1st Grow: Blue Dream GoG (Organic)

5/13: Stabilizing the conditions in the tent still. Measured the PAR using a phone app, and it showed 400ppfd. Still waiting on my later germinations to break soil. Not sure how I'm going to setup this diary since each plant will be a couple days apart from each other but I'm thinking I will count the first week as 7 days after the last blue dream breaks out of the soil. The specific days (age) will be marked on the individual photos of each plant. 5/16: This is the day the other two dreamers made it out of the soil, so this is what I'm treating as day 1, although BD#2 is 6 days old. 5/19: Some of my last amazon orders have finally arrived so I can properly manage the grow environment. Got a couple oscillating fans to circulate air, and a carbon filter to vent out the room. Not sure I'll need that until later, but it will help pull hot air out of the room when it's too hot. Got a CO2 meter as well, I'm thinking about building a CO2 generator from yeast and sugar based off a YouTube video I saw. However, that won't be necessary until the plants are much bigger from what I understand. Conditions are staying around 40-55% Rh and 68-75 degrees. Humidity could probably be a little higher while the plants are young but I had some white mold growing on the soil and I really rather not deal with that so I'm sticking a little on the dryer side. Now that things are more under control, I hope the rest of the grow is smooth sailing. :D 5/23: This concludes the longest week in history, BD#2 is ready for transplant tomorrow. And the others have reached the end of there first week. Light was increased to roughly 500ppfd at canopy level.

5/24: Transplant day for BD#2 (Day 14). Built the soil right before transplant using a 60% coco (Plantonix: Coco Bliss), 30% perlite (Miracle grow), 10% earthworm Castings (Wiggle Worm) mix. Amended with Dr. Earth Flower girl 3-9-4 (1.89 cups/10 gallons of soil), Dr.Earth All-Purpose 4-4-4 (.6 cups/10 gallons soil), and Super phos rock bat guano from aurora innovations (5tsp/10 gallons soil). 5/27: BD#1 and 3 about ready for transplant soon. 5/30: Raised the light distance, transplanted BD#1 and 3, going to back off the watering for some time until I get normal growth on BD#2.

5/31: Raised the light distance, and measured DLI rather than PAR. I am exposing the plants to 20-25 DLI (roughly 300-350 ppfd for 18 hours/day) now. The CO2 is naturally sitting around 800-1200 ppm in the growroom conveniently, so the plants should tolerate a slightly above normal light intensity for their size. 6/2: Still letting the soil dry out in the case of BD#1 and 2, might water #3 tomorrow. I have been lifting the pots to feel if they are light or heavy, and I'm getting an idea of when they need to be watered. Also removed the 1st node on BD#2 because it doesnt get much light. 6/3: Exciting stuff BD#2 grew a lot recently and was working on its 6th node so I figured it was ready for the stress of topping. I snipped the plant just above the 3rd node, so now only nodes 2 and 3 are left. My idea is to do a double mainline, and have the plant grow out in a plus-sign shape. This way I can get better symmetry and light exposure across the plant. 6/6: Did some LST on BD#2, trying to keep the branches at the same height.

6/14: Gave between 500-1000mL of water mixed with recharge, tribus, and great white myco, pH at 6.1. Also completed the training on BD# 2 and 3. BD#1 is a little behind still but that's fine the tent will get filled in due time. I'm very happy with how the plants are growing and looking, not very much I need to do for them now since the environment is staying stable.

6/17: Temp is a little high for the humidity level, unfortunately the humidifier I bought is the smallest thing in the world and doesn't make much of an impact raising the Rh. I just mist the tent with a sprayer bottle and that raises it considerably. 6/21: Huge amount of growth this week after giving them a watering with just great white myco (.25tsp/gallon) approximately 2 liters for each plant. pH 6.2

6/25: It is staying very hot in the tents, the girls are still growing good but I need to figure something out to get the heat lower for flower. Optimally I'd like to get it to stay between 75-80 degrees. I also switched the tent the plants were in because my 5 gallon 3x3 tent plants ended up bigger than the 7 gallon plants.

Top dressed using 1/2 cup 3-9-4 Dr. Earth: Flower Girl bloom nutrients + 1/4 Cup earth worm castings + 2 Tbsp 0-9-0 Roots Organics Super Phos Rock + 1/2 tsp Great White mycorrhizae. Also covered the top dress with about half an inch of coco coir, then watered about 2 liters per plant.

Not much to report, plants are getting a consistent 1.5-2 liters of water every other day at this point based on weight of the pot.

Realized that one of my plants has started herming and pollen had been spread inside the 3x3. Reason somewhat unknown, leaning towards genetics or some light got into the tent during lights out. Only BD#1 hermed so I'm not really sure, I figure a light leak would've set off some of the other plants too.

I'm following my nose on this grow, and I lost all hope on Blue Dream #1 (Hermie). The plant was producing virtually no smell besides a light skunky fan leaf smell. I let it grow outdoors for another week (taking in and out at 12 hour increments) before chopping it. The only use I see for what I did manage to harvest is edibles, a real shame. On the bright side even though quite a few pistols have been pollinated on the other 2 blue dreams, they have been developing a strong berry and pine smell and good resin production, so I'm not too sad about the seeds they will just get picked out during trim.

Both these girls smell divine, unlike BD#1 which got chopped early. Sweet berries and pine are the predominant scent.

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