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FastBuds Mix Auto Pack #1 💜

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Elite Light Emitting Diodes/100W
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Elite Light Emitting Diodes/100W
Elite
Grow Tent with Mylar
4 x 4 grow tent
Fan
Tall Oscillating Fan
Dehumidifier
Dehumidifier
Perlite
Custom
Soil
Custom
Coco Coir
Custom
Indoor
Room Type
Topping
weeks 3, 5-6
Defoliation
weeks 5-6
Manifolding
weeks 5-7
LST
weeks 5-8
Super cropping
weeks 6
SoG
weeks 8
30 L
Pot Size
1.89 L
Watering
G
Germination
2mo ago
Nutrients 2
Charge - Ecothrive
Charge 2.6 mll
Life-Cycle - Ecothrive
Life-Cycle 10.42 mll
Kirsten 3.3.25: Thanks to everybody who answered my question on what to grow next! Straight to work, we're going with FastBuds Mix seed. I decided to use my 8 Gallon pot instead of the 10, to have a bit more room. I reused my old soil, replenished with Ecothrive Life Cycle and Ecothrive Charge, Cinnamon and Great White. I added a little extra perlite. I do love the stuff! 😅 Anyway let's see, fingers crossed 🤞 Thanks for stopping by 🤞🍃✌️
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Grow Questions
Kirsten
Kirstenstarted grow question 2mo ago
If you reuse your soil, please let me know your process below! How do you store your soil between runs etc. Thank you 😊
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BelSun_420answered grow question 2mo ago
It’s a process that doesn’t guarantee good results, but that doesn’t mean you won’t get them either. It’s a risk because you don’t know exactly how many nutrients are still available in the soil and what you might need to add to balance it. I’d only do it if the previous grow was organic—otherwise, I wouldn’t risk it. That being said, my Durban Poison actually grew in reused soil, and I didn’t have major issues, just a slight excess of CalMag in the early stage, which forced me to do a flush-style watering to balance the nutrients in the soil. To reuse my soil, I stored it in a plastic container for a month, watering once a week with molasses to let it cook over time. I added some fresh soil, a bit of SuperSoil, worm humus, mycorrhizae, and leftover solid nutrients from previous grows, like silica, fish meal, blood meal, alfalfa, and dolomite. That’s also why I took the risk—it was more about using up the leftover nutrients I had at home and avoiding the hassle of carrying old soil from my room to the garden. 🤣
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Week 1. Vegetation
2mo ago
5.08 cm
17 hrs
25 °C
No Smell
70 %
33 °C
17 °C
21 °C
30 L
91.44 cm
Kirsten 5.2.25: The seed has broken ground, and the shell is still on, so keeping up the moisture. Approximately 37 hours after planting. I added a heat mat, which I had spare from my reptiles. It only like 5 Watts, but I just thought the germination process would benefit from a little extra warmth. So far, so good 👍🍃✌️
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Week 2. Vegetation
2mo ago
7.62 cm
20 hrs
25 °C
6.2
No Smell
1100 PPM
53 %
33 °C
17 °C
21 °C
30 L
1 L
91.44 cm
Nutrients 2
Black Strap Molasses 2.6 mll
Biosys - Ecothrive
Biosys 1.3 mll
Kirsten 14.3.25: FastBuds Mystery seed grow #1 🌱 We're looking good, nice, strong, and healthy seedling. She started praying after the feeding today. I watered a couple of litres over the last week. I've been watering around the whole pot to encourage root stretching and kick-start the dry amendments and feed the Mycorrhizae. I left the first 2 inches around the seedling until today 🌱 Today, I watered with 500mls of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.2 with: ♡ Meridian Organic Black Strap Molasses ♡ Ecothrive Biosys Thanks for checking in ✌️🌱🤞💚
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Week 3. Vegetation
1mo ago
20.32 cm
20 hrs
25 °C
6.4
Weak
445 PPM
60 %
33 °C
19 °C
21 °C
30 L
1 L
91.44 cm
Kirsten 14.3.25: FastBuds Mystery seed grow #1 🌱 We're looking good, nice, strong, and healthy seedling. She started praying after the feeding today. I watered a couple of litres over the last week. I've been watering around the whole pot to encourage root stretching and kick-start the dry amendments and feed the Mycorrhizae. I left the first 2 inches around the seedling until today 🌱 Today, I watered with 500mls of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.2 with: ♡ Black strap molasses ♡ Ecothrive Biosys 18.3.25: FastBuds Mystery seed #1 is 15 days old today. She is 3 days ahead of my RQS Northern Lights, which I have topped or fimmed. I planned to do this one, too, but it's not quite ready yet. Otherwise, she's looking very good. We'll see how this week goes and hopefully get it done by the end of the week. 23.3.25: FastBuds Mystery seed #1 is ready to be topped today. I went ahead with alcohol sterilised scissors and cut the two tiny leaves from the centre of the plant. Everything went very well and a clean cut was made. The plant is looking great afterwards. Thanks for checking in ✌️🌱🤞💚
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Week 4. Vegetation
