FastBuds - FFT#9

12/21: I cannot wait to learn what these mystery beans are...Fastbuds autos really rock, so they're bound to be spectacular! 12/23: I pre-soaked 3 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. All 3 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." 12/24: One of them pushed it's way out of the soil, so I ripped apart a rooter and tried to sandwich it. Not sure it will make it, so I'm planting a back-up #11. The other two are looking great. 12/26: They were ready to transplant last night, but I was worn out and put it off until today. All three 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.

12/31: Two of them are doing well, but the 3rd is doomed I think. Glad I started an extra #11! 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: Weird...the one I thought would die, still hasn't. Her second set of leaves died, but the third is starting to grow? 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 each 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 Miracle LED blue bulbs. I'll start adding far-red spectra to the equation in the next few days.

1/6: Day 15. The sickly one is trying to make a comeback, but I've got nowhere to grow her. I'll try to find a tall/slender pot of some sort 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. Sooperstunted Mutant continues to creep along. I may plant her in a Bonsai dish for fun... 1/9: Just took some photos today.. 1/11: I fed them with about a half-gallon each..full strength everything. 1/12: I FIM'ed both of the normal ones 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. The Sooperrunted Mutant is actually starting to look and grow at a normal rate of speed, so I transplanted it into a 2.30 gallon nursery pot. It's all I could find that I could squeeze into the space. It will have to suffice. I'll take her out of the closet once I start flowering the others and extend it's photoperiod with about 75w of light for another couple of weeks so it's tall enough to have a chance at finding some canopy space later. This strain is mostly indica, so she'll need all the help she can get I think.

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...😈 Both "A" and "B" put on an inch overnight. Now that the soooperstunted mutant runt is acting like a normal plant, so henceforth I'll refer to her as "C." 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!👍 I moved #3 into the tent with my DWC rig to veg a little longer. 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. #3 is still vegging in my SCROG tent with the #8 FFT DWC plant. She's coming along, but still not ready for prime time.. That's it for week 4-

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. #3 is still vegging in the tent with the #9 DWC plant, but I'm flipping that plant to flower tomorrow, so this will be her last long day, too. I'll move her back in with her sisters and elevate her on a stool. 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. I decided to give my #8 FFT hydro plant another day of veg, so my #3 FFT9 gets another long day too. 1/24: These plants are definitely mostly indica. Strangely enough, it seems like the runt is destined to be the best of the 3, and she's just in a 2.30 gallon pot..maybe I'll squeeze her into a 3 gallon fabric pot.. 1/25: I watered them with about a half-gallon each including cal-mag, humic acid, bembe, armor si, and signal. 1/26: Nothing much to say about these girls...they are happy and healthy. The runt is really growing well..almost caught up in height with the shortest plant in the garden. I did some LST on the two bigger ones, tied down the mains and other tall branches. 1/27: That's it for week 5-

1/28: DId a little LST and rotated edge plants. 1/29: DId a little photo session and 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 any of 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 the tall ones 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.

2/4: Photo session day! The big one is growing a few inches per day..that shit needs to stop soon or I'll have to supercrop her lovely branches.. Soooperunt is now as tall as the second sister, but not as bushy. All three are slow to flower, like the #11's. 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 a much darker shade of green 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'm only seeing a few pistils popping here and there on these girls. I expected them (and the other mostly indica strains) to be moving along faster at this point. Not sure if they are happy with such a short nap every day.. 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.

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. I took photos today, but forgot to snap a shot of the Soooperrunt. She's as tall as the short one now, just not as bushy. I think she'll make a fair amount of bud despite her sloooow start, smaller stature, and smaller pot. The tall one is keeping pace with the biggest plants in the garden. 2/11: Wife home sick today....postponing construction project to raise the lights....kinda scary....about 10"-12" from the tops now.. 2/12: I woke up to find the tallest of these bitches stretched another few inches and within 9 inches of the lights!!! I quickly drug everybody out of the closet and undertook the project. 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. It will battle with the evaporative cooler while the lights are on to keep it at 45% RH, but after the lights go off, it will lower the RH to 35% unti morning. After another couple of weeks, I'll kill the evap cooler altogether and try to maintain 35% RH 24/7. I'm optimistic that it will be the difference-maker in maintaining lower RH while I'm flushing all the plants during the last couple of weeks. That's usually such a challenge...especially with a bunch of 5 gallon pots. I also sprayed everybody with boomboom spray to try and mitigate the light burn damage that is likely to ensue. 2/13: Still stretching... about 12" from the lights again. I will wait to raise the lights until tomorrow when I feed them. I'm seeing calcium deficiency on a few plants, including a #9. Will up the dose tomorrow when I feed. 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-

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 coupe of days. I've reached the ceiling again with my lights. The Soooperrunt has caught up to the tallest plant in the garden. She's very narrow compared to the rest, but she'll produce 100% more than I ever imagined, so that's a win! These three plants remain very dark green in color compared to all the other varieties. 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...a semi-solution occurred to me that allowed me to raise the lights another 3-4 inches! Now I'm truly maxxed out... 2 of them have been slow to flower did a 300% stretch, but the 3rd is budding up nicely and only did a 200% stretch. Soooperrunt has stretched 30" from when I started flowering her...yikes! 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 at this point... They're likely to be good producers, so I'm not bitching too loudly.. 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 darkest green plants in the garden. Wonderful structure, stacking up really well. Their top leaves really reach for the sun. My current favorites.👍 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..😕 That's it for week 9-

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 natural sources of nitrogen (kelp and earthworm castings). Soooperrunt stretched to be taller than any other plant in the garden..I supercropped her about 6 inches down her main and she's now even with the rest of the plants again... 2/26: RH is steady at 35-38% at night and about 40% during the day. Temps are pretty much perfect too. 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. 3/1: Just ogled them today...they are really reeking now...👍 Two of these girls protested when I added another half hour of UVB per day, so I backed it off again...they're just too tall for me to move them any further away from it..

