US Roadtrip Grow - Blue Dream Auto

This is strain 1 of our US Roadtrip grow trio, that we enjoyed a lot touring the USA in 2019. Day 0 - 16/11/19 seedling in box to sprout; light on veg. 60cm above seedlings. seedlings in little house sprayed with ph water. on a heat map for couple of hours Day 1 - 17/11/19 slowly poking up Day 2 - 18/11/19 all up and growing leaves Day 3 - 7 nothing interesting to report, they are growing.

Day 8 - 24/11/19 repotted in final 11l fabric pots. lights still on veg & height 60cm. heat map on. little PH water Day 11 - 27/11/19 0.5ml root juice in 1l ph. each plant 200ml water Day 12 - 28/11/19 turned on full spectrum light. temp up Day 13 - 29/11/19 - mix with 2ml (too much) root juice&1ml heaven. blue dream got 200ml Day 14 - 30/11/19 - lowered light to 50cm

Day 15 - 2.12. - lowered light to 33cm and back up again to 40cm. heat strong. Day 16 - 3.12. - watered approx. 400ml with 1ml grow&heaven. lights down to 33cm. Day 18 - 5.12. - looking good. hot and not so humid. —————- smaller grow so far and small internodal distances due to too little light/light distance. since light is closer (30cm) smaller internodal distance. found this helpful, save as reminder: https://www.maximumyield.com/what-a-plants-internodal-spacing-reveals-about-its-health/2/3701?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf ————- Day 19 - 6.12. - 3.light on (left back corner plant smaller cause less light) over night with exhaust on, 24C & 45% humidity (2lights)🙌 3lights= 27,7C & 40% Day 20 - 7.12. - watered morning with 600ml and per 1l = 2ml grow&heaven. very hot without exhaust. exhaust on for longer now. noticed thicker stem on blue dream;

Day 22 - 9.12. - still very small node distance, so light back up from 33cm to 40cm. maybe this makes her stretch a bit more, so my planned LST will work better. Day 23 - 10.12. - watered with ca. 600ml with 2ml heaven and 2ml grow. Day 24 - 11.12. - watered again 300ml 1ml heaven&grow. first LST Day 25 - 12.12. - added scrog net. plants reacted great to LST from yesterday. also seem to be stretching more due to bigger light distance Day 27 - 14.12. - fed 500ml with 2ml heaven&grow.

Day 30 - 17.12. - pre-flower 😍 blue dream very dry & hungry. mixed 2ml of each heaven, grow, bloom & topmax (too early aaaargh, still learning) into 2l. split 800 between blue dream & gsc and rest for wedding cake. little defoliation on blue dream. Blue dream is growing a fat stem, looks funny and weird. Maybe a mutant? Day 31 - 20.12. - heavy lst. looking good. Day 33 - 20.12. - watered again. approx. 300ml Day 34 - 21.12. - had to water again. they were all dry, seem to need more because of stretch. watered with 800ml mixed with each 2ml calmag, heaven, grow, topmax, bloom. wow. LST ist working !!!! maybe not enough water per each watering (used to 600ml). FORGOT to PH 😱😱😱 This must have been the week I overfed them. Note to self, stop feeding too much!

Christmas week when I installed an automatic watering machine, since I wasn't with them over christmas. Day 36 - 23.12. machine start. watered in morning with machine. each 4min approx. 800ml with 1 day old mix of low nutes of bloom, topmax, heaven, grow. Day 37 - 24.12. not at home Day 38 - 25.12. supposed to water 800 each Day 39 - 26.12. Day 40 - 27.12. back home. supp. to water 800 each. it did. but they feel light already. 2l for all three with 2/3 of the dose of week 5 except topmax. Day 41 - 28.12. blue dream shows small brown tips on new growth 😱 next time plain water Day 42 - 29.12. blue dream dry soil again. 2l for all three mit 4ml calmag. watered until runthrough. She seems to be a mutant with a really fat stem :)

Day 43 - 30.12. installed 2nd fan Day 44 - 31.12. watered all three plants with 2l reg. nutes. look droopy Day 45 - 1.1.2020 Day 46 - 2.1.20 Day 47 - 3.1.20 looked all droopy and sad. watered with nutes 2/3of dose in 4l of ph water. hour later looking better. Day 48 - 4.1.20 Day 49 - 5.1.20 watered all three plants with 2l with heavy almost full nutes.

