C.C.C. Continuous Cycle Cultivation

Hi guys, sorry for the prolonged absence, but I had problems with my warez blog, they seized my server and posting was no longer safe. Now they have returned the server and I can restart to update you on my secret garden. As you can see from the photographs in this last period I have replaced the small LED lamp and the CFL lamp with a more professional LED lamp. The new lamp develops 480w of full spectrum light, consuming only 280w. I also added two small 25w bulbs one outside the grow room to provide more light to the newly sprouted seedlings. At the moment in my secret garden (half of my bedroom) I have a total of 18 plants. Of these 8 are located under the 600W HPS lamp and are 2 Amnesia Haze from Royal Queen Seeds, 2 Purple Glam Kush from BulkSeedBank, 2 Sweet Tooth from BulkSeedBank, 1 Northern Lights x Blueberry from LSA Seeds and 1 Cheese that after being mutilated twice it has shown a considerable delay in flowering and has almost become a tree. I am still undecided whether to have the patience to bring it to full bloom or kill it permanently. In the Grow room under the light of the new LED lamp there are 6 plants: 1 Gorilla that is blooming and under the LED lamp it has remained very low in height, next to it is the second and last Northern Lights x Blueberry and also this plant is in advanced flowering phase. Then there are 2 Cream Cookies and 2 Zkittlez from 420 FastBuds that are about 4 weeks old and are about to begin their flowering. Finally there are 5 small seedlings sprouted from about a week and are found under the light of the two small 25 w bulbs and are 2 Sweet Tooth from BulkSeedBank, 1 Cream Cookies and 1 Zkittlez from 420 FastBuds and 1 Amnesa Haze from Royal Queen Seeds. More new varieties are coming 😋

May 26, 2019: Harvest time this week 😉 After the Gorilla and Lemon Haze today I picked up one of the two Amnesa Haze and the Northern Lights x Blueberry, I should have also picked up the mature Sweet Tooth, but I don't have enough space in my dryer 😄 between a couple of days I will put the dry buds in the jars and make space for them. The Northern Lights x Blueberry is one of the most beautiful dwarf plants that I have grown in 2019. The buds are very large and are completely covered with trichomes, the leaves are very few and the scent is very sweet, I can't wait to taste it! 😋 Now under the HPS lamp I have also moved one of the Zkittlez, tomorrow I will put the new seeds in the soil and move the other Zkittlez and the two Cream Cookies for the final phase. I decided to eliminate the Cheese plant that showed photoperiodic genetics, it had become a tree with a large trunk and its flowering would never have started. As you can see from the photos instead, the last Gorilla of the RQS showed instead a predominance ruderalis, it remained very low (about 35 centimeters) and its structure is more similar to a low rider than to a Gorilla.

June 18: As written in the diary related to the only FasBuds strain I changed many things during these first months of cultivation, we are now at 6 months uninterrupted and it is time to draw the first considearazioni. First of all I highly recommend everyone to grow autoflowering plants. Even I was skeptical after having cultivated for years only photoperiodic plants, but the results are amazing and the time of growth and therefore of the harvest is very fast. Furthermore by cultivating only autoflowering and giving them adequate space you will never be without weed. You just need to choose every month how many plants to put in the soil without ever having to change the light cycle and therefore without ever having to change the growth parameters. By my choice I am implementing a cycle of 19 hours of light and 5 hours of darkness. For all plants I use only one fertilizer which, besides being remarkably effective, is also inexpensive when I calculate that with a 1kg bag I can fertilize an average of 20 plants every day for about 3 months. Very little cluttered since it is a dust bag and pollutes the environment less since I no longer have to throw away dozens of plastic bottles. Although I have been growing marijuana for more than 20 years I have never had so much weed in the pantry, although giving it to my friends and relatives a lot my dryer is almost always full 😄 About the plants in my secret garden I am now Above the table: 1 plant of Royal Queen Seeds Amnesia Haze Auto, 2 plants 420 FastBuds Zkittlez, 2 plants 420 FastBuds Cream Cookies, 2 plants of BulkSeeds Sweet Tooth e 1 Northern Lights x Blueberry that is about to be harvested. Next to the long side of the table there are a plant of Cream Cookies and a Pourple Glam Kush and next to the short side there are the taller plants, a Pourple Glam Kush and a Sweet Tooth to which I am already giving only water and which are close to be collected. Under the table there are the 5 vases with the 5 plants that have yet to germinate, while in the grow room I have a Zkittlez plant large enough to be moved on the table as soon as I have the necessary space, 1 plant of LSD-25, a plant of Six Shooter, 1 Gorilla and 2 Lemon AK, one of which has a week less. The dryer is almost empty at the moment, it remains only to weigh and consume the little dwarf Gorilla 😉

