Augustus Gold (Gold Glue x Mango Runtz) - Mephisto Genetics Tester

Seed starts it's life in a wet paper, inside a ziploc. After successful germination, the seedling will be moved into a nursery sleeve that contains Build-a-Soil Light. The seedlings are generally coved with a plastic water bottle to keep humidity up until transplant. Directly after 'transplant'. Full nursery sleeve placed into 5 gallon of coco when tap root hits bottom of sleeve.

Day 14. Starting using water halo around day 12. Out of all the testers this run, Augustus started out with the strongest vertical growth out of the 3 Mango Runtz crosses. I hadn't noticed at the time, but you can see signs of the new growth tips curling, which was an early sign of a nitrogen toxicity.

Day 22. Lots of leaf tucking to try to slow down the vertical growth by giving the lower more light. I'm sure the excess nitrogen ended up slowing down the growth of this one. Leaf tucking did a great job of evening out the canopy, the lowers shot up when given the chance.

Day 31. The struggle continues on the leaf tucking. Started doing some LST to even out the canopy. This is when I actually noticed there was a nitrogen issue.

Day 39. Flowering started, all LST has ended to reduce stress. This was the tallest in the tent for a bit, so was getting a little light stress, but was soon to be taken over by the 505 Headbangers in height. Starting plucking some lower buds to reduce larf.

Day 45. Stacking the main cola very nicely. DLI is on point due to having all plants at a similar height. Looking like a medium sized plant. Not much of a fade or color change compared to some of the others in the tent, yet.

2nd shortest in the coco testers at 38 inches tall. Buds stacking nicely. Slight light stress issue from being a little more central light than I wanted so turning the Medic Grow Smart 8 from 60% to 40%, bloom button on since day 30 (which increases red spectrum for flowering). The stuff on bottom is salt and recharge build up.. it can get pretty bad getting late into flower.. You could probably spray it to wash it off but shouldn't be an issue. To make sure my pipes to floraflex are clean, I run SLF-100 every week in one of the waterings.

Slowly lowering nitrogen as we progress through flower. Sitting around 34 DLI and temps have lowered quite a bit in the grow area, contributing to some additional color change along with the lowered nitrogen.

Love how quickly the Gold Glue started showing and coming out to play, surprised by the purpling also. Not the tallest but fairly compact with some large colas.. Not much training, trimming lowers that start dying or where things seem congestated.

Beautiful top down view. Getting close! Maybe too much of a nitrogen drop for this one? Weekly reduction of lower leaves continue, and some uppers that start getting a little to crispy.

Beautiful plant to watch transition through its phases. She's plump and the trichomes are glistening. Awesome experience with my first Gold Glue cross. Finished at day 80.

Tropical and gas. 319 grams dry