Day 50 - 6.1.20 found yellow tips on Blue Dream. nute burn. plain water min. next two waterings. thanks reddit Day 51 - 7.1.20 watered plain 6,5ph water. almost 4l for both. runthrough with all. they were really dry already. humidity went down to 38% which is weird after watering. but window was open. Day 52 - 8.1.20 Day 53 - 9.1.20 noticed roots grow out the fabric pot bottom. watered 3l plain ph water Day 54 - 10.1.20 yellow tips on only new growth can also be light stress. Day 55 - 11.1.20 watered in the morning 3l plain ph water. defoliated little. photoshoot Day 56 - 12.1.20 overall note: gsc takes the nutes the best so far. she the only one with no yellow tips. wedding and blue dream both yellow tips on leaves.

Day 57 - 13.1.20 Blue Dream mutant stem top bud turns out purple 😍😍😍 Day 58 - 14.1.20 watered in the morning. blue dream lower nutes. all together 3l. Day 59 - 15.1.20 Day 60 - 16.1.20 watered with 3 l with very thin nutes. removed yellowing leaves. Day 61 - 17.1.20 almost all plants have yellowing leaves. mostly bottom. especially wedding and blue dream. some leaves are clawing upwards. some have brown burnt spots. 😔 defoliated little for better airflow. Day 62 - 18.1.20 pink leaf tips 😍 wow. installed bottom fan properly. hopefully increased airflow. Day 63 - 19.1.20 needed water, she got 1/2 dose grow(molasses?), topmax, heaven. thinking about flushing soon. esp. weddings brown hair. little defoliation. evening time felt lighter again. seem to drink a lot. changed light cycle to 21/3 hours so 3 hours more sunlight wohoooo

Day 64 - 20.1.20 Day 65 - 21.1.20 watered in morning. 3l ph water for all three. buds getting bigger and fatter. Day 66 - 22.1.20 watered again at night. with 1ml budcandy per l and bloom and calmag. Day 67 - 23.1.20 Day 68 - 24.1.20 watered 3l bloom algamic bud candy heaven. Day 69 - 25.1.20 Day 70. - 26.1.20 watered 3l with 2ml bloom/l 1ml flawless finish/l & 2ml bud candy. FLUSH has begun 😍 noticeable more smell after 1-2times bud candy. whoop

Day 71 - 27.1.20 noticed swelling of calyx. checking trichomes everyday. Day 72 - 28.1.20 watered 3l with 2ml bloom, 2ml bud candy and 2ml flawless finish. Day 73 - 29.1.20 checking trichomes, sugar leaver a good 30% amber, calyx trichomes all milky. Day 74 - not sure when to harvest or prep them for harvest Day 76 - shes getting more into fall, some more leaves yellow-pink; more swelling but also some new white pistols :) she's a sweetheart.

Day 79 - gave all three a big water flush (9l for all three). She is fading more and more, her colors are beautiful. All around the plant, she has aged quite evenly. Looking at the trich shots, she is milky. Leaving for my business trip today, will come back in 4 days, until then, no more water for this beauty, hope everything turns out well and she is ready by the time I'm back. Exciting 😃 Day 83 - back after 4 days business trip with no water for the ladies. today checked trichomes and they are not there yet. so the plan of harvesting when I'm back, did not work out. some trichomes are amber, but mostly on the sugar leaves and not on the calyx. so decided to water her with flawless finish again. also she started foxtailing a bit, which apparently is "normal" for this strain and stronger sativas (reddit info).