June 4, 2019: Looking closely at the space available to me, even if at the moment in my secret garden I have 18 plants in different stages of growth, I think I can reach a total of 26 or maybe even more. To maximize the space under the HPS lamp I decided to use in a classic rectangular plastic garden table. Almost all the plants do not exceed one meter in height and by raising the lamp a little more I managed to place 7 plants on the table, thus gaining a space below which I plan to use to grow the newly germinated plants. At the side of the table there is a Pourple Glam Kush (which at the moment has nothing to pourple, we'll see in advanced bloom) and a Sweet Tooth that being already more than 160 cm high remain with the vase on the ground. In the Grow room I now have smaller plants and the new 4 varieties for which single diaries will be created have just germinated.

June 20 New images of my setup and current conditions of my secret garden: After deep exfoliation the Zkittlez reacted fantastically, while the Cream Cookies suffered a little over-fertilization, but with a couple of days of water alone they already stretched the leaves that had curled. The Northern Lights x Blueberry, one of the Sweet Tooth and one of the Pourple glam Kush are receiving only water and will soon be collected. As for the equipment as you can see from the images I'm progressively eliminating the air pot jars. I personally hate them because they dirty a lot and for those like me who grow many plants are a nightmare, also once I have picked the plant I have not seen a root development so adequate to the cultivation system. I feel better, for me that I cultivate only autoflowering varieties, the development of the roots is less than for a grower of photoperiodic varieties that living longer develop roots for a greater volume. I therefore believe that for my cultivation method the classic 9 liter square pots are more suitable. June 25: All the plants placed above the table are growing without any particular problems, the Cream Cookies have recovered from the deep exfoliation and I moved the Zkittlez from the grow room to the table and I have already practiced the exfoliation. The largest Zkittlez is already producing a good quantity of fragrant buds, as well as the Cream Cookies placed off the long side of the table. The Northern Lights x Blueberry has now reached its eleventh week and has just finished the two weeks of flushing with water only and will remain without being watered for 3 or 4 days even before being collected. The same is true for the two large plants Sweet Tooth and Pourple Glam Kush (which has nothing in purple apart from the name), both from BulkSeeds, so in a few days I will build the rapport for the harvest.

I was hoping for a purple variety, but that's not the case. Although I will not grow this variety in the future and most likely will not buy seeds from this seed bank again in the future I would not advise against it. A sativa variety with a flavor of pine and candies, the effect is a creative high and talkative 😵😆 Productivity is average, I'll give you the final weight data soon.

July 7: In the first two images you can see what I have collected from Purple Glam Kush and Sweet Tooth, certainly not an abundant crop (only 163 grams with 2 plants) and as I wrote previously Purple is not really a violet variety, but mixed and smoked together they taste very good, fresh and sweet and even the effect is heavy in style indicates how I like it 😋 The larger Zkittlez and Cream Cookies have reached the seventh week, the buds are very large and heavy, covered with a fragrant resin. I placed them inside, closer to the window and receive as much light as possible under the HPS lamp. I will post images with the lamp off. The Northern Lights x Blueberry I cut today, in the images you can see it in its last hour of life. At the moment there are no plants under the table because I moved the smaller 5 inside the grow room. I bought another 3 T8 LED tubes with full spectrum online and as soon as they arrive I will put another 5 plants under the table.

One of the many dessert varieties, mainly sativa so with a creative effect, I smoked it mainly during the day. A variety to try, nothing more.

Both Zkittlez and Cream Cookies become part of my favorite varieties, although I believe it will be so for all the straits proposed by the 420 FastBuds. In particular, these two varieties are particularly suitable for height and structure to my way of cultivating and the space I have available. Both varieties are predominantly indicative and I love this thing, moreover it seems to me to have obtained a good harvest and the buds are very dense, heavy and resinous. As I wrote they are varieties that I recommend to everyone, experts or not 😉 P.S. As soon as the plants already harvested are completely dry I will update the data on weight, taste and effect July 24: I love this strain! 10 stars! 😝

As soon as the plants are completely dry I will update the missing data 😶 July 24: Very sweet taste, certainly an excellent variety, powerful effect, but not less than the Zkittlez which is a real atomic bomb 😋