The Quick One....

just water and recharge every other water...was surprisd the quick one sprouted tbh so i may need more light... probably going to scrog the whole bed. Will also ty topping on of hem ifi have change before flower. Also i got rid of the dying basil cuttings, will buy a fresh basil plant when i go shopping. I hav a tiny bit of bio-grow left, it'll last me longer because the fact they are auto's and dont need as much nurition but also im hoping the microbes in the recharge will break it down and make it more plant available. The lemon balm I germinated on my window sill has sent out sprouts. Much better than the one in the cupboard so I will switch them out. Also I need more soil to cover the stretch and a small oscillating fan that clips or I can glue to the side. The one I have is a rediculous size and take sup lots of the floor space as you can c from my last gg4 grow. I’m also conscious I need more light or at least the light closer the the seedlings as they are stretching. Going to buy more COB chips and heat sinks and get some more light going. Had an accident while adding more soil and buried one of the creamatic plants. It may sprout through again but yeh Also it’s interesting to me that the quick one is growing slower than the creamatic UPDATE DAY 5 Well, he third plan growing in my cab hasn't poked through the soil again so I'v come to terms with the fact she has passed on and will no be growing me any buds. Tbh I need more light to grow three plants. The main Citizen CLU048 100w is ok for the main ceramic plan, however, I had to hang a spare 30w cheap Chinese COB over the Quick one or easy bud, whoever It is. I thought the side might would be enough for all 3 but unfortunately it looks like im going to just have o go 100w per plant. Im not too bummed out as RQS are an AWESOME company and because of my poor germination rates. I bought six seeds and at the time of emailing them only one had popped so I thought Id had 5 out of 6 dud seeds but then two more breached the soil. Either way they said they would send me a pack of 5x Royal creamatic and hopefully with the £180+ I save from this plant can be laid back into more lighting. Im probably going to make the leap too professional kits with rapidLED. They ae an awesome sight, but then I was looking on eBay and his guy has some seriously awesome looking stuff, he had a link to his shop. I think he was just just some guy running a factory in china basically ripping off rapidLED but thats Chinese life. IN MY OPINION, its beta than them pumping out loads of blurples! At least his guy s putting actual cree or citizen cob chips in the set-ups. My phone is updating and I cant unplug It at the moment so I cant take he photos of day 5 but let me tell you they are, now, after that 24h, HUUUUGE TREES. Each with 420 colas on each plant. All inside under a 100w cob the I put together! haha that'd b so funny. They don't look massively. differentiations to yesterday to be honest. he Bsil isn looking too pretty I must admit, i'm going to hit it with some recharge on the next watering though to see if the helps break down any of the fish blood and bone I put on the previous ones I had and got rid of for some reason, Also the the lemon balm and coriander are big enough they will be transplanted into the big grow sack. The indica will be big enough by then to know where to put them and having them in the same bed, attached to the same mycelial network has got to improve ability to fight away pests, disease, etc. My mind has been turning to nutrients and also what I have this un that I didn't last run and firstly, i'm going to be getting a perpetual harvest, which I must admit, as long as all goes well, is going to be AWESOME. When the plants I have reach the end of their lives, I am going to germinate and start growing 1 bean of the new RQS Royal Creamatics about 2-3 weeks before I start the next. That'll mean if I grow ok I will get at least an oz or so every few weeks and I can live with that for sure. Im also starting to look to two small built in wardrobes either side of a desk all built into the wall in my 'bedroom' section of my bedsit flat. I am considering using one of them as a veg/cuttings cupboard and then changing my wardrobe to a 12/12 schedule which is much easier to manage with regards to visitors etc. To be honest hough it all depends hon how these autos come out. I have a feeling i'm going to like the different phenotypes of autos and if I plan on an 80 day growing time if I popped a bean every 26.6666 days (according to my calculator) I will have a harvest every time one is done, the next starts, wile he middle one is caring to either stretch or show signs of flower. Then when that one shows signs of wanting to be cut he same happens again, I may well increase it to two extra spaces though lol They are perfect for one plan but there's so much vertical space that it seems to be a shame to not grow one of the more sativa auto cuts or one of the so called 'super auto's' then I definitely will need better. Something else i'm also going to try doing when I get more light is the plastic bottle grow hack. Turn them on their sides, cut out an oval shape and then drill and screw them up the side of the inside of the cupboard fr herbs. I am ver conscious that im going to stat feeding soon and I have no money until Thursday. I have a small amount of bio-bizz left, literally enough for about a weeks worth of 1/2 strength feeding. I will also be using a concoction I found on youtube involving cutting up fresh aloe vera, banging it in some water, leaving it for a week, straining it and then the remaining liquid is meant to have similar effects to the aloe product from bio-bizz but I don't think my plans ar big enough at he moment to get enough aloe leaves to make it strong enough! More recharge for h aloe as well then I guess! I'm also still planning on scrogging this grow now.....that I going to be interesting to say the least. I'v never done a ScrOG net and starting with two different strains and starting one plant however long it takes RQS to send seeds from where they are (guessing NL) to my safe house should be....ineresting. Def need another 100w or even a 200w cob above hat plant that hasn't come yet, but first I need to construct something cheaply from all eBay heatsink parts and then the actual Citizen or Cree COB chip from the companies themselves. I don't trust eBay for those, although i'm sure thy are fine. I wish they would run a competition for the most Notes made that are handy/essential to the outcome of the grow. In fact having said that I remember doing a conclusion section in the last grow diary sow with a little clikcety-click...... ......

