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Aceple (600w) (3000k/6500k/660nm) Light Emitting Diodes/85W
Aceple (600w) (3000k/6500k/660nm)
Low-watt panel (7800k) Light Emitting Diodes/25W
Low-watt panel (7800k)
Miracle LED (450nm-470nm) Light Emitting Diodes/12W
Miracle LED (450nm-470nm)
Samsung LM301B Quantum Boards (3000k/660nm) Light Emitting Diodes/240W
Samsung LM301B Quantum Boards (3000k/660nm)
Samsung LM561C Sun Board (660nm/730nm @2:1) Light Emitting Diodes/25W
Samsung LM561C Sun Board (660nm/730nm @2:1)
UVA bar light (395nm-405nm) Light Emitting Diodes/24W
UVA bar light (395nm-405nm)
Solacure FlowerPower UVB/UVA (285nm-400nm) Fluorescent/17W
Solacure FlowerPower UVB/UVA (285nm-400nm)
RapidLED Far-red Flowering Initiator (730nm) Light Emitting Diodes/8W
RapidLED Far-red Flowering Initiator (730nm)
360degree 4' sub-canopy tube (3000k/660nm) Light Emitting Diodes/180W
360degree 4' sub-canopy tube (3000k/660nm)
Indoor
Room Type
Topping
weeks 17
LST
weeks 6-8, 17
SoG
weeks 1-17
FIMing
weeks 3
Defoliation
weeks 7, 12-14
Soil
Grow medium
19 L
Pot Size
1
Week 1. Vegetation
5 years ago
3.81 cm
24 hrs
29 °C
6
75 %
24 °C
0 L
60.96 cm
12/21: I am looking very forward to trying these fast flowering photo testers from Fastbuds. Their autos are top-notch, so I've got great expectations! 12/23: I pre-soaked 2 of these beans in humic acid and concentrated mycorrhizae with trichoderma for about a minute and planted them in rapid rooters soaked with a weaker solution of the same. They both popped up about 20 hours later. I'll let them root well under the dome and transplant into some temporary seedling pots with Fox Farms Light Warrior soil mix after dusting their roots with myco. I'll let them veg for a week under some cooler color temperatures to try and encourage shorter distances between internodes, then move them into my closet under max "sun." 12/26: They were ready to transplant last night, but I was worn out and put it off until today. Both seedlings were rooted very well, so I planted them in some new, durable, 5.6" tall seedling starters. filled with Fox Farms Light Warrior seed starting soil mix, which has mycorrhizae and humic acids, plus earthworm castings. It's a very light mix. I really like it alot. It has a lot of coco coir pith and peat in it, so even when you pre-soak it, it seems very light. I am now using a killer product that contains: 7 ENDOMYCORRHIZAL Species, 17 BENEFICIAL BACTERIA Strains, 4 TRICHODERMA Species, SEA KELP EXTRACT, HUMIC ACIDS, YUCCA PLANT EXTRACT, Root Promoting VITAMINS with Vitamin B Complex and L-AMINO ACIDS (https://www.amazon.com/GreenEden-EndoBoost-Concentrated-Soluble-Mycorrhizal/dp/B07GSPVQ83/ref=sr_1_15?crid=3G7AW86ZVOF68&keywords=endo+mycorrhizae+powder&qid=1577435831&sprefix=endomy%2Caps%2C170&sr=8-15) No, I am not a paid spokesman, but I used it in my last grow and had amazing roots, so I used it again and had 100% germination rate when mixed with concentrated humic acid for a 1-minute seed soak and rapid rooter pre-soak. Needless to say, I used it again today to dust my new seedling's roots and the holes where they were planted. I also like to add a teaspoon of it to my 5-gallon batches of compost tea, about 2 hours before I'm finished brewing it. The price is about the same, but I had far better results with it than the hyped-up "king shark" stuff... I have them 24" below the 200w 3500k +660nm light for about 12 hours per day, and the 24w cold white panel with the 85w mixed white spectra light at about 15" for the other half of the day. Both of the 12w blue bulbs are hanging very close to both ends of the tray and lit all day long.
