Barneys Farm Bonanza

wow finally!!!!!! been a nightmare few months getting these off the ground. got an amazing gift from Barneys Farm of 6 strains to diary so got to work germing. not as plain sailing as it should have been at all. My germ rate was abysmal. from 25 planted overall , i emeded with 9 strong and growing ladies. been racking my brains over how come so low as usually get about 80% at worst. used growplugs and warm dark propagation tray but this is where it is at. !. So onward and upward. on to greatness we fly. lol have got 3x utopia haze 2 laughing Buddha a g13 haze and a peyote critical in the rdwc root rapid. all running as should so far. all dialled as far in as can at this early stage. bloody loud ( bass rumbling vibration) hailia v30 air pump that is scary and impossible to stealth grow with. tried suspending it , wrapping in foam , putting in foam lined box and even a paving slab as a base. any advice more than welcome for this problem. Welcome to anyone joining the journey. your comments and advice/suggestions are more than welcome. be happy peeps

rubbish first week with nobbing up the mix.too strong and way too high ph with 30° heat too. been a fight all week to keep them alive. have now nialed ph to 5.8 and the ppm to 350(ish .) seems to have stopped them getting worse. managed to top one or two and the grow caps are racing ahead healthy and well . roll on next postt with a positive outlook i hope.

well what a poop week this has been. have ended by flushing in ph 5.9 for first few days and the older, stronger ladies have definitely missed the food source. seems like zero growth and more about resetting their systems and reopening the roots to feed. my ph and ppm with the addition of crazy 36° heat that came from nowhere and could not get it down at all , have all taken their till on the crop. lost one altogether 2 others struggling for life , nil growth etc. have now got everything where it should be and feel i now have the sweet spot for ph . lets hope there is rapid growth this week so i can get busy on lst and shaping these babies. have been trying to quieten down the racket and vibration that the dwc is creating here. our bedroom sounds like the concourse for a busy airport . bubbling pots, vibrating air pumps , churning waterpump , sucking fans , blowing clip on fans , exhaust filter sucking and spinning. STEALTH GROW MY ARSE. lol. all that effort to be stealthy with anti flair mylar, sound deadening pads on the bottoms, memory foam under each pot ...... and still it thrums away like a power station , not to mention the red (being used) light on the electricity meter , pinging away like a strobe light in a disco. heres to making it to harvest without detection !!!!

another wasted week of electricity and nutes. am so far hating dwc. have grown hydro for years then coco now trying dwc. regretting that move in droves now. way too noisy too much faffing about with "dialling in" and fuck all actual growth in nearly 3 weeks. grow error can account for some of that but been perfect on the ph and ppm for over a week and still sod all. root rot looks like trying to set in too. treated with pythoff tabs (x2) in hope of saving this crap. got a feeling i will be pulling this lot and filling this crap , expensive and useless gimmick with coco. root rapid system is shit !!!!!

After what i thought would be the end of these ladies to start from scratch , they go and surprise me by settling down into the dwcr. new growth slowly showing signs and definate size increase happening. very relieved here now and now have some new seedlings for the empty pots. . the buddha and auto have been getting on with business while the drama happened around them. i think i over watered the pinaple and has left her looking very grumpy but getting better too. The manifdling on the Buddha is going well and she took the supercropping well too. she will be a good yielder i think. onward and upward people. peace

And we are off i think. All of the buckets are full now and i can let this get on with showing me the way with dwcr. surcicing barneys will be strong against stress with the amount they have endured so far. feel like a pimp, slapping his bitches up so bad!!. will be amazed if all goes to harvest and produces. have a diary running for the hulkberry and considering a Critical one too,so wont be updating on this one for the RQS seeds. have got the PH at correct ratio now and am holding off with the canna base fir a few days to allow the guests to settle in. all good for a bumper crop. lots of new root growth happening now too. have 10 ladies over a broad range of strains. variety is the spice of life. must be fucking nuts !!

after lots of screw ups and rescues, res changes , ph research and advice from respected growers , it feels things are on the way in the right direction. The girls have been through a lot and now seem over the worst . Reading and listening to the logic behind keeping the P.H at 6.2 for RDWC seedlings and young plants to help with heat stress and also to lessen the stress of cal and mag issues. It has been a great sucess here and the first night they fed the most they have since i set this up. They are looking very green and healthy where new growth has been happening. the roots are getting bigger and longer and i can see why people talk about the roots so much . lol. i did think i had got root rot due to losing some roots into the tubs but this was due to the damamge from feeding too strong. the suspected root rot was from the Golden tree and was actually working wonders on te dead roots. . onward and upward .