1mo ago
38.1 cm
20 hrs
25 °C
6.4
No Smell
445 PPM
60 %
33 °C
19 °C
21 °C
30 L
1 L
91.44 cm
Kirsten The plant responded well to topping. There is a pencil shape to her, both tops very close together, so I used the clips to LST them in a move constructive direction. Considering she is 3 days older than my Northern Lights, it's quite astonishing for me to see the differences between them. I also went ahead and topped the two tops again. This time by rolling the centre heart out. Thereby eliminating the stress. I want to give her the best chance against my Northern Lights, as she has 7 tops now. Watering with Ecothrive Biosys: .5g/2 litres. I water 2 litres of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.4, whenever the pot dries out. Usually about 3-4 days. Looking good, if a little strange. Thanks for hanging out 🍃 ✌️ 💚 🙂
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Week 5. Vegetation
1mo ago
63.5 cm
20 hrs
25 °C
6.4
No Smell
880 PPM
60 %
33 °C
19 °C
21 °C
30 L
1 L
91.44 cm
Kirsten 6.4.25: I watered with 2ltrs of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.4 with the following nutrients;- ♡ 4ml Xpert Nutrients Cal-Mag amino acids ♡ .75g Ecothrive Biosys Total PPM 880. 6.4.25: FastBuds Mystery Seed #1: She has been topped twice and is looking pretty strong 💪 She has grown vertically, and leaves are always praying. Possibly too much light, so I have turned the dimmer down to about 90%. There are slight bleached tips on a couple of top leaves. I'm hoping to do the same LST with garden wire here very soon. Overall, the plant has nice big, fat leaves. Seemingly lush colour and vigorously growing since the double toppings. Very nice plant so far. 👌 I have made the fleece tabs, and attached them as on my Northern Lights plant. I have started LST using the wire shown in photos. As well as two of the LST clips. I watered beforehand with 2 litres PH'd to 6.5 with 1g Ecothrive Biosys. The plant is looking great. Nicely structured. I'm going to do my very best not to mess this up!! 🤞 Thanks for hanging out 🍃 ✌️ 💚 🙂
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Manifolding
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Week 6. Flowering
18d ago
63.5 cm
22 hrs
25 °C
6.4
Weak
1000 PPM
60 %
33 °C
19 °C
21 °C
30 L
1 L
91.44 cm
Nutrients 4
Mega Crop 2 Part A 5-12-26 - Greenleaf Nutrients
Mega Crop 2 Part A 5-12-26 1.3 mll
Charge - Ecothrive
Charge 1.3 mll
Life-Cycle - Ecothrive
Life-Cycle 1.95 mll
Kirsten 6.4.25: FastBuds Mystery Seed #1: She has been topped twice and is looking pretty strong 💪 She has grown vertically, and leaves are always praying. Possibly too much light, so I have turned the dimmer down to about 90%. There are slight bleached tips on a couple of top leaves. I'm hoping to do the same LST with garden wire here very soon. Overall, the plant has nice big, fat leaves. Seemingly lush colour and vigorously growing since the double toppings. Very nice plant so far. 👌 13.4.25: This week has been so busy in the garden! I forgot to take any notes, so I'll see what I can do from memory! 😅 14.4.25: I have been super busy with all the other harvests in the past several days, so this is a little late. FastBuds Mystery seed #1 has been topped twice and the growth has been thick and lush. I watered several times this week, and I used Ecothrive Biosys with dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.4. I watered about 2 litres to each plant. I have been using wire, clips, and Bio stretch fabric plant ties to LST the plant. The plant has reached the 8 Gallon pot perimeter. The plant is in the first week of flower. I'm hoping to keep the canopy even with my RQS Northern Lights grow as I need to be able to compare the plants accurately for the experiments. I did snap off a branch, again the day after I said I'd be very careful 😖 The plant is very resilient though, and you wouldn't know anything happened at all, minus one of the first tops is missing. Thankfully I topped twice, so I still have 5 tops. Training Techniques used this week are LST and defoliation. I watered on 13th and 14th with the following solution; 4 litres of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.4 which contained: ♡ 8 ml Xpert Nutrients Cal-Mag amino acids ♡ 1/2 Teaspoon Mega Crop Part A by Greenleaf Nutrients. PPM: 1000. 2 litres were given on two consecutive days. I watered in a top dress, which I will add what I used here, but it was another mess up, I'm sure you'll be surprised to hear 😅 Top dress: 4 gallons containing approximately: 50% Canna Terra Mix soil 25% Worm Castings 23% Perlite 2% Organic Dry Amendments, which were; ☆ Ecothrive Life Cycle ☆ Ecothrive Charge ☆ Diatomaceous Earth ☆ Ground Cinnamon ☆ RHS Mycorrhizal Fungi granules I used the top dress amount for established plants for a pot size of 30L / 8 Gallons. I'm not keen on the soil. I was supposed to get Canna Coco but I got sent Canna Terra in error. It was overdue for a top dress and I had nothing else to use. I don't like it in comparison. Coco is best for my needs. It's much fluffier, lighter, and easier to work with. Thanks for hanging out 🍃 ✌️ 💚 🙂