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Week 2. Vegetation
5 years ago
7.62 cm
18 hrs
28 °C
6.1
55 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 5
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Bush Doctor Boomerang - Fox Farm
Bush Doctor Boomerang 2.604 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 2.604 mll
12/31: They are both coming along nicely.👍 Today was the first day in which I fed them some Big Bloom and Boomerang along with humic acid, pH'd to 6.1. 1/3: I've been letting them dry out a bit for the last two days. They've got roots coming out the bottoms now...I'll probably transplant them into 5 gallon fabric pots tomorrow or the next day. I ordered a 4' 180w tube light with 578 LEDs..it has a 360 degree beam with 3000k and a bunch of 660nm. It's waterproof, so no worries about keeping it beneath my canopy to illuminate the lower branches and hopefully increase the density of those buds that never get much top-lighting. Today, I mounted my two new 24w UVA LED lights (395-405nm) to my frame. I'll run them 6 hours a day from the time I put the plants into my closet, until harvest. It is my understanding that exposure to UVA, particularly during the vegetative stage, triggers many different plant defense hormones, which speed growth and can increase heartiness to withstand constant exposure to UVB without suffering as much cellular damage as usual. I'm also ordering a 2' Solacure FlowerPower UVB (285nm-310nm) next week to use during flowering to stress the plants and increase trichome production. 1/4: I did a few foliar feedings with big bloom and fulvic acid today. 1/5: Transplanting day. I dusted their roots with magic dust and transplanted them into 5 gallon pots today. I had some excellent compost with biochar and myco that I mixed into their soil, too. I watered them in with about 2 quarts of their first taste of full strength veg nutes, plus mycorrhizal fungi, trichoderma, beneficial bacteria, and humic acid, then I sprayed them with biotabs boomboom spray when finished. The were moved into the closet under the quantum boards, UVA's, and a pair of MiracleLED blue bulbs. I'll start adding far-red spectra to the equation in the next few days.
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Week 3. Vegetation
5 years ago
12.7 cm
18 hrs
28 °C
6.2
60 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 5
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Bush Doctor Boomerang - Fox Farm
Bush Doctor Boomerang 2.604 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 2.604 mll
1/6: Day 15. I've got a lot of airflow in the closet (and 780w of light), and as a result, they needed water today. I had shit come up and didn't transplant them quick enough from the Light Warrior mix, so they got a little N deficient. I decided to go ahead and feed them. I mixed up 4 gallons of full strength nutes and split it amongst these two and the other 9 plants, so that's roughly 1/3 gallon each...I used my new 40-133gph submersible pump dialed all the way down, and a 1/4" hose, so it took about 2 minutes to water each plant...a slow, gentle soaking with zero run-off.👍 I also cranked up my evaporative cooler in the top of the closet, aimed down over the plants. 1/7: I sprayed them with Axiom - Harpin a|b proteins...just one of reasons my Gung Fu so good...😁 1/8: I watered them today with about a half gallon each, containing endo boost, humic acid, cal-mag, armor si, and a little bit of boomerang. 1/9: I took some photos, but left them alone otherwise... 1/11: I fed them with about a half-gallon each..full strength everything. 1/12: I FIM'ed both of them and sprayed with Boom Boom Spray afterwards, right before dark. This is the end of week 3, and they've made good enough progress that I'm pretty sure I'll start flowering them towards the end of next week.
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4
Week 4. Vegetation
5 years ago
27.94 cm
14 hrs
28 °C
6.2
Normal
45 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
38.1 cm
Nutrients 5
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Bush Doctor Boomerang - Fox Farm
Bush Doctor Boomerang 2.604 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 2.604 mll
1/14: This morning, I did a foliar application of big bloom and fulvic acid, then about 5 hours later I watered them with about a half-gallon of rainwater each and added armor si, humic acid, endoboost myco/tricho, liquid molasses, and a bunch of cal-mag. Today, I also I wired up and mounted my new samsung sun board strips (660nm/730nm) and my Solacure FlowerPower UVB fixture. I'm running the deep red/far red bud boosters a few hours per day right now, but will run them for the entire photoperiod once I start flowering them. I'll run the UVB for 4 * 15-minute sessions a day for the full flowering cycle, and if they don't protest too much I'll increase each session by 5 minutes and evaluate again. Some strains are more forgiving than others and I've got 5 different strains in this space...so really not sure much time I'll get away with exposing them to the deadly rays without damaging them too much...