New nutes correct amount of water. 120litres of water on our bedroom ceiling following a water butt tip , electricity shorted out , 40 litres overestimating for tje res so fried tje ladies from day one ( now on correct mix and amount is 90litres tital. Doh !) All so much better thanks to the great white and calmag too

update finally. having to use the site rather than the app as it freezes up. has been a very busy and productive week for the girls. They have been getting bushier and the lst is paying off now as i have a manageable canopy forming. The peyote critical is doing great and has now set off trying to take over.. Liberty haze is by far the biggest to date and i have been trying to train her a bit but she is a bushy girly. The 3 Utopia are very diff from each other it seems with one very stunted in growth but looking healthy. G13 Haze has continued to grow nicely and am hoping she yields well. The new gh nutes are amazing and really have changed everything here. My plan is to flip in the next few days so watch this space. enjoy the new pics. peace👌

Update: yeeha..... never thought i would get here after the issues along the way. all the ladies look very healthy now. flipped nearly a week ago now and the stretch is on.lol. The Peyote Critical has regrown dramatically and seems to have replaced all those leaves i took ages to strip out. the smaller growth tips jave stayed gone for now and am sure she will yield well judging by the heads forming up. Liberty jaze next to her is in desperate need of a food deflioliate now as she is bushy and loaded with growth tips and small branches fighting for space. These two dwarf the G13 Haze in the first bucket by a mile amd this is the main reason i cant scrog this crop. similar with the Utopia haze , two are a good size and manifolded but one is struggling to keep pace. Having two younger guests in the middle also kills the scrog yet... lets see how supercropping works out for them. have some cages too that migjt come in handy. still hard using app compared to web browser too but jard to see photos i have chosen properly. onward and upwards , bring on those hairs !!!.

Update : 2 weeks in flower for the ladies now all doing gr8 Have changed res and only getting 560ppm which seems low ?. any ideas. have changed to gh trio advised mix but that seems like a light feed for their flowering. Am using golden tree as a booster at 3ml/gallon now too so will be interesting to see how well it performs in this cycle. i have faith in it. The Peyote jas gone crZy and is budding in so many places i expect she will be a huge yielder. The Liberty Haze is as bug too but so many more bud sites happening. estimate at least 40 i can see easily. light penetration so far is good so hoping this will continue as buds reach up. Utopias are doing amazing too but i am now convinced i only have 2 of them as the third looks nothing like them and is tiny with fatter leaves. she may be a liberty haze i thought had died in the prop. knocked them over during germing them. G13 is a very happy lady , still looks a little thin ( even for strain) so will see what she can throw up. until next time , Peace people.

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28 days flowering for the barneys beauties and they are doing the breeders justice. cannot fault any of the girls. the smallest lady ( now know is laughing buddha pygmy) is even budding up nicely. Liberty Haze : She continues to amaze me with the amount and size of her bud sites. they are all over her and of good enough size to allow to continue without snipping off. no signs of any issues at all . she took the high mix without an issue at all too. Peyote Critical : She has now got space to spread out a little and her bud sets are growing so rapidly and joining up . She is a great size and only a couple of heads might need holding down with a bend but she may be ok. Utopia Hazes : All doing good so far. not the biggest by any means but buds forming up and with 3 of them growing , should rep the strain well enough. fingers cross3d they go crazy thick..... Laughing Buddha : Wow she is a huge bud monster of a beast already and still has at least 9 more weeks to build those baseball bat colas. Shebwill be getting all the light for her last 3 weeks as others will be cropped by that point. hoping her yield will impress me . She has a tiny sister too which i thought was a utopia but is a buddha after all. was like an episode of Maury Povich when they got put together !!!! other guests ( own diaries on here) are competing and winning in height . The smell is starting to be very noticeable when i unzip the tent. a very nice mix of weed overtones and sweet aromas when brushed against. Big respect to Barneys Farm seeds. Truly stable genetics. starting to get sticky fingers from handling plants too. Got a few pics with no hps or filter. they are sugary as hell already. going to get very frosty with so long still to go.

