Laughing Buddha and Sour Strawberry

Laughing Buddha on the left Sour Strawberry on the 12/6 They popped out of the soil in 2 days. I am working on getting the humidity up. It has been around 25% lately. 12/7 First leaves are coming in. I set up a humidifier in the room and got it up to 51%. 12/8 First leaves have doubled in size. The next node is barely visible on 2 of the plants. 12/9 2nd set of leaves are visible on each plant. 1st node has grown significantly. 12/10 nothing exciting. 2nd node is more visible and the first is larger. 12/11 First node is as wide as the cups. 3rd is just starting to appear. 12/12 2nd nodes are much larger you can see three points clearly on one Laughing Buddha. 3rd is more pronounced. I found someone to take the two that I decide not to keep, so they will be leaving the tent in a few days. I am hoping to keep them in the solo cups until next week before putting them in their final grow bag.

Laughing buddha on the left Sour strawberry on the right 12/13 the first node is too big for the solo cup on one laughing buddha. 12/14 getting bigger. I trimmed the solo cup to make room for the leaves. 12/15 today was transplant day. The two keepers were transplanted to 10 gallon fabric pots. 12/16. I removed the lower growth from nodes 1 and 2 on the laughing buddha and 1 from the sour strawberry. I am getting them ready for a mainline using nodes 3 and 4. I will be topping as soon as I have a comfortable place to. 12/17 slowly but surely growing. Nothing major. 12/18. They seem happy with the new pots. I set up the drip watering system today. 12/19 still growing. Both plants have the lower 2 nodes removed already. Planning on topping in the next day or 2 at the 5th once it has grown out enough. I raised the light a few inches to promote a bit more stretching as I go into

Laughing buddha on the left Sour strawberry on the 12/20 finally topped the laughing buddha. The sour strawberry needs another day or 2. 12/21 topped the strawberry diesel 12/22 nothing super exciting. Lower nodes growth is growing on both. 12/23 still growing. Lsting will start in the next day or 2 12/24. Started to stretch out the third node in either direction on the laughing 12/25 started to train the 4th node on the laughing buddha. Trained the 3rd on the sour strawberry 12/26 all 4 nodes on both plants are now being trained. The older training lines were pulled a bit tighter today. They will need to be moved in about 2 days. First fertilizing today with 1/4 strength grow big, 1/2 strength calmag, and full strength grow big. Ph 6.5.

Laughing buddha on the left Sour strawberry on the 12/27 laughing buddha is growing much faster now. Sour Strawberry is a bit slower. I moved the pulls on node 3 of the buddha out 1 subnode and re pulled them. Node 4 was stretched tighter. The sour strawberry was stretched tighter on the 4th node. They are both starting to smell just a bit when I open the tent. The 7 cups are for an experiment. I am going to graft on a handful of strains if I can get the timing right. I started with 8, but 1 seed failed. Not bad for some old seeds sitting around. 12/28 just more growth and training 12/29 watered today with about 1 gallon each plant until run off. I topped the 3rd node of the Laughing Buddha and removed already few leaves that were blocking new growth. 12/30 laughing buddha got a haircut. I removed more than i normal would. I am trying to slow the growth by a little bit to help the sour strawberry catch up. The sour strawberry was topped at the 4th node. All training lines were also

1/3 the laughing buddha was trimmed a few days ago to start forming the manifold shape i want. She was also heavily defoliated a 2nd time to give the sour strawberry another day or 2 to catch up, but it is almost there. 1/4 sour strawberry has caught up. I have the lines of my canopy drawn into shape. Now time to grow it out. 1/6 just growing and training 1/7 watering day. Mixed up the first batch of full strength nutes. Laughing buddha was showing early signs of deficiency, so definitely ready. 1/8 today was a heavy defoliation day for both to expose some hidden growth. I just noticed that buddha is also starting to show preflowers. 1/9 both responded well to the trimming and have started to fill in quickly.

1/10 nothing today. Just letting it do it's own thing today. The funk has arrived though. 1/11 morning training session for both plants. I did a heavy trim on the Laughing buddha. Also watered this morning. No nutrients. 1/12 sour strawberry had a very heavy trimming. It is so much bushier and dense making it much more difficult to work with. I am always amazed at how fast they rebound. 1/13 clipped a few leaves. Buddha is looking hungry, but i am giving the soil just 1 more day to dry up before giving a heavy feeding. 1/14 big training day and a heavy feeding.