😈 1/15: I received one of the rapid led/growmau far red initiator pucks today. With the placement of my UVB light, I'm realizing I'll need another far red puck to have even and intense far red coverage, so I'm ordering another with Prime delivery and waiting to start flowering until I receive it. I sprayed them down really well with ph adjusted rainwater tonight to rinse off nutrient build-up from foliar applications. 1/16: I'm really excited to try flowering under 14/10. I grew photos indoors on an off for 15 years before I semi-retired. If I added up all the additional flowering time I could have done through the years if LED technology existed, I'd have had an extra truckload of bud to smoke. I did another application of Axiom Harpin a|b Proteins this evening, right before dark. I'm expecting a big growth burst this week, leading up to the flower stretch. I really need them to trigger under 14/10 within 4 or 5 days🙏 ...if not, I'll switch to 13/11 and wait a few more days🙏😟..if still no pistils are poppin, I'll go to 12/12 and chalk it up as bad luck or varietal indifference to Pr and Pfr manipulation. 1/17: I fed each of them about 3/4 gallon of full strength veg nutes. This will be the last. I'll go with half-strength veg and half-strength bloom for a week, then go with full strength bloom nutrients until I start flushing them in 6-8 weeks. 1/18: I installed the second far-red flowering initiator today and got all my timers configured for flowering: ========================================= timer#1 - power strip with qb's and red boosters 10:00am -12:00am timer#2 - (dual/independent setting) sideA- 3-way cube with uva bars 10am - 3pm 7pm - 11pm sideB- flowerpower uvb 1pm - 1:15pm 4pm - 4:15pm 7pm - 7:15pm 11pm - 11:15pm timer#3 - far red pucks 11:00pm - 12:15am timer#4 - sub-canopy tube 10am - 1pm 3pm - 6pm 8pm - 11pm ======================================== I also did some testing on the timers and sealed myself into the closet to check for any light leaks. All good.👌 1/19: Tonight is their first long night. It's ON!👍 1/20: I watered them today with about a half gallon each. I'm seeing calcium and magnesium deficiences here and there, so added some boomerang and heavy cal-mag-Fe along with liquid molasses, humic acid, and endoboost myco. I also foliar fed with big bloom and fulvic acid. That's it for week 4-
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Week 5. Flowering
5 years ago
40.64 cm
14 hrs
27 °C
6.2
Normal
45 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
35.56 cm
500 PPM
Nutrients 7
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Bush Doctor Boomerang - Fox Farm
Bush Doctor Boomerang 2.604 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 2.604 mll
1/21: I rotated the edge plants and foliar fed with big bloom a few times today. 1/22: I fed them about 3/4 gallon each after top-dressing their pots with a heaping tablespoon of happy frog cavern culture( bat and seabird guano). That will make some P and K available to them over the next 2 weeks as they begin to flower. Aside from that, I went with full strength veg nutes because I'm still seeing some yellowing and som cal-mag deficiencies. I also added some more liquid molasses. They're gonna need the energy as they start their stretch. I foliar fed a few times throughout the day with big bloom. 1/23: EXPLOSIVE GROWTH last night...love it...everybody is stretching...pretty sure the 14/10 photoperiod is working!! I foliar fed with big bloom a few times today. 1/24: These are the puniest plants so far, but they are starting to show me some lateral growth. 1/25: I watered each of them with a half-gallon including bembe, cal-mag, signal, armor si, and humic acid. 1/26: Flowering! 1/27: That's it for week 5-
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Week 6. Flowering
5 years ago
40.64 cm
14 hrs
27 °C
6.2
Normal
50 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
35.56 cm
500 PPM
Nutrients 9
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 7.812 mll
Bush Doctor Boomerang - Fox Farm
Bush Doctor Boomerang 2.604 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 2.604 mll
1/28: DId a little LST and rotated edge plants. 1/29: DId a little photo session today. I also fed them about 3/4 gallon each. I backed off the veg nutes a bit and added Tiger Bloom and Open Sesame to the regimen. Tied down a few branches to further encourage lower branch growth. 1/30: Raised my lights today about 4 inches.. I don't have enough space to train them outwards, and I am holding off supercropping them until I have no other options. 1/31: My canopy is getting thick, so I started running the 180w tube light below the canopy today. It's on a timer, set to run a total of 10 hours per day, in 2-hour intervals. 2/1: I pulled everybody out of the closet this morning and thoroughly sprayed down all the foliage with BoomBoom Spray, tops and bottoms of leaves. I let them dry slowly under low watt lights with no airflow. I raised the lights again another couple of inches. I have just a couple of vertical inches left before I'll have to either supercrop some plants or do some minor construction in the closet. I'm leaning towards modifying the closet to allow another foot of ceiling space for the girls.