UPDATE: Day 35 since flip today and i could not be happier with the grow , genetics , feeds , aromas and General sight of the bud field when my tent unzips. These Barneys Farm Ladies have come through amazing as i half expected when i popped the seeds , and never expected when my lack of rdwc experience nearly killed them all. The different strains and genetics have all fell into line as best as could be expected from the final throw together. Peyote Critical has stopped vertical growth now i think and her colas are thickening nicely. She smells really strong when touched and reminds me of older strains from back when... Her response to the 4-way quadline was well worth the wait and worry. i stripped her right back before flowering and her foliage came back so fast and ready to rumble. she is a short 7-8 week finish so is a good half way through. Liberty Haze has blown me away at her size and shape now. there are so many singular sites swelling up all over her. she has reached the 1m+ height with her biggest heads amd her others are so close to reaching similar. She still needs a good strip of her leaves so can reach the whole sea of buds in her lower limbs. i didnt lollipop at all this run besides the peyote and she would have been a good candidate , although at the expense of most of the other plants. lol. her buds are stacking from low down to the full meter+ and still vertically stacking along with girth and joining sites. She should be a great yield. Utopia Haze : These arw also doing great and show their difference so much with their starfish budsets. stems are half rhe width of the other strains but the buds are still piling onto them well. They are 11 week flowering so will jave pmenty of space and attention when their neighbours are harvested. They smell very fruity and leave fingers tacky and like Spiderman for hours after maintenance. They are shorter than the other strains but do not lack bud sites in any way . Laughing Buddha ( Barbara) She has continued to impress me with her amazing comeback amd is covered throughout her structure with buds. now she is putting the girth into her too. with so many weeks till her 11 week harvest, i am investing in a chainsaw and hay bailer to deal with her !!! Her pygmy sister is still trying to keep up but lacks any of the size or bud sizes of her big sis. she smells fruity sweet though and will still add to final weigh in. Guest Rqs Critical. doing amazing with no training and only supercropping a little. She is an 8 weeker so doing great and looking so sugary. I am very happy with the progress and nute mix . The Golden tree is performing well and i am sure this has made a huge difference compared to my previous grows and stages with other boosters etc... Harvest will be here before i know it !!

update: Day 42 since flip . ppm 750 ph 5.9 room temp 24.5°c res 17°c Room is a full jungle of buds now and moving around is now impossible. I did a last big defoliate yesterday and will only tuck where i have to now. Peyote has 4 great looking mainlines with a lot of budsites along each arm. She is wide and low and covers a nice area. Liberty haze continues to amaze me. her buds are everywhere and building to over 1m in places , fattening up now too. she jas a lot of hidden smaller bud sites too. Utopias are filling out their space with so many small sites , they will need supports across them all before they are done . with so long left they should be good yields too. Buddhas. pygmy is coming along line a shorty version of her sister bit smells sweet. The big girl is amazing with her long furry colas. trying to get her good light is difficult with the rdwc needing so much space , once the criticals come out she will be moved to their space. I did manifold most of them so explains their heights but with limited roof space, i am trying to find a strain and method to stick with for perpetual. I am still convinced one of the Utopias is a different strain and it can only be a g13. the buds look different to the other two. Time will tell. I love opening the tent to the view so much , not to mention all the different aromas.

