Bazooka Winter Campaign

I prepared a sort of super soil 2 weeks before using it Light mix (plagron) 40% Coco (plagron) 25% Lombric compost 10% Worm Humus ( BioBizz) 20% Vermiculite 2% For 10L Seaweed powder (GK organics)= 4 tablespoons Super guano (Top Crop)= 4 tablespoons Bonemeal, bloodmeal (Or Brun)= 4 tablespoons Choose a CFL 300W Florastar for the firsts weeks. 16h/day Put the peat pot in a 3 L pot with the soil prepared before. Normal stretch, not too much; solid seedling. Low and continue ventilation during light period . Day 7: changed the light for the Niello 300, blue spectrum. Consuming less electricity but I needed to place a heat mat to maintain a temperature around 22 degrees in the germination room. Root Juice + Tarantula day 7

Perfect start. The micro growing space under the stairs is appropriate to begin the vegetative cycle in 3L pots: more easy to control temperature and humidity. Winter is coming, I added a ceramic horticultural heater 45W (+ heat mat 50W) to maintain 21/22 degrees during cycle day. Feeding with Root Juice and Tarantula 2 times. Sprinkle soil with dried horn and blood for low nitrogen diffusion. Frequency vaporization with rain water. It’s another story to grow photo periodic plants; it’s not a race against the time like growing auto flowering plants. May be 7 weeks vegetation for this session. Just afraid about the electricity cut during the winter. The temporaries blackout will be announced the day before….I bought a rechargeable (USB/solar) COB light to have a few hours autonomy.

Stable conditions. Winter bring low temperatures but the little growing space is well isolated. The ventilation is not really good but the plant look healthy and the growth is dynamic. I will moved the plant in the 60x90x180 cm grow tent in 2 weeks, with the TS1000 Mars Hydro, a good air extractor. This light will produced more heat than the Niello Led and will maintained a descent temperature in a bigger and more ventilated space. Waiting before topping or LST, the plant should be in the final 10L pot in max 2 weeks when the rotting system will be good. There is enough nutrients into the soil (guano, seaweed, horn,blood…), I just add some root booster and Cannazym. Placed an mini air humidificator and a CO2 booster bag.

Short plant, solid. The growing process was dynamic this week. Just focus on the rooting system for the moment, using Terra Aquatica Root Booster. The plant will be placed in a bigger pot (12L) in ten days 🎅🏼with the “super soil” inside. At the same time i will move it in the grow tent. Even if we are quasi in winter and indoor with no particularly predators around: i vaporized a preventive treatment on the plant: Neem Oil VG Garden bio + black soap + rainwater. Watering each 2 days: 20cl rain water + root booster

Healthy Plant. It’s growing good; more enlarging than stretching . Watering day 31 : Root Booster + Bio Grow Watering day 33 : Silic Boost + rain water, It’ s just a few days before changing room, pot and light.

Transplantation: 3L pot to 11L pot with the soil prepared 4 weeks before. I Moved the plant to the grow tent under the TS 1000 Same 18/6h cycle Undirected permanent ventilation Air extraction (powerful) 15 minute/2h Ceramic heater 50W Buddy Boost bag = CO2 Watering only with rain water with little ph modification this week.

First week with the final setting: grow tent, led light TS 1000, 11L pot. Temperature inside ok around 22 (less when the air extractor is on), humidity level around 60%, ventilation/extraction 15 minutes each 2 hours. The plant look good in the soil prepared before with seaweed powder, horn powder, dried blood, guano. The plant was growing slowly during the first five weeks; now the lateness is still recovered, ready for flowering. I did the topping at the beginning of the week and started to train the 2 top branches: minimum modification to control the stretch, encourage the light penetration. Watering 3 times this week:rain water :Silic Boost + Cannazym + rain water (40cl) : root booster + rain water (40cl) I’m very satisfied about the control of the plants size in the growing space : just 5 cm difference between the five different strains and seed companys. I selected 5 Indica dominant, flower cycle 8 weeks.

