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Grimbol's Auto Berry by MSNL

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7 years ago
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LED/150W
Light
LED/400W
Light
Indoor
Room Type
LST
weeks Technique
Defoliation
weeks Technique
Strain
00seeds2 - 00 KUSH
Blueberry Autoflower
MSNL
Growing it
Normal
Resistance
Neutral
*If anyone read through my GDP diary, this is going to be mostly the same stuff. Unfortunately I will not get to grow these plants out to maturity. I was hit with a strong spider mite attack about 3-5 weeks ago and I did not catch it until now I am guessing. I cut them down after a few days of debate. See the week update for more details. This plant was not given optimal conditions at all and was in a tiny 1'x2' section of my veg tent. I thought I would have more room in my flower tent but it never happened. Thanks MSNL. Luckily I have two more of these going outside and one is purple! I am going to try switching to soil and autos for my next few grows most likely but I have these seeds ready to go in my little bank. Biggest learning point from this: Never bring outdoor plants into your indoor garden and change clothes if you are working in between gardens on the same day. I hope everyone can learn from my mistakes and everyone who wants to say "I told you so!" can do so now 😢 😢@B4RNS, and @Bigdaddyk
The Outcome
Week 5
Harvest
Harvested
1
Number of plants harvested
Grow Room
0.19
ft²
Grow Room size
5.26
plant / m²
2105.26
watt / m²
Tastes like
Flowery
Fruity
Feels like
100% Sativa 0% Indica

