CbDream

Started this Crop King CBDream fem seed on Nov 22, following their germ guidelines. I did a total of 6 seeds (1 CBDream and 5 Northern Lights) and had 100% germ rate. It was put into a mix 1:1:1 of coco sunshine #4 and perlite in a humidity dome 3 days ago. It broke ground 1 day later and had to assist the shell off today as the membrane was a bit stuck. Looking forward to seeing how this goes and want to do a sog from it. Misting the cup and dome to keep humidity up.

Growth seems slow, kinda on the cool side in the tent, fixing that issue. Seedlings looks like it’s growing ok, no burn or wilting going on. Trying to dry the media as much as possible to prevent root rot. Thinking about removing the dome, but not sure. It’s so hard here in the winter. RH is 28% in the house and dropping, trying to find a happy medium for it to grow quickly. Any tips would be appreciated.

Day 15: Finally got the media dried out and its Slow going but has gotten better. Got a new tent, so also having a few temp issues. I think I had/have some root issues from maybe being a tad overwatered in the beginning. Started a second one of these seeds and I’ll get it caught up quick. Intermodal spacing is super close, so I backed the light off.

Day 23: I’m having some humidity problems so I decided Ron run my humidifier. RH here is less than 30% in the house and I think it was causing other stunting. I seem to be having problem after problem, but I’ll figure it out. I haven’t had seedlings in quite a while and I’m not great with them haha. I moved them from their solos to 2 gal pots earlier today. Roots were nice and white and built up at the bottom of the cup. Transplanted into 1:1 perlite to sunshine #4 in plastic pots with a sprinkle of mycorrhizae in the hole. With the 25% increase in RH the plant looks and fans feel smoother. I’m ready to see some real growth here soon. I messed up my wrist so I’ve been bored at home. Started a bunch of seeds as practice as they are a free pack of mixed regular seeds from PEAK seeds. Maybe get a female or 2 to add to my veg area.

Day 29/ day 7 in 2 gal pots: Well this plant is starting to get some growth going. Grew a couple inches this week in height and width, not stretching as much as I’m used to. Light is at about 24” and running 15,000 lux at the tops. Had a bit of purpling going on in stems, so I changed up my ph to 6.1 and added some extra Cal mag to make sure there’s enough floating around.

Day 38: it’s hard for me to predict where I should be as far as height is concerned. With all the problems I had early on, it’s fair to say I wasted at least 10-14 of poor conditions. As far as previous grows have gone, this is the slowest and most confusing. I have never grown a CBD strain, or like my northern lights, a mostly Indica strain. I lower the light and they yellow and taco, I raise it an inch and they dont seem to stretch. I’m obviously doing something wrong and it’s pissing me off haha. Doing some LST trying to get lower branches out to the light and topped to promote bushiness. Thinking about upping my ballast to 75% of the 1000w and raising it to the top of the tent. Currently running 15-18,000 lumens. Thoughts??

Day 48: Plants seem kinda short, but looking good. New growth looks a bit yellow. Raised up the lights to still try for some stretch before I start flowering. LST has been done and the lower growth is starting to even out with the tops. Got a new filter for the humidifier and RH increased dramatically.

Day 51: I think I figured out the problem I was having. I believe I need a new MH bulb or it’s not producing the right spectrum with the ballast turned down to 50%. I swapped it out for the HPS to get a bit of stretch and I’ve gotten what I wanted, could use a bit more to even out with the others in the tent, but we’ll see. Plants stretched about 2 inches in 5 days. Did a bit of TYIng and defoliation, just enough to expose some shorter lower branches and transplanted into 3 gal pot. Fed according to the Botanicare feed calculator at full strength. Have changed over my light timer and tonight will be Day 1 of flower at 75% of 1000 W. Very pleased with this last couple days and looking forward to flower. *Made a date error on my last entry.

