5) FastBuds / Green Crack Auto - 2nd Try

The beginning of this week was the beginning of the stretch. And since the girl on Day 36 was already the largest plant I had ever grown by that date, I felt I had to make a decision. If you read my diaries for some reason, you know that I concluded a couple grows ago that Day 42 seemed to be the perfect day, typically, to switch from my 65 W veg lamp to my 95 W red spectrum lamp. But the way this girl was growing made me second guess that idea. I've mentioned in my diaries several times that a too-large plant is kinda my biggest fear in doing this. So at some point this week, cant remember exactly which day and that's not even important, I decided that switch day would be Day 49. I didn't see any reason to hypercharge the growth of stems and branches on this one with red-heavy full spectrum light. So a very ceremonial thing that is supposed to happen at the end of Week 6 would not this time. I would continue to try to theoretically suppress the growth of this plant with blue spectrum heavy light. I'll discuss what I think about my lighting decisions in this grow in Week 8. But another thing occurred to me about all this. I don't really have a way to definitively prove that whole blue spectrum vs red spectrum thing anyway, do I? Not without risking time-wasting mistakes, right? It's kind of like Pascal's Wager. Better to believe in the blue-spectrum theory than it isn't. So I'm staying with it. It seems to have worked so far, anyway. Was surprised she didn't smell at all. Consulted with Google. Google told me not to worry about it. So I stopped worrying about it. Google would ultimately be proven right. Thanks Google. Couldn't have done any of this without you. Put that on my tombstone. 😂🤦‍♀️ Want to discuss something else. Fertigations. They happen twice a day from Day 2 with me. This week, I went from feeding 600 ml per feed to 1.2L per feed, which would be the amount given at each feeding until the end of the grow. But I have to admit something. Occasionally.. A few times every grow... If I come home stressed or angry enough from work... Yes, I miss fertigations. I admit it. I'm not a perfectly diligent farmer. And since it hasn't cost me anything yet to make these mistakes, I'm likely to keep making them. I've never been a perfect metronome. Oh well. I can see why soil is a good choice for most. Coco coir is demanding.... but also rewarding.... and in my situation it's the only choice. The best thing about coco is that it makes you visit your plant twice a day.. You end up giving your plant more care because of this... So you LST and defoliate like a champ, cuz you're constantly looking at her. But some also believe that coco grows simply yield more than soil grows due to its quasi-hydro nature. And finally, I've heard soil bags can come with bugs sometimes? My cat would love it.. 😼 Have a great grow day.