Blue Dream (HSO) - 1

My next grow is Blue deram from HSO. I got the seeds as a gift with my purchase. This will be first sativa plant I grow. I plan to SCROG it just like the two indicas before, do a very light defoliation if plant looks like it needs it, but plan to leave it as is for most of the time. pH and EC will not be measured, also there will be very little to no photos. Sorry for that. I know it will be a shitty diary for anyone looking for info or juts nice pictures, but currently I'm juts not up to the task of documenting this grow properly. Updates will probably also be very infrequent... hopefully I'll be fully up and running for my next grow. Now to the actual grow :) As before, I only germinated one seed. As before, the seed popped within 24 hours, started to sprout and showed green tissue around day 3 or 4. I put it in pebbles over the DWC bucket, burried the seed quite deep into the pebbles. Day or two later, first true leaves were already up reaching for light. She must be on 2nd or even 3rd set of true leaves now, so I'll have to check up on her soon for the first topping. She's fed MaxiGro as per manufacturers instructions, fixed amount of pH down (15mL of pH down per 15 liters of nutes; I have no idea what actual pH of nutes is) and half of the recommended dosage of benes. Benes do turn all my roots brown, but on last grow there was no slime, no smell, no nothing. Just healty brown roots (which turned white if I washed them). Since she a predominant sativa, I expect her to be more stretchy, faster growing. First two grows (both Bubba's gifts) were soooo sloooow growing. Short, bushy plants, almost too bushy. We'll see if this one has enough sativa genes in her.

This one was a freebee when I ordered my seeds from HSO. Germinated in less than 24 hours. This one took exactly 120 days from germination to harvest, juts over 17 weeks in total. It vegged for 35 days (5 weeks) on gas lantern routine, before switched to 12/12 for 85 days of flowering. Entire grow was under DIY LED strip light, pulling 150W of power from the socket. I have no idea what the watt equivalent of the light is. After 35 days of vegging the plant was quite big. I'd say about 75% of the net was full. After switched to 12/12, plant growth exploded. This one must have grown 5-10 cm _daily_. I planned for about 200% of stretch, sop I tucked under the net for 1 week after first white hair appeared. Then the plan was to let it grow for 10-20cm above the net which should be perfect for finishing. Alas, the plant had other ideas. Stretch continued well into 3rd week after first white hair. I had to lift the light to top position, but plant still grew into the light, the stretch was just too aggressive. I ended up topping some of the flowering tops to avoid them being squashed into the roof the tent, while some other flowers grew into the LED strip light. Total height was around 150cm above the bucket, with a lot of tops growing through the strip light and touching air filter and tent roof. Before harvest the plant looked quite ripe, with leaves turning yellow, hairs almost 100% brown and trichs did look milky to me under microscope. As SCROG, this was a total failure. Plant outgrew the net, it outgrew the tent. She got me into a really bad mood because she wouldn't stop growing and made me top flowers with white hair on them. On the bright side, the plant produced 30+ flowering tops, most of them very sturdy, bearing what I consider to be very compact buds for sativa dominant hybrid. End yield was the best so far, with a total of 205g of product put in jars at 62% RH. All 13 jars have Boveda 62% to keep them in correct RH range. I'd say this was one of the best growing lessons so far: Plant got me completely by surprise, outgrew it's tent but still produced like a champ. Smoke is nice, I like it as an after work routine: it calms me down, give me more energy and puts me into a very positive state. My girlfriend finds this one helps her a lot for managing headaches and PMS pain, much better than other strains.