Update Thursday week 2 ok so my light broke so iv had to cope with a small 30w cob I had kocking about. Plants are doing a lot better than I had anticipated. Time to catch up now the I have a decent sized cob in there again. Will be keeping a closer eye on things in the coming days now I have installed the new light. Received some more RQS Royal Cream Auto seeds again so probably will germinate one just to replace the space on the right. That way I will have a harvest a couple of weeks after these two. UPDATE- FRIDAY OK so I have kind of lost track of precisely how old these girls are now but its either exactly 2 weeks or two weeks and a few days. Ill just sick with thinking is been 2 weeks since they popped the soil. will probably add a small quantity of bio-grow to my new re-charge water day. Should probably do hat on he next watering really. The basil could def use it even if the weed don't drastically need it yet. The light seems fine so far, It seems like my girls have perked up already, although I know its almost certainly in my head and hasn't actually been in long enough to have mad much difference yet.

OK so its been a little longer between updates this time....I was real ill and to be honest I didn't open my cupboard hardly at all. I definitely wen more than a week without even opening the door (to be honest I though they were going to be dead, but no, just double the size instead!). It was actually really interesting to see that with this setup I could actually go on holiday for a week and it is automated enough to the point it will be fine. So far, this has been a very low input grow and has caused me very little stress so far, apart from when my light died and I had to buy a new one. Actually, speaking of lighting, I am just about to buy some more pars to rain down upon my plants like a demon through hell. I was going to buy an actual good quantum board when I got paid, however, I then realised I had to actually afford the cannabis I plan to consume in this coming week also (and I really wanted to try the banana kush dry sift hashish and gelato pheno #33 as I am bored of the bubba kush and blue cheese I currently have in) so I am going to settle on some more cheap chinese COBs that I saw my previous gorrilla glue grow through with. I dont need loads but I think if I bung an extra 50w, maybe 100w at a push, in there the buds should baloon up and I should start seeing more trichomes as there just isn't many atm at all. It could be stage of growth but im sure I was seeing more trich's at this point in my prev grow. I have also made the decision that over the next coming month or two I will be upgrading my grow space. I will be moving into a 60cmx150cmx120cm (DxWxH) for my next grow and will be dismantling the trusty wardrobe we have all come to know and love! I am planning on doing 3x photoperiods in a scog setup. I will be using my 100w COB I have atm aswell as any addiional COB floodlight I am jus abou to buy 50 or 100w, I havnt decided yet. I also still have the driver and heatsink for my previous citizen cob that died so I willl either buy a new citizen to put on the heatsink and use my old driver or I will bang a cheap chinese cob chip on that heatsink and then use the driver with an additional new citizen cob and fitted heatsink ect. I plan to put in around about 300w of LED light, but it will all be odds and ends to make up approx 300. Looking at around 100w/plant. I also intend to scrog this time for sure. The yield increase is pretty crazy when you do a scrog right and my new tent with facilitate this much easier than the wardrobe does. I will try to keep updates now as the buds will start exploding soon, hopefully!

All is going well. To be honest I am waiting for this grow to finish so I can rearrage and set up a new slightly larger tent to scrog some photoperiods. Have ordered some more COB lights and am currently researching strains. I am also tempted to give a synthetic A+B nutrient regiment aswell. Would really like to try and push yield up in my new tent. Going to try less plants with more space...

