Blue Dream / Black Cream Autos

This is an indoor grow in a cabinet that is 18"x 24" and almost 6 feet tall. It looks like a big wooden locker. I will get some picture of it if anyone is interested. The light is a 300W (140W actual) MEIZHI reflector LED. It has a grow and bloom switch with a few IR bulbs too. The first few days I only used the veg switch, but I have them both on now and will keep it that way for the rest of the grow. I am using 5 gallon Air Pots and the soil is 60% Black Gold potting soil mixed with 40% seedling soil. The cabinet is just big enough for two 5g pots to fit in diagonally. I have plenty of height, but I may need to use some LST to maximize the sq ft of my space. This is my second grow and my first indoor attempt. I grew two autos last summer outdoors and between both plants I harvested about 1oz dry weight. Not the best results but not bad considering temps were regurally above 100 degrees. I also struggled with a few pests and high night time humidity levels. For this indoor grow. I have a Blue Dream Auto from Humbolt Seeds and a Black Cream Auto from Sweet Seeds. Both seeds germinated great in a cup of water. I placed the barely germinated seeds in the soil on December 2nd. Three days later on December 5th both had sprouted and we will call that day 1. At the end of the first week, I gave both plants a half dose of Amazing Roots from Callaways Nursury. This grow will be interesting because the BD is a Sativa and the BC is an Indica and they are already showing their differnces. The Indica is shorter and got off to a faster start, while the Sativa is a bit taller with more space between each node. They both seem to be off to a great start.

Week 2 went well. At this stage of the grow my main goal is to not do anything that could mess them up. I just focus on the environment they are in let them do their thing. I think a lot of growers get excited around days 7-14 and start messing with their plants too much with LST or adding all of their fancy nutes. I only watered twice this week and the first watering only had Amazing Roots fertilizer. The second watering around day 13 included Amazing Roots and a small amount of Alaska Fish Emulsion which is mostly nitrogen. Since these little guys are in a relatively big pot, i am alternating waterings between the inside and outside of the pot. For examle at the begining of the week I only water the outer area of the soil and the end of the week I only watter the inner section where the seedling is. I am hoping this custom wet dry cycle mixed with the root booster will give me a nice big root ball before we head into flowering. You can see I had great uniform growth from day 7 to day 14 and they are loving life right now. They should really kick in to gear starting next week and we may even see signs of flowering at the end of week 3.

The differences between the Sativa and Indica are really starting to show. It's going to be a lot of fun to see these two types growing side by side in identical environment. I have lowered my LED from 31 inches to 21 inches over the last 2 weeks. They were doing fine with no stretching at 31 inches, but I got greedy and wanted to increase their growth rate by increasing the light. Fingers crossed that they take well to the stronger light. On Day 15 I noticed a tiny leaf curl on the BD on the first big fan leaf. It doesn't look like a problem but I will keep my eye on it. Day 18 and I am feeding only Fish Emulsion (5-1-1) PH is 6.5. Most of the energy the past 3 days has been towards new growth in the nodes and they haven't grown much in height.

They are growing and starting to develop pistols. I fed nitrogen early in the week and gave them their first bloom nutes on day 26. I still don't have an exhaust and am leaving the door half open with a circulating fan inside. I also have an air purifier out side of the cabinet but in the same small room. Carbon filter and exhaust fan are in the mail and should be here in a week or two. I am doing some LST but I don't really know what I'm doing so I'm not sure if I am doing it right or not. Basically I am pulling the main cola and a few other branches outside. It seems to have opened up more sites than on my previous grow, so I think its working. I am doing that just to keep the canopy even. The BD would be twice as tall as the BC without the training. Both look healthy but smallish. They are growing a lot every day now.

Start of week 5 and they are looking good. I had to move the LED up a few inches because the plants were getting within 12 inches of it. I am giving each plant .5 gallon of water every 3-4 days. The sites are continuing to bloom and they have started their flowering stretch. Compared to my outdoor grow last summer, this has gone much smoother and they arent needing my help at all really. Not having to deal with the bugs and weather has been great. I just watch them grow! I finally was able to post some pics under normal lighting. The BD might have been a bit too close to the light and all of the top leaves started pointing straight up. So... I might have my two plants labeled wrong this entire grow. They both have the potential to turn purple but the Black Cream is almost always purple. What I've labeled as the Blue Dream is turning the most beautiful shade of purple so... yea.

Things are going well. There are a few rust colored spots but both plants are extremely healthy. They are half way done and now I'm going to try and fatten them up. I've never had a plant produce over .5 ounce so I am pretty excited about the potential these have.

Both plants are looking decent. I have a few signs of nute burn and maybe some phosphors deficiency on the fan leaves. Took a small lower branch off the Black Cream because it wasn't getting much light anyway. After a quick dry i tested it out. It was exceptional! Very strong and it isn't even ripe yet. I'll let it go another 2 weeks and it should be the way I like it. This one test makes me want to try other cream strands.

The Black Cream is 7-14 days from finishing. It could go longer but I like to harvest indicas a bit early so they dont put me to sleep. The Blue Dream still has maybe a month. Some of the fan leaves are looking pretty bad but everything else is going great. Fan leaves on both plants are dying quickly. Spots from a nutrient deficiency and the normal yellowing in flowering. The Black Cream now only has 3-5 days left and I hope the Blue Dream has 2 full weeks left.

So I have been very busy and I didnt keep a very good watering schedule the last 2 weeks and both plants are getting crispy. They are getting straight water. I am not going to get the huge harvest I was after but I should get more than an OZ combined easily, maybe 1.5 if I am lucky. The Black Cream is coming down tonight on day 57 (8 weeks and 1 day). I have also taken 2 of the lower branches off the BC the last few weeks becuase I am impatient. I might take the Blue Dream down too so that I can use my grow box to dry. I will try to post the harvest when they are dry. Thanks for following my grow. Next I will be growing a White Rhino Auto and probably another Black Cream. My Advanced Nutrient bundle will be here in 1 week and hopeuflly I see even more production using those instead of just fish poop and cactus nutes like I did this grow.

I was hoping for more weight but I am happy with 3/4 of an ounce in 60 days. Unique strain both in appearance and high. The pictures dont include the 6-8 grams I have already used.

The plant grew well with lots of colas. Started slower than the Indica but more than caught it in the end. It could be a good autoflowering strain to top early in the grow. Im really happy with both strains. One is perfect for night and this Blue Dream is perfect for the day or staying up all night as long as your in a house you are comfortable in. 000