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Week 7. Flowering
5 years ago
68.58 cm
14 hrs
10 °C
6.2
Normal
50 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
35.56 cm
1300 PPM
Nutrients 9
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 7.812 mll
Bush Doctor Boomerang - Fox Farm
Bush Doctor Boomerang 2.604 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 2.604 mll
2/4: Photo session day! The shorter one is budding up much faster than the tall one. I removed all the big old fan leaves and did a little training on them. I had a total infestation of Cattus (felis) which I documented in my photos. Eradication seems impossible, so I'm opting to allow a degree of predation, but hoping trichome production will, at least, deter them soon.😁 2/5: I fed everybody today with about 3/4 gallon each and sprayed them down with Axiom harpin proteins for the last time this run. I made a DIY CO2 generator today using a 5 gallon cat litter bucket, a small aquarium pump, some air line tubing, and a bubble stone, plus 6 cups of sugar and 30 grams of wine yeast in 2 gallons of warm water. I put the tube where the CO2 is exhausted up against the back of the oscillating fan that aims down over the plants so they are being constantly forcefully bombarded with high levels of CO2(1300+ppm) from above. I set the ac infinity controller to allow the temps to climb up to 89f before the fan turns on. 2/6: These girls are flowering faster than anybody else in the garden. I bought some Gro-Pro pot risers to elevate the pots so that they will dry out faster..seem pretty effective. 2/7: I foliar fed with big bloom and tiger bloom today. 2/8: I ordered a second 6" AC Infinity fan to connect to my controller, some ducting, and a diffuser which I'll mount to the wall, down near the floor. The fan unit will be in another closet, adjacent to the garden closet, and I'll run ducting up through that closet ceiling into the attic, with a filter on the end to keep bugs and particulates out. For the next 6 weeks or so, it will provide a supply of colder fresh air. I did the math, and it will now only take about 1 minute and 40 seconds to completely exchange the air in the closet. Depending on the outside air temp at the time, it should take anywhere between 8 and 20 minutes for the closet to heat back up to 80f and the fans to kick back on again. This Spring, on days when it's warmer than 72f outside, I'll disconnect the duct in the closet and stretch it into that bedroom, clipped to the window unit air conditioner output, cranked down as low as it will go. This Summer, I'm gonna just run a pair of the quantum boards and grow 4 or 5 autos in there, but this should help keep the temps cooler in summer as well, without dedicating an air conditioner to the grow op.🙏 2/9: I foliar fed them with grow big, big bloom, and tiger bloom and checked moisture in their pots. They're due for a good watering tomorrow.
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Week 8. Flowering
5 years ago
76.2 cm
14 hrs
26 °C
6.2
Normal
38 %
17 °C
19 L
1 L
33.02 cm
1300 PPM
Nutrients 8
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 7.812 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 2.604 mll
Bush Doctor Bembe Quart - Fox Farm
Bush Doctor Bembe Quart 3.963 mll
2/10: I watered today with about 3/4 gallon each, plus cal-mag, signal, bembe, armor si, a little open sesame, and their final dose of endoboost. The shorter one is budding up quickly now. 2/11: Wife home sick today....postponing construction project to raise the lights. 2/12: Today, I tackled the project to raise my ceiling another foot. In addition to that project, I installed and hooked up my new AC Infinity 6" intake fan. It's pulling in fresh air from the soffit vent on the eave of the attic, and currently feeding the garden with 46f fresh air. I'm able to easily maintain daytime temps in the lower 70f's now. I am able to drive the nighttime temps as low as I want. The only issue is that the outdoor RH varies quite a bit, so I ordered a 30-pint dehumidifier to put in the top of the closet. I sprayed everybody with boomboom spray to try and mitigate the light burn damage that is likely to ensue. 2/13: The taller one is still stretching a little bit, but the 2-footer is just budding up. 2/14: I fed them today with about 3/4 gallon each including grow big, big bloom, tiger bloom, cal-mag, signal, bembe, humic acid, and I switched over from Open Sesame to Beastie Bloomz. Raised the lights another couple of inches. I did some training on them and defo'd a little bit. 2/15: Installed the new dehumidifier and rigged the continuous drain on it...works great. 2/16: I rotated the edge plants and removed some old leaves. I added another 22w 3000k 4' bar light under the canopy. 2/17: I rearranged the garden and defoliated a little bit. That's it for week 8-
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Week 9. Flowering
5 years ago
86.36 cm
14 hrs
26 °C
6.2
Normal
38 %
16 °C
19 L
1 L
35.56 cm
1300 PPM
Nutrients 8
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 7.812 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 2.604 mll
Bush Doctor Bembe Quart - Fox Farm
Bush Doctor Bembe Quart 3.963 mll