UPDATE - SUNDAY I just laid on my bed in the dark and put the DGC on to listen to as I relax/snooze and I suddenly realised it is Monday and therefore I am due to update my diary, he photos and the comments. I remember now that on my last grow, comparing this weeks photos with that of last weeks makes it easier to see your bud development... I am just about to go and take some photos and feed the recharge and other goodies. They are staring to smell SOO GOOD! I was pretty worried about it not being enough light though. I was worried about it being similar to the time I flowered an auto in a 1 gal pot, under a 200w CFL (one of those comically oversized ones) It had good morphology but it didn't smell of anything at all and had no thrich's at all so wasn't much use lol. Luckily this smells a hell of a lot more and also has visible trichomes. Right im going to go take my photos....ok these are not the best photos but ill chuck some more up later this week. The plant on he right seems to be most vigorous atm and no so surprisingly this is the quick one. Royal creamatic is slower to develop slightly bu I smells so unbelievably fruity and beauiful. UPDATE - MONDAY Hi guys, back again the day after my last update as I got distracted and started taking some photos and remembered the ones I put up yesterday were shit. I was laying in bed last night thinking I am actually really glad I got the strains of genetics that I did actually and here is why. Well, I wasn't actually THAT excited about them if im completely honest, it was more of a budget decision to get this particular cultivar. I was pretty certain I wanted to try out Royal Queen Seeds and I knew I had to, and wanted to try some autoflowers for this run and saw people were getting some excellent, consistent results from a very limited budget in all the grow diaries I had researched. Now here is why i am particularly glad I went with a strain I wasn't all that pumped about. I think if I had been awaiting a strain I was really looking forward too, it would have seemed to take much longer, this way, I am only pleasantly surprised rather than disappointed. I am also going to upload a Bio-bizz schedule into my images so I can just refer to my diary rather than having to dig one out even though I have my diary open anyway. UPDATE - WEDNESDAY These babies are starting to really stink now. I cant tell if its because I vape copious amounts of weed in my flat or if I need to replace my carbon filter. I definitely need to replace my filer for my next round for sure. I will monitor it and if it gets worse with me airing out my flat more I will replace the filter, or at least replace the activated carbon within the filter. I also just opened the door check them and they have gained noticeable amounts of weight on the buds. I love It when you go in the grow for the first time in a while and you can see its grown quite a lot since your last check. I think I am going to have a browse through peoples diaries who have grown the same strains and see who has had success, then try to mimic how they finished up... The smell is unbelievable, these are two really surprisingly smelly strains. I really cant wait for the scissor hash, I think im also going to freeze all the trim down so that when iv done enough grows I can do some mixed run bubble hash as I still have the bags from last time. Ill probably just freeze it until iv competed my next, bigger 60cmx120cm grow with 3 plants. Cant wait for that to be honest, I have been waiting to swap my flats layout and furniture around for ages but I have been awaiting these beautiful girls to finish up before I can move stuff really. Its going to be a pretty big job, but when its done I should be pretty self sufficient with regards to my medicine. This will be a HUGE relief to me in more than one way. It will remove the constant anxiety that I will run out and not have enough medicine, the cannabis itself will also help with my anxiety and depression. It will also help me in a third way just by doing the gardening itself. Gardening is such a therapeutic act in itself bu also the fact I am caring for my medicine for its whole life and then its harvested in order for it to look after me. I love the process massively. I am very scared that UPDATE - FRI I was looking through my used seed packs and I realised id made a mistake and that the pant on the right is RQS Easy Bud. This 100% so I changed the diary. I also fits with previous photos that have been taken of this strain. Makes a lot more sense to me now. I now need to see how long they suggest running it for. UPDATE - SAT Just checked on the ladies and I have some kind of flies starting to infest a little :( I dont know what they are they look like some sort of fruit fly or something. Thy don't seem to be too bad at the moment but I am going to slow down on waterings a little. I increased the amount I was watering so I don't think the top layer of soil is drying out enough so that will definitely make their houses more hospitable to them. I also checked the trichomes with my jewellers loupe but it is a really shit one and its really hard to look through whilst keeping the plans the right distance from the loupe and steadying the buds so they will stay in focus. Anyway long story short, the trich's are starting to get cloudy now. I couldn't see any amber though, I am kind of looking for as much of a narcotic high as possible so will wait a while longer. I am going to start flushing for a week, maybe 2, tomorrow though. I actually checked both the plants for trichomes and they were both at pretty much the same stage, however, bud development definitely looks more advanced on the Royal Creamatic plant due to the fact the pistols are mostly amber in colour now. This is the problem with growing different strains in the same bed. I also noticed I am starting to get some deep purple colours on one of the royal creamatic buds. Only a tiny bit but it's interesting. Am going to wait till tomorrow to take more photos as tha will e the begginning of week 9. I don't really expect the creamatic to pile on loads more weight now really, I have noticed they seem to be excreting lots of "gooeyness" in terms of feel in the past couple of days. The buds look smaller but more compact on the creamatic compared to the easy bud. The problem is one strain I am growing says 8-9 weeks and the other says 10-12 weeks (according to breeders website) and one plant does look about a couple of weeks ahead of the other, however, its the wrong way round and I did have problems with labeling them at one point so I think I may have got them mixed up somewhere along the road!!! It definitely doesnt seem right that the one that is meant to be ready for harvest around now still has all white pistols and the one that is meant to have another 2-3 weeks left, all the pistols are nicely retracted and amber and is starting ti fade before flush and get nice blue colours on the bud. No, I definiely think I labeled them wrong and will probably start treating the as such from here on in I think...god why am I so unorganised!

