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Doing this 2 Fastbuds Fems, I'm really looking forward to trying their first full line of PhotoPeriods. I will just be doing small standard grows with these 2. No larger than 8L with 4-5 weeks of veg.
Seeds were put into water and one popped really quickly the other has its seed fully attached at the top, with no signs of opening. So, I'll leave it. It's not stretching just developments inside its pod.
I'll only be running these 2 off their 5 new PP strains. As I've committed to do more with new breeders, and some old ones (Breeders such as Kannabia I'll be focusing on heavily and Divine Seeds)
Strains Progress
Lemonpaya is 1 day old. 3 days since put into water. LemonP is 4 days old. Up & healthy. Looking well.
Lemonmandiran is up but hasn't popped its pod. So, still germinating. She popped up a day later. And had her seed incased for 10hrs +. So, is about 1.5hrs younger. She was further away from the light also. And the seed been stuck on her didn't help. She's up. Will continue this week as germination. As I've had 6 failures so far from clay pebbles crushing the stems. Planted them too deep. Past is just that. Happy to announce they've pushed into the veg phase. 10 or so more days in these pots then I'll uppot them. (Hopefully with intact substrate and not fall apart. If the roots haven't secured all in place. I'll cut the pots ends away and the sides once backfilled & pull from the case up. I'm hoping for really nice photo phenos here. Depending how they grow. And with no contest time is not an issue. So, lots of lst, toppings and Depending on how they grow out after a few weeks that will depend. They're hybrids so I expect an even balance. But, lemon strains typically are more sativas. So, possibly lst and 1-2 toppings and lots of HST.
Update, 22th/9 Lemonpaya is in her 7th day. Doing well. Lemon mandrian is on Day 6. Both a tad behind where I want them. Hopefully pace will pick up soon now they're rooted.
Nutrient mix is given daily. 330ppm 5.9 ph, ambient water after 1st day is mid 20s. (1 bottle of coco ph'ed mix lasts 2-3 days). I also added 1 2ml/1L of enzymes to help the root absorb nutrients with cleaner roots.
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Both Phenos are growing well. 60/40 clay pebbles/Coco. My 1st round of hydro grows in 3yrs. Picked the 2 new Lemon Female strains from 24 aka Fastbuds. Using Xpert nutrients and they're doing a great job. Just ph- a small bit. Going to grow these until I get nice full plants, and uppot them around week 3-4. Will be doing 10-14 week veg. So lots of Topping and lst work to get through. If they keep around the same hight I may double pot and do a 50cm2 hybrid lemon scrog.
Thanks to my sponsors Xpert nutrients and fastbuds for the prize. Have to say. XPERT NUTRIENTS have changed my weed for the better. Amazing results coming off my last crop of over 1800g. I'm still enjoying and the weed is as fresh as it was 4-6 months ago.
Both phenos are doing well in their 3rd veg wk. Been 21 days. Lemonpaya been the bigger phenos of the Fastbuds pp lemon strains. DOGK from Divine Seeds is really starting to pop also. Been about 3 weeks for all these girls and they're pretty happy. Like pigs in shit. Xpert Nutrients doing a cracking job in a hydro substrate. Was difficult to get them gong but the past week growth has picked up 2 fold easily
Big thanks to Xpert Nutrients for sponsoring me for the foreseeable future. At this point there's really is nothing Nutrients wise that this brand can't do. From doing over 40 plants my last run with these. Hands down, the best Nutrients I've used, ever. And, with this being my 2nd crop I'm having a smoother run and getting better results and I can tell this in the early veg stages. Which is always hard for me. As 1 crop for me, is never like the next. As I do 2 crops a year, a late summer/winter, and winter/early summer runs. At this stage it's cold. Getting the tent to stay above 20c is hard. And it's being dropping at night. Lights are on during the coldest hours but the little 100w is hot enough soon I'll break out my SP3000 and open my plants up to a bigger tent, 120x60.
