Grimbol's Chilly Cheese Dog + Gold Glue

Hey Everyone! Back for another round of autos and I could not help but popping the Gold Glue (GG) from my seed vault this time around. From the description they are supposed to really pack on the trichomes. The Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound (NCHS) sounds so interesting though and reading through the lineage of the strain I can definitely say I am excited to see what she looks like. Details below: Grow Specs: Strains: 2 - Gold Glue (Illuminauto #24), 1 - Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Nicknames: GG1/2 = Gold Glue 1/2, NCHS = Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Breeder: Mephisto Genetics Total number of Plants: 3 Tent: 48" x 36" x 70" LA Garden 2 in 1 tent (no middle panel used) Pots: 5 Gal Equivalent Air Pot Medium: Standard Roots Organic Soil Lights: Each plant will have a 300W (132W actual) Galaxy Hydro LED overhead. Will turn on 4th light once we are in flower. For the seedling phase I am using two overhead. Water: Reverse osmosis 2-5 ppms Update schedule: I will try to send out the updates every Saturday or Sunday. Grow Schedule to Date: Germination: 9/2/17 Germination Success Rate: 75% (2 of 2 Gold Glue, 1 of 2 NCH x SH, paper towel method) Planted into soil (final container): 9/5/17 Sprout (all): 9/7/17 Age (all): Day 2 as of 9/9/17 Observations/Notes: - All seedlings seem to be very similar in height and structure so far with no clear alpha yet. - There is a small chance that one of the GGs is actually an NCHS because of a slight mix-up. The marked NCHS is definitely NCHS but the GGs will be suspect for a while. Hopefully I will be able to confirm in flower because there is a Haze in the NCHS which might make it grow much taller than the GG. - These are definitely the most optimal and stable conditions I have been able to create to date so it is time to see what I can do here. To the end zone this time! Thanks for stopping by, feel free to AMA, and happy growing out there!

Grow Specs: Strains: Gold Glue (Illuminauto #24), Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Nicknames: GG1/2 = Gold Glue 1/2, NCHS = Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Breeder: Mephisto Genetics Total number of plants: 3 Update schedule: I will try to send out the updates every Saturday or Sunday. Grow Schedule to Date: Sprout (all): 9/7/17 Age (all): Day 9 as of 9/16/17 Observations/Notes: - GG1 appears to have taken the lead with the NCHS in second and GG2 in third in terms of size and leaf development. - I added a small pinch of recharge to a gallon of water and gave each seedling a third of a gallon on 9/14/17. - Waterings so far have been 9/10, 9/14. I think they are getting set up to take off! Thanks for stopping by and happy growing out there. 👊