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. I didn't have much time, so I couldn't do many glamour shots..I'll try again when I feed them in a few days. Soooperrunt is still stretching!! OMG, that's a 600% increase in height from the moment I decreased her photoperiod (8" to 48") This has been a painful lesson, but one I'm glad to be learning! From my observations with the fast flowering photos, the only real difference in their growth rates versus the growth rates of autoflowering plants, is during their transition from veg to bloom. They have vigorous vegetative growth and rapid flowering, once they do start. With the correct strain selections, it is feasible to run 5 crops of them per year if you strictly adhere to a policy of vegging for no longer than 21 days from their first set of true leaves. When you look back at my fast flowering photo diaries at the ends of week 3, they all seem too short to start flowering, but all of them either tripled in height or more (500% - 600% in some cases) during their stretch. so they'd probably have all finished at around 36-40" or so. Also, I think that my first foray into exploiting the Emerson Effect in order to flower them under 14 hours of light caused an extended transition period and more stretch than they'd have normally done. My thinking is that there wasn't a dramatic enough difference in my plant's photoperiod for them to begin flowering as quickly as they normally would have under 12/12 because I was vegging them under 18/6. Next time I flower under 14 hours of light, I will first veg them under a minimum of 20/4 so that they "notice" the change more quickly. Choosing strains with an estimated 42-50 day flower time and vegging for a max of 21 days allows you to harvest in roughly the same time frame as an average autoflower plant, plus you save on the electricity expense in flower, and get to grow strains with higher potencies than autos. Seems like a no-brainer, but only time will tell. If I can produce similar yields with these fast photos, I'll probably transition to growing mostly photos, like the old days... 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-

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. 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... Sooperrunt is now officially a 5-footer, but I have her supercropped and tied down to 4 feet... 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!!!

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) All three of these plants are progressing nicely. The shortie is a little behind her sisters in terms of ripeness, but her buds are developing well. 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: Rained again tonight.. I had to pick up a couple of them while removing a couple of other plants, and they are still heavy. I might be able to wait until Monday to feed again, which might be enough time for me to get the RH back down a little bit. 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..😳

3/23: I let them go totally dry this time and fed them with about 3/4 gallon each including terpinator, signal, sweet & sticky, cal-mag, armor si, cha ching, tiger bloom, big bloom, and humic acid. This was probably the last time the shorter one gets any nutes. She's ripening up now.😃 3/27: I watered them today with about 3/4 gallon of filtered water with sticky & sweet, terpinator, signal, cal-mag, and a little bit of cha ching. I looked them over pretty well. Soooperrunt is the furthest behind of the three plants, but her cola is gonna be massive. This was the last time that the other two get any nutes at all. I'll flush them once they are dry.

3/30: I flushed all three #9's with about 12 gallons each with warm filtered water and Sledgehammer. One of them is suddenly ready to harvest..the other one in a 5 gallon pot is a day or two behind, and Sooperrunt still has another week to further fatten her enormous cola. I may have to try and squeeze her into the tiny tent with the other two slowpokes in a few days. 4/1: I moved one of them into the tiny tent along with a #6 to be in the dark. I'm tired from harvesting other plants and have a lot of outdoor gardening to do as well, so she may sit in the dark for a couple of days. 4/4: I'm gonna harvest the middle-sized one tomorrow, but Sooperrunt will get a drink of water and another few days.

4/6: The first two plants are still drying, and Sooperrunt goes dark soon....look at the size of her cola!😍 4/7: I jarred up the smaller plant today and she weighed in at 110g. It smells like straight grapefruit! Puuungeeent! The middle plant is hanging to dry still (forgot to take photos while harvesting her). Sooperrunt is sitting in the dark now. 4/8: I harvested sooperrunt today. Not much to that plant other than her massive cola. I think she'll still weigh in at at least 100g though. That fucker is heavy! I left some lower growth and put her outside to hopefully regenerate. This plant smells the best of all my plants this run...very grapefruity.

4/12: All three plants are weighed up and jarred. They weren't the beefiest plants in the garden, but they have the best stink..by far. I'm in love with the terps in this strain. Two of them smell wonderful, with orange/tangerine aromas and flavors, but the other smells like freshly cut and squeezed grapefruit....extremely pungent and sweet! They grew very straight with minimal side branching. I FIMed two of them, and only one of them responded well. I grew 2 in 5 gallon pots and 1 in a 2.30 gallon pot. That plant was seriosuly stunted initially, but recovered and went on to be the tallest plant in the garden, at 5 foot. I had to supercrop and tie her down on many occasions. She's the stinky one, and came in at 115g. They have very dark green leaves that pray to the sun. Two of my plants had those long scarecrow-arm fan leaves that are very easy to trim away at harvest time. FF9 - 159g FF9 - 110g FF9 - 115g (Sooperrunt) Bud density: 8/10 Bag appeal: 9/10 Flavor: 10/10 Aroma: 10/10 Potency: 9/10 Yield: 8/10 Final Thoughts- I love this strain ....it was my favorite FF tester. I can't wait to find out what it's genetics profile consists of! I left some lower growth on all three and put them outdoors to regenerate.👈 Only one of my regens survived direct sunshine..crispy critters😟t