FastBuds Trainwreck auto 3x, Living Soil comparison

Week 1 recap: Besides FLO having a bit of a rough/slow start, all 3 coming along nicely. 2024-12-19 a little water to keep the substrate moist, nothing else FLO seems a day behind, but no rush :) BM: 4cm FLO: 3cm SC: 4cm 2024-12-20 FLO seems a bit slow on the start. BM: 4.5cm FLO: 4cm SC: 4.5cm 2024-12-21 FLO looks like she's about to finally have her Day1 of veg tomorrow 😅 took her a few days, but no shame in that 😎 Just a little spraying, so the soil doesn't dry out. BM: 4.5cm FLO: 4.5cm SC: 4.5cm 2024-12-22 Nothing besides the daily spray. BM: 4.5cm FLO: 5cm SC: 4.5cm 2024-12-23 Since I had a little issue with fungus gnats, I watered the substrate prior to germinating the seeds with nematodes. Today each pot got their second round of nematodes :) FLO seems a total of 3 days behind the other two, considering the pictures of the transplanting procedure, i should have placed FLO a little deeper, but oh well ... BM: 4.5cm FLO: 5.5cm SC: 4.5cm 2024-12-24 BM: 5cm FLO: 5.5cm SC: 5cm 2024-12-25 Soil was still moist enough from the watering from the day before yesterday, so nothing much to do really. BM: 5.5cm FLO: 5.5cm SC: 5.5cm That sums it up for Week 1 :)

Start of Week 2 Pretty happy with the progress so far. 2024-12-26 2024-12-27 Lowered the lights to 40cm and set the dimmer to 60%. Watered the pots, so that the blumat system can be adjusted tomorrow. BM: 5.5cm FLO: 5.5 cm SC: 5.5 cm 2024-12-28 Setup the Blumats. BM: 6.0cm FLO: 5.5 cm SC: 6.0 cm 2024-12-30 FLO grows weird. But, let's see what happens :) BM: 6.5cm FLO: 5.5 cm SC: 6.5 cm

Happy New Year! was away for new years, and checked back on them on 2025-01-02. while checking on FLO, there was a little accident with BM and the fly trap ... anyways, SC seems a bit more compact in statue than BM. Both did well since I last saw them. Idk what's going on with FLO but she sure grows weird. 2025-01-02 BM: 9.5cm FLO: 6.5cm SC: 9.0cm 2025-01-04 BM: 11.0 cm FLO: 7.0 cm SC: 10.5 cm 2025-01-06 readjusted the lamp to a 40cm distance. BM: 13.5cm FLO: 7.5cm SC: 13.5cm

Start of Week 4 :) BM and SC are doing pretty well and started showing sex :) as with FLO, well ... she's doing her part ... not the most impressive, but I'm sure she's giving it her best. 2025-01-08 BM: 16.5cm FLO: 8.0cm SC: 17.0cm 2025-01-10 readjusted the light's distance and set intensity to 80% BM: 21cm FLO: 9.0cm SC: 21.0cm 2025-01-12 Noticed BM and SC are clawing, SC a bit more but BM looks like slightly burned tips, guess the mixes are too hot ... for these autos at least... BM shows first pistils, guess they'll start flowering right on time at the beginning of week 5 BM: 24cm FLO: 10.0cm SC: 25.0cm 2025-01-14 End of week 4, BM is a day ahead in regards to flowering, but SC seems a bit more vital. BM: 29cm FLO: 11cm SC: 31cm

2025-01-15 Start of Week 5 :) BM and SC are spot on flowering! FLO's a little behind on that, but I'll take a risk here and say, she won't be ending up with that much flower anyway, so, no hurry :) Noticed spots on SC fan leaf. readjusted the light's distance and set intensity to 100%. BM: 33cm FLO: 12cm SC: 37cm 2025-01-18 SC and BM show signs of Calcium deficiency. BM: 37cm FLO: 14cm SC: 50cm 2025-01-18 almost end of week 5! started to gradually lower rh over the next few days from 60% to 50% adjusted the blumat on BM, soil seemed a bit too wet, the dropping leafs could have been an indicator for over watering ... the spots on SC's leafs grew in size and numbers, kinda looks like calcium def. but given the soil mixture containing garden lime, that seems rather unlikely... since SC shows clear signs of over fertilization, like clawing, my guess would be some other excess nutrient blocking cal uptake. BM: 38cm FLO: 14cm SC: 53cm