2/17: I spent a little time rearranging today. I bought some 32" x 14" plastic ventilated storage shelves and cut the legs down on two of them so I have some different-height platforms for the shorties in the garden. I should also be able to easily flush 6 plants in 5 gallon pots, or 9 plants in 3 gallon pots at a time now, that's a win!👈 2/18: I debated whether to feed or not, and settled on watering them with about 1/2 gallon each. including bembe, cal-mag, signal, humic acid, and a little beastie bloomz. The new dehumidifier is pulling about a gallon and a half per day from the air, so I should be able to feed them in a couple of days. I've reached the ceiling again with my lights. Both plants are budding up now. 2/19: Rainy day outside, so I'm pulling in 99% humidity, plus the pots are still petty saturated, but the new dehumidifier is keeping up. RH is holding at about 45% today.👍 2/20: Day 31 of flower...the tall one grew another couple of inches overnight! Damnit!😟 After emptying the closet (again) today and supercropping more branches (and some of the same branches again), a semi-solution occurred to me that allowed me to raise the lights another 3-4 inches! Now I'm truly maxxed out... Not a very stable strain..just look at the difference in the two I grew... I really needed everybody to finish in the same week so I could get my Spring autos going...😶 I'm still hoping that they will get their groove-on and finish by the EHD(3/11), but it's not looking possible for the taller one at this point... The shorter one is starting to smell really nice...faint, but funky. I took photos and videos of all the plants today since I had to empty the closet and it wasn't a feeding day. 2/21: I fed them today with about 3/4 gallon each including beastie bloomz, tiger bloom, big bloom, signal, bembe, and cal-mag...no grow big this time. 2/22: The short one continues to pack on the pistils, but the taller one is slow as hell....😟 2/23: I ordered some Terpinator because I'm not so sure about Signal's efficacy at this point....I'm usually dealing with odors more by now..😕
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Week 10. Flowering
5 years ago
99.06 cm
14 hrs
26 °C
6.2
Normal
33 %
16 °C
19 L
1 L
35.56 cm
1300 PPM
Nutrients 8
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 1.302 mll
Bush Doctor Bembe Quart - Fox Farm
Bush Doctor Bembe Quart 3.963 mll
2/24: Busy day, no time for gardening.. 2/25: I watered them today with about a half-gallon each including terpinator, signal, bembe, cal-mag, armor si, beastie bloomz, and a little bit of boomerang for the organic forms of nitrogen (kelp and earthworm castings). 2/26: RH is holding at 40-45% during the day and 35-38% at night. Temps are about 78-80f during the day and about 62-65f at night. The smaller one is fattening up well now, but the tall one is just getting started.. 2/27: The garden has gotten so dense that the cool air at the bottom isn't circulating up to the canopy well enough. Temperatures on the floor are low 60'sf and about 80f at the canopy. That's not bad or anything, but over the next couple of weeks, I want to drive down the temperatures as much as possible. I'm achieving 30% RH now, two days after watering...pretty cool. I can't check the moisture level on the plants at the back of the garden without removing a bunch of others, but I'm assuming they aren't dry yet because of the airflow situation. I ordered a double 9" fan like you put in a window to circulate in or out fresh air. I'll put it under the bench that I'm using to elevate the two shortest plants at the back of the closet, facing the front of the closet and pointing slightly upwards. Hopefully this increases airflow across the pots, and moves more of the cool air up to the canopy. 2/28: The new fan came in and was taller than I thought when situated in it's feet, so I just placed it atop my lighting frame facing down into the back of the garden. Each of it's two fans are mostly unobstructed, and the little bit that is obstructed is across two of the heatsinks, so that's fine with me. I'll have to find a diff fan for under the shortie platform. 2/29: I fed everybody today with about a half-gallon each including a little grow big, big bloom, tiger bloom, beastie bloomz, terpinator, bembe, signal, cal-mag, and armor si. I didn't have time to take glamour shots of anybody, but took a few random photos while feeding them. 3/1: Just ogled them today...they are really reeking now...so many delightful aromas spilling out of the closet...👍
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Week 11. Flowering
5 years ago
99.06 cm
14 hrs
22 °C
6.2
Normal
33 %
16 °C
19 L
1 L
35.56 cm
1300 PPM
Nutrients 8
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 1.302 mll
Bush Doctor Bembe Quart - Fox Farm
Bush Doctor Bembe Quart 3.963 mll
3/3: I watered them today with about 1/2 gallon each, including cal-mag, armor si, bembe, terpinator, signal, and a little beastie bloomz. Short on time, so I couldn't do many glamour shots..I'll try again when I feed in a few days. The shortie is super phuckin phat and phrosty...and smells phunky as phuck! Her big sister has the makings for at least 8 x foot-long colas, but she's just getting started.. 3/4: My new 14,000btu portable a/c was delivered today. I'm replacing the window unit in the bedroom where my closet is located with it so that I can roll it over to the closet and chill the girls out really well for the next couple of weeks. I can aim it at the door and just leave it cracked open and it's keeping the temps at about 75f during the day, just running on low.👌 I'm just hanging a piece of mylar over the door to keep the light in and have the exhaust set on "8" and to come on when temps exceed 75f, so it's pretty stable now. At night, I'm disconnecting the exhaust fan once it gets down to 60f and only have the intake fan pulling cold air in from outside if the temp exceeds 62f. I've determined that I'm gonna have to get another AC infinity fan controller at some point. I hate having to remember to unplug a fan and change the settings at night. I forgot to switch things this morning before I crashed, and was awakened at noon-thirty by the sound of the ac infinity high temp alarm going off...I had it set on 90f!!! If I had a separate controller for the intake, I could really dial it in and not have to remember to change settings... 