Day 53, It’s time to switch to the flowering cycle 12/12. The plant is well developed, dense and branched. No signs of stress, nutrients deficiency or excess, diseases or pest. 👍🏼 Topping was necessary to stop the vertical stretch and keep the same size than the other plants in the grow room. The plant is super bushy with lot of flowering sites. Watering each 2 days around 40cl of: Calmag + Root Booster + rain water : Rain water : Calmag + Root Booster + rain water Spread 3 Table spoon of Guano powder NPK 3-6-10 on the top of the soil; Bloon organic mix by “Guanodiff”

No really move this week, just a sensible change: the blooming sites are well defined, the whole plant stopped growing. This solid Indica will stay compact and bushy. The problem for now is this freezing winter. Low temperatures around the grow tent: 11 degrees at night; I placed some cardboard around (better than nothing), the little ceramic heater is still on and the light produce some heat too. But when the air extractor is on, during 15 minutes every 2 hours: temperature inside the room fall and it take some time to recover a stable and correct conditions. I must buy an extractor with adjustable speed or less power; but for the moment I can reduce the frequency of air extraction but I don’t know the limits for the plants. I placed a carbon filter: it will be essential for discretion in a few weeks. This sytem offers a sort of isolation around the air extractor: not bad by this time. 2 x 50cl Watering: every 3 days with rain water + Fish Mix.

Satisfying week, even if they’re nothing to do but watering 2 times. The vegetative cycle without stress and the homemade soils with a good nutrients balance also helps the plant to start the flowering process in a good way. The Big Bazooka is a small round bush, with a correct number of flowers growing around. Really nice and still vigorous plant. Fives weeks before the harvest: all is running good. 2 watering each 72h: tarantula (root care) + rain water Tarantula + Calmag + rain water Sprinkled the soil with 1,5 tablespoon Palm Tree Ashes Weather is still cold but the conditions are stable into the grow tent.

Flowering explosion this week for the Big Bazooka. Lot of large flowers with long white pistils are growing on the whole plant. It’s just the middle of the flowering cycle (considering 8 weeks): this Indica look on time with no signs of burnout. The leaves are still green: may be the result of the addition of Guano powder before (for nitrogen +) and of Calmag regularly. It’s a crucial week: must give the right level of nutrients for finishing the period without risking a fatal excess. 2 watering this week; 0.5L every 60 hours: - Calmag + Terra Flores + Rain water - Cannazym + Terra Flores + Rain Water

Flowering cycle week 5 done for the Holy Bush . The next 3 weeks will be the final decisive stage, one week with nutrients add before flushing. Watering every 60 hours - rain water + calmag + Terra Flores - rain water + root juice + Terra Flores 1 tablespoon Palm tree ashes on top of the soil.

Week 13 - Flowering 38 days I’m a bit dubious about this week. The flowers seems not so fat for now, I’m suspecting a problem with “fungus gnats” in the soil. I didn’t care about a few flys when I found it; but now I’m worried about the roots : fungus gnats larvae eat and damage root hairs = problem of nutrients captures. Action —-> Reaction : .Treated the base of the pfant and the soil with spraying : Neem Oil + soap + rain water. .Defoliation .Clean and treat the room but the tiny flies are hidden in soil… I reacted a bit late😠, one more lesson learned after that: in case of any insect or leaves symptoms: you must be immediately reactive, each hour count with diseases or parasites! I loose attention à few days, carrying the seeding of the next session. Watering every 60 hours . PK 13/14 + Root Juice + rain water . BioGrow + BioBloom + TopMax + rain water

Big Bazooka Flowering cycle: week 7 done. 🌸 Anesia Seed Company announce a very short flowering period of 55 days. I will wait the time needed by the plant before harvest: I count around 10 or 15 days more which are a sort of preflowering period ( 55 + 15 = 70 days) For now the plant is covered with identical pretty resinous flowers. The plant keep a solid bushy structure after just one topping and a semblance of LST . This strain is easy and well adapted to indoor: 🏅Beginners choice Fungus gnats are still into soil, flying around, some of them die, stuck down on the resinous flowers ☠️. This plant act like a drosera (carnivorous plant), trapping insects in glue but cannabis can’t digest those prey and I grabbed the dead animals with a pair of tweezers before having a mold problem. We will cohabiting with Fungus gnats till the end but I try to control the infestation: I add few drops of Neem oil in the watering mix: it don’t kill the insects but it’s repellent. Less problem of low temperatures around the tent, but it still winter… Watering 1L every 60 hours, last feeding with organic nutrients - BioBizz nutrients + rain water (+Neem oil) - Silic Boost + rain water (+Neem oil)

