Future #1🎵

The development on this girl is amazing! The leaves appear slightly droopy, and judging by the color of the aztecs the soil isn't in perfect balance yet. I suspect the compost added in the layer under the top soil hasn't finished decomposing or the roots has hit a nitrogen hot-spot, causing slight stress to the roots, but the condition is not severe enough to warrant any corrective action at this stage. I will allow the plant to acclimate and compete for resources alongside the Aztecs. While it is still somewhat stout, the thick stem is a promising indicator of growth potential, and I have high expectations for this specimen. --- I synthesized dilute nitric acid (HNO₃) due to restrictions on purchasing. I avoid using phosphoric acid (H₃PO₄), given its tendency to precipitate various soil ions, preferring instead to derive phosphorus from potassium hydrogen phosphate (K₂HPO₄) and using HCL in small amounts 1-3ppm Cl, and if more pH- is needed I use HNO₃. With access to hydrochloric acid (HCl) and calcium nitrate (Ca(NO₃)₂), I utilized a closed-loop gas recirculation system with copper as a catalyst to generate HNO₃. The system included a triple-barrier setup with diluted hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) to absorb nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) and nitrogen tetroxide (N₂O₄) gases, thus converting Ca(NO₃)₂ to HNO₃ without venting any gases. This controlled approach minimized exposure to toxic NOx fumes, which are both harmful and wasteful if released. Once gas absorption was complete, I added all the condensed liquid to the main vessel, mixed it and titrated a known volume of potassium hydroxide 10mg/ml (KOH) drop by drop into 10ml of the acid, mixed with a pH indicator to verify the concentration of the resulting nitric acid. I then diluted the acid to approximately 2% HNO₃(1,91%, 0.303M), as this concentration reduces the risk of skin irritation and staining upon accidental contact, compared to the hazards of 69% or fuming nitric acid. Even if 3% conc is still legal w/o papers in most of EU I felt 1-2% was more my to my taste and in line with the 1% HCL and 0,75% phosphoric acid used as pH-. Added 2 ml of ~2% HNO₃ (0.303 M) to the 1400 ml nutrient solution to lower pH from 6.8 to 6.5 while providing additional N for improved seedling vigor. HNO₃ was selected over H₂SO₄, H₃PO₄, or HCl due to its dual function: it supplies bioavailable nitrogen and effectively solubilizes calcium into Ca(NO₃)₂, enhancing root uptake, whereas H₃PO₄ would risk forming insoluble calcium phosphate and sulphuric acid turns calcium into insoluble calcium sulphate, while HCL works, but Cl is just needed in trace amounts ~3ppm, so yeah HNO₃ is king, espec for veg, but also for flowering in limited amounts as the plant needs N in all stages of its life-cycle, less so in flowering phase, but then I don't worry muchb about pH reaching close to 7 so less acid is used. Every ml of N-acid increases NO3 by roughly 19ppm, so 1-5 ml is OK even in flowering phase and I rarely go beyond 3ml/l even in veg.

I have decided to flip the plants to 12/12 next week. Exceptional development and the fact I won't have room/light if they expand much further FLOWER it is! Given how much they have grown so far I rather flip now and get a little feisty bushy plant. As the other plants need room too, and I have no room to spare as all plants in the grow-space, earned their spot and has a special place in my heart by now, surviving my ordeals and sub-optimal grow-conditions and challenges; withstanding my trials, where 1-2 plants come out as winners, while the husks of their 20-200 competitors (depending on variety) are still decaying in the soil. Hopefully I can keep them hydrated and they keep up the good work; so far... ...so good!

First week 12/12 flower, very little smell and no pre-flowers yet. As her development has been such a success I flipped her earlier than I'd normally do, but if she keeps this pace, she will outgrow my limited space if I'm not paying attention.

