Runtz X Baby Grogu - Bellota Seeds

alvaroGraciaL In 4 days, the little one has germinated perfectly. The dome is kept on to maintain air humidity. Homemade air pot designed by me and 3D printed.

alvaroGraciaL Nothing to say, just growing. Today I has removed the "tupper greenhouse" as I think 45% natural air humidity is enough for now.

alvaroGraciaL The little one is growing perfectly. For now, it doesn't need any nutrients; with what’s in the soil and the mycorrhizae that were added in the first week, it should be fine for at least two or three more weeks. I'm interested in having it develop a well-branched root system with the Air pot so that when I transplant it before flowering, it has fully colonized the substrate and can comfortably expand into the new soil. An apical cut has been made, amputating only the apical bud. The leaves are large and have a very nice lobed shape.

alvaroGraciaL Another week. The growth has been slower because I cut the apical tip and the plant has had to distribute energy among the rest of the buds. I did a little LST and removed the branches that were left on the back.

alvaroGraciaL It seems to have reacted very well to the apical pruning. I've tied the plant to encourage the growth of the side shoots. I want to have 6 or 7 tops. Every day I tie the tops a little to distribute the branches and start forming the structure of the plant.

alvaroGraciaL Good growth, the plant is starting to fully develop after the apical pruning and the strong ties I've applied. By accident, one of the tips that was going to be apical broke off (things happen). So, in the end, the plant will have 6 main tips. I'm going to try to clone the tip that broke, but it's too small, it only has 1 node, so I don't have much hope that it will root.

alvaroGraciaL Here comes the good part. Transplanted to a final 25-liter fabric pot with a mix of substrate, perlite, homemade worm humus, and a little bit of Plagron bat guano. I've set up a SCROG net and I estimate that in 2 more weeks I’ll be able to switch to flowering with the surface well covered.

alvaroGraciaL I keep tying, bending, and grabbing. Today I did foliar feeding with Big One and a bit of barrier (I'm not a big fan, but I have it and it should do something). I added sprutniz because I see a few small traces of red spider on the leaves, and it's better to prevent now that there are almost none and I'm in the vegetative stage.

alvaroGraciaL Finally, 2 days ago I changed the light schedule to 12 hours. I made the last apical cuts (the same day as the photoperiod change), taking the opportunity to take a couple of cuttings (the previous one died, I forgot the propagator open and it died at 45% outside humidity). The plant is slow, it has very slow vegetative growth, but it’s already branching out, I’ve filled almost the entire surface of the cabinet and it’s ready to stretch and go 20 cm above the net if everything goes as planned. The next two weeks will continue with defoliation and tying work. For now, I’m not fertilizing, just big one which is mainly a stimulator, it doesn’t have much nutritional load. In the substrate mix, I added a lot of hummus from my own worm composter and bat guano. Being a slow-growing plant, it doesn’t demand too many nutrients and the intense green color of the leaves indicates that it’s loaded with nitrogen. I probably won’t have to fertilize until the third week of flowering.

alvaroGraciaL This week I did a good defoliation of the lower leaves during the first week on a 12-12 schedule. You can already see the first pistils scattered throughout the plant. I will continue defoliating progressively over the next few days to avoid leaf congestion that hinders ventilation. The work is done on the lower part; there are 4 or 5 large leaves left that are catching the light that sneaks through some gaps in the canopy. As the upper branches develop, I will completely defoliate the lower part. The pre-fertilized substrate included worm humus and a little guano and mycorrhizae. For this reason, the plant should still have food for a couple more weeks. Next week, I will add a small amount of base flowering fertilizer and molasses, depending on how things progress. The leaves have a very nice bluish-green tone, and the plant looks healthy and happy. I added a small handful of worm humus on the surface.

alvaroGraciaL Very good week. It's stretched out and looks beautiful. It's very, very healthy, and throughout this week I've been progressively defoliating up until today. I'm going on vacation this week, and my entire garden is under the care of my girlfriend, which has forced me to pot the cuttings earlier than planned, fertilize earlier than planned, etc. I hope everything stays just as good when I get back 🙏 The cuttings are in the 18-hour zone with cuttings from other plants and the Zombie Kush from Ripper Seeds, which will move to the flowering cabinet later 👌 The Zombie is growing faster than the Runtz x Baby Grogu did; it's going to get too big. Here are some photos of some San Pedro's and Peyotes that I planted from seed this past year. Merry Christmas to whoever reads this!

alvaroGraciaL The structure of the plant is finished, from here on I'll be doing small defoliations here and there and that's about it. This week I've been out of the house on vacation and it's been left with minimal care (a couple of waterings with the pH adjusted by eye). I'm glad to see that the stretching has finished very well. With the net, I've achieved a pretty uniform surface of buds all at the same height with a difference of 6-7 cm. My grow tent is very small and I've managed a really good distribution of buds. I'll have to see if for future grows it’s better to distribute fewer tops or if this style is fine.

alvaroGraciaL The plant is beautiful, growing strong and healthy like a true champion. It has started to show purple tones on some of the upper leaves and pink on the underside of many others. Since I don't have a follow-up on the strain and it's my first time growing it, I can't tell if it's genetic or a slight potassium deficiency. It doesn't seem like potassium because the lower leaves look healthy. Today I fertilized, and if throughout the week I see that the tips don't burn from excess, I'll start to alternate a bit of pk13-14 in the watering.

alvaroGraciaL This week I increased the nutrition quite a bit, I wanted to push the plant a little more to the limit of nutrition. I've calibrated it pretty well because only the tips of the leaves have burned a little and the buds have started to fatten up like crazy. It has a soft but spectacular sweet cake smell. It doesn't require much more work than watering and fertilizing. If the buds get too fat, I'll have to remove some leaves to improve ventilation, but for now, I'm very relaxed.

alvaroGraciaL The buds keep fattening up and the leaves are turning purple. A lot of resin, very sweet soft smell. The next watering will probably be the last one I fertilize with a bit of PK and then just water, as I estimate it has about 2 weeks left.

alvaroGraciaL The plant is already 1 week away from harvest, so nutrition has been removed except for a little CalMag and PK. The important work is already done, it has about 1 week left until cutting, with 8.5 weeks since the switch to 12-12. Healthy, trichomes still a bit transparent.

alvaroGraciaL Harvest week at 60 days, the last 3 on the terrace in the cold. They have a spectacular smell and a lot of resin. Some leaves have turned almost black. Very happy with the result. Smells like sweet lemon cake and a little bit like diesel.

alvaroGraciaL Just as I said above, I'm very happy with the strain, the best weed I've ever tried. An amazing smell and taste, sweet with a tremendous strong indica high. Aesthetically very, very beautiful with those colors from red to black. The grow went really well, without any mishaps or problems. I noticed a couple of leaves with spider mites in the last two weeks, but I didn't even have to treat it. The strain isn't the easiest; it has quite slow vegetative growth and struggles to root (I've taken many cuttings to try to get S1 seeds). It has a moderate stretching of about X2 (more than I expected). I fertilized the plant well (not optimal, but still very well) and pushed it to the feeding limit until the tips started to slightly burn; it's not a very greedy plant. The final harvest was 82g of very uniform dry buds in size, completely covered in resin, rock-hard, and very aromatic. I also got 5-6 grams of delicious dry hash of very, very good quality with a tremendous high. - Average yield: 400g/m2 Light yield: 0.98 g/W *The light is adjustable and was only at 100W for the last 10 days, the rest of the time at 75-80W. An average calculation has been made. A completely recommendable strain. I still have 2 more seeds that I will plant. If they resemble their sister when I grow them, I will definitely buy more seeds from this breeder.