Both plants are moving along really well. Having done hydro in a long time and was expecting a lot less. As I don't put the attention needed to fully get the benefits of them. But, this mix actually holds fluids well. So, you don't have to water everyday. (Well feeds i mean)
Soon I'll put both phenos which are in 2x2L pots now. And are very similar in everyway. Smell slignt different. But, have very similar girt. So, both will be grown together in 1 20L hydro pot. Lowering the pots I've to tend is the idea while still keeping a decent amount of space for a 7-8 week veg
Giving feeds every 2 days but making sure the pots don't go dry at any stage. And it seems to be sustainable at the moment. Giving lots of calmag + Enzymes/root stim feeds with weekly silica solo feeds all ph'ed within 5.5-8
Did tops on both plants as I'll be leaving them in this pots for a while. So they'll be tall.
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Plants done as much growing in 2L pots as possible they started stretching up to much. I waited till around wk 7 and then put them in a 20L hydro pot setup..
Plants had a few rough days. But, eventually they've picked up pace and growing really nice. I added a good few Silica feeds and got some good results. They're resistance to issues have increased 5x easily. And respond very fast to any fixes. The coco/pebble mix actually holds fluids for ages. So, you don't get caught out with too much with fluid needs
I'll give them at least 10-14 days off veg in this pot and then I'll flip. As they're tall. I'll be planning to apply HST just before pre fower starts and at its end.
Giving 2-3 feeds every week. 450ppm and giving calmag + other fluid intake feeds keeping the PH steady around 5.7-9. PPM 4-500.
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Unfortunately the phone I had documenting this grow has been lost for a few months. And, these pics are burning a hole.
Here's Lemon Paya/Mandarin 1 pheno each started in 2L hydro pots which were left for a long time. But, before they were flipped. I added them to 20L hydro of the same substrate. They took heavy abuse as I had to break roots for them to start growing out
(Hopefully I can backfil the both phenos progress soon) but, as I've a lot of projects. I need to start finishing ones just done.
Early on I topped as
Here's weeks 12-17 of a 9+ weeks or so flowering period here. Left ripening for a week and then harvest coming onto nearly 9-10 weeks of flowering,
(Note harvest has been done)
They were to grow in a hydro substrate. Their resistance was really strong and went a few days without feed. I made sure the substrate never dried up too much. But, could of tended more and gotten greater results. All nutrients above when mixed (base Nutrients lower the ph to 6) so rarely I adjusted the feeds (mainly water or calmag feeds). Silica feeds were the only feeds that needed strong PH-. no + ph buffer was used
As for feeds I kept the core npk feeds around 4-450 every 2-3 days and followed up the next day with water or Enzyme feeds, etc.
Thanks to fastbuds for sending me the prize. Amazing smells omg
Both are very different but also similar. One has a much more sweet aroma & one very gasey. Omg they're stinking the whole house.
Was a good week. Both phenos have ripened nicely. Both harvested together, being done in the same pot. That's always a plus.
Only added LemonPaya and will do Lemonmandrin in a few days. And update on drying of the bud. 9-12 days. The buds are super dense.
Temp 19.5-20.5c
RH 62-6
9/2/25
Overall I'm delighted with these. 17 weeks grows for me are few & far between. These 2 phenos had 7 weeks in 2L pots. And were put into a 20L pot of coco/pebbles and gives 10-14 days to recover and were flipped. I purposely grew them this shape as I had to make sure I kept them apart if hit with WPM or anything like that. As grows these long, buds this dense. And running a tent with a bunch of mixed grows from done to days into the start of the 12-12 flip.
I would have liked to run for another week on a 100w light and high doses of UV but because of such a mixed bag of grows in my tents. Running reds/uv just wasn't even attempted.
10/2
She smells absolutely amazing, buds are super big, sticky & very smelly. They're still mainly hard for the moment. And leaves not even limp. So, I removed the big fan leaves to allow air to move around better. They're hanging behind my 100cm2 tent kept out of UV rays.
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