UPDATE - SUNDAY - DAY 56 FROM SEED I am going to start flushing today I think. The ladies are looking lovely, with the creamatic looking to be ahead of the easy bud by a week or so. Both look and smell AMAZING. Really starting to look forward to harvesting these ladies now, I am left wondering how much more weight they will put on still. I will probably just start flushing them both due to the fact they are both in the same bed. I suppose I could continue feeding the Easy Bud but I imagine the nutes would leak into the Creamatic Rhizosphere so It makes more sense just to commence flushing them both. I jus wrote the title and it really is incredible that these can grow like this in 56 days. Crazy UPDATE - MONDAY - DAY 57 FROM SEED Today I noticed I had an RQS catalogue so I started looking through it and the guide time to run the two strains i'm running is totally different from what it says on their website and it fits whats going on in my grow perfectly lol. It really explains why I was so confused by the guide time on their website! It says the Royal Creamatic (the strain that is basically ready in my grow) runs for 7-8 weeks after germination. I actually remember choosing it partly for this reason . It also says the Easy Bud is done 8-9 weeks after germination. I think this estimate is a little optimistic or maybe its due to the fact i'm not using LOADS of light. I am going to move my bed to my shower this evening so I can give it a good flush. I have no drainage in my cupboard so I want to give it a good flush quickly because the Royal Cream is actually ready. I would say 85% cloudy, 7.5% clear and the same amber. I am going to give it a good flush tonight with loads of runoff, then put it back in the cupboard for another few days so it soaks up and respires the excess water before I give it 3 days in darkness whist starving them of water. I have read this causes the plants to excrete more oils. I'm sceptical, so I thought I should try it. I have also been reading up on hempy buckets and I really like the idea. This grow has been ridiculously simple, actually almost too simple with the exception of my light breaking during veg, it literally has been set it and forget it apart from opening it up to water every so often. I actually got away with leaving it a week at a time without waterings at times during veg. This may be because I had only 30w of COB lighting when my light broke during veg so everything was slowed down. Either way, with the addition of hempy buckets rather than a bed, I think growing these autos is just so simple. I am really looking forward to converting my cupboard, I am now thinking I am going to go for the 60cm D x 120 w x 150cm H for my flowering chamber and then I can fit in a small veg tent aswell. I am really looking to get a continuous cycle going due to the fact I am bad at rationing and also I cant be doing without due to it being my medication, despite my government not acknowledging this fact! Also if I have a continuous cycle going, I can get away with flowering less plants at once, meaning I need a smaller flowering tent! This also means I can get slightly more appropriate spectrums going in each tent for the first time since I started growing. UPDATE 2 HOURS LATER ok quick update just to say I repotted them because when I took them to the bathoom to flush the bag I was using for a bed basically went all soggy and kind of deformed so the plants almost fell over. Alsp I couldn't get them back to the grow area lol. I figure putting them in pots is ok right at the end of their cycle as i am only flushing now anyway. I think I am going to harvest the Royal Cream in the next few days tbh. I was debaing leaving it in the darkness for 3 days now as I am about to go and stay at my mums for a few days (im allowed even with the corona lockdown as she is my carer for my disabilitys, we checked...). I dunno, ill sleep on it. I added a photo of the repotted plants back in the grow space. UPDATE - THURSDAY - DAY 59 FROM SEED Every time I write the length of time from seed im amazed. I never thought a plant could from full cycle in less than 60 days but if I was desperate for bud I could have harvested that royal creamatic by now but I left flushing a little late and I want good taste and also i'm looking for a strong narcotic effect and I cant see any amber trich's as of present. They are basically all translucent now though so it is ready for the chop. I would rather chop it a couple days late but with a good flush though as obviously this is not something you can go back on and you wouldn't know until it is too late. I don't think it should be as bad with bio-biz than with horticultural salt based fertilisers. Ideally I don't want fuck all In my plants other than water when I chop though. They both smell magnificent - the RC is so sweet, almost sickly sweet, cant smell any creamyness other than just pure sweetness but people have said a lot in comments that the creamyness comes out in the cure, which I cool because it is something to aim for! I need to purchase some mid sized canning jars for storage actually, I wonder if I will be able to find anywhere that sells them when I get my food shopping due to the covid-19 pandemic or as I like to call it - the zombie outbreak.

