FastBuds BlackBerry

First real grow Trying to dial in the important conditions while not obsessing over smaller details 3 gallon fabric pot Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil Cinched up duct openings in tent to increase humidity level Set the Mars Hydro TS1000 light at 30” Germination Prep: Watered soil until draining out the sides and bottom of pot and into a plastic tray. Day 1: Planted seed directly in soil. Placed an upside-down plastic tray on top to keep humidity in but allow fresh air Day 2: Noticed that soil was very dry, much quicker with fabric pots than with regular pots. Watered and misted. Temperature was dipping to 63 F at night. Day 3: Gave it another misting. Tray is still keeping humidity in. Getting nervous because I’m not seeing anything pop up. Should I have germinated in a paper towel? Maybe I could have micromanaged germination but I decided to let nature do her thing. Day 4: Beginning to pop up with seed casing still on, misted, left tray cover for humidity. Vegetation Day 1: Plastic tray removed from top.Looking perfect except part of the the seed shell is still hanging on to a cotyledon. Going to leave that alone for now. Started up fan to improve air circulation. Stem is looking purplish. Day 2: Part of seed shell still stuck. Won't budge. Stretching a little bit so I lowered the light to 28" away. Plant is 1.25" tall. Day 4 Lowered lights to 26" Day 6 Watered 1500mL. Soil stayed moist between watering, feels like it took awhile to dry. Perhaps I should have mixed some perlite with the soil to improve drainage? Partial seed casing finally came off the cotyledon. Day 7 - End of week 1 (!) Steady as she goes! My only concern is that one of the leaves looks like it might be starting to curl up. If this becomes more pronounced I might have to raise the lights back up a bit.

Everything is going just dandy. No signs of anything off. Watered on 2000 ml on Day 10. The pH of the runoff was at 6.1 Day 11 - 2.25” Day 14 - 5” Doubled in size in the last 3 days!

Day 17 - watered 2000 mL, runoff at pH 6.2. Plant at 5.5” Light strength training with coat hangers Adjusted light Day 21 - Pistils showing so this is last week considered vegetation Plant at 9” Adjusted light to 24” away Starting to smellStill looking lovely

First week of flower. Tiny buds are looking nice. Day 22 - 8" tall, LST keeping it down. Watered 1500 mL with half-strength nutrients Day 24 - Continue LST, tied down some more branches Day 26 - continue LST. now 10" tall. Was thirsty already so watered 1500 mL with no nutrients. pH runoff at 6.3, adjust light to 20" Day 27 - Shot up! looking heathier and perkier than ever before :) Day 28 - 13" tall. Looking gorgeous. Small healthy buds. Touched up the LST

Day 29 - LST to bring plant height down Day 30 - Watered 1/2 with strength nutrients, 1.0 L, runoff 6.4 pH Day 31 - Little bit of TLC and LST, really noticing the purple coming out! Day 33 - Watered 2.0 L, no nutrients, lowered light to 16" Day 34 - Lights back to 18", 16" may be too low for the Mars TS1000 Day 35 - picture day, light defoliation at the bottom, plants are at 14" tall

Day 37 - Defoliate towards the bottom, large light green fan leaves and small bud sites, watered 2L with half-strength nutrients, runoff pH6.1 Day 38 - Noticed some minor deficiencies in some leaves and also some light stress, plant grew to 15.5" tall, lights were at 16" away so I raised them to 18" away, this reduced signs of light stress a few days later Day 39 - noticed first brown pistil Day 41 - Watered with filtered tap water, 2L, runoff is pH 6.9 so I will need to reduce pH of water going in Day 42 - A little more smell, colas are thickening up nicely!

This was the week where things started getting fat & a lil' frosty! Day 44 - Leaves are starting to yellow. Watered 2L with 3/4-strength nutrients. Check pH runoff, 6.3. 16" tall. Day 45 - I was rearranging plants and inadvertently got my arm all sticky! Didn't know that it would be sticky this early. Better look out next time. Day 47 - Watered 2L no nutrients. pH meter not working right. Day 48 - 16.5" tall. Some brown pistils, Buds are covered in wonderful trichomes, half clear and half milky white. This plant is gorgeous and she'll be ready soon enough!

I have to say that despite the excitement from being so close to chop, this was perhaps the most uneventful week of the grow besides the plant becoming a lot more thirsty and the buds getting fatter. Same height, same amount of milky/clear trichomes and no amber ones. Very few pistils turned brown. Humidity could be lower but not stressing over it. Day 50 - Watered 2L half strength nutrients. This will be the last watering with nutrients pH water before nutrients 8.5 pH water after nutrients 6.5 pH runoff 6.5 Day 52 - Watered 2L no nutrients but used pH down to make water pH 6.5 Day 54 - Same. Watered 2L no nutrients but used pH down to make water pH 6.5 Day 56 - Same. Watered 2L no nutrients but used pH down to make water pH 6.5

Day 58 - no amber trichrome heads but some of them have a purple stalk. I can't tell if thats because they are purple but more likely they are reflecting the nearby purple leaves. Also noticed some stress from wind and light. Day 60 - Watered 2L no nutrients Day 63 - about 17' tall, Watered 2L no nutrients Chop time is coming!

Pretty much the same as the last two weeks. watering and watching the buds get denser. Watered twice no nutrients. Should be ready next week.

Days 71-78 No matter how much I beg, stomp my feet and get blue in the face, still can't get the amber trichromes to show up. Mostly cloudy now with some clear. Checking every day Buds looks a little fatter. Watered no nutrients. Still learning how to use a macro lens. I wish I had more content to provide.

I did research for my first grow and with basic-level knowledge this alien-world plant was easy grow. As soon as it peaked in height, around the second week of flower, it was on auto pilot. I'm impressed with these genetics and I want to grow this again sometime soon.