Positive effects

Talkative

Negative effects

Paranoia
Nutrients
Love these products. Definitely will continue to use them. I am going out switch to soil so I am cutting out Voodoo Juice, Bud Ignitor, and CarboLoad. The bud ignitor just isn't worth it in my opinion and after adding the Recharge to my grow I do not need anything else for the root zone really.
I was given this product as tester by my local hydro shop and I am so glad I tried it. Go back and look at the difference in my root growth around weeks 8-9 if you do not believe me. My root growth just exploded and there are so many beneficial compounds in it, I love it. I will never grow without it again. It replaced several products from the AN line saving me money and increased my root mass over voodoo? Sold.
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GrimbolTheDruid GrimbolTheDruid
7 years ago
*If anyone read through my GDP diary, this is going to be mostly the same stuff. So, sad day friends. I got spider mites and had to throw all my plants out. This is what I think happened: About 2-3 weeks ago I noticed some freckling on the lower leaves. I looked at it and thought it might be a cal/mag issue so I added cal/mag that week and went about my business. I saw it about a week later and it wasn't getting any better so I added more cal/mag. This continued for about 2-3 weeks until I finally took off a leaf and examined it under my microscope. I saw little bugs crawling everywhere and my stomach just dropped. My fiance did some quick research while I was panic ripping leaves off (see pictures) and she correctly diagnosed it as spider mites. I debated with myself and my close friend and ultimately I decided to throw all the plants in my tent away. I know that there are a lot of people who will say that there are things I could have done to make it to harvest but what it came down to is the people I take care of and personal pride. I consider myself a caregiver and I give away product for free that I am not going to use to my family and close friends. I thought to myself "Would you smoke this?" and when my answer was "ehhh, I don't know", I thought about how it would feel giving it away and immediately made the decision to destroy them. I take an immense amount of pride in my product and this hobby and if I am not going to stand behind it I would rather just start over. I grow from my heart (shout out to the Grow From Your Heart Podcast!) to help people and make sure my family is not getting unsafe product from sketchy people. To spray pesticides in flower that may hurt people and have little bug carcasses in there just goes against that in every way and is just wrong in my opinion if you are giving it away to others. If you are the only one smoking it then it is one thing to take that risk but not with your patients. I want my medicine to help people, not create or exacerbate health issues. It is also important to note that the mites had moved from my flower tent into my veg space and took over my auto berry as well. Damn things are crafty and fast. So that is why I made the decision to destroy them all after 3+ months of res changes, pruning, and manifolding on a slow vegging strain. Feel free to chime in with your opinion but I do not regret my decision. I threw out my new clones, mother plant, and auto berry I had on my veg side as well. Shout out to all the other growers out there that do the right thing by their patients. Caregivers > Cash croppers. For anyone curious, I removed everything from my tent and scrubbed it all with a 20% bleach/water solution. All equipment has been wiped down and stored in the garage away from any organic materials. I will give them until tomorrow (2 days) to air out and dry and then I will wipe it down again with bleach and wait another 2 days. Hopefully that will make sure everything is dead and will not come back next grow. That next grow should start in about a week. It sucks but sometimes it happens and you gotta be ready for it. Lesson learned. Never bring outdoor plants into your indoor garden even if it is after just a day or two. A bunch of people on here and Reddit warned me and I did not listen. Now I have learned the hard way and it feels like when your parents "told you so" haha. Thanks to everyone who stopped by along the way. Stay tuned for a new grow coming soon. It is going to be some cool new limited edition Mephisto Illuminautos. I am pretty excited. Good luck out there and always grow from your heart folks. -Grim
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DabCrab
DabCrabweek 5
This is so sad. I'm sorry that you caught mites. Best wishes in your future grows my friend!
GrimbolTheDruid
GrimbolTheDruid
@DabCrab, Thanks for the well wishes bud. You as well!
WhiteWidow
WhiteWidowweek 5
accept my condolences bro
GrimbolTheDruid
GrimbolTheDruid
@WhiteWidow, Much appreciated man, sad day for sure.
TheFairyBudMother
TheFairyBudMotherweek 2
FWIW, I use a hacked swamp cooler similar to this one that we take to Burning Man in my grow space: https://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?t=33842 It was getting a bit warm a couple weeks ago so I added that into the space, and like me, it looks like you have a little room in your humidity to go upwards. I was hitting temps like yours at 40% humidity, now it's averaging around 77 F with 58% RH in the space.
GrimbolTheDruid
GrimbolTheDruid
@TheFairyBudMother, Haha neat dude. Yeah I'm flipping my photo plants so I'm going to move the humidifier out of there into that tent and she should be alright.
BigDaddyK
BigDaddyKweek 2
Hi where is your air pump ?
GrimbolTheDruid
GrimbolTheDruid
@BigDaddyK, True. Maybe I'll add more plain water if I see burning happening.
BigDaddyK
BigDaddyK
@Grimbol,some people get great results from coco but I find the nutrients get caught and the plants get burnt , at least in DWC you can take it out 👍
GrimbolTheDruid
GrimbolTheDruid
@BigDaddyK, Yeah I love DWC I really do but not being able to control the resvoir temps is dangerous. I'm going to try out coco next run.
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grow_doctor
grow_doctorweek 5
That sucks! 😢
GrimbolTheDruid
GrimbolTheDruid
@stayfly81, Yeah a tough one for sure but it had to be done.
hempmex
hempmexweek 4
Bigger, Taller, Sativa lovely brother do you use CO2
GrimbolTheDruid
GrimbolTheDruid
@hempmex, Nope I don't use any co2 but the flowering chamber is right her to it which would emit lots.
BigDaddyK
BigDaddyKweek 2
Flying for week 2 👍
GrimbolTheDruid
GrimbolTheDruid
@BigDaddyK, Thanks dude!
JUNGLE_B4RNS
JUNGLE_B4RNSweek 2
I follow 👍
GrimbolTheDruid
GrimbolTheDruid
@JUNGLE_B4RNS, Thanks man! Glad to have you!
ClubRiot
ClubRiotweek 1
good start! looks good! 👌
GrimbolTheDruid
GrimbolTheDruid
@ClubRiot, Thanks dude. She is kind of floundering and really hasn't grown much lately to be honest. I think she is just setting up her root system before she gives me some explosive growth.
JUNGLE_B4RNS
JUNGLE_B4RNSweek 5
Shame 😢
Growlev
Growlevweek 4
Good luck!