Don't want to jinx the grow, so I won't say things are looking good, but what I can say is she doesn't look bad right now. I'm impressed by the girth of her stem, it will help her push nutrients to the buds later into the grow.. Preflowers are forming and she has begun spreading subtle but pleasant notes of sweet cofee without any skunkiness.. Very interesting and much to my liking. A reaper-7-pot-chili can be seen in photo #3 and also 30 tobacco-hybrids a cross between (N. Tabacum x N. Rustica), that I look forward to see if I can get viable seeds from later. Removed all the aztecs at the base of the plant, they didn't like being in the shade of the hippie and I needed something to vape quickly. Excellent peppery nicotine burn on exhale! Vaped at low temp just turning the aztecs light brown and re-introduced it to the pot as fertilizer.

Another uneventful week! I will lower the TDS slightly by decreasing nitrogen a bit further for the oncomming week. As I am pretty satisfied with the calciumlevels I'll keep Ca(NO3)2 at current level, cut back on nitric acid in favour of phosphoric acid. Shifted the pots- position with SFLK to get a more even distribution of light on the sides of the plant. The plants has taken on a more musky smell of coffee, a a stronger coffee aroma, and very little to none of the regular herbal-vegging-weed notes I'm used to; me gusta! :) I hope this mature scent keeps developing in this direction, as I'm intrigued how fcking awesome a cured jar of coffee-buds would be! xD I dug up all the aztec-havna-hybrids, growing under the hippie-plant as they were getting close to zero light at this point and I wanted to preserve these specimens as it was a pain in the ass to fertilize the cuban with pollen from the aztec; netting a fail to success ratio to 1:50 where just 1 out of 100 flowers led to viable seeds, only one of 2 fertilized pods had germinating seeds and just barely, where I normally get like 1000 seeds where most germinate I now ended up with a capsule like 1/10 the size of a normal seed-pod and it just containing roughly 50 seeds, a lot smaller than normal and just 30 of them germinated compared to close to 1000 from a regular havana pod. 99% of the havana/cuba flowers auto-aborted on polination and I suspect the 2x pods that didn't abort was due to a fungi that has been living alongside my tobacco ever since I ended my Ipomoea Tricolor LSA-project and the fungi transmitted from one of the 17 seeds, still live in the soil and in all of the tobacco plants, leading to deformed flowers, and zombie like plants, who keep growing even when like 100 other tobacco plants die from molt, these are like 75% melted/withered stem, but then the deformed plants just dries up the infested parts and the plant keeps on developing, producing it's wierd looking flowers and the cycle continues (50% speculation & 50% bro-science). I also moved the reaper-hybrid seedling, a cross between carolina-reaper & seven-pot-brainstrain-mustard as it would probably too succumb to the lack of light in a matter of weeks and planted it in my 100l compost bin, already populated with papaver somniferum, thyme, oregano, aztec-tobacco and carrots.

Both plants are transitioning at a sub-optimal pace, slightly inhibited by lack of phosphorus in the soil, slight excess of nitrogen and lack of space & light. She is giving off an extremely strong cotton-candy-sweet -smell, zero herbal notes, just a pure- sweet fragrance; loveit! :) It's nice to have about zero skunky/herbal notes in the grow-room as I have no urge whatsoever to grow loud skunky strains at the moment. I find myself bent over this one more often than I'd like to admit, sniffing in the sweet aroma; my precious! Mental note: keep the nitrogen lower at flower transition, espec when the soil is full of tobacco-compost, bone & blood-meal xD **This specimen has the purest scent of sweetness I've ever grown! I know they named it --Future #1, but my project name will be 'The pure'. I've never stumbled upon a strain before that is just sweet, not herbal sweet, not sweet with a touch of lime; NO! Just sweet! xD.

Just giving it some water.. She is giving off a sweet scent of sour-lemon-candy at the moment. Still not a hint of herbal-musky smell, just a pure --sweet-citrus-candy.

She is giving off a sweet scent with some citrusy notes, stealthy and more the smell of some nice lemon-candy and not a hint of skunky weed.