3/5: I finally found a seller of BioTabs BoomBoom Spray (in Great Britain) that sells to and ships to the US for not-such-ridiculous-prices!! I ordered a 250ml bottle so I won't run out for a while! I'm almost out of Bembe and I've heard good things about Humbolt's Secret Sweet & Sticky, so I ordered a quart to give a try. 3/6: I fed them about a half-gallon of pretty much everything today. Again, I didn't have time for a full-fledged photo session, but I added a backdrop and photography lighting equipment to my cart at amazon...will pull the trigger on it soon! 3/7: Fixed up a new batch yeast and sugar for my diy CO2 generator. 3/8: Beautiful weather today, so I spent the afternoon getting ready for the spring grows (indoors and out) That's it for week 11-
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Week 12. Flowering
5 years ago
99.06 cm
12 hrs
22 °C
6.2
Strong
48 %
16 °C
19 L
1 L
30.48 cm
1300 PPM
Nutrients 8
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 1.302 mll
Tiger Bloom - Fox Farm
Tiger Bloom 2.604 mll
3/10: I sprinkled a tablespoon of Happy Frog Cavern Culture on the tops of their pots and watered it in with about a half-gallon of water including armor si, terpinator, signal, sweet & sticky, and cal-mag. The shortie is stinking badly now! I finally had time to take some photos today- 3/11: Tonight, I plan to decrease their photoperiod down to 12/12 to hopefully get the slowpokes in the garden to hurry the fuck up... 3/12: They slept for 12 hours last night... 3/13: Very rainy...RH is too high! 3/14: I fed them each about 1/2 gallon today including big bloom, tiger bloom, terpinator, cal-mag, armor si, signal, sweet & sticky, and started them on cha ching. I defoliated about 5 pounds of leaves and the canopy is still almost impenetrable. Will do more when I take them out to water this week. Still raining, RH is too high!! I put the dehumidifier on "always on/clothes drying" mode and it's barely able to keep it at 50% in the closet.. 3/15: Still raining...RH is too high, damnit!!!
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Week 13. Flowering
5 years ago
99.06 cm
12 hrs
22 °C
6.2
Strong
48 %
16 °C
19 L
1 L
30.48 cm
1000 PPM
Nutrients 8
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 1.302 mll
Tiger Bloom - Fox Farm
Tiger Bloom 2.604 mll
3/16: Rain let up for half the day, but more tonight...damnit... They are due for a watering tomorrow, but with the high RH, maybe not... 3/17: They weren't ready for water yet, so I slept for a few bonus hours! (rare) Both of these plants continue to pack on the pistils with no signs of slowing down...I thought surely the shortie would be ready to flush this week, but she's definitely not.. It rained for most for the day....again... 3/18: I watered them with about 1/2 gallon each including terpinator, signal, sweet & sticky, cal-mag, armor si, endoboost, humic acid, and a little cha ching. It rained all night again..and most of the day today. I took some photos with the qb's turned off and a 135w 5500k CFL on.. 3/19: It rained all night and several times again today...ffs....I've started building an Ark in my free time 😁 3/20: Rained again on and off today..RH still too high... 3/21: I took the shortie out of the closet today to inspect her trichomes. I took about a dozen close-ups and zoomed in really close on my PC and couldn't find any ambers, but they're about 50% cloudy at this point.. I went ahead and took some cuttings from her while I had her out. Hopefully I can get at least one to survive and grow outdoors this season. I also took some cuttings from the FFT#1 (the other shortie), and I started a couple of other FFT seeds (5 & 7) which I'll train out as horizontally as possible to match the shortie's heights. 3/22: Rained again last night several times...and again today for a couple hours...ridiculous. Woke up with RH at 65%!!! Been chatting with other FFT growers and they all seem to be losing a lot of produce to botrytis...I'm starting to freak out..😳
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Week 14. Flowering
5 years ago
99.06 cm
12 hrs
24 °C
6.2
Strong
56 %
17 °C
19 L
1 L
30.48 cm
1000 PPM
Nutrients 9
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 1.302 mll
Tiger Bloom - Fox Farm
Tiger Bloom 2.604 mll
3/23: I flushed the shortie for the first time today with about 10 gallons of warm filtered water and Sledgehammer. I'll flush her again in several days, let her dry back out a bit and stick her in the dark for a day before I sneak up on her with my lopping shears. I had let them go totally dry for a few days, so I fed the taller one with about 3/4 gallon including terpinator, signal, sweet & sticky, cal-mag, armor si, cha ching, tiger bloom, big bloom, and humic acid. This was her last feeding with any nutes, but I'll probably water her with some sweet & sticky and terpinator once more before flushing. 3/27: She wasn't completely dry yet, but I went ahead and flushed the shortie again today with about 8 gallons of warm filtered water. That's it for her....I'll give her another few days in the 'sun', and I've put a 12w MiracleLED blue bulb about 4 inches away from her, along with a 22w blue panel above her and the other shortie to make her think it's wintertime and maybe get her to put on a thicker coat of trichomes before she finishes. I gave the bigger one about 3/4 gallon including sweet & sticky, signal, terpinator, cal-mag and a little bit of cha ching. She'll get flushed for the first time once she's dry. This strain smells amazing!
