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For my second grow i will be attempting main-lining a sativa inside my small tent. I am excited to be growing Barney's Farm Laughing Buddha, and decided to germinate directly in rockwool cubes.
They popped through within 24 hours and have grown strong ever since.
Mostly due to my first grow taking a bit longer in flower and drying, these girls spent too long in the germination tray and by the end the high humidity and the cotyledon got a but fuzzy and some leaves were starting to yellow.
About 2 weeks in i introduced some light nutes to their water and they really appreaciated it, but they were more than ready to go into the tent by the end.
The girls responded extremely well to being placed into the DWC. I did leave them a week longer than i would have liked before the first topping, so the amount I removed seemed rather extreme, so i am sure the recovery time will be longer too.
Sorry for the late update! But, I will have 2 weeks to post today😁
The girls recovered well from the first topping so they got the second topping today.
Recovery a bit slower than i would like, all the new growth stayed yellow longer than i would like and you can see some stress damage on the leaves. Hopefully they continue to recover.
The girl on the right is having a much harder time with the stress and is slower to recovery with some gnarly growth. Not surprising since the other one has been stronger right from seed. Hopefully she doesn't fall too far behind! Second topping coming soon....
Another week with more vigorous growth from the lady on the left.
More gnarly growth and much slower recovery on the right, but i will not give up on her. I did the final topping on them this week. Some of the growth is very small but i just feel i need to get the stress over with so they can finally just start filling out.
I am finding the pH is starting to drop towards the end of the week. Getting down to 5.4 range, so i have been upping it to 6ish daily. Keeping the nutes pretty low until i see more growth
I am VERY anxious to see them both just get past all the training and start to fill out for flowering!
This week was all about recovery, and it seems soooo slow. I am patiently waiting to see that fast new growth to start popping up. I expect this veg process to take a full 8 weeks, but i think it will be worth the extra time and work.
Cleared off some stress damaged leaved and was able to start some lst on the girl on the left, trying to spread her out and keep it's canopy in line with her little sister on the right. She continues to be slow but steady, and i am confident she will take off once she can turn that corner.
Another slow but solid week of recovery, with some defoliation of some damaged fan leaves. The girl on the left seems to have turned a corner and is starting to stretch upwards and fill in nicely.
Wow! Most exciting week in the tent yet! Started off by increasing nutes to about 680ppm but i was really starting to get the pH dropping and was having to make adjustments 2 or 3 times a day. So i did a mid week change and took it down to about 480ppm and things were much happier, by the end of the week it had dropped to 380ppm and i was topping off 2L a day.
Meanwhile the girls just continued to happily fill out. Growing many new nodes very quickly until they started getting crowded, then they started to stretch. The bigger one doubled in height this week and is overpowering the little girl, so i have cleared some fan leaves to give her as much light as i can. I have waited as long as i can for her to catch up but it is all about the big girl now and she can wait no longer!!! time to flip!!!!
Well the big girl didn't take long to completely take over the tent!
Its a shame my tent is only 3'x2' because the vacuum sucks in the sides and it seems i only get 18" of depth. She is happily growing and filling out the space she has and has pushed her little sister right over! I should have removed the little one, but i just couldn't give up on her.
I received some registered mail from Amsterdam this week!! Thank you @Female_Seeds and @GrowDiaries ! These strains looks excellent and i look forward to trying them in future grows. I shared a few of them with my master grower friend so hopefully he will give them a try too. You can see what he did with the Laughing Buddha seeds, I asked for 1/2 ounce and he gave me 4 buds and each one was 4 grams or more!!! At least before i ground up half of one 😁 Just beautiful and fluffy and yes they smell glorious @JohnnyBlaz3!
It has been a daily argument with her as to how high the light needs to be and one day i must have let her get too close because she received some light burn on 2 fan leaves. Stretched another 6 inches this week but it starting to slow down now. At least i hope so! I am quickly running out of verticle space now in my little tent!
Several of my colas have stretched more than the others so tomorrow i will do so light training and hopefully get my canopy set. I have also cleared much of the weaker growth down low and the odd fan leaf up top to make room for each other.