2025-01-22 Start of Week 6 :) had to readjust the lights distance again, since SC stretched quite a bit more than BM. Guess, BM will get a bit less light than SC since the 20cm hight difference. Had a little issue with the blumat, the reservoir ran empty and when I filled up, air was trapped in the system. while fixing the air issue, I forgot to check soil moisture (which was way too dry, since the system was not working for about 3 days), so, the blumats were wide open and a lot of water ran through, which then kinda flushed the soil a bit until I noticed and readjusted the blumat. BM: 40cm FLO: 15cm SC: 58cm 2025-01-24 Some damaged leaves on BM and SC, didn't want to intervene in this grow, but i was thinking about light defoliation, since BM is kinda compact with a lot of fan leaves... FLO is ... something like stretching :D BM: 40cm FLO: 19cm SC: 60cm 2025-01-26 The more I read online about this, the more confused I am of whats going on 😝 So far, claws, slightly burned leaf tips, and dark green leaves, especially during veg, were symptoms of overfeeding, at least I thought so. TIL, claws and dark leaves might also be signs of over watering, burned leaf tips alongside the rusty spots, in combination with "sharp edged" leaves and slightly purple coloring might be caused by light stress ( as per this journal, spot symptoms were first noted 3 days after setting intensity to 100%) see: https://www.growweedeasy.com/cannabis-plant-problems/light-burn Since I changed the display on my phone, I don't trust the integrated light meter calibration, so any app reading to determine PPFD or DLI is to be taken with caution. I found a lot of opinions on PPFD in regards to autos. Some say a max of 700PPFD is sufficient, some say bigger lights for bigger buds ... Since I have no means of reliable measurement, I can only trust the datasheet. That would mean, they get about 900PPFD at the moment, I would need to change settings to 80% to approx. match 700PPFD, even at this setting, the DLI (some say about 40 - 45) [ https://growlightmeter.com/lighting-requirements-of-cannabis-over-the-full-grow-cycle/ ] is beyond 50 (IF I trust my smartphones reading!) then again, if they are not overfed but over watered, this might be Phosphorus deficiency as far as the rusty spots go, at least, and right on time of high P demand ... as for the PH level: as far my understanding of organic soils, it should be able to buffer for some PH fluctuations / imbalances. In which boundaries tho, idk. So, rebalance water PH dim lights readjust the blumats for dryer soil I actually wanna understand whats happening here, so changing everything at once doesn't seem helpful. I turned the intensity down to 60% and cut out the most damaged leaves. Don't have PH down at hand, so this will take day or so BM: 40cm FLO: 19cm SC: 60cm 2025-01-27 Nearing end of week 6! turning the drip system down to let the pots dry up a bit helped with the dropping leaves. I will readjust the blumats tomorrow to match the current soil moisture level. as for the damaged leaves ... well, the small rusty spots didn't gain much in size since yesterday, so maybe turning down the lights was helpful, but can't tell yet. advanced damages keep getting worse, those leaves will have to go off, too. Yellowing of older leaves did increase tho. PH down is on it's way and should arrive tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. BM: 40cm FLO: 21cm SC: 60cm

Back from an unplanned business trip Week 7 2025-01-31 just taken the pics 2025-02-01 tho the plan was to see how well the soil mixtures keep up, obviously they are either lacking nutrients or, well, Idk what else, since turning down lights and watering didn't do much. SC got a mix of bat guano (15g) and blood meal (2g) to make up for the deficiencies, or at least I hope so. We'll see how she'll take it. BM does a rather good job with buds, considering the yellowing leaves. I'll just let her do her thing and see what happens. FLO kinda started doing stuff :D BM: 40cm FLO: 25cm SC: 60cm 2025-02-03 seems I acted too late for SC, she's having a rough time ... BM: 40cm FLO: 30cm SC: 60cm

Start of Week 8! 2025-02-05 SC got some banana tea 2 days ago, not so sure about the effects of the bat guano and blood meal ... dying leaves keep dying. BM did a LOT of yellowing in the last two days. FLO, well keeps being weird. BM: 40cm FLO: 30cm SC: 60cm 2025-02-07 Not too optimistic ... guess they'll make it till harvest, one way or the other, but that's not gonna be the best quality buds ... BM: 40cm FLO: 30cm SC: 60cm 2025-02-09 almost no fan leaves left on SC BM is holding on to hers even though they are yellow af :D FLO kinda gets a shape, but the bud sites are .. well ... as special as her grow was :P BM: 40cm FLO: 33cm SC: 60cm

Mid Week 9! Life's been busy the last week, so late and short update: 2025-02-15 Well, they did better than I expected last week tbh ... Guess they'll take another week or so :) I'll try to update some closeups of the flowers in the next few days. 2025-02-18 End of Week 9 given the problems both plants had the past few weeks, I'm not too unhappy with the buds I'll guess I'll give them another week or so, but that's pretty much it, I guess. Bud pics added.

2025-02-23 mid week 10! they made it! been waiting for the trichomes to ripen up a bit more, I'll switch off the lights tonight and will leave them in the dark for another two days and cut her then.

Harvest in Week 11! Turned the lights off on D69, chopped them on D71. Even though, there was some nutrient def. I didn't manage to compensate in both substrates, i'm not too unhappy with the outcome. I'll check back once dried!