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Week 15. Flowering
5 years ago
99.06 cm
12 hrs
24 °C
6.2
Strong
56 %
17 °C
19 L
1 L
30.48 cm
1000 PPM
Nutrients 9
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 1.302 mll
Tiger Bloom - Fox Farm
Tiger Bloom 2.604 mll
3/30: The shortie is in the dark until tomorrow. I'll take some photos and harvest from her, but leave some lower branches and foliage and take her outdoors to regenerate. I'll flush her sister tomorrow. 3/31: I flushed the bigger one today with about 12 gallons of warm filtered water and sledgehammer. 4/1: I harvested that sexy little bitch and left enough lower growth to take her outdoors to regenerate. Her main cola weighed 3 pounds by itself! I took some photos, hacked her up, washed her buds, and hung them to dry over the tub. Just before dark tonight, I took the bigger one out and put her into the tiny tent for a day or two of dark. Her pot is still very saturated, but she's ripe!
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Week 16. Flowering
5 years ago
99.06 cm
12 hrs
24 °C
6.2
Strong
56 %
17 °C
19 L
1 L
30.48 cm
1000 PPM
Nutrients 9
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 1.302 mll
Tiger Bloom - Fox Farm
Tiger Bloom 2.604 mll
4/6: The shortie is still drying, and I the bigger one is in the dark until tomorrow. 4/7: I harvested the bigger one and washed her buds. Very berrry! Later that night, I jarred up the shortie....drum roll please....she came in at a whopping 314g!!! It's very humid lately, so I'll weigh her again in a couple of days...she'll probably lose another 10-15g...but still...she fat. She very fat.👍 4/9: Evidently, I'm retarded. I must've put both #6's into the same drying rack. The photos I had posted of the "#6" were actually of a #3. The combined total weight of both #6's is actually 314g...the shortie probably weighed about 180g and the bigger one probably weighed about 130g. I'm still looking for the harvest photos of the bigger #6...
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Week 16. Harvest
5 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Rated
9/10
Rated
Holy shit, that's some potent bud!😲 It creeps up on you in about 5 minutes overall....you get an instant face high and it feels like the top of your head is gonna pop off..accelerated heartbeat...stupid grin...but then it gradually eases into a blissful relaxed feeling. Very good variety for creative endeavors....helps me focus.
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Spent 120 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
157 g
Bud dry weight per plant
2
Plants
1.22
Grow Room size
Normal
Difficulty
Positive effects
Creative, Energetic, Uplifted
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Dry mouth
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Earthy, Mint, Woody
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Sleepy
Energy
Indica
Hybrid
Sativa

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4/20: I smoked some of this today and am quite pleased. Very, very good quality bud.👌 The terp and flav profiles on this one aren't my cup of tea really, but it makes no difference ..this shit is perfect for a quick toke or two during the afternoon to help make quick work of whatever project you're working on. Great for focus and doesn't diminish your energy or drive unless you smoke too much...how much is too much...sounds like a great test for tomorrow... Bag-appeal: 9/10 Potency: 9/10 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 7/10 Yield: 9/10 Final thoughts....when rating/evaluating this strain, I am mainly comparing it to the other Fastbuds Fast Flowering Photos I tested in this crop. It was only my 3rd favorite of the testers I grew this time (#9, #1, #6, #11, #3), but it is far better than many other photo varieties I've grown, so consider that perspective. I regenerated the shortie, but I guess I took too much lower growth and bud..she burnt up under the first bit of direct sunlight she got... I had one more of these beans, so I planted it for my spring outdoor crop (see photo), and took a few successful cuttings from the shortie, so I'll be having some more of it this Fall. 😍
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Week 17. Vegetation
5 years ago
63.5 cm
14 hrs
29 °C
6.3
Normal
70 %
20 °C
19 L
1 L
60.96 cm
450 PPM
Nutrients 12
Liquid Kelp 2.604 mll
GreenEden Endoboost 0.326 mll
Liquid Molasses 2.604 mll