Day 85, first day of Week 13. She gives off the most beautiful smell since today, wow, never smelled something like that 😍She is also still foxtailing like a freaky little monster, fading nicely. With her I'm a bit confused as to where I should be looking now, new foxtails trichomes or the older calxy behind the foxtails? Probably a mix. Read somewhere on Reddit, that they apparently pack on proper buds, so the foxtails get fat as well. I guess we will see. Happy days Day 87, checking trichomes everyday, still milky. She got more yellow since the last time I took pictures. Some of the foxtails have developed. Both plants got watered yesterday, with 2ml Flawless Finish. Smell still strong. Could be any day now aaaaaaaaaaaaah happy 😍 Day 88, at her daily trichome check she looked ready all of a sudden. Even on foxtails I see amber trichomes, funny mix actually, amber and clear 😁All over her buds she is a good 20% amber now. I think that should be fine for a Sativa. I chopped her and put her stem in a vase with ph water. A friend once told me a fairytale story, about how this does something good when compared with darkness. We will see, can't remember properly, it won't harm 🙏 She is a pleasant lady and weighs wet with stems 469g, which is more than my other wedding cake (244g). I guess that's great yeay. She is currently sitting in the drying tent together with wedding cake. Happy days Update Day 1 of Darkness in a vase full of water: She initially weighed 469g yesterday when I chopped her and put her in the vase. 16 hours later I had a little look inside the tent and checked the water in the vase, she drank quite a bit, about a quarter the amount. I weighed again and she now weighs 489g, not a big difference but still, I feel slightly sciency 👽Her buds seem sucked in and more dark but also more rich looking, if that makes sense. I also imagine some other parts to be more green, ok, I like it. Check for yourself in the pictures added, if you like. Exciting yeay

UPDATE - 24th of February 2020 - DRY WEIGHT & LOVE 56g total dry weight, after I gave them a very nice trim. They started curing in glass jars on 19/2/2020 and are currently between 63-68%RH inside. Burping every other hour for couple of minutes. While trimming some dried buds yesterday, I came across a seed, I couldn't believe it, between 😕and 😆, first time experiencing this, interesting, hopefully she didn't lose a lot of her potency and it only happened late. Learning from this: don't change light cycle. I changed from 18 to 21 hours, thought that was a good idea... All this aside, I am sooooooo in LOVE WITH HER 😍I have never grown such a beautiful plant, excuse the photo spam, she deserves a stage, at least for me 😉I can't wait to try her properly cured and get to learn her whole taste spectrum with the low and slow dried buds. Some of them will be processed to oil and edibles. If I find time, I might document some more. Until then, happy growing everyone, peace 🙏 Tried 2 different drying methods: 1. Regular hang dry: For 7 days in small grow tent, darkness at 50% humidity & 20°C/68F - she was almost too dry after 7 days. 2. Low & Slow dry: after washing & hang-drying for 4 hours, she went into the fridge for 7 days in a paper bag, followed by several jar tests until she was at a steady 68% outside; She dried like this in the fridge for 8 days. I didn't trim her too much, since I want to preserve everything for oils. More details: 16. Nov. 2019 - 13. Feb. 2020 - 88 Days - Grown from Seed Smell of Berries; Pink & Yellow tips; Lots of long curly brown hair; Pink tiny leaf tips on top of buds. I’m in love whooooooooooaaaaaaa. Chop on 13. Feb 2020 - 461g Put in vase with PH water for 2 days in Dry Tent darkness at 50% humidity & 20°C/68F 14. Feb. 2020 Darkness Day 1 - 469g 15. Feb. 2020 Darkness Day 2 - 452g Total wet - no trim - 452g Total wet - slight trim - 386g //Regular dry in tent - 50% humidity & 20°C/68F // 281g with trim went in Total dry - no trim - 43g Total dry - trim - 40g //Low and slow dry in fridge // 96g went in Total dry - trim - 16g Check 420magazine for “Low and Slow”-Dry. They are lovely. Happy day to you all