Day 43 actual flowering: Peyote Critical is colouring up beautifully now and smells so sweet. still at least 2 weeks to her finish alongside the RQS critical. She is covering a good area in the 2nd best position for light in the room and looks good for it. Being shorter than the other strains as i mainlined her quite low. Liberty Haze continues to grow fatter and her mains are huge at over 1m. she smells amazing too. her stem is thick and hardy and have ordered the chainsaw for harvest time. Utopia Hazes are putting lots of buds out in the "bramble" of thier structure. They look like they will get so much bigger with at least 5 weeks left to flower, support will be needed i think. Laughing Buddhas are both bud building and filling out. The big girl ( barbara) does look like she could support some serious weight but at this point her buds are still setting it seems. She us an 11 weeker so have to trust in patience with her. have had some tip burn from needing to change res too but is sorted now. have upped the Golden tree to 4ml per u.s gallon now so am expecting a good boost for the later flowering girls. have had to do some changing around to eliminate the obvious aroma of great weed growing too so rerouted exhaust to pull through filter to lights then out. Had two going previously. Temps have dropped to 21°c-23°c now so have to keep them warm when lights go down. Winter is coming !!

Update day 50 actual flowering : Well what a right royal cock up i have made. After so long watching the suspected g13/Utopia with confusion and amazement at her colours and smell , it turns out that SHE is the Peyote Critical in the harvest and not the beautifully 4-way manifolded imposter that i have been hailing as a peyote critical. There is no doubt it is her. profile matches her written one perfectly. She is very close to her finished flowering time and looks and smells so fruity. she is oozing oil and sugary as hell. The liberty is doing great and increasing her girth a bit now. so much on her hidden away too. She smells very citrus and lemony. Laughing buddha and her smaller sister continue to swell and with so long still left , i am excited about her final weight. still trying to single out "Who" the imposter peyote is but have only a few suspects from my germination cock ups. whoops !!! All in all still at least a week for Peyote and RQS Critical , 3 for the Hulkberry and liberty maybe and 5 still for the utopias and Buddha's. seems lime the longest grow in history now !! Also realising one of my lights is close to its end has given an explanation of the huge size difference between the room ends. too late to address now but kicking myself for such a dimple screw up. heads up , eyes on the prize , lets get some girth going. Enjoy the bud Porn.

Update day 57: Have harvested one of the rooms guest strains , the RQS Critical. (pics below) amd have created a nice space to move one of the Utopias into. The defective bulb is now obvious in plant sizes and bud production so a shuffle about was needed. Liberty Haze is so huge amd has a lot of space for herself too. Her colas are forming so well and numerous too. she smells so citrus when rubbed now. am hoping to re veg her once crop is down. one amazing strain from Barneys Farm . Peyote Critical is continuing to show amazing colours amd is so beautiful to look at up close. i think she is still good to stay put yet though and wont rush the lady. Trich colours will guide it. Utopia Hazes are both still packing buds on all through their structure. They are very frosty and beginning to go purple from temp drops too. They smell very fruit cocktail sweet. They still have a few weeks to grow even fatter and i expect i will be using yo-yo's to keep them up soon. The peyote imposter is starting to cannibalize her leaves now so i suspect she is close to needing harvesting. still working out which Barneys strain she is but suspect a 9 week flower. Laughing Buddha is huge and producing amazing pinapple smells. she still has weeks to go so i expect her to balloon very soon. I am heading towards some busy harvesting, drying and trimming now and thank the heavens for my wifes willingness to help trim up all good and loving the results so far.

Update day 63 flowering: What a busy week it has been on the farm this week. Have taken out 2 of the plants to dry ready for harvest . i dont trim or chop until bone dry to get them to use up all of their available nutes left over and convert them until exhaustion. This lessens the cure time and also avoids drying too quickly and ruining all that hard work creating their aromas. I am also a no flusher using this method too. Liberty haze is colouring up nicely for her finish and i am watching her closely now. She is an impressive girl and done barneys farm proud. cannot wait to sample her and get some photos of her out of the room, in real light , before harvest. Her stem is so thick and explains her whole footprint. I want to grow this again for sure. Peyote Critical( original thougjt one) is the girl i took out two days ago. she is hanging to dry now amd her buds look impressive. not quite Litre bottle size but close. she smells so sweet too and is covered in sweet sticky sugar. harvest coming soon on her. Utopia Hazes are continuing to purple up and they all couls have done with being the good end of the room. their size is stunted because of the loss of light. They look amazing but are smaller than should be. no 3 has been out under the good ligjt now and is building her bud sizes better already. Once their is space from next plant out ( Liberty) , then i can shuffle them into the peak positions for their last 2-3weeks. Laughing Buddha continues to impress but her pygmy sister is a victim of the lower powered light too. she will only yield a very small amount seeing her size. so well formed too. Have moved the soil grown into better position and she is responding very well to it. Busy time ahead still with 2-3 weeks till all out for harvesting so have sharpened the shears and got the bags ready. Love this time of anticipation.