Grow Specs: Strains: Gold Glue (Illuminauto #24), Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Nicknames: GG1/2 = Gold Glue 1/2, NCHS = Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Breeder: Mephisto Genetics Total number of plants: 3 Update schedule: I will try to send out the updates every Saturday or Sunday. Grow Schedule to Date: Sprout (all): 9/7/17 Age (all): Day 17 as of 9/24/17 Updates and Observations: Heights: GG1 - 4" GG2 - 4" NCHS - 5" Growth/Training: - GG1 is solidifying its lead as the most developed plant so far but just barely. GG2 and NCHS are following closely behind. - NCHS is starting to pull away from the others in terms of height, already a full inch taller than her sisters. Hoping it shows a really hazy phenotype - On 9/17 GG2 fell over and GG1 was leaning pretty hard so I supported them for about a week and they are straight and strong now. Waterings/Feedings: - 9/10, 9/14, 9/17, 9/21 - I will give additives most every watering unless I notice a problem but I will only ever feed with macros every second or third water to prevent lockout. - Slurry tests on all the plants have them right around 5.8-6. I do not pH my RO water and I am going to see how well the organic soil and pH perfect AN tech works out before I bother pHing water. Misc: - My winnings from @Biobizz from the May Diary of the Month came in. Took a lot of interfacing with their customer service branch and 5 months but they were finally shipped through and I received them last week. Pretty excited to try them out. I am going to give GG2 the full lineup as directed by their feeding schedules to try it out and then we can all see the results. - I still have not even received a shipping confirmation from @FastBuds regarding my prize seeds. I have reached out to them a few times over the past months asking where the seeds are and they said they would check on it but then told me to talk to Grow Diaries and the @Fastbuds rep then went out on vacation until October. I talked to Grow Diaries and they said they would look into it about a week ago but they also let me know that prizes are doled out by the sponsored companies, not GD. Thanks for checking on that @Growdiaries👊. Not the greatest first impression with @Fastbuds to say the least. I did not expect to receive my winnings right away but I have seen other people on this site that have practically already grown out their seeds to harvest already. Now it is getting cold enough where I live that the seeds could freeze in transit or in my mailbox. We had been debating between @Fastbuds and @Mephisto when my friend and I bought our last batch of autos a few months ago so I am glad I went with @Mephisto at this point. Just wanted to let people know for anyone who has won prizes and are waiting for them to arrive. If you still have not heard from anyone about a month or two after you win, reach out to them because both companies had forgotten or lost it and I never would have received my winnings if I had not reached out. Thanks for the support out there folks. Good luck to everyone going for diary of the month and happy growing!

Grow Specs: Strains: Gold Glue (Illuminauto #24), Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Nicknames: GG1/2 = Gold Glue 1/2, NCHS = Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Breeder: Mephisto Genetics Total number of plants: 3 Update schedule: I will try to send out the updates every Saturday or Sunday. Grow Schedule to Date: Sprout (all): 9/7/17 Age (all): Day 23 as of 9/30/17 Updates and Observations: Heights: GG1 - 7" GG2 - 7" NCHS - 9" Growth/Training: - NCHS is widening the gap packing on a whole 4" in a week. - D19, Tucked top most fans down into the canopy and super cropped them. - D20, Began using rubber bands to LST the lower outer limbs outward away from the main cola. Tucked all fans down and super cropped. Each plant at 6-7 nodes - D21, Removed two large fans for airflow purposes. Plants exploded in growth and did not slow down with the tucking only treatment. Root tips poking through the bottom of the air pots. - D23, All plants showing sex (f). Aggressively LST'd all limbs down and outwards. Removed all large fan leaves to expose tops. Waterings/Feedings: - D16, D17, D23 - GG1 are receiving my normal line up of AN products and GG2 is receiving the full line from BioBizz. Misc: - Fastbuds update: I wrote the company directly and within two days he replied, apologized for the delay, got my information and 2 days later the package arrived. They were so awesome to give me some bonus CBD seeds for the wait. Thanks Fastbuds! As someone with chronic pain I am really excited to try them and they are probably getting ran next grow. Grow from your heart! - Rasta Jeff

Grow Specs: Strains: Gold Glue (Illuminauto #24), Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Nicknames: GG1/2 = Gold Glue 1/2, NCHS = Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Gold Glue Info: 24 Carat x GGG4, Indica/Sativa - 80/20, 65-70 days est. Breeder: Mephisto Genetics Total number of plants: 3 Update schedule: I will try to send out the updates every Saturday or Sunday. Grow Schedule to Date: Sprout (all): 9/7/17 Age (all): Day 30 as of 10/7/17 Updates and Observations: Heights: GG1 - 9" GG2 - 8.5" NCHS - 14" Growth/Training/Lights: - Continued using rubber bands to train side branches outward and down away from the main cola into their own spots. - Now that we are in flower, I added 4th 132w actual GH LED bringing my total actual watts in the tent to 468W. - Dropped my light distance to 21" - 25" and canted them inwards to hit side branches as well as tops and try to keep them even. Waterings/Feedings: * I am not going to both adding exactly how much of each nutrients anymore since it changes mid week sometimes. I will always keep the products in there that I am giving that week. - D27 - plain water. - GG1 and NCHS are receiving my normal line up of AN products and GG2 is receiving the full line from BioBizz.

