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Just started this little gal, she’s popped out pretty quick. Started her with 2 other seeds and she was the first to appear. Looking forward to seeing if she’s all she’s Cracked up to be 🧐
Wow! This week saw crazy growth both on top and down below. The plant has more than doubled in size between day 12 and day 17. This is entirely attributable to my top feed change. Where I was previously top feeding 5 mins every 2 hours from the top most point of my net pot, I’m now feeding directly at the root level 24hrs/day. This prevents the RapidRooter from being wet but provides oxygenated nutrient water constantly. I’ve seen about 10 new roots appear and go to 10” long in a day. This seems to be the game changer, IMO. I’ve dialed everything in already, but this new top feed approach is proving to be the missing piece of the puzzle! Looking forward to explosive growth over the next week!
Wow, this girl is very healthy! Since I changed my top feed, she’s growing at an insane rate. Hoping to see a little more vertical height this week - I raised my light a little bit to try and induce some stretching. I’m thinking she might switch to flowering soon 🤷♂️🏻
I took of two sets of large fan leaves to expose lower growth to light. She’s still vegging but I’m hoping she’ll show a little pre-flower stretch soon! Roots look great. She seems healthy, though I may have pushed her nute level to the max.... so far, so good. 👌🌳
This has been interesting watching her grow! She’s got tons of bud sites appearing and has really bulked up this week. Roots are looking AMAZING with my amended top feeding. Really excited to see this girl produce buds! I’ve been removing the top most largest fan leaves to allow lower canopy growth - I’m doing minimal training to just see how she grows naturally.
This plant is doing great! I haven't done any training on her, only defoliating the top most large fan leaves when necessary. With that minor defoliation, the lower branches have been able to catch up and have been making her a relatively flat plant at the top canopy. She hasn't shown a lot of pistils, only small ones. However, I've switched to bloom nutrients because it appears that she's moving to flowering. We'll see what happens -- hoping she is ready to start building some nice buds! Probably 4-6 weeks left on her at least.
Plant is looking awesome. This was my first plant that I really didn’t do any major training or topping to, and I’m impressed. She has tons of bud sites and side branches, most of which have grown to be relatively level to the highest bud site. She’s just starting to show bud formation, and she grew significantly in heigh and overall size over the past week. Hoping she’ll show some nice bud formation and growth this week.
This plant is doing great! She tends to seem outstretched during the morning and more droopy at night. It’s strange, but she seems picky. Otherwise, she looks awesome. Bud sites are ALL OVER and they have some nice buds starting to form. I think I’m going to have to increase her nutrient level because she’s drinking it up really quick!
This has been an interesting plant. She really filled out and has tons of bud sites. She’s putting on some nice bud growth now, too. I’m a little unsure about the dark green leaves - I might reduce the amount of Nitrogen or something for next feed. Otherwise, she’s been healthy. I have her a defoliation at day 69.
She is really bulking up! All of the pistils are still white though, so she appears to have a bit still left go to. Maybe 2 weeks? I'm not positive....but for now she's on Overdrive. Her leaves were a bit greener than I'd like so I am using half of the bloom part A to reduce nitrogen input.
This plant is looking awesome! I did not top her, but she filled out superbly. Buds look like they’re gaining weight. Mostly white pistils at the time. I’m expecting a little more bulk over the next week. I figure she has 1-2 weeks max.
Plant is looking great! I switched her to a flush for a day or two, but will likely try and push it two days because her leaves are so green. I want to make sure she’s flushed of any additional nitrogen, as well as all other nutrients. She looks like a beast!! I feel like I could do better with my nutrient management, but I’m impressed at the results! 👍 She smells so nice and fruity...
mango is probably the best descriptor. Terpinator really pulled through on this one... a powerful smell! From all appearances, she’s got some nice dense nugs! Harvest in 1-2 days. Update once she’s dry, so 5-7 days. Stay tuned!
Grew like a champ! I think I could do better with the grow next time, particularly in watching my nutrient level more closely. Plant did well considering my mistakes.