Day 69 flowering: The Peyote Critical is dry and ready to trim for her harvest Tonight. She smells very fruit punchy and a sample bud nearly gave me a " whitey" as i overdid it with the dosage. lol. I have taken the Hulkberry out too for drying ( has her own diary) and also the RQS Critical( 60g dried bud). This made space to move the other ladies around and under the full working light. I took the Liberty haze out today at 69 Days from flower start ( not flip!). She was definitely ready to come out and her colours up close are so beautiful She is huge and has at least 30 decent bud sites. I struggled to get photos of her in such a small space so had to hang her just to get her all in a shot. Her colas are big too , hopefully she will topple my biggest yielded plant at over 10oz. The utopia has all been moved under the stronger bulb now so hopefully will finish this week better. They are very oily and smell of diesel oil and fruit. Not sure they will yield too much thanks to duff bulb but they look amazing and i cannot wait to try a bud of it. The Laughing buddha's are finishing up nicely now. Sadly the stunted one wont yield much at all but smells so pineapple. Her bug sis in growcaps soil is a monster like the liberty Haze so with only 1 week odd left. she is right under the 600w duff bulb close. Fingers crossed all will be done by next week and harvest reports can begin.

This lady was an easy strain to grow. once trained she took care of herself. she survived a lot of silly rdwc mistakes on my part in the beginning and still produced a nice smoke with no hermies. Would recommend it to anyone wanting a nice steady grow

Day 79 flowering update: All the Girls are now hanging to dry untrimmed. The Liberty is very near ready to trim along with Utopia#1. The G13 haze and is a few days from trim ready. Laughing buddha looks amazing now she is done and the mini version looks the same. She let out a burst of aroma as i cut her roots out , i a last ditch attempt to pull those pollinators in. She smelt amazing of pineapples. The purpling on her has made her look even more exotic now. Soon be a complete harvest and some finishing numbers.

I cannot be happier with this star from Barneys Farm. She has been a dream to grow and work with throughout .She was by far the best producer and widest lady in the room and i will be going with Liberty again. I want to try the Gorilla zkittelz and orange sherbet so bad too!!. I woukd recommend this strain to growers of all skill and am confident that a great grower would get amazing results. I am more than happy with 5oz off one plant in a faulty light set up. brilliant genetics.

After a terrible start and nearly killing these girls , its a miracle to have gotten to harvest never mind without getting hermies. Testament to the Barneys Farm Genetics yet again. They were easy to grow and even left to it after a basic manifold , they produced well. Realising too late into flower that i had a failing light their end of the room , i could do nothing but watch them stunt in size of flowers compared to their neighbouring strains. I did not imagine they would produce 160g judging by their small size. There was a lot of hard chunky bud sites but they were spaced far apart on the thin branches of their frame. i did support the. towards the end of the grow and do feel they would have been amazing with the full light working. Their Purple colour is beautiful and has maintained since week 3 of flowering. They are by far the best looking buds i have ever grown myself close up and will be on my future plans for sure. Thanks Barneys farm

This lady had a bad start and never really recovered. she stayed so small throughout the grow and being under a failing ( not realised till way too late !) hps light made it worse. She was perfectly formed and tried to keep up with her neighbouring plants to no avail. She oozed oils during late flower and her feel was more greasy than sticky. She has dried to rock solid ,dense , dark purple buds that smoke beautifully. I am happy with her 37g for such a small plant and would happily grow this again( but properly!). Another amazing Barneys Farm strain.

Wow we finally got to the last harvest. This has been a massive learning curve on the rdwc front for me. I have had ups ,downs and round and rounds with it from water disasters to a virual toxic garden and they have come through strong in the end. I look forward to more barneys strains now and plan to use a few of these girls again Thanks for hanging in with me. good luck with your grows GanjaGrandaddy