Grow Specs: Strains: Gold Glue (Illuminauto #24), Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Nicknames: GG1/2 = Gold Glue 1/2, NCHS = Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Gold Glue Info: 24 Carat x GGG4, Indica/Sativa - 80/20, 65-70 days est. Breeder: Mephisto Genetics Total number of plants: 3 Update schedule: I will try to send out the updates every Saturday or Sunday. Grow Schedule to Date: Sprout (all): 9/7/17 Age (all): Day 37 as of 10/14/17 Updates and Observations: Heights: GG1 - 11" GG2 - 10" NCHS - 16" Growth/Training/Lights: - Removed rubber bands to allow the plants to rest after observing 3 branches separating from the main stem because of force too low on the branch. - 1 branch broke on NCHS and GG1 each. Taped up and rubber banded to main stem for support. - Amazed by the flower progression after looking at last weeks pictures. Autos are pretty crazy. - Pretty happy with how each plants shape turned out. - NCHS is the tallest and most developed with GG1 and GG2 following respectively. - GG1 seems to be slightly larger and more developed than GG2 Waterings/Feedings: * I am not going to both adding exactly how much of each nutrients anymore since it changes mid week sometimes. I will always keep the products in there that I am giving that week. - D31, D34 - GG1 and NCHS are receiving my normal line up of AN products and GG2 is receiving the full line from BioBizz. Happy growing out there!

Grow Specs: Strains: Gold Glue (Illuminauto #24), Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Nicknames: GG1/2 = Gold Glue 1/2, NCHS = Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Gold Glue Info: 24 Carat x GGG4, Indica/Sativa - 80/20, 65-70 days est. Breeder: Mephisto Genetics Total number of plants: 3 Update schedule: I will try to send out the updates every Saturday or Sunday. Grow Schedule to Date: Sprout (all): 9/7/17 Age (all): Day 44 as of 10/21/17 Updates and Observations: Heights: GG1 - 12" GG2 - 10.5" NCHS - 17.5" Growth/Training/Lights: - The bud is just starting to swell up from within! This is the most exciting part of the process in my opinion. - All repaired branches from last week show no signs of stunting or injury. Just amazing. One of the branches was holding on by a thread and it is doing great. - NCHS is the tallest and most developed with GG1 and GG2 following respectively. - NCHS is really starting to frost up. - GG2 definitely has abundant nitrogen judging by the deep green color of the leaves so I will be dropping her feed back a bit. I have cut out pretty much all nitrogen from her a week ago though so I am sort of scratching my head because the Biobizz nutes (excluding Biogrow that I cut out a while ago) do not have much nitrogen in them according to the bottles. Waterings/Feedings: * I am not going to both adding exactly how much of each nutrients anymore since it changes mid week. I will mostly keep the products in there that I am giving that week. - I am watering every 2 days to keep up with these ladies. - Lately they have been drinking a gallon each. My feed schedule is a 3 round cycle. Macros + additives, additives, plain water. Plants seem to be loving it and show no signs of burns or lockout. - GG1 and NCHS are receiving my normal line up of AN products and GG2 is receiving the full line from BioBizz as directed on their website. Big shout out to @TheFairyBudMother, @Mephistogenetics, and happy growing out there!