Plant was pretty normal in terms of harvesting. I was hoping for a bigger yield...but I say that after every grow 😂 Got some good smelling bud off this plant. I’ll try it again in a few months. Really like FastBuds’ offerings. I’ll update with smoke report in a week or two.
wow , you're on week 8 and it's barely showing pistils, is that normal for this strain or something else with the grow making that happen? looking good 👌
@haftanara, haha! I agree. It usually turns out better when a plant takes its time...if only I were patient! 🙇♂️🏻 And I’ve certainly caused a few plants some trauma! I’ve snapped off fragile branches and just had to deal with it. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you can tape it back on and it goes right on with it’s life!
@@@@@Chi_Town_White_Boy, I think it's great for it to take so long. I barely got to wk6 with my WW, but that's how it goes when you play with autos and do stupid stuff like snap the main stem 💩.
@haftanara, I’m not 100% if there was an issue - but if so, it may have been too much light.
I have seen others going 6-7 weeks before flowering, so I’m not sure it’s too abnormal. Though I would have liked to see it switch at week 4.
The one thing I will say about this is that it is really shaping up to be a monster of a plant. There are tons of branches that have appeared and it is looking very healthy.
Also, even now when there’s a lot of pistols, they don’t appear to be super white. I can see buds forming, but it’s super green rather than turning really light colored right away. We’ll see what happens over the next week. She’ll definitely go 12-13 weeks. 🤷♂️🏻
I can see that you have enough experience to benefit from home made design. Check out my OG Kush grow for some photos of what I built, which is designed to keep the rootball huge and springy with lots of fine hairs. My first auto grow here was just a tub on top of another tub, super simple, the roots are in a small mesh pot and they live in the top tub, they drain to the bottom and get pushed back up.
Second set up has a separate reservoir but this time the roots fill a pot then emerge into a shallow pool. I'd ditch all those nutrients and just use GH only. You shouldn't need any calcium or magnesium either, it's all in the nutes already. You're using hydro so you can take advantage of the control you have.
Let me be clear, the hydro in a 5 gal with net pots going straight into the reservoir *do* work, and they can work well, I've seen it. But there's also so much that can go wrong and when it does go wrong it goes very wrong. You cannot get simpler than what I've designed, for a big root ball that is.
I would also respectfully suggest that you can go much much more aggressive on the defoliation. I mean strip those leave all off, you won't believe the difference it makes.
@Freddd, not gonna lie - that hydro setup is badass. There’s never a lot of standing water in your top reservoir, is there? Just constant recirculating?
I started with GH and originally switched to AN for the pH balancing and because they’re supposedly superior. Really wondering if I should go back to GH.... I got a good yield my first grow with it, but messed up other areas. Was too ignorant to realize it was me, perhaps. Are you using any GH supplements or simply grow micro bloom? Are you using silicon, floralicious, nectar, any of that?
How often are you defoliating? I have been trying weeks 1 & 3 of Bloom. Also, why do you prefer to leave the larger fan leaves on the bottom? Any reason you didn’t defoliate those?
Plant looks great man! I have a pack of fastbuds green crack myself that I'm still waiting to start.
Ill be souped if anything close to yours Syu far haha.
I do the same w/ my autos on tagging of the big fan leaves. It definitely shoots out the lower bud sites a lot more.
I' always debate to take off or leave alone lol.
Keep up good work!
@@Chi_Town_White_Boy,
Definitely agree. I actually topped my latest auto and wish i didn't haha. Told myself that's it, last timei make that mistake haha
@Finsfan, thanks brother! Every grow is a Learning experience right? I used to top my autos, and since I stopped - my grows have been much better. Managing it with defoliation, LST, and proper nutes is more important! Was checking out your diaries...impressive work! Appreciate your input! 👊🏻
I have to agree that this seems excessively slow to flower and growth in general seems very slow for a hydro set up. I think you need more root development, I'd suggest you re design your hydro set up.
@Freddd, my setup is a constant improvement, but there's not much to it. A bucket with a lid and top feed line from the reservoir. There are tons of other factors that could cause slow growth, and redesigning the setup seems like the last. It's cold here in Chicago, 70 in day and 60 at night. That could cause a lot of issues. I'm struggling with maintaining humidity in the seasonal change. My nutrient level was likely too high during the grow...that can lead to slow growth. There are lots of factors -- but I'm not sure what a redesign would look like exactly. There are plenty of hydro growers using buckets and net pots, so it seems unlikely that the system itself is at fault.
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