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Week 7. Flowering
7d ago
63.5 cm
20 hrs
25 °C
6.4
Normal
880 PPM
70 %
33 °C
19 °C
21 °C
30 L
2 L
91.44 cm
Nutrients 1
Cal-Mag Amino - Xpert Nutrients
Cal-Mag Amino 2 mll
Kirsten 16.4.25: I have retied the fabric ties again, as they're growing like crazy. Trying to open up the plant, to grow out as well as up. This will also create new colas. At this stage, I'm trying not to over fertilise like I did with the last grow. Focusing on Cal-Mag amino acids and Mega Crop Part A. The medium is my custom super soil, which is already fertilised with Ecothrive dry amendments. So I could just add water. However, as we've already run into deficiency, that would be careless. I find it easy to keep an eye on the plants and carefully inspect them daily to act quickly when issues arise. Learning how to determine the issue is what I'm still learning, which is the hard part 😅 It's all fun though, and I'm really enjoying this grow with all the toppings and FIMs. So far so good! 23.4.25: I hope everyone had a great 420! Fastbuds Mystery seed #1 is doing well, she has stayed bushier relative to the RQS Northern Lights, also there has not been so much growth. The bud sites are developing well and have tight internodal spacing. I'm determining when to relax the LST as we are now in the beginning of week 3 flower. I do have height. However, I'd like to keep it reasonable. You never know when they will stop growing. I'm not really adjusting any ties since the last time. I have also noticed that there are signs of Nitrogen excess. Instead of Mega Crop Part A and Cal-Mag amino acids, I will use Bud explosion PK booster with the Cal-Mag. This will make the N5 the only Nitrogen being given. It still may be too much, but will monitor closely to see the effect this change will make, if any. Balancing the nutrients is very important for me to learn, and it's going to be an ongoing process. I watered today with 3 litres of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.4 with the following nutrients: ♡ 1/2 Tsp of Bud Explosion PK booster by Greenleaf nutrients ♡ 5ml Cal-Mag amino acids by Xpert Nutrients 23.4.25: Plant seemed to be drinking heavily, so I watered again with 3 litres of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.3 with;- ♡ 2.5ml Cal-Mag amino acids by Xpert Nutrients, and ♡ Ecothrive Biosys 1/8 tsp. I removed the plant ties and retied the plant after watering. Less ties are necessary as the plant has moulded and stayed in that structure. Thanks for checking out my diary and hanging out 😃💚✌️🍃😊
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Week 8. Flowering
3d ago
71.12 cm
20 hrs
25 °C
6.3
Normal
880 PPM
60 %
33 °C
19 °C
21 °C
30 L
2 L
91.44 cm
Kirsten 26.4.25: The plants were watered with 3 ltrs of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.3, containing the following nutrients:- ♡ 1/2 Tsp Sea K(elp) by Greenleaf nutrients ♡ 1/4 Tsp Ecothrive Biosys. 27.4.25: I LST'd again by adjusting the tie downs. For FastBuds Mystery seed auto #1 and RQS Northern Lights autoflower, this will probably be the last time I adjust the fabric ties, as they're now well in to flower. Keeping the canopy as even as possible. 29.4.25: FastBuds Mystery seed #1 has taken very quickly to the readjustment of the fabric ties. Within an hour, the plant had already grown back towards the light. That's always so crazy to me. I watered 3 litres 2 days ago, and I'm not going to water again until it has dried. I suspect that will be at the end of the week. The larger pots are a learning curve with trying to water adequately but not too much. I don't think that I've ever overwatered, I never water to run off. This time came uncomfortably close though Thanks for checking my diary and hanging out 💚✌️🍃😊🌱
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Fast_Buds
Fast_Budscommentedweek 02mo ago
Hi there, Thank you for running this diary. We will be looking forward to your updates. Happy growing 🌱🌱 & Good luck 😃
Kirsten
Kirstencommented2mo ago
Thanks ✌️🍃
BelSun_420
BelSun_420commentedweek 02mo ago
Good luck, mate! Do you know which strains were included in the mix pack? 🌱🔥
Kirsten
Kirstencommented2mo ago
Exactly! 😩 That's the only downside to buying the mix pack from FastBuds. RQS does state the strains you'll receive, which I like much better! 💚
BelSun_420
BelSun_420commented2mo ago
On one hand, it's fun because you don’t know what to expect, but on the other hand, if you end up with one you really like and can’t identify it....that would drive me crazy too, hahaha!😤
Kirsten
Kirstencommented2mo ago
Hey Friend! 🧡 Thank you! 😃 Unfortunately, not. They state that it can be any of their current auto strains, but I decided to go with it. I bought the seeds last summer so it may not include the 2024 strains. It might drive me mad if once it's grown I can't identify it, honestly! 😅🍃✌️
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