, good branching able to support it's own bigass buds. The main cola was 100g, wet, and just under a foot long. Total dry weight was 85g. WW#2: Murdered on 8/26! Main cola was almost 15 inches and weighed 120g, wet. She's bigger and badder...can't wait to taste her...😍 Total dry weight was 90g. I updated my lighting to reflect actual draw wattage and my grow room space to 4 square feet because that's all that these two plants required. I think the numbers are a more accurate representation of the truth about my yield for the two White Widows in this grow. Can't wait to smoke her!

EM#1: I can hardly believe that she weighed less than WW#1..she towered over her and her buds were as big..just not as dense I guess. Her main cola was a little over a foot and weighed 110g wet. I guess she just had a higher leaf-to-calyx ratio and leaves weigh a lot less... She was a desirable EM pheno..dense, stocky, sturdy branches, very resinous...just a little too leafy. Her total dry weight was 77g. Update 9/2: 11 days of curing and it's starting to really wreak when I open the jar. Very pungent..hints of ammonia in the jar and has that sweet skunky smell when incinerated. I set fire to it today and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. It's got that same earthy taste I remember from when it was first dry, but with "herbal" tones on the aftertaste. The buzz is a really intense head high for about 5 minutes, then levels out to a good body stone. I like it. A lot. EM#4: My tablet died and I was unable to get any photos of her being harvested. Her big bent main cola weighed 115g wet and was about a foot long if you straightened it out.. All the extra branching caused by the failed FIM and super-cropping really paid off. This plant smells AWESOME...very exotic/spicy. Smells great, tastes great, excellent buzz... she was just too tall and lanky and a pain to deal with.. Her total dry weight was 101g. Update: 8/28 - I'm determined not to smoke any more of her until next week and she's better cured....well...maybe just a little....no, not until next week...well, maybe tomorrow... Update 9/2: I smoked some more today and wasn't as thrilled with it as the first time..maybe because I had just smoked some EM#1 ;-) EM#2: She is dead and drying! Her main cola was a bit shorter than EM#1's, 11 inches, but was fatter and weighed 121g, wet. One of her other colas weighed 100g. She's very similar to EM#1 (kinda leafy), so I expect her to really lose a lot of water weight. I'm guessing she'll weigh around 85g dry...time will tell. Update 9/4: Total dry weight: 91g It's only been curing for 2 days, but had to sample it. Bam! This plant was my favorite tasting EM of the crop thus far. Same great taste as EM#4, but even more pungent. I smoked about 6 quick bong rips and got a nice uplifting head buzz for an hour that leveled off to a good mellow body buzz for another hour or so. EM#3: update 9/2: She might actually finish in about 10 days or so. Plenty of time to hit her again with cha ching, terpinator, and bud candy... update 9/10: HARVESTED! This plant took more than 4 man-hours to manicure and took three 18" drying baskets. So many buds. I will be amazed if she comes in any less than 150g of dried bud which would be amazing, but considering her space requirements and duration of bloom, probably not worth it...smell, taste, and effect could still sway my opinion.. update 9/14: Total dry weight: 224g!!! (Half-pounder!) 74g of that was lower-grade bud which I'll use to make confections and e-liquid. Took a couple bong rips..she got me stoned, but she needs to cure. Still a little green-tasting.

Candy Cane was super fast just 68 days from seed. She's very short and bushy with good lower branching, She won't yield much, but is super frosty and easily the best smelling strain in this crop. She doesn't like temperatures above 85f and the later in flower she gets, the more she hates intense blurple. Here leaves just burn right up if you don't raise the lights a few inches for the last couple of weeks. They're another couple days from dry enough to buzz-sample, and at least a week away from a fair taste test. Update 9/5 Both plants taste and smell almost identical. They also grew almost identically, however CC#2 had a little better yield. The smell, taste, and buzz are great, but considering the poor germination/emergence rate and low yield, I won't be growing this one again unless the beans are free. CC#1: total dry weight 68g CC#2: total dry weight 75g 😁

SUNDAY 9/2: Feels so stupid running so many watts in the 4 x 5 tent for just 3 plants. I shut off a few of them for now....so I just have 2 cxb3590's, 2 par38 red spots and the big blurple on them. (and Bush Bitch has her own personal UVB) MONDAY: I gave the Bush Bitch a gallon of ph'd water + calimagic, bud candy, terpinator(heavy dose), big bloom, tiger bloom, and cha ching. I'll start flushing her in a couple more days. The trichromes on her main cola are about half cloudy now and maybe 10% amber..she still has very little aroma unless forcefully molested.. TUESDAY: She's frosting up a little more...I put my other UVB light on her backside today... WEDNESDAY: Her buds were hanging too low today, so I've got her tied to the roof beams for support. She's gonna be heavy...maybe even help my overall grams-per-plant ratio. The two dwarfish Candy Canes lowered it quite a bit earlier today... THURSDAY: I started flushing her today. 2 gallons of ph'd spring water with a little bud candy. I'll let her dry out for a couple days and do it again with just water.

SUNDAY 9/9: The Governor phoned in a temporary stay of execution (I had other shit to do)...she'll have another glorious day(or two) in the 'sun'! She's been flushed twice..and may get a third. MONDAY 9/10: EM#3, a.k.a. The Bush Bitch, has been terminated! I'm betting she'll weigh in at 150g+ dry...took 4 man-hours to manicure. (with a 5 minute smoke break) Her final dry weight was exactly 224g.....a HALF OF A POUND! This crop is DONE! 8 plants totaled 1.8lbs of killer bud.