1/17 i think we are on the last veg week. I am done training out. Now just need to let it put on some gift and in to flowering we go. Also today is watering day. About 2 gallons 1/19 i removed all the training ties. I am really close to pulling the trigger and swapping to flowering. 1/20 today is officially the last day of veg. Timer has been swapped to 12/12 starting tonight. I did not want to wait too long and have too much of a jungle. Now the real fun starts.

1/22 this is the second day since flipping the light cycle. Two 12 hour ni down. Several more to go. I gave them their final full strength veg nutes yesterday. I will start to transition over to full bloom nutes over the course of the next 2-3 weeks. 1/23 watering no nutes. 2 gallons each. Starting to see the stretch 1/24 Just tucking leaves where i can to keep new growth open. I will be putting in the 1st scrog this weekend. I will add a 2nd one if there is enough stretch. Hoping for a huge stretch. 1/26 nutes in the morning. 2 gallons each. 3/4 strength veg 1/4 strength bloom with cal mag and big bloom. It is amazing how fast they are starting to dry out. Added a scrog in the afternoon. I am setting it a few inches low to start forcing some branches to the side. I will move it up a inch or so when they have grown around it. A 2nd net will be added in about a

Laughing Buddha on the left Sour Strawberry on the 1/28 first day of the second week of flowering. Each day they seem to grow another inch or more Watered 2 gallons plain water each. Ph 6.4. 1/30 watered 2 gallons each. 1/2 strength veg and 1/2 strength flower nutes. Cal mag and big bloom. They are stretching fast. I hope this continues through week 3 2/2 the second net went in last night. When I put it in only 1 branch was reaching. This morning a handful had made it to it. Here is hoping they all keep stretching another week or 2 and fill the 2/3 last day of week 2. Watered with 1/4 strength grow big and 3/4 tiger bloom. Regular cal mag and big bloom. Ph balanced to 6.3. I always forget how much ph up I go through during flowering. Luckily I found a backup bottle. It is nice having the 2nd net up so I can see the growth speed a bit better.

2/4. First day of week 3. It is filling out the net nicely. 2/6 the stretch will just not quit. The sour strawberry growth is impressive. I still have plenty of head room. 2/7. Last night just before lights out, I gave it a pretty decent trim of the lower canopy. I removed weak lower branches and leaves that were in the way of air flow. Some upper fan leaves were removed to give better light penetration. I plan on a another mild trim in about a week or so. The upper scrog was moved down a few inches to better support the cannopy. Today is a watering day. First one without veg nutrients. Full strength tiger, big, and cal mag. 2 gallons per lady. 2/9. 2 gallons of water each. The stretch is slowing, but not quite done yet.

2/11 On to the 4th week. Day 1 starting out with full strength flowering nutes. I also did a big defoliation on the laughing buddha. The sour strawberry had a few leaves removed, but nothing major. I am very pleased with how well the plants filled out the 2/13. Watering day. 2 gallons each. No additives. The stretch seems to be finished. I am still removing a handful of leaves every other day if they block any growth or rest on any other leaf. Now is just the waiting game. I think that both of these are going to be longer to flower than most, but that is no biggie. 2/15. Another round of

2/18. Big defoliation day. I am really happy with how everything filled in. 2/20 nutes yesterday. Just waiting. The laughing buddha seems to keep filling up any airgap that I trim, but is incredibly healthy. I will probably have to trim at least once more time in a few days. 2/23 nutes today. The smell coming from the sour strawberry is a crazy fruity smell. The laughing buddha is just citrus spice.

Not much to add. Buds are getting bigger.

They are showing no signs of slowing down. I lowered the nutrients because I saw the start of burn. All better for now. Both have a light purple twinge showing. The smell is getting really interesting. Mixed together when you open the tent, it is a honeysuckle type of smell. But separately, totally different. The laughing buddha is a unique smell. Almost a funky spice with lemon. Sour strawberry just has a fruity scent.

Still fattening up. The sour strawberry is going to have done massive buds in the end. Laughing buddha is far behind, but that is no biggie. Quality over quantity. I will be giving away most of this anyway. I have found 2 seeds on the sourstrawberry, but i have found no signs of pollen sacs. Curious where it came from, but no reason to worry. I will probably grow them eventually if I like the smoke. Definitely worth playing with these genetics a bit.

They are starting to get close to harvesting. The fade has started to become very visible in the last two days. Especially on the laughing buddha. I am hoping to harvest in roughly a week and a half if the plants say they are ready. Took some close up pictures. Debating if I will wait another 8 days. It isvstill showing a small amount of new growth but I am starting to see a smidge of amber. Ideally I would wait until day 67. What do you guys think?

Last week of flowering. They will be chopped this weekend. I have been impressed by both. They have been very easy strains to grow.