The Fastberries Show

Popping 3 FastBuds Fastberry seeds from Oregon Elite Seeds. They were received in Feb 2019 USPS box where they were removed within 5 minutes of delivery, inspected found good, and placed in the crisper drawer of the fridge at 20% humidity 50 deg F in double sealed opaque Tupperware . Everything is on a seed mat keeping things nicely in the mid 70s and total darkness, 6.5Ph. Eventual home of seedling mix in two inch peat pots has already been introduced to organics in very mild dose and ditto for the rooting goodies. It should be a nice home for them. Eventual plan is to move to 6" fiber then three or five gallon fabric pots that will be using Recharge to build. Cant think of a thing I have missed. But then yall may :) 4/4 Day 0 18 hours soak nothing has popped open... not good but maybe. 4/5 Woot! 3 tails about 1 cm over night. I do hate this part of things, reminds me of pacing delivery waiting rooms... Into the 2" fiber pots. nice easy no nuet seedling mix in top half, some extra pearlite and very mildly enhanced mix in bottom. Turned the small grow light on them, a bit of water, and wished them well. 4/6 all breaking surface 4/7 Day 1 Using the coir pots required a bit different watering, they must be prepared BEFORE planting. Get em soaked so they do not wick, if they do keep the pot itself moist until it begins to expand, this means its ok. Well I wanted to learn lol BTW my seedling light went to its final reward a couple of days ago. In a pinch I made a light based on this video (see below). Well I can say the cool white (daylight) bulbs do indeed work. Have 8 powering the new light and the plants love it. Is even dimable :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuZo3ciolE0 4/12 Day 6 - Still under the LED grow light which they seem to still love. Second set of true leaves have sprouted so the moisture domes (plastic bag lol) came off today. Keeping RH at the plants running 60-70ish (40-50 in the room as I have plants drying in the tent and it cant get higher). Doing well now on a diet of silica and PH water only until ready for the tent in a few. Will use all at that point.

Nice week they are doing well and of course surviving me. Began the prep on the 3 Gal pots with a full round of nuets. Not using anything strong just yet but want a good start on this with biological cultures and minerals. Tested soil runoff at 6.8. Of course the seedlings are on silica and water still until transplant. So far this strain seems to like it on the dryer side than wetter as the LSD-25 seemed to. Just a first impression. Still on the LED lights, lowered to 8" to give em all they wish, wont go lower no lensing on these. Ok why this nuet line up. We ingest a LOT of cannabis medicinally and I want to move us into a more organic grow without over running our bank account. The Big Bloom is just good stuff, Recharge of course for a strong culture, Kangaroots to get those guys spreading, Cal/Mag cause its autos and silica cause its a plant and cant take vitamin C. ;) I will add Grow Big and Tiger Bloom in reduced amounts when needed. Comments please 4/14 Heat in the room went low low last night, prob our wonky heater, thought we were chasing a watering issue till she suggested taking the temps of pots... arrg 55 deg F ... heating em and trying to save em. 4/15 Ok they lived and are up and praising. Going to have watch that stuff as it hit just after the domes came off. Pics later. 4/15 Cool beans they are up and moving again. Going into the tent shortly so this kind of issue does not happen again... new issues will arise lol 4/15 In the tent with a humidifier, have to dial it in but looks like it will be fine. 4/17 Day 11 First light feeding today, third set of leaves has begun, in place of watering, reduced level of nuets , about 60% of what is shown, Beth is showing herself the strongest so far. 4/19 Day 13 Needed watering so went ahead with day 14 feeding as they look like its due. Reduced str Grow Big added to Big Bloom, Calmag, silica. Recharge is only once a week and Kangaroots only every other week on one feeding. 4/21 Day 15 Have roots showing on the bottom of the pots, time to replant and will start a new week when done.

Roots showing on fiber pots on Ada and Beth think also on Camille which is lagging a bit having took the worst of the temp problems last week so transplanted to the 3 gal pots, fed / watered. Lights on 300w as was before transplant, dont want to hit em too hard at once. Day 17 watching for signs of needing water Day 18 Gave each about 1.5 liters water/full feed Day 19 The feeding is really having its effect, all are almost doubling in size in the last 48 hours. Beth is going to be a lovely plant if I do not make mistakes. Training day next week. Day 21 Pots were light and Beth showed signs of some wilting so gave them 1.75 liters each with a light feed.

I am just so disappointed in myself for letting them get stressed so early as it seems Camy will be a bit stunted, this is gonna hurt yield on her and badly it seems. Ah well hell live and learn Training day next week once the pots dry a bit and I determine which way to bend them. All three got first training , just main stem bend, no defoliation at this time. 5/1 Day 25 - Removed on leaf per plant that was blocking light and could not be trained out of the way. This was due to the direction they were bent, meh Im new at this. Feed listed levels and water 1.5 liter 5/3 Day 27 Begin adding more Grow Big and introducing Tiger Bloom at a low amount on next feeding in a day or so. Will continue training at that time.

5/6 Day 30 - Cant really call it flower so keeping it veg this week. Trained Beth again today the others not ready. Will begin pulling in Flower nuets at next feeding whenever its ready for it. 5/8 Day 32 - Installed vented hood, shoulda done this long ago, set for 450w at 15" and its covering completely tent floor, temp stable at 3-4 deg above ambient. 5/12 Day 36 - In flower now as hairs are forming - Folded in Tiger Bloom and changed out MH for HPS getting ready for a big stretch. Dropping the Kangaroots its done about all it is going to do at this point, will have to wait for the postmortem to see how well. Adding the maple syrup ( ok its really Karo lol) as a sweetener for the microbes.