Grow Specs: Strains: Gold Glue (Illuminauto #24), Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Nicknames: GG1/2 = Gold Glue 1/2, NCHS = Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Gold Glue Info: 24 Carat x GGG4, Indica/Sativa - 80/20, 65-70 days est. Breeder: Mephisto Genetics Total number of plants: 3 Update schedule: I will try to send out the updates every Saturday or Sunday. Grow Schedule to Date: Sprout (all): 9/7/17 Age (all): Day 51 as of 10/28/17 Updates and Observations: Heights: GG1 - 12" GG2 - 10.5" NCHS - 17.5" Growth/Training/Lights: - I learned that the NCHS is called the Chili Cheese Dog by Mephisto which is an awesome name haha. - Each plant is pretty frosty but having average sized hands for a 6' guy, I can no longer touch my fingers around the main cola it is pretty fat. - The satellite colas seem to be developing very evenly. The plants are evenly dispersing the bud to each of the colas which is great! Less trimming! - There are a few leaves starting to yellow which is what I want to see about now. I am going to flush these plants until I see a lot of fall colors this go around. Waterings/Feedings: * I am not going to bother adding exactly how much of each nutrients anymore since it changes mid week. I will mostly keep the products in there that I am giving that week. - I am watering every 2 days to keep up with these ladies. - Lately they have been drinking a gallon each. My feed schedule is a 3 round cycle. Macros + additives, additives, plain water. Plants seem to be loving it and show no signs of burns or lockout. - GG1 and NCHS are receiving my normal line up of AN products and GG2 is receiving the full line from BioBizz as directed on their website. Happy growing out there!

Grow Specs: Strains: Gold Glue (Illuminauto #24), Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Nicknames: GG1/2 = Gold Glue 1/2, CCD (Chilly Cheese Dog), NCHS = Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Gold Glue Info: 24 Carat x GGG4, Indica/Sativa - 80/20, 65-70 days est. Breeder: Mephisto Genetics Total number of plants: 3 Update schedule: I will try to send out the updates every Saturday or Sunday. Grow Schedule to Date: Sprout (all): 9/7/17 Age (all): Day 58 as of 11/4/17 Updates and Observations: Heights: GG1 - 12" GG2 - 10.5" NCHS - 17.5" Growth/Training/Lights: - I am pretty excited because I always read about people's plants having very distinctive smells and I do not think my nose is bad but so far everything I have grown has had about the same aroma while growing and after the cure. Today on day 58 I smelled a faint cheesy, skunky odor underneath the normal kind of sweet new bud smell on the CCD! That is huge for me so I am really excited. I think I was always harvesting a little early and not flushing long enough. - I decreased the light schedule to 18-6 for the flush to encourage bud maturity and swelling. - CCD is extremely fat and frosty! Love her structure. She did not grow practically anything she could not stack some weight on in terms of side shoots! 💪 - GGs have that typical sweet early growing cannabis smell still but I think they have a long way to go yet. - GG1 seems like it is carrying more weight than GG2. No significant difference in smell or frost that I can notice. Waterings/Feedings: *Most of the time I run 1/3rd to 1/2 strength of all nutes listed. I just try to read the plant and adjust as needed on a weekly basis. * - All three plants seem to be nitrogen abundant (especially GG2) not quite as far as N toxicity but it is close so I will be starting flush tomorrow for all three until I see about 5-15% amber trichomes. - I am watering every 3 days with plain water from here on out. For the last 7 days of the flush I will use Flawless Finish on GG1 and CCD, but just give plain water to the Bio plant. - GG1 and NCHS has been receiving my normal line up of AN products and GG2 is receiving the full line from BioBizz as directed on their website. Happy growing out there!