I started adding some Sensi Cal-Mag since my source water is from RO with a ppm of about 5, and she seems to be happier for it. I wasn't chasing the pH nearly as much this week, if that makes any sense.
I have a nutrient question. With full strength Advanced Nutrients Sensi Bloom should i still add Sensi Cal-Mag? Starting water is RO 5ppm. If yes, do I use full strength cal-mag or just add some to top off water? Or is full strength on both too much for those minerals?
Hey Cultus, great questions ! You're right : for sure add the cal mag , the other nutrients dont really contain any micro/secondary nutrients that the calmag has. Second question : yes go full strength, dont worry : you cant really go overboard with the cal mag, at this stage it's very important to add micro nutrients because of the flower stretch and the flower and bud production use a lot of micro nutrients. Hope this helps ! 🚀
Well i got my tallest colas moved out and the shortest pulled in, and i have a decent canopy, but i think i should have done it at least a week earlier, while still actively stretching. Another noob lesson learned.
She's done stretching now but the Laughing Buddha has more than doubled in height since i flipped her. Now the buds are starting to REALLY fatten up!
First week on full nutes went pretty well. I have noticed some brown tips and edges, so maybe a bit of nute burn. I also had not calibrated my pH meter for a couple months, and it was reading a bit off, so maybe that had something to do with it, as well. I will be sure and calibrate monthly from now on.
Thank you GrowDiaries and Mars Hydro for the newb of the month prize. Penny at Mars was great and allowed to me upgrade to the same Mars II 400 i already own, so now my lil tent is maxed out for light👍 Did a little light LST now to spready my canopy to absorb all that light. I love seeing them grow and swell up daily!
Hard to believe i am only half way through the recommended flower time!
So! Short week! Had some issues with nute burn starting to show at the last water change, and it only got worse. Its been like 10 days on full strength but i think my girls just happier with less so i have took it back down to 3/4.
Also, I wanted to clear off some of those damaged fan leaves and clear up and ended up defoliating quite a bit! Really opened things up, and it seems like it was the right thing to do with my limited space. I hope to add this to my "shouda done that earlier" list and not my "newb mistake" list!
I was fortunate to visit 4 very impressive Laughing Buddha ladies at a master grower friends house, and wow!
I know mine won't look like that in 3 weeks lol, but i am motivated!
My girls much happier now with reduced nutes. Damage done with lots of brown hair and I feel like i have lost a week of growth, but FINALLY i am seeing lovely little white pistils popping up all over her, And all the growth 12" below the canopy that was starving for light before has darkened up and started fattening up!
The smell is glorious as they continue to swell up! Lovely new white pistils all over the tops has me very excited for the final 3 weeks!
Not much time for photos and updates because i have been very busy clearing space, planning and preparing a new grow tent! I am having too much fun doing this, mistakes and all, so i cant wait to see what i can do with that much space! I think i can let 4 of these Laughing Buddha beauties grow to full potential or 6 indicas.
The smell is just amazing! The top continue to fatten up. More yellowing of the leaves as she gets older! Probably last week of nutes before starting to flush!
I can not say enough good things about this strain. I have been looking for a sativa for a while and have tried a dozen strains and i have found several i like, But Laughing Buddha checks all the boxes. It is an excellent daytime smoke, leaving you feeling creative and energetic. You immediately want to get up and start doing things. The THC content is very high and i find it gives me moderate relief from my peripheral neuropathy. The smoke is very smooth and the taste is fantastic, immediately recognizable sativa that has a sweetness to it.
A 10 star strain for me all day long
No shortage of newb mistakes with this grow, but i was able to respond and recovery. To list a few of those mistakes: I left them in the germination tray far too long. The first topping took off too much and i never gave them enough time to recover. I should have removed the small one early when it was clearly behind. I was slow to train the fastest growing nodes and a couple of my main nodes ended up below the canopy. I did not defoliate the upper fan leaves until late and the lower buds did not really start to grow untill i did. I over did it trying to go full strength with the nutes. I was slow to respond to the nute burn and did not correct the problem for a week. I am sure there are more than i am forgetting.
Despite my mistakes, i am very happy with the results. Once i dialed in my nutes, they absolutely loved the Advanced Nutrients lineup and they finished much stronger than i would have anticipated.