4/20: I have 3 good clones of the shortie growing, and another FFT6 seedling. 5/1: The seedling is now in a 5 gallon pot outdoors, and 2 of the clones are in my closet getting ready to be transplanted into 5 gallon pots and moved outdoors. One of the FFT6 clones will be grown in my tiny tent. 5/6: I took the last two clones outdoors and fed them really well. I also did some training on the seedling and the clone in my tiny tent. 5/7: I did a foliar application of Axiom Harpin proteins today. 5/9-5/11: Did foliar feeding and lots of training every day. 5/12 - 5/17: Fed the outdoor girls on the 13th, then we had lots of rain all week. The seedling is a beast. Installed a new 200w 3000k waterproof LED over the outdoor plants. The indoor clone looks great. I gave her some water on the 16th. 5/18 - 5/19: The seedling and two clones outdoors are all flowering?!?! I suppose it's because I germ'd and vegged them for a month under 24/0 before taking them outdoors under 14/10 of daylight... I'm really hoping she sees the days getting longer and goes back to vegging. I need time to bush her up really well! I ordered another 200w 3000k waterproof LED to replace the two cool white 60w LED's, so that will be 550w total watts of lighting outdoors in addition to the 5'ish hours of direct sunlight they get at mid-day, and the tree-diffused sunlight they get for the rest of the day. Thinking about trying a product called Bud Bomb...has lots of hormones, cytokinins, and auxins that when applied at the beginning of flowering supposedly causes more lateral branching and less vertical stretch. As it is, I'm spending too much time training her and the other outdoor plants to stay below the eyeline of nosy neighbors, so I'm really considering giving it a shot... 5/20: I went for it and sprayed them with Bud Bomb this morning...hope it works like they claim.. 5/21 - 7/4: The clone i grew in the tiny tent got to move in under the quantum boards for her last 2 weeks and fattened up nicely. I harvested her on 6/28 and washed her buds, then jarred and weighed her on 7/3. She produced 110g of cola and 51g of lower bud...very little of it was larfy.👍 After a few great weeks flowering outdoors, i was invaded by spider mites and grasshoppers. The #6 seed-grown plant didn't make it, but i brought the #6 clone indoors and treated her for spider mites a few times, along with the 2 x #1 clones and the #7 plant. That outdoor clone now in my closet is still flowering as of 7/4, but had her last dose of nutes on 7/3. Flushing in a few days.
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AcidTundra
AcidTundracommentedweek 15 years ago
trying fadt buds NeXT.will look in on you bro.nice setup u got
Silverback_Guerilla
Silverback_Guerillacommented5 years ago
@AcidTundra, Thanks! Ya, Fastbuds genetics are top shelf for sure.
BudXs
BudXscommentedweek 175 years ago
Had to move outside, tent getting fulllll!!!
GreenHouseLab
GreenHouseLabcommentedweek 115 years ago
They’ll end up takings as long as regulars... From one pic I see the pistils look bright white, looks good 💪
Fast_Buds
Fast_Budscommentedweek 165 years ago
Hey there, Well done on your grow. We hope you have enjoyed growing our genetics !! Keep up the good work! Happy harvest!!!🌾
Silverback_Guerilla
Silverback_Guerillacommented3 years ago
@Fast_Buds, I almost always do enjoy growing your genetics, but for some reason Heather started treating me like I ran over her dog.
Fast_Buds
Fast_Budscommentedweek 35 years ago
Hey there! Thanks so much for testing these out for us 🙌🏼 Let us know if you need any assistance, we’re more than happy to help! Happy Growing 🌱☘️🍀🌿🌴🌳
Silverback_Guerilla
Silverback_Guerillacommented3 years ago
@Fast_Buds, Ya I'm not sure who monitors this account, but if you're listening... I'm a big boy...I can handle the truth. It's been well over 2 years since you sent me the FFT seeds. Is it that you've shifted your business model away from trying to enter the photoperiod market completely, and decided to abandon the project entirely (along with the testers you employed to do diaries)? That's understandable. But what is not understandable is why you'd just ignore us when we ask about it.
DoDrugs420
DoDrugs420commentedweek 173 years ago
love the name FFT6.
Buddha2
Buddha2commentedweek 165 years ago
Congratulations! Fantastic result. Enjoy! 👍
AcidTundra
AcidTundracommentedweek 95 years ago
Lovely plants and some Real cool Catz u got👽😼
Garreweedlover
Garreweedlovercommentedweek 154 years ago
Amazing
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