Cookies Kush and Friends

Hello and welcome to my diary, I am very excited to be back in action after injury, in my absence I have been finishing up another run of autos that I haven't documented so this will be my 3rd run. (My last diary failed due to a hospital stay so that one doesn't count ;) ) I have learned a lot already and will be trying to improve again here, 6 plants is a tight squeeze but it's an experiment to see whether I can get a larger yield in the same space as 4. I will be working on improving my LST as so far I've been staircase shaped skeletons and have been told working in an upward spiral will give more exposure and will make larger, taller plants, which will take advantage of extra height that I've not been using in the tent each run. Unfortunately I had overestimated how much spare substrate I had and the pots are only about 9L full but this shouldn't hold me back too much as the plants will be competing for space anyway. I am aiming for 1Oz of dry per plant, if I can't reach 6Oz overall I will be running only 4 plants all the time as the extra cost in seeds, substrate etc doesn't give me as good of a ROI. New things this grow: new tent (perpetual growing here we come), new nutrients, new auto release from Barney's with Cookies Kush which was a cup winner back in 2014 when I visited 'dam, I can't wait to take a trip down memory lane after it's dried! We have 2 Cookies Kush (CK), 2 Runtz, 1 Watermelon Zkittlez (WZ) all from Barney's Farm and 1 Gorilla Cookies (GC) from Fast Buds. Runtz is becoming my favorite strain so far, loves to veg more than others in my set up, the WZ were free with the order and the first seed was DOA, I tried to give it time but the seed went black so I gave up on it, hopefully it's not an old promo, the 2nd seed is in the soil directly this time the others were all a success using the paper towel method. The GC seed was also a promo, I'm growing a couple of other strains from them but one plant was came out weird straight away and had stunted deformed growth throughout, the other had explosive growth but flowered earlier than I'd have like (probably why they're called Fast Buds), we're going to see if we can get some justice with this GC. This time we're using Biobiz because I wanted to go organic and because I ran out of Big Bloom from FF and that shit's expensive. I am a fan of FF and I am seeing good results so far with the flowering trio the buds are getting quite fat compared to last time, I'm hoping with the Biobiz line I can achieve the same or better results. Also I've gone with the Light Mix substrate, I'd been using Canna products which are very good but I figured the same brand mix will work well with the feeding schedule and it saves me from buying additional perlite and humus etc. We are going to be making some teas for the first time too, to use in conjunction with the nutrients. I got a decent deal on a 2nd hand Lumatek 200w LED, I was looking at getting another P1000 but the outsides of the tent don't get great PPF for flowering, the 200W light will comfortably cover the 0.8mx0.8m for flowering, whilst I wait for it to arrive I'm using my old blurple LED to get things going, maybe I will use the 200w on my other current flowering run whilst these plants are small and use the P1000 for a few weeks. I will be switching in a carbon filter extraction system when the plants transition to flower unless the smell gets too noticeable in which case I'll have to order another, and I had forgotten to order a fan for air movement inside which I will have by next week. These seeds went into paper towels on Wednesday 7th, and into the forever pots Sunday and photos were taken Tuesday, I will try and update my diaries on Mondays. Hopefully next week the WZ sprouts and the tent will look nicer with the blurple gone. Updates probably won't be this long in the future either, just know these ladies are going to be loved. Thanks for reading!