They hung for 3 1/2 days they went into Cvault 2L containers with boveda packs and got burped daily and the moisture level normalized after about a week, and i took my first taste after 11 days. First smoke of the day and i was shocked at how smooth and tasty it was already. The effects were immediate and fantastic. I keep burping the containers every few days and it just keeps getting better A++ smoke!
Big girl gave 205 grams and wimpy managed 11 grams giving me 7.7 ounces. Probably not enough for the time this grow took, but for the size of the tent i am every pleased with those results.
I am even more pleased with the quality and effect!
Thank you all for following along, Great community here on Growdiaries!! I have 2 new diaries started, so follow along and see if i can ramp up the mistakes to match the big new tent! And i am doing an outdoor coco coir grow, that one is just asking for me to screw it up LOL
She hung for 3 1/2 days and is now starting to cure! Update coming soon to all those following along, plus i have 2 new diaries started! trying some outdoor im sure to fuck up plus some super cropping clones from both these girls!
@JohnnyBlaz3, Hey man, thats cool, definitely an industry on the rise in Canada. I have acrtually applied for my ACMPR licence, and less than 2 miles from my house they are building a 1.2 million square foot cannabis greehouse (yes thats 23 football fields), BUT i am only interested in growing my own. The licence will just allow me to legally grow 10 plants and store 1lb dry😃
@Cultus, awesome! cant wait dude so damn excited to see my first buds.......13 oz from one plant dried hey. 25 years growing vs my first grow. lets see what I can do! I'm gonna get my bud tested after out of curiosity and I would like to use my grow to help me to get into canadas legal cannabis industry! cant wait to see some buds on our girls dude!
@JohnnyBlaz3, I have actually, when i ordered these seeds, i shared some with a friend who has been growing for 25 years. A couple weeks ago he gave me a bag, and wow, he did really good with this strain. 13 oz dry from one plant with big fluffy buds the size of peaches. It is a fantastic daytime smoke, leaves me very energetic and the thc content seems very high. It definitely has a very sweet fruity aroma and the taste is strong with that typical sativa earthy hops flavor @Barneys Farm nailed it with this strain, now hes growing one of my Peyote Critical seeds and hes got 4 clones going of the Laughing Buddha!👍
They look gorgeous! I am week 6 flower for laughing Buddha and you can tell by the buds that these are high quality genetics, good luck for harvest day!! Gonna be a good one!
As long as the defo was “selective” u should have no issues with a little cleanup at this stage of the game homie. I still trim regularly through flower and when warranted. To date 🤞no issues. She’s lookn great buddy! Her neighbour got straight bitchslapped outta the light but it happens right! Lol. Here’s hoping for smooth sailing to the finish bro👊
@Cultus, meh - I really wouldn’t worry about that at all dude. Pistil hairs can go through a number of browning phases during flower and it may not of been you.🤔 either way no grows ever perfect. 👍
@TheBudWhisperer, HAHA! yeah she sure did. Thanks brother. Doing everything too late seems to be the theme of my mistakes this build, lol. She has reacted well, with all the lower foliage darkening up with the extra light. I did have alot of pistils turn red prematurely, at least partially from my club hands banging around in there since its worse at the front, but nothing i can do now.
looking good with the manifolding . Beautiful strsin and can take a hell of a beating without skipping a beat. I have two going and the smell of fresh pinapple that comes off them is crazy. i am in rdwc with one who is a midget it seems. The other was a growcaps sponsored competition that i entered then exhausted the soil with a 3 month veg time,nearly killing her. I started feeding normal nutes bit thought she would not survive, i couldn't have been more wrong. She is a beast now and still has about 4 weeks to go. nice choice of strain , flowering time is a bit lengthy bit should be worth the extra yield.
good luck
@Cultus, wow thats a yield. i see how though. With so long still to go on her finish and and now moved to a better spot in the room , my lady is heading that way too. Their colas go right from the bottom of the branch , so if you make sure light can reach the middle stem using manifold or cages ( i did both too allow more control while training but un restrained now) it helps form rounded colas better. The flowering time is a bit of an off putting part but the smoke should be worth the extra few weeks.
watching with you mate.
happy gardning
@Ganjagrandaddy, Thanks bud! I bet the smell is amazing, even now i can get a nice aroma when i open the tent, i cannot wait for flower! Good to hear on the resilience of this strain, as i am sure to cause alot more stress on these girls before they go to flower. When i got the laughing buddha seeds, i shared 1 with my master grower friend and he said it grew like a beast. He had it with some of his Critical Kush (indica) and it was overpowering them and hogging all the light so he had to top 18" off. Normally he doesn't top or anything, just lets them go.