Day 7 of flower: Not blown away by this particular plant, the one I have in veg is almost as big under a shared 4 ft T5 with 4 other plants under it. Just not very vigorous. Things are going ok tho I’d say, possibly need to feed a bit heavier or add a bit of Cal mag. New growth seems a bit yellow during lights on, but lights off color looks good. I bought a new HPS bulb as the one I had was 2 years old with 5 grows in it. I’m running that at 75%. Getting nice stacking, finally got the temps and humidity as consistent as I can. Starting to see the odd pistil. Hoping to get a couple more inches of stretch in the next 2 weeks or so. I was noticing little white balls in the bottom of my water pail and was told it was calcium and to dilute my ph down prior to adding it, so we’ll see what happens with that.

Day 14: did some defoliation earlier this week to try and get light into the center of the canopy. It seems to be using up the water a bit slower than the others in the tent. Like I’ve said before I’m interested to try this strain again and do some things differently from go. Oh well. Seems to be doing ok.

Day 21: This plant didn’t stretch much at all. Like I’ve said every week, I’m interested to see what happens next time with some different techniques cuz the buds are looking good as far as my ability. They have 1/2” long white pistils. I am going to defoliate at lights out to open up the center and let some light in. I’m thinking the buds in the center may end up touching if they get big.

Day 28: I watered with nutrients early last week and had runoff of 2600 ppm. I’m not 100% sure but that seems really high, there isn’t any tip burn but it looked as if it may start, just the edge of the tip was browning. Defoliated last week and plant was stressed for a couple days but had new noticeable growth overnight. Did a watering with 1 ml/gal of florokleen with 30% runoff 2 days ago.

Day 35: The one thing I am really pleased with is the smell from this plant. It’s a sour lemon blueberry and it’s amazing. No skunky or pungent aroma. Sugar and fan leaves are covered in trichomes and there is some purpling in the top buds. I put up a diffuser to be able to lower my light and hopefully get some more light to this plant and tighten up the buds. This one seems to take almost 36 hours longer to dry out than 3 of the other 4 in the tent.

Day 42: This plant is small, but the smell is awesome, like blueberry lemonade. Trichomes production is really nice. Tops are starting to firm up some. Will be adding some Cal mag next feeding to help with that. I got a nute pack for next round to hopefully have a more even and complete nutrient regimen and hopefully more yield and quality....we’ll see.

Day 49: Well this week I did a flush trying to lower media salts. Had between 2100-1550 ppm in run off, I am between 750 and 950 ppm now in my 5 plants. Still a bit high but didn’t want to get too low and F myself over the next 2-3 weeks. I totally over fed this round and stunted bad. I know I have 2 weeks here to hopefully fatten up a bit, but I’m not counting on any scale breaking harvest. I made a diffuser out of some old 95% reflective hood tin I had kicking around. It dropped the lumens under the arc tube about 30,000 and was able to keep the light at 750w and zip tied the light to the top bar of the tent. In the pictures you don’t see that yellow line under the arc tube.....just the destruction from before. It’ll be what it’ll be and learn for next time. And starting to plan for the next round so I can be better prepared.

Day 56: This plant has a beautiful darkening going on and the scent is like blueberry lemonade and is more sour than before. I did the second flush this week. Checking every day for amber trichomes. Smell is intense when I open up the tent. They haven’t put on much mass this week. I’m just going to flush one more time and get some amber trichomes and cut it down by about day 63.

Day 66: I flushed again for the last time late last week with plain phed water. Took a couple samples to test in the vape. Effects were nice on both taste and smell of still that blueberry lemonade and trichomes were almost all cloudy on approx day 58 with lone ambers scattered sparsely. This is not going to be my best run, but it is what it is. There’s always next time. Just waiting for the media to dry out and will cut them or day 70 whichever comes first. I have got to make room for the next round, running out of room in there and had to make a secondary veg space for the time being as they got too big.

I had some problems. It’s really hard here because the temp and rh changes so much that it’s hard without running heaters humidifiers and dehumidifiers and having controllers for all. I am looking for a controller to take care of environment. The smell on this harvest was awesome, the blueberry lemonade smell I talked about the whole time. I could’ve used some denser buds, but had some light issues as I got a new tent that was shorter than my homemade 8ft. Overall pleased with the strain, looking forward to trying it again in a SOG and keep it shorter.