I harvested and chopped down some chili-plants to free more space for the GD projects. Upgraded from 2 plants sharing 50W to 100W/plant. As I havn't defoliated or removed anything both plants has a lot of lower branch popcorn-buds forming in need of maturing 😅. As she is nearing harvest i cut back on nirogen this week, and she is already showing signs of being low on nitrogen, but I'll just keep giving her balanced nutrients for another 1-2 weeks and see how things develop. The trichomes are observable without any magnification and are allmost flourescent under the LED, the abundantly clear trichomes are slowly turning cloudy & the buds are slowly starting to swell/get fat & dense! ~14more days of not fcking things up and this is going to be very tasty, but stronk smoke! 👍😝👌 --Patience.

Pushed some high PK nutrients on her this morning, and havn't decided yet if I should just let her dry now, just add water or keep feeding her.. We'will figure it out :) Still no amber trichomes, so we'll just keep pumping! 👊😆👌 --✅ Full Bloom! She has taken on a more mature fragrance this close to harvest. The sweetness is now less intense, with notes of sour candy emerging more and more as the days until harvest draw nearer. As this grow is soon over I'll prepare some o'l chili-pots for the next grow, a CBD rich one to counter this one, and also out of curiousity as I'm eager to find out how cookies made with CBD-express will feel like, and also how the buds will taste and what the effects will be when vaping it.

Much of the sweetness is now replaced with a piney-mango-scent, but still with sour candy notes in it. As she looks frostier this week than last week and barely any amber, I'll just keep going for another week and see how things are developing. I think this might be the best contender so far to my DIY -- Face Off OG x Chocolate Diesel in terms of frostiness! :) I added another round of P, K and CalMag as she is still producing new flowers and I don't mind her foxtailing, I kinda like the idea of stacking flowers on top of flowers with little to zero leaves involved :) Tricomes are still not ready, and I'm now just waiting for the trichome-heads and stems to swell more and go from clear to cloudy and chop when roughly ~25% are turning amber.

Nothing out of the ordinary, apart from me adding some nitric acid to the mix to lower the pH, which reflects in the leaves, re-gaining some of the green color, though just barely... It was a last minute decision as the runoff was hitting 8+pH and I was already capping phosphorus and I didnn't have any avaliable HCL to turn the abundance of OH ions into H2O, by adding an acid. All good though as she keeps producing flowers and buds are constantly getting bigger, denser and frostier! Barely any amber still, so will run her another week, maybe 2; I'm not in a hurry :) pH currendly on her food -5,5 to get a runoff at ~6,8. It's like she is drinking the nutrients, keeping the acid-part and excreting OH ions! xD I will keep feeding her a LATE-BLOOM mix @666ppm heavy P-K with a pinch of CalMag and just some dilute nitric acid to keep pH in check! (1,1ml HNO₃ ~2%/liter nutrients). Close to harvest now, yet far from over as I want that amber forming to bring out the heavy effects of the plant. This hybrid could be harvested week 8 flower, but I appreciate the solid genetics making it possible to push the limits w/o her herming on me! I want the buds frostier!:) I did a little taste test from one of the lower branches; pinching off a popcorn-bud and vaped it in my DIY foil vaporizer on the stove; I was being careful to not take too much. The taste is very smooth and has notes of mango & pine, making it a treat to inhale, exhale and enjoy the effects kicking in almost immediately. It's a balanced hybrid, numbing the body and the head, and giving a tingling euphoria followed by deep relaxation, where listening to music; hugging the pillow felt like good idea. Needless to say 👍😍 --I like this one a lot!

This strain feels like the most accurate representation I have experienced so far, where the product presented being the actual product you get. Even the picture on their page looks a lot like the plant I ended up with, just mine being slightly frostier ;) Unless any contender catches up within 2 months (my last grow-cycle before going 100% papaver), this one will forever be my all time favourite; --the sweet piney/mango --tricks of all trades -the vodka of weed; perfect for everything ---smoking, vaping and baking! !!!BOOM!!! -- 👆😎 -- Það var það með það :o)