Really enjoyed growing this strain - just popped two more RQS Royal Creamatic seeds so I obviously really enjoyed it! My light died for about a week and a half so I didn't get the plants full potential at all. Still, I am really happy with the quality and smell of the bud. Will fill out dry weight as soon as I can coz I don't have suitable scales to get a wet weight.

Nothing has realy happened since I cropped the royal cream....It is just hanging. Decided to do a dry trim so that it takes longer to dry due to the fact I am having to just use my cupboard so the humidity is pretty low. Leaving the leaves on just means It takes longer to dry. I am going to crop the Easy Bud in the next few days when the mood takes me. I had 4 left over R. Cream seeds left over because I informed them that. bought 2x 3 packs and only 2 seeds germinated so they sent me another packet which is REALLY good of them and the sort of thing that means I would definitely use Royal Queen Seeds again, for sure! The trich's are basically all cloudy with a few clear. I cant see any amber but my loupe is a ridiculously cheap Chinese piece of crap. I will invest in a microscope camera so I can hook it up to my phone or MacBook. It is way too hard to keep everything steady In order to see what is popping with my sexy trichomes. Obviously feeding has stopped for about a week now. I forgot to change it In the diary last week so will try and correct that now.. I know it is not strictly relevant but I had to go somewhere earlier and took a video because I was able o walk in the middle of a main road in my town which Is usually packed full of cars, especially at the time I was walking on it. It is a time that makes me even more glad I grow my own. I really need to buy the bigger tent, lights and re-locate to the bigger, more subtle cupboard (not the one i am using to dry my weed in the video I posted) and then I will be able to effectively ScrOG the 2 or 3 plants I have, in order to maximise yield so I can be totally self sufficient with regards to my cannabis medicine. UPDATE - MONDAY I just realised I have made a proper idiots mistake an missed out on some much tastier buds because of it. OK, so I got paid today, so I though I would treat myself to some of them cheap COB chips I used for my last grow because hey were super cheap and actually really effective considering the price. I ordered 2x 100w 6000k veg spectrum chips with a solderless connection for my power. I also ordered one of these heatsink + reflector. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01MT824NP/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 My thinking was that I have a spare heatsink here that the old citizen CLU-048 is attached to so I was going to fit one of the chips into that and the other into the heatsink and fan I bought. This hought process lead me to go ad retrieve the old citizen LED and I thought I would try it. Still didn't work, then suddenly I thought it could be a simple blown fuse so I changed it aaaannnnd.....still doesn't work. doh! I started to remove the COB holder and COB from the heatsink (it was just glued to it using thermal compound) and when I laid it on the table I decided to test the driver without the COB holder on the tiny off chance it might work...nope I then realised maybe I got the + and - the wrong way round, tried again and boom works perfectly. The connection from the holder to the cob had bent slightly off contact. Really annoying that this whole time I could have doubled my photons to the plant, however, really nice that I don't have to spend a load more money on lighting in order to upgrade into the new room. So all I have to do now is spend money on a pre-drilled heatsink and a new metal COB holder for the citizen.

really enjoyed this strain. It made some amazing cannabis infused olive oil for sure, a really nice method of dosing edibles actually.