Grow Specs: Strains: Gold Glue (Illuminauto #24), Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Nicknames: GG1/2 = Gold Glue 1/2, CCD (Chilly Cheese Dog), NCHS = Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound Gold Glue Info: 24 Carat x GGG4, Indica/Sativa - 80/20, 65-70 days est. Breeder: Mephisto Genetics Total number of plants: 3 Update schedule: I usually send out updates every Saturday or Sunday. Grow Schedule to Date: Sprout (all): 9/7/17 Age (all): Day 65 as of 11/11/17 Updates and Observations: Heights: GG1 - 12" GG2 - 10.5" NCHS - 17.5" Growth/Training/Lights: - Starting to smell kind of like dirty feet and a slight cheesy odor in the tent and I think that is thanks to the Chilly Cheese Dog! 😵 Cannot wait to cut her down! - CCD is still swelling up and flushing out nicely! I am guessing she is coming down next weekend so that is pretty awesome. - So my plan for this week and the CCD is to decide when to chop her (most likely Fri/Sat), move her to my smaller drying tent, remove all fan leaves 48 hours before chop, give her 48 hours of darkness, chop the whole plant at the base of the stem, hang it for 7-10 days to dry at ~50% RH, dry trim, put into MyPharmJars jars to cure at 58-65% RH indefinitely until smoked. - GGs smell like a strange sweet smell that is hard to describe but most likely have another 2 weeks or so. I refuse to harvest a green plant anymore and they are dark still so we will see! Waterings/Feedings: - Flushing until I see about 5-15% amber trichomes and a plant that looks like the end of fall. No green except for bud! - Using Flawless Finish on GG1 and CCD, but just giving plain water to GG2. - GG1 and NCHS has been receiving my normal line up of AN products and GG2 is receiving the full line from BioBizz as directed on their website. Big shout out to my friend @meibabies on Instagram and happy growing out there!

The next frontier for me will be bottle free if I can. I want to try out no till organic growing. For some reason that style just really seems like it would compliment the way I like to treat these plants. It is also amazing to me how easily you can source some of the ingredients that are so expensive when they are suspended in solution for some reason. Over the past several weeks I have learned so much about Cannabis by studying all the different available elements/how they are used, the soil food web, garden products, etc. I will not be that guy who says one method is better than the other. My favorite part of this hobby is that it is so versatile and can be changed to suit any need from a 5 gallon bucket to a 12' tree. It is all about finding what works best for you and what you enjoy. My goal moving forward is to grow the highest quality medicine (subjective) for myself with the least amount of maintenance effort required, for as cheap as possible. My plan is to buy a commercial grade ~1000W LED, dial in super soil (costs pennies on the dollar to make only plain water needed), and automate my environment to optimum levels which should then allow me to produce quality medicine and reach my goal. My next grow will not be for a long time unfortunately but hopefully not too long! I am most likely going to grow some CBD strains and some of the new Mephisto Lines as well! This one felt really good to pull off. I had some seriously rough grows these last few times around and I have learned a lot of very valuable lessons that I will not forget. Thanks to everyone who tuned in along the way. This is an awesome community, website, and I love posting my updates every week. Big shout out to my boy El Don ✊, @Kronickobe, @Alaskangrowncaliraised, @Thefairybudmother, @B4RNS, @Meibabies, @Mephistogenetics, and of course @Growdiaries! Cheers! -G

The next frontier for me will be bottle free if I can. I want to try out no till organic growing. For some reason that style just really seems like it would compliment the way I like to treat these plants. Over the past several weeks I have learned so much about Cannabis by studying all the different available elements/how they are used, the soil food web, garden products, etc. I will not be that guy who says one method is better than the other. My favorite part of this hobby is that it is so versatile and can be changed to suit any need from a 5 gallon bucket to a 12' tree. It is all about finding what works best for you and what you enjoy. My goal moving forward is to grow the highest quality medicine (subjective) for myself with the least amount of maintenance effort required, for as cheap as possible. My plan is to buy a commercial grade ~1000W LED, dial in super soil (costs pennies on the dollar to make only plain water needed), and automate my environment to optimum levels which should then allow me to produce quality medicine and reach my goal. My next grow will not be for a long time unfortunately but hopefully not too long! I am most likely going to grow some CBD strains and some of the new Mephisto Lines as well! This one felt really good to pull off. I had some seriously rough grows these last few times around and I have learned a lot of very valuable lessons that I will not forget. Thanks to everyone who tuned in along the way. This is an awesome community, website, and I love posting my updates every week. Big shout out to my boy El Don ✊, @Kronickobe, @Alaskangrowncaliraised, @Thefairybudmother, @B4RNS, @Meibabies, @Mephistogenetics, and of course @Growdiaries! Cheers! -G