5/14 Day 38 In full flower Cutting Grow Big Upping Tiger Bloom Lights 450w @ 14" full watering to run off 5/15 Day 39 Continuing training by tucking leaves under branches or wooden stakes. Being very careful not to induce unneeded stress so only removed one leaf per plant that was covering the center and could not be tucked. Have decided without any doubt to up my container size for indoor grows, think I can get my moneys worth out of 5 gal pots so will use those from now on. 5/16 D40 - Life goes on they are keeping short and so many bud sites in the light. Think its gonna be a good one 5/18 Day 42 - Two notes from here on, removing silicon from nuet feeds, it will go in on watering only. Proven to myself it is responsible for the PH swings I think I am seeing though it is checked at every feed. Also will be incorporating % of coco fiber into soil mix for water retention and Phos uptake. But thats next grow

5/19 Day 43 - Lights at 14" @ 450w (150w left for the stretch when I have to raise em), plants beginning to run out of room to train so its going to start going vertical, going to watch my nitrogen as the faintest trace of claw can bee seen ... perhaps. And that is about the extent of the problems at this time. God willing its going to be a nice harvest. Changing over to Armor Si for silicon, light feeding dose, other bottle is tapped out. 5/20 Day 44 Compost tea watering (light Big Bloom and Recharge +silicon), two largest took about .7 gal Camy .5 5/24 Day 48 Not much of note, Camy grows very differently than the others likely due to the stunting of week 1/2, Ada has passed Beth in size and also seems a different pheno. Think these are going to go longer than 10 weeks as they just keep acting like they have at least 3 weeks or more on them. Lights up to 600w . Feed tomorrow 5/25 Day 49 Going to be splitting up the feeding routine. Alternating between a Silicon with Recharge feeding and the rest in the other. Having better results across the board with fewer variables in a mix. Have suspected a few times PH swings occurred after feeding from leaf indications. Verified soil is neutral so all it can be is something in the nuets. I know recharge will cause a very temporary swing up but this quickly falls to normal as the biology adjusts while Silicon can have similar effects. So pulling these into their own application apart from the rest of the nuets. Today's feeding will be all except Recharge and Silicon. Cant hurt :)

5/29 Day 53 Feed Recharge and Silicon yesterday about 3 l each. There seems to be less of "shock" on the plants doing things this way, we will see. Camy and Beth absolutely same pheno, Ada showing some classic sativa stretch. Very very glad they are trained, makes life easier. 5/30 Day 54 Feed upping Tiger Bloom to 2tsp/gal, feeding all but Silicon and Recharge 3 liters(quarts) each. Light defoliation continues (<5%) getting full light on buds now the first priority here out. Real glad I have that hood, summer hit like a truck. Camy so thick I have added a fan just for her. 6/1 Day 56 Beginning to see some very positive effects from the split feedings, no more little mystery reactions from the feedings... yeah its PH. I know I may be picky but seriously that little issue has bugged me for three grows, and it doesnt really show in pics. Applied it all my plants and seeing the same reaction , consistent growth with no spurts and fall offs with oddness in the leaves.

6/4 Day 59 - Humidity and the flower gulp have them needing water above all. Feed just Tiger Bloom at 3tsp/gal they just seemed to have plenty of everything else in the pots already just needing water and some flower building. Tricones look glassy so no rush to flush :) Next feeding will depend entirely on tricones, still glassy - they get it all, clouding up - something less. 6/6 Day 61 - Full feed, still packing on buds. Going to be cutting out the Silicon, Grow Big, and reducing Tiger Bloom keeping the organics up though. Do not plan but one flush shortly before harvest which according to tricones is still a ways off. Ada is furthest along then Beth and last Camy in the Tricone Stakes Race. 6/8 Day 63 - And week 9 ends with a Silicon/Recharge feeding for the entire tent. Still undecided on flushing, dont have a lot of synthetics involved so pretty sure just the last one or two will be water only ( the last few days before harvest) and these will not be taken at the same time, Camy will need more time so there is that to consider. Removed Cal-Mag and Grow Big from nuets depending on tricones may remove it all :)

6/10 Day 65 - Tricones are 95% milky though some few clear and all three are at the same point. Giving things another two days then check again. PH Water only today to runoff about 1 gal each. Leaving nuets on page for now as its water only from here BUT NO FLUSH. 6/12 Day 67 - No pics until this site stops whatever it is that its doing with the database. They ok just waiting till tricones say GO Later that same day... ;) Ok trics are ~80% milky 20% clear (some twinkling still visible) . Will check again before watering in the morning 6/14 Day 69 - Still some clear tricones (5%) on all three, watered and some P-K will check again in a couple of days as they are still building buds though its slowed down. Fade much heavier on Ada but that was expected with her expressing some sativa. No possibility of any more nuets so removing from page, they done well.

6/17 Day 72 Still building but its slowing, trics are cloudy very little "glitter" of clear trics at all. No amber Seriously if there was not pressure for the space in the tent I would keep light feeding up for a weeks yet as they just want to keep going. Decide Wednesday, but i need the tent. No nuets PH water only 6/18 Day 73 - Reduced the lights on to 16 hours/day to try and alleviate some heat issues, nothing serious was just hitting 89-90F at mid-afternoon and I spotted some minor fox tailing, nope we aint air conditioned :) This means they are still putting on buds so letting them go on till I start seeing some amber IF I can as I need the tent.

1118 grams smells great almost got into a mold problem on Camy good thing I put that fan on her. Good day all in all Smoke report and dry weight when available. Ada - 367g Beth - 422g Camy - 329g Drying nicely pulled 19g of driest for test. Dry finished after 5 days one half went into cure the other half will be dacarbed today.