Well today he called me up, cause his Laughing Buddha finally finished and cured and ready to go. Says he got 13 ounces of dry!!! amazing! He says he never got that big long main cola but all the buds he got were like the size of peaches! Well about 2 hours ago i smoked my very first LB and wow, what a great daytime smoke, i have been energized every since. The smoke was smooth and notably fruity is flavor and aroma.
I think this could be the sativa i have been looking for, now i really cant wait to get them to flower!
nice! looking great my friend, your girl really stretched and now got some nice buds forming! will be smoking that buddha in no time.......wait buddha has a long ass flower time, we got another 2 months before we smoking anything ahhaha
@JohnnyBlaz3, My sampler of Laughing Buddha is about to run out, and boy am i gonna miss it! This will be my go to daytime smoke! BUT< as of today i think i am at least 40 days from harvest😢
Hey buddy! growing the same strain, lets keep in touch. plants look healthy, I will follow along, I'm tryin to learn about training and scrog as i'm going to fill a 5 x 5 tent canopy with 3 plants. I noticed the plants seemed strethced a little in veg "week 1". does this help with scrog or kinda just happened
@Cultus, I started the flush last night!! picked up some flawless finish. has amazing reviews and if its all hype it was only $20 but tons of people swear by it
@JohnnyBlaz3, ready to start the flush! but i am getting a pouch of my buddy's LB tomorrow so i wont feel rushed to harvest😜 Plus working hard on the new tent! almost ready now, just waiting on a few fiitings to finish up the plumbing. Very exciting around here!
I just caught up on the whole grow now dude. 2 things - #1: I’m stealing that eyelet idea for the lid - why I didn’t think of this myself has me vexed. Really cool👍. #2: I’m sure the pics don’t do it justice but I can see why u held on To the smaller one before realizing it was gonna get overrun. That would’ve been a tough call at any point during training. Really nice grow dude - informative with great photos👍. Cheers👊
@Cultus, u know it’s funny u mention that (and thanks for the advance tip/hack). I’ve been working with cheap plastic storage containers as well and they’re proving themselves more trouble and bs than if I’d just gone out and grabbed something thicker and stronger. And as far as the little one is concerned - is what it is when u gamble with a smaller space (sometimes it works out evenly). Until recently I was growing inside a <2sq/ft space and I always got greedy with 2 plants👍 Lol
@TheBudWhisperer, Thanks man, i appreciate it!.👊 The eyelets are very handy, its so easy to pop a new one in if needed. The rubbermaid has began to crack under the weight of my big girl, so i had to rig up an old arrow shaft and hook to prevent disaster. So i will have to rethink for next grow. Yeah, the little one. lol. I just kept thinking is was gonna get there just be a bit behind, hehe.
And n board for this one too dude👍 Interested to see how thy do in the same res. U find the roots overcrowded or all good? Only ask cuz I’m on a hydro grow right now and would’ve gone with 2 plants in a similar container if not for some germ. Issues.good luck with the flower show they’re lookn great👌
@Cultus, holy crap I see it now - that’s all really just the one plant😳. She certainly filled out that tent eh! Lol. Mines the same size res. so it’s an easy benchmark. She’s Rollin dude👍
@TheBudWhisperer, Thanks Bud! The roots are about the only thing that isn't over crowed in there. My reservoir holds 30 litres of mix. They are, however completely intertwined. Another of my mistakes with this grow is not removing the small one as soon as i noticed it struggling. I don't want to do it now because it would cause too much damage too the other one and leave a ton of dead root material rotting. So the little one is flowering, but, it is too far from the light to develop anything more than popcorn.
Cultus