Big Bazooka 56 days flowering, I must start to check the trichomes maturation to choose the right moment for harvest. The next ten days will be crucial. Flowers are dense now, frosty, pistils are coloring into orange : a serious flowering. The whole plant show a great vitality even at this stage. For my latest sessions: I tried to cut the plants during a waning moon period: it’s supposed to facilitate and shorten the drying process. The scientific logic behind this idea is not so doubtful… no problem with the drying (around 2 weeks) till now. However if the plant is not ready for harvest during the next 2 weeks: I will choose the harvest day without a moon timing. Notice that the germination of this plant was during a waning moon period too: supposed to encourage the rooting. Did a last feeding with some flowering organic nutrients at the beginning of the week and gave 1L rain water (ph a little bit corrected👇) 60h after. I didn’t used too much nutrients during this session: major part was for rooting stimulation during vegetative period, and after some flowering nutrients , enzymes and Calcium/Magnesium. The enriched soil used to grow this plant (seaweed powder, horn, dried blood, bat guano, palm tree ashes, worm compost) did the job and limited the nutrients need. So I don’t need a long flushing, minimum 10 days. I installed some fly traps (yellow stickers system) used in organic culture and it’s working good; catching Fungus gnats. One more time temperatures are freezing and we loose some degrees in the grow tent, but it’s correct and may be better to ending the flowering process,

Big Bazooka week 16, 63 days flowering: job is done. Plant look ready for harvest. The smell is heavy, all sticky buds have a pretty short and thick conical shape with orange pistils and purple tones. Cloudy trichomes everywhere; a little part of those are turning amber. Very satisfying result with this high potential genetic. Used the Niello Led 300W Bloom mode (Red spectrum) for this week: it was efficient for maturation, reducing temperature and to keep the fungus gnats away from the plant (they probably don’t like this light spectrum??!!). Continue the flushing: 1L rain water + Flawless finish every 48h. Next stage in 4 days: total obscurity during 60h. The timing is good: last days of waning moon, the next session (6 plants-4 weeks vegetative cycle) is waiting for the space in the tent.

Time is coming for Big Bazooka: 118 day, 10 weeks flowering, 60 hours in dark room, no watering since 4 days. Pretty good flowers: dense, compact and super smelly. During the last days the smell was too strong, even with the carbon filter: my wife is angry about that…  « Sorry Honey, is not my fault: it’s this Spanish weed… ». I should let the ventilation system in a continue mode during the last 2 weeks, otherwise there is a sort of smell stagnation. This strain must be difficult to grow if your spot is not totally safe, or too close to neighborhood. The plant is the biggest of the session. Very bushy, lot of ramifications and flowers with a minimum training. I will cut it in a moment😢… trimming the whole plant and place it in the attic for 15 days drying.

Growing Big Bazooka was really pleasant. First try with a strain from Anesia seeds and I’m now totally convinced with this company (very friendly, serious and plenty of goodies and Seeds samples). I choose this Indica cross between Jack Herer and Big bud for the heredity, potency and short size and flowering period. Fast Germination and vigorous growth during the vegetative period. The plant stay bushy and form a canopy with lot of flowering sites. Topping week 7 and training the top branches: no stress or stagnation. The plant resisted to cold temperatures, parasites and stayed healthy till the end with a low nutrients add. Preparing an enriched soil before seems a good way: it cover the basic needs of the plant for the major part of the growing session. Just stimulating the rooting system during the vegetative period and adding calcium/magnesium, enzymes and PK booster during flowering cycle. Used 2 different lights: -Mars Hydro TS 1000 (power 50%) for the first 2 weeks -Niello 300 (blue spectrum) during 5 weeks -Mars Hydro TS 1000 (power 100%) for preflowering week and flowering (9 weeks) -Niello 300 (red spectrum) for 10 days maturation Economic and efficient set up for the room size but more power for flowering could be better for a heavier yield. I start to have a better control during this session, understanding a few things. Final result after 3 weeks drying is correct: little yield but a beautiful product and a